History for June 23

History for June 23 - On-This-Day.com:

Baby Boomers Recognition Day

England: Lawn Tennis Championship at Wimbledon begin (June 23-July 6). See www.wimbledon.org

Birth anniversary of British mathematician, logician and cryptographer Alan Turing—father of modern computer science and artificial intelligence (1912-54).

Birth anniversaries of June Carter Cash (1929-2004), Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956), and Wilma Rudolph (1940-94).

Happy Birthday! Bryan Brown, Frances McDormand, Clarence Thomas

1683 - William Penn signed a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania. 



1836 - The U.S. Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states. 


1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention that he called a "Type-Writer." 


1884 - A Chinese Army defeated the French at Bacle, Indochina. 


1902 - Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renewed the Triple Alliance for a 12 year duration. 






1947 - The U.S. Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. 


1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt. 


1972 - U.S. President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation. 


2004 - The U.S. proposed that North Korea agree to a series of nuclear disarmament measures over a three-month period in exchange for economic benefits. 

The Feds Wanted to Turn This Hotel into a Refugee Camp…But They Made a Major Error | TheBlaze.com

The Feds Wanted to Turn This Hotel into a Refugee Camp…But They Made a Major Error | TheBlaze.com:
"Byblos Niagara Resort and Spa isn’t exactly kid-friendly: the hotel is an upscale place, and in its previous life as a Holiday Inn the hotel hosted the 2009 “Entice the Falls” swingers convention, the Buffalo News reported.
A simple Google search could have saved the agents the trip the the hotel.
What is clear is that the feds were moving quickly, without giving local authorities much notice."

My God, they've been lying the whole time!-----The scandal of fiddled global warming data

The scandal of fiddled global warming data - Telegraph:
"....But now another damning example has been uncovered by Steven Goddard’s US blog Real Science, showing how shamelessly manipulated has been one of the world’s most influential climate records, the graph of US surface temperature records published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Goddard shows how, in recent years, NOAA’s US Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) has been “adjusting” its record by replacing real temperatures with data “fabricated” by computer models. 
The effect of this has been to downgrade earlier temperatures and to exaggerate those from recent decades, to give the impression that the Earth has been warming up much more than is justified by the actual data.
In several posts headed “Data tampering at USHCN/GISS”, Goddard compares the currently published temperature graphs with those based only on temperatures measured at the time. 

These show that the US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record; whereas the latest graph, nearly half of it based on “fabricated” data, shows it to have been warming at a rate equivalent to more than 3 degrees centigrade per century."

I watch army of hooded suicide bombers march in to save Iraq: BARBARA JONES on the frontline as radical cleric who was UK's most feared and hated enemy takes control of Baghdad to repel rampaging jihadists

I watch army of hooded suicide bombers march in to save Iraq: BARBARA JONES on the frontline as radical cleric who was UK's most feared and hated enemy takes control of Baghdad to repel rampaging jihadists | Mail Online:
I watch army of hooded suicide bombers march in to save Iraq: BARBARA JONES on the frontline as radical cleric who was UK's most feared and hated enemy takes control of Baghdad to repel rampaging jihadists 

• Hordes of suicide bombers, holding Kalashnikovs, paraded the streets
• Some were wearing white shrouds to denote their readiness to die
• They were part of the private army of powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr

A "mishap"?!!! Holy crapoli! What the heck is a "Broadcasting Board"?!!' And how the heck can they get away with disappearing $5 MILLION?!!!-----Scrap this broken agency': Audit finds Broadcasting Board of Governors wasted $5M

'Scrap this broken agency': Audit finds Broadcasting Board of Governors wasted $5M - Washington Times
"A new State Department Office of the Inspector General audit finds that the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the agency that oversees U.S. international broadcasting, has wasted almost $5 million in taxpayer dollars on questionable and unapproved purchases.
The State Department’s watchdog coined the BBGs mishap as a “systematic failure” of acquisitions.

