History for December 29

History for December 29 - On-This-Day.com
Charles Goodyear 1800, Andrew Johnson 1808, William Gladstone 1809


Pablo Casals 1876, Mary Tyler Moore 1936 - Actress, Jon Voight 1938 - Actor


1170 - St. Thomas à Becket, the 40th archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered in his own cathedral by four knights acting on Henry II's orders.


1812 - The USS Constitution won a battle with the British ship HMS Java about 30 miles off the coast of Brazil. Before Commodore William Bainbridge ordered the sinking of the Java he had her wheel removed to replace the one the Constitution had lost during the battle.


1813 - The British burned Buffalo, NY, during the War of 1812.


1848 - U.S. President James Polk turned on the first gas light at the White House.


1851 - The first American Young Men's Christian Association was organized, in Boston, MA.


1911 - Sun Yat-sen became the first president of a republican China.


1949 - KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut became the first ultrahigh frequency (UHF) television station to begin operating on a regular daily schedule.


1952 - The first transistorized hearing aid was offered for sale by Sonotone Corporation.

MORE BIAS: Prosecutor Assisting Mueller Openly Brags About 'Legal Resistance' To Trump | Daily Wire

MORE BIAS: Prosecutor Assisting Mueller Openly Brags About 'Legal Resistance' To Trump | Daily Wire:

"Openly anti-Trump New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman bragged in a Medium post on Tuesday about his "legal resistance" to Trump. He just so happens to reportedly be assisting special counsel Robert Mueller with the probe into Russian interference during the 2016 election, aka alleged Trump/Kremlin collusion."

The way we were-----California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas

Boob-tube-----Ding Dong School with Miss Frances (1953) - Classic Episode

Everything you know about toxic shock syndrome is probably wrong | Popular Science

Everything you know about toxic shock syndrome is probably wrong | Popular Science
"For a while there in the ‘90s it felt like every teen-girl magazine was required to publish at least one (terrifying) it-happened-to-me toxic shock syndrome story per year. 
“I left a tampon in for eight hours and almost died.” 
“My friend looked at a tampon once and died from TSS.” 
Maybe these tales were leftovers from the TSS epidemic in the late 1970s, or maybe editors tracked down new cases from actual teens. 
I can only assume that the intent was to make young girls aware of the dangers of toxic shock syndrome. 
Mission accomplished.
Now, TSS is back in the news because a model—who lost her leg to the disease in 2012—is on an awareness campaign to teach young girls about the dangers of tampons. 
...Every woman I know heard these tales as a kid and had one takeaway: we were all definitely going to get TSS if we left a tampon in for even a minute longer than the prescribed eight hours. 
In 9th grade I accidentally left one in for 12 hours and genuinely thought I’d narrowly escaped death. 
But it turns out almost everything that I and other girls my age believed about TSS is flat-out wrong. 
Let’s clear up a few misconceptions, starting with the basics..."
Read on!

Nearly 450,000 people fled these three deep blue states in 2017

Nearly 450,000 people fled these three deep blue states in 2017:
"Three Democratic-leaning states hemorrhaged hundreds of thousands of people in 2016 and 2017 as crime, high taxes and, in some cases, crummy weather had residents seeking greener pastures elsewhere.
The exodus of residents was most pronounced in New York, which saw about 190,000 people leave the state between July 1, 2016 and July 1, 2017, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released last week.
...Just under 115,000 Illinois residents decamped for other states between July 2016 and July 2017..."
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Nolte: Media and Hollywood's 9 Most Hideous Feminist Sex Abuse-Enablers of 2017

Nolte: Media and Hollywood's 9 Most Hideous Feminist Sex Abuse-Enablers of 2017:

"Just as they did during Bill Clinton’s presidency, in 2017, America’s leading leftwing feminists once again proved that nothing has changed in the era of #MeToo — that, if it means furthering The Cause or protecting their friends, they are in reality nothing less than partisan villains eager to enable credibly accused sex abusers."

