Friday, August 25, 2017
History for August 25
History for August 25 - On-This-Day.com
Allen Pinkerton 1819, Leonard Bernstein 1918, George C. Wallace 1919
Sean Connery 1930 - Actor, Regis Philbin 1931 - Talk show host, game show host ("Who Wants to be a Milllionaire"), Gene Simmons 1949 - Musician (KISS)
1718 - Hundreds of colonists from France arrived in Louisiana. Some settled in present-day New Orleans.
1840 - Joseph Gibbons received a patent for the seeding machine.
1875 - Captain Matthew Webb swam from Dover, England, to Calais, France making him the first person to swim the English Channel. The feat took about 22 hours.
1940 - Arno Rudolphi and Ann Hayward were married while suspended in parachutes at the World’s Fair in New York City.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill appropriating funds for construction of the Pentagon.
1944 - Paris, France, was liberated by Allied forces ending four years of German occupation.
1950 - U.S. President Truman ordered the seizure of U.S. railroads to avert a strike.
1972 - In Great Britain, computerized axial tomography (CAT scan) was introduced.
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Thomas Jefferson, 'emblem of white supremacy,' targeted in UVA students' list of demands - Washington Times
"University of Virginia students have issued a list of demands regarding a statue of Thomas Jefferson on campus because his visage allegedly serves as “an emblem of white supremacy.”"
Steven Russo - The Over-Sensitive PC Race Zealots Are On A Civil...
(1) Steven Russo - The Over-Sensitive PC Race Zealots Are On A Civil...
"...And speaking of sports, the Civil War and being overly sensitive to all things racism...
USC To Remove Their Mascot, A Horse Named ‘Traveler’
Because It's Name Is Similar To Robert E. Lee’s Horse.
"...And speaking of sports, the Civil War and being overly sensitive to all things racism...
USC To Remove Their Mascot, A Horse Named ‘Traveler’
Because It's Name Is Similar To Robert E. Lee’s Horse.
Really?
This is what's keeping these people up at night?
In California, the raging U.S. cultural battle over Civil War icons has spread to the names of horses.
At the University of Southern California, a student group has declared the equine mascot of the school’s Trojans football team to be a symbol of “white supremacy.”
Why?
Because the horse bears a name similar to that of a steed that belonged to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The USC football horse is called Traveler (one L), while Lee’s horse was known as Traveller (two L’s).
The student group’s leader voiced her disapproval of the home team horse’s name earlier this week, at an on-campus rally to protest last week’s violence in Charlottesville, Va.
“White supremacy hits close to home,” Saphia Jackson, co-director of the USC Black Student Assembly, told fellow students, in pointing out the similarity in the horses’ names, student newspaper the Daily Trojan reported.http://www.foxnews.com/us/
You see, ESPN and the dolts at USC suffer from what we call “Offendophobia” – the illogical, inexplicable fear of offending the easily offended.
But what they fail to grasp is those who suffer from Offendophobia will never stop being offended no matter how often you cave to them.
So get ready, this will only get more absurd..."
This is what's keeping these people up at night?
In California, the raging U.S. cultural battle over Civil War icons has spread to the names of horses.
At the University of Southern California, a student group has declared the equine mascot of the school’s Trojans football team to be a symbol of “white supremacy.”
Why?
Because the horse bears a name similar to that of a steed that belonged to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The USC football horse is called Traveler (one L), while Lee’s horse was known as Traveller (two L’s).
The student group’s leader voiced her disapproval of the home team horse’s name earlier this week, at an on-campus rally to protest last week’s violence in Charlottesville, Va.
“White supremacy hits close to home,” Saphia Jackson, co-director of the USC Black Student Assembly, told fellow students, in pointing out the similarity in the horses’ names, student newspaper the Daily Trojan reported.http://www.foxnews.com/us/
You see, ESPN and the dolts at USC suffer from what we call “Offendophobia” – the illogical, inexplicable fear of offending the easily offended.
But what they fail to grasp is those who suffer from Offendophobia will never stop being offended no matter how often you cave to them.
So get ready, this will only get more absurd..."
