History for May 28

History for May 28 - On-This-Day.com
Thomas Moore 1779 - Lawyer, social philosopher, author, Jim Thorpe 1888 - Olympic athlete, baseball and basketball player, Ian Fleming 1908 - Author, journalist, created character of James Bond


Gladys Knight 1944 - Singer, Rudolph Giuliani 1944 - Mayor of New York City, Marco Rubio 1971 - Politician


1863 - The first black regiment left Boston to fight in the U.S. Civil War.


1928 - Chrysler Corporation merged with Dodge Brothers, Inc.


1934 - The Dionne quintuplets were born near Callender, Ontario, to Olivia and Elzire Dionne. The babies were the first quintuplets to survive infancy.


1940 - During World War II, Belgium surrendered to Germany.


1957 - National League club owners voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers to move to Los Angeles and that the New York Giants could move to San Francisco.


1987 - Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses. He was released August 3, 1988.


1996 - U.S. President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal were convicted of fraud.


1998 - Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts. The U.S., Japan and other nations imposed economic sanctions. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said "Today, we have settled the score with India."

True Meaning of Memorial Day

Obama Allows ‘Special Bonus’ Question During Japan Presser, Then Retracts the Offer When This Question Is Asked | Video | TheBlaze.com

Obama Allows ‘Special Bonus’ Question During Japan Presser, Then Retracts the Offer When This Question Is Asked | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"President Barack Obama spoke to the press Thursday following the G7 summit in Japan. After taking questions for about 10 minutes, Obama announced he was going to allow a “special bonus” question before wrapping up the presser.

However, once he heard the question, Obama appeared to change his mind."

More Warnings——Unsustainable Auto Sales And Stock PE Ratios

More Warnings——Unsustainable Auto Sales And Stock PE Ratios | David Stockman's Contra Corner
"...automobiles, among a variety of other economic indicators as discussed recently, are sending a clear warning sign.

...Here’s the problem. There is a finite number of people to sell new cars too.

What the chart above shows is the number of cars sold currently now exceeds both the total increase in population and replacement needs of the existing population. In other words, the pool of available buyers is rapidly being depleted.

“But Lance, people will trade in those cars every couple of years, so the trend can keep going.”

Not really. As recently noted by Wolf Richter:

“Deep-subprime borrowers are high-risk. Typically they have credit scores below 550. To make it worth everyone’s while, they get stuffed into loans often with interest rates above 20%. To make payments even remotely possible at these rates, terms are often stretched to 84 months. Borrowers are typically upside down in their vehicle: the negative equity of their trade-in, along with title, taxes, and license fees, and a hefty dealer profit are rolled into the loan. When the lender repossesses the vehicle, losses add up in a hurry.

Auto loans, in general, have been in a huge boom that reached $1.04 trillion in the fourth quarter 2015:”

With more sub-prime auto loans outstanding currently than prior to the financial crisis, defaults rising rapidly and a large majority with negative equity in their vehicles, swapping out to a new car is becoming a near impossible option.

Yikes!

Read on!

Oberlin students say bad grades are getting in the way of activism

Oberlin students say bad grades are getting in the way of activism: 

• The New Yorker claims that more than 1,300 students recently signed a petition calling for the college to eliminate any grade lower than a "C".
• The students complain that it is not fair to grade them on their performance in class because they are so distracted by their activism.

Washingtonian Editor: People Shouldn’t Say ‘Start a Family’ Because It’s Offensive | TheBlaze.com

Washingtonian Editor: People Shouldn’t Say ‘Start a Family’ Because It’s Offensive | TheBlaze.com:

"Bill O’Sullivan, the senior editor of the Washingtonian magazine, wrote in an editorial Thursday that the “loathsome” phrase “start a family” should be scrubbed from the vocabulary because it’s offensive to single people and couples without children."

