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History for February 21

History for February 21 - On-This-Day.com

Sam Peckinpah 1925 - Director

• 1804 - The first self-propelled locomotive on rails was demonstrated in Wales.
• 1842 - John J. Greenough patented the sewing machine.
• 1848 - The Communist Manifesto was published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
• 1858 - The first electric burglar alarm was installed in Boston, MA.
• 1904 - The National Ski Association was formed in Ishpeming, MI.
• 1947 - Edwin Land demonstrated the Polaroid Land Camera to the Optical Society of America in New York City. It was the first camera to take, develop and print a picture on photo paper all in about 60 seconds. The photos were black and white. The camera went on sale the following year.
• 1965 - Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City at the age of 39 by assassins identified as Black Muslims.
• 1975 - Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman were sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years in prison for their roles in the Watergate cover-up.

Ohio State Senator Michael Rulli Calls for Pete Buttigieg to Resign

Ohio State Senator Michael Rulli Calls for Pete Buttigieg to Resign: 

To add insult to injury, Buttigieg had also tried to blame the East Palestine train disaster on former President Donald Trump by falsely claiming that he is “constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation,” citing a “braking rule” that was withdrawn in 2018, under the Trump administration.

But this claim is false, because even if that particular rule would have gone into effect, it wouldn’t have affected the train that derailed in East Palestine on February 3. Even a member of Biden’s own administration called Buttigieg’s assertion “misinformation.”

On Thursday, it was revealed that President Trump plans to visit East Palestine next week. After that information came to light, it was announced that FEMA (which had previously considered the Ohio town ineligible for federal assistance) will now be deployed to East Palestine.

The way we were-----American Justice: The Wells Fargo Heist - Full Episode (S24, E13) | A&E

Mark Steyn: Erasing history – just like the Taliban

Silent Cal!

 

Ya see this on your media?-----Young mom killed in front of kids after parking lot dispute on Valentines Day

Young mom killed in front of kids after parking lot dispute on Valentines Day

"...Alexandria Cress Borys had been shopping at a Kroger in Irmo, South Carolina on Tuesday when she got into a verbal dispute with a complete stranger while packing groceries in her car in the parking lot, Borys’ husband, Tyler, told WIS-TV.
After the argument apparently ended, the stranger, identified by police as 23-year-old Christina Harrison, pulled out a gun and shot Borys in the back around 4 p.m., he said...

NORTHCOM Shocks Nation by Suspending Search for Downed Objects - What Really Happened?

NORTHCOM Shocks Nation by Suspending Search for Downed Objects - What Really Happened?: 

Last Friday, days after the Feb. 4 downing of a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina, an unknown object was shot down off the coast of Alaska. The next day, another unknown object was downed in Canada over the Yukon. On Sunday, an object was shot down over Lake Huron. Despite the furor over the mysterious objects, the search for those downed in the U.S. is ending unsuccessfully, U.S. Northern Command said Friday in a statement on Twitter.

Ohio Train Crash - What They're NOT Telling You...

Biden's "amerika" at WAR with Americans!-----How the Biden administration has quietly helped to ‘score’ conservative speech

How the Biden administration has quietly helped to ‘score’ conservative speech - BY JONATHAN TURLEY

"Last year, the Biden administration caved to public outcry and disbanded its infamous Disinformation Governance Board under its “Disinformation Nanny,” Nina Jankowicz. 

• Yet, as explored in a recent hearing (in which I testified), the Biden administration never told the public about a far larger censorship effort involving an estimated 80 FBI agents secretly targeting citizens and groups for disinformation.

Now it appears that the administration also was partially funding an “index” to warn advertisers to avoid what the index deemed to be dangerous disinformation sites. 

It turns out that all ten of the “riskiest” sites identified by the Global Disinformation Index are popular with conservatives, libertarians and independents.
The index, run by a British organization, appears to be an effort to score and sanction sites based on their “reliability” to those in the political and media establishments.
That sounds like a knockoff of China’s “social credit” system which scores its citizens, based in part on social media monitoring...

Lunch video-----Is the Antarctic Sea Ice Extent increasing or is it decreasing?

"The internet is full of headlines claiming that sea levels will rise and that Emperor Penguins will fatally suffer because the Antarctic Sea Ice is shrinking due to Climate Change. 

