History for June 21

History for June 21 - On-This-Day.com:
Martha Washington 1731, Al Hirshfield 1903, Jean-Paul Sartre 1905


Jane Russell 1921, O.C. Smith 1932, Francoise Sagan 1935


1788 - The U.S. Constitution went into effect when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.


1834 - Cyrus McCormick patented the first practical mechanical reaper for farming. His invention allowed farmers to more than double their crop size.


1859 - Andrew Lanergan received the first rocket patent.


1893 - The Ferris Wheel was introduced at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, IL.


1940 - Richard M. Nixon and Thelma Catherine ‘Pat’ Ryan were married.


1963 - France announced that they were withdrawing from the North Atlantic NATO fleet.


1985 - Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.


1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment.

Judicial Watch: Obama NSC Advisor Susan Rice’s Unmasking Material is at Obama Library - Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch: Obama NSC Advisor Susan Rice’s Unmasking Material is at Obama Library - Judicial Watch:

"Judicial Watch today announced that the National Security Council (NSC) on May 23, 2017, informed it by letter that the materials regarding the unmasking by Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice of “the identities of any U.S. citizens associated with the Trump presidential campaign or transition team” have been removed to the Obama Library.

The NSC will not fulfill an April 4 Judicial Watch request for records regarding information relating to people “who were identified pursuant to intelligence collection activities.”

The agency also informed Judicial Watch that it would not turn over communications with any Intelligence Community member or agency concerning the alleged Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election; the hacking of DNC computers; or the suspected communications between Russia and Trump campaign/transition officials. Specifically, the NSC told Judicial Watch:"

The way we were-----"LAZY DAY" ~ SPANKY and OUR GANG" 1967

Millions Died Thanks to the Mother of Environmentalism - Foundation for Economic Education - Working for a free and prosperous world

Millions Died Thanks to the Mother of Environmentalism - Foundation for Economic Education - Working for a free and prosperous world:
"On Jan. 24, 2017, PBS aired a two-hour special on Rachel Carson, the mother of the environmental movement. 

...In the early 1960s, she was the first to warn that a pesticide called DDT could accumulate in the environment, the first to show that it could harm fish, birds, and other wildlife, the first to warn that its overuse would render it ineffective, and the first to predict that more natural means of pest control – like bacteria that killed mosquito larvae – should be used instead.
Unfortunately, the PBS documentary neglected to mention that in her groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, Carson had made one critical mistake – and it cost millions of people their lives.
...By 1960, due largely to DDT, malaria had been eliminated from eleven countries, including the United States. 
As malaria rates went down, life expectancies went up; as did crop production, land values, and relative wealth.
...Probably no country benefited from DDT more than Nepal, where spraying began in 1960. 
At the time, more than two million Nepalese, mostly children, suffered from malaria. 
By 1968, the number was reduced to 2,500; and life expectancy increased from 28 to 42 years.
After DDT was banned, malaria reemerged across the globe:

• In India, between 1952 and 1962, DDT caused a decrease in annual malaria cases from 100 million to 60,000. By the late 1970s, no longer able to use DDT, the number of cases increased to 6 million.
• In Sri Lanka, before the use of DDT, 2.8 million people suffered from malaria. When the spraying stopped, only 17 people suffered from the disease. Then, no longer able to use DDT, Sri Lanka suffered a massive malaria epidemic: 1.5 million people were infected by the parasite.
• In South Africa, after DDT became unavailable, the number of malaria cases increased from 8,500 to 42,000 and malaria deaths from 22 to 320.

Since the mid 1970s, when DDT was eliminated from global eradication efforts, tens of millions of people have died from malaria unnecessarily: most have been children less than five years old. 
While it was reasonable to have banned DDT for agricultural use, it was unreasonable to have eliminated it from public health use..."

Glenn Harlan Reynolds---Either Robert Mueller should resign, or we need two special counsels.

Either Robert Mueller should resign, or we need two special counsels
"The only way to avoid a tainted investigation or a political explosion is another counsel to investigate possible obstruction of justice.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a problem: He has a disqualifying conflict of interest regarding a large part of his work. 
It involves a choice between investigating or relying on former FBI director James Comey, a longtime close friend of Mueller’s.
Ideally, he’ll recognize that and resign.
But if he doesn’t resign, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should appoint another special counsel to take over the obstruction-of-justice part of the investigation, where Mueller is disqualified.
At present, there are two investigations:

• One into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians (a claim that even Democrat Chris Matthews admitted fell apart after Comey’s recent testimony) 
• and an investigation into whether, while being investigated for this claimed collusion, President Trump or someone else obstructed justice.

