History for June 7

History for June 7 - On-This-Day.com
Paul Gauguin (Eugčne Henri Paul Gauguin) 1848 - Post-Impressionist artist, painter, sculptor, Dean Martin (Dino Paul Crocetti) 1917 - Singer, actor ("The Dean Martin Show", "Rio Bravo", "Young Lions"), Tom Jones 1940 - Singer


Kenneth Osmond 1943 - Actor, Los Angeles police officer, known for his role as Eddie Haskell in the original "Leave It To Beaver" television series, Liam Neeson 1952 - Actor ("Taken" movie series, "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace"), Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson) 1958 - Musician, actor ("Purple Rain", "Sign 'O' the Times", "Under the Cherry Moon")


1775 - The United Colonies changed their name to the United States.


1942 - The Battle of Midway ended. The sea and air battle lasted 4 days. Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties.

Norman: Chuck and Nancy Not Interested in Doing Anything Substantial

Norman: Chuck and Nancy Not Interested in Doing Anything Substantial:

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) told Breitbart News Daily that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have no interest in helping the American people and only want to focus on impeaching President Donald Trump.
Norman spoke with Breitbart News Daily guest host Matthew Boyle regarding how Democrats have controlled the House for roughly 130 days and have yet to pass any substantial legislation and instead only focus on investigation Trump and his administration.
Congressman Norman asked rhetorically, “We’ve been up there 130 days and what do we have to show for it? Not anything. It just boils back down to they savor getting the White House back in 2020. Anything that gives this president a win they’re against.”

We'll Meet Again - Vera Lynn

Honor D-Day’s 75th anniversary by knowing the story — and teaching others - Chicago Tribune

Honor D-Day’s 75th anniversary by knowing the story — and teaching others - Chicago Tribune

"All great historical achievements risk fading into obscure past events, reduced to calendar notations or unread Wikipedia entries — unless those moments are kept vivid and meaningful for future generations.
June 6 is one of those imperiled dates.
It’s the 75th anniversary of D-Day, one of the most audacious military actions in American history. On June 6, 1944, about 156,000 troops of the United States and its allies invaded Nazi-occupied France by sea and air, gaining a foothold in northern Europe that would help lead to victory over Germany in World War II within a year.
...Among those books is Rick Atkinson’s “The Guns at Last Light,” excerpted here in italics. 
In it he describes the ferocious battle scenes, quotes the participants and honors the dead at Omaha, Utah and the other beaches.
...Mortar rounds killed a trio of soldiers next to (U.S. Gen. Norman) Cota and wounded his radioman; knocked flat but unscratched, the general regained his feet and followed the snaking column toward the hillcrest, past captured Germans spread-eagled on the ground. 
Then over the lip of the ridge they ran, past stunted pines and through uncut wheat as Cota yelled, “Now let’s see what you’re made of!” 
GIs hauling a captured MG-12 machine gun with ammunition belts draped around their necks poured fire into enemy trenches and at the broken ranks pelting inland.
War is terrible. 
Tragic. 
D-Day was those things. 
It also was heroic and necessary. 
Younger generations of Americans won’t understand what happened on June 6, 1944, unless they are inspired to learn it.
If you know the D-Day story, share it, teach it.
Read more: ‘I’d like to volunteer, sir’: Memories of D-Day live on through oral histories »
Read more: Celebrating the 75th anniversary of D-Day, near and far »

The 177 French Soldiers of D-Day

The 177 French Soldiers of D-Day
"The D-Day Landings on the Normandy beaches took place on June 6, 1944, led by 57,500 American soldiers, 58,815 Brits, 21,400 Canadians, and just 177 Frenchmen! 
A tiny but elite commando force the history books have long forgotten.

“Action stations, 0430 hours, the last coffee before France. The night is drawing to an end, we are stunned by the sight of everything around us. An armada stretches as far as the eye can see, thousands of vessels of all shapes and sizes. All these ships dancing, pitching, and rolling, depending on their seafaring stability. We must not be far from the shore.”

These are the words of private René Goujon, recorded in his diary and published posthumously in 2004. 
On the morning of June 6, 1944, he was preparing to return to France with 176 compatriots. 
They had all fled their native country to England to escape the German occupation. 
Some had been imprisoned in Germany and Spain, and most were just 20 years old. 
Together they formed the 1st French Marine Rifles Battalion, placed under English command. 
Their D-Day objective was to seize the small town of Ouistreham on the eastern flank of the Allied invasion...

