History for October 10

History for October 10 - On-This-Day.com
Giuseppe Verdi 1813, Helen Hayes 1900, James Clavell 1924 


David Lee Roth 1954 - Singer (Van Halen), Brett Favre 1969 - Football player, Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. 1974 - Race car driver 


1845 - The United States Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, MD. 


1865 - The billiard ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt. 


1886 - The tuxedo dinner jacket made its U.S. debut in New York City. 


1913 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike that ended the construction of the Panama Canal. 


1938 - Nazi Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. 


1943 - Chaing Kai-shek took the oath of office as the president of China. 


1959 - Pan American World Airways announced the beginning of the first global airline service. 


1978 - The U.S. bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar was signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter. 


1987 - Tom McClean finished rowing across the Atlantic Ocean. It set the record at 54 days and 18 hours. 


1994 - Iraq announced it was withdrawing its forces from the Kuwaiti border. No signs of a pullback were observed. 

Nationwide protests against Islam catching heat

Nationwide protests against Islam catching heat:

"Pamela Geller, author of "Stop the Islamizatin of America," addressed the issue Thursday in a blog titled, "The Media Frenzy on a News Story That Hasn’t Even Happened," in which she accused the media of whipping up "vicious propaganda" ahead of the rallies, which she has played no role in organizing.

"The media is in a constant state of frenzied panic to advance and promote the lie of Islamophobia and Muslim-victimhood myth. Despite a complete lack of any real evidence, the media frames opposition of jihad terror, FGM (female genital mutilation), creed apartheid, gender apartheid as 'islamophobia' or this pearl 'anti-Muslim extremists' as if one should support those things. They take their marching orders from terror-tied groups like the U.S. front group for Hamas, CAIR, and Muslim Brotherhood organization, ISNA.

"And the media mania to advance this complete fiction is at fever pitch this week."

Syrian forces begin ground offensive backed by Russia air and sea power - The Washington Post

Syrian forces begin ground offensive backed by Russia air and sea power - The Washington Post: "[Why Russia is in Syria]

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in a nationally televised briefing that the ships launched 26 cruise missiles, destroying 11 targets and killing no civilians. He also said that Russian planes continued to carry out airstrikes Wednesday.

The naval strikes on Wednesday were the first known operational use of state-of-the-art SSN-30A Kalibr cruise missiles, which were still being tested by the Russian navy in August.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the strikes spoke to the professionalism of Russia’s revamped army."

Megyn Kelly Analyzes ‘Disturbing New Twist’ Involving ‘Clock Kid’ Ahmed Mohamed’s Father | Video | TheBlaze.com

Megyn Kelly Analyzes ‘Disturbing New Twist’ Involving ‘Clock Kid’ Ahmed Mohamed’s Father | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"On Wednesday night, Fox News host Megyn Kelly reported on a “disturbing new twist” in the story of Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas teenager who became an overnight celebrity after officials at his high school took precautions and treated his homemade clock as a possible hoax bomb."

Right flexes muscle ahead of Speaker vote | TheHill

Right flexes muscle ahead of Speaker vote | TheHill: 

 

The conservative House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday endorsed little-known Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) for Speaker  — a bold move that raises serious doubts about whether Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy can cobble together the 218 votes on the House floor he needs to be promoted.

McCarthy, a five-term California Republican, is expected to easily win the nomination when House Republicans huddle at noon Thursday to pick a successor to outgoing Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

But the true test will come Oct. 29, when the House holds a public roll call vote to formally elect the next Speaker."

Hitler Downfall parodies: 5 Of The Best!

Hitler Downfall parodies: 5 Of The Best!
Downfall (German: Der Untergang) is a 2004 German war film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, depicting the final ten days of Adolf Hitler’s reign over Nazi Germany in 1945.

The movie is well known as the inspiration for “Downfall parodies”. 
One scene in the film, in which Hitler launches into a furious tirade upon finally realizing that the war is truly lost, has become a staple of internet videos. 
In these videos, the original German audio is retained, but new subtitles are added so that Hitler and his subordinates now seem to be reacting instead to some setback in present-day politics, sports, popular culture, or everyday life.

We have selected 5 of the most funny ones we could find.

Hitler falls for email scam

We have all seen an email scam before and even the best spam filters in the world cannot catch every single one. But most of us are smart enough to ignore such attempts to get ripped off, but not Hitler, it would seem.

