History for July 16

History for July 16 - On-This-Day.com
Roald Amundsen 1872, Orville Redenbacher 1907, Ginger Rogers 1911


Michael Flatley 1958, Will Ferrell 1967, Barry Sanders 1968


1790 - The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government.


1935 - Oklahoma City became the first city in the U.S. to install parking meters.


1942 - French police officers rounded up 13,000 Jews and held them in the Winter Velodrome. The round-up was part of an agreement between Pierre Laval and the Nazis. Germany had agreed to not deport French Jews if France arrested foreign Jews.


1945 - The United States detonated the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, NM.


1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" was first published.


1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.


1979 - Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq after forcing Hasan al-Bakr to resign.


1981 - After 23 years with the name Datsun, executives of Nissan changed the name of their cars to Nissan.

Democrat Leaders Have Some Bad News For Desperate Dems About Blocking Kavanaugh | Daily Wire

Democrat Leaders Have Some Bad News For Desperate Dems About Blocking Kavanaugh | Daily Wire:

Durbin was more blunt. "Some of the things that have been in blogs and suggested do not even understand the basics of the Senate," the second-ranking Democratic Senator told reporters. "Some of the people who have come up to me at parades and said, 'Shut 'em down, do this, do that,' it reflects a limited understanding of how the Senate operates."

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Why Mueller's Indictment of 12 Russians Is Meaningless Theater

Why Mueller's Indictment of 12 Russians Is Meaningless Theater
"Does anybody seriously think Vladimir Putin will ship a dozen of his intelligence service's top digital spies to America to face trial?
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made a huge splash Friday by announcing that special counsel Robert Mueller has issued an indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence operatives for hacking the computer systems of two top Democratic campaign committees.
What Rosenstein didn’t say in making that announcement suggests the indictment was made public to manipulate voters, rather than as a public information service provided to help American citizens understand what their government is doing.
...Congressional Democrats quickly seized on the indictment to demand that President Donald Trump either cancel his meeting Monday in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin or challenge Putin to agree to extradite the indicted intelligence officers.
And that’s why Rosenstein’s Friday news conference was meaningless, except as attempted manipulation of public perception of the special counsel investigation of allegations aides to Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russian interests.
But the fact that the U.S. has no extradition treaty with Russia only begins to explain why Rosenstein’s news conference was suspect. Demands that Putin extradite 12 employees of his government’s intelligence service beg credulity.
This is the same Putin who granted temporary asylum to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden five years ago after the world learned he was a cyber-traitor on an unprecedented scale .
Just last year, Putin extended Snowden’s asylum to 2020.
If anything, Putin may well be more likely to have his thugs round up a dozen American citizens presently in Russia and jail them on trumped-up espionage charges in retaliation for the Mueller indictment...
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German TV Show Replaced Trump With The Baby Blimp, And It’s Perfect

German TV Show Replaced Trump With The Baby Blimp, And It’s Perfect:
"German TV show “Heute Show” decided to replace the real Donald Trump with Baby Blimp in his recent visit to UK.
The result is simply brilliant..."
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Peter Strzok is absolutely shameless

Peter Strzok is absolutely shameless:

But the basic facts speak for themselves: With his flagrant misconduct, Peter Strzok brought shame to the FBI and the entire Justice Department. He should be ashamed of himself, rather than playing the victim.

New Mexican President To Create Border Force To Stop Illegal Immigrants, Drugs From Central America | Daily Wire

New Mexican President To Create Border Force To Stop Illegal Immigrants, Drugs From Central America | Daily Wire
"Mexican president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will create a border force to stop illegal immigration and stem the tide of drugs and illegal guns pouring into Mexico from Central and South America.
Alfonso Durazo, Lopez Obrador's future chief of public security, said in an interview on Sunday that the law enforcement force will be large and will be part of an overall effort to transform the region out of a perpetual state of violence and poverty.
Bloomberg reports:
..."We’re going to create a border police force that will be highly specialized," Durazo told Bloomberg.
"They need to apply the law."
Bloomberg notes that Durazo's comments were specifically in reference to "stopping undocumented migrants and human traffickers from crossing into Mexico."...
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Trump blames Obama administration after Russia indictments: 'Why didn't they do something about it?' | Fox News

Trump blames Obama administration after Russia indictments: 'Why didn't they do something about it?' | Fox News:

President Trump on Saturday sharply criticized the Obama administration for not doing "something" about the 12 Russian intelligence agents who were indicted for allegedly hacking emails during the 2016 election.
"The stories you heard about the 12 Russians yesterday took place during the Obama Administration, not the Trump Administration," Trump wrote on Twitter. "Why didn’t they do something about it, especially when it was reported that President Obama was informed by the FBI in September, before the Election?'

