History for September 8

History for September 8 - On-This-Day.com:
Richard the Lionhearted (England) 1157, Antonin Dvorak 1841, Sid Caesar 1922 


Peter Sellers 1925, Patsy Cline 1932, Jonathan Taylor Thomas 1981 


1565 - A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, FL. 


1664 - The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who then renamed it New York. 


1935 - U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was shot and mortally wounded. He died two days later. 


1945 - Bess Myerson of New York was crowned Miss America. She was the first Jewish contestant to win the title. 


1952 - The Ernest Hemingway novel "The Old Man and the Sea" was published. 



1960 - NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, was dedicated by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The facility had been activated in July earlier that year. 


1966 - NBC-TV aired the first episode of "Star Trek" entitled "The Man Trap". The show was canceled on September 2, 1969. 


1974 - U.S. President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former U.S. President Nixon. 


1997 - America Online acquired CompuServe. 

Alaska Native Wants To Ask Barack Obama 1 Simple Question... It's Going Viral

Alaska Native Wants To Ask Barack Obama 1 Simple Question... It's Going Viral:

"On Sunday, President Barack Obama officially renamed Mount McKinley in Alaska to Denali, after years of protests by indigenous tribes who wanted its name changed.

However, not all Alaskans are happy with the change. Bristol Palin questioned Obama’s decision in a passionate blog post at Patheos."

Unemployed Labor Day

Nate Jackson: Unemployed Labor Day — The Patriot Post:
"...In his weekly address for Labor Day weekend, Barack Obama boasted of “the longest streak of job creation on record.”
Indeed, Friday’s jobs report had some good headline numbers — who could argue with 5.1% unemployment?
But the underlying story isn’t so hot.
As we noted Friday, black unemployment is at 9.5%, which increased 0.4% from July.
And as has been true throughout the Obama “recovery,” much of the decline in the overall unemployment rate was caused by people leaving the workforce.
The labor force participation rate remained at 62.6% — the lowest level since 1977 — and there are a record 94 million Americans not in the workforce..."

Here’s the Video Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Took While Tracking a U.S. Aircraft Carrier | Video | TheBlaze.com

Here’s the Video Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Took While Tracking a U.S. Aircraft Carrier | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Iranian state television last year aired a documentary simulating attacks on U.S. aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf titled “The Nightmare of Vultures.”

Last week, a top Iranian cleric said the U.S. continues to be the “number one enemy” of his country, despite the nuclear agreement reached with the U.S. and five world powers.

The nuclear deal should not “change our foreign policy” regarding the U.S., “our number one enemy, whose crimes are uncountable,” said Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, the head of the Assembly of Experts which elects Iran’s supreme leader."


Our government continues to betray us.  Not one penny should be sent to Iran.  They taunt us and we hand them money which will be used against us.  
The executive cares nothing for our country.  His actions tell the truth.  He has brought nothing but shame to the American people.

A Survey Not Designed to Measure Defensive Gun Use Finds Little of It

A Survey Not Designed to Measure Defensive Gun Use Finds Little of It - Hit & Run : Reason.com
A study in the latest issue of Preventive Medicine estimates that less than 1 percent of crime victims use guns in self-defense. 
The authors, Harvard health policy professor David Hemenway and University of Vermont economist Sara Solnick, find that using a gun seems to be effective at reducing property loss but "is not associated with a reduced risk of victim injury."
It will surprise no one familiar with the long-running debate about defensive gun use (DGU) that the source of the data for this study is the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which consistently generates much lower DGU estimates than other surveys do. 
At least some of that gap can be plausibly explained by weaknesses in the NCVS that Hemenway and Solnick do not seriously address or, for the most part, even mention.
...They do mention that the survey includes "no specific questions about self-defense gun use."
That's a pretty big flaw for a study aimed at measuring self-defense gun use, which the NCVS isn't.

