History for July 29

History for July 29 - On-This-Day.com
Benito Mussolini 1883, Marcel Bich 1914 - Manufacturer and co-founder of Bic, Martina McBride 1966 


1588 - The English defeated the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines. 


1874 - Major Walter Copton Winfield of England received U.S. patent for the lawn-tennis court. 


1950 - Disney's adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" was released. 
Disney movies, music and books 


1957 - Jack Paar began hosting the "Tonight" show on NBC-TV. The name of the show was changed to "The Jack Paar Show." Paar was host for five years. 


1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency was established. 


1958 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was authorized by the U.S. Congress. 


1968 - Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's stance against artificial methods of birth control. 


1981 - England's Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer were married. 


1985 - General Motors announced that Spring Hill, TN, would be the home of the Saturn automobile assembly plant. 


1998 - The United Auto Workers union ended a 54-day strike against General Motors. The strike caused $2.8 billion in lost revenues. 

After Latest Developments, MSNBC Host Makes Big Admission About Hillary Clinton Email Scandal | Video | TheBlaze.com

After Latest Developments, MSNBC Host Makes Big Admission About Hillary Clinton Email Scandal | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“Look, you have two inspectors general, and they are referring this to the Justice Department. Now, you can try to confuse and there’s been a lot of misdirection, there’s been inaccurate reporting,” she said. “What they are suggesting is that there were classified — four out of the forty randomly selected [emails] had classified information.”

Exodus from Puerto Rico could upend Florida vote in 2016 presidential race

Exodus from Puerto Rico could upend Florida vote in 2016 presidential race - The Washington Post
"KISSIMMEE, Florida — Puerto Rico’s economic crisis meant Jeffrey Rondon, 25, struggled to find even part-time work, so he recently joined the growing exodus from his Caribbean island to Florida. Now he holds a full-time restaurant job and something that could upend the 2016 presidential election — the right to vote in Florida, the biggest of all swing states.
“It’s important to vote and be heard — it’s a privilege,” said Rondon, who is one of thousands of Puerto Ricans who have moved to Florida in the past year.
As U.S. citizens, Puerto Ricans are relatively easy to register to vote, and they are attracting unprecedented attention because they could change the political calculus in a state that President Obama won by the thinnest of margins in 2012: 50 percent to 49.1 percent.
“It’s a potential game changer for the state,” said Mark Hugo Lopez, director of Hispanic Research at the Pew Research Center.
“It’s the biggest movement of people out of Puerto Rico since the great migration of the 1950s.”
Puerto Rican voters tend to lean Democratic, but a great number of the newcomers do not identify with any party, making them appealing targets for politicians and recruiters on both sides.
Like those living in other U.S. territories, people in Puerto Rico cannot vote for president in the U.S. general election..."

Watch: Cruz Catches Obama Official In False Claim, Forces Her To Admit He's 'Absolutely Right'

Watch: Cruz Catches Obama Official In False Claim, Forces Her To Admit He's 'Absolutely Right':

"When I asked you how many murderers were released yesterday, you don’t know. There is a reason the American people are upset. If President Obama had the courage of his convictions, he would come and look in the eyes of these men and women who have lost their sons, their daughters, their mothers, their sisters, their brothers and the administration would stop releasing murderers and rapists. It is within your power to follow federal law. And this administration refuses to do so and that is altogether unacceptable."

The association between intelligence and lifespan is mostly genetic

Int Jnl Epid:
The association between intelligence and lifespan is mostly genetic

Abstract

Background: Several studies in the new field of cognitive epidemiology have shown that higher intelligence predicts longer lifespan. This positive correlation might arise from socioeconomic status influencing both intelligence and health; intelligence leading to better health behaviours; and/or some shared genetic factors influencing both intelligence and health. Distinguishing among these hypotheses is crucial for medicine and public health, but can only be accomplished by studying a genetically informative sample...

Conclusions: The finding of common genetic effects between lifespan and intelligence has important implications for public health, and for those interested in the genetics of intelligence, lifespan or inequalities in health outcomes including lifespan.

Key Messages

• It has been reported that brighter people live longer; we asked ‘why?'.
• We found, using data from three studies, that the small association between being brighter and living longer was mostly genetic in origin.
• This is a key finding in cognitive epidemiology; it is a further indication that intelligence is not just ‘school-smarts'.