WATCH: 'Woke' Millennials Hilariously Say They'd Prefer Venezuela's Food Lines Over America's Income Inequality | Daily Wire
WATCH: 'Woke' Millennials Hilariously Say They'd Prefer Venezuela's Food Lines Over America's Income Inequality | Daily Wire:
"In a new video, Ami Horowitz hits the streets to find out what’s rattling around in the younger generation’s collective mind on the hot button millennial topics of income inequality and socialism — particularly, the socialist utopia Venezuela, which is experiencing economic collapse, prompting crisis-level food shortages and the eruption of violence on the streets.
Horowitz ended up finding what anyone paying any attention to the Democratic presidential primary last year will not be surprised to learn: the generation which adores “Democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders hates income inequality so much that they’d be glad to stand in Venezuelan-style food lines so others could have as little as them."
Horowitz ended up finding what anyone paying any attention to the Democratic presidential primary last year will not be surprised to learn: the generation which adores “Democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders hates income inequality so much that they’d be glad to stand in Venezuelan-style food lines so others could have as little as them."
'All Republicans are racist scum,' professor declares - The College Fix
'All Republicans are racist scum,' professor declares - The College Fix:
"A Clemson University professor took to Facebook recently to voice his contempt for Republicans in a post that called all members of the GOP racists, according to screenshots of his personal page.
“All trump supporters, nay, all Republicans, are racist scum,” Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing Bart Knijnenburg wrote in an Aug. 16 Facebook post, reports Campus Reform, which obtained a screenshot of that sentiment and many others.
"A Clemson University professor took to Facebook recently to voice his contempt for Republicans in a post that called all members of the GOP racists, according to screenshots of his personal page.
“All trump supporters, nay, all Republicans, are racist scum,” Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing Bart Knijnenburg wrote in an Aug. 16 Facebook post, reports Campus Reform, which obtained a screenshot of that sentiment and many others.
The professor also posted on Facebook:
“This society is aggressively structured to make cis white males succeed, at the expense of minorities,” Knijnenburg continued, though he didn’t stop there. In another post, Knijnenburg equates President Donald Trump, Trump voters, the GOP, and Steve Bannon to “Nazis,” the “KKK,” and the “Alt-right,” declaring that they are “all racists.”Additionally, Knijnenburg explicitly endorses violence in one post, stating, “I admire anyone who stands up against white supremacy. Violent or non-violent. This needs to stop, by any means necessary. #PunchNazis” …
The professor has yet to respond to Campus Reform’s request for comment. Click here to read the whole article.
Althouse: "It was incredibly uncomfortable. He was literally breathing down my neck. My skin crawled."
Althouse: "It was incredibly uncomfortable. He was literally breathing down my neck. My skin crawled.":
"It was incredibly uncomfortable. He was literally breathing down my neck. My skin crawled."
Perfect.
"It was incredibly uncomfortable. He was literally breathing down my neck. My skin crawled."
"It was one of those moments where you wish you could hit pause and ask everyone watching, well, what would you do?
Do you stay calm, keep smiling and carry on as if he weren’t repeatedly invading your space?
Or do you turn, look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly, ‘back up you creep, get away from me.
I know you love to intimidate women but you can’t intimidate me, so back up.’"
She needs a pause button.
Is that like a reset button?
There's no such thing.
I mean you can vandalize the hotel hot tub to get a plastic button to call whatever you want — the Make Me President button — but it doesn't work.
More from the leaked excerpts to the memoir we're not all going to buy when it comes out in a few weeks:
"I chose option A. I kept my cool, aided by a lifetime of dealing with difficult men trying to throw me off."
The writer assumes the reader will not immediately think: Bill Clinton!
"I did, however, grip the microphone extra hard," she wrote.
The writer assumes the reader will not think: phallic symbol.
“I wonder, though, whether I should have chosen option B. It certainly would have been better TV. Maybe I have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world.”
If you present an endlessly smiling controlled face to the world and choose to say nothing, people won't know what you think, won't trust you, and — since you're asking to be our President — won't be able to rely on you to speak for us.
If you're that afraid to come up with an apt response to someone who's being intimidating, how do you have what it takes to be President?
You think if you said something, it might be bad, so best to say nothing?
Look how easy it was for George W. Bush to push back Al Gore's overbearing physical encroachment during a debate:Perfect.
