History for April 27

History for April 27 - On-This-Day.com
Edward Gibbon 1737 - Historian, author, Samuel F.B. (Finley Breese) Morse 1791 - Inventor (electromagnetic telegraph), Ulysses S. Grant 1822 - 18th U.S. President, Lt. General in command of all Union armies during the U.S. Civil War, nickname: Hero of Appomattox  


Wallace Hume 1896 - Chemist, inventor, credited with invention of nylon, Walter Lantz 1900 - Animator, creator of Woody Woodpecker, Jack Klugman 1922 - Actor ("The Odd Couple", "Quincy, M.E.") 


Coretta Scott King 1927 - Wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Casey Kasem (Kemal Amin Kasem) 1932 - Radio announcer, DJ, host ("American Top 40), character voice of Shaggy from Scooby Doo, actor ("Hawaii Five-O"), Sheena Easton 1959 - Singer 


1521 - Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines. 


1861 - U.S. President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus. 


1861 - West Virginia seceded from Virginia after Virginia seceded from the Union during the American Civil War. 


1880 - Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid. 


1953 - The U.S. offered $50,000 and political asylum to any Communist pilot that delivered a MIG jet. 



1960 - The submarine Tullibee was launched from Groton, CT. It was the first sub to be equipped with closed-circuit television. 


1965 - "Pampers" were patented by R.C. Duncan. 


1978 - Pro-Soviet Marxists seized control of Afghanistan. 


1989 - Student protestors took over Tiananmen Square in Beijing. 


2005 - The A380, the world's largest jetliner, completed its maiden flight. The passenger capability was 840. 

SPREAD THIS: Navy SEAL Reveals the Shocking Way Obama Is Costing Our Soldiers' Lives

SPREAD THIS: Navy SEAL Reveals the Shocking Way Obama Is Costing Our Soldiers' Lives:

"And then there’s Obama’s decision to pursue a nuclear arms treaty with Iran, a nation that Higbie described as “a global force for evil” — one whose influence can be seen and felt in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Syria, in Turkey, in Yemen, etc. (H/T NewsMax)

Put all of these things together —"

And we know what the 1967/68 riots did for Detroit and the black family-----The World Barack Obama and Eric Holder Have Made: Baltimore, 2015

The World Barack Obama and Eric Holder Have Made: Baltimore, 2015 | PJ Tatler
Get ready for a long hot summer, the kind not seen in these formerly United States since 1968:

You voted for it, America.
 And now you’re going to get it, good and hard.

1.5 Million Missing Black Men

1.5 Million Missing Black Men - NYTimes.com

The Democrats’ white-voter problem — in 2 maps

The Democrats’ white-voter problem — in 2 maps - The Washington Post

Fox News Reports on the Tangled Web of Clinton Cash - Breitbart

Fox News Reports on the Tangled Web of Clinton Cash - Breitbart:

"It’s pure happenstance that business interests and foreign governments kept getting what they wanted from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after donating to her foundation, or arranging lucrative speaking engagements for the Secretary and her husband.

Hillary, who used to strongly oppose foreign governments buying up American business interests — as in the case of the Dubai ports deal — spontaneously changed her mind and decided that selling twenty percent of the U.S. uranium market to a company owned by Vladimir Putin.  It had nothing whatsoever to do with fat Clinton Foundation donations from the shadowy Canadian magnate whose shell company blossomed into a massive uranium superstore with a little help from Bill Clinton… "

Timeline: Bill Clinton's Involvement in Uranium Mining Deal

Timeline: Bill Clinton's Involvement in Uranium Mining Deal
Former President Bill Clinton appears to have played a role in helping mining magnate Frank Giustra enter into a lucrative uranium mining deal with Kazakhstan. 
That deal, and the ones that followed, coincided with generous donations to the Clinton Foundation.

What follows is an attempt to organize facts gathered by the New York Times, Newsweekand other news sites into a clear, chronological order.

...September 6, 2005: Giustra flies former President Clinton on his private jet for stops in three nations. The stops are all part of Clinton Foundation work to grant cheaper access to AIDS drugs. The first stop on the tour, said to be “arranged hastily,” is Kazakhstan. It will be Clinton’s only post-presidential visit to the country.

...September 8, 2005: UrAsia Energy Ltd. signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Kazatomprom worth $450 million. The New York Times reports that UrAsia went from a second-tier shell company to leading uranium producer overnight. One uranium industry expert tells the Times the selection of UrAsia for the deal is a “mystery.”

...Early 2006: Giustra makes a $31.3 million donation to the Clinton Foundation. The donation is kept secret until December 2007.

September 2006: Giustra “co-produces” former President Clinton’s star-studded 60th birthday gala, an event which eventually raises $21 million for the Clinton Foundation.