350 lb Liberal Says its Tax Payers Fault She is Fat and They Owe Her More Money

350 lb Liberal Says its Tax Payers Fault She is Fat and They Owe Her More Money
A 350 pound mother-of-two, who lives on taxpayers money, says she needs more of their money to overhaul her unhealthy lifestyle.
Christina Briggs, 26, from Wigan, says she hates being 350 pounds but she can’t do anything about it because she can only afford junk food.
Briggs claim exercise is out of the question because she doesn’t have the funds to join a gym.
The only alternative left?
More taxpayers money.
Christina Briggs gets £20,000, roughly $32,274.60 US Dollars, each year from taxpayers.
She feels her only hope is for the government to give her more money so she can afford to buy fruit and vegetables and join a gym.
She also believes that taxpayers should pay her to lose weight as that would give her the motivation to fight the flab.
She currently lives in a council house with her two children by different fathers, Helena, 10, and Robert, two.

Chicago shootings and homicides in 2015

Chicago shootings and homicides in 2015 - Chicago Tribune

Policeman Makes Stunning Move On Black Man... Leaves Him In Tears In His Car

Policeman Makes Stunning Move On Black Man... Leaves Him In Tears In His Car:

"Dwayne Bryant is an educator who was on his way to Battle Creek, Michigan, to speak before a teacher’s conference. He was a little eager to get there, however — going 20 miles per hour over the speed limit in a rental car.

When a police officer pulled him over in Indiana, Bryant — who is black — figured he might get the same treatment he’d heard about in the media. However, in a Facebook post, he mentioned how things went a little differently than he imagined."

Bolton: Released Emails Prove Hillary Responsible for Murder of Americans in Benghazi

Bolton: Released Emails Prove Hillary Responsible for Murder of Americans in Benghazi - Breitbart: "Friday at the 2015 Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Oklahoma, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, John Bolton, said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is “responsible for the tragedy of the murder of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans,” in the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi Libya.
Bolton said, “I think the most telling information that we have seen in this limited number of emails is that there are repeated examples of Secretary of State Clinton being told in 2011 and 2012 that the security situation of our personnel in Tripoli and Benghazi was very precarious. 
The country’s government had fallen apart—that the threat from terrorist attacks was high and that our people were very concerned about it.”
He continued, “Now you’ll recall in her limited public appearances to date that she has said, you know, I don’t get involved in that security stuff, you know, I have people that do that.
Well I have to say when I heard that I was stunned. I’ve worked for six different secretaries of state, everyone of them coming from very different backgrounds, every one of them cared about the safety of the Americans who worked for them in the State Department.
And not one of them would have missed the danger that our diplomats in Libya faced.
And this was called to her attention repeatedly and she didn’t do anything about it.
So When we ask the question, who is responsible for the tragedy of the murder of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, there is a very clear answer. 
It was Hillary Clinton.”
He added, “She said she didn’t know the security situation in Libya , these documents alone, these are  the first documents, it’s only going to get worse after this, after the other documents come out, but these documents alone, we know she was advised repeatedly  about how dangerous it was.”"

Las Vegas Cop Shot ‘Ambush-Style’ While Sitting in Patrol Car at Traffic Light; Officer Hit in Hand, in Stable Condition (UPDATED) | TheBlaze.com

Las Vegas Cop Shot ‘Ambush-Style’ While Sitting in Patrol Car at Traffic Light; Officer Hit in Hand, in Stable Condition (UPDATED) | TheBlaze.com:

"When the shooting started, the officers figured their patrol car had been rear-ended by another vehicle, McMahill explained. When they knew they were being fired at, he said they exited the cruiser and one officer chased down and arrested the suspect. The man had ditched a Springfield handgun which was later located, McMahill said.

Police officers have been going on patrol in pairs since Friday’s shooting for safety reasons, he said."

Video of the Day – Three Former U.S. Treasury Secretaries and a Facebook Executive Laugh About Income Inequality

Video of the Day – Three Former U.S. Treasury Secretaries and a Facebook Executive Laugh About Income Inequality | Liberty Blitzkrieg:
"If there was ever a “let them eat cake” moment in modern American history, this is it.
Earlier this year, at 2015’s Milken Institute Global Conference, Facebook Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg, was moderating a panel with three former U.S. Treasury Secretaries.
The topic of income inequality was raised, and they all burst out laughing. 
The biggest uproar came from the man who orchestrated the 2008 banker bailouts, former Goldman Sachs CEO, Hank Paulson, as Sandberg enthusiastically claps her hands like a privileged, primped out Panem aristocrat. 
To the right of Hank is Clinton puppeteer Robert Rubin, and all the way to the left, Timmy Geithner.
You have to see it, to believe it:

In case you forgot, Sheryl Sandberg, was the woman who started the idiotic campaign last year to ban the word bossy. 
See: The Chief Operating Officer of Facebook Wants to Ban the Word “Bossy”.
Because it’s always necessary to distract the ignorant public with meaningless campaigns while you rob them blind..."

