History for November 2

History for November 2 - On-This-Day.com:
Daniel Boone 1734, James Knox Polk (U.S.) 1795, Warren G. Harding (U.S.) 1865


Burt Lancaster 1913, Patrick J. Buchanan 1938, David Stockton 1941
    

1783 - U.S. Gen. George Washington gave his "Farewell Address to the Army" near Princeton, NJ.


1920 - The first commercial radio station in the U.S., KDKA of Pittsburgh, PA, began regular broadcasting.


1921 - Margaret Sanger's National Birth Control League combined with Mary Ware Denetts Voluntary Parenthood League to form the American Birth Control League.


1947 - Howard Hughes flew his "Spruce Goose," a huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California. It was the plane's first and only flight. The "Spruce Goose," nicknamed because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it, never went into production.


1948 - Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency. The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." The Truman victory surprised many polls and newspapers. (Illinois>


1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.


1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


1993 - The U.S. Senate called for full disclosure of Senator Bob Packwood's diaries in a sexual harassment probe.

Huma's email testimony could haunt her as FBI renews probe | Fox News

Huma's email testimony could haunt her as FBI renews probe | Fox News:

"Scrutiny of top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin intensified Monday amid speculation that claims she made in her FBI interview and a separate sworn deposition could come back to haunt her as the bureau gains access to emails on her estranged husband’s computer."

Pay No Attention To This Voter Fraud... Nothing To See Here | The Federalist Papers

Pay No Attention To This Voter Fraud... Nothing To See Here | The Federalist Papers:

"It’s getting harder and harder to deny that voter fraud exists when we keep finding it everywhere.

In Chicago, investigators have recently uncovered 119 dead residents who have voted a total of 229 times – after their burial."

* Updated: Worries about U.S. voter fraud overstated? Hah! Multiple news reports shows it is massive!

* Updated: Worries about U.S. voter fraud overstated? Hah! Multiple news reports shows it is massive! | Blogs | Lifesitenews:
Updated: Worries about U.S. voter fraud overstated? Hah! Multiple news reports shows it is massive!ky

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October 26, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — Some of us have tried during the past few U.S. elections to warn Americans of massive voter fraud likely to take place during those two times Barack Obama was elected. 
Unfortunately, few took these warnings seriously. 
They could not imagine that such fraud would or likely did have a significant, negative impact on the issues that LifeSite covers as part of its core mission. 
See the long list of articles below revealing currently on-going federal election 2016 fraud. 

The reaction to LifeSite reporter Ben Johnson's well-researched 4-part investigative series on Obama's Marxist, get-out-the-vote head, Buffy Wicks, seemed to fall on deaf ears. 
There were few comments or other responses. 
Only much later were there reports in some major media confirming that significant fraud did take place during the Obama elections. 

Now, what is happening in this election appears to be far beyond the voter fraud that likely happened during the Obama elections. 

The rapidly mounting evidence, finally being taken seriously by some in the mainstream media and many in alternative media, is that voter fraud is massive this election.

In addition to the Lou Dobbs report above, here are more examples of a growing flood of news reports coming out these past few weeks on this worrisome, now proven to be very real election factor. 
Take a close look at them. 

1. Elections are hacked, missing link discovered (If true - and I cannot verify that - this is very disturbing - watch video)

    Vote fraud expert Bev Harris exposes electronic voting machines 

Read on. 

Much more proof of attempts to castrate your vote!

Pure Michigan Spent $295 Million and Even Hotels Only Got Scraps Back

Pure Michigan Spent $295 Million and Even Hotels Only Got Scraps Back [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Since 2006 this state has spent $295 million on an advertising campaign called Pure Michigan that is intended to draw tourism dollars here from other states.
But a new study shows that state-funded efforts to promote tourism are mostly a blunder.
The marketing scheme is widely recognized thanks to its homey TV commercials showing picturesque Michigan locations and narrated by film and television star Tim Allen.
Michigan’s Legislature appropriated $34 million to the program for the current year, $1 million more than last year. 
Pure Michigan is managed by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, which is the state’s economic development agency.
The study’s authors, Mike LaFaive, director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and Dr. Michael Hicks, a Ball State University professor and Mackinac Center board of scholars member, analyzed decades of tourism promotion data from almost every state to determine whether such programs have had an economic payoff.
“After analyzing 39 years’ worth of tourism promotion data from 48 states, we believe the answer is a resounding no,” the authors said.
LaFaive and Hicks conclusion is that no more taxpayer dollars should be spent on Pure Michigan..."
Read on!