February 2007: Uranium One, a South African mining company, buys UrAsia Energy Ltd. for $3.1 billion. The head of Kazatomprom has a private, 3-hour meeting with Bill Clinton at Clinton’s New York home to discuss a forthcoming business deal arranged by Giustra. When asked about the meeting by the New York Times, Giustra denied it happened or that he arranged it. When it is pointed out that Moukhtar Dzhakishev, president of Kazatomprom, has a photo with Mr. Clinton taken inside his home during the meeting, Giustra does an about face. Similarly, a spokesman for Clinton initially denies the meeting took place, then issues a “correction” acknowledging it did.
Read it all.

Your Tax Dollars Paid for Boston Bomber's Family's Trip to U.S.

Your Tax Dollars Paid for Boston Bomber's Family's Trip to U.S.
Survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing are outraged after learning that family members of convicted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were flown to the U.S., put up in a hotel and provided with extensive security – all paid for with taxpayer dollars.

"Fox and Friends Weekend" broke down the numbers, and they are shocking.

Anna Kooiman reported that it cost $2,500 per person to fly to the U.S. from Amsterdam, $200 per person a night at the hotel, $100,000 for round-the-clock security, plus lawyer fees.

"[This] shouldn't surprise you because you've been paying for it since day one," Tucker Carlson said. 
"Mrs. Tsarnaev was brought here along with her boys, the ones she claimed that were wronged, at your expense."

"They claimed asylum and then they immediately went on welfare. 
They've been living at taxpayer expense on the dole all these years, and now their extended family is doing the same."...

It's the culture, stupid!---RAW VIDEO: Black Mob Robs Female Reporter Covering Baltimore Protests

RAW VIDEO: Black Mob Robs Female Reporter Covering Baltimore Protests | Conservative Outfitters:
"The situation in Baltimore continues to violently spin out of control.
Watch the video below of a female reporter covering the protests as she is attacked and robbed. 
What do you think? "

Hillary Clinton: ‘Deep-Seated Cultural Codes, Religious Beliefs…Have to Be Changed’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Hillary Clinton: ‘Deep-Seated Cultural Codes, Religious Beliefs…Have to Be Changed’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Clinton went on to say that the “advancement of the full participation of women and girls in every aspect of their societies is the great unfinished business of the 21st century.”

She claimed that the economy would grow by 10 percent by 2030 if the “gap” between men and women in the workplace were closed.

Clinton then lamented the “lack of quality, affordable childcare, unequal pay” and “unfair” work schedules, problems she said affect women disproportionately."

Hillary: Gun Control #1 Priority Of A Clinton Administration

Hillary: Gun Control #1 Priority Of A Clinton Administration - NYTimes:
"She told the gathered crowd that “the proliferation of semi-automatic weapons among the general populace presents a grave danger to the stability and continuity of governance in our nation”.
Later in her remarks she expressed the belief that a federal framework needed to be emplaced which would supersede the patchwork of existing state regulations and policies in regards to registration and sales of firearms. 
She explained that the consistency of a federal framework would end the exploitation of the weak gun laws present in some states to fuel the sale and use of illegal weapons nationally."

Obama's america---Family Incomes Fell In March; Now 5% Below Pre-Recession Level

Family Incomes Fell In March; Now 5% Below Pre-Recession Level - Investors.com:
"Back in January, President Obama was boasting that the economy had finally turned a corner. He called 2014 a "breakthrough year for America," and said "our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999."
He went on to credit his "middle class economics" for producing these gains.
The latest income data, however, don't show anything like what Obama was describing.
Real median family income fell in March, to $54,203, back to where it was in September 2009.

Sentier Research — which uses Census data to compile monthly income statistics — found that family incomes plummeted more after the recession than during the recession itself, bottoming out in mid-2011.
After that, family incomes started to make a painfully slow climb.
But even now, nearly six years after the recession ended, they are still 5% below where they stood at the previous peak in early 2008, just as the recession was starting. At the current pace, it will take several more years for family incomes to reach that peak again.
Another way to look at it. Under President George W. Bush, this income measure averaged $56,081 — despite his presiding over two recessions. 
That's 6% higher than the average under Obama and 3.5% above the latest March figure.
If this constitutes a "breakthrough year" for this administration, that isn't saying much for how it measures success."

Mitt Romney Does Not Mince Words When Asked About Report on Clinton Foundation Uranium Company Ties | TheBlaze.com

Mitt Romney Does Not Mince Words When Asked About Report on Clinton Foundation Uranium Company Ties | TheBlaze.com:

“And if those things are connected, as they certainly seem to be, it’s a form of bribery,” Romney added. “And that’s what it appears to be, and that is of course what’s going to have to be delved into, and I’m afraid this is a, this is bigger than just her presidential campaign. I mean, this is a question about whether or not the United States secretary of state was bribed to grease the sale of strategic assets to Russia.”