Once the Biggest Buyer, China Starts Dumping U.S. Government Debt

Once the Biggest Buyer, China Starts Dumping U.S. Government Debt - WSJ

Muslim refugee riots ignored in U.S. media blackout

Muslim refugee riots ignored in U.S. media blackout:

“Syria was intentionally destabilized through the covert channeling of weapons and money into ISIS, al-Nusra, FSA and other terrorist groups,” he said. “The goal is to flood Sweden, Germany, the EU and eventually America with Islamic refugees who will create a powerful voting bloc to ensure hard-left politicians continue to get into office.”

The second part of the plan is to use militant Islamic groups to destroy social cohesion and use them as tools to increase totalitarian measures under the pretense of managing the chaos, he said. “Once social cohesion and a sense of national identity have been shattered, the next phase is to destroy independent nation states in favor of a UN-style global government.”

Undocumented Texans Take Birth Certificates Suit to Court

Undocumented Texans Take Birth Certificates Suit to Court:
"Attorneys for the state of Texas argued in federal court in Austin on Friday that a lawsuit joined by dozens of undocumented Texans has nothing to do with their U.S.-born children being denied birth certificates by the state vital statistics unit. 
Instead, the attorneys claimed, the suit is a ruse to compel the state to accept Mexican consulate-issued identification.
“This is more about the legitimacy of the matricula, I’m just throwing that out there,” argued Thomas Albright, an assistant attorney general for the state, referring to the contested form of photo identification that Department of State Health Services (DSHS) says it will not accept, and has never accepted, as proof of identity for undocumented parents seeking birth certificates for their American-born kids."

New York Times Says ‘Modern Man’ ‘Has No Use for a Gun,’ ‘Cries Often’

<i>New York Times</i> Says ‘Modern Man’ ‘Has No Use for a Gun,’ ‘Cries Often’ | PJ Media:
"The New York Times is not just the Paper of Record.
It is, among so very many other things, the adjudicator of acceptable opinion, the arbiter of style, and the guide for the perplexed.
It was thus with humble gratitude that males, all of whom are prostrate betas before the Times’ grand alpha, received the article that appeared last week in the Men’s Style/Self-Help section:
“27 Ways to Be a Modern Man.”
How would we know, if the New York Times didn’t tell us?
Brian Lombardi, the Times’ appointed oracle on what makes a Modern Man, is as gnomic and enigmatic as any of his Delphic predecessors.
He tells us, for example, that “the modern man listens to Wu-Tang at least once a week.
” My best guess as to what this could possibly mean is that it is a reference to the Wu-Tang Clan, which, I am informed, is “an American hip hop group from New York City, originally composed of East Coast rappers RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, Cappadonna, and the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard.”
...But then, there is this:
The modern man lies on the side of the bed closer to the door.
If an intruder gets in, he will try to fight him off, so that his wife has a chance to get away.
Very well, but also:
The modern man has no use for a gun. 
He doesn’t own one, and he never will.
If Modern Man must never own a gun, that’s his choice. 
But he “has no use” for one? 
What if the intruder who storms his bedroom is too strong for Modern Man to fight off unarmed? What if the intruder has a knife — or is even so much of an Antiquated Man as to have a gun?
What can Modern Man do then? Reach for the melon baller that Lombardi advises he use to make sure  “the cantaloupe, watermelon and honeydew he serves” are “uniformly shaped”?
A clue as to how all this sage advice hangs together comes in the oracle’s penultimate utterance:
The modern man cries. He cries often.
Perhaps the Modern Man is so given to such displays because the intruder was indeed armed, and Modern Man wasn’t, and Modern Man’s wife had no chance to get away..."

