History for December 6

History for December 6 - On-This-Day.com:
Ira Gershwin 1896 - Lyricist, brother of composer George Gershwin, Lester Gillis (George "Baby Face" Nelson) 1908 - Bank robber, Len Barry 1942 


Tom Hulce 1953, JoBeth Williams 1953, Janine Turner 1962 


1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment abolished slavery in the U.S. 


1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrated the first gramophone, with a recording of himself reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb. 


1884 - The construction of the Washington Monument was completed by Army engineers. The project took 34 years. 


1921 - The Catholic Irish Free State was created as a self-governing dominion of Britain when an Anglo-Irish treaty was signed. 


1926 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini introduced a tax on bachelors. 


1957 - AFL-CIO members voted to expel the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The Teamsters were readmitted in 1987. 


1957 - America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit failed when the satellite blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, FL. 


1973 - Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the vice-president of the United States after vice-president Spiro Agnew resigned. 


1998 - In Venezuela, former Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez was elected president. He had staged a bloody coup attempt against the government six years earlier. 

Six Things You Should Probably Know About CAIR | TheBlaze.com

Six Things You Should Probably Know About CAIR | TheBlaze.com:

"I’d love to know where this intense level of concern was when the family of Islamic terrorists Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik chose to do a press conference with the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) following the San Bernardino attacks, where they were flanked by CAIR officials, including the translator for none other than the Blind Sheikh.

The Blind Sheikh, or Omar Abdel-Rahman, otherwise known as the “Pope of Jihad,” and is currently serving out a life sentence at a federal correctional complex. Some of his more well-known activites? Plots include but are hardly limited to: “the World Trade Center bombing to an unrealized plot to bomb major landmarks and assassinate major individuals in New York City.”

So what? CAIR condemned the attacks along with the rest of the country, didn’t they?

Yup, they did.

In fact, they condemn terrorism all the time. They also just so happen to rub elbows with, take money from, and fund terrorism all over the world.

Allow me to illustrate just a few examples."

VIDEO: Muslim Police Chief Shows This Act Of Complete Disrespect To America And Is Under Heavy Fire For It ⋆ US Herald

VIDEO: Muslim Police Chief Shows This Act Of Complete Disrespect To America And Is Under Heavy Fire For It ⋆ US Herald:

"Obviously a lot of time as passed since 2007, and perhaps we now have a much better understanding of what "Islam" is all about, perhaps  Mustafa Carroll, the head of the Dallas-Fort Worth branch of CAIR said it best   “If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land.”

See How Ex-Muslim Handles Muslim Disrupters During University Presentation: ‘Oh, You’re Intimidated? Go to Your Safe Space’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

See How Ex-Muslim Handles Muslim Disrupters During University Presentation: ‘Oh, You’re Intimidated? Go to Your Safe Space’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Video of the speech shows Namazie calmly speaking about “Islamism,” but it’s after she refers to it as a “political movement” that is a “global killing machine” that a back and forth develops between her and some audience members sitting in the front row."

Lawmakers put Obama on notice: ‘You’re violating federal law’

Lawmakers put Obama on notice: ‘You’re violating federal law’:

Several GOP members of Congress led by U.S. Sens. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., have placed the Obama administration on notice that it is in violation of federal law with regard to the program that resettles foreign refugees in 180 U.S. cities and towns."

When You Read Last Paragraphs of NY Times Editorial, You’ll Understand Why Gun Owners Are Infuriated | TheBlaze.com

When You Read Last Paragraphs of NY Times Editorial, You’ll Understand Why Gun Owners Are Infuriated | TheBlaze.com:

"In the last three paragraphs, the Times editorial board wrote that the wording of the Second Amendment is “not necessary to debate” and suggested Americans willfully give up their guns to the government “for the good of their fellow citizens.

It is not necessary to debate the peculiar wording of the Second Amendment. No right is unlimited and immune from reasonable regulation.

Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership. It is possible to define those guns in a clear and effective way and, yes, it would require Americans who own those kinds of weapons to give them up for the good of their fellow citizens."


Apparently, history must repeat.
Are we truly this stupid?

Police Spokesman Stunned as News Cameras ‘Rush’ Inside San Bernardino Killers’ Home and Broadcast Live | Video | TheBlaze.com

Police Spokesman Stunned as News Cameras ‘Rush’ Inside San Bernardino Killers’ Home and Broadcast Live | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Media members bombarded into the San Bernardino apartment of Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik Friday afternoon, after the property’s landlord pried off the board covering the door.

With cameras armed, MSNBC caught the first images of the Farook and Malik’s apartment. A driver’s license, various pictures, and multiple Korans were shown live on television."