That nod.
Everyone laughed.
Nobody thought Bush seemed unpresidentially peevish.
I still laugh every time I play that clip.
And I play it a lot."
Dershowitz: Liberals Are 'Doing What Stalin Did' on Statue Issue - Breitbart
Dershowitz: Liberals Are 'Doing What Stalin Did' on Statue Issue - Breitbart:
"Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz likened the push to take down statues of some historical figures posed “a danger.”
Dershowitz urged to use the statue push as “an educational moment” and likened the efforts underway to what Russian dictator Joseph Stalin had done in his rise to power."
"Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz likened the push to take down statues of some historical figures posed “a danger.”
Dershowitz urged to use the statue push as “an educational moment” and likened the efforts underway to what Russian dictator Joseph Stalin had done in his rise to power."
Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon | New Scientist
Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon | New Scientist
"Reports of satellite navigation problems in the Black Sea suggest that Russia may be testing a new system for spoofing GPS, New Scientist has learned.
This could be the first hint of a new form of electronic warfare available to everyone from rogue nation states to petty criminals.
"Reports of satellite navigation problems in the Black Sea suggest that Russia may be testing a new system for spoofing GPS, New Scientist has learned.
This could be the first hint of a new form of electronic warfare available to everyone from rogue nation states to petty criminals.
On 22 June, the US Maritime Administration filed a seemingly bland incident report.
The master of a ship off the Russian port of Novorossiysk had discovered his GPS put him in the wrong spot – more than 32 kilometres inland, at Gelendzhik Airport.
After checking the navigation equipment was working properly, the captain contacted other nearby ships. Their AIS traces – signals from the automatic identification system used to track vessels – placed them all at the same airport.
At least 20 ships were affected.
While the incident is not yet confirmed, experts think this is the first documented use of GPS misdirection – a spoofing attack that has long been warned of but never been seen in the wild.
Read more: “I’m alarmed at how much infrastructure is open to online attack”
Read more: “I’m alarmed at how much infrastructure is open to online attack”
Until now, the biggest worry for GPS has been it can be jammed by masking the GPS satellite signal with noise.
While this can cause chaos, it is also easy to detect.
GPS receivers sound an alarm when they lose the signal due to jamming.
Spoofing is more insidious: a false signal from a ground station simply confuses a satellite receiver. “Jamming just causes the receiver to die, spoofing causes the receiver to lie,” says consultant David Last, former president of the UK’s Royal Institute of Navigation..."
Read on!
Studies Are Usually Bunk, Study Shows - Help STOP Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)
Studies Are Usually Bunk, Study Shows - Help STOP Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH):
"WSJ Opinion – Studies Are Usually Bunk, Study Shows
If a conclusion sounds wrong to you, you’re probably not a hung-over grad student.
By Andy Kessler
An interesting detail went overlooked in the fury over fired Google engineer James Damore’s “diversity memo.”
At the end of the document he calls for an end to mandatory “Unconscious Bias training.”
Large corporations often force employees into re-education classes, this one a dull, hourlong, 41-slide seminar supported by study after study.
Can these studies be trusted?
Doubtful.
Hands down, the two most dangerous words in the English language today are “studies show.”
At the end of the document he calls for an end to mandatory “Unconscious Bias training.”
Large corporations often force employees into re-education classes, this one a dull, hourlong, 41-slide seminar supported by study after study.
Can these studies be trusted?
Doubtful.
Hands down, the two most dangerous words in the English language today are “studies show.”
The world is inundated with the manipulation of flighty studies to prove some larger point about mankind in the name of behavioral science.
Pop psychologists have churned out mountains of books proving some intuitive point that turns out to be wrong.
It’s “sciencey,” with a whiff of (false) authenticity.
Pop psychologists have churned out mountains of books proving some intuitive point that turns out to be wrong.
It’s “sciencey,” with a whiff of (false) authenticity.
...Many of the studies quoted in newspaper articles and pop-psychology books are one-offs anyway.
In August 2015, the Center for Open Science published a study in which 270 researchers spent four years trying to reproduce 100 leading psychology experiments.
They successfully replicated only 39..."
