History for May 1

History for May 1 - On-This-Day.com:
Kate Smith 1909 - Singer, Glen Ford 1916 - Actor ("Gilda", "The Courtship of Eddie's Father"), Jack Paar 1918 - Radio and television comedian, talk show host ("The Tonight Show")


Joseph Heller 1923 - Novelist, short story writer, playwright, Scott Carpenter 1925 - One of NASA's original seven astronauts, Judy Collins (Judith Marjorie "Judy" Collins) 1939 - Singer and songwriter


1707 - England, Wales and Scotland were united to form Great Britain.


1889 - Asa Candler published a full-page advertisement in The Atlanta Journal, proclaiming his wholesale and retail drug business as "sole proprietors of Coca-Cola ... Delicious. Refreshing. Exhilarating. Invigorating." Mr. Candler did not actually achieve sole ownership until 1891 at a cost of $2,300.


1944 - The Messerschmitt Me 262, the first combat jet, made its first flight.


1948 - The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was proclaimed.


1958 - James Van Allen reported that two radiation belts encircled Earth.


1960 - Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Powers was taken prisoner.


1961 - Fidel Castro announced there would be no more elections in Cuba.


2011 - U.S. President Barack Obama announced that U.S. soldiers had killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

What Is Planned Parenthood Hiding? Big Abortion Sues Indiana For Forcing It To Report Medical Complications and Submit to Inspections | American Center for Law and Justice

What Is Planned Parenthood Hiding? Big Abortion Sues Indiana For Forcing It To Report Medical Complications and Submit to Inspections | American Center for Law and Justice:

"Big Abortion is heading to an Indiana federal court to fight a new law that would force them to reveal any medical complications that take place inside their clinics.
Our question is, what are they hiding?
Sources report the new Indiana law requires medical centers that treat women to report complications from abortion procedures, as well as report detailed patient information to the state. A separate provision also requires annual inspections of abortion clinics."

The way we were-----The Rolling Stones - Let's Spend the Night Together

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How Intellectuals Train the Underclass to Feel Helpless | Intellectual Takeout

How Intellectuals Train the Underclass to Feel Helpless | Intellectual Takeout
"Recently a psychologist friend was singing a familiar refrain: "My clients want their problematical circumstances alleviated, but few want to change how they see the world.”
Most intransigent among his clients are those with government benefits and mandated weekly therapy. 
Some have been coming to him for years.
Their mindsets are characterized by hopelessness, but they have shelter and food and seem to be averse to change.
Going to therapy is a big event in their week.
Qualifying for benefits is important to them.
An oft-repeated question is, "Can you get me eligible for more benefits?"
They were unlikely to take steps to hold a steady job, since doing so is at odds with keeping their benefits..."
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There was no Trump-Russia collusion, but Putin achieved his goal | TheHill

There was no Trump-Russia collusion, but Putin achieved his goal | TheHill:
"The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has published its report on Russian "collusion" or, more accurately, on "Russian active measures," a phrase associated with the subversive methods used by the former Soviet Union to undermine Western democracies.
This isn't just anther congressional "memo." 
At more than 240 pages in length the, report took more than a year to write, with more than 70 witnesses interviewed, 300,000 documents reviewed and almost two dozen congressional subpoenas issued.
...Russia has been undermining Western democracies with "active measures" such as propaganda and disinformation for a very long time, yet, in 2015, Vladimir Putin initiated a specific influence campaign targeting the elections for U.S. president.
This was not done to assist a specific candidate but to "sow discord in American society and undermine our faith in the democratic process." 
And in this he was successful..."
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Canada Now Wants U.S. To Enforce Its Immigration Laws — To Protect Canada | Daily Wire

Canada Now Wants U.S. To Enforce Its Immigration Laws — To Protect Canada | Daily Wire:

"Canadian authorities, concerned with the increasing number of illegal immigrants now straining their resources, want the United States to do a better job enforcing its own immigration law and vetting visitors from Nigeria so that they don't eventually make their way to Canadian soil."