This is completely unacceptable!  
The apartment is now contaminated.
Every single one of them should be arrested.
The left will stop an nothing to promote their agenda.
Obama will claim it was street violence and will call for more gun laws.  There isn't a gun law out there that would have prevented this or any other terrorist act.

WAKE UP AMERICA!
Are we ready to admit we have a problem?
Are we ready to admit it's in the White House?  

University offers counseling, support meeting to students distressed by 'White Student Union'

University offers counseling, support meeting to students distressed by 'White Student Union' - The College Fix:
UCSB also announces formation of ‘bias response team’
UC Santa Barbara has scheduled a meeting for Saturday afternoon meant to allow students distressed by the newly created “UCSB White Student Union” Facebook page “to talk, get support, or express their feelings.”
Upset students who cannot make the Dec. 5 event, called a “support/discussion gathering,” are encouraged to access the school’s counseling and psychological services, or connect with campus groups such as the Student Commission on Racial Equality and its multicultural center.
That from an email sent to the campus community Friday by Margaret Klawunn, vice chancellor for student affairs, responding to those who’ve lodged complaints and concerns about the “UCSB White Student Union” Facebook page.
“Although we respect and uphold First Amendment rights and freedom of expression, we are very concerned by any actions that might be perceived to create a hostile climate at our university,” Klawunn’s email stated. “It is possible to express different points of view and debate issues without being divisive and causing distress and upset in our community.”

President Obama Assures Us that We've 'Never Been More Protected' From ISIS | PJ Media

President Obama Assures Us that We've 'Never Been More Protected' From ISIS | PJ Media:
"Whew!
What a relief.
For a minute there I thought we might have been wide open to another terrorist attack.
But President Obama set me straight.
In an interview with CBS recorded on Wednesday shortly after the San Bernardino attack, Obama assured the American people that "our homeland has never been more protected" from a terrorist attack.
The Hill:
"What I try to do is to make sure that people understand the threat is real, we have to be vigilant, but we also can't panic and we can't respond out of fear," Obama said in the CBS News interview.
Liberals have been pulling this crap for years.
If you disagree with their tactics or overall strategy, you're "panicking" or you want us to "respond out of fear."
It's a rancid political ploy that suggests liberals are courageous while those who oppose them are cowardly wretches hiding under a table.
"ISIL is not going to pose an existential threat to us," he continued, using an alternate acronym for ISIS, adding, "they are a dangerous organization like al Qaeda was, but we have hardened our defenses. Our homeland has never been more protected by more effective intelligence and law enforcement professionals at every level than they are now."
...This president has the worst sense of timing of any chief executive in history. 
How many times has he said something, only to discover later that the exact opposite was true?
There was the "red line" in Syria that wasn't a red line, the containment of ISIS just prior to the Paris attacks, all those good things in the Iran deal that aren't there, and now, we're told we've never been better protected.
Given Obama's track record, I'd be afraid -- very afraid."

Another reason to vote "Trump"-----Granholm asks Trump to quit campaign for 'good of the country'

Michigan Political Points: Granholm asks Trump to quit campaign for 'good of the country' | MLive.com
LANSING, MI — Donald Trump should drop out of the presidential race "for the good of the country," according to former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, saying it would be his best chance for the Republican frontrunner to honor his campaign promise to "Make America Great Again."...
OPEN LETTER: "Your lies and vitriolic rhetoric are causing irreparable damage to the nation," Granholm told Trump this week in an open letter published by CNN.
Granholm, an ally of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, criticized Trump for claims on variety of topics, from his golf game to the way American Muslims responded to 9/11 terrorist attacks.
"The last thing democracy needs is a candidate who intentionally stokes jingoism and makes racial animus mainstream," she wrote.

Noon-toon

Man Says He Had Suspicions When He Saw Half-Dozen Middle Eastern Men Near Calif. Shooting Suspect’s Home — Here’s Why He Didn’t Report It | Video | TheBlaze.com

Man Says He Had Suspicions When He Saw Half-Dozen Middle Eastern Men Near Calif. Shooting Suspect’s Home — Here’s Why He Didn’t Report It | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The unidentified man told KCBS-TV he witnessed the men leaving the same area where police conducted a raid on the home linked to the shooting suspects on Wednesday.

“We sat around lunch thinking, ‘What [were] they doing around the neighborhood?’ We’d see them leave where they’re raiding the apartment,” he said.

