History for October 25

History for October 25 - On-This-Day.com 

Bobby Knight 1940 - Basketball coach

• 1854 - The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War. 
• 1917 - The Bolsheviks (Communists) under Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized power in Russia.
• 1955 - The microwave oven, for home use, was introduced by The Tappan Company.
• 1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and admit mainland China.
• 1983 - U.S. troops and soldiers from six Caribbean nations invaded Grenada to restore order and provide protection to U.S. citizens after a recent coup within Grenada's Communist (pro-Cuban) government.

'ISIS inspired'? FBI arrests 17-year-old accused of planning to kill congressman * WorldNetDaily * by Virginia Grace McKinnon, The Daily Signal

'ISIS inspired'? FBI arrests 17-year-old accused of planning to kill congressman * WorldNetDaily * by Virginia Grace McKinnon, The Daily Signal: 

Federal authorities arrested a 17-year-old in Texas for allegedly plotting to murder Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, and carry out a terrorist attack on behalf of ISIS. According to local reports, the unidentified teenager had been on the FBI's radar for some time, but after he acquired a firearm, agents arrested him on Oct. 5. The FBI suspects the accused of plotting to murder the congressman this past Saturday when the congressman was supposed to judge a chili cookoff in McKinney, Texas.

The way we were----- The 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression: How It Unfolded - YouTube

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AfD co-leader Alice Weidel on Ukraine, migration and Germany’s future | The Economist

AfD co-leader Alice Weidel on Ukraine, migration and Germany’s future | The Economist

Brown-Shirt Elissa Slotkin Officially Goes FULL FASCIST Even While Trying to Play the Victim

I had to watch Elissa Slotkin’s latest performance twice just to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating the sheer audacity. - Sam J.Follow @PolitiBunny

She didn’t just want “accountability” for Trump officials. 

• She explicitly said she wanted “signature cases” against the people around him so that young conservatives thinking about government jobs would stop and say, “Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want.”
• She wanted the deterrence message.
• She wanted the fear.
• She wanted subordination.
• She wanted our SILENCE.

She said it out loud, on camera, with a straight face, like it was a noble act of civic hygiene instead of open lawfare...

The 3 Rules for Lying to the Media — And Why Republicans Keep Losing at Roulette

Fun fact: Over 90% of financial “experts” and professional stock-pickers underperform the market. - Scott PinskerFollow @ScottPinsker

• Yet each week, the media publishes new polling data, trumpeting the results as Gospel. 

We’re the unwashed masses; the media is Moses descending Sinai, bestowing its polling wisdom.
It triggers a media chain reaction: 

• First, an outlet publishes the poll. 
• Then the talking heads analyze the poll. 
• Then the outlet gets the candidates’ reactions to the poll (and to the talking heads). 
• Then the outlet interviews activists and surrogates. 
• Rinse and repeat.

Media outlets can squeeze half a dozen “news” stories out of one fake poll!

• This creates an echo chamber that reinforces the narrative. 
• Each poll is a mini media campaign; each poll is a force multiplier.

In traditional PR, we used a 3-1 conversion rate to quantify “earned” media value: 

• If a paid ad was worth $20,000, then a placed story was worth $60,000...

'That's not her real name': aka 'Ilhan Omar' suddenly faces new, complicated issue * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'That's not her real name': aka 'Ilhan Omar' suddenly faces new, complicated issue * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

A new complication has arisen for Somali immigrant Ilhan Omar, the Democrat representing a Somali immigrant-populated congressional district in Minnesota, who is under investigations that include for alleged immigrant fraud as well as financial manipulation. It's that "Ilhan Omar is not the 'real name' of the Minnesota congresswoman, Fox News Digital has confirmed," according to the network's own reporting.

SCOTUS WON’T Hear Case of Business Wrecked By Police Action

SCOTUS WON’T Hear Case of Business Wrecked By Police Action:

"I am releasing my full documentary titled: Paris 3 Days Later...

I dropped everything to go to Paris because it was clear from the footage that this is could be coming to America next. - Nate Friedman@NateFriedman97

I couldn't believe my eyes, just burned up, upside down cars lying on the street. 

The crazier part was just seeing people walk around it like it was nothing. 

• In the video you'll see interviews I did with an anarchist and a communist that justified the riots. 
• You'll hear from a woman who feels unsafe going home after work every night. 
• Most of all you'll actually see that the majority of the people in the city do not want their city to burn...