Student activists demand 'reparations': exclusion of white authors from humanities course - The College Fix

Student activists demand 'reparations': exclusion of white authors from humanities course - The College Fix: 
"After a year and a half of disruptions against a mandatory humanities course they say is too white, student protesters at Reed College got what they wanted.
And they’re not happy about it.
Reedies Against Racism argues that Humanities 110, “Introduction to Humanities: Greece and the Ancient Mediterranean,” has become even less diverse with the addition of texts from the Americas.
In an April 11 Facebook post, RAR said the remaining European texts in the course should be ditched in its first year and replaced with non-European texts “as reparations for Humanities 110’s history of erasing the histories of people of color, especially black people.”
...The revised Hum 110 will divide into four modules. 
New freshmen will learn about Athens and Rome in the first semester of the 2018-2019 school year. The second semester will feature Mexico City and Harlem, a change adopted by faculty in response to RAR demands..."
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Lift the gags in the pharmacy | Crain's Detroit Business

Lift the gags in the pharmacy | Crain's Detroit Business:
"It's time to take the gags off pharmacists and end a practice that makes it a disadvantage to have health insurance.
A push is underway in Lansing to free pharmacists to tell patients when there is a cheaper way to fill their prescriptions, and it deserves to succeed.
...The way gag rules work is this: Pharmacy benefit management companies, the middle men in the system who negotiate drug prices between insurers and pharmacies, insert a requirement into contracts that bans pharmacists from telling patients when the cash price for medicines is cheaper than the price when processed through insurance.
Often, patients will pay the full co-payment for drugs even if the cash price is lower than the co-pay. The pharmacy benefit manager typically pockets the difference, in a practice known as a "clawback."...
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Lunch video-----The WWII Cartoon Warner Bros. Doesn't Want You To See - World War Wings

The WWII Cartoon Warner Bros. Doesn't Want You To See - World War Wings
"They Can’t Make Cartoons Like This Anymore.
During the early 1940s war propaganda films were very common in American cinema, in fact they were so common that most of the animation studios began creating their own cartoons spoofing the war.

In August of 1942 Warner Bros. released a Looney Toons short titled “The Ducktators” satirizing Hitler and the Axis Powers. 

The cartoon features a barnyard full of ducks, geese and chickens living peacefully until a jet black egg hatches revealing a goose resembling Adolf Hitler. 

True to form the Hitler goose begins goose-stepping around the barnyard rallying ignorant ducks to his cause in a parody of Hitler’s rise to power..."

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Noon-toon-----Wondermark » Archive » #1395; In which Sooth is said

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Comey's version of the facts conflicts with the record - Washington Times

Comey's version of the facts conflicts with the record - Washington Times:

"Fired FBI director James Comey has provided a number of assertions about the Trump-Russia probe that conflict with the historical record.
Whether it involves who paid for the anti-Trump dossier, what Mr. Comey knew about the funding and when its author, Christopher Steele, first met with the FBI, the former director has provided his version of facts that critics say are wrong."

The Pentagon's Ray Gun Can Stall Cars - Slashdot

The Pentagon's Ray Gun Can Stall Cars - Slashdot
 Defense One:
The Defense Department's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program, or JNLWD, is pushing ahead with a new direct energy weapon that uses high-powered microwaves to stop cars in their tracks without damaging the vehicle, its driver, or anyone else. The jammer works by targeting the car's engine control unit causing it to reboot over and over, stalling the engine. Like an invisible hand, the microwaves hold the car in place. "Anything that has electronics on it, these high-powered microwaves will affect," David Law, who leads JNLWD's technology division, said in March. "As long as the [radio] is on, it holds the vehicle stopped."
It weighs 400 pounds -- it's the size of a large copy machine -- and uses 300 kilowatts of power that's generated by a gasoline-powered turbine.
"To deploy it, the driver would pull out in front of the attacker and turn it on."