Greta Van Susteren Is ‘Furious’ at President Obama: ‘At Best, He Blew It. At Worst, He Doesn’t Give a Damn.’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Greta Van Susteren Is ‘Furious’ at President Obama: ‘At Best, He Blew It. At Worst, He Doesn’t Give a Damn.’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Fox News host Greta Van Susteren says she is “furious” at President Barack Obama after he apparently failed to even mention jailed U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi during a discussion with the president of Mexico this week."

Why not a cruise ship?-----Feds to Fly Hundreds of Migrants to California

Feds to Fly Hundreds of Migrants to California - ABC News:
"The Border Patrol will fly nearly 300 Central American migrants from south Texas to California for processing, an official said Saturday, as the government seeks to ease the workload on agents at the nation's busiest corridor for illegal crossings.
There will be two flights Monday with 140 passengers each — one bound for San Diego and one for El Centro, about 100 miles east of San Diego, said Paul Beeson, chief of the Border Patrol's San Diego sector.
The two flights were expected to continue every three days, Beeson told The Associated Press, but it's unclear for how long.
They will be mostly for families with young children but also carry adults.
There will be no unaccompanied children.
The flights to California are the government's latest response to a surge of Central Americans entering Texas' Rio Grande Valley, where the Border Patrol has made more than 174,000 arrests since Oct. 1. Most are from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency will decide whether the Central Americans remain in custody or are released while they are in deportation proceedings.
ICE spokeswoman Lauren Mack declined to comment on how the agency will respond."

Remember this soldier. And remember those who disgrace our country are still "teaching" our children and getting their fat paychecks------MARINE BARRED FROM WEARING HIS UNIFORM TO GRADUATION KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN

MARINE BARRED FROM WEARING HIS UNIFORM TO GRADUATION KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN:
"He fought and died for you. it's horrible that people don't understand this huge sacrifice and try and minimize the importance of these warriors. I'm disgusted with the people who forbid this young man from proudly wearing his uniform. It's the least they could do."
 BOSTON (CBS) – A Marine from New Hampshire has been killed in Afghanistan.
Lance Cpl. Brandon Garabrant, 19, was one of three U.S. service members killed by a roadside bomb Friday morning.“
..... Garabrant graduated from ConVal Regional High School in Peterborough last year. 
He had requested to wear his uniform during graduation, but the school did not allow it. 
The school has released a statement reacting to Garabrant’s death.
“On behalf of the entire ConVal community I extend my deepest sympathy to Brandon’s family and friends,” Principal Brian Pickering said. “We are all shocked and deeply saddened by his passing and we are incredibly grateful for his service to our country.”"

Where's Moochelle's hashtag#?------Ebola Virus Outbreak

Ebola Virus Outbreak | Western Africa | Epidemic:

The international volunteer medical organization Doctors Without Borders has issued a chilling warning — that the deadly Ebola virus is “totally out of control.”

The Ebola virus spreads through direct contact with infected people and causes internal bleeding and organ failure. 

There is no cure or vaccine so infected patients must be quarantined to stop the rapid spread of the virus. According to the World Health Organization, an Ebola outbreak can result in over 90% fatality rates.

Bart Janssens, director of operations for Doctors Without Borders, said Friday that the international community must send in more resources to stop the current Ebola epidemic.

“The reality is clear that the epidemic is now in a second wave,” Janssens said. “And, for me, it is totally out of control.”

The outbreak has caused more deaths than any other of the disease, said another official with the medical charity. Ebola has been linked to more than 330 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, according to the World Health Organization.

The current outbreak, which began in Guinea either late last year or early this year, had appeared to slow before picking up pace again in recent weeks, including spreading to the Liberian capital for the first time.

“This is the highest outbreak on record and has the highest number of deaths, so this is unprecedented so far,” said Armand Sprecher, a public health specialist with Doctors Without Borders.

Wouldn't a "Manchurian" behave just as B. Hussein Obama has?-------Is Obama a Manchurian?

