History for April 17

History for April 17 - On-This-Day.com
J.P. (John Pierpoint) Morgan 1837 - Financier, Thornton Wilder 1897 - Novelist, playwright, William Holden (Beedle Jr.) 1918 - Actor ("Stalag 17 [1953]", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "The Towering Inferno")


Don Kirshner 1934 - Music publisher, created The Monkees, Sean Bean 1958 - Actor ("Goldeneye", "The Lord of the Rings" series), Victoria Beckham (Victoria Caroline Adams) 1974 - Singer (Posh Spice of the Spice Girls)


1946 - The last French troops left Syria.


1961 - About 1,400 U.S.-supported Cuban exiles invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. It was an unsuccessful attack.


1964 - The Ford Motor Company unveiled its new Mustang model.


1969 - In Los Angeles, Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.


1969 - Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek was deposed.


1970 - Apollo 13 returned to Earth safely after an on-board accident with an oxygen tank.


1993 - A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted two former police officers of violating the civil rights of beaten motorist Rodney King. Two other officers were acquitted.


1996 - Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing their parents.

Nikki Haley to Russia on Future Gas Attacks in Syria: ‘The United States Is Locked and Loaded’

Nikki Haley to Russia on Future Gas Attacks in Syria: ‘The United States Is Locked and Loaded’:

 "Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, said Saturday at the second emergency meeting in as many days that the overnight strike against Syrian infrastructure was justified “to deter the use of chemical weapons.”
Haley gave Russia a stern warning about the Syrian regime’s future use of chemical weapons, a warning she said came directly from President Donald Trump."

The way we were-----Millie Small My Boy Lollipop Original) YouTube

Boob-tube-----FORGOTTEN TV COMEDY, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s.

New American History school textbook slams Trump supporters: 'Afraid of rapidly developing ethnic diversity of country' - The American MirrorThe American Mirror

New American History school textbook slams Trump supporters: 'Afraid of rapidly developing ethnic diversity of country' - The American MirrorThe American Mirror:
"American schools are the battlefield for our children’s minds and progressives are in charge of it all, from writing the textbooks, to those reading them aloud in class.
Indianapolis talk radio host Alex On-Air posted several examples on Twitter from the Advanced Placement edition of “By The People: A History of the United States,” published by textbook giant Pearson which has a copyright of 2019.

Reading like an Op-Ed from the New York Times or The Nation, the book says of the 2016 election:

Trump’s supporters saw the vote as a victory for the people who, like themselves, had been forgotten in a fast-changing America–a mostly older, often rural or suburban, and overwhelmingly white group. Clinton’s supporters feared that the election had been determined by people who were afraid of a rapidly developing ethnic diversity of the country, discomfort with their candidate’s gender, and nostalgia for an earlier time in the nation’s history. They also worried about the mental instability of the president-elect and the anger that he and his supporters brought to the nation.

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The Last-Ditch Battle to Protect Racial Preferences in California | Minding The Campus

The Last-Ditch Battle to Protect Racial Preferences in California | Minding The Campus:
"...The reason was that most of the preferred students were not academically competitive in the law schools to which they’d been admitted. 
They tended to drop out, rank low in their law school classes and passed the state bar exam at lower rates than did minority students who had attended less prestigious law schools.
Sander wrote, “Most black law applicants end up at schools where they will struggle academically and fail at higher rates than they would in the absence of preferences.”
Sander had touched a raw nerve.
Defenders of the affirmative action orthodoxy sprang to attack Sander’s research (e.g., this article by David Chambers and other law professors) and Sander quickly took them on here...
...Pacific Legal Foundation’s brief points out the obvious truth that “race-preference advocates criticize Professor Sander’s research for not having an appropriate data set, while at the same time they try at all costs to restrict his access to that data.”
In other words, the State Bar has acted in bad faith, using every trick in the legal book to keep Sander (and the public) from seeing that racial preferences have adverse effects..."
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EXCLUSIVE – Jeff Landry: Accurate Census Protects Our Republic

EXCLUSIVE – Jeff Landry: Accurate Census Protects Our Republic:

"Furthermore, the reinstatement restores the rule of law. The Supreme Court has held that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act prohibits “vote dilution” by state and local jurisdictions engaged in redistricting, which can occur when a racial group is improperly deprived of a single-member district in which it could form a majority. Multiple federal courts of appeals have held that, where citizenship rates are at issue in a vote-dilution case, citizen voting-age population is the proper metric for determining whether a racial group could constitute a majority in a single-member district."