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The French commandos in Scotland. © Imperial War Museum

A national disgrace!-----Video: College Students haven’t heard of D-Day on its 75th anniversary | True North Reports

Video: Students haven’t heard of D-Day on its 75th anniversary | True North Reports

"College students in Washington, D.C., seem to have forgotten about D-Day on its 75th anniversary.
We asked college students if they knew what D-Day is and why it is significant to American history. 
Even though thousands of Americans lost their lives storming the beaches of Normandy, France, college students had absolutely no idea what anniversary is marked June 6."

Saving Private Ryan Ending Scene

ICE Acting Director Says Family Deportations Are On The Table | The Daily Caller

ICE Acting Director Says Family Deportations Are On The Table | The Daily Caller:

“We’re anticipating a million this year, but we’re going to allow 65% of those individuals into the interior of the United States,” he told reporters, according to the Washington Examiner.
Morgan also blasted lawmakers in Congress for the crisis, saying that they’ve “failed” to act. The acting ICE director, echoing what other leaders within the Department of Homeland Security, stressed the need for Congress to amend laws — allowing immigration officials to detain family units for longer periods of time and to allow for quicker deportation of unaccompanied alien children.

Saving Private Ryan opening cemetery scene

Original D-Day footage US Troops storming the Beaches of Normandy

Lunch video-----D-Day

Why Liberals Fear the State Department’s Review of the Nature of Human Rights | The Heritage Foundation

Why Liberals Fear the State Department’s Review of the Nature of Human Rights | The Heritage Foundation:

The entire edifice the left has built in the United States and abroad is based on a foundation of laws and policies that depart from defensible ideas about the natural rights of humans. Instead, we have been promoting compulsions that trample these rights.
America decided at its very beginning that the individual has unalienable rights to free speech, freedom of conscience, self-defense, private property (which is the physical manifestation of our labor), and so on.
Good governments secure these universal rights, while bad governments abridge them.

To some degree, they were victims too-----German Military Cemetery at La Cambe, Normandy

Vera Lynn: The White Cliffs of Dover

The Longest Day (1962) - Omaha Beach

D-Day 75 Years On: Some Key Numbers | Statista

• Chart: D-Day 75 Years On: Some Key Numbers | Statista

KNOWLES: World's Tiniest Surviving Baby Ends Abortion Debate | Daily Wire

KNOWLES: World's Tiniest Surviving Baby Ends Abortion Debate | Daily Wire:

The world's tiniest baby has been born. This is wonderful. The baby weighs basically nothing, twenty-three weeks old born and has survived, a wonderful feel-good story. Obviously, this raises some serious questions about the abortion discussion that we've been having for weeks because, in many states in this country, that baby could be killed. And in many states in this country, people deny that that baby is a baby, but the baby was born, and the baby is now alive. And this is how the mainstream media covers it.

The Shores of Normandy by D-Day Veteran Jim Radford - Supporting The Bri...

75 years ago.

History for June 6

History for June 6 - On-This-Day.com
Nathan Hale 1755 - Soldier for Continental Army during American Revolutionary War, considered to be America's first spy, known for his famous quote "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.", Alexander Pushkin (Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) 1799 - Russian author and poet, Thomas Mann 1875 - German novelist, short story writer, social critic


Roy Innis 1934 - Civil rights activist, Gary U.S. Bonds (Gary Levone Anderson) 1939 - Singer, Robert Englund (Robert Barton Englund) 1948 - Actor, best known for player the character of Freddy Krueger


1925 - Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.

1944 - The D-Day invasion of Europe took place on the beaches of Normandy, France. 400,000 Allied American, British and Canadian troops were involved.

Mass Shooters Pick Targets Where People Won’t Have Guns, Says Gun Crime Expert | The Daily Caller

Mass Shooters Pick Targets Where People Won’t Have Guns, Says Gun Crime Expert | The Daily Caller:

It is no coincidence mass shootings tend to occur in gun-free zones, where shooters know they are less likely to encounter armed citizens who can defend themselves, according to a gun crimes expert.
Friday’s shooting in Virginia Beach, Virginia, that left 12 people dead, occurred in Building 2 of the city’s municipal center, a designated a “gun-free zone” where employees were banned from carrying guns, according to the Virginian-Pilot.