I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER GODDAMNED WORD ABOUT MY CARBON FOOTPRINT

I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER GODDAMNED WORD ABOUT MY CARBON FOOTPRINT: Video shows Hillary Clinton …:
JULY 28, 2015

I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER GODDAMNED WORD ABOUT MY CARBON FOOTPRINT:
Video shows Hillary Clinton boarding private jet just hours after launching global-warming push – and she’s using a French aircraft that burns 347 gallons of fuel every hour!
“Its itineraries are secret because the owner has asked the Federal Aviation Administration to withhold flight plans from the public.”

Jeb Bush Snares a Democratic Moneyman on Hamptons Tour

Jeb Bush Snares a Democratic Moneyman on Hamptons Tour - Bloomberg Politics
"Behind a garden modeled on Monet's, Jeb Bush addressed a lawn-full of chief executives and hedge-fund managers at an East Hampton, New York, estate Saturday morning.
While the candidate is no stranger to courting wealthy donors, this time was different: about half the attendees were Democrats.  

"This guy sells well," said Kenneth Lipper, the money manager and registered Democrat who hosted the event, after Bush left.
“I'm sure there's a lot of poor people that like him too. It so happens there's not a lot of poor people in the Hamptons.”

Andrew Sabin

Virtually the only one who left without writing a check, Lipper said, was a buck deer that wandered past the group assembled on the wooded grounds.     

The wealthiest donors are playing an unprecedented role in the early stages of the 2016 race.
For the first time ever, most candidates are raising more money through super-PACs, which can accept donations of up to $1 million or more, than through the traditional campaign accounts that are capped at $2,700 per donor.

No one has raised as much in this new environment as Bush, who had amassed about $103 million in his super-PAC and another $11 million for his campaign by the end of June.
The Lipper event shows how widely Bush is ranging in his quest for donors..."

Two Burritos for Breakfast

Two Burritos for Breakfast - Reason.com:
"But it turns out that in the fight against obesity, labeling menus hasn't delivered on its promise. Despite the clamor for more information...
...wrote that a mandatory menu-labeling regulation imposed on Washington state's King County restaurants did not affect consumers' calorie consumption at all. 
The authors "were surprised that we could not detect even the slightest hint of changes in purchasing behavior as a result of the legislation," they wrote.
And their study is not alone.
Such findings are at odds with a report by the White House Task Force on Obesity, which claimed that "when presented with calorie information (how many calories are contained in each menu item) and a calorie recommendation (how many calories men and women of varying activity levels should consume), people on average order meals with significantly fewer calories."
First lady and benevolent food tyrant Michelle Obama likes to cite that data point when pressing for greater restaurant regulation.
But as Julie Gunlock explained at National Review Online in 2011, that claim doesn't stand up to scrutiny. 
"This study was conducted in one Subway sandwich shop on only 292 participants, the vast majority of whom were adult white males, 25 percent of whom admitted they were currently dieting," she wrote.
"This isn't exactly research upon which major policy decisions should be based."
And yet, in this administration, it was..."

VIDEO: Everyone Sees Trump Arrive In Texas... But Something Disturbing Is Happening VERY Close By

VIDEO: Everyone Sees Trump Arrive In Texas... But Something Disturbing Is Happening VERY Close By:

"However, to coincide with The Donald’s visit, a recently released YouTube video purports to show illegal immigrants involved with a drug smuggling ring crossing the Rio Grande near Laredo, just miles from where Trump was speaking."

Detention Ruling Leaves Sealing The Border The Last Option

Detention Ruling Leaves Sealing The Border The Last Option - Investors.com:
"Immigration: Border surgers have won another.
A federal judge has ruled that ICE can't hold illegals in federal detention centers, meaning they must be let out.
So it's down to this: Either open the borders or seal them up.
Judge Dolly M. Gee ruled that the Obama administration's detention centers for 3,500 mothers and children caught illegally crossing the border was a violation of a 1997 court settlement about the care and treatment of illegals.
Her ruling was immediately hailed as a major victory for the open borders lobby.
...If judges and left-wing lawyers can only be satisfied by big, taxpayer-paid luxury-spa vacations for illegals, such as one lavish facility planned in Texas last year, and ICE can only furnish more spartan facilities, then the real issue is whether illegals will be granted de facto amnesty or be stopped at the border before they get in.
Breitbart last summer reported that the big detention centers such as the renovated spa in Texas were really about no-bid contracts and the rewarding of political cronies for Democratic politicians. 
The politicians, in turn, benefit from reciprocal campaign donations.
...Now that illegals will be free to move about the country, Republicans have but one option when it comes to illegal immigration:
Stop it before it starts.
If illegals who make it past the border guards can no longer be detained and must be set free, then the only way to check unrestricted illegal immigration is by strictly controlling the border.
Congress should act now to cinch up our border, before it's too late.
Our porous, unenforced border isn't a mere inconvenience. 
It's a threat to our nation."