Hillary Clinton's Scandals Are the Reason She'll Be an Effective President

Vox Editor: Hillary Clinton's Scandals Are the Reason She'll Be an Effective President: "Occasionally a member of the chattering classes writes something that is not just wrong, that is not just irritating, but that is genuinely dangerous.
Matthew Yglesias’s latest essay at Vox is just such a piece.
Writes Yglesias:
From her adventures in cattle trading to chairing a policymaking committee in her husband’s White House to running for Senate in a state she’d never lived in to her effort to use superdelegates to overturn 2008 primary results to her email servers, [Hillary] Clinton is clearly more comfortable than the average person with violating norms and operating in legal gray areas.
This is, for him, a point in her favor:
Committed Democrats and liberal-leaning interest groups are facing a reality in which any policy gains they achieve are going to come through the profligate use of executive authority, and Clinton is almost uniquely suited to deliver the goods. 
More than almost anyone else around, she knows where the levers of power lie, and she is comfortable pulling them, procedural niceties be damned. 
Conclusion:
She truly is the perfect leader for America’s moment of permanent constitutional crisis: a person who cares more about results than process, who cares more about winning the battle than being well-liked, and a person who believes in asking what she can get away with rather than what would look best.
...Furthermore, if the overriding aim of a political interest is simply to find someone who can “deliver the goods,” means-be-damned, then one should expect those deliverers to become more and more autocratic.
Obama did the legwork of making “profligate executive action” politically tenable; why shouldn’t like-minded successors push harder?
Most modern liberals are training-wheel tyrants, if you scratch. 
But sometimes you don’t even need to scratch."

Calls For More Gun Control After Oregon Shooting Have Backfired In A HUGE Way

Calls For More Gun Control After Oregon Shooting Have Backfired In A HUGE Way:

"Gun sales in America, already heading for a record year, have increased in the wake of President Obama’s Friday call to restrict gun ownership.

Obama’s most recent attack on firearms came in the wake of last week’s shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon in which a gunman killed nine victims."

Worth a look-----Lawmaker Calls For Study On Links Between Pharmaceuticals And Mass Killers

Lawmaker Calls For Study On Links Between Pharmaceuticals And Mass Killers | Zero Hedge: "Following recent media reports of high-profile mass shootings, a Republican assemblywoman from Nevada is calling for an investigation into whether psychiatric pharmaceuticals commonly taken by mass murderers can cause side effects that may contribute to their mental health decline.
According to KSNV Las Vegas, GOP Assemblywoman Michele Fiore says that, rather than blaming mass shootings on the guns used by the perpetrators, studies should be done on the drugs that many of them have a history of having taken to treat mental health disorders.
“We have to look into what is being prescribed and what is in these meds just like clinical studies. Why don’t we do studies on the medication all of these shooters were taking and take that medication off the market? Obviously, medications can alter your mind just as alcohol can alter the mind,” said Fiore.
...In August of this year, a CBS46 Atlanta Reality Check report by Ben Swann raised questions about the possibility of a connection between mass murderers and pharmaceutical drugs used to treat mental health disorders, noting that 26 high-profile perpetrators had been taking psychiatric medication..."

How to Create a Gun-Free America in 5 Easy Steps

How to Create a Gun-Free America in 5 Easy Steps - Reason.com
Want to create a gun-free America in 5 easy steps?

Here's all there is to it:

Step 1: Elect. For a gun-free America, the first thing you'll need is two-thirds of Congress. So elect a minimum of 67 Senators and 290 Representatives who are on your side.

Step 2: Propose. Then, have them vote to propose an amendment to the Constitution which repeals Second Amendment gun rights for all Americans.

Step 3: Ratify. Then convince the legislators of 38 states to ratify that change.

At this point, the Second Amendment is history, but you've done nothing to decrease gun violence. All you've done is remove the barrier for Congress to act.

Step 4: Legislate. You need to enact "common sense" reform.

You can try to do what Australia did and...ban all guns? That's not at all what they did, but whatever, fuck it. Go big or go home, right?

It will have to be passed by Congress and signed by the president.  

Great! The law is passed and guns are now illegal.  The only thing left to do is...

Step 5: Enforce. Guns won't just disappear because you passed a law. You need to confiscate some 350 million guns scattered among 330 Million Americans.

Sure, you can try a buy-back program like Australia, but like Australia that will still leave behind anywhere from 60 percent to 80 percent of privately owned firearms.

The rest you have to take.

You'll need the police, the FBI, the ATF or the National Guard—all known for their nuanced approach to potentially dangerous situations—to go door-to-door, through 3.8 million square milesof this country and take guns, by force, from thousands, if not, millions of well-armed individuals. Many of whom would rather start a civil war than acquiesce.

So inevitably gun violence, which is currently at a historic low, will skyrocket.

But that is how you get a gun-free America in five easy steps.

Yeah. They're still doin' it-----Quantitative Easing Explained

A Democrat Just Made A Huge Move In Congress To Try And Destroy Trey Gowdy

A Democrat Just Made A Huge Move In Congress To Try And Destroy Trey Gowdy:

"Florida Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson has Reps. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in his crosshairs after the latter implied one of the primary reasons the Select Committee on Benghazi was established was to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid.