This video provides the satellite data to counter such claims.

Noon-toon

 

California high school axes honors classes in the name of 'equity' - TheBlaze

California high school axes honors classes in the name of 'equity' - TheBlaze: 

Parents are fighting back after a California high school eliminated honors English classes, ostensibly to foster racial equity, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. "We really feel equity means offering opportunities to students of diverse backgrounds, not taking away opportunities for advanced education and study," Culver City parent Joanna Schaenman, who helped spearhead the effort, told the WSJ.

Follow the science?!!

 

Can you imagine if the same sort of an ecological disaster had occurred under the Trump administration?

Can you imagine if the same sort of an ecological disaster had occurred under the Trump administration?  - Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming - John Whitefisk 
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"Undoubtedly, the Big Three would be doing all that they could to somehow pin the blame on the former president of the United States.
“But now, with the Biden administration at the helm — not much more than crickets.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/nets-run-interference-for-leftist-esg-giants-tied-to-ohio-train-disaster/

• CBS, and NBC’s premature abandonment of coverage of the environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, may have been a gambit to protect the leftist pro-environment, social, and governance (ESG) standard giants tied to the incident...

#1 Movie this week 1954-----The Long, Long Trailer: Not Making the Grade

Expect violence?-----Greta Thunberg tells 'View' hosts that climate activists must now go beyond 'legal methods' | Fox News

Greta Thunberg tells 'View' hosts that climate activists must now go beyond 'legal methods' | Fox News

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  Thunberg once again stressed that climate change is 'an existential crisis' life on earth
  

"During ABC’s "The View," Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg urged her fellow climate change activists to step outside of "legal methods" to achieve their climate goals.
...The activist advocated that real climate change action can only come from such radical action...

#1 This day 1960-----Percy Faith Theme From A Summer Place 1960

Biden's corrupt war-money!-----GOP: Is billions spent on Ukraine war aid landing in corrupt pockets?

GOP: Is billions spent on Ukraine war aid landing in corrupt pockets?

• US has spent billions on Ukraine war aid. But is that money landing in corrupt pockets?

WASHINGTON – With more than $100 billion in U.S. weaponry and financial aid flowing to Ukraine in less than a year — and more on the way to counter Russia's invasion — concerns about arms falling into terrorists' hands and dollars into corrupt officials' pockets are mounting...
"When you spend so much money so quickly, with so little oversight, you're going to have fraud, waste and abuse," John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, said in an interview. "Massive amounts."
The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development spent $46 billion for activities ranging from border security to funds for basic government services such as utilities, hospitals, schools and firefighting. 

Other government agencies, including the Department of Agriculture, spent another $5 billion...

What has happened to our country?!!

 

Study: Natural immunity protection as high as COVID vaccine - TheBlaze

Study: Natural immunity protection as high as COVID vaccine - TheBlaze: 

Natural immunity provides "at least as high, if not higher" levels of protection against COVID-19 as two doses of an mRNA vaccine, according to a study published in The Lancet – one of the oldest and most respected medical journals in the world.

President’s Day: A Woke Homogenized Celebration Of Nothing

President’s Day: A Woke Homogenized Celebration Of Nothing - by Jeff Dunetz
"Monday, February 20, 2023, is President’s Day. 

Originally it was a celebration of George Washington’s birthday. 

Eventually, it was moved to the third Monday in February. 

The move was forced by a bill passed by Congress in 1968 called the “Uniform Monday Holiday Act.” the bill’s purpose was to create three-day weekends.

...While officially a celebration of Washington’s birthday, after the bill took effect in 1971, it morphed into President’s Day, tearing down an American hero and replacing it with a meaningless woke day off work (for some). 

It became a trivial holiday.
...Instead...substitute a day of civics. 

• A day of understanding the rights and obligations of every citizen and understanding how the Declaration Of Independence and the Constitution were part of creating those rights and obligations. 

Part of that day could explain how a President’s job has changed since George Washington.