FAU Professor Praises Severing Hands Under Sharia Law

FAU Professor Praises Severing Hands Under Sharia Law | The Daily Caller
"At a panel discussion on Islam and terrorism at Florida Atlantic University, a professor on the taxpayer-funded school’s faculty praised the Sharia law practice of cutting off the hands of criminals who steal.
The words of wisdom concerning the notorious Islamic penal code came from Bassem Al Halabi, an electrical engineering and computer science professor at Florida Atlantic University. Florida
In countries in the Middle East where Sharia law is not practiced, Al Halabi said, people “die in dozens and hundreds every day because of organized crime.
People kill people — other people — for steal [sic] pizza for 10 dollars.
So when Islamic Sharia is saying about capital punishment — so even though it sounds very severe, but if that is the solution to prevent any crimes, then it still has a lot of rules and regulations.”
Al Halabi then defended cutting off criminals’ hands.
“I will just mention one and stop here, which is: let’s say cutting the hand off a person if they steal,” the Florida Atlantic professor continued.
“It sounds very severe.
It sounds very barbaric, I know.
But if it takes one or two people to have their hands cut off and then there’s no more stealing in the whole nation, that’s a much better resolution than having hundreds of people die every day.”
Al Halabi also assured attendees at the event that “Sharia is being practiced in the United States.”
“We at the Islamic Center of Boca Raton, we practice Sharia — if someone doesn’t know,” he said..."

‘EcoSexual’ students at SMC ‘marry the ocean’

‘EcoSexual’ students at SMC ‘marry the ocean’: 

• Earlier this month, a professor at Santa Monica College led students in an ‘EcoSexual Sextravaganza’ in which participants ‘married the ocean.’
• After the ceremony, some students made their way to the shoreline, where they were urged by event organizers to “consummate” the marriage and “make love with the water.”

Lunch video-What ARE they learning in school?-----Americans Forget The Meaning of Memorial Day!

Arizona Gets Fed Up With Trump-Protesters... Makes Move EVERY State Should Follow

Arizona Gets Fed Up With Trump-Protesters... Makes Move EVERY State Should Follow:

"In Arizona, it just became a lot more dangerous to carry out a protest that blocks traffic.

Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law a piece of legislation that makes longer jail sentences possible for blocking traffic during protests —"

The Indy 500's moment of truth

Insights & Analysis - OPINION: The Indy 500's moment of truth: 
"For many of us, May is the high holy month of our passion for racing. 
In 2016, this fifth month of the Gregorian calendar feels different than the past twenty Mays that were tainted by division, decline and disillusionment. 
There is hope in the air and pride in our hearts as we approach the long-anticipated 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500. 
We know we are witnessing living history and we can't help but feel a long-missed anticipation and excitement as we approach the morning of 5/29/16.
This is also our collective moment of truth, for the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 represents a core sample of our hopes, dreams and fears for our sport in the context of the modern world. 
Our journey together has spanned two centuries and taken us from the dawn of the age of speed to the rise of the information age. 
The sport has survived two world wars and one racing civil war to arrive at this pivotal moment that has been 105 years in the making.
Now it is up to us make the most of it..."
Read on!

This Is How Much Your Health Insurance Payment Is About To Jump By

This Is How Much Your Health Insurance Payment Is About To Jump By | Zero Hedge:
"It's official: years of warnings that Obamacare will lead to dramatic increases in healthcare premiums are about to be validated.
As the WSJ writes, big health plans stung by losses in the first few years of the U.S. health law’s implementation are seeking hefty premium increases for individual plans sold through insurance exchanges in more than a dozen states."

Leona Clinton and the little people

Leona Clinton and the little people | Washington Examiner:
"...But Clinton's scandal is not really about emails. 
They are important details, but they are not the big picture. 
Her scandal — actually, the latest of a lifetime of scandals — is about the contempt she has shown for all the rules that little people have to live by. 
Like Leona Helmsley, the New York millionairess who notoriously suggested that "only the little people pay taxes," Clinton appears to believe that there is one set of rules for her and another for everyone else."

After Hillary Drops Out... What? | PJ Media

After Hillary Drops Out... What? | PJ Media:

"The State Department's report on Hillary Clinton's insouciant attitude toward cyber-security would finish any other American politician. She ignored the law, flouted it repeatedly, and didn't care; folks are in prison for less. The only thing that's holding her up at this point is her Amen Corner in the media, most of whom know her personally and who long for a Clinton Restoration in order to reclaim their places as house courtiers. "

Bus that drives over cars: China unveils futuristic transport concept

Bus that drives over cars: China unveils futuristic transport concept:
"IT LOOKS like a cross between an oversized train and a transformer.
But this is actually an elevated bus and China hopes it holds the answer to its crazy traffic jams.
The Transit Elevated Bus (TEB) would see passengers ride above the traffic below with stops placed along the route in a similar system to the subway — except apparently cheaper.
A scale model of the bus was unveiled just days ago at the 19th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo, and it certainly attracted some attention.
While the cost was not made clear, the engineer in charge of the TEB project said he believed it would solve major congestion issues across the country.
Bai Zhiming told China’s Central Television network, CCTV News: “With a carrying capacity of 1200 people at a time, the TEB has the same functions as the subway while its cost of construction is less than one fifth of the subway.
“Its construction can be finished in one year.”