Republicans Hit Back Against House Dem’s Push to Disband Benghazi Committee: If He ‘Truly Cared…’ | TheBlaze.com

Republicans Hit Back Against House Dem’s Push to Disband Benghazi Committee: If He ‘Truly Cared…’ | TheBlaze.com:

"As Rep. Adam Schiff called for the end of the investigative House committee on Benghazi he sits on, Republicans questioned just how much time Schiff has devoted to the committee.

Schiff, who penned his frustration with the House’s Select Committee on Benghazi in a New York Times editorial Friday, slammed the committee for being “little more than a partisan tool to influence the presidential race” and detailed his apprehension when asked to join the committee. However, House Republicans had an important note to underscore Schiff’s complaints — the California Democrat has only attended one out of the more than 45 Benghazi interviews."

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, a telling correction: …

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History for September 7

History for September 7 - On-This-Day.com:
Elizabeth I (England) 1533, Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses) 1860, Taylor Caldwell 1900 


Michael DeBakey 1908, Elia Kazan 1909, David Packard 1912 


Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley) 1936 - Singer, Richard Roundtree 1942, Gloria Gaynor 1949 


1813 - The nickname "Uncle Sam" was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States. The reference appeared in an editorial in the New York's Troy Post. 


1880 - George Ligowsky was granted a patent for his device that threw clay pigeons for trapshooters. 


1915 - Johnny Gruelle received a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll. (U.S. Patent D47789) 


1921 - Margaret Gorman of Washington, DC, was crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City, NJ. 



1940 - London received its initial rain of bombs from Nazi Germany during World War II. 


1963 - The National Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, OH. 


1966 - The final episode of the original "The Dick Van Dyke Show" was aired on CBS-TV. 


1971 - "The Beverly Hillbillies" was seen for the final time on CBS-TV. 


1977 - The Panama Canal treaties were signed by U.S. President Carter and General Omar Torrijos Herrera. The treaties called for the U.S. to turn over control of the canal's waterway to Panama in the year 2000. 


1979 - ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, made its debut on cable TV. 

Read the Contract the Islamic State Group Is Forcing Christians to Sign in Syria | TheBlaze.com

Read the Contract the Islamic State Group Is Forcing Christians to Sign in Syria | TheBlaze.com:

"As it placed severe restrictions on the practice of Christianity, the jihadist group had a clause in the contract enforcing “respect” for Islam.

“They must respect Muslims and not criticize their religion,” the contract stated.

MEMRI reported that in exchange for the tax and abiding by the rules, the Islamic State committed to protect them and their property, noting they would not be forced to convert.

These were the 11 articles of the contract, as translated by MEMRI"

Key Democrat Comes Out Against Iran Deal Which He Says ‘Legitimizes Iran’s Nuclear Program’ | TheBlaze.com

Key Democrat Comes Out Against Iran Deal Which He Says ‘Legitimizes Iran’s Nuclear Program’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Cardin’s move doesn’t affect the ultimate outcome for the international accord to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions in exchange for relief from economic sanctions. The White House already clinched the necessary Senate votes to ensure that even if Obama ends up having to veto a disapproval resolution set for a vote next week, his veto would be upheld.

But with that support in hand and more piling up, the White House and congressional backers of the deal had begun aiming for a more ambitious goal: enough commitments to bottle up the disapproval resolution in the Senate with a filibuster, preventing it from even coming to a final vote.

With Cardin’s announcement, that goal remains in reach, but it will be tougher to attain."