Flashback 2011: ‘Era of Constant Electricity at Home is Ending, says UK power chief’ — ‘Families would have to get used to only using power when it was available’

Flashback 2011: ‘Era of Constant Electricity at Home is Ending, says UK power chief’ — ‘Families would have to get used to only using power when it was available’ | Climate Depot:
"The Daily Telegraph – March 2, 2011: ‘Era of Constant Electricity at Home is Ending, says UK power chief’

Excerpt: ‘The days of permanently available electricity may be coming to an end, the head of the power network said yesterday. Families would have to get used to only using power when it was available, rather than constantly, said Steve Holliday, chief executive of National Grid. Mr Holliday was challenged over how the country would “keep the lights on” when it relied more on wind turbines as supplies of gas dwindled. Electricity provided by wind farms will increase six-fold by 2020 but critics complain they only generate on windy days.
…
“We are going to change our own behaviour and consume it when it is available and available cheaply.”"

History for April 26

History for April 26 - On-This-Day.com:
John James Audubon 1785 - Ornithologist, naturalist, painter, Rudolf Hess 1895 - Adolf Hitler's Deputy in the Nazi Party, Charles Richter 1900 - Seismologist, creator of the Richter magnitude scale used to quantify earthquakes 


Carol Burnett 1933 - Actress, comedian, Bobby Rydell 1942 - Singer, Joan Chen 1961 - Actress 


1514 - Copernicus made his first observations of Saturn. 


1607 - The British established an American colony at Cape Henry, Virginia. It was the first permanent English establishment in the Western Hemisphere. 


1865 - John Wilkes Booth was killed by the U.S. Federal Cavalry. 


1937 - German planes attacked Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War for the Spanish nationalist government. This raid is considered one of the first to be attacks on a civilian population by a modern air force. 


1945 - Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the head of France's Vichy government during World War II, was arrested. 


1954 - Grace Kelly was on the cover of "LIFE" magazine. 


1982 - The British announced that Argentina had surrendered on South Georgia. 


1986 - The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.

ALERT -- Obama and President of Turkey to Open New Mosque Together in Maryland | RedFlagNews.com

ALERT -- Obama and President of Turkey to Open New Mosque Together in Maryland | RedFlagNews.com:

"A couple of years ago it was reported that Turkey was helping fund the building of a $100 million dollar mega mosque in Lanham, Maryland. In fact Erdogan visited the mosque when he was here in May of 2013, promising to come back for the opening.

Well that time has apparently arrived and now Erdogan and Obama will be together at the mosque for the big opening ceremony:"

Seems libs are the biggest guzzlers!-----Where America drinks most: Study finds binge-drinking trouble spots

Where America drinks most: Study finds binge-drinking trouble spots

Captain Capitalism: Why Bonds Go Down When Interest Rates Go Up

Captain Capitalism: Why Bonds Go Down When Interest Rates Go Up:
"Why Bonds Go Down When Interest Rates Go Up
A quick economics lesson that is not terribly exciting, but will prove useful for those of you who invest in bonds and fixed income:

Judge Napolitano Condemns Obama ‘in Words as Strong as Anyone Can Muster’ for ‘War Crime’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Judge Napolitano Condemns Obama ‘in Words as Strong as Anyone Can Muster’ for ‘War Crime’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The CIA carried out drone strikes on a compound in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan in January, killing the Americans and also two Western hostages.

“I condemn, in words as strong as anyone can muster, the idea that the president of the United States can be judge, jury and executioner for any American,” Napolitano said on Thursday. “The Constitution expressly prohibits it,"

Proof of global warming?---Explosión volcán calbuco

Ford to cut 700 jobs at Wayne plant

Ford to cut 700 jobs at Wayne plant - Crain's Detroit Business:
"Ford Motor Co. plans to cut 700 jobs and eliminate the third shift at its small-car assembly plant in Wayne, in the company’s first large-scale layoff of tier-two wage workers.
The plant builds the Focus and C-Max, whose sales are down a combined 22 percent this year after falling 15 percent last year. 
The layoffs affect 673 hourly workers -- all of whom earn entry-level wages of about $17 to $19 an hour -- and 27 salaried employees, according to a notice filed with the state of Michigan.
Ford spokeswoman Kristina Adamski said the company is “confident” it can find other full-time positions for most of the workers.
In the meantime, they will be eligible to receive 13 to 26 weeks of supplemental pay from Ford, depending on their seniority, bringing their income during that period to as much as 74 percent of their current wages when combined with state unemployment benefits."