Europe's Civilizational Exhaustion

Europe's Civilizational Exhaustion

• Islam is filling the cultural vacuum of a society with no children and which believes -- wrongly -- it has no enemies.
• In Sweden, by 2050, almost one in three people will be Muslim.
• The European mainstream mindset now seems to believe that "evil" comes only from our own sins: racism, sexism, elitism, xenophobia, homophobia, the guilt of the heterosexual white Western male -- and never from non-European cultures. Europe now postulates an infinite idealization of the "other", above all the migrant.
• A tiredness seems to be why these countries do not take meaningful measures to defeat jihadism, such as closing Salafist mosques or expelling radical imams.
• Muslim extremists understand this advantage: so long as they avoid another enormous massacre like 9/11, they will be able to continue taking away human lives and undermining the West without awakening it from its inertia.

In a prophetic conference held in Vienna on May 7, 1935, the philosopher Edmund Husserl said, "The greatest danger to Europe is tiredness". 
Eighty years later, the same fatigue and passivity still dominate Western European societies.
It is the sort of exhaustion that we see in Europeans' falling birth rates, the mushrooming public debt, chaos in the streets, and Europe's refusal to invest resources in its security and military might..."
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Pictured: French police eject some of the 80 migrants and pro-illegal-immigration activists who occupied the Basilica of Saint Denis, on March 18, 2018. (Image source: Video screenshot, YouTube/Kenyan News & Politics)

Bumped from 2016!-----MuskegonPundit: Flint lead crisis getting a tad overdone

MuskegonPundit: Flint lead crisis getting a tad overdone: 
"Flint lead crisis getting a tad overdone: David Mastio
Before hitting the panic button, remember we are winning the war on lead poisoning
Now that the leaching of poisonous lead into the tap water of Flint, Mich., has been declared a national emergency, it might be time to dial back the panic just a notch (or two).
Flint's 8,000 children have not had their lives destroyed. 
Jesse Jackson can roll up his crime tape.
Michael Moore can go back to promoting his latest film.
Taken as a whole,  in fact, Flint's kids are better off than the previous generations of Michigander kids in at least one important way. 
Even after Flint’s disaster, the city’s children have far less lead in their blood than their parents or grandparents did at the same age.
...But amid the furor, it's important to take a deep breath and put the exposure levels in context.
Less lead than 10 years ago
In 2005, Michigan completed the years-long process of collecting 500,000 lead blood tests from children in the state under 6. 
Back then, 26% of kids tested — that's more than one in four — had blood lead levels (5 micrograms per deciliter or greater) that would cause concern today. 
In the hardest hit parts of Flint now, only 10.6% of kids have such concerning levels of lead in their blood.
How can that be?
...In the late 1970s, 88% of Americans ages 1 to 5 had at least 10 micrograms per deciliter of lead in their blood, or twice as much as today's level of concern.
By the early 1990s, only 4.4% of children were exposed to so much lead..."
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Lunch video-----Larry King Live: Kevin Hickey discusses Juanita Broaddrick

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Nikki Haley warns U.S. chemical weapons attack 'could easily happen' - Washington Times

Nikki Haley warns U.S. chemical weapons attack 'could easily happen' - Washington Times:

"U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said a chemical weapons attack “could very easily happen” on American soil.
“We have to be very conscious of the fact that we can’t allow even the smallest use of chemical weapons,” Ms. Haley said on “Fox News Sunday.”“That’s why you saw the president strike this past weekend, that’s why you saw him expel 60 Russian spies after the attack in Salisbury. This very easily could happen in the United States if we’re not smart and if we’re not conscious of what’s happening.”"

Dreamers In The News | Human Events

Dreamers In The News | Human Events:
"...To make up for the Fourth Estate’s failure, this week, I’ll highlight five Dreamers who have done noteworthy things just in the last month.

• The Bounceback Child Rapist

A few weeks ago, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement caught up with Dreamer Anastacio Eugenio Lopez-Fabian, 24, in a courthouse parking lot in Oregon. Police in Seaside, Oregon, had arrested Lopez-Fabian for multiple rapes of a girl “younger than 14,” assault and harassment.
Law enforcement then released Lopez-Fabian the day of his arrest, without notifying I.C.E., despite the fact that he had already been deported twice to his native Guatemala, in 2013 and 2014.
Apart from conservative websites — and Britain’s indispensable Daily Mail! — this story made only the local press.

• The Butterfingered Gun Slinger

Also two weeks ago, Dreamer Jaime Melchi-Sigas, 22, pleaded guilty to the federal offenses of unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of a counterfeit alien registration card. Melchi-Sigas was already serving time in a state prison for reckless homicide and tampering with physical evidence..."
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#1 Movie This week 1982-----TOOTSIE - Trailer ( 1982 )

Most Chemical Attacks in Syria Get Little Attention. Here Are 34 Confirmed Cases. - The New York Times

Most Chemical Attacks in Syria Get Little Attention. Here Are 34 Confirmed Cases. - The New York Times:

"...But if chemical weapons were used in the attack — which Mr. Trump blamed on the Syrian government as well as its Russian and Iranian allies — it would be the latest in a string of such attacks in Syria in the last five years. Syria, Russia and Iran all denied that the Syrian government used chemical weapons.