Sources: Disabled work program mired in fraud

Sources: Disabled work program mired in fraud - CNN.com:
"The nation's premier federal program that provides work for people who are severely disabled is mired in widespread corruption, financial fraud and violations of the law, numerous sources tell CNN.
And instead of helping the severely disabled find work, the taxpayer-funded agency is at times allowing jobs to be taken away from the disabled, the sources say.
AbilityOne, along with the nonprofit agency that manages its program for the severely disabled, SourceAmerica, are being investigated by authorities for illegal operations, financial fraud, mismanagement, operating in violation of the law, steering of contracts, and possibly obstruction of justice. 
Several inside sources tell CNN the program is among the worst cases of its type they've ever seen in a federal agency.
...AbilityOne is run by a commission made up of presidential appointees. 
While they must approve all contracts, sources tell CNN they are essentially a "rubber stamp," for the referrals sent to them by SourceAmerica, which essentially operates independently with contracts for the severely disabled.
So, one key allegation is that SourceAmerica, a nonprofit agency with virtually no oversight other than AbilityOne, largely decides how roughly $2.3 billion in U.S. taxpayer money is spent, according to numerous sources."

Cruz: Planned Parenthood 'A Criminal Enterprise' - Breitbart

Cruz: Planned Parenthood 'A Criminal Enterprise' - Breitbart:

"Cruz stated, [relevant remarks begin around 2:20] “I would say that I think every American should watch the videos of Planned Parenthood, just watch them, see senior officials at planned parenthood laughing over sips of wine, bargaining over the sale of body parts of unborn children. One official was so callous and cavalier to say she hoped to sell enough body parts of unborn children to buy herself a Lamborghini."

Feds Spend $222,172 Studying How Men Look at Women When They Drink

Feds Spend $222,172 Studying How Men Look at Women When They Drink | Washington Free Beacon:
"The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending over $200,000 to study how men drinking alcohol look at women.
In an effort to limit “male-initiated sexual aggression toward female acquaintances,” researchers at the University of Iowa will analyze the actual eye movements of young men when they are drunk and sober.
...The study began in May and has received $222,172 thus far.
The budget for the project will not expire until April 2016.
According to the grant, the project is in line with the “general NIH mission of reducing the burden of health problems in the population and to the specific [National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism] NIAAA mission of understanding and reducing the negative impact of alcohol use.”...

History for July 28

History for July 28 - On-This-Day.com
Beatrix Potter 1866, Joe E. Brown 1891, Rudy Vallee 1901 


Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929, Darryl Hickman 1931, Sally Struthers 1948 


1866 - The metric system was legalized by the U.S. Congress for the standardization of weights and measures throughout the United States. 


1868 - The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was declared in effect. The amendment guaranteed due process of law. 


1914 - World War I officially began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. 


1945 - A U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York City's Empire State Building. 14 people were killed and 26 were injured. 


1951 - The Walt Disney film "Alice in Wonderland" was released. 


1973 - Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett were married. 


1982 - San Francisco, CA, became the first city in the U.S. to ban handguns. 


1998 - Bell Atlantic and GTE announced $52 billion deal that created the second-largest phone company. 


1998 - Monica Lewinsky received blanket immunity from prosecution to testify before a grand jury about her relationship with U.S. President Clinton. 


2000 - Kathie Lee Gifford made her final appearance as co-host of the ABC talk show "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee."

Iranian Supreme Leader Tweets Warning Message to Obama and United States | TheBlaze.com

Iranian Supreme Leader Tweets Warning Message to Obama and United States | TheBlaze.com:

"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, tweeted a graphic Saturday morning that appears to depict President Barack Obama committing suicide by holding a gun to his head."

Coulter: Hillary 'Just Looks Like She's Lying'

Coulter: Hillary 'Just Looks Like She's Lying' - Breitbart:
"Ann Coulter, columnist and author of “Adios, America,” ripped into 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Saturday’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” on Fox News Channel, saying Clinton “just looks like she’s lying.”
Coulter compared Clinton destroying the emails and just offering up copies of emails to destroying the original Constitution and just handing over a photocopy of it because it potentially covers up all of the original information of the document.
“But you have to keep all the originals,” Coulter said.
“It would be like destroying the original copy of the Constitution and ‘Here’s a photocopy I made.’
There’s a reason you have to keep the original because there’s all kinds of forensic information on the server: when it was sent, what it was replying to, did you change the time stamp.
It’s not a huge felony.
It’s a three-year felony.
The second part of it, anyone guilty of it can’t hold public office.”
Coulter then later added, “She’s just such an opportunist and she does have that awful voice, but even when she’s saying something that she’s believed for years and years years, she just looks like she’s lying.
Have you noticed that?
She’s just not a good candidate for them.”"