Grayson, who is running for the U.S. Senate, filed a three-page ethics complaint Wednesday, alleging that both Gowdy and McCarthy violated federal law by using funds allocated to the Select Committee for political or campaign purposes."

School District Overspending for Last Nine Years Keeps Getting More Funding Per Pupil [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

School District Overspending for Last Nine Years Keeps Getting More Funding Per Pupil [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Clintondale Community Schools has been in continuous deficit-spending mode dating back to 2005-06.
The Macomb County district was not contrite in explaining nine consecutive years of being unable to balance its budget.
On a form required by Michigan Department of Education, the school district’s administration defiantly gives this reason for its failure: “Inadequate funding and declining enrollment.”
And in a recent Detroit News story, Ken Austin, the president of the district’s teachers union local said, “We would likely not be in the current position if it were not for the many huge cuts to school funding that districts have been forced to endure for many years.”
That’s their story, but the facts don’t support it.
The declining enrollment part is true enough, but last year the district got more money per student than nine years ago, not less.
...However, like many districts, skyrocketing pension costs have eaten up much of the increase. In 2007-08, Clintondale had 488 employees on its payroll.
The district’s required annual contribution to the state-run school employee retirement system was $2.8 million..."

History for October 9

History for October 9 - On-This-Day.com
Bruce Catton 1899, John Lennon 1940 - Musician (Beatles), John Alec Entwistle 1944 - Musician (The Who) 


Jackson Browne 1948 - Musician, Scott Bakula 1955 - Actor, Michael Pare 1959 


1781 - The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War took place in Yorktown, VA. The American forces, led by George Washington, defeated the British troops under Lord Cornwallis. 


1855 - Isaac Singer patented the sewing machine motor. 


1872 - Aaron Montgomery started his mail order business with the delivery of the first mail order catalog. The firm later became Montgomery Wards. 


1936 - The first generator at Boulder Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles, CA. The name of the dam was later changed to Hoover Dam. 


1946 - The first electric blanket went on sale in Petersburg, VA. 


1975 - Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Soviet scientist is known as the "father of the hydrogen bomb." 


1986 - Joan Rivers debuted her new "The Late Show" on the FOX network. 

1986 - The musical "Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber opened in London. 

Obama Willing to Toss America to Wolves

Obama Willing to Toss America to Wolves:

"President Obama, once again showing his contempt for the military and for Congress, warned this week that he will veto a national defense bill unless Congress removes funding for Guantanamo Bay, where the U.S. has been holding terrorists for years.

Congress can't gather its spine to defund Planned Parenthood, but our president is willing to defund the military for the sake of a pet project on his leftist to-do list."

Obama’s U.N. plan: Globalize cops against ‘violent extremists’

Obama’s U.N. plan: Globalize cops against ‘violent extremists’:

"President Obama’s new “Strong Cities Network,” announced with little fanfare last week at the United Nations, appears to be another effort to strip authority from local police departments and to demonize conservative Christians, say advocates of civil and religious liberties.

The stated goal of the program is to connect local police departments with their peers around the world in an effort to combat “violent extremism,” according to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who announced the program to the U.N. on Sept. 30.

Lynch, with New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio by her side, told world leaders that the time has come for a more globalized and comprehensive effort to combat violent extremism. She said:"

ACLU sues Ferguson school district because black voters aren’t electing black candidates

ACLU sues Ferguson school district because black voters aren’t electing black candidates | BizPac Review:
"Voting rights lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit last year challenging the Ferguson-Florissant school district’s use of an “at-large” voting system, alleging that not enough blacks were being voted into office.
On Wednesday, the school district filed new documents urging the judge to drop the lawsuit, arguing that the district was not engaged in any sort of scheme to keep minorities from holding office.
Although African Americans make up roughly 77 percent of the students in the district, only one of the seven members of the school board was black when the case was filed last year.
Since then, one additional black member has been elected.
The ACLU claims the at-large voting system – where all candidates are elected by the entire district rather than small geographical areas – is to blame for the low number of minority members, according to MSNBC."

Unbeknownst to Clinton, IT firm had emails stored on cloud; now in FBI’s hands | McClatchy DC

Unbeknownst to Clinton, IT firm had emails stored on cloud; now in FBI’s hands | McClatchy DC:




WASHINGTON 

A Connecticut company, which backed up Hillary Clinton‘s emails at the request of a Colorado firm, apparently surprised her aides by storing the emails on a “cloud” storage system designed to optimize data recovery.