AM Fruitcake

History for May 27

History for May 27 - On-This-Day.com
Cornelius Vanderbilt 1794 - Entrepreneur (shipping and railroads), Wild Bill Hickok 1837 - gunfighter, scout, lawman, Dashiell Hammett 1894 - Author


Hubert H. Humphrey (Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr.) 1911 - Served as Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson, Herman Wouk 1915 - Author, Henry Kissinger 1923 - Former U.S. Secretary of State


1647 - Alse Young (Achsah Young or Alice Young), a resident of Windsor, CT, was executed for being a "witch." It was the first recorded American execution of a "witch."


1896 - 255 people were killed in St. Louis, MO, when a tornado struck.


1933 - Walt Disney's "Three Little Pigs" was first released.


1941 - The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by British naval and air forces. 2,300 people were killed.


1942 - German General Erwin Rommel began a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps.


1969 - Construction of Walt Disney World began in Florida.


1994 - Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia. He had been in exile for two decades.


1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones could continue while President Clinton was in office.

WallBuilders - Issues and Articles - Who are the Racists and when did they Switch Political Parties?

WallBuilders - Issues and Articles - Who are the Racists and when did they Switch Political Parties?:

"Democratic apologists instantly posted comments dismissing that claim, arguing that everybody knows that in the 1960s and 1970s, the racists within the Democrat Party left and became Republicans. 1 Is the claim true? Did the racist Democrats become the Republicans in the 1960s and 1970s who took over the south?"

When you've lost the NYT...-----Hillary Clinton Is Criticized for Private Emails in State Dept. Review

Hillary Clinton Is Criticized for Private Emails in State Dept. Review - The New York Times
"WASHINGTON — The State Department’s inspector general has sharply criticized Hillary Clinton’s exclusive use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, saying she had not sought permission to use it and would not have received it if she had.
In a report delivered to members of Congress on Wednesday, the inspector general said that Mrs. Clinton “had an obligation to discuss using her personal email account to conduct official business” with officials responsible for handling records and security but that inspectors “found no evidence” that she had requested or received approval from anyone at the department to conduct her state business on a personal email.
The report also said that department officials “did not — and would not — approve her exclusive reliance on a personal email account to conduct Department business.”
It also added new detail about Mrs. Clinton’s motivation for using the private server, which she has said was set up for convenience..."
Read on.

After Hillary Drops Out... What?

After Hillary Drops Out... What? | PJ Media
The State Department's report on Hillary Clinton's insouciant attitude toward cyber-security would finish any other American politician.
...They can't protect her as they once could, and the multiplicity of media means that while the gatekeepers are still at the gates, the walls on either side have fallen. 
Meanwhile, State has publicly called her a liar and left a stinking mess on her doorstep that even her faithful house boys are going to find difficult to sweep aside.

Now what? 
Maybe this what:

The Democratic National Committee is considering a plan to re-insert Vice President Joe Biden into the presidential race, Donald Trump said Wednesday in California, a stunning claim on a day when front-runner Hillary Clinton faced new questions about her classified email scandal.

'I hear they're gonna actually slip Joe Biden in and he's going to take Bernie's place,' Trump told a rally audience of thousands in Anaheim, California, referring to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. 'I hear they want to slip him in,' he repeated. 'Cause I will say, the system is rigged against Bernie, 100 per cent.'

Read on! 

Obama Snaps Photo With Communist Leader, Then People Notice What's in Background

Obama Snaps Photo With Communist Leader, Then People Notice What's in Background:

"It’s bad enough that President Barack Obama is snapping selfies with communist leaders. Now he’s doing it with a specific one who helped kill tens of thousands of American men.

During his visit to Vietnam, Obama has been doing a lot of ill-advised apologizing for America. However, that’s not the worst thing."