Campaign says Clinton still hasn't talked to Abedin about new emails | Fox News

Campaign says Clinton still hasn't talked to Abedin about new emails | Fox News:

"The Hillary Clinton campaign on Sunday again urged the FBI to explain why it was revisiting the Clinton email investigation and said the Democratic presidential candidate has not talked to top aide Huma Abedin, on whose laptop the new emails were purportedly found -- nearly three full days after the department announced the new probe."

Read of the DAY!-----My spiritual journey with Donald Trump

Beaton: My spiritual journey with Donald Trump | AspenTimes.com:
"Donald Trump is not my spiritual adviser, but I find myself on an enlightening journey with the man.
From the beginning, Trump hasn’t exactly acted like a statesman.
In fact, he makes Ferris Bueller look like John Foster Dulles.
But then, he beat my guy fair and square.
So unlike the Republican establishment, I got behind him.

My doubts grew as I learned more.
The disclosure of his shabby words about women was the last of a whole bale of ugly straws, and it finally broke me.
Initially, it felt good to break with Trump.
He’s just not a gentleman, I sniffed.
I’m better than him, I boasted to myself.
Moral sanctimony is a buzz, and it’s addictive. 
I was not just high on my horse; I was just plain high.
But I thought more about it.
I talked with friends I’ve made in other journeys, with professional women and with religious people.
I even prayed a little, which for me is praying a lot.
I realized that my feel-good trip was exactly the repulsive feel-good that I’d seen earlier in the Republican establishment. 
It was a pose. 
It was self-bestowed. 
It was a cheap grace.
Yes, Trump is crude.
I never want to be with him in a locker room or anywhere else.
He’s deeply flawed.
But so am I.
As a deeply flawed man myself, I don’t have the moral authority to judge Trump as a man. 
I can only judge him as a potential president, and in that I can only judge him in comparison with the other candidate.
That would be Hillary Clinton. 
Remember her?
Assisted by countless establishment lackeys pleading the Fifth (the most recent being a State Department employee who did so 90 times last week alone) she’s the person who did for emails what her husband did for cigars — made them disappear..."
Read on!

Tonight 9:00 PBS-----Documentary Recalls Horrors of Korean War

Documentary Recalls Horrors of Korean War - Reason.com
"When the Chinese mortar shell exploded, it sent the American soldier hurtling through the air, his body savaged but his mind eerily dreamy as he fell back to earth, cataloging the carnage surrounding him.
He took particular note of a severed limb casually askew on the ground. "Some poor guy lost a leg," the soldier thought to himself sadly. 
When he tried to stand, the dream blinked back to reality: 
The poor guy without a leg was him.
So it goes in The Battle of Chosin, an episode of the PBS documentary series American Experience airing November 1.
It's a series of postcards—surreal, grisly, terrifying—from a largely forgotten battle in the mostly unremembered war that the United States fought in Korea from 1950 to 1953.
For two weeks beginning in late November 1950, a U.S.-commanded force of nearly 15,000 men, mostly U.S. Marines, fought its way out of an encirclement of 120,000 Chinese troops near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea.
The combat, at such close quarters that the fighting was often hand-to-hand, took place on steep, craggy mountain terrain ("you had two directions to go in Korea, that was either straight up or straight down, recalls one American soldier) in temperatures that plunged to 50 degrees below zero on some nights.
It was a frozen killing field so gruesome that the soldiers interviewed in The Battle of Chosin are often reduced to ghastly free association in their attempts to describe it: "Grotesque. ... Horrible. Nightmare."
...The arctic cold inflicted almost as much damage on the Marines as the Chinese did; the photos of blackened, mutilated feet will forever dispel you of any idea that frostbite is a minor injury.
One soldier describes how when medics finally used an axe to get his frozen boots off, his toes stayed inside.
...One Marine, after tossing a grenade into an enemy bunker, entered it to find a lone Chinese machine-gunner still at his post, his legs and stomach torn away but his heart somehow still beating. "He kept talking to me in Chinese," the American remembers, his eyes red and moist. 
"Was he telling me about his family; was he pleading with me to dispatch him? ... I still think about him at night sometimes, just wishing I could have understood what he was saying. 
It's nothing to kill them at a distance. 
It's when you look them in the eye, that's different." 
The Battle of Chosin never breaks its gaze.