Five things professors actually said in 2017

Five things professors actually said in 2017:
"...Every year, however, Campus Reform comes across professors who unashamedly make outrageous, preposterous, and downright absurd remarks in their classrooms and on social media, denigrating conservatives and their viewpoints.

...Here are five things that professors actually said in 2017:

1) Prof suggests Texans deserve hurricane for supporting Trump

A University of Tampa professor was so upset about the outcome of the 2016 presidential election that he publicly suggested that Texans deserved Hurricane Harvey because the state voted Republican last year.

“I don’t believe in instant Karma but this kinda feels like it for Texas,” Professor Ken Storey tweeted in August. “Hopefully this will help them realize the GOP doesn’t care about them.”

Shortly after the controversial remarks, the university announced that it had fired the professor.

2) Prof says House GOP ‘should be lined up and shot’

An Art Institute of Washington professor was so furious about the House GOP’s effort to repeal and replace Obamacare that he said GOP lawmakers “should be lined up and shot” for their actions.

“They should be lined up and shot,” Professor John Griffin wrote on his Facebook page. “That’s not hyperbole; blood is on their hands.”

3) Prof calls whites 'inhuman assholes,' says 'let them die'...
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Swarthmore College offers a course in 'queering God' | Fox News

Swarthmore College offers a course in 'queering God' | Fox News: 
"One of the nation’s most prestigious liberal arts colleges is advancing a “queer theology” agenda with hopes of destabilizing traditional beliefs about what the Bible says about gender and sexuality.
Swarthmore College, founded by Quakers, is offering courses in “queering the Bible” and “queering God.” 
...“Queering the Bible” is a one-credit class that surveys “queer and trans readings of biblical texts.”
“By reading the Bible with the methods of queer and trans theoretical approaches, this class destabilizes long held assumptions about what the Bible – and religion – says about gender and sexuality,” the course description reads.
The school’s religion department is also teaching a class that questions the sexuality of the Almighty called, “Queering God: Feminist and Queer Theology.”...
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Lunch video-----First Look At Trump's USA and Mexico Border Wall - Official

Noon-toon

Fusion GPS, Trump dossier producer, sued for defamation by 3 Russian oligarchs - Washington Times

Fusion GPS, Trump dossier producer, sued for defamation by 3 Russian oligarchs - Washington Times:

"The three primary investors in Moscow’s Alfa Bank — Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan — filed a libel lawsuit against Fusion in October. Fusion’s dossier, written by former British spy Christopher Steele, says two of them engineered cash bribes to Mr. Putin. The dossier also implies that the bank colluded with Mr. Putin to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election by hacking Democratic Party computers.

The lawsuit describes the three billionaires as international businessmen who became “collateral damage” in Fusion’s war to destroy the Donald Trump campaign."

Money laundering: Former ministers of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez hid €2 billion in Andorra | In English | EL PAÍS

Money laundering: Former ministers of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez hid €2 billion in Andorra | In English | EL PAÍS:
"Leading political figures, businessmen and front men took commissions of up to 15% for awarding state petroleum firm contracts

At least ten people including former vice-ministers, businessmen, their relatives and front men acting for politicians are suspected of earning more than €2 billion in illegal commissions for facilitating contracts with Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA during the rule of deceased Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez (1993–2013), according to reports compiled by police in Andorra...

...Closing in on Chávez’s strongman
Venezuelan prosecutors said on Tuesday that Ramírez, Chávez’s strong man, was being investigated for alleged petroleum dealings with his cousin..."
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The States' Unfunded Pension Nightmares | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

The States' Unfunded Pension Nightmares | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD
"Pensions: The stock market boom has helped everyone, right? 
Nope. 
States' pension funds have nearly $4 trillion of stock investments, but somehow haven't benefited from soaring stock prices.
A new report by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) shows why this is true.
It notes that the unfunded liabilities of state and local pension plans jumped $433 billion in the last year to more than $6 trillion.
Let that number sink in for a moment: It's one-third the size of the U.S. economy, equal to "a whopping $18,676 for every man, woman, and child, or nearly $50,000 for every household in America," as The Daily Signal notes.
It's a massive amount of money, in short.
All because state officials and politicians never had the gumption to tell public-employee unions "no" when they asked for even more..."