The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic says it has confirmed at least 34 chemical attacks since 2013, many of which it said used chlorine or sarin, a nerve agent, and were conducted by the Syrian government...

Hasaka

Sheikh Maqsood

Saraqib

Raqqa

Aleppo

Kafr

Zeita

Latakia

Tamana

Deir al-Zour

Khan

Sheikhoun

SYRIA

Homs

Palmyra

50 MILES

Chemical Attacks

Confirmed in Syria

Douma

An attack here killed

about 70 people on April 7

Sarin

Damascus

Chlorine

A 2013 sarin attack

in Ghouta killed

1,400 people

Chemical not specified

The U.S. launched a strike against

a Syrian air base in response to

this sarin attack on Khan Sheikhoun.

At least eight attacks

were confirmed in

April 2014

2013

2014

2015

Data unavailable

2016

2017

The New York Times |Source: Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic

It is likely that there have been more than these 34 confirmed chemical attacks in Syria..."

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#1 This day 1961-----The Marcels - Blue Moon

Harvey, the first domino in Illinois: Data shows 400 other pensions funds could trigger garnishment – Wirepoints Special Report | Wirepoints

Harvey, the first domino in Illinois: Data shows 400 other pensions funds could trigger garnishment – Wirepoints Special Report | Wirepoints:
"You’d be mistaken to think Harvey, Illinois has a unique pension crisis. 
It may be the first, and its problems may be the most severe, but the reality is the mess is everywhere, from East St. Louis to Rockford and from Quincy to Danville. 
A review of Illinois Department of Insurance pension data shows that Harvey could be just the start of a flood of garnishments across the state (click here to see the list).

Harvey made the news last year when an Illinois court ordered the municipality to hike its property taxes to properly fund the Harvey firefighter pension fund, which is just 22 percent funded.

Now, the state has stepped in on behalf of Harvey’s police pension fund. 

The state comptroller has begun garnishing the city’s tax revenues to make up what the municipality failed to contribute. 

In response, the city has announced that 40 public safety employees will be laid off..."

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NEVER AGAIN? On Yom Hashoah, Poll Shows Two Thirds Of Millennials Don't Know What Auschwitz Was | Daily Wire

NEVER AGAIN? On Yom Hashoah, Poll Shows Two Thirds Of Millennials Don't Know What Auschwitz Was | Daily Wire:

"According to a new survey released on Thursday by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, fully 41 percent of Americans don’t know what Auschwitz was, including two-thirds of Millennials. Approximately 22 percent of Millennials had not heard of the Holocaust, and 41 percent of Millennials thought 2 million or fewer Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.

This is troubling stuff."

Trump Tax Cuts Mostly Pay For Themselves | Power Line

Trump Tax Cuts Mostly Pay For Themselves | Power Line:
"Investors Business Daily has an excellent editorial on the macroeconomic effects of the recently-enacted tax reform bill. It highlights, once again, the peril of uncritically parroting top-line Congressional Budget Office analyses:

When the Congressional Budget Office released its updated budget forecast, everyone focused on the deficit number. But buried in the report was the CBO’s tacit admission that it vastly overestimated the cost of the Trump tax cuts, because it didn’t account for the strong economic growth they would generate.

Among the many details in the report, the one reporters focused on was the CBO’s forecast that the federal deficit would top $1 trillion in 2020, two years earlier than the CBO had previously said.

And, naturally, most news accounts blamed the tax cuts. “U.S. budget deficit to balloon on Republican tax cuts” is how Reuters put it in a headline.

Of course they did! But Reuters will never headline, “Republican tax cuts fuel economic growth.”

But there’s more to the story that the media overlooked.

First, the CBO revised its economic forecast sharply upward this year and next.

Last June, the CBO said GDP growth for 2018 would be just 2%. Now it figures growth will be 3.3% — a significant upward revision. It also boosted its forecast for 2019 from a meager 1.5% to a respectable 2.4%.

“Underlying economic conditions have improved in some unexpected ways since June,” the CBO says.

“Unexpectedly!” as Glenn Reynolds likes to say..."

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History for April 16

History for April 16 - On-This-Day.com:
Wilbur Wright 1867 - Aviator, one of the Wright Brothers, Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles (Spencer) ‘Charlie’ Chaplin) 1889 - Actor, comedian, Sir Peter Ustinov 1921 - Actor


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) 1947 - Basketball player, Martin Lawrence 1965 - Actor, comedian, Lukas Haas 1976 - Actor


1922 - Annie Oakley shot 100 clay targets in a row, to set a women's record.