Mexican and Central American Illegal Immigrants Sue Texas for Birth Certificates

Mexican and Central American Illegal Immigrants Sue Texas for Birth Certificates:
"Citizens of Mexico and several Central American nations have filed suit, claiming entitlement to birth certificates for their children born in the United States. 
They allege that the Texas denies them the certificates because they do not possess the required identification.
...They allege in their petition filed in U.S. District Court in Austin that the birth certificates are being denied because of their immigration status.
They argue that, “Such refusal is de facto based upon the immigrant status of the Plaintiff parents.”
In the lawsuit, the parents do not refer to themselves as “immigrants,” or “illegal immigrants.”
They refer to themselves in their legal capacity “as next friend.”...

Obama: Guns a Greater Threat Than Terrorism

Obama: Guns a Greater Threat Than Terrorism:

"In the lead up to this statement, Obama mentioned “mass killings” with guns but did not mention mass killings or attempted mass killings in which those holding the guns were jihadists."

Pandering to the ethanol, solar panel millionaires/billionaires before the Iowa caucus. With your kid's money----Hillary Clinton Pledges to Install 500 Million Solar Panels if Voted President

Hillary Clinton Pledges to Install 500 Million Solar Panels if Voted President | TIME:
“We are on the cusp of a new era”
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Sunday made tackling climate change one of her key goals were she to enter the White House, pledging to have more than half a billion solar panels installed nationwide by the end of her first term in office.
Clinton also called for a major increase in other renewable-energy sources, saying she wants every U.S. home to be powered by clean energy within a decade, reports Reuters.
“I want more wind, more solar, more advanced biofuels, more energy efficiency,” she said at a weekend rally in Iowa.
“And I’ve got to tell you, people who argue against this are just not paying attention.”
The two goals were unveiled in a video posted to Clinton’s campaign website Sunday, and are part of a comprehensive agenda on climate change that will be laid out over the next few months.
“We are on the cusp of a new era,” she said in the campaign video.
“We can have more choice in the energy we consume and produce.”
According to the former Secretary of State’s campaign, her climate-change agenda will increase output of solar energy by 700% by the end of the decade.
On Monday, the presidential candidate will explain her clean energy plan in more detail at a tour of an energy-efficient transit station in Des Moines, Iowa."

My Way News - Problems pile up for Greek boat-builders as taxes rises

My Way News - Problems pile up for Greek boat-builders as taxes rises:
"ATHENS, Greece (AP) — At its height eight years ago, George Kranitis' family-owned shipyard in Patra, Greece's third-largest city, employed some 35 people and sold around 340 boats annually.
But after years of biting recession, Kranitis has had to fire almost everyone at the 10,000 sq. foot (3,050 sq. meters) yard.
And if that wasn't enough, things just got a whole lot more taxing — literally.
In order to get its third financial bailout in five years, Greece's government has had to introduce a series of economic reforms and austerity measures — just to get discussions started.
One involves the extension of an annual luxury tax to all recreational boats over 16.4 feet (5 meters), so it's not just your average Catamaran that's a feature across countless harbours in the Aegean Sea.
Another has been increasing that tax to 13 percent from 10 percent.
The combination, according to Kranitis, could prove to be the final death knell for an industry that's already seen boat registrations shrink from a high of 11,112 in 2007 to just over 2,500 last year.
"We're being destroyed," said Kranitis who also heads the Greek Boat Builders' Association.
"I can't understand what these people in government are thinking.""

Hezbollah Chief Comments on Iran Nuclear Deal: U.S. Is Still ‘The Great Satan’ | TheBlaze.com

Hezbollah Chief Comments on Iran Nuclear Deal: U.S. Is Still ‘The Great Satan’ | TheBlaze.com:

“The Iranians aren’t even trying to hide the fact that they will use the hundreds of billions that they will receive under this agreement in order to arm their terror machine, and they are clearly saying that they will continue their struggle against the U.S. and its allies, first among them being Israel, of course,” Netanyahu said.

“Today Iran is arming terrorist organizations with missiles — tomorrow they will have the ability to arm them and themselves with much deadlier weapons,” Netanyahu added."