Lunch video-----Hillary's #1 aide Huma Abedin: Undeniable ties to terrorists & 9/11 fund...

Noon-toon

FBI Email Scandal: Hillary Clinton’s Fault, Not James Comey’s | National Review

FBI Email Scandal: Hillary Clinton’s Fault, Not James Comey’s | National Review:

"Just to remind those whose memories seem so conveniently to fail, Comey is the FBI director, not a Justice Department prosecutor, much less the attorney general. The FBI is not supposed to exercise prosecutorial discretion. The FBI is not supposed to decide whether the subject of a criminal investigation gets indicted. The FBI, moreover, is not obligated to make recommendations "

Bobby Knight trolls Wolverines fans at Donald Trump rally in Michigan

Bobby Knight trolls Wolverines fans at Donald Trump rally in Michigan | MLive.com:
"ANN ARBOR -- Just like his legendary tact, old rivalries die hard for Bob Knight.
Knight, the outspoken former Indiana head basketball coach, was in Grand Rapids on Monday.
An ardent supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, he was charged with warming up the crowd and introducing Trump during a Michigan rally.
Along the way, Knight decided to acknowledge any Wolverines fans in the house.
"I went to Ohio State instead of one of your favorite schools," Knight told the crowd, according to MLive Grand Rapids reporter Lauren Gibbons.
The crowd immediately responded with a heavy boo.
Knight, in turn, responded: "You know we beat your ass most every time we played you."
Indeed, Knight attended and played at Ohio State from 1960-1962.
...Knight ultimately won back the Michigan fans in attendance on Monday, daring cheers as he introduced Trump."

12 Craziest Photos of People Arrested on Halloween

12 Craziest Photos of People Arrested on Halloween - ODDEE:
"A woman in zombie makeup was arrested twice in just three hours for driving while drunk after attending Halloween party at a bar in 2014.
Catherine Butler, 26, was initially arrested after leaving a zombie prom in a Rochester, New York. She posed for the mugshot with her face covered in fake blood.
Police arrested her a second time on the same road three hours later.
She was also arrested for DWI in 2006 and 2011."

Political Correctness and Cultural Appropriation Panic Are Killing Halloween

Political Correctness and Cultural Appropriation Panic Are Killing Halloween - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Australian actor Chris Hemsworth is very sorry for dressing up as Native American.

"I was stupidly unaware of the offense this may have caused and the sensitivity around this issue," he recently wrote on Instagram. 
"I sincerely and unreservedly apologize to all First Nations people for this thoughtless action."
For those who think they were owned an apology, it's actually overdue: 
Hemsworth donned the offensive costume at a New Year's Eve party last year. 
But now he's apparently more enlightened about how cultural appropriation further marginalizes oppressed communities—like the people at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. 
And he's not alone: actress Hillary Duff just apologized for this year's offensive couple costume—Duff and her boyfriend celebrated the holiday this weekend as a Native American and a Pilgrim.

...As I wrote in a recent column for The Daily Beast:

Take Tufts University, where student-leaders of Greek life on campus are particularly worried about costume-related sanctions. They have good reason to be concerned: the university is watching. 

"We encourage all students that feel like they have encountered someone who is wearing an inappropriate and offensive costume to please file a report," said Dean of Students Mary Pat McMahon, according to a letter sent to the Greek community. ..

Greek leaders would like to err on the side of caution—how's that for Halloween spirit?—and have asked members of their community to eschew "inappropriate, offensive, and appropriative costumes." Cultural appropriation—dressing up like someone from a different race—is especially frowned upon. But that's not all: costumes "relating to tragedy, controversy, or acts of violence" are also frowned upon.

One wonders what's left. Many students who heed the above guidelines are presumably restricted from dressing up as samurais, hombres, geishas, belly dancers, Vikings, ninjas, rajas, French maids, Bollywood dancers, Rastafarians, Pocahontas, Aladdin, Zorro, or Thor..."