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Dianne Feinstein Failed To Disclose Stock Before Zuckerberg Testified - Conservative Daily Post

Dianne Feinstein Failed To Disclose Stock Before Zuckerberg Testified - Conservative Daily Post:

When Sen. Dianne Feinstein grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in April, she failed to disclose that her husband had just purchased nearly a quarter of a million dollars worth of Facebook stock. It’s very interesting that the gun-grabbing Democrat “forgot” to “disclose” a major investment her spouse made into the company she was supposed to be questioning at a congressional hearing. Now, it makes sense why she didn’t ask any tough questions.

Germany Just Agreed To Essentially Close Its Borders. How Did We Get Here? - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Germany Just Agreed To Essentially Close Its Borders. How Did We Get Here? - Hit & Run : Reason.com
"German Chancellor Angela Merkel stunned the world in 2015 by announcing that she would allow nearly a million asylum seekers into her country, a humanitarian gesture offering hope to those suffering from the ravages of wars worldwide.
The move transformed her into the poster child for opening up international borders. 
High-profile German politicians, mainstream media outlets, and the public rallied behind the idea. Images of Germans welcoming refugees at train stations matched public opinion polls showing majority support for the new arrivals. 
To those who were feeling a bit nervous, the chancellor reassured them that the country and her government could "handle it."
But by 2018, the public mood had soured significantly. 
A new YouGov poll finds 72 percent of Germans saying their country's immigration policy is negligent, with only 12 percent saying it's about right. 
Last week, the reversal in public sentiment became official when the German chancellor ended a standoff with hardline immigration restrictionists in the government by dealing a mortal blow to the concept of open borders. 
She agreed to speed up deportations, to turn back refugees already registered in another European Union nation, and to let anti-immigration leader Horst Seehofer remain as head of the ministry charged with implementing these policies. 
...The deal is a dramatic repudiation of everything Merkel asked Germans to believe in just three years ago, which leaves many wondering: What on Earth went wrong?...
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NATO’s problem is that Europeans won’t fight | Asia Times

NATO’s problem is that Europeans won’t fight | Asia Times
"...President Trump outraged European opinion by denouncing his allies on the far side of the Atlantic for their failure to meet NATO’s spending target of 2% of GDP.
Other alliance members, he added, should spend 4% of their output on defense, just like America does. 
His dudgeon at the Europeans was more than justified: the Europeans really are deadbeats who don’t pay their fair share of the cost of defending their own countries and leave the burden in the hands of American soldiers and taxpayers.
Trump’s remonstrations will fall on deaf ears. 
Why should Europeans spend money on arms, when they have no intention of using them?
A recent opinion poll found that small minorities in the core European members of NATO were willing to fight for their country under any circumstances.


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24 Hours in Gun-Controlled Chicago: 6 Fatally Shot, 10 Wounded | Breitbart

24 Hours in Gun-Controlled Chicago: 6 Fatally Shot, 10 Wounded | Breitbart: 
"Between Wednesday morning and Thursday morning, six people were shot and killed and another ten were shot and wounded in gun-controlled Chicago.
The violence included a 16-year-old girl shot in the head during a triple shooting late Wednesday.
...In total, six were killed before the 24 hours were over, ten others were wounded.
On May 3, 2018, Breitbart News reported nearly 40 people were shot over a 3-day time frame in gun-controlled Chicago. 
...On June 5, 2018, Breitbart News reported that Chicago had already recorded over 1,000 gunshot victims for the year.

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Dem Senator Worries His Party Is Going Too Far Left | The Daily Caller

Dem Senator Worries His Party Is Going Too Far Left | The Daily Caller:

Democratic Delaware Sen. Chris Coons is worried his party is alienating moderate voters by moving too far to the left.
“If we as a Democratic Party are going to move from a minority at every level that is dedicated to resistance, to a majority that is capable of governing, we have got to move from grievance to optimism,” Coons said in a speech on Thursday

Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions That Nobody Has - Slashdot

Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions That Nobody Has - Slashdot:
"schwit1 shared this article from Energy Central News:
Estimates put the tear-down cost of a single modern wind turbine, which can rise from 250 to 500 feet above the ground, at $200,000...
Which means landowners and counties in Texas could be on the hook for tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars if officials determine non-functional wind turbines need to be removed.
Or if that proves to be too costly, as seems likely, some areas of the state could become post-apocalyptic wastelands steepled with teetering and fallen wind turbines, locked in a rigor mortis of obsolescence.
Companies will of course have the option of upgrading those aging wind turbines with new models, a resurrection of sorts.
Yet the financial wherewithal to do so may depend on the continuation of federal wind subsidies, which is by no means assured.
..."The landfills are going to be filled with blades in a matter of no time...."
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