History for April 28

History for April 28 - On-This-Day.com
James Monroe 1758 - 5th U.S. President, nickname: The Last Cocked Hat, Odette Sansom Hallowes 1912 - Special operations during World War I, Ann-Margret (Olsson) 1941 - Singer, actress ("Viva Las Vegas", "Grumpy Old Men")


Jay Leno 1950 - Comedian, television talk show host ("The Tonight Show"), Penelope Cruz 1974 - Actress, Jessica Alba 1981 - Actress ("Dark Angel")


1789 - A mutiny on the British ship Bounty took place when a rebel crew took the ship and set sail to Pitcairn Island. The mutineers left Captain W. Bligh and 18 sailors adrift.


1914 - W.H. Carrier patented the design of his air conditioner.


1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country.


1962 - In the Sahara Desert of Algeria, a team led by Red Adair used explosives to put out the well fire known as the Devil's Cigarette Lighter. The fire was caused by a pipe rupture on November 6, 1961.


1967 - Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. Army and was stripped of boxing title. He cited religious grounds for his refusal.


1988 - In Maui, HI, one flight attendant was killed when the fuselage of a Boeing 737 ripped open in mid-flight.


1992 - The U.S. Agriculture Department unveiled a pyramid-shaped recommended-diet chart.


1996 - U.S. President Clinton gave a 4 1/2 hour videotaped testimony as a defense witness in the criminal trial of his former Whitewater business partners.

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Think this is gonna change your movies? Yup!-----Paramount Revives $1 Billion China Slate | Variety

Paramount Revives $1 Billion China Slate | Variety:
"Paramount Pictures has revived its $1 billion slate deal with two Chinese media companies, which was presumed dead last month, according to several sources.
The studio’s new Chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos, who took over the studio in March, traveled to Beijing last week to try and resurrect the deal with Shanghai Film Group and Huahua Media.
He was accompanied on the trip by a Viacom executive as well as some Paramount colleagues, including worldwide marketing and distribution president Megan Colligan.
The Paramount team was there to promote this summer’s tentpole sequel “Transformers: The Last Knight” at the Beijing International Film Festival.
...Though listed on the Shanghai stock exchange, Shanghai Film Group remains majority state-owned..."
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TUCKER CARLSON Embarrasses Colby Professor Who Says Colleges SHOULD Be Able To Shut Down Free Speech [VIDEO] » 100percentfedUp.com

TUCKER CARLSON Embarrasses Colby Professor Who Says Colleges SHOULD Be Able To Shut Down Free Speech [VIDEO] » 100percentfedUp.com:
"Last night on the Tucker Carlson Tonight show, Tucker debated a loony leftist English professor at Colby college wrote a piece in the New Republic where he essentially argued that it’s okay for colleges to shut down free speech on their campuses based on “value judgments” the colleges make about the speakers. 

From Hanlon’s piece in the New Republic:

Rejecting campus speakers is not an assault on free speech. Rather, like so many other decisions made every day by college students, teachers, and administrators, it’s a value judgment.

Aaron Hanlon of Colby College in Maine said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that Ann Coulter does not meet the “standards for speakers” that should be invited to campus. Hanlon said he was personally “very speech-permissive” but that colleges should be able to make judgments based on a speaker’s value– but not their ideology– before allowing them to speak. Carlson asked Hanlon to name one speaker who was disallowed on campus due to a liberal viewpoint under that rule. – FOX..."

Watch the insane exchange here:

UN warned Trump that ObamaCare repeal could violate international law | Fox News

UN warned Trump that ObamaCare repeal could violate international law | Fox News:


"The United Nations warned the Trump administration earlier this year that repealing ObamaCare without providing an adequate replacement would be a violation of multiple international laws, according to a new report.

Though the Trump administration is likely to ignore the U.N. warning, The Washington Post reported the Office of the U.N. High Commission on Human Rights in Geneva sent an "urgent appeal" on Feb 2. "

Time for a Congressional Investigation of the Iran Deal | Roger L. Simon

Time for a Congressional Investigation of the Iran Deal | Roger L. Simon:

"All eyes these days are on North Korea, but menacing as Kim & Co. may be, a nuclear-armed Iran is yet more dangerous.  The North Koreans may rattle cages and stomp their feet, shooting off missiles and even testing bombs, but their intentions so far are mainly to retain their atrocious despotic control of their own people.  The Iranians, both through their ideology and evident actions in progress across the globe, are truly imperialistic in their intentions.  They seek to rule the Middle East, if not the world, in the name of their millenialist brand of Shia Islam."