India tightens security on Pakistan border after Punjab attack

India tightens security on Pakistan border after Punjab attack - The Times of India:
"NEW DELHI: India tightened security on the border with Pakistan on Monday after heavily armed men stormed a police station in the northern frontier state of Punjab, killing nine people and wounding several others.
Armed police were exchanging fire with the gunmen, who were holed up in the police station in Gurdaspur district near the border with Pakistan, officials said.
Counter-terrorism teams were on their way to the scene, the government said.
Gunshots could be heard on television as security forces in red turbans surrounded the building in the town of Dinanagar, about 20 km (12 miles) from the international border.
Police sources said the attackers had entered India from Pakistan a couple of days ago in the troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir, to the north. Jitendra Singh, a junior minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office, said he did not rule out Pakistan's involvement.
"There have been earlier also reports of Pakistan infiltration and cross-border mischief in this area," said Singh, whose constituency in the Jammu region borders Gurdaspur."

The "connected" get richer. What could possibly go wrong?-----University gives $400 bike vouchers to those who pledge not to drive to school

University gives $400 bike vouchers to those who pledge not to drive to school - The College Fix:
"The University of Kentucky is trying to help the environment and ease its campus parking crunch by offering a $400 bike voucher to those who pledge not to drive to school for two years.
The program, launched this summer, allows students, faculty and staff who live off campus to register for a $400 bicycle voucher in lieu of the right to park their cars on campus.
Vouchers are available for up to 100 applicants, and those participating revoke their campus parking privileges for two years.
While the deadline to apply is the end of August, initial interest is strong, a campus official said.
“We have already seen an overwhelmingly positive response from the campus community,” UK Parking Services’ Chrissie Tune told The College Fix in an email.
“Since priority is given to individuals who have had a parking permit for the past year, the program will by its very nature reduce the volume of cars on campus by at least 100 motor vehicles.”
Tune said the program is funded by UK Parking and Transportation Services, rather than a grant from the federal government."

Electricity prices to increase for individuals, decrease for businesses at state's largest utilities

Electricity prices to increase for individuals, decrease for businesses at state's largest utilities | MLive.com:
"LANSING, MI -- Electricity prices at the state's two largest utilities will increase for individuals and decrease for commercial and industrial users under plans recently approved by the Michigan Public Service Commission.
The MPSC opened this case after the legislature passed a bill requiring energy companies and the commission to explore methods for allocating electricity transmission costs across customers "based on cost of service."
...Effective Dec. 1, Consumers Energy residential customers will see their bills rise by 3.2 percent. Primary industrial and commercial customers will pay 4.4 percent less and secondary commercial and industrial customers will pay 0.3 percent less.
..."To add more electricity to the grid becomes more and more expensive," said Wheeler.
So let's say you're running your dryer.
It's cheaper for Consumers if you run it at night and more expensive if you run it during the day.
But right now, you're charged the same amount no matter when you run it.
Under the optional program, which is slated to start in January of 2017, you could access different rates. 
If you ran your dryer at night, it would cost you less than running it during the day.
"This would actually reward people financially if they participated in the program with different rates depending on the time of of day that it's used," Wheeler said."

Adolf Hitler Said That Medical Research Was Critical Too | TheBlaze.com

Adolf Hitler Said That Medical Research Was Critical Too | TheBlaze.com:

"What went wrong in that once great nation?
The ovens were not built to kill Jews. They were built to eliminate that which was not useful.

Among the first to be designated as not useful were retarded children who were ripped from the arms of sobbing Nuns and carted off to the ovens.

C. Everett Koop and Francis Shaeffner addressed this in “Whatever Happened to the Human Race?”

“The first to be eliminated were the aged, the infirm, the senile and mentally retarded and defective children. Eventually as World War II approached the doomed undesirables included epileptics, World War I amputees, children with badly modeled ears and even bed wetters. Physicians took part in this planning on matters of life and death to save society’s money.”

Doctors Hospital in Pontiac files for bankruptcy

Doctors Hospital in Pontiac files for bankruptcy - Crain's Detroit Business:
"After years of financial struggles, Doctors Hospital of Michigan in Pontiac has filed for bankruptcy protection under chapter 11, according to court filings.
...Officials for Doctors Hospital were unavailable for comment as of early Friday afternoon.
But the hospital continued to lose money. In 2013, the last year financial data was available, Doctors Hospital lost $11.9 million on net patient revenue of $63.8 million, according to Cost Report Data.
Over the past several years, Doctors Hospital tried to reduce operating expenses.
It closed its emergency department in October 2013 but in January 2014 expanded its urgent care center to 24 hours.
In April, some 40 of the estimated 300 employees were laid off.
Earlier this year, more than 170 hospital retirees were notified their life insurance coverage was terminated, effective Dec. 31."