In August 2015, the Center for Open Science published a study in which 270 researchers spent four years trying to reproduce 100 leading psychology experiments.
They successfully replicated only 39..."
Mr. Kessler writes on technology and markets for the Journal.
Appeared in the August 14, 2017, print edition.
Read it all!
Read it all!
SERIOUSLY!? Reuters’ description of Antifa outside Trump rally sends heads to desks – twitchy.com
SERIOUSLY!? Reuters’ description of Antifa outside Trump rally sends heads to desks – twitchy.com
"Last night in Phoenix, some anti-Trump protesters threw punches at Trump supporters and police used tear gas and launched bean bags (providing a painful experience for one anti-Trump protester) to disperse the crowd.
Here’s how Reuters reported the two sides:
"Last night in Phoenix, some anti-Trump protesters threw punches at Trump supporters and police used tear gas and launched bean bags (providing a painful experience for one anti-Trump protester) to disperse the crowd. Here’s how Reuters reported the two sides:
Pro-Trump supporters face off with peace activists during protests outside a Trump rally in Phoenix. REUTERS/Sandy Huffaker pic.twitter.com/DkPrnmTwR7— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 23, 2017
Wait, what was that?
"peace activists" twitter.com/Reuters/status…
The Terrorists of the Left | The American Spectator
The Terrorists of the Left | The American Spectator:
"The Democrats will protect Antifa and Black Lives Matter until and even after someone directly involved with them kills in their name. We know this. We know it because of the short shrift given to leftist violence in the wake of the James Hodgkinson attack on Steve Scalise and his GOP congressional colleagues, and we know it because of the kid gloves they’ve treated these people with as they’ve destroyed property and injured people in their previous rioting.
So to go after Antifa and Black Lives Matter as terrorist groups, or perhaps better to go after them under some more easily prosecutable legal strategy as their behavior worsens, will be an exercise in purely partisan law enforcement and result in ever more increasing howls from Democrats about the authoritarianism of the Trump administration. We know this; it can’t be avoided."
So to go after Antifa and Black Lives Matter as terrorist groups, or perhaps better to go after them under some more easily prosecutable legal strategy as their behavior worsens, will be an exercise in purely partisan law enforcement and result in ever more increasing howls from Democrats about the authoritarianism of the Trump administration. We know this; it can’t be avoided."
AFTER ESPN’S ROBERT LEE MOMENT AND OTHER INSANITY, IT’S CLEAR: TRUMP HAS WON...
Instapundit » Blog Archive » S.E. CUPP: AFTER ESPN’S ROBERT LEE MOMENT AND OTHER INSANITY, IT’S CLEAR: TRUMP HAS WON THE MONU…:
"AFTER ESPN’S ROBERT LEE MOMENT AND OTHER INSANITY, IT’S CLEAR: TRUMP HAS WON THE MONUMENT DEBATE.
“The decision to remove an Asian-American announcer named Robert Lee from calling University of Virginia’s home opener — ‘simply because of the coincidence of his name,’ as ESPN inexplicably admits — unsurprisingly lit up the Internet with outrage, jokes and memes.
It also rendered inarguably true the assertion made by President Trump himself as well as many others that this debate will descend quickly and embarrassingly down a slippery slope.
I’d argue the pre-emptive removal of an Asian-American sportscaster, who had nothing to do with the Civil War or slavery, from a college football game simply because his name sounds similar doesn’t represent a gradual slope, but a 1000-foot cliff.”
"AFTER ESPN’S ROBERT LEE MOMENT AND OTHER INSANITY, IT’S CLEAR: TRUMP HAS WON THE MONUMENT DEBATE.
“The decision to remove an Asian-American announcer named Robert Lee from calling University of Virginia’s home opener — ‘simply because of the coincidence of his name,’ as ESPN inexplicably admits — unsurprisingly lit up the Internet with outrage, jokes and memes. It also rendered inarguably true the assertion made by President Trump himself as well as many others that this debate will descend quickly and embarrassingly down a slippery slope.
I’d argue the pre-emptive removal of an Asian-American sportscaster, who had nothing to do with the Civil War or slavery, from a college football game simply because his name sounds similar doesn’t represent a gradual slope, but a 1000-foot cliff.”
Political correctness is infantilizing."
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