NYT Op-Ed Claims Violence Is the Real Free Speech

NYT Op-Ed Claims Violence Is the Real Free Speech:
"Antifa protesters loves them some violence. 
From punching people with cameras to rioting because you don't like who is talking. 
A few times, apparently. 
So, leave it to the New York Times to run an op-ed that seems to argue that the rioters who disrupt speech of those they disagree with are the true guardians of free speech.

The recent student demonstrations at Auburn against Spencer’s visit — as well as protests on other campuses against Charles Murray, Milo Yiannopoulos and others — should be understood as an attempt to ensure the conditions of free speech for a greater group of people, rather than censorship. Liberal free-speech advocates rush to point out that the views of these individuals must be heard first to be rejected. But this is not the case. Universities invite speakers not chiefly to present otherwise unavailable discoveries, but to present to the public views they have presented elsewhere. When those views invalidate the humanity of some people, they restrict speech as a public good.

In such cases there is no inherent value to be gained from debating them in public. In today’s age, we also have a simple solution that should appease all those concerned that students are insufficiently exposed to controversial views. It is called the internet, where all kinds of offensive expression flourish unfettered on a vast platform available to nearly all.

The great value and importance of freedom of expression, for higher education and for democracy, is hard to overestimate. But it has been regrettably easy for commentators to create a simple dichotomy between a younger generation’s oversensitivity and free speech as an absolute good that leads to the truth. We would do better to focus on a more sophisticated understanding, such as the one provided by Lyotard, of the necessary conditions for speech to be a common, public good. This requires the realization that in politics, the parameters of public speech must be continually redrawn to accommodate those who previously had no standing.

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Iranians freed in Obama's nuclear deal posed national security threat, says report | Fox News

Iranians freed in Obama's nuclear deal posed national security threat, says report | Fox News:

"President Obama’s controversial release last year of seven prisoners with ties to Iran was presented as a good will gesture linked to the larger nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic, but a new report claims some of those released were deemed threats to national security."

Polls Show Record Number of Americans Want More Government Intervention and Spending | The Daily Sheeple

Polls Show Record Number of Americans Want More Government Intervention and Spending | The Daily Sheeple:
"Isn’t it interesting how, no matter which political party is in charge, the government continues to grow? 
This is especially puzzling, since Republican voters and politicians are supposedly supportive of small government. 
You’d think that the size of the government would ebb and flow over time, as Democrats increase spending and Republicans roll back government growth when they get into office. 
However, that never happens, and there’s a very simple reason why.

On Sunday, an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showed that 57% of Americans wanted the government to do more to solve problems, which is the most support for government intervention since the poll began in 1995. 
That support was stagnant throughout Obama’s presidency until 2015, when it suddenly shot up.
But that’s not all.
A recent Pew poll found that American support for more government spending on a wide variety of programs has drastically increased compared to several years ago. 
On average, support for bigger government increased 7 percentage points since September, and hasn’t been this high since 2008..."

How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All - Slashdot

How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All - Slashdot:
"Thelasko shares an excerpt from a report via The Atlantic, which describes how price discrimination is used in online shopping and how businesses like Amazon try to extract consumer surplus:
Will you pay more for those shoes before 7 p.m.? 
Would the price tag be different if you lived in the suburbs? 
Standard prices and simple discounts are giving way to far more exotic strategies, designed to extract every last dollar from the consumer.
We live in the age of the variable airfare, the surge-priced ride, the pay-what-you-want Radiohead album, and other novel price developments.
But what was this?
Some weird computer glitch?
More like a deliberate glitch, it seems.
"It's most likely a strategy to get more data and test the right price," Guru Hariharan explained, after I had sketched the pattern on a whiteboard.
The right price -- the one that will extract the most profit from consumers' wallets -- has become the fixation of a large and growing number of quantitative types, many of them economists who have left academia for Silicon Valley.
It's also the preoccupation of Boomerang Commerce, a five-year-old start-up founded by Hariharan, an Amazon alum.
He says these sorts of price experiments have become a routine part of finding that right price -- and refinding it, because the right price can change by the day or even by the hour. (Amazon says its price changes are not attempts to gather data on customers' spending habits, but rather to give shoppers the lowest price out there.)"