1943 - In Basel, Switzerland, chemist Albert Hoffman accidently discovered the the hallucinogenic effects of LSD-25 while working on the medicinal value of lysergic acid.


1944 - The destroyer USS Laffey survived immense damage from attacks by 22 Japanese aircraft off Okinawa.


1951 - 75 people were killed when the British submarine Affray sank in the English Channel.


1972 - Two giant pandas arrived in the U.S. from China.


1975 - The Khmer Rouge Rebels won control of Cambodia after a five years of civil war. They renamed the country Kampuchea and began a reign of terror.


1992 - The House ethics committee listed 303 current and former lawmakers who had overdrawn their House bank accounts.


2007 - In Blacksburg, VA, a student killed 33 people at Virginia Tech before killing himself.

DOJ IG report shows the wisdom of firing FBI leaders McCabe and Comey | Fox News

DOJ IG report shows the wisdom of firing FBI leaders McCabe and Comey | Fox News:

"And the report shows that both McCabe and fired FBI Director James Comey deserved to be fired for presiding over a culture of unseemly leaks. The two plainly violated longstanding federal priorities, practices and policies. McCabe did so in the extreme, while Comey did so through a display of extraordinarily poor judgment, usurpation of power and abdication of leadership.

A thoughtful reading of the report shows that these FBI policies are sensible, sound and well-enforced."

They way we were-----Mary Hopkin ~ Those Were The Days (1968)

Boob-tube-----George Harrison - Smothers Brothers TV Appearance 1968

UK: Police refuse to investigate death threats to Islam critic because they claim she is “inciting hatred”

UK: Police refuse to investigate death threats to Islam critic because they claim she is “inciting hatred”

"Yet more disquieting evidence that the first priority of police in Britain is now enforcing Sharia blasphemy laws.

Jonaya Fenessa English explains in this video that she never speaks about Muslims, only about Islam, and never calls for violence. 

But that is not enough: that is also true of Pamela Geller and me, and we were banned from Britain. 

Any criticism of Islam, no matter how mild, no matter how accurate, is now out of bounds in Britain.

At one point in this video, Jonaya shows an email where she asked police: “You have literally just told me that I might get in trouble for criticising Islam but you’re not going to investigate a terrorist because of freedom of speech…that is actually stunning.”

No one in particular is paying any attention, but the darkness of totalitarianism is descending upon Britain with astonishing rapidity."

Stunning! Attorney Argues It was Fault of Trump Supporters That They Were Beaten, Cold-Cocked, Egged, Bloodied After San Jose Rally

Stunning! Attorney Argues It was Fault of Trump Supporters That They Were Beaten, Cold-Cocked, Egged, Bloodied After San Jose Rally:
On Thursday, June 2, 2016, peaceful supporters of Donald Trump gathered at the San Jose Convention Center for a political rally in support of the Republican nominee.Twitter Ads info and privacyLittle did they know that outside the center radical leftists, Bernie supporters, Muslims, Mexican nationalists, anarchists, SEIU members and several hundred angry thugs were waiting to spit on them, chase them, assault them and beat them bloody.

...Another woman was cornered by a mob of Mexican nationalist chanting “F*ck you!” They beaned her in the facewith raw eggs and spit on her.

It was not until she lost her vision that the Marriott staff let her in.

Thanks Marriott!

(Note: The liberal Washington Post said she “taunted” them — by wearing a Trump shirt, smiling, and flashing the peace sign!)
They chased Trump supporters down the street.
They beat their heads.

Dozens of Trump supporters were beaten and bloodied...

On Monday the attorney for the City of San Jose argued that Trump supporters deserved their beatings and should not have left the arena if they didn’t want to get their faces smashed in.
...The attorney told the court the Trump supporters should have known they were in danger because Trump rallies are inherently dangerous. “Police did not make the plaintiffs go to the Trump rally. They didn’t make the protesters go to the Trump rally.”..

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Here's What London Police Recovered In A 'Weapons Sweep': Scissors, Pliers, And Screwdrivers | Daily Wire

Here's What London Police Recovered In A 'Weapons Sweep': Scissors, Pliers, And Screwdrivers | Daily Wire:

"Conservatives rightly pointed out that the new policy gives life to the age-old slippery slope scenario. Now that Britain has largely disarmed their populace of firearms, conservatives reason that knives are the next target. But even knives are not the problem, according to the Regents Park Police, who recently boasted on their Twitter account of confiscating a pair of scissors, some pliers and a screwdriver during a so-called "weapons sweep.""