Report: Loretta Lynch advised Comey not to send a letter to Congress informing them of the discovery of new emails – TheBlaze.com

Report: Loretta Lynch advised Comey not to send a letter to Congress informing them of the discovery of new emails – TheBlaze.com:

"Attorney General Loretta Lynch advised FBI Director James Comey not to send a letter to Congress informing them of the discovery of new emails related to the FBI’s criminal probe of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, according to a report from the New Yorker."

Misconceptions about the Nordic Economies

Misconceptions about the Nordic Economies | Foundation for Economic Education:
"The Nordic countries are usually mentioned in the Spanish political debate as examples of well-functioning and efficient Welfare States where the government provides citizens with a large range of social benefits.
(The terms “Nordic” and “Scandinavian” will be employed interchangeably to refer to Sweden, Finland and Denmark. Norway and Iceland are excluded from my analysis.)
Politicians, especially on the left side of the political spectrum, look at Sweden, Denmark, or Finland as successful social democratic experiments in which social entitlements are guaranteed by the benevolent and caring hand of the State.
Their existence is conclusive evidence that those who question the sustainability of an unlimited expansion of the Welfare State are wrong.
However, there exists a generalized misperception about the functioning of the Scandinavian economies.
They are usually regarded as highly interventionist countries with hyper-regulated economies and very progressive taxation systems in which the upper classes sustain the Welfare State by paying their so-called fair share.
This widely-extended view is fundamentally wrong for two main reasons. 

• Firstly, far from being socialistic, the economic recipes that have led Denmark or Sweden to have sustainable Welfare States are those usually identified with the free market: deregulated economies and flexible labor markets. 
• Secondly, the burdensome taxation system in the Scandinavian countries is rather regressive; hence, the fiscal burden is essentially borne by low and middle classes..."

AM Fruitcake

History for November 1

History for November 1 - On-This-Day.com
Stephen Crane 1871, James Kilpatrick 1920, Larry Flynt 1942


Kinky (Richard) Friedman 1944, Toni Collette 1972, Jenny McCarthy 1972


1765 - The British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American colonies. The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative power of the colonies.


1861 - Gen. George B. McClellan was made the general-in-chief of the American Union armies.


1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations using 24 locations that provided reports via telegraph.


1936 - Benito Mussolini made a speech in Milan, Italy, in which he described the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Berlin and Rome.


1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate U.S. President Harry Truman. One of the men was killed when they tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, DC.


1959 - Jacques Plante, of the Montreal Canadiens, became the first goalie in the NHL to wear a mask.


1973 - Leon Jaworski was appointed the new Watergate special prosecutor in the Watergate case.


1993 - The European Community's treaty on European unity took effect.

BREAKING: Election Officials Just Caught Throwing Away Trump Ballots | Conservative Daily Post

BREAKING: Election Officials Just Caught Throwing Away Trump Ballots | Conservative Daily Post:

"Yes someone in Ohio honestly thought it was a good idea to brag that they were destroying ballots that were considered to be pro-Trump. They also failed to realize that it was against the law to tamper with the mail! But when it was pointed out that this was illegal, they tried to backtrack and say that it was totally legal.

Not only that but there are reports that illegal immigrants suddenly gained the right to vote. Now normally you have to be a United States citizen to vote. But President Obama has made it abundantly clear that he isn’t going to do anything about it."

Academics Write Rubbish Nobody Reads

Academics Write Rubbish Nobody Reads | Foundation for Economic Education:
"Professors usually spend about three to six months (sometimes longer) researching and writing a 25-page article to submit an article to an academic journal.
And most experience a twinge of excitement when, months later, they open a letter informing them that their article has been accepted for publication, and will, therefore, be read by…
… an average of 10 people.
Yes, you read that correctly. 
The numbers reported by recent studies are pretty bleak:
- 82 percent of articles published in the humanities are not even cited once.
- Of those articles that are cited, only 20 percent have actually been read.
- Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors.
So what’s the reason for this madness?
Why does the world continue to be subjected to just under 2 million academic journal articles each year?
Many academic articles today are merely "creative plagiarism": rearrangements of previous research with a new thesis appended.
Well, the main reason is money and job security.
The goal of all professors is to get tenure, and right now, tenure continues to be awarded based in part on how many peer-reviewed publications they have.
Tenure committees treat these publications as evidence that the professor is able to conduct mature research.
Sadly, however, many academic articles today are merely exercises in what one professor I knew called “creative plagiarism”: rearrangements of previous research with a new thesis appended on to them..."

