Saturday, August 12, 2023
History for August 12
History for August 12 - On-This-Day.com
William Goldman 1931
- 1851 - Isaac Singer was issued a patent on the double-headed sewing machine.
- 1865 - Disinfectant was used for the first time during surgery by Joseph Lister.
- 1877 - Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and made the first sound recording.
- 1898 - The Spanish-American War was ended with the signing of the peace protocol. The U.S. acquired Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Hawaii was also annexed.
- 1981 - IBM unveiled its first PC.
- 1992 - The U.S., Canada, and Mexico announced that the North American Free Trade Agreement had been created after 14 months of negotiations.
Friday, August 11, 2023
The Left Careens Down the Road Toward Totalitarianism - TheBlaze
The Left Careens Down the Road Toward Totalitarianism - TheBlaze:
The Democrat Party is intent on destroying our nation from the inside out. And while the leftists might not come bearing physical weapons, they do have a more insidious kind of attack: ideas.
“It’s the battle of ideas. People are persuaded by socialism and Marxism. Why? Because they never produce what they say they’re going to produce. They produce horror, they produce death, they produce impoverishment. But the promises are endless,” Mark Levin explains.
Looting in Oxford Street this evening
"One demographic group in particular was at the heart of the disorder.
Distrust the science - by Tom Knighton
Distrust the science - by Tom Knighton"...But The Science (TM) is something different in this day and age.
- Now, it’s little more than a technocratic authoritarian push; an opportunity for some to use their lofty status to push for their own political desires to be manifested as political action.
We were told to trust The Science, but is The Science trustworthy?
Not really.
Not really.
The number of scientific papers retracted annually rose from just 40 in 2000 to almost 5,500 in 2022, representing a whopping 13,650% change over the past 22 years, with researchers estimating an astonishing 100,000 would have to be withdrawn every year with more thorough vetting...
Only around a fifth of retractions are a result of “honest error,”...
Yellow Corporation Files for Bankruptcy After Taking $700 Million Pandemic Loan
Yellow Corporation Files for Bankruptcy After Taking $700 Million Pandemic Loan"Reason reported last month that with less than two years left on its loan, Yellow Corporation owed more than it originally borrowed and had repaid only $230 in principal.
...The company took a $700 million federal loan under laws passed to address the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, in exchange for the government taking a 29 percent stake in the company.
Now, Yellow is expected to file for bankruptcy and employees are apparently being terminated, effective immediately...
...The company took a $700 million federal loan under laws passed to address the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, in exchange for the government taking a 29 percent stake in the company.
Now, Yellow is expected to file for bankruptcy and employees are apparently being terminated, effective immediately...
House Oversight Releases Bank Records Showing Hunter Biden Took Millions From Russian And Ukrainian Oligarchs | The Daily Caller
House Oversight Releases Bank Records Showing Hunter Biden Took Millions From Russian And Ukrainian Oligarchs | The Daily Caller:
The House Oversight Committee released bank records Wednesday showing Hunter Biden took millions of dollars worth of payments from Russian, Ukrainian and Kazakh oligarchs.
Hunter Biden received millions from Russian oligarch Elena Baturina, Ukrainian energy firm Burisma and Kazakh oligarch Kenes Rakishev when his father was vice president, the committee found. The committee has identified over $20 million in payments from foreign partners to the Biden family and their associates.
White House disinformation clip
"In 2021, I remember reporting on the words of senior political leaders.
Of course, I knew that people like president Biden and prime minister Johnston were not doctors or scientists.
However, I assumed they would be directly advised by the best their respective countries had to offer. Having assumed these leaders were well informed, I often passed on what they had to say.
Well, this video is just one example of how they got things wrong, meaning in turn I was wrong.
The age of deference has well and truly passed.
Runaway Spending and the Next Recession | City Journal
Runaway Spending and the Next Recession | City Journal - Stephen Miran
- Eating Our Seed Corn - Runaway spending is eroding America’s ability to respond to future economic downturns.
- Another cause of spending increases is the interest burden from servicing the national debt, which has already widened the deficit by almost $150 billion.
- For instance, the Biden administration expanded the definition of sport utility vehicles to include luxury sedans so that more cars would qualify for the expanded electric vehicle tax credits introduced by the highly inflationary Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). By playing language games to ensure that even $80,000 luxury sedans qualify for $7,500 taxpayer-funded credits...
Chip Roy urges showdown over DHS funding, border security - TheBlaze
Chip Roy urges showdown over DHS funding, border security - TheBlaze:
Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is urging his colleagues to leverage Congress' power of the purse to obtain much-needed steps toward border security.
"No border security, no funding," Roy wrote in a letter. "Simply put, no member of Congress should agree to fund a federal agency at war with his state and people. We have a moral obligation to protect our states, our nation, and, importantly, the migrant children getting abused from the disaster transpiring at our southern border."