The firm, Datto Inc., said Wednesday that it turned over the contents of its storage to the FBI on Tuesday.

A Republican Senate committee chairman, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, also has asked the firm to provide the committee copies of any data from Clinton’s account still in its possession.

There were conflicting accounts as to whether the developments could lead to retrieval of any of Clinton’s more than 31,000 personal emails, which she said she deleted from her private server upon turning over her work-related emails to the State Department, at its request, in December 2014.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article37968711.html#storylink=cpy

Ted Cruz Repeatedly Grills Sierra Club President With One Simple Question — Watch the Answer He Gets | Video | TheBlaze.com

Ted Cruz Repeatedly Grills Sierra Club President With One Simple Question — Watch the Answer He Gets | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) repeatedly grilled Sierra Club President Aaron Mair Tuesday, asking whether his organization would issue a formal retraction if evidence contrary to his global warming testimony were provided to the environmental group.

Muir had testified during a Senate hearing that “our planet is cooking and heating up and warming.”

Cruz, who said that recent satellite data did not show a warming trend, asked Muir whether he would retreat his statement if the data were given to him."

Yes. Their plan is to disarm you and your family. And defend you just like they defended the students in Oregon-----The entire article is worth your time today!-----The truth about gun deaths: numbers and actual solutions

The truth about gun deaths: numbers and actual solutions « Hot Air
When the President went on television after the Oregon college mass shooting he issued a challenge to the media. He asked them to show America the number of gun deaths as compared to the number of terrorism related deaths since the 9/11 attacks. The media dutifully complied and soon every network, newspaper and magazine was putting up startling graphics, such as this one tweeted by CNN.

These graphics and figures were almost uniformly followed by comments about the mass shooting and the “pressing need” for background checks and other gun control laws. Unfortunately, all of these numbers flashing around were dishonestly offered up with no context or details. 
As it turns out, however, the real numbers are available from a variety of sources including the FBI and the CDC, among others, so let’s take a look at them. 
It takes federal agencies a long time to compile and publish their statistics, so the last full set of data we have is from 2011 and the figures can shed a lot of light on exactly how mendacious gun control advocates are being with these studies.

First of all, look at the number of gun deaths on that chart from 2011. It’s 32,351. That’s a lot of gun deaths to be sure. So that’s the total number of murders by gun owners, right? The answer is not only Hell No, but it’s not even remotely close. It’s true that this figure is close to the total number of human lives ended in incidents involving a gun, but that’s all incidents. So how did those deaths happen?

Straight from the CDC where most of the media is drawing their numbers (while not as good of a source as the FBI or the Justice Department) we can find out that of those 32,352 gun deaths,21,175 of them were suicides. That leaves us with 11,177 deaths to account for. 
But as it turns out, the FBI records that 8,583 deaths were murders of various sorts involving guns of all types. 
The remaining roughly 2,500 were accounted for by accidents and unintentional injuries. 
These include hunting accidents, toddlers getting hold of unsecured weapons and shooting somebody or just plain idiots who proved Darwin right.

Before we move on, those FBI numbers deserve a closer look for a moment since we’re on the subject. 
What sorts of guns are used in actual crimes? 
I bring this up because each mass shooting elicits renewed calls for an “assault weapons” ban on guns like the AR-15 style rifle. 
Are those popular in crimes? 
Check out the figures from the FBI report.

Take a good look at those numbers. Of the actual 8,583 gun murders committed in 2011, 323 were committed with “rifles.” 
And that’s all rifles, including bolt action, deer hunting rifles and all the rest. The number committed with so called “assault rifles” were a fraction of that. When you ask how dangerous those rifles are, compare that to nearly 1,700 who were stabbed as well as nearly 500 murdered with blunt objects and and more than 700 beaten to death by somebody with their bare hands. 
Enough said on that topic.

So we’re down to 8,583 intentional killings using guns. 
That’s still one heck of a lot of bodies, and surely enough to justify new background checks and other restrictions on legal gun purchases, right? Again… not even close. The Justice Department has been studying the question of legal vs. illegal sources of guns used in crimes for decades, going back to this study issued in the early nineties. They admit that the numbers are simply too hard to track for us to pin down exact figures, but the trends are steady over the years. The vast majority of guns used in crimes were gotten through illegal means outside the legal purchase regimen followed by law abiding gun owners. Roughly one quarter of inmates convicted of gun crimes admitted to having stolen a gun in that study. For the ones that weren’t stolen directly, another 2004 studyshowed that 40% of convicts bought their guns on the black market and another 37% got them through the “gray market” in various illegal methods.