 That investigation is closely tied to Comey, and so is Mueller..."
Read on!!

Hillary Clinton Told FBI's Mueller To Deliver Uranium To Russians In 2009 "Secret Plane-Side Tarmac Meeting" | Zero Hedge

Hillary Clinton Told FBI's Mueller To Deliver Uranium To Russians In 2009 "Secret Plane-Side Tarmac Meeting" | Zero Hedge:

"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton facilitated the transfer a highly enriched uranium (HEU) previously confiscated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) during a 2006 “nuclear smuggling sting operation involving one Russian national and several Georgian accomplices,”"

Kansas' Tax Cut Experiment Was A Predictable Failure - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Kansas' Tax Cut Experiment Was A Predictable Failure - Hit & Run : Reason.com
"People like lower taxes, just not lower spending. Kansas is a lesson that you can’t have the former without the latter.
...Headlines like "How the grand conservative experiment failed in Kansas" and "Trickle-down economics is a nightmare. Kansas proved it" have been dominating the news out of Kansas this month.
On June 6, the Kansas legislature voted to roll back years of tax cuts championed by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback.
Many in the media could not resist gloating about a supply-side policy failure in the home state of the Koch brothers.
Comparisons between Brownback's policies and Trump's tax plan quickly followed suit, with warnings about how the whole nation could soon suffer from a supply-side induced fiscal crisis.
The state certainly finds itself in a fiscal crisis, but chalking up its woes solely to the governor's tax-cutting is a gross oversimplification.
As with many economic policy issues, the reality is a lot more complex than the headlines let on.
...What went wrong? 
First, the legislature failed to eliminate politically popular exemptions and deductions, making the initial revenue drop more severe than the governor planned.
The legislature and the governor could have reduced government spending to offset the decrease in revenue, but they also failed on that front. 
Government spending per capita remained relatively stable in the years following the recession to the present, despite the constant fiscal crises.
In fact, state expenditure reports from the National Association of State Budget Officers show that total state expenditures in Kansas increased every year except 2013, where expenditures decreased a modest 3 percent from 2012.
It should then not come as a surprise that the state faced large budget gaps year after year..."
Longish and worthy read.
Read it all!

FALSE BLACK POWER: The gripping name of a new book. The NY Post publishes an excerpt. The Voting…

Instapundit » Blog Archive » FALSE BLACK POWER: The gripping name of a new book. The NY Post publishes an excerpt. The Voting…:

FALSE BLACK POWER: The gripping name of a new book. The NY Post publishes an excerpt.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was followed by large increases in black elected officials. In the Deep South, black officeholders grew from 100 in 1964 to 4,300 in 1978.

By the early 1980s, major US cities with large black populations, such as Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Washington and Philadelphia, had elected black mayors.

Between 1970 and 2010, the number of black elected officials nationwide increased from fewer than 1,500 to more than 10,000.

Yet the socioeconomic progress that was supposed to follow in the wake of these political gains never materialized.

During an era of growing black political influence, blacks as a group progressed at a slower rate than whites, and the black poor actually lost ground.

Read the whole thing."

Lunch video-----Violent Liberal Rhetoric and Threats to President Trump (Compilation)

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Badass Mayor Says We’re Officially At War And Issues Unbelievable Ban – Doesn’t Care Who It Offends

Badass Mayor Says We’re Officially At War And Issues Unbelievable Ban – Doesn’t Care Who It Offends:

"Virginia Elena Raggi is an Italian lawyer and politician, the current Mayor of Rome, first elected in 2016 – and has boldly claimed they are officially at war with Islam and issued a ban. She does not care who it offends and the rest of the world should be paying attention: The Rome mayor has called for a ban on any more migrants living in the city over fears of ‘social tensions’

Thanks to the reckless antics of globalist leaders across the world, terror groups like ISIS are quickly gaining momentum towards their goal of establishing a global Islamic Caliphate. We’ve seen the horrifying results of these barbarians infiltrating countries across Europe posed as refugees, as terror attacks are now becoming a daily occurrence in places like the U.K. and Germany, as they’re now setting their sights on other westernized countries."