At Stockyards, Ted Cruz vows to get rid of IRS, Iran deal, health care act | Dallas Morning News

At Stockyards, Ted Cruz vows to get rid of IRS, Iran deal, health care act | Dallas Morning News:

"For about 30 minutes, Cruz thrilled the home-state crowd with promises to repeal the Affordable Care Act, reverse President Barack Obama’s pending Iran nuclear agreement, rebuild the military and abolish the IRS.

Cruz said that if he’s elected, the IRS would become unnecessary because he would develop a simple flat tax for all Americans. Then he joked about what to do with the 90,000 IRS employees left without an agency.

“We need to padlock that building and take all 90,000 and put them on our southern border,” he said."

This is what's important to democrats. Get it?. Nothing else?-----Marriage Equality T-Shirt | The Democrats Store

Marriage Equality T-Shirt | The Democrats Store:

College Board: Only 42% of high school grads are 'college ready' - The College Fix

College Board: Only 42% of high school grads are 'college ready' - The College Fix:
The average score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) for 2015 was 1490, a decrease of seven points from last year and “the lowest performance since the 2,400-point scale was developed nearly a decade ago.”
Students dropped in all three areas of the test — reading, writing, and math.
The College Board, which makes the exam, will introduce a newly designed assessment for 2016.
...On both the SAT and ACT, scores were lower for underrepresented minorities than for white students who took the exams.
RELATED: Universities drop SAT requirement in effort to ‘diversify’ their campuses
...On the ACT, just 6 percent of African-American students and 15 percent of Latinos were college ready, according to the benchmarks for all four subjects.
To address “concerns over unequal access to test preparation” the College Board will team with the Khan Academy in offering free online practice tests.

Canada’s polar bear population booming

Canada’s polar bear population booming:
"Since the 1970’s, sea ice in Canada’s western Hudson Bay has declined noticeably, alarming some about the fate of polar bears in the region.
Now come two studies indicating such fears were unfounded.
As reported in the Journal of Wildlife Management, scientists from Ontario’s Lakewood University as well as the US Geological Survey have discovered that polar bear numbers, far from being depleted by alleged global warming, are actually increasing at a rapid rate.
In 1993 there were 1,400 polar bears in the region.
Today that number has hit nearly 2,200.
In fact the increase in bears has created a new worry for scientists: namely that there are too many of them, now exceeding the area’s carrying capacity."

Clinton Says Her Family Paid State Department Employee to Maintain Private Email Server | TheBlaze.com

Clinton Says Her Family Paid State Department Employee to Maintain Private Email Server | TheBlaze.com:

"Clinton said Bryan Pagliano continued to receive payment for his technical service “for a period of time.”

Pagliano has told a House committee investigating Clinton’s use of the email server that he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination if called to testify.

The Democratic frontrunner for president addressed the email issue when she spoke with reporters Saturday after a campaign evening in Portsmouth, New Hampshire."

A College Student Tried to Ban the American Flag. Here’s How He Answered a Few ‘Gotcha Questions.’

A College Student Tried to Ban the American Flag. Here’s How He Answered a Few ‘Gotcha Questions.’:
Remember back in March, when six UC Irvine students made the decision to remove the American flag from the lobby of the student government?

The Associated Students of the University of California, Irvine (ASUCI) legislative council vote was 6-4, with two students choosing not to vote.

The resolution, written by student Matthew Guevara, read in part:

“Flags construct paradigms of conformity and sets homogenized standards for others to obtain which in this country typically are idolized as freedom, equality, and democracy…freedom of speech, in a space that aims to be as inclusive as possible can be interpreted as hate speech.”

Less than a week later, the resolution was vetoed by the ASUCI Executive Cabinet.

Thankfully, this sideshow isn’t over, as political satirist Ami Horowitz recently interviewed Matthew Guevara, and the results are as spectacular as anyone could have hoped.

Ami Horowitz began simply:

Horowitz: “Tell me the environment created when the American flag was kinda hanging there in that room.”

Guevara: “It was creating a very hostile environment…”

Horowitz then set up a perfect logical trap:

Horowitz: “What people don’t understand is that sometimes to be inclusive, you have to exclude things you don’t like.”

Guevara: “Exactly…sometimes you have to exclude things.”