The climate scam is entirely about MONEY!-----US awards $1.2 billion to Oxy, Climeworks-led carbon air capture hubs
US awards $1.2 billion to Oxy, Climeworks-led carbon air capture hubs"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced that projects in Texas and Louisiana to remove more than 2 million tonnes of carbon emissions will get over $1 billion in federal grants, a key step in scaling up direct air capture (DAC) technology.
...The agency also launched several new initiatives aimed at bringing the cost of the technology down to less than $100 per net metric ton of CO2-equivalent within this decade.
...The agency also launched several new initiatives aimed at bringing the cost of the technology down to less than $100 per net metric ton of CO2-equivalent within this decade.
- That includes a $35 million government procurement program for carbon removal credits, and
- funding for 14 feasibility studies and 5 engineering and design studies for earlier-stage hub projects...
Disney partners with 'gender fluid' man to promote Minnie Mouse girls' clothing: 'Let's get dressed' - TheBlaze
Disney partners with 'gender fluid' man to promote Minnie Mouse girls' clothing: 'Let's get dressed' - TheBlaze:
As reported by Breitbart, Altman believes he is "gender fluid" and promoted a Minnie Mouse-themed clothing set with a red dress, yellow pumps, and red hair bow. Altman showed himself getting dressed and applying makeup to over 717,000 subscribers on his own page, where the video was also posted, and garnered 865,000 views.
New Details Emerge About 75-Year-Old Utah Man Gunned Down by FBI Agents - Neighbor Captures Footage Showing the Moments Before He Was Killed (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cullen Linebarger
New Details Emerge About 75-Year-Old Utah Man Gunned Down by FBI Agents - Neighbor Captures Footage Showing the Moments Before He Was Killed (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cullen Linebarger
"...After several words are exchanged, one agent then throws a smoke bomb, which explodes near the elderly man’s front door.
"...After several words are exchanged, one agent then throws a smoke bomb, which explodes near the elderly man’s front door.
- At no time is Robertson firing at FBI agents during the incident.
While the actual shooting is not displayed on tape, The Daily Mail notes that photos from the scene show Robertson lying on his back, dead on the sidewalk in front of his house.
Attorney Marina Medvin notes that the FBI is almost certainly not telling the full story. She reveals that Robertson is morbidly obese and would have a hard time effectively carrying out an assassination attempt.
“Something is off about this Utah man story.” Medvin says...
History for August 11
History for August 11 - On-This-Day.com 
Robert Ingersoll 1833
- 1896 - Harvey Hubbell received a patent for the electric light bulb socket with a pull-chain.
- 1909 - The American ship Arapahoe became the first to ever use the SOS distress signal off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC.
- 1942 - During World War II, Pierre Laval publicly announced "the hour of liberation for France is the hour when Germany wins the war."
- 1954 - Seven years of fighting came to an end in Indochina. A formal peace was in place for the French and the Communist Vietminh.
- 1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan was preparing for his weekly radio broadcast when, during testing of the microphone, the President said of the Soviet Union, "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you that I just signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
- 1992 - In Bloomington, MN, the Mall of America opened. It was the largest shopping mall in the United States.
Thursday, August 10, 2023
James Comer to Release More Biden Family Bank Records�This Week
James Comer to Release More Biden Family Bank Records�This Week:
More Biden family bank records will be released this week, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) announced.
Comer predicted in June that newly subpoenaed Biden bank records would show the family accepted up to $30 million from its foreign business dealings.
See false information online? Teaching the truth is best remedy - mlive.com
See false information online? Teaching the truth is best remedy - mlive.com"...For content moderation, this meant considering whether stifling influential disinformation spreaders – people or accounts with a large following, for example – versus random people spreading disinformation played a significant role in combatting false information...
Butts added a real-time education strategy would require training individuals to be skeptical, avoid holding rigid opinions and could possibly include warnings on suspected disinformation with links to fact-checking sites...
Well, she was sorta right!-----Nancy Pelosi says the U.S. will come to an END if Trump is re-elected after he called her 'wicked witch' | Daily Mail Online
Nancy Pelosi says the U.S. will come to an END if Trump is re-elected after he called her 'wicked witch' | Daily Mail Online
- Pelosi said if Trump became president it would be like 'the world being on fire.'
- 'It cannot happen, or we will not be the United States of America,' she added
- After ex-Speaker said Trump looked like a 'scared puppy' at his arraignment, the former president called her the 'Wicked Witch'
'Money guy': This Hunter Biden business partner could blow the lid off Biden family's business dealings | Fox News
'Money guy': This Hunter Biden business partner could blow the lid off Biden family's business dealings | Fox News:
Following Devon Archer’s bombshell congressional interview last week alleging President Biden’s deep involvement with Hunter Biden’s business dealings, a new light is being cast on his son’s longtime business partner who stands to know even more.
Eric Schwerin visited the Obama White House and then-Vice President Biden’s residence at least 36 times between 2009 and 2016, likely to make him the next target of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings.
Schwerin was the founding partner and managing director of Hunter's now-dissolved firm Rosemont Seneca Partners when he was appointed by then-President Obama to the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, an independent U.S. government agency, in early 2015.
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