College cancels 'Men in Literature' course, says it's too focused on men

College cancels 'Men in Literature' course, says it's too focused on men - The College Fix:
"A “Men in Literature” course taught successfully for eight years at Springfield College has now been canceled after campus officials complained the class was too focused on men.
The popular humanities department-approved course was taught by Dr. Dennis Gouws.
Campus leaders, prior to axing the course, accused the scholar of turning the English class into something of a men’s gender studies class.
In return, Gouws changed the curriculum to appease campus leaders’ concerns — to no avail.
...Perhaps not coincidentally, Herzog and Gouws fractious interactions predate the “Men in Literature” situation.
Herzog had previously denied a request for sabbatical leave for Dr. Gouws in 2014, and had also reprimanded him in an e-mail for missing a “sexual harassment prevention” training to which he had already been excused, the report also said.
What’s more, when Gouws had put up a poster in 2013 bringing awareness to false rape accusations, college officials reported a complaint about the posters contributing to a “hostile environment.”
Dean Herzog then declared the group behind the poster, A Voice for Men, a hate group. 
She cited the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization famous for labeling many groups that aren’t sufficiently liberal “hate groups.”...

The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much - The New York Times

The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much - The New York Times
BOULDER, Colo. — ONCE upon a time in America, baby boomers paid for college with the money they made from their summer jobs.
Then, over the course of the next few decades, public funding for higher education was slashed. These radical cuts forced universities to raise tuition year after year, which in turn forced the millennial generation to take on crushing educational debt loads, and everyone lived unhappily ever after.
This is the story college administrators like to tell when they’re asked to explain why, over the past 35 years, college tuition at public universities has nearly quadrupled, to $9,139 in 2014 dollars.
It is a fairy tale in the worst sense, in that it is not merely false, but rather almost the inverse of the truth.
The conventional wisdom was reflected in a recent National Public Radio series on the cost of college. 
“So it’s not that colleges are spending more money to educate students,” Sandy Baum of the Urban Institute told NPR.
“It’s that they have to get that money from someplace to replace their lost state funding — and that’s from tuition and fees from students and families.”
In fact, public investment in higher education in America is vastly larger today, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than it was during the supposed golden age of public funding in the 1960s. 
Such spending has increased at a much faster rate than government spending in general.
For example, the military’s budget is about 1.8 times higher today than it was in 1960, while legislative appropriations to higher education are more than 10 times higher.
In other words, far from being caused by funding cuts, the astonishing rise in college tuition correlates closely with a huge increase in public subsidies for higher education. 
If over the past three decades car prices had gone up as fast as tuition, the average new car would cost more than $80,000.
...The rapid increase in college enrollment can be defended by intellectually respectable arguments. Even the explosion in administrative personnel is, at least in theory, defensible.
On the other hand, there are no valid arguments to support the recent trend toward seven-figure salaries for high-ranking university administrators, unless one considers evidence-free assertions about “the market” to be intellectually rigorous.
What cannot be defended, however, is the claim that tuition has risen because public funding for higher education has been cut. 
Despite its ubiquity, this claim flies directly in the face of the facts."
Read on!

Lunch Video shows Hillary Clinton 'lying for 13 minutes'

Video shows Hillary Clinton 'lying for 13 minutes'
YouTube video entitled "Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight" has been viewed more than seven million times on the internet.
The video shows Mrs Clinton changing her positions on a variety of issues including Wall Street, healthcare, trade deals, and same sex marriage
...He later explained that it was "not a pro-Trump video" and he planned a similar attack on the presumptive Republican nominee in due course.
The footage included Mrs Clinton saying in 2004 that marriage is a "sacred bond between a man and a woman".
A decade later she said: "I support it personally and as a matter of policy and law."
It also transposed her recent comments blaming banks for the home foreclosure crisis with previous ones in which she said: "Homebuyers who paid extra fees to avoid documenting their income should have known they were getting in over their heads."
The video also included her claims that she had once landed in Bosnia under sniper fire, and footage showing she did not.

Noon-toon

11 States Sue Obama Administration Over Transgender Bathroom Directive | TheBlaze.com

11 States Sue Obama Administration Over Transgender Bathroom Directive | TheBlaze.com:

"AUSTIN, Texas (TheBlaze/AP) — Texas and 10 other states are suing the Obama administration over a new directive about transgender students in public schools.

The lawsuit announced Tuesday also includes Oklahoma, Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Maine, Louisiana, Utah, Arizona and Georgia. The challenge follows a federal directive to U.S. schools this month to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity."

The Biggest Fraud In Science History

The Biggest Fraud In Science History | Real Science
The Biggest Fraud In Science History

In 1978, NOAA showed 0.6 degrees global cooling since 1975 at the surface and in balloon data. 

The cooling was present in both hemispheres...

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The National Academy of Sciences knew about this cooling in 1975.