And got Guevara to admit some dark stuff:

Horowitz: “You’d be equally uncomfortable with the Nazi flag, or the ISIS flag in that room, correct?”

Guevara: “Yeah. Yeah, no question about it.”

Horowitz: “Can you identify evil in this world?”

Guevara: “The U.S.”

Lastly, Horowitz set another trap–this time, getting Guevara to directly contradict himself:

Horowitz: “Where are your parents from?”

Guevara: “Mexico.”

Horowitz: “And why did they come to the United States?”

Guevara: “To try and find work, a better life. The ‘American Dream.'”

Horowitz: “Instead, they found this oppressive American country.”

Guevara: “There is no such thing as class mobility. That’s an illusion.”

Horowitz: “Your mother, she must be so proud that her son is going to a major university…”

Guevara’s not the only one, either. A petition was created in support of Guevara’s resolution after it was vetoed. That petition was signed by over 1,900 people, including at least 23 professors from various institutions, not to mention numerous assistant and associate professors.

BOMBSHELL: Ex-CIA Officer Admits the Truth About Obama... This Confirms Our Worst Fears

BOMBSHELL: Ex-CIA Officer Admits the Truth About Obama... This Confirms Our Worst Fears:

"Approximately one year ago, former CIA agent Clare Lopez — whose additional credentials are frankly too long to list  here — revealed something stunning to WND about President Barack Hussein Obama that seems more relevant today than ever before.

Specifically, Lopez revealed that Obama had switched sides in the war on terror and adopted the same goals as deceased terrorist Osama bin Laden, who aspired “to remove American power and influence, including military forces, from Islamic lands.”"

North Korea Has a Meth Problem, an Unstable Leader—and Nukes

North Korea Has a Meth Problem, an Unstable Leader—and Nukes | The Fiscal Times:
"We already know that North Korea has nuclear weapons, an insecure and possibly unstable leader, and a habit of lashing out with borderline-insane threats whenever it feels threatened.
Now it has a crystal meth crisis.
This can’t end well.
The recent admission of a British citizen that he had participated in a plan to move 100 kilograms of high-purity crystal methamphetamine from the hermit kingdom of North Korea to the U.S. raises all sorts of questions.
But for most people, the first one that pops up is, “Wait, North Korea has a crystal meth problem?”
It turns out it does, and it’s pretty serious. 
According to reporting done by a number of international news organizations, the movement of crystal meth over the country’s northern border and into China reached epidemic levels earlier this year, causing a brutal crackdown by the government on one of the very few elements of the nation’s economy that the government doesn’t control.
The official response was not widely advertised, no doubt because the official line out of leader Kim Jong Un’s government is that there is absolutely no drug use in North Korea..."

Breitbart - One Voice Silenced, Millions...

Breitbart - One Voice Silenced, Millions... - Breitbart - One Voice Silenced, Millions Awakened

What's "duh" in Spanish?-----Study finds more immigrants equals more Democrats --- and more losses for GOP

Study finds more immigrants equals more Democrats --- and more losses for GOP | Washington Examiner:
"Republicans are famously divided on immigration reform, but Democrats pretty much unanimously support it. 
There's a reason for that.
In stark, partisan political terms, continuing the high level of immigration of recent decades, and certainly increasing immigration as envisioned by many reformers, will result in more Democrats winning more elections in coming years.
"Immigrants, particularly Hispanics and Asians, have policy preferences .. .more closely aligned with progressives than with conservatives."
"The enormous flow of legal immigrants into the country — 29.5 million from 1980 to 2012 — has remade and continues to remake the nation's electorate in favor of the Democratic Party," concludes a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies, which opposes comprehensive reform proposals like the Senate "Gang of Eight" bill.
"As the immigrant population has grown, Republican electoral prospects have dimmed, even after controlling for alternative explanations of GOP performance."
A 2012 study of 2,900 foreign-born, naturalized immigrants cited in the report showed that about 62 percent identified themselves as Democrats, while 25 percent identified as Republicans, and 13 percent identified as independents.
At this moment, according to the report, there are an estimated 8.7 million immigrants in the U.S. who are eligible for naturalization..."