20 Things I Learned While I Was in North Korea - Wait But Why

20 Things I Learned While I Was in North Korea
"...2) Everyone lies about everything all the time.
The government lies to the outside world. 
The government lies to the people. 
The press lies to the people. 
The people lie to each other. 
The tour guides lie to tourists. 
It’s intense..."
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'Meritocracy' is a microaggression, university guidebook claims

'Meritocracy' is a microaggression, university guidebook claims:
"Rowan University has published a guide on “Interrupting Microaggressions” with strategies for "calling out" those who advocate concepts like "color blindness" and "meritocracy."
The guide—which is available on the website for the Rowan University Bias Assessment & Response Team (BART) along with several other resources billed as “tips to stop bias”—lists various examples of “microaggressions,” then provides suggestions for “Third Party Intervention” approaches, followed by more-detailed explanations under the heading of “Communication Approach.”
"As a [professor], you have an obligation to take an active role in fostering an appreciation for diversity."  
Under the heading “Myth of Meritocracy,” for instance, the document asserts that saying “Everyone can succeed in this country, if they work hard enough” constitutes a microaggression, advising students and faculty members to respond to such statements by challenging the speaker to provide examples.
The guide also lists several examples of microaggressions based on “Color Blindness,” listing statements such as “I don’t believe in race” and “When I look at you, I don’t see color” as offensive comments..."

Hillary Clinton Told FBI's Mueller To Deliver Uranium To Russians In 2009 "Secret Plane-Side Tarmac Meeting" | Zero Hedge

Hillary Clinton Told FBI's Mueller To Deliver Uranium To Russians In 2009 "Secret Plane-Side Tarmac Meeting" | Zero Hedge:
"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton facilitated the transfer a highly enriched uranium (HEU) previously confiscated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) during a 2006 “nuclear smuggling sting operation involving one Russian national and several Georgian accomplices,” a newly leaked classified cable shows.

So-called “background” information was provided in the cable which gave vague details on a 2006 nuclear smuggling sting operation in which the U.S. government took possession of some HEU previously owned by the Russians.

"Over two years ago Russia requested a ten-gram sample of highly enriched uranium (HEU) seized in early 2006 in Georgia during a nuclear smuggling sting operation involving one Russian national and several Georgian accomplices.  The seized HEU was transferred to U.S. custody and is being held at a secure DOE facility."

The secret “action request,” dated Aug. 17, 2009, was sent out by Secretary of State Clinton and was addressed to the United States Ambassador to Georgia Embassy Tbilisi, the Russian Embassy, and Ambassador John Beyrle.

It proposed that FBI Director Robert Mueller be the one that personally conduct the transfer a 10-gram sample of HEU to Russian law enforcement sources during a secret “plane-side” meeting on a “tarmac” in the early fall of 2009.

"We require that the transfer of this material be conducted at the airport, on the tarmac near by the plane, upon arrival of the Director's aircraft."

...But possibly even more shocking is the fact that the State Department wanted the transfer of the HEU to take place on an “airport tarmac” which is rather reminiscent of the infamous Loretta Lynch/Bill Clinton meeting which occurred on a Phoenix, Arizona, tarmac back in June of 2016.

Past dealings with the Russians were also mentioned in the cable, signifying that previous deals have taken place."

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Geert Wilders: Let's Stop the Cowardice, And Tell The Truth About Islam

Geert Wilders: Let's Stop the Cowardice, And Tell The Truth About Islam:

"The documentary is made by American film director Stephen Robert Morse. Although he does not agree with my political views, he at least tried to bring a balanced story, which is more than I can say of many Dutch journalists.

I allowed Morse and his team to follow me around for a few months. The documentary shows how, due to Islamic death threats, I have to live under 24/7 police protection, am being driven around in armoured cars, am obliged to wear a bulletproof vest whenever I have to speak in public, etc."

Government-Air!-----The world's biggest commercial plane just got more impressive - CNET

The world's biggest commercial plane just got more impressive - CNET:
"...Airbus promises to boost the plane's capacity "with no compromise on comfort," but with up to nine seats across in premium economy and 11 across in economy, it does sound pretty cramped.
Orders have been slow for the giant aircraft, the world's largest commercial plane, as airlines have opted instead to purchase smaller twin-engine jets, which are cheaper to fly and maintain, and are often preferred by passengers.
Airbus announced towards the end of last year that it would build just 12 A380s in 2017, down from 27 in 2016."

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