This cooling was seen in the vast majority of US stations and is still present in the untampered US data.

But for some reason, the cooling has disappeared from NASA data.

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NASA used to show the cooling, but have since made it disappear.

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Over the last 16 years, satellite and radiosonde data show cooling, which NASA has also erased.
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The legal technicality that let BofA skate on an alleged billion-dollar mortgage fraud

The legal technicality that let BofA skate on an alleged billion-dollar mortgage fraud - LA Times: "...The program transferred responsibility for vetting the loans "from quality-focused underwriters to volume-focused loan specialists" using automated credit software, eliminated rules that effectively reduced commissions for low-quality loans, and cut the turnaround time for processing mortgages to 15 days from six weeks or more.
With speed and volume taking precedence over quality, a huge percentage of these loans was destined to be lousy.
Sure enough, more than 42% of the loans were "materially defective," Rakoff found.
As far as Fannie and Freddie knew, however, they all still met Countrywide's contractual representation that all the loans were "investment quality."
Instead, Rakoff wrote, HSSL "was from start to finish the vehicle for a brazen fraud...driven by a hunger for profits and oblivious to the harms thereby visited, not just on the immediate victims but also on the financial system as a whole."
Fannie and Freddie, he concluded, "would never have purchased any loans from the Bank Defendants if they known that Countrywide had intentionally lied to them."
So how, you might ask, could Bank of America wriggle out of that one?
The answer is through what Kelleher calls a "hyper-technical decision."
The judges based their ruling on the contracts that Countrywide had reached with Fannie and Freddie, pledging to provide those government-sponsored firms with "investment quality" mortgages.
There was no evidence, the appellate judges found, that the executives who signed those contracts intended at the time to stuff the pipeline with toxic junk.
It just turned out that way..."

Former medics find themselves on bottom rung in civilian field

Former medics find themselves on bottom rung in civilian field - Veterans - Stripes
"NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. — In four deployments as an Army combat medic to some of the most dangerous corners of Iraq and Afghanistan, Joe Carney had seen the worst of war — bullet wounds, severed limbs, shrapnel.
He saved lives amid bombs and gunfire, his emergency room often a patch of dirt in the desert or a rocky mountainside.
None of that mattered when he left the Army three years ago.
“I think the services should do a better job because at the end of the day, your last day in the Army, the last day in the Navy, you’re out, no one cares about you,” he said. “What I tell people who are planning to get out is, you have to have a plan.”
Like many medics and Navy corpsmen, the U.S. military’s front-line medical professionals, Carney’s skills translated to almost nothing in the civilian world.
...But despite his extensive training, he lacked state licensing certificates and he struggled to find a job at his skill level. 
He settled on a job as an emergency room technician, where he was allowed to do little beyond administer oxygen and take blood pressure readings..."

What Voter Fraud? Investigation Finds Hundreds of Dead Voters Are Casting Ballots in Southern California Alone | TheBlaze.com

What Voter Fraud? Investigation Finds Hundreds of Dead Voters Are Casting Ballots in Southern California Alone | TheBlaze.com:

"Hundreds of “dead voters” are casting ballots in Southern California, according to an investigation by KCBS-TV.

David Goldstein, an investigative reporter for KCBS, cross-referenced voting records from the California Secretary of State’s office with death records from the Social Security Administration and found that hundreds voters are casting ballots under the names of people who have died.

The CBS affiliate’s investigation found 265 “dead voters” in Southern California."

NYC Protects 31 Gender Identities

NYC Protects 31 Gender Identities | The Daily Caller:
"Individuals living in New York City can choose from a minimum of 31 different gender identities, many of which allow them to fluctuate between some version or combination of male or female identities.
Businesses that don’t respect and accommodate an individual’s chosen gender identity risk incurring six-figure fines under rules implemented by the city’s Commission on Human Rights.
The list of protected gender identities is available online and includes options such as “gender bender,” “two spirit,” “third sex,” “androgynous,” “gender gifted,” and “pangender.”
...Someone who identifies as “genderqueer,” for example, is a “person whose gender identity is neither man nor woman, is between or beyond genders, or is some combination of genders.”
A “gender bender” is someone “who bends, changes, mixes, or combines society’s gender conventions by expressing elements of masculinity and femininity together.”
Similarly, someone who is “gender fluid” is a person “whose gender identification and presentation shifts, whether within or outside of societal, gender-based expectations.”
Read on and fear for everyone!