Beaton: Is Obama a Manchurian? | AspenTimes.com:
"I still think President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, even though for 14 years he allowed his literary agent to circulate a bio blurb stating he was born in Kenya, and even though for many years he attended a church where his pastor friend shouted such things as “God damn America!”
I still think that he just pretended to be Kenyan to be cool, to sell books and, perhaps, to get a foreign student scholarship at those colleges from which he refuses to release his transcripts.
He’s probably not actually Kenyan.
But as I speculated in a column two months ago (http://theaspenbeat.com/2014/03/30/is-obama-a-manchurian), he might be Manchurian.
“The Manchurian Candidate” was a movie about a U.S. politician who was secretly a “sleeper agent” working to overthrow American democracy. (Manchuria is the region of Russia and China where the agent had been brainwashed into working for the other side.) 
So is Obama a Manchurian?
My earlier column noted that one of his first moves was to appease the Russians and infuriate our allies by unilaterally canceling defensive missiles in Poland.
In exchange for that, the Russians agreed to, well, nothing — that we know of.
Later, Obama promised Russia that he would show more “flexibility” in American defense after being re-elected (a promise he thought he’d made secretly to the Russians but was caught on an open microphone).
Russia judged that Obama’s “flexibility” would accommodate its invasion of Crimea. It was right."
Read the rest and decide yourself.

Video: Angry Residents of Tiny Farm Town Take on the Obama Administration Over Controversial Plan — and Win | Video | TheBlaze.com

Video: Angry Residents of Tiny Farm Town Take on the Obama Administration Over Controversial Plan — and Win | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"The government is shopping for a new location to temporarily shelter hundreds of Central American children after residents and officials of a tiny Virginia farm town angrily protested the secretive selection of their community."

Wake up America! The politically connected, ruling class sees us as sheep to be shorn....... or butchered---------- VA brass knew of false data for 2 years

VA brass knew of false data for 2 years:
"PHOENIX -- Department of Veterans Affairs administrators knew two years ago that employees throughout the Southwest were manipulating data on doctor appointments and failed to stop the practice despite a national directive, according to records obtained by The Arizona Republic through a Freedom of Information Act request.

 A 2012 audit by the VA's Southwest Health Care Network found that facilities in Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas chronically violated department policy and created inaccurate data on patient wait times via a host of tactics.
The practice allowed VA employees to reap bonus pay that was based in part on inaccurate data showing goals had been met to reduce delays in patient care, according to the VA Office of Inspector General.
At the Phoenix medical center alone, reward checks totaled $10 million over the past three years"

Yes, it was ALL about money. Money in the personal pockets of those greedy thieves. Our government is at war with us-------Every Senior V.A. Executive Was Rated ‘Fully Successful’ or Better Over 4 Years

Every Senior V.A. Executive Was Rated ‘Fully Successful’ or Better Over 4 Years - NYTimes.com:

"All of the 470 senior executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs received annual ratings over the last four years indicating that they were “fully successful” in their jobs or even better, according to data released at a congressional hearing on Friday, despite delays in processing disability compensation claims and problems with veterans’ access to the department’s sprawling health care system.

None of the department’s senior executives received either of the two lowest of five possible job ratings, “minimally satisfactory” or “unsatisfactory,” in any of the past four fiscal years.

The data also showed that in 2013, nearly 80 percent of the senior executives were rated either “outstanding” or as having exceeded “fully successful” in their job performance, and that at least 65 percent of the executives received performance awards, which averaged around $9,000. 

Only about 20 percent received the middle of the five ratings."

Simply a pretense to build another get-rich bureaucracy for the politically connected-----------Consumer Financial Protection Bureau already sinking into scandal

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau already sinking into scandal « Hot Air:
It’s great to have Uncle Sam looking out for the little guy, isn’t it? 

That’s why it was such a super-duper, nifty idea for Washington to summon into being the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. 
It was created as part of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act back in 2010, but was originally the brainstorm of now Senator Elizabeth Warren. (You may recall she was initially slated to head the agency, but that was derailed by Congress.) 
So now that they are on the job, keeping citizens safe from big banking fat cats and ensuring financial responsibility and ethics, how are they doing?
Well… pretty much on par with what you’d expect out of any massive Washington bureaucracy. Right out of the gate, they inflated the cost of refurbishing their new digs by more than 100%, though they’ve tried to deny it.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray evidently is feeling unfamiliar heat after resorting to a disreputable form of sophistry as a substitute for honest discussion and debate. During a June 10 hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, for example, Cordray responded to a question from Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., on the ballooning cost of CFPB’s headquarters renovation by saying: “This has been out there and taken as gospel in the public record for some time. It’s a fiction of the Washington Examiner that this project started out at $55 million and now has ballooned to higher proportions. There never was any expectation that this project could be completed for $55 million. That is false.”