Wind an even bigger boondoggle than ethanol

Wind an even bigger boondoggle than ethanol - AEI:
"Before we become too hopeful about the prospects of using offshore wind power as a fuel source of the future, let’s not forget that government data shows that offshore wind power cannot survive in a competitive environment without huge taxpayer subsidies.
Today, wind power receives subsidies greater than any other form of energy per unit of actual energy produced.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., a key member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, says that public subsidies for wind on a per megawatt-hour basis are 26 times those for fossil fuels and 16 times those for nuclear power.
...Yet, even with these incentives, only 4.7 percent of the nation’s electricity is currently supplied by wind power and that is entirely wind power from on-land turbines.
...Think about it: Four large power plants could produce as much electricity as offshore wind turbines placed side by side along the entire Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Florida.
Moreover, power plants last longer than wind turbines.
A British study found that turbines need to be replaced within 12 to 15 years, and they must be imported from Europe.
In contrast, nuclear and fossil-fuel plants can be built in the U.S. without relying on imports, and, in the case of nuclear power, the vast majority of reactors are licensed to run 60 years and some are expected to operate 80 years or more.
Offshore wind power also has complex transmission requirements.
In addition to being submerged, making installation and maintenance difficult and costly, the cables to bring offshore wind power to coastal areas have run up against strong opposition from conservation and wildlife groups, the fishing and tourist industries, seaside residents and, in some cases, the military, since turbines can interfere with radar systems.
Wind power might sound great in theory until one gets into the details of reliability, efficiency and cost.
It is the electricity sector’s version of corn ethanol — and in recent years has received even more subsidy dollars.
If not for the production tax credit and taxpayer subsidies, plans for offshore wind power would come to a stop."

Computer Programmer Admits To Being Paid To Rig Voting Booths

Computer Programmer Admits To Being Paid To Rig Voting Booths:

"Well, perhaps you should believe Clinton Eugene Curtis. He’s a computer programmer and former employee of ExxonMobil and NASA. He also claims that, at the behest of former Florida Rep. Tom Feeney, he was told to write a program for electronic voting machines that would rig close elections for whoever had control of the program.

Curtis was questioned before Congress in 2004, in this video uploaded by hacktivist group Anonymous. He was asked by attorney Cliff Arnebeck, “Mr Curtis, are there programs that can be used to secretly fix elections?”

Americans Are Embracing Bad Government Because They Don't Know History

Americans Are Embracing Bad Government Because They Don't Know History | Foundation for Economic Education:
"Recent news has proudly informed us that U.S. graduation rates are rising. 
Unfortunately, rising grad rates don’t tell the whole story.

If one truly wants to know how American students are doing in school, a look at the Nation’s Report Card might offer a better picture. 

Those numbers tell us that not even half of America’s high school seniors are proficient in any subject. 

The area they rank the worst in? 

U.S. History.

The fact that only 12 percent of U.S. high school seniors are proficient in history was recently reflected in another survey put out by YouGov. 
That survey asked Americans of all ages how familiar they were with famous leaders, many of whom were prominent Communist leaders from the last century. 
As the chart below shows, a number of millennials described themselves as “unfamiliar” with these leaders.

Perhaps that’s also why these same millennials were unfamiliar with the number of people killed under Communist leadership. In fact, 32 percent of millennials and gen-Xers believed that more people were killed under George W. Bush during his time in office than were killed during Joseph Stalin’s time in power.

...According to Thomas Jefferson, it certainly does. 
In 1807 he wrote, “History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.”

In other words, if we expect our nation to stay on a straight course, then we need to make sure our students have a clear knowledge of governments throughout history – what worked and what didn’t.

Is it possible that our nation is in its current state because recent generations have not learned the lessons which past empires and nations teach us through the history books?"

10 Crazy Campaign Slogans

10 Crazy Campaign Slogans - ODDEE:

"Vote For Al Smith And Make Your Wet Dreams Come True" (Al Smith, Democrat)

It's no fault of Al Smith's campaign that language takes on a different meaning over time. 
In the 1920s, proponents of the nationwide prohibition against the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol were called “drys,” while opponents, like 1928 presidential candidate Smith, were called “wets." 
So, get your mind out of the gutter! (Source | Photo)