However, the man reportedly declined to report what he felt was suspicious behavior because "

Their hate and moronic behavior seem popular with an entire political party----- San Bernardino: CNN Asks Widow If Her Christian Husband Provoked Terror Attack

San Bernardino: CNN Asks Widow If Her Christian Husband Provoked Terror Attack - Breitbart
If you’ve ever wondered just how low leftwing CNN is willing to stoop in its never-ending quest to smear Christians as bigots, the video below should help answer that question.
Using a series of snide and leading questions, just one day after her husband was murdered by Islamic terrorist Syed Farook, CNN’s Gary Tuchman attempted to get the widow of Nicholas Thalasinos to indict her own husband as a Christian, anti-Muslim bigot.
You might want to take a blood pressure pill before pressing play:

Cornell University Warns Mistletoe Isn't 'Inclusive' Enough

Cornell University Warns Mistletoe Isn't 'Inclusive' Enough | The Daily Caller:
"A guide to “inclusive” Christmas decorations created by Cornell University warns that any decorations that remotely evoke religion, which includes stars and mistletoe, are incompatible with the school’s commitment to diversity.
The guidelines are buried inside a Cornell publication concerning fire safety guidelines for holiday decorations, and were first noticed by the website Campus Reform.
The first half of the document concerns certain banned fire hazards, such as candles and metallic Christmas trees.
The second half of the document, though, veers off into a discussion of how to make the Christmas season more “inclusive.”
“University members are reminded to be respectful of the religious diversity of our students and colleagues and are encouraged to use an inclusive approach in celebrating the holiday season,” the document says.
Students are encouraged to be more “diverse” by either focusing on winter instead of Christmas or by including decorations for multiple holidays alongside secular decorations."

Know this phrase-----"AFFIRMATIVE CONSENT"

Instapundit » Blog Archive » DEPT OF ED SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THE PROBLEM WITH AFFIRMATIVE CONSENT POLICIES:
"DEPT OF ED SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THE PROBLEM WITH AFFIRMATIVE CONSENT POLICIES:
Last week FIRE wrote to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and requested that OCR ask colleges and universities not to use “affirmative consent” standards that violate the due process rights of students accused of sexual assault.
Affirmative consent policies are generally overbroad, vague, and unfairly shift the burden of proof to the accused.
And how would an innocent student demonstrate he or she received affirmative consent?
As Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal, co-author of California’s campus affirmative consent law, said: “Your guess is as good as mine.”
You can read FIRE’s letter over on our website and learn more about the letter over at The Torch.
Also be sure to watch students struggle to define what affirmative consent even means in this video:

Sens. Sessions, Cruz Demand Immigration Histories of San Bernardino Attackers - Breitbart

Sens. Sessions, Cruz Demand Immigration Histories of San Bernardino Attackers - Breitbart:

"Recalling the details of the case relayed in press accounts, Sessions and Cruz highlighted the Pakistani origin of both alleged perpetrators, noting that among Muslim countries “Pakistan is the top recipient of U.S. green cards.” They further highlighted the extensive weaponry and explosives found in their possession.

“Further, according to CBS News, sources say that the two viewed ISIS propaganda online, and separate reports indicate that Farook was in touch with other individuals being investigated for terrorism,” Sessions and Cruz wrote.

They specially requested the “immigration history of [Farook and Malik’s] parents and any immigration documents related to their marriage and her subsequent travel to the U.S."

Miracle at Michigan - Supercut

History for December 5

History for December 5 - On-This-Day.com:
Martin Van Buren (U.S.) 1782, George Armstrong Custer 1839, Walt Elias Disney 1901 - Disney movies, music and books


Otto Preminger 1906, Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) 1932, Frankie Muniz 1985

1492 - Christopher Columbus discovered Hispaniola (now Haiti).


1848 - U.S. President Polk triggered the Gold Rush of '49 by confirming the fact that gold had been discovered in California.


1904 - The Russian fleet was destroyed by the Japanese at Port Arthur, during the Russo-Japanese War.


1932 - German physicist Albert Einstein was granted a visa making it possible for him to travel to the U.S.


1945 - The so-called "Lost Squadron" disappeared. The five U.S. Navy Avenger bombers carrying 14 Navy flyers began a training mission at the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station. They were never heard from again.


1951 - The first push button-controlled garage opened in Washington, DC.


1961 - United Nations forces launched an attack in Katanga, the Congo, near Elizabethville.


1988 - Jim Bakker and former aide Richard Dortch were indicted by a federal grand jury in North Carolina on fraud and conspiracy charges.