Not only was it not false, but the Examiner took the figures directly from the General Services Administration.
The cost has now skyrocketed from $55 million to $139M and still climbing.

Way to keep an eye on things, guys.

NBC’s Chuck Todd: The American people are telling Obama ‘your presidency is over’ – Glenn Beck

NBC’s Chuck Todd: The American people are telling Obama ‘your presidency is over’ – Glenn Beck:
"Apparently the mainstream media’s love affair with President Obama is over. During an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, NBC News chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd excoriated the President’s most recent poll numbers. Todd went so far as to say the numbers prove the American public is telling the President his presidency “is over.”

20 Reasons You Wouldn't Want To Live In An America Controlled By Liberals Like Obama

Read 'em all and do something so it doesn't happen!
20 Reasons You Wouldn't Want To Live In An America Controlled By Liberals Like Obama - John Hawkins - Page full:

7) Government investigations of liberal wrongdoing would be handled by friends, associates, or campaign contributors of the liberal being charged.

8) So many nuclear and coal plants would be shut down that we'd end up with regularly scheduled blackouts in many parts of the country.

9) Anyone could choose not to work and get a monthly stipend from the state -- well, until the money runs out.

Video of the day: Formula 1 pit stops 1950 vs. 2013

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History for June 22

History for June 22 - On-This-Day.com: 

Carpenter Ant Awareness Week (June 22-28)

Birth anniversaries of Bill Blass (1922-2002), Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001), Billy Wilder (1906-2002).

Happy Birthday! Klaus Maria Brandauer, Todd Rundgren, Lindsay Wagner

1772 - Slavery was outlawed in England. 


1832 - J.I. Howe patented the pin machine. 


1874 - Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice of osteopathy. 


1933 - Germany became a one political party country when Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis. 






1941 - Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. 






1942 - A Japanese submarine shelled Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River. 


1944 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the "GI Bill of Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war. 


1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller's book, "Tropic of Cancer", could not be banned. 


1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It required that the voting age in the United States to be 18. 


1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights. 


1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the Americans with Disability Act.

VIDEO: Hillary Clinton – You Are Not Allowed to Support Gun Rights; If You Do, You’re a Terrorist

VIDEO: Hillary Clinton – You Are Not Allowed to Support Gun Rights; If You Do, You’re a Terrorist:
"During this town hall, a questioner asks Hillary if she thinks that reinstating the assault weapons ban and banning high capacity magazines would help in regards to school shootings. Before the woman can finish asking her question, Hillary answers, “Yes. Yes, I do.”

EXCLUSIVE: Congressman Lays Out Strategy to IMPEACH ERIC HOLDER!

EXCLUSIVE: Congressman Lays Out Strategy to IMPEACH ERIC HOLDER!:
"Congressman Gosar is one of 27 congressman who have already signed Articles of Impeachment against Holder.
“I give you, an unelected bureaucrat who is violating the Constitution, and that is Eric Holder,” Gosar told Tim while stating that both parties are guilty of building a government bureaucracy that “answers to no one.”

Supremes could change America with one single ruling!-------------Unionization Ruling Before The Supreme Court Could Be 'Huge'

Unionization Ruling Before The Supreme Court Could Be 'Huge' [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"As the current term of the United States Supreme Court nears its end, a ruling remains to be announced that could fundamentally change the way government unions are organized.
Harris v. Quinn, which involves personal care providers in Illinois who contested a forced unionization they were subjected to, is largely equivalent to the home health care "dues skim" that took place in Michigan.
In both unionization schemes, workers who take care of the elderly and disabled were forced into a union.
In Michigan, an affiliate of the Service Employees International union took more than $34 million from the Medicaid checks of people who were being cared for mostly by friends and family. 
The U.S. Supreme Court held oral arguments in the Harris v. Quinn case in January and a final ruling is expected by the end of June. 
There are reasons to believe the court’s decision in the case might be to reverse the 1977 Abood v. Detroit Board of Education ruling.
If that's what happens it would have the effect of making all public employees nationwide subject to right-to-work.
Ramifications of such a ruling by the high court would be far-reaching."