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History for February 20

History for February 20 - On-This-Day.com

Jennifer O'Neill 1948 - Actress ("Summer of '42")

• 1792 - U.S. President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act that created the U.S. Post Office.
• 1809 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the power of the federal government was greater than that of any individual state.
• 1839 - The U.S. Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia.
• 1872 - Silas Noble and J.P. Cooley patented the toothpick manufacturing machine.
• 1880 - The American Bell Company was incorporated.
• 1962 - John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the first American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule. Glenn witnessed the Devil's Cigarette Lighter while in flight.
• 1987 - A bomb exploded in a computer store in Salt Lake City, UT. The blast was blamed on the Unabomber.

Horowitz: West Virginia lawmaker introduces most important constitutional amendment to prevent COVID fascism from ever happening again - TheBlaze

Horowitz: West Virginia lawmaker introduces most important constitutional amendment to prevent COVID fascism from ever happening again - TheBlaze: 

Legally, if governments can force you take an action against your body, there’s quite literally nothing government cannot do to you. Scientifically, there is nothing in nature that works so amazingly that A can force it upon B, but it only works if B wears it or injects it along with A. “Your mask protects me, but my mask doesn’t; your shot protects me, but mine doesn’t,” is as silly as it is immoral and inhumane. If you believe something works, there is no need to ever force it on someone else. You can avail yourself of that amazing public health measure.

The way we were-----Ruby Ridge Hearings - Under Fire (1995)

Hazardous waste expert tells Tucker Ohio town was 'nuked'

Jimmy Carter Was a Better President than You Think.

Instapundit - RESETTING THE BAR:

 Jimmy Carter Was a Better President than You Think.

To fight stagflation, Carter appointed tight-money advocate Paul Volker to head the Federal Reserve Board, and Volker pulled the brakes on inflationary monetary policy — hard. It solved inflation but sent the economy into a painful correction that probably cost Carter reelection.

• And despite his personal big government sympathies, Carter’s most lasting legacy is as the Great Deregulator. Carter deregulated oil, trucking, railroads, airlines, and beer. (H/t Caleb Brown.)

At the Atlantic, Derek Thompson chronicles the dramatic and almost unnoticed impact of Carter’s airline deregulation over the last thirty years. The bottom line: per-mile ticket prices fell by over fifty percent...
...The impact of beer deregulation has been similarly overlooked: In 1978, the USA had just 44 domestic breweries. After deregulation, creativity and innovation flourished in the above-ground economy...

As P.J. O’Rourke wrote in his classic 1993 American Spectator article, “100 Reasons Why Jimmy Carter Was a Better President than Bill Clinton:”

...100. And let us not forget that Jimmy Carter gave us one thing Bill Clinton can never possibly give us—Ronald Reagan...--Posted by Ed Driscoll

America Is Becoming a Corrupt Country - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

America Is Becoming a Corrupt Country - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics - 
by NEWT GINGRICH

• There may be no more important fight in the next decade than the reassertion of basic honesty and lawfulness.

"America has been drifting toward a level of corruption incompatible with a free society and a free-market economy.
Political and economic freedom depend on the presence of a level of honesty that makes it possible for people to interact with one another with a sense of trust.
Consider recent corrupt, criminal events and their implication for the future of American culture.

• An estimated $20 billion was stolen from California’s unemployment compensation program...
• ...$191 billion in COVID-19 relief funding has been stolen. The inspector general cited one case in which a person had used identity theft in 29 different states to steal $500,000...
• ...Shoplifting, flash robberies, and rampant crime have dramatically increased since so many jurisdictions have dramatically raised the dollar threshold of felony theft (in some places, stealing something worth $950 is a misdemeanor)...
• Add to this the rises in carjacking, burglary, and mugging. The rise in crime inherently means more criminals and more acceptance of living on someone else’s money.
• In this context, the Hunter Biden–Biden family pattern of influence peddling is just one more example of a country sliding into the acceptance of criminality as the norm....

24 states sue Biden EPA over water rule that would limit land use for farmers, landowners: 'Improper federal power grab' - TheBlaze

24 states sue Biden EPA over water rule that would limit land use for farmers, landowners: 'Improper federal power grab' - TheBlaze: 

The lawsuit explained that if the rule was left in place, "ranchers, farmers, miners, homebuilders, and other landowners across the country will struggle to undertake even the simplest of activities on their own property without fear of drawing the ire of the federal government."