In fact, one study after another has shown that legally purchased weapons which followed all the normal firearms transfer rules accounted for somewhere between six and eight percent of all murders. And the majority of those were domestic violence incidents, violence between family members, crimes of passion and, yes… murders committed by the insane. But let’s give the gun grabbers the benefit of the doubt, round it up and say that ten percent were committed with legally purchases guns. That works out to around 850.

850 is too many people, but it’s a far cry from more than 32,000 per year.

So what do you want to do about it?

Now that we’ve discovered who is being killed by guns and how it’s happening, let’s put some actual solutions on the table. First of all, as we saw above, the vast majority of gun deaths are suicides. That’s not a gun control issue. Suicides largely fall into two groups: the depressed, hopeless and mentally ill or those suffering from terminal illness looking for a fast way out. For the former we definitely need to be providing more help and counseling to the hopeless and the depressed, allowing them to find a better way to deal with their problems than a terminal exit. And the mentally ill remain a major – but not gun control related – challenge for our legislators to deal with. For the terminally ill, as toxic of a subject as it may be, assisted suicide laws such as are already in place in a couple of states might at least offer those on their way out of this world a more peaceful and medically sound path than putting a barrel in their mouth.

Accidents account for too many deaths and that’s a place where responsible gun owners must always strive to improve in terms of educating the public. The NRA does some great work in this area, but there are still too many people making careless, stupid mistakes which wind up costing somebody their life. Also, the number of stolen guns can be cut down if more owners take the necessary precautions to make it harder for thieves to steal their weapons from their homes and automobiles..."

High School Principal CANCELS AMERICA DAY

High School Principal CANCELS AMERICA DAY | The Daily Caller
"High School Students Revolt After Principal CANCELS ‘AMERICA PRIDE DAY’
 Students at a Wyoming high school took matters into their own hands last week by festooning themselves in the colors of the American flag after the principal and an assistant principal canceled “America Pride Day” over concerns that some immigrant students could feel sad and left out.
The scene of the red, white and blue brouhaha was Jackson Hole High School in Jackson, Wyo., reports the Jackson Hole News&Guide.
In response to a decision by school officials to replace a previously-held “America Pride Day” with “College Day” as part of this year’s homecoming festivities, a large group of senior students and some juniors protested by bedecking themselves with American flag capes, American flag headbands, American flag shorts and all manner of beautifully and garishly patriotic American flag ornamentation. 
After school, one kid also drove a diesel truck around the parking lot with a bunch of American flags waving in the breeze."

Criticism of Islam Could Soon be a Crime in America

Criticism of Islam Could Soon be a Crime in America:
When President Obama delivered his much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world at Cairo University in June 2009, the free world trembled while the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) gushed with praise and begged  for a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The OIC is the largest head of state organization in the world after the United Nations (UN) itself and comprises 56 Muslim countries plus the Palestinians.
It claims  to be the “collective voice of the Muslim world,” i.e., the ummah, and speaks on its behalf in effect as the seat of the next Islamic Caliphate.
In 1990, the OIC membership adopted the “Cairo Declaration ,” which officially exempted all Muslim countries from compliance with the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights and replaced it with Islamic law (shariah). 
One of the fundamental laws of Islam deals with “slander ,” which is defined in shariah as saying “anything concerning a person [a Muslim] that he would dislike.” 
At the OIC’s Third Extraordinary Session, held in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in December 2005, the organization adopted a “Ten-Year Programme of Action  to Meet the Challenges Facing the Muslim Ummah in the 21st Century.”
A key agenda  item of that meeting was “the need to counter Islamophobia” by seeking to have the UN “…adopt an international resolution to counter Islamophobia, and call upon all States to enact laws to counter it, including deterrent punishments...”

BREAKING: Leaders of Oregon Shooting Town Stun Obama With MASSIVE Announcement

BREAKING: Leaders of Oregon Shooting Town Stun Obama With MASSIVE Announcement:

"It sounds like nobody in Roseburg wants President Obama to show up there, because like the rest of us, they recognize that Obama is only interested in scoring political points.