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Epic Response When He’s Asked if Constitution Should Be Amended So He Can Run for President | TheBlaze.com

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Epic Response When He’s Asked if Constitution Should Be Amended So He Can Run for President | TheBlaze.com:

"Appearing on SiriusXM’s “Opie With Jim Norton” radio show on Wednesday, Schwarzenegger proclaimed that he owes his entire career to the United States of America. The actor expressed his deep love for America after comedian Jim Norton asked if he had a desire to run for president, something he’s unable to do because he wasn’t born in the country."

One crazy story!---A Deadly Dance

A Deadly Dance | Texas Monthly:
"At Dixon’s trial, which began this past October, the courtroom was packed with spectators.
Sitting toward the front were Sonnier’s two sons, who looked shell-shocked.
In 2010 their mother had been murdered by the man she had married after she had divorced their father.
After an argument, he had pulled out a pistol and shot her twice in the chest before turning the gun on himself.
It was hard to believe, said one of the sons, wiping tears from his eyes, that they were having to endure another tragedy so soon after the first."

The Clinton Scandal Manual

The Clinton Scandal Manual - WSJ
Say this about Bill and Hillary Clinton:
They are predictable. Some politicians dare to change, even to evolve, but not the former first couple. In these uncertain political times, Team Clinton’s lack of ethics—and its stock response when caught—is our one constant.
...The standard operating procedure never changes, however. It is as if the Clintons have—filed withi easy reach on a shelf—a book titled “Clinton Scandals for Dummies.”
...Chapter One: “Pick Your Spots.
...Chapter Two is “Limit Those Paper Trails.”
...Chapter Three: “Remember, the Press Has ADD.” Pixar’s “Up” features Dug, a cute dog with a serious attention problem (“squirrel!!!”). This is how the Clintons view the media. Pettable. Unfocused.
...Chapter Four: “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy”—or VRWC.
...The rest of the book falls under the heading “Stockholm Syndrome,”
...The most likely scenario is still that the Clintons prevail—the media lets go the stories, the party sticks with the $2.5 billion woman. 
But as the Clintons replay the scandal script, and keep adding liabilities to Hillary’s campaign, you have to imagine a growing number of Democrats are wondering: what if?
The Clintons might, at the very least, want to consider updating that manual.

April 20 in Michigan...whoopeee!-----TaxProf Blog: Today Is Tax Freedom Day

TaxProf Blog: Today Is Tax Freedom Day — Earlier In LA, MS & SD, Later In CT, NJ & NY:
"Today is Tax Freedom Day, the day on which Americans will have earned enough money to pay all federal, state, and local taxes for the year:
Tax Freedom Day is the day when the nation as a whole has earned enough money to pay its total tax bill for the year.
Tax Freedom Day takes all federal, state, and local taxes and divides them by the nation’s income.
In 2015, Americans will pay $3.28 trillion in federal taxes and $1.57 trillion in state and local taxes, for a total tax bill of $4.85 trillion, or 31 percent of national income.
This year, Tax Freedom Day falls on April 24, or 114 days into the year.
This year, Americans will work the longest to pay federal, state, and local individual income taxes (43 days).
Payroll taxes will take 26 days to pay, followed by sales and excise taxes (15 days), corporate income taxes (12 days), and property taxes (11 days).
The remaining 7 days are spent paying estate and inheritance taxes, customs duties, and other taxes."

45% APPROVE Obama's "economy"?!!------04/22/15 FOX NEWS POLLS

And it's near the highest approval rating in a year!

We are sooooo screwed.

Bad News for Global Warming Alarmists, According to New Study | TheBlaze.com

Bad News for Global Warming Alarmists, According to New Study | TheBlaze.com:

“Based on our analysis, a middle-of-the-road warming scenario is more likely, at least for now,” Patrick Brown, a doctoral student at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, said in a statement. “But this could change.”

Natural variability in surface temperatures, the study authors found, can affect warming rates from decade to decade, something the researchers called “climate wiggles.”

Sooo, does he get to vote twice?---Bruce Jenner is Republican, Woman, Christian Diane Sawyer

Bruce Jenner is Republican, Woman, Christian Diane Sawyer | The Daily Caller:
"After months of speculation that he was transitioning into a woman, Bruce Jenner confirmed the news in an interview with Diane Sawyer that aired on ABC Friday night, clarifying that he is also a Republican and a Christian.
When asked about Barack Obama addressing LGBT rights in his State of the Union, the 65-year-old former Olympic athlete said that didn’t affect him much.
“I’ve always been more on the conservative side,” Jenner said."