Lunch video----- Victor Davis Hanson: Immigration, Elites and the Future of the West - YouTube

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Noon-toon

 

Anti-ICE cafe learns the hard way that it doesn't pay to feed the revolution for free | Blaze Media

Anti-ICE cafe learns the hard way that it doesn't pay to feed the revolution for free | Blaze Media: 

An anti-capitalist cafe in South Minneapolis decided in January that it would not only deny service to federal agents but would "function as a free and donation based restaurant" until the end of the city's so-called "occupation" by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It turns out that feeding leftists for free and antagonizing potential customers is an unworkable business model.

Red vs Blue

 

The proofs are provided here!-----They are well-funded academics and former federal intel and military officials plotting a very real insurrection. - American Thinker

These aren’t basement-dwelling losers. - Andrea Widburg

The intrepid and singularly focused DataRepublican somehow got hold of this video material and has been digging through it, identifying who’s in it, examining their backgrounds, and analyzing their goals. 

It’s simple enough:

• A collection of former USAID employees and other one-time Democrat intelligence and military officials, all led by a Harvard academic named Erica Chenowith,...are plotting to overthrow the American government.

Because I often find it hard to follow DataRepublican’s meticulously documented X threads (I need a more linear, essay-style format), it’s a good thing that there are now two other ways to understand what’s going on. 

• The first is a video that DataRepublican made:

• The second is an essay from Cynical Publius spelling out what DataRepublican had found as of a couple of days ago...

Never trust the WaPo. NEVER!

 

Bjorn Lomborg - Wow, NYTimes says on schooling...

NYTimes says on schooling,  - Bjørn Lomborg

• what is really effective: Science of reading, rating on test scores
• And worst: smaller class sizes and increasing all teacher pay (and, surprisingly, school vouchers?)

#1 This day 1977----- Debby Boone You light up my life - YouTube

(184) Debby Boone You light up my life - YouTube

Student scores collapse as student political indoctrination flourishes!-----Why is a teachers’ union focused on issues like immigration, foreign policy, and presidential impeachment?

Are teachers’ unions becoming too political?: - FreedomFest

• Marissa Streit, CEO of PragerU, questions the priorities of the National Education Association (NEA), arguing that American schools should be focused on helping students succeed academically.
• She points to the NEA’s agenda and asks why issues far beyond the classroom have become part of its focus.

The leftist media sure seems to be full of hate-laden hypocrites, don't it?

 

Suspect accused of beheading Marine in Iwo Jima monument ID'd as illegal alien | Blaze Media

Suspect accused of beheading Marine in Iwo Jima monument ID'd as illegal alien | Blaze Media: 

This monument commemorating American heroes and heroism was vandalized on Wednesday. The suspect accused of beheading one of the statues and hammering away at other features has been identified as an illegal alien. According to the Prince William Police Department, officers arrived to the scene around 10:13 p.m. on Wednesday to find Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano allegedly "actively damaging the statue with a sledgehammer."

Omigosh. This is a week and a half late, but I’m sharing it anyway because it’s so good.

On Columbus Day, Andrew Claven started off his show with this brief, magnificent monologue. - John F. Di Leo
Please watch and enjoy. 

• I have never heard this concept expressed better.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1FDUx4bvpY/?mibextid=wwXIfr

AM Fruitcake

 

History for October 24

History for October 24 - On-This-Day.com 

Rafael Trujillo (Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina) 1891

• 1632 - Scientist Anthony van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, Holland. He created the first microscope lenses that were powerful enough to observe single-celled animals.
• 1836 - Alonzo D. Phillips received a patent for the phosphorous friction safety match.
• 1901 - Daredevil Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. She was 63 years old.
• 1929 - In the U.S., investors dumped more than 13 million shares on the stock market. The day is known as "Black Tuesday."
• 1939 - Nylon stockings were sold to the public for the first time in Wilmington, DE.
• 1948 - The term "cold war" was used for the first time. It was in a speech by Bernard Baruch before the Senate War Investigating Committee.

Former FBI agents arrested for allegedly LYING to Congress about Hunter Biden laptop | Blaze Media

Former FBI agents arrested for allegedly LYING to Congress about Hunter Biden laptop | Blaze Media: 

One of the accused allegedly said she was 'basically' running a 'shadow government' in the FBI. Two former senior FBI officials have been indicted and surrendered to authorities on Friday in connection with Hunter Biden's infamous laptop, according to a U.S. Attorney's Office press release.