#1 Movie this week 1949-----Little Women (1949) Trailer in Color

Here Are Three Scary FBI Scandal Factors You Must Know

Here Are Three Scary FBI Scandal Factors You Must Know
"There's an old Washington maxim about being careful because 'what goes around almost always comes back around'
There are three scary but crucial factors underlying the rapidly growing FBI scandal that most people miss, even though these factors are hidden in plain sight.
Recognizing and understanding this trio goes a long way toward explaining what has happened in the scandal — and where it is likely to go next.

• First, there’s Horowitz’s revenge. Virtually everybody in the nation’s capital is waiting either in fear or in eager anticipation for the upcoming investigative report of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz...Here’s why: The Inspectors General Act of 1978 authorizes the IGs and their investigators and auditors to obtain and examine any official document necessary to carrying out their responsibilities in fighting waste, fraud and corruption in government. Presidents appoint IGs — but those IGs report to Congress, making them an important component of congressional oversight of the executive branch. But a few months before Horowitz was sworn into the job in 2012, Eric Holder, Obama’s attorney general and previously deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton, gutted the IG act provision that mandates their access to all necessary documents. Holder acted at the behest of then-FBI Director Robert Mueller and others at the bureau.

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#1 This day 1966-----The Mamas & The Papas - Monday Monday

ISIS "is driving mass migration from Africa to send jihadists into Europe," "Syria was bad, but wait until a region with 500 million people is destabilised' - Geller Report

ISIS "is driving mass migration from Africa to send jihadists into Europe," "Syria was bad, but wait until a region with 500 million people is destabilised' - Geller Report:
"In February, the Islamic State warned us that they would send half a million Muslim migrants into Europe — an army against the West. 

...Leftist elite authoritarians, responsible for the ongoing catastrophe, scoffed at our warnings. Instead, they defamed and libeled my colleagues and me, while fictionalizing what was/is essentially the invasion of Europe.
Clear-thinking Americans saw what was happening in Europe, saw that the Democrats wanted that same horror for us, and took action — President Trump. 
...Pay heed, 2020 is just around the corner, and the Democrats have declared war. 
What better way to achieve their goals than by importing an army?

ISIS ‘is driving migration from Africa to send jihadists into Europe’: Senior UN figure warns – ‘If destabilising Syria was bad, wait until a region with 500 million people is destabilised’

• Fleeing ISIS leaders are ‘joining forces with fanatics in Africa’s Sahel region’
• Head of UN World Food Programme said extremists could drive a migration wave
• David Beasley warned jihadists could then ‘infiltrate’ Europe ‘and cause chaos’
• Sahel spans 3,360 miles across Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea

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Donald Trump to pull feds out of K-12 education - Washington Times

Donald Trump to pull feds out of K-12 education - Washington Times:

"President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to start pulling the federal government out of K-12 education, following through on a campaign promise to return school control to state and local officials.
The order, dubbed the “Education Federalism Executive Order,” will launch a 300-day review of Obama-era regulations and guidance for school districts and directs Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to modify or repeal measures she deems an overreach by the federal government."

Disappeared-----James Levine wiped off Sirius-XM…

Instapundit » Blog Archive » OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN OPERA: James Levine wiped off Sirius-XM…:
OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN OPERA: James Levine wiped off Sirius-XM’s Met Opera Radio channel. 

This means the 40 years of broadcasts while Levine was music director has been silenced.

The Levine operas have been replaced with full-length broadcast recordings from the 1930s, 1940s, and especially 1950s with often dubious technical quality despite great singers.

Now everyone knows that Levine and the Met are only speaking through lawyers these day, but this vindictive editing of institutional history is reminiscent of Stalin at his worst, when Trotsky and other undesirables were whited out of party pictures.

