History for August 4

History for August 4 - On-This-Day.com
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 - Poet, Louis Armstrong 1901 - Musician, singer, Raoul Wallenberg 1912 - Sweedish humanitarian during World War II


John Riggins 1949 - Football player, Barack Hussein Obama 1961 - 44th President of the United States, Jeff Gordon 1971 - Race car driver, Jeff Gordon


1735 - Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that "the truth is not libelous."


1790 - The Revenue Cutter Service was formed. This U.S. naval task force was the beginning of the U.S. Coast Guard.


1821 - "The Saturday Evening Post" was published for the first time as a weekly.


1944 - Nazi police raided a house in Amsterdam and arrested eight people. Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was one of the people arrested. Her diary would be published after her death.


1972 - Arthur Bremer was found guilty of shooting George Wallace, the governor of Alabama. Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison.


1983 - New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield threw a baseball during warm-ups and accidentally killed a seagull. After the game, Toronto police arrested him for "causing unnecessary suffering to an animal."


1987 - The Fairness Doctrine was rescinded by the Federal Communications Commission. The doctrine had required that radio and TV stations present controversial issues in a balanced fashion.


1991 - The Oceanos, a Greek luxury liner, sank off of South Africa's southeast coast. All of the 402 passengers and 179 crewmembers survived.

Millennials ranked as worst tippers, and no wonder -- they're socialists - Washington Times

Millennials ranked as worst tippers, and no wonder -- they're socialists - Washington Times:

Fast-forward to June 2018, and there’s this: “Millennials are most likely to stiff servers. Ten percent of Americans ages 18 to 37 say they routinely leave no tip. Nearly one in three leaves less than a 15 percent tip at restaurants. … Overall, just 21 percent [of all adults surveyed] favored higher food prices and no tipping,” CreditCards.com reported.
How are the two matters connected?

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Boob-tube-----24 SHOWS OF ABC EARLY SPRING TV 1977

Harvard study finds trigger warnings increase anxiety

Harvard study finds trigger warnings increase anxiety

• A study conducted by three researchers at Harvard University finds that people actually experience more anxiety and "emotional vulnerability" when given "trigger warnings" prior to reading disturbing content.
• The authors caution that further research is needed, however, saying they plan to conduct two additional studies to see whether they can replicate their findings.

A recently published study by three Harvard University researchers claims that trigger warnings “increase peoples' perceived emotional vulnerability” and “increase anxiety.”

The study, “Trigger warning: Empirical evidence ahead,” published last week in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, concludes that trigger warnings may not be beneficial.

"Trigger warnings may inadvertently undermine some aspects of emotional resilience."    Tweet This

[RELATED: University scraps ‘trigger warnings’ for pro-life displays]

“Trigger warnings notify people of the distress that written, audiovisual, or other material may evoke, and were initially used to provide for the needs of those with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD),” the study’s abstract explains..."

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This article is 100% BULLSH*T-----How they "think"-----Trump’s rollback could zap California’s electric car industry | McClatchy Washington Bureau

Trump’s rollback could zap California’s electric car industry | McClatchy Washington Bureau
"California helped birth the nation’s electric vehicle industry.
It used its laws and market size to prompt automakers to make and sell electric vehicles.
It encouraged Tesla and other innovators to build manufacturing plants.
Over the years, California spawned an entire industry devoted to EV batteries, charging stations and utility collaborations, with billions of dollars invested.
Now, all of that is at risk. 
On Thursday, the Trump administration proposed freezing Obama-era rules that require automakers to build cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars, including hybrids and electric vehicles. 
The proposal would also challenge California’s authority to set its own greenhouse gas restrictions on cars, including a mandate that automakers sell a certain number of electric cars in California.
If the administration prevails, it could upend numerous California enterprises devoted to clean cars, some of whom are already reeling from market uncertainty..."
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Twitter Bans Republican Senate Candidate Austin Petersen ... for Using Its Own Recommended Content | Breitbart

Twitter Bans Republican Senate Candidate Austin Petersen ... for Using Its Own Recommended Content | Breitbart:

Petersen then responded with an animated picture (better known as a gif) of Joseph Stalin waving with the caption “off to Gulag now.” It’s a gif that Petersen took from Twitter’s own library of shareable gifs. In other words, Twitter banned Petersen for using content that the website itself recommended to him.
In fact, it’s the very first gif Twitter recommends to you if you search for “Stalin” in the website’s gif library:

It’s Time To Stop 7 Day Insurance Policies

It’s Time To Stop 7 Day Insurance Policies
"What is a 7 day insurance policy?
It’s a low-cost car insurance policy that lasts only one week.
After seven days, coverage under the policy ends and, unless a driver takes specific action to renew, the policy will automatically expire.
The 7 day insurance policy is frequently used by drivers to get their vehicle registration, plates and tabs without having to pay the high prices associated with a longer term insurance policy.
Subsequently, many drivers will then allow coverage to lapse and they drive without insurance for the remainder of the year.
What’s wrong with 7 day insurance policies and why should they be stopped?
It’s where the greed of Michigan No Fault car insurance companies merges into the reckless indifference of Michigan lawmakers.
 It enables massive insurance fraud in many Michigan cities like Detroit.
It jeopardizes the public’s welfare.
It allows up to a 1.5 million people to drive without insurance in this state.
The seven-day car insurance policies pedaled to Michigan drivers, especially in Detroit, by outfits like L.A. Insurance, are ultra-short term No Fault insurance policies that are created to help people violate Michigan’s mandatory requirement that owners of motor vehicles have auto No Fault insurance.
...The proliferation of these one-week auto insurance policies has led some cities in Michigan, such as Detroit, to have now more than 50 percent of drivers on the road uninsured.”..."
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STV banned in 40 states but we can't ban it cuz blacks like it?!!-----Straight ticket voting to remain an option, federal judge rules | MLive.com

Straight ticket voting (STV) to remain an option, federal judge rules | MLive.com:
"U.S. District Court Judge Gershwin Drain wrote in a 103-page opinion that the law, passed by a Republican-led Legislature, discriminates against black voters, who vote straight ticket at higher percentages than white voters.
A federal judge ruled that a Michigan law banning straight-ticket voting would place a disproportionate burden on African Americans' right to vote.
...The law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, according to Drain..."
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Imagine if blacks do something "at higher percentages than whites" is the rule for other things.... like exercise their right to NOT vote!
This is nuts!

Lunch video-----Loyce Deen Tribute

"A real hero that gave the supreme sacrifice for this great Country

And he had his whole life ahead of him but gave it up to defend

his loved ones and fellow countrymen.

This is a VERY touching video, actually a piece of film that has
been

made into a video, this is one that is NOT photo shopped, it's the

real scene!

Notice in the opening shot you'll see the gunner's position is all

shot to hell while the pilot's cockpit ahead of it is undamaged.

Later on notice the corpsman taking a fingerprint of the deceased

gunner, before the film continues, then showing the chaplain
saying the final prayers, followed by taps, then the sailors push the

aircraft and our patriotic airman over the side and watch it sink
into the distance sea. 
 Here's one for a serious conversation with

your kids.  

THIS WAS REAL!

This is what 18 year old "kids" were doing in 1944.  No safe spaces,

no hurtful unthinkable remarks that they couldn't cope with, just

dying for their country so the ungrateful, uninformed
snowflakes of today could act like fools decades later..............

This 2 minute video is pretty moving.
Worth your while.

"What actually made this country great is ordinary guys like
this doing extraordinary things."

Noon-toon

It hits the fan: James Woods unloads on Democrat ‘sh**holes’

It hits the fan: James Woods unloads on Democrat ‘sh**holes’:

The Hollywood star, who is well-known for posting his political analysis in social media, is now attacking cities run by Democrats, breaking out the S-word.
“When you drive cross-country, you can tell which party is in power by the roads, the graffiti, the homeless, and the trash everywhere,” Woods said.
“Invariably #Democrat cities are just sh**holes,” he added, except he did not censor his descriptor.