This Company Wants to Show You the Cost of Health Care

This Company Wants to Show You the Cost of Health Care
"For a patient looking to see a doctor for any given medical procedure, costs often vary wildly based on the facility or physician.
Take non-surgical repair for a broken ankle.
For a 26-year-old female insured by Cigna who chooses a top-rated orthopedic surgeon in Washington, D.C., such a procedure costs $1,729.
But if she chooses another top-rated orthopedic surgeon in nearby College Park, Maryland, the procedure costs $1,199.
That’s according to a company called Amino, which mines data from billions of health insurance claims from the private and public sectors. 
Amino then gives patients access to information on the cost of various procedures and how much experience doctors nationwide have in those procedures.
And in the age of rising deductibles and out-of-pocket costs for health care, this Silicon Valley-based company is working to put more of such information in the hands of  patients..."
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ALEC: Mostly Democratic-run States Are A Total Disaster, Have The Worst Economies - Matt Vespa

ALEC: Mostly Democratic-run States Are A Total Disaster, Have The Worst Economies - Matt Vespa:

"The American Legislative Exchange Council released their “Rich States, Poor States” report last week and shocker—mostly Democratic-run states are a disaster concerning economic performance and competitiveness. ALEC included the top and bottom ten states in the press release announcing the 10th edition of the report. NTK Network broke down who controls what in the respective state legislatures of these low performing states as well."

Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' - Slashdot

Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' - Slashdot:
"pogopop77 quotes a report from Motherboard:
In September 2014, Mats Jarlstrom, an electronics engineer living in Beaverton, Oregon, sent an email to the state's engineering board. The email claimed that yellow traffic lights don't last long enough, which "puts the public at risk." "I would like to present these facts for your review and comments," he wrote. This email resulted not with a meeting, but with a threat from The Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying [stating]: "ORS 672.020(1) prohibits the practice of engineering in Oregon without registration -- at a minimum, your use of the title 'electronics engineer' and the statement 'I'm an engineer' create violations." In January of this year, Jarlstrom was officially fined $500 by the state for the crime of "practicing engineering without being registered."Since the engineering board in Oregon said Jarlstrom should not be free to publish or present his ideas about the fast-turning yellow traffic lights, due to his "practice of engineering in Oregon without registration," he and the Institute for Justice sued them in federal court for violating his First Amendment rights. 
"I'm not practicing engineering, I'm just using basic mathematics and physics, Newtonian laws of motion, to make calculations and talk about what I found," he said. 
Sam Gedge, an attorney for the Institute for Justice, told Motherboard: 
"Mats has a clear First Amendment right to talk about anything from taxes to traffic lights. It's an instance of a licensing board trying to suppress speech."

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History for April 27

History for April 27 - On-This-Day.com:

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


Wallace Hume 1896 - Chemist, inventor, credited with invention of nylon, Walter Lantz 1900 - Animator, creator of Woody Woodpecker, Coretta Scott King 1927 - Wife of Dr. Martin Luther King



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


1805 - A force led by U.S. Marines captured the city of Derna, on the shores of Tripoli.


1861 - U.S. President Lincoln issued an order to General Winfield Scott that authorized him to suspend the writ of habeas corpus between Philadelphia and Washington at or near any military line.


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


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


1978 - Pro-Soviet Marxists seized control of Afghanistan.

1989 - Student protestors took over Tiananmen Square in Beijing.


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

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2017/04/april-26-2017-freedom-of-speech-by.html

Freedom of Speech

By Tammy Derouin

Americans are calling for violence against Americans because of differences in beliefs. Lack of education and an understanding of our founding principles, our founding documents, are the root cause of our misguided journey.

The Left is attempting to redefine our God-given rights. Anyone who does not agree with the rhetoric being churned and spun is labeled X, Y, or Z. Freedom of speech, expression, the ability to decide what you believe, including religion, are all under attack, but only if you do not share the current Left-wing liberal agenda.

If you fall in line with the Left and the belief that your rights are protected but anyone who disagrees with you doesn't have a right to be heard, you do not believe in freedom of speech. How would you feel if you were being silenced for disagreeing with a political agenda or a theory? When we do not learn from past mistakes, history repeats. When the rule of man replaces the rule of law, your rights are subject to change.......

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