The Met fired Levine last month, the L.A. Times reported, “after finding ‘credible evidence that Mr. Levine had engaged in sexually abusive and harassing conduct.’”

By that standard, a whole lot of Hollywood’s back catalog of both movies and TV shows will soon be tossed down the Memory Hole, no matter how big the resulting bonfire’s carbon footprint will be.

(Via Terry Teachout.)"

AM Fruitcake

History for April 30

History for April 30 - On-This-Day.com:
Cornelius Vanderbilt 1898, George R. Stibitz 1904, Robert Shaw 1916


John (Johnny) Horton 1925, Jill Clayburgh 1944 - Actress, Kirsten Dunst 1982 - Actress ("Spider-Man")


1789 - George Washington took office as first elected U.S. president.


1803 - The U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million.


1900 - Casey Jones was killed while trying to save the runaway train "Cannonball Express."


1938 - Happy Rabbit appeared in the cartoon "Porky's Hare Hunt." This rabbit would later evolve into Bugs Bunny.


1943 - The British submarine HMS Seraph dropped 'the man who never was,' a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain.


1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide. They had been married for one day. One week later Germany surrendered unconditionally.


1952 - Mr. Potato Head became the first toy to be advertised on network television.


1993 - CERN put the World Wide Web software in the public domain.


1998 - United and Delta airlines announced their alliance that would give them control of 1/3 of all U.S. passenger seats.

‘Cry closet’ helps college students cope with stress of finals

‘Cry closet’ helps college students cope with stress of finals:

"If you’re a college student stressed out over the class deadlines and final exams, the University of Utah has a plan to help you eliminate your anxiety: Just lock yourself in this dark closet for 10 minutes, cuddle a stuffed animal and cry it all out."

The way we were-----Yes - Roundabout

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Best picture Oscar winners are out of touch with audiences: Box office data - Business Insider

Best picture Oscar winners are out of touch with audiences: Box office data - Business Insider: 
"It's easy to say that the Oscars are out of touch with the regular moviegoer, but when you dive into the numbers it's scary how correct that general thought is.
We looked back at the lifetime domestic gross for the last 15 best picture Oscar winners and matched those with the lifetime gross for the movies that topped those years at the box office. 
And only once did they match up (2003's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King").
In fact, most of the best picture Oscar winners didn't crack $100 million at the box office and only two crossed the $200 million mark — and that's counting inflation!
See the last 15 years for yourself below. 
As you'll see, the numbers don't lie.
Note: All figures are domestic grosses only from Box Office Mojo and are added for inflation."
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"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" is the only movie in the last 15 years that won the best picture Oscar and was the top box office-grossing movie of that year. New Line Cinema

John Podesta: "We Must Reduce World's Population" - Your News Wire

John Podesta: "We Must Reduce World's Population" - Your News Wire

"Former Clinton campaign chair John Podesta has outlined plans to implement a controversial eugenics program in order to depopulate the planet. 
Writing for the Washington Post, Podesta claims that reducing the world’s population is not only desirable, but absolutely necessary in order to “reduce carbon emissions by 2050.”

Writing for WaPo, Podesta writes:

"When we talk about stepping up to address climate change across the world, we rarely think of it in terms of women’s rights. But if environmental activists really want to reduce emissions, raise living standards and build a more sustainable future, they cannot overlook the importance of reproductive rights and health.

Forging a coalition between the environmental movement and the women’s rights movement will not only fundamentally advance women’s rights but also do a world of good for the planet, which is bearing an environmental burden because of population growth..."
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Democratic Party Revolutionaries Destroy Norms, Advocate Violence | National Review

Democratic Party Revolutionaries Destroy Norms, Advocate Violence | National Review:

"The danger to the country this time around is that the Left has so destroyed the old protocols of the opposition party that it will be hard to resurrect them when progressives return to power.
We are entering revolutionary times. The law is no longer equally applied. The media are the ministry of truth. The Democratic party is a revolutionary force. And it is all getting scary."