Remember "policy changes" ALWAYS means "more money from you to hire more government workers"------Policy changes needed to tackle obesity

Sooooo, giving free (totally unproven to work!) drugs to folks who lack the ability to make "correct" choices about food intake and exercise will enable them to live longer.
Without changing their inability to make "correct" choices about food intake and exercise.
And this will save us money?!!!!
Guest column: Policy changes needed to tackle obesity | MLive.com:
"Nearly a year after the American Medical Association declared obesity to be a disease, we still are not using all of the tools available to help reduce this costly – and deadly – condition.
....In Michigan, more than 31 percent of residents are obese – and the problem is only growing.
Obesity is more than an appearance or lifestyle issue.
Our growing obesity problem causes more chronic diseases, which are killing more of our family members and putting a massive strain on the health system.
...Medicare must begin covering medicines to treat obesity because chronic diseases are a primary driver of higher costs in the Medicare system – and obesity is a primary cause of chronic disease.
....The federal government already recognizes the need to cover these medicines.
The Office of Personnel Management – the human resources department for government – recently said federal health plans should pay for weight loss medicines, under appropriate circumstances."

Will Harry Reid Tell This 100% Navajo Indian High School Their ‘Redskins’ Mascot is Racist?

Will Harry Reid Tell This 100% Navajo Indian High School Their ‘Redskins’ Mascot is Racist?:
"Why would a 100% Native American school name use as their own mascot a “racist” term?
Maybe Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid should be asked this important question of the day.
Harry Greed and other white elitist communists latest distraction/obsession is with forcing the Washington Redskins to change their name because they’ve  determined, after decades of being silent on the word, that the term “Redskins,” a term that was chosen to HONOR Native Americans, must now be banned. "

Details Leak On How Secret Global Treaty Will Force Countries To Further Deregulate Financial Sector

Details Leak On How Secret Global Treaty Will Force Countries To Further Deregulate Financial Sector | Techdirt:
Here's how WikiLeaks describes its latest release:

Today, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Financial Services Annex, which covers 50 countries and 68.2%1 of world trade in services. 

The US and the EU are the main proponents of the agreement, and the authors of most joint changes, which also covers cross-border data flow.
In a significant anti-transparency manoeuvre by the parties, the draft has been classified to keep it secret not just during the negotiations but for five years after the TISA enters into force.
Despite the failures in financial regulation evident during the 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis and calls for improvement of relevant regulatory structures, proponents of TISA aim to further deregulate global financial services markets. 

The draft Financial Services Annex sets rules which would assist the expansion of financial multi-nationals -- mainly headquartered in New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt -- into other nations by preventing regulatory barriers. 

The leaked draft also shows that the US is particularly keen on boosting cross-border data flow, which would allow uninhibited exchange of personal and financial data.
...The TISA is being promoted by the same governments that installed the failed model of financial (de)regulation in the WTO and which has been blamed for helping to fuel the Global Financial Crisis (GFC).
The same states shut down moves by other WTO Members to critically debate these rules following the GFC with a view to reform.

... Here, it means that restrictions on the financial industry can only be reduced, never increased, no matter how badly they screw up the global economy (again).

Like the NAZIs, they will never quit their quest to disarm the honest citizen--------Chicago Passes Law Requiring All Legal Gun Sales to Be Taped and Bans Gun Shops in 95% of City

Chicago Passes Law Requiring All Legal Gun Sales to Be Taped and Bans Gun Shops in 95% of City:
"The Chicago City Council this week passed one of the strictest sets of regulations for gun shops in the country.
The measures will all but insure that gun dealers are not able to operate within the city and will likely continue to amount to a complete ban on legal gun sales within city limits.
...It would largely limit shops to the fringes of the city by banning gun shops within 500 feet of a school or park.
It calls for criminal background checks for store owners and employees, requires a safety plan and surveillance cameras and calls for all sales to be videotaped.
Due to the wording of the law, gun shops would be banned from utilizing nearly 95% of the land within city limits. 