When it comes to the actual victims and their families, well … they’re just collateral damage to him."

Zero correlation between state homicide rate and state gun laws

Zero correlation between state homicide rate and state gun laws - The Washington Post
There’s been much talk recently — including from President Obama — about there being a substantial correlation between state-level gun death rates and state gun laws.
Now correlation obviously doesn’t equal causation; there may be lots of other factors that are the true causes of both of the things that are being measured.
But if we do look for now at correlation, it seems to me that the key question should focus on state total homicide rates, or perhaps (for reasons I describe below) total intentional homicide plus accidental gun death rates.
And it turns out that there is essentially zero correlation between these numbers and state gun laws.
To begin with, here’s why I focus on total homicide,
rather than gun homicide or all gun deaths.
First, few people care much about whether they are stabbed to death or shot to death.
And even if gun restrictions do decrease gun homicides, that effect may well be offset (or more than offset) by an increase in other homicides:
Some killers would kill with knives or other weapons instead of guns.
To the extent that today some attempted killings are stopped by defenders who have guns, those attempts might succeed if the guns become harder enough for defenders to get.
...But since people have been talking about simple two-variable correlations between gun laws and crime, I thought it would be helpful to note this correlation — or, rather, absence of correlation.

Well done, feminism. Now man are afraid to help women at work

Well done, feminism. Now man are afraid to help women at work - Telegraph:
"And the author should know about tough working environments: she’s a former equities trader at Morgan Stanley.
Tellingly, Elsesser adds that companies themselves are contributing to this mess, as they are now so terrified of legal action they send staff on sexual harassment training courses, and are duty-bound to follow up on any allegation, however minor.
Ludicrously, Elsesser cites examples of men who have been dragged in by their HR departments for simply opening a door for a female colleague or complimenting her on a new suit. 
“Stories like these spread around workplaces, instilling a fear that innocent remarks will be misinterpreted,” she says.
...Of course, despite the fact that it is men who are getting the rough end of the pineapple here, this is all being painted as Officially Bad For Women, as they are failing to get on.
But how are men meant to react when we’re informed that, despite decades of being told women don’t need or even want men’s help, now they’re falling behind because we’re not helping them?
A phrase involving “cake and eat it” leaps to mind – although don’t repeat it at work, as you’ll probably be frogmarched to HR for “fat shaming”.
Elsesser’s book echoes an insightful New York Post article from earlier this year called ‘Powerful Men Now Hide Behind Open Doors’."

THOUSANDS OF FEDERAL DRUG INMATES SET FOR EARLY RELEASE

News from The Associated Press:
"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thousands of federal inmates serving sentences for drug crimes are set for early release next month under a cost-cutting measure intended to reduce the nation's prison population.
The more than 5,500 inmates set to go free in November are among the first of what could eventually be tens of thousands eligible for release.
The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted last year to retroactively apply substantially lower recommended sentences for those convicted of drug-related felonies.
The commission, an independent panel that sets federal sentencing policy, estimated the prison terms would be cut by an average of 25 months.
Under the program, a judge reviews each prisoner's case to decide if his or her release would jeopardize public safety.
Most of those eligible for consideration have already served 10 years or more.
The Justice Department estimates that roughly 40,000 prisoners could benefit from the program in the coming years..."

Why is Socialism Making a Comeback? Because People are Stupid - Eagle Rising

Why is Socialism Making a Comeback? Because People are Stupid - Eagle Rising:

"Now is the only time when socialism makes any sense. When there is still wealth enough to go around, but it’s not going around quite like you’d like. That’s when socialism makes the most sense. But give into it, and it pulls its bait and switch. The reality of socialism fully unfurled is greater injustice, totalitarianism, and abject poverty. Ask anyone who has lived through it. Ask Boris Yeltsin. All it took for him to abandon socialism was a trip to an American grocery store. What’s our excuse?"

Sweden in flames: As gangs of migrants riot for five nights running... the Utopian boats of a multicultural success story turn to ashes

• Fifth night of violent riots in Stockholm saw schools destroyed
• Over 70 incidents reported overnight including a torched police station
• Turmoil began Sunday night after police shot a man in Husby suburb
• Incidents in other parts of Sweden spark fear riots are spreading

Sweden in flames: As gangs of migrants riot for five nights running... the Utopian boats of a multicultural success story turn to ashes | Daily Mail Online: