History for August 31

History for August 31 - On-This-Day.com
Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) 0012, Maria Montessori 1870, Arthur Godfrey 1903


William Saroyan 1908, Alan Jay Lerner 1918, Eldridge Cleaver 1935


1881 - The first tennis championships in the U.S. were played.


1920 - The first news program to be broadcast on radio was aired. The station was 8MK in Detroit, MI.


1920 - John Lloyd Wright was issued a patent for "Toy-Cabin Construction," which are known as Lincoln Logs. (U.S. patent 1,351,086)


1940 - Lawrence Olivier and Vivian Leigh were married.


1964 - California officially became the most populated state in America.


1980 - Poland's Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day strike.


1994 - A cease-fire was declared by the Irish Republican Army after 25 years of bloodshed in Northern Ireland.


1998 - A ballistic missile was fired over Japan by North Korea. The missile landed in stages in the waters around Japan. There was no known target.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2017/08/august30-2017-u-turn-bytammy-derouin.html

U-Turn

By Tammy Derouin

It’s easy to understand why our country is in the predicament it is in when the cold hard truth is right in front of us. When people stop learning history or refuse to acknowledge the truth and stop seeking the truth, everyone suffers. Sadly, because of this lack of attention, our country is going down a dead end road, with very few U-turn options remaining.

Dependency is hurting our nation. Self-reliance is no longer valued. Dependency is vital to those who wish to have ultimate control. If someone or some entity wishes to have that kind of power over you, they must convince you that they are indispensable. Government dependency programs are created or increased to provide for you, in other words, control you. The rhetoric is then unleashed that you were never completely responsible for your success in the first place. Once you become dependent, you lose your freedom.

The American Revolution was a turning point in history. This turning point would not have happened had it not been for the courage of the explorers, pilgrims and the colonist who dared to dream. The United States not only emerged as a new nation, free from the bonds of Mother England, it emerged as a land of freedom. When creating our form of government the founders could have placed themselves in high positions of power, but they didn't.......

The way we were-----Doris Day - Que Sera Sera

Boob-tube-----The Stupidest Bid on The Price is Right

CNN Calls 'Ordinary People ... White Supremacists by Default'

CNN Calls 'Ordinary People ... White Supremacists by Default':
"On Thursday, CNN's John Blake published a story blaming "ordinary people" for making Charlottesville possible, and quoting a history professor who called such people "white supremacists by default."
"We are a country with a few million passionate white supremacists — and tens of millions of white supremacists by default," Mark Naison, a political activist and history professor at Fordham University in New York City, told CNN.
"You have to have millions of people who are willing to be bystanders, who push aside evidence of racism, Islamophobia, or sexism. 
You can't have one without the other."
Blake, the CNN reporter, paraphrased activists like Naison saying "the tragedy that took place in Charlottesville this month could not have occurred without the tacit acceptance of millions of ordinary, law-abiding Americans who helped create such a radically explosive climate."
He argued that "it's the ordinary people — the voters who elected a reality TV star with a record of making racially insensitive comments, the people who move out of the neighborhood when people of color move in, the family members who ignore a relative's anti-Semitism — who give these type of men room to operate, they say."
Throughout the article, Blake remained careful to acknowledge that these were the words of activists like Naison, rather than himself.
But at the end, he slipped up. "If you want to know why those white racists now feel so emboldened, it may help to look at all the ordinary people around you, your neighbors, your family members, your leaders. But first, start by looking at yourself."..."
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8 Of The Worst Passport Photos Ever - ODDEE

8 Of The Worst Passport Photos Ever - ODDEE
Mancunian Stuart Boyd was excited to receive his passport and updated photo, but when he opened it he got an unwelcome surprise! 
He eventually contacted the Passport Office, who told him they obviously did not intend to make him look like Hitler, and would be replacing his passport free of charge. (Source)
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Will Justice Come For IRS Lawbreakers At Last? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

Will Justice Come For IRS Lawbreakers At Last? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:

"This is one of the most serious abuses of power by a federal agency in decades. That no one really lost a job and no one has been prosecuted for abusing the powers of the federal government to harass groups for their political beliefs — the kind of thing routinely done in places such as Russia and Venezuela, not in the U.S. — is nothing less than shocking.

For those who need a reminder and without getting too deep in the weeds, the scandal involves IRS bureaucrats denying tax-exempt status to groups apparently solely due to their conservative political beliefs. This is clearly highly illegal."

Cleaning Hats in Detroit Still Requires a License [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Cleaning Hats in Detroit Still Requires a License [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"The high-end hat business isn’t what it once was in Detroit.
At his second inauguration in 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower wore a hat from Henry the Hatter, which left Detroit earlier this month after its landlord kicked the business out of its downtown Detroit location of 65 years.
Even though hat-wearing is no longer a popular fashion, the city still has an ordinance mandating businesses that wash hats get a license. 
The ordinance was written for a time when people would drop their expensive hats off at businesses that only cleaned hats, according to Kevin Jones, the manager of the city’s Business License Division.
Those businesses no longer exist in Detroit..."

Melania Trump’s Hurricane Stilettos, and the White House’s Continual Failure to Understand Optics - Vogue

Melania Trump’s Hurricane Stilettos, and the White House’s Continual Failure to Understand Optics - Vogue:
"Oh, Melania.
In the words of the late, great Lou Reed, you “couldn’t hit it sideways.”
First the now–First Lady (perhaps unwittingly) plagiarizes Michelle Obama in her convention speech, then she takes as her platform a crusade against bullying—when she is married to unquestionably the greatest cyber bully in political history—and now this!
This morning, Mrs. Trump boarded Air Force One wearing a pair of towering pointy-toed snakeskin heels better suited to a shopping afternoon on Madison Avenue or a girls’ luncheon at La Grenouille."

Lunch video-----Aftermaths Of Ejecting At Supersonic Speed

Noon-toon

FBI says lack of public interest in Hillary Clinton emails justifies withholding documents - Washington Times

FBI says lack of public interest in Hillary Clinton emails justifies withholding documents - Washington Times:


"“I’m just stunned. This is exactly what I would have expected had Mrs. Clinton won the election, but she didn’t. It looks like the Obama administration is still running the FBI,” Mr. Clevenger told The Washington Times.
“How can a story receive national news coverage and not be a matter of public interest? If this is the new standard, then there’s no such thing as a public interest exception,” he said."

California first-grader sent to principal's office for misgendering classmate - Washington Times

California first-grader sent to principal's office for misgendering classmate - Washington Times
"...Now first-graders at Rocklin Academy Gateway risk a trip to the principal’s office if they refer to their transgender classmate by the wrong name or gender pronoun, said Karen England, executive director of the Capitol Resource Institute, a pro-family group based in Sacramento.
“There was a little girl who had been in class with the little boy all last year,” Ms. England said. “They’re in different classes now, but she saw him on the playground yesterday and called him by his name.
The little girl was told ‘you can’t do that, his name is this name,’ and ‘you need to call him a “her.”’
Then she was called to the principal’s office.”
...The controversy at Rocklin is just the latest example of the transgender movement’s increasing emphasis on spreading its ideology through early education.

United Nations Urges U.S. to Give Up Free Expression to Combat Racism | LifeZette

United Nations Urges U.S. to Give Up Free Expression to Combat Racism | LifeZette
"The U.N. issued an “early warning” Wednesday for the United States, urging that the government take immediate action to confront white supremacy following the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
But the warning and call for the U.S. government to act contained a little-noticed last paragraph, urging the U.S. to make sure that the “rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly” are not exercised to deny rights or freedom to others and pressing the U.S. government to “ensure that such rights are not misused to promote racist hate speech and racist crimes.”..."
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#1 This day 1944-----Bing Crosby - Swinging on a star

Important!-----The Coming Age of Magic | Belmont Club

The Coming Age of Magic | Belmont Club
"...Technology has allowed the burden of intelligence to be shifted away from the user to the machine.
...As Arthur C. Clarke famously observed, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".
In our high technology present an increasing percentage of the global population must relate to their world in terms of magic.
The classic characteristic of magic is wish fulfillment.
Sigmund Freud argued that "the motives which impel one to exercise magic are easily recognized; they are the wishes of men ...
Desires replace the laws of physics.
...The politically correct solution...The morning after pill, the eat all you want but never get fat diet, the bottomless credit card, "affordable healthcare" despite accepts all preexisting conditions are applications of this principle.
The preferred solution to today's problems is no longer to intelligently avoid injury but to abolish its consequences.
This idea we should be protected from our own choices may have taken deeper root than commonly realized.
The right of everyone to be stupid AND avoid the consequences has become mainstreamed as the equality of outcomes.  
Liberation from causality is the cornerstone of "compassion", consequently it is the fundamental positive right offered by all paternalistic states.
It is also a perfect definition of magic.
The recent war on statues and the media obsession with formulaic speech recalls the magical principles of similarity and contagion.  
As every believer of magic knows enchanted objects and special words are the key to changing reality.
One destroys white supremacy by toppling statues of Stonewall Jackson, just like a voodoo doll.
To use "hate speech", like an infernal spell, risks resurrecting Nazis from the dead..."
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You ought to know!

Trump Gets Key Win From 8th Circuit

Trump Gets Key Win From 8th Circuit:

"The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a state has the right to defund Planned Parenthood.

The 2-1 ruling specifically provided that while plaintiff Medicaid recipients who brought the suit are entitled to care, they cannot dictate that care includes Planned Parenthood facilities.

“The plaintiffs are asserting a right — the absolute right to a particular provider of their choosing — that (the law) does not grant them,” Judge Steven Colloton wrote in the majority opinion."

Must read of the day!-----FBI says lack of public interest in Hillary Clinton emails justifies withholding documents - Washington Times

FBI says lack of public interest in Hillary Clinton emails justifies withholding documents - Washington Times:
"Hillary Clinton’s case isn’t interesting enough to the public to justify releasing the FBI’s files on her, the bureau said this week in rejecting an open-records request by a lawyer seeking to have the former secretary of state punished for perjury.
...“You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public’s interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject,” FBI records management section chief David M. Hardy told Mr. Clevenger in a letter Monday.
“It is incumbent upon the requester to provide documentation regarding the public’s interest in the operations and activities of the government before records can be processed pursuant to the FOIA,” Mr. Hardy wrote.
...Her use of a secret email account to conduct government business while leading the State Department was front-page news for much of 2015 and 2016, and was so striking that the then-FBI director broke with procedure and made both a public statement and appearances before Congress to talk about the bureau’s probe.
The FBI says it will only release records from its files if a subject consents, is dead, or is of such public interest that it overrides privacy concerns..."
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