The way we were-----Dream Academy - "Life In A Northern Town" (Official Music Video)

Boob-tube-----Alfred Hitchcock Presents - 1955 - TV Series - CBS - NBC

Mexican government admits 80% of its populated territory is run by cartels, including key border areas - Conservative Review

Mexican government admits 80% of its populated territory is run by cartels, including key border areas - Conservative Review
"As of last year, the Taliban controlled or contested 46 percent of the districts in Afghanistan’s civil war. 
That was enough justification for us to keep our military perpetually engaged there in combat. 
What if you were told that 80 percent of Mexico’s territory is controlled by dangerous cartels, including all of the key smuggling routes at our border, and that the cartels are orchestrating all of the illegal immigration into our territory and bringing their members back and forth across our own border?..."
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Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: ‘Transgendered Men Don’t Become Women,’ They Become ‘Feminized Men,’ ‘Impersonators’

Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: ‘Transgendered Men Don’t Become Women,’ They Become ‘Feminized Men,’ ‘Impersonators’
"Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and former psychiatrist–in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital, who has studied transgendered people for 40 years, said it is a scientific fact that “transgendered men do not become women, nor do transgendered women become men.”

All such people, he explained in an article for The Witherspoon Institute,  “become feminized men or masculinized women, counterfeits or impersonators of the sex with which they ‘identify.’”

Dr. McHugh, who was psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 26 years, the medical institute that had initially pioneered sex-change surgery – and later ceased the practice – stressed that the cultural meme, or idea that “one’s sex is fluid and a matter of choice” is extremely damaging, especially to young people..."

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Mexican President Says The Country ‘Could Be Prepared’ To Reach A Deal With US | The Daily Caller

Mexican President Says The Country ‘Could Be Prepared’ To Reach A Deal With US | The Daily Caller:

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador suggested Mexico might be ready to step up migration control measures in response to President Donald Trump’s tariff ultimatum.
Lopez Obrador said Mexico could be ready to strike a deal with the United States by helping prevent illegal border crossings into the U.S. during a news conference, Reuters reported.

Noa Pothoven of Arnhem in the Netherlands is legally euthanised

Noa Pothoven of Arnhem in the Netherlands is legally euthanised

"A 17-year-old Dutch girl has been euthanised at her home after she said the trauma of being raped as a young girl made her feel she couldn’t keep living.
Noa Pothoven, 17, has been legally euthanised in the Netherlands, saying the pain she was dealing with after a childhood rape was “insufferable”.
Noa, from Arnhem, said in a social media post a day before her death last Sunday that she “breaths but no longer lives”..."

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Lunch video-----Rowe: Why we never see protests at trade schools

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Media Outlet Tied To Qatar Tricks Young Liberal Americans Into Spreading Anti-American Propaganda, Experts Say | The Daily Caller

Media Outlet Tied To Qatar Tricks Young Liberal Americans Into Spreading Anti-American Propaganda, Experts Say | The Daily Caller:

AJ has become a major video creator on Facebook, with its viral videos in the style of Buzzfeed or NowThis targeting liberal millennials. But unknown to some, it’s actually a branch of Al Jazeera and is owned by the government of Qatar, a Middle Eastern nation long accused of meddling in the affairs of other countries.
The AJ videos often focus on progressive ideals and are framed in a way that emphasizes the divisions in U.S. policy and politics. And Facebook doesn’t disclose the Qatar connection on videos AJ posts and apparently hasn’t blocked its content, even as the social media platform cracks down on fake news and hidden foreign influence.