‘It’s Just Stunning’: Rush Limbaugh Shares His ‘Eye-Opening’ Experience Watching Media Coverage of San Bernardino Shooting | TheBlaze.com

‘It’s Just Stunning’: Rush Limbaugh Shares His ‘Eye-Opening’ Experience Watching Media Coverage of San Bernardino Shooting | TheBlaze.com:

"He continued: “It’s just stunning. It has been eye opening. It has been educational, informative, and illustrative to watch the pained efforts of many, primarily in the media and many of their guests to try to tell people this was not what we all know it is. Before anybody knew anything, the left on their blogs and websites were out blaming right-wing Christians.”

Spartan Football 2014 - We March

10 Dumbest Things Said About The San Bernadino Attack

ISLAM: Man Sentenced to 100 Lashes for Adultery... But Real Horror Is Woman's Sick Sentence

ISLAM: Man Sentenced to 100 Lashes for Adultery... But Real Horror Is Woman's Sick Sentence:
"Feminists and gay rights activist love to criticize America for not being as pro-gay or pro-woman as they would like, but they continually ignore the abhorrent crimes committed under Shariah law — and favor Muslims who take offense when it’s not respected.
Women are treated like property, and homosexuals are routinely executed simply for being homosexual.
Maybe liberals should remember that the next time they start complaining about America."

If Obama had a city...-----Detroit Real Time Ride-Along

Detroit Real Time Ride-Along » Louder With Crowder
"You know how we hear that Detroit isn’t so bad if you just get to know the city a bit?
Also that our assessment of it being one giant crap hole where you might get raped, sliced and diced, shot to bits, or at least mugged (on a good day) is a total exaggeration?
Well we decided to put our lives on the line by driving through Detroit, not just downtown, but real Detroit, to show just how awful a place it is.

This is an unedited video, because if we hear any liberal whining about “THIS IS EDITED,” we’d have to hunt you down, kidnap and blindfold you, then drop you in the middle of Detroit. Edit that, wimp.
Notice how horrible this place is?
Poverty everywhere.
Homes in disrepair.
Misery on the rise.
Detroit is the result of liberal policies run amok. 
The rest of the USA will look just like Detroit if liberals like Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have their way..."

America at Obama’s End

America at Obama’s End - WSJ:
We are near the end of the seventh year of Barack Obama’s presidency, and by any measure the United States is a fractured nation.
Its people are more divided politically than any time in recent memory.
Personally, many are anxious, angry or just down.
Whatever Mr. Obama promised in that famous first Inaugural Address, any sense of a nation united and raised up is gone.

This isn’t normal second-term blues. 
It’s a sense of bust.
...Hope and change was the promise. 
What happened?
...Iran’s ayatollahs got the Obama message, though, and that deal is the legacy.
The other half of the non-domestic legacy is supposed to be climate change.
Anyone watching the angular figure of the American president...had to be struck by a sense of what the French would call tristesse, a melancholy, even pathetic sadness.
...Liberals think the right is gloating at Mr. Obama’s end-of-term difficulties.
No one is gloating.
The nation is either furious (the right) or depressed (the left) at eight wasted, wheel-spinning years whose main achievement is ObamaCare—a morass.
Mr. Obama will go off to do something else, but he leaves behind a country littered with public and private institutions in disrepute.
...Instead, Mr. Obama spent much of his presidency vilifying the private sector—banks, insurers, energy producers and utilities.
...Mr. Obama has repeatedly mocked institutions he didn’t control and abused the powers of those he did. 
Almost always, the ridicule and condescension came in front of cheering audiences..."

Half of new homes needed to cope with migrant influx

(1) UKIP Referendum TV Channel shared UK OPEN... - UKIP Referendum TV Channel:
"1.5 million is the number of refugees and migrants who have arrived in Europe via illegal routes
.....Nearly half of all new homes built in England in the next five years are needed to cope with the influx of migrants, official figures have suggested.
The Government yesterday forecast that high levels of net immigration will lead to the creation of 95,000 new households a year.
But ministers have only set a target of building 1 million new homes in England by 2020, equivalent to 200,000 a year.
This suggests that almost half will be needed to help accomodate the expected arrival of 217,000 migrants annually..."

Noon-toon

Obama Threatens to Veto Bill to Reduce Deficit, Cut Planned Parenthood Funding and Reverse Much of Obamacare | TheBlaze.com

Obama Threatens to Veto Bill to Reduce Deficit, Cut Planned Parenthood Funding and Reverse Much of Obamacare | TheBlaze.com:

"President Barack Obama has announced that he will veto a bill pending in the Senate that would defund and reverse parts of Obamacare, including money for Planned Parenthood, and reduce deficits by $130 billion over 10 years.

“This legislation is being considered by the Senate just days ahead of the December 15 deadline for Marketplace coverage that starts on January 1, 2016."