...Under this new law Chicago is technically allowing gun shops, although in practice they really aren’t."

Obama’s EPA: A Criminal Enterprise

Obama’s EPA: A Criminal Enterprise:
“Under this plan, there’d be no body of water in America—including mud puddles and canals—that wouldn’t be at risk from job-destroying federal regulation,” said Rep, Doc Hastings (R-Wash), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee. “This dramatic expansion of federal government control will directly impact the livelihoods and viability of farmers and small businesses in rural America.”

Patrick Colbeck: Increasing taxes is not the way to fix Michigan roads

Patrick Colbeck: Increasing taxes is not the way to fix Michigan roads | Detroit Free Press | freep.com: "Those pushing for a tax hike promote statistics such as, “Michigan ranks last among the 50 states in per capita road expenditures.”
Funny thing about the per capita road spending statistic: 
Only the mafia prices out pavement contracts based on the number of bodies. 

Road construction projects are typically priced out according to the number of miles to be paved.
Michigan ranks 13th when it comes to how many dollars per mile we spend on our roads — 53% more per mile than the national average, according to the Reason Foundation.
Indiana spends roughly the same amount per mile on its roads as Michigan, and it is ranked No. 1 in pavement condition.
Michigan is ranked 43rd. 
Clearly, the solution to our transportation infrastructure woes needs to look at more than tax revenue."

Pot AND porn makes you brain-dead?!!!! Bad news for Obama voters!---------Is It Really True That Watching Porn Will Shrink Your Brain?

Is It Really True That Watching Porn Will Shrink Your Brain? | Science Blogs | WIRED:
"A hundred years ago they said that masturbating would make you go blind.
We’ve progressed.
Today, we’re told that watching moderate amounts of pornography will shrink your brain. 
The claim arrives courtesy of a brain imaging paper published last month in JAMA Psychiatry, a respected medical journal."

The Stench Of Crony Capitalist Corruption At GM

The Stench Of Crony Capitalist Corruption At GM | David Stockman's Contra Corner
But this episode is not about culpability for one failed part—especially since it now appears that GM is close to achieving the recall of every single car it has ever made in the last several decades.
The real issue is the corruption of crony capitalism.

An out-of-control, dysfunctional, dangerous, red-ink bleeding industrial dinosaur like GM should have been put out of its misery in Chapter 11 in 2008.
After all, folks, GM did manage to loose the stunning sum of $85 billion during the five years leading up to 2008, and it did so after selling 35 million vehicles at total revenues of nearly $1 trillion. 
No industrial managers have ever—before or since—managed to accomplish such an economic fiasco.
So instead of being resuscitated with $50 billion of taxpayer money, there should have been a giant house-cleaning at the top. 
The entire corpus of management should have been unceremoniously fired, stripped of their perks, pensions and  other retirements and pursued relentlessly by the creditors for their insuperable incompetence. 

10 Worst Business Decisions Ever Made

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Fox Wants Profits Now; We Don't Care About The Future

We are sure that the senior board members at 20th Century Fox still can't get to sleep properly. When George Lucas decided to take a pay cut of $20,000 in exchange for all the merchandisingrights for the Star Wars franchise (and the rights to the sequels as well) Fox jumped at the offer to save some bucks. Since then, the Star Wars movies have grossed over $4 billion in DVD and VHS sales, and the merchandise has raked in $12 billion in revenue. To be fair to Fox,merchandising wasn't very lucrative at that time. Their decision cost them dearly though.

Nancy Pelosi Believes the IRS Story About Computer Crashes and Lost Emails | TheBlaze.com

Nancy Pelosi Believes the IRS Story About Computer Crashes and Lost Emails | TheBlaze.com: "Asked about the lost emails, Pelosi said her recommendation is not to investigate the IRS further, but to buy the IRS a new computer system. Along the way, she indicated she buys the IRS story about the computer crash, one that many Republicans immediately dismissed as a lie."

It's officially Muskegon Summer!