'Third GE wind turbine collapse would be sign something's wrong': insurer | Recharge

'Third GE wind turbine collapse would be sign something's wrong': insurer | Recharge:

"Any third turbine collapse involving a GE machine in quick succession should set alarm bells ringing at the manufacturer, given the rarity of such incidents globally, said a leading insurer of renewable energy projects.
Fraser McLachlan, CEO of specialist insurer GCube, said the two collapses so far this year of GE turbines at US wind farms is already enough to give pause for thought.
“We probably see one or two of these a year out of a fleet of many thousands of turbines,” covered by GCube, McLachlan told Recharge. 
“It’s not that common. In a very bad year you might get three.
The US OEM has said that the collapses – in New Mexico in February and then in Oklahoma 10 ten days ago – are being treated as “separate and isolated” incidents.
“Two that close together, from the same manufacturer ... you would begin to wonder...."
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Al Gore Forecasted “Ice-Free” Arctic by 2013; Ice Cover Expands 50%

Al Gore Forecasted “Ice-Free” Arctic by 2013; Ice Cover Expands 50%
"Self-styled “global-warming” guru Al Gore (shown) and a gaggle of supposed “climate scientists” have egg all over their faces — big time.
In 2007, 2008 and 2009, Gore publicly and very hysterically warned that the North Pole would be “ice-free” by around 2013 because of alleged “man-made global warming.” 
Citing “climate” experts, the government-funded BBC hyped the mass hysteria, running a now-embarrassing article under the headline: “Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’.”
Other establishment media outlets did the same..."
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#1 This day 1990-----Wilson Phillips - Hold On

Anti-trump activists leave behind a mountain of litter after listening to ranting Corbyn blast Trump | Daily Mail Online

Anti-trump activists leave behind a mountain of litter after listening to ranting Corbyn blast Trump | Daily Mail Online
"Call yourselves eco-warriors? 
Anti-trump activists leave behind a mountain of litter after listening to ranting Corbyn blast Trump and lecture him about the environment

• Banners and posters were left strewn in the streets around Trafalgar Square 
• Protesters had been listening to Jeremy Corbyn talk about the environment
• Comes as organisers admit only tens of thousands turned up for today's rally  
• President said it was 'fake news' that there had been protests because of him ..."

And still she lurks....

William Barr seeks dossier's influence on FBI's Trump-Russia investigation - Washington Times

William Barr seeks dossier's influence on FBI's Trump-Russia investigation - Washington Times:

The public knows that the FBI relied extensively on the Democratic Party-financed dossier, whose list of anti-Trump allegations influenced the bureau’s overall attitude toward the candidate and eventual president.
Now, Attorney General William Barr has made it clear he wants to know more: Just how far did the discredited dossier take the FBI into the depths of a nearly three-year Trump investigation?
“What were the standards that were applied? What was the evidence?” Mr. Barr told CBS News, adding that his focus is not on the rank-and-file but on senior FBI leaders.

When liberals rule. MUST READ!-----When Radical Ideologies Corrupt Universities - Minding The Campus

When Radical Ideologies Corrupt Universities - Minding The Campus
"I keep being invited to talk about free speech on college campuses and every time I’m invited I make the same point: that this isn’t about free speech and this is only tangentially about college campuses. This is about a breakdown in the basic logic of civilization, and it’s spreading. College campuses may be the first dramatic battle but of course, this is going to find its way into the courts; it’s already found its way into the tech sector. It’s going to find its way to the highest level of governance if we aren’t careful, and it actually does jeopardize the ability of civilization to continue to function.

~Bret Weinstein

Mike Nayna’s documentary on the Evergreen State College Affair, from which I transcribed the above quote from Bret Weinstein, is a riveting watch. 

No matter how closely you followed the debacle at the time, there is really no substitute for this fascinating glimpse behind the scenes. 

Evergreen academics can be seen meekly and repeatedly submitting to ideological manipulation and on a number of occasions terrified senior faculty offer transparently insincere professions of faith in the hope of evading the vengeful fury of their mindlessly sloganeering student tormentors. 

The barely contained thirst for violence as the means to an end is palpable. 

It is sobering to imagine oneself confronted with such an uprising, and if Weinstein is right, then this alarming phenomenon may be about to spill out of the university campuses to which it has hitherto been largely confined.

This problem has already taken root in academia in the UK. 

Quillette editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann recently wrote about the un-personing of Noah Carl, whose crime was proposing that controversial research should not be suppressed, even though he had not engaged in any himself. 
“Imagine what would happen,” Lehmann invites us to wonder, “if the behavior of St Edmund’s College become a new norm.” 

It is now creeping into corporate and government life too..."