France, the Nazis, and Gun Control

France, the Nazis, and Gun Control
"In 1935, French prime minister Pierre Laval, who later served in the Vichy government during the Nazis' four-year occupation of France, commanded French citizens to surrender their firearms.  
Laval and France's ruling parties feared social revolution and banned "war" weapons, instituting strict gun registration policies.  
They believed that repressive limits on civilian gun ownership were necessary at a time of Depression-sparked unrest and ongoing conflicts among various political factions.  
Strict time limits for firearms registration and harsh penalties for noncompliance, including forfeiture, fines, and imprisonment, were put in place.  
Laval's government did not foresee the impact these restrictive measures would have on a Nazi-conquered France just five years later, when firearms surrender would be required under threat of death.
In Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France: Tyranny and Resistance, attorney Stephen P. Halbrook explores the impact and efficacy of gun control measures on Wehrmacht-controlled France and how these measures hindered the French Resistance's fight against Nazi tyranny.  
The author asserts that Laval's 1935 gun control efforts left the French people vulnerable to the Nazi invaders and ill equipped to deal with the Nazi invasion of 1940, plus simplified the Nazi efforts to confiscate firearms and impede a French resistance..."
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U.S. Has 3.5 Million More Registered Voters Than Live Adults — A Red Flag For Electoral Fraud | Investor's Business Daily

U.S. Has 3.5 Million More Registered Voters Than Live Adults — A Red Flag For Electoral Fraud | Investor's Business Daily
"Elections: American democracy has a problem — a voting problem.
According to a new study of U.S. Census data, America has more registered voters than actual live voters. 
It's a troubling fact that puts our nation's future in peril.
The data come from Judicial Watch's Election Integrity Project.
The group looked at data from 2011 to 2015 produced by the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, along with data from the federal Election Assistance Commission.
As reported by the National Review's Deroy Murdock, who did some numbers-crunching of his own, "some 3.5 million more people are registered to vote in the U.S. than are alive among America's adult citizens. 
Such staggering inaccuracy is an engraved invitation to voter fraud."
Murdock counted Judicial Watch's state-by-state tally and found that 462 U.S. counties had a registration rate exceeding 100% of all eligible voters..."
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#1 This day 1963-----The Tymes, "So Much In Love" 1963

Belgians Preparing Vigilante Justice Amid Migrant Crime Wave

Belgians Preparing Vigilante Justice Amid Migrant Crime Wave
"Residents of a seaside Belgian town are considering taking the law into their own hands as a rash of crimes blamed on migrants spirals out of control.
Frustrated townsfolk in Zeebrugge see a connection between an increase in lawlessness and an ever-growing migrant population, while police caution against correlating the two.
Dozens of recent break-ins and robberies have prompted a backlash attributed to "the work of migrants," prompting calls to "take matters into your own hands," reports local media.
...Fed-up locals are forced to share their town with delinquent migrants, who are "numerous in the streets," according to HLN..."
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You ought to know!

WALSH: The New York Times Just Published One Of The Most Racist Articles You'll Ever Read | Daily Wire

WALSH: The New York Times Just Published One Of The Most Racist Articles You'll Ever Read | Daily Wire:

Attached to the tweet is a bigoted screed about New Hampshire's whiteness infestation. It begins with the sad tale of a certain Catalina Celentano, who moved to the state and discovered, to her horror, that most of its residents speak English. "She found herself in an ethnic vacuum," the author reports. One worries how Ms. Celentano will react when she learns that the vast majority of the Earth is a non-Spanish speaking "vacuum."

Antifa Says Time for Direct Confrontation, Worse They Say 'Bring...Guns'

Antifa Says Time for Direct Confrontation, Worse They Say 'Bring...Guns'
"...Antifa — a loosely organized conglomeration of far-leftists who espouse an odd mix of anarchy and Marxism to supposedly fight against fascism … while using fascist tactics against their enemies.
...According to a pro-Antifa website called It’s Going Down, a coalition of leftist groups known as Pop Mob, along with Rose City Antifa, will be taking to the streets of Portland the same day in direct opposition to those they deem as their fascist enemies.
“The goal of our action on August 4th is to show that the community will not allow violent nationalist opportunists to threaten our city and target our people,” said a spokesperson for RCA.
“We will overwhelm them both by force of numbers and commitment to defending our community. Whatever it takes, we won’t allow Patriot Prayer’s political violence to become the new status quo in this country.”
“Without direct confrontation, PP and other white nationalist groups will feel entitled to threaten people wherever and whenever they like,” the member of Antifa continued.
...Independent investigative journalist Tim Pool checked out some discussion of the upcoming August 4 event on a Reddit thread and found that some of the leftists of Antifa were talking about arming themselves with firearms in anticipation of a violent clash.
Pool tweeted, “August 4th in Portland is already sounding like it is going to get really bad. 
Activists call for bringing guns in preparation for escalation.”...
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