#1 This day 1965-----Simon And Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence (with lyrics)

How they "think"-----How to crush Trump

How to crush Trump:
"...Republican hacks are already whipping themselves into a froth by smearing Mueller (who was appointed head of the FBI by George W. Bush) as some kind of deranged communist, and using that as a convenient excuse to carry out a partisan purge of the FBI.
Republican congressional leaders, glorying in their latest transfer of wealth to the ultra-wealthy, will either look the other way — perhaps their upcoming plan to gut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid — or join in the fun.
...The only reliable way to stop Trump and the Republican Party that has stood firmly behind him for his entire presidency is through strategic political defeat.
In 2018, the GOP must be crushed at the ballot box, their congressional majorities taken, and Congress' investigative powers put back to good use — and not just on Russia, but also on the unprecedented money corruption that suffuses the Trump White House.
Never before in American history has it been possible to give a direct cash bribe to the president by simply joining or staying at one of his many golf resorts or hotels.
This will mean, of course, overcoming Republican cheating.
The GOP has rigged the House to give themselves a roughly 5- to 8-point handicap, and attempted to systematically disenfranchise liberals with voter ID requirements and other deliberately burdensome measures..."

You ought to know!

Ben Shapiro: Time to Defund the United Nations — The Patriot Post

Ben Shapiro: Time to Defund the United Nations — The Patriot Post:
"Herein lies the great irony of the United Nations: While it’s the Mos Eisley of international politics – a hive of scum and villainy – and it votes repeatedly to condemn the United States and Israel, the tyrannies that constitute the body continue to oppress their own peoples. 
Among those who voted last week to condemn the U.S. for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving its embassy to Jerusalem were North Korea, Iran, Yemen and Venezuela.
...The United Nations spends the vast majority of its time condemning Israel: According to UN Watch, the U.N. Human Rights Council issued 135 resolutions from June 2006 to June 2016, 68 of which were against Israel;
the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization only passes resolutions against Israel; and the U.N. General Assembly issued 97 resolutions from 2012 through 2015, 83 of which targeted Israel.
Meanwhile, the U.N. has done nearly nothing with regard to Syria..."
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ONE-THIRD Of U.S. Homicide Spike Coming From 5 Chicago Neighborhoods | Daily Wire

ONE-THIRD Of U.S. Homicide Spike Coming From 5 Chicago Neighborhoods | Daily Wire:

"Interestingly, the paper’s neighborhood-by-neighborhood analysis claimed that areas where homicides spiked had a “lighter street presence by police following officers’ high-profile killings of young black men.”

A Pew Research Center poll from January 2017 showed that an overwhelming number of police officers say widespread protests following high-profile killings of black suspects have made police less willing to conduct basic police work, such as stopping and questioning suspicious people in high-crime neighborhoods, and using an appropriate level of force to diffuse a situation."

AM Fruitcake

History for December 28

History for December 28 - On-This-Day.com
Woodrow Wilson 1856 - 28th U.S. President, Arthur Stanley Eddington 1882, John Molson 1763 - Beer brewer, founder of Molson Beer 


Sam Levinson 1911 - Humorist, Martin Milner 1927 - Actor (Route 66, Adam 12, Columbo), Denzel Washington 1954 - Actor (Glory, Malcolm X, The Hurricane) 


1732 - "The Pennsylvania Gazette," owned by Benjamin Franklin, ran an ad for the first issue of "Poor Richard’s Almanack."


1832 - John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down over differences with President Jackson.


1836 - Mexico's independence was recognized by Spain.


1877 - John Stevens applied for a patent for his flour-rolling mill, which boosted production by 70%.