UCSB's 'White Student Union' releases hilarious 'list of demands'

UCSB's 'White Student Union' releases hilarious 'list of demands' - The College Fix:
Among the demands? 
Banning Charlie Sheen- and pirate-themed parties
...Taken from the group’s Facebook page:
We, students of Europe@n descent at UCSB, refuse to accept the negative social climate created towards our peers of Europe@n descent and other marginalized groups.
...We as a compassionate student body have gathered to address the legacy of oppression against persons of Europe@n descent (PED) on campus.
If these goals are not initiated within the next quarter, and completed by the second week of Winter Quarter, we will organize and respond by respectfully complaining....root out and punish any and all forms of speech that are deemed offensive to students of Europe@n descent, including but not limited to:
“Cracker,” “Stupid white people”; “OMG, you are so white”; “Where are you from?”; “No, I mean like what part of Europe?”; “Wow, I bet you get sunburned really easily!”; “you wouldn’t understand because you’re white”; “don’t eat this; it’s too spicy for you”; “honky” (and any variants thereof); “Surrendering like a Frenchman!”; and so forth.
WE DEMAND that UCSB and campus police immediately prohibit on pain of expulsion and imprisonment any future parties and other festivities at UCSB or in Isla Vista that have the following (non-exhaustive list of) themes that may further marginalize and trigger white identities and white-identified students:
Charlie Sheen Theme;
a France Theme;
a Britain Theme;
a St. Patrick’s Day Theme..."
Funny stuff..... chilling too.
Cuz it's real on our campuses.

12 Times Mass Shootings Were Stopped by Good Guys With Guns

12 Times Mass Shootings Were Stopped by Good Guys With Guns:
1. Pearl High School-Oct. 1, 1997
Luke Woodham fatally stabbed his mother at home before opening fire at his high school, killing two students and injuring seven others. The attack was stopped when Assistant Principal Joel Myrick retrieved his .45 caliber handgun from his truck and confronted Woodham, detaining him until authorities could arrive.
Read 'em all and protect your family, friends and businesses.
The police can't do everything!

Paris Whopper of the Day: The Sahara Is Expanding

Paris Whopper of the Day: The Sahara Is Expanding | Cato @ Liberty
As the hype volume goes into Everest territory at the big climate summit in Paris, we’ll be a bit more succinct and just point out the Whopper of the Day.
Here’s France’s President conferring with African leaders, who told him of the expansion of the Sahara Desert. 
To wit, from today’s Associated Press story:

“Hollande heard from 12 African leaders who described the Sahara Desert encroaching on farmland…”

Below is the change in planetary greening measured by satellite over the last two+ decades. 

As you can see, the southern side of the Sahara is getting much greener over time (the northern boundary is the Mediterranean Sea). 

In fact, that’s the largest “greening” on the entire planet earth! 

What a whopper Hollande was told in Paris!

 

Figure 1. Spatial trends in net primary plant productivity, 1981-2006 (source: de Jong, et al., 2011, Remote Sensing of the Environment).

Former Defense Intel. Chief Levels Damaging Claim Against White House: 2012 Warnings About Islamic State Were Ignored

Former Defense Intel. Chief Levels Damaging Claim Against White House: 2012 Warnings About Islamic State Were Ignored | Video | TheBlaze.com:
“Do you feel as though your warnings were ignored?” Tapper asked.
“I think that they did not meet a particular narrative that the White House needed, and I’ll be very candid with you,” Flynn responded.
“I believe that the people who were around the president, his sort of inner circle that were advising him,
I think advised him incorrectly.”
Asked what that narrative was, Flynn responded,"

Violent Crime and Murder Are Half What They Used to Be; Is That Changing?

Violent Crime and Murder Are Half What They Used to Be; Is That Changing? - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
Is San Bernardino the new normal or a non-representative event?
...In 1995, for instance, the violent crime rate (which includes murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) per 100,000 inhabitants was 684.5.
In 2014, it stood at 365.5. For murder and non-negligent manslaughter, the rate was 8.2 and 4.5 in 2014.
These trends also show up in other violent crimes too.
...But the first thing we should be doing—especially before any meaningful information about either recent shooting has been released to the general public—is to establish whether in fact the United States is in fact seeing an increase in gun-related violence and crime.
..."Crime and violence in most big cities in the United States are pretty much as they've been lately," said Franklin Zimring, a criminologist at the University of California, Berkeley. "Boy, is that good news."
...But the very first thing we should be understanding is whether or not the problem of gun violence is increasing, declining, or holding steady. 
And what contributed to that trend.