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AM Fruitcake

History for June 5

History for June 5 - On-This-Day.com
Adam Smith 1723 - Author, "Pancho" Villa (Francisco Villa, José Doroteo Arango Arámbula) - Mexican Revolutionary general, John Maynard Keynes 1883 - Economist


Dennis Gabor 1900 - Electrical engineer, inventor of holography, Ken Follet 1949 - Author, Mark Wahlberg 1971 - Actor, singer (Marky Mark)


1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity.


1851 - Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in "The National Era."

Top House Republican Points To ‘Several Indications’ Peter Strzok Was FBI Leaker | The Daily Caller

Top House Republican Points To ‘Several Indications’ Peter Strzok Was FBI Leaker | The Daily Caller:

A top House Republican is asking the Justice Department’s inspector general whether Peter Strzok is the former FBI official accused of leaking sensitive materials to the press and accepting gifts from a reporter.
Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter Thursday to Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department inspector general (IG), inquiring about the identity of a former FBI deputy assistant director (DAD) who was investigated for unauthorized contacts with the press.

The way we were-----1955 Swanson TV Dinner Commercial

Boob-tube-----Old cigarette commercial

Nike Celebrates Oppression of Women - Promotes "Hijabi Ballers" in New Ad

Nike Celebrates Oppression of Women - Promotes "Hijabi Ballers" in New Ad
"Nike Toronto celebrated the oppression of women in a new ad by promoting “Hijabi Ballers.”
...Who needs the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS spreading the caliphate across the world when Nike does it for them?
Nike is openly promoting Sharia law..."
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RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE:Catholic Nun Beheaded By Muslim Militia.

Instapundit Blog Archive- RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: 
Catholic Nun Beheaded By Muslim Militia.

"The ongoing purge of Christians and Jews from the non-Israeli parts of the Middle East (ie, almost the whole region) is a story for some reason the press just isn’t much interested in reporting.--Posted by Stephen Green"

‘She Knocks The Country, She Knocks The President’: Veterans Criticize Ocasio-Cortez Over Community Meeting | The Daily Caller

‘She Knocks The Country, She Knocks The President’: Veterans Criticize Ocasio-Cortez Over Community Meeting | The Daily Caller:

“She knocks the country, she knocks the president. And that’s not what America is about,” Mazzella said.
“I just couldn’t hear her BS anymore. I just got up, got my umbrella in my hand and walked right out,” former chairman of the board and Army veteran, Anthony Vitaliano, 78, said.

Air-Climate-Energy

Air-Climate-Energy

Wind Energy's Absurd

We’ve posted several times about German-led companies running amok in places like Cesme in Turkey. 

Now we wonder how many other places are experiencing the same heavy-handed disrespect to local communities.

Because yesterday we were informed by a new Norwegian friend of threats to a small island called Frøya, very near to the island of Smola about which we have posted, the most recent being the tragedy of the sea eagles killed by turbines on that island.

...BUT

Its original application was for turbines with a max height of 135m and with turbines of 2.3 -3 MW. It was on this premise that the application for exemption was evaluated, having respect to consequences for nature and wildlife, consideration for cultural heritage, the zone of visual impact, shadow flicker and noise.

The company is now proposing turbines with a height of 180m and with a capacity of 4.2 MW.

So, hub height increased from 84m to 135m; an increase of 60%
Tip height increased from 135m to 180m; an increase of 33%

And the democrats focus on impeaching our President-----Chicago Crime 2019 | Chicago Murder, Crime & Mayhem | HeyJackass!

Chicago Crime 2019 | Chicago Murder, Crime & Mayhem | HeyJackass!
"2019 Homicide Clearance Rate-8.6%"

Lunch video-----Strange & Forgotten Cars of the 60s and 70s

Noon-toon

‘Blinded By Evil’ — Robert Jeffress Blasts Disney For Georgia Abortion Law Boycott Threat | The Daily Caller

‘Blinded By Evil’ — Robert Jeffress Blasts Disney For Georgia Abortion Law Boycott Threat | The Daily Caller:

Dallas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress blasted Disney as “absolutely insane” and “blinded by evil” for threatening to boycott Georgia over its recently passed abortion bill.
The Friday night discussion between Jeffress and Fox Business host Lou Dobbs comes after Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a “fetal heartbeat bill” early last month, making abortion illegal after a heartbeat is detected. Reacting to the law, Disney CEO Bob Iger said it would be “very difficult” to film in the state because of staff reactions to the law, should it take effect in 2020.