1937 - The Irish Free State became the Republic of Ireland when a new constitution established the country as a sovereign state under the name of Eire.


1945 - The U.S. Congress officially recognized the "Pledge of Allegiance."


1956 - After five years on television, the last "Ding Dong School" was aired on NBC-TV.


1973 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago," an expose of the Soviet prison system.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2017/12/due-to-christmas-holiday-norton.html

Due to the Christmas Holiday, the Norton Lakeshore Examiner has given me and the other columnists the week off.  There was an abundance of Letters to Santa so the paper will run more letters from the local children.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Tammy

The way we were-----RUNNING BEAR

Boob-tube-----Science Fiction Theatre The Missing Waveband

Now That Xmas Is Over - Mapping The US States With The Most People In Debt | Zero Hedge

Now That Xmas Is Over - Mapping The US States With The Most People In Debt | Zero Hedge:
"With Americans left with only one option - indentured servitude - to maintain any semblance of normal quality of life - especially at Christmas - we thought it worthwhile considering which US States have the most people in debt.

...Statista's Niall McCarthy points out that nationwide, 33 percent of people have debt that has gone into collections which means they have unpaid bills creditors have either closed or are trying to collect.

You will find more statistics at Statista..."
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Krauthammer: Trump should turn the UN into condos (VIDEO) – AC2 News

Krauthammer: Trump should turn the UN into condos (VIDEO) – AC2 News
"Krauthammer is often wrong. 
Sometimes he’s right. 
He’s right on turning the United Nations into condos. 
I’d prefer that the building not be stamped with the Trump logo however."

Government Fail: Libs Make It Harder For Women To Work | Daily Wire

Government Fail: Libs Make It Harder For Women To Work | Daily Wire:

"If you want to watch my four-month-old daughter, I don’t care if you have an MBA from Wharton or flunked out of community college. All that matters is that you’re responsible, reliable, and have good judgment. Also patience and the ability to handle a pooplosion. College doesn’t teach those things.

The new regulation not only requires preschool teachers to have a degree, but even men and women taking care of kids from zero to three years old. That’s insane, practically and economically."

Happening EVERYWHERE!!-----Loan, Incentive, Or Giveaway? City Politicians Vote $5.5 Million For Developer [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Loan, Incentive, Or Giveaway? City Politicians Vote $5.5 Million For Developer [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"A Detroit suburb has become ensnared in a lawsuit after elected officials agreed to give a group of private developers a city-owned parcel said to be worth $900,000, as well as $5.5 million to build a new office building.
...The city-owned parcel at the center of the project is currently a parking lot with space for 250 cars.
It would be sold to the developers for $1.
The $5.5 million subsidy is unusual for several reasons.
At various times, it’s been called an investment, loan or incentive on the part of the city.
But it actually involves elected Royal Oak commissioners voting to transfer $5.5 million taxpayer dollars into an escrow account for the project’s private developers, with no direct repayment provision..."
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Terror of the skies since 1995

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Terror of the skies since 1995: 
"When United booted a paying customer from first class to make room for a member of Congress, the Internet erupted with good and healthy egalitarian outrage. 
But don’t blame the airline.
The congresswoman in question was Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas. 
And until she lands on the no-fly list, no airline is safe. 
Jackson Lee has been terrorizing the skies since coming to Congress in 1995.
The Democrat has developed a reputation for making life hell for any clerk, stewardess, or pilot unwilling or unable to make her three-and-a-half-hour flight anything less than glamorous. 
She takes advantage of federal travel perks to book multiple flights (only to cancel at the last minute and at no charge). 
She demands an upgrade to premier seats. 
She expects, in her words, “to be treated like a queen.”
Sometimes it gets ugly. 
For instance, when one peasant of a flight attendant failed to serve the food Jackson Lee requested, the congresswoman went wild. 
"Don't you know who I am?" she reportedly shrieked. "I'm Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Where is my seafood meal? I know it was ordered!"...
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Lunch video-----Japan vs North Korea (2017) - Who Would Win - Military Comparison