History for September 25

History for September 25 - On-This-Day.com
William Faulkner 1897, Barbara Walters 1929 - TV personality, Michael Douglas 1944 - Actor


Mark Hamill 1951 - Actor ("Star Wars"), Christopher Reeve 1952 - Actor ("Superman"), Will Smith 1968 - Actor ("Independence Day," "Fresh Prince of Bell-Air")


1789 - The first U.S. Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution. Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.















1983 - A Soviet military officer, Stanislav Petrov, averted a potential worldwide nuclear war. He declared a false alarm after a U.S. attack was detected by a Soviet early warning system. It was later discovered the alarms had been set off when the satellite warning system mistakenly interpreted sunlight reflections off clouds as the presence of enemy missiles.

The Burning of Brett Kavanaugh

The Burning of Brett Kavanaugh:

We have also lost track of the concept of innocent until proven guilty -- beyond reasonable doubt. This has been slipping away for quite a while now. The media have become our judge and jury; the more sensational and politically potent an accusation is, the more likely it will be seen as true, and no amount of correction will undo that.
What bothers me the most, however, is that we’ve lost all contact with common sense, with any desire to arrive at the truth.

Big Brother: Google Admits to Altering Android Phone Settings Remotely Without Permission | Breitbart

Big Brother: Google Admits to Altering Android Phone Settings Remotely Without Permission | Breitbart:

Tech giant Google has admitted to changing Android phone settings remotely without user permission, a move considered by experts to be bad for “transparency and consent.”

The way we were-----The Monkees - "Daydream Believer" (Official Music Video)

Boob-tube-----Adventures of Superboy (UNSOLD) Pilot 1961 COMPLETE !!

Thousands of Marijuana Plants Found in San Bernardino National Forest North of Big Bear Lake | KTLA

Thousands of Marijuana Plants Found in San Bernardino National Forest North of Big Bear Lake | KTLA
"Thousands of marijuana plants were found growing in large plots within the San Bernardino National Forest north of Big Bear Lake and south of Lucerne Valley, authorities announced Friday.
...Nobody was arrested, but authorities said they suspect illegal drug trafficking organizations were responsible.
RELATED STORY--Marijuana Worth $5.25 Million Found Within Sequoia National Park; No Arrest Made

...The perpetrators caused permanent damage to the forest by clearing away natural foliage to make space for the cultivation, the Sheriff’s Department said. 

They also used illegal toxic pesticides, according to the agency..."

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Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign 2020: Farce | National Review

Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign 2020: Farce | National Review
"She actually believes she still has a shot at the White House.
When Homer Simpson looks in the mirror, he sees ripped chest muscles and arms like the trunks of beech trees.
When Hillary Clinton looks in the mirror, she sees America’s sweetheart.
She thinks: America adores me.
She thinks: America already chose me to be president once!
She thinks: Everyone is comparing me with Donald Trump and realizing I’m a better choice.
She is hoping for a call that will never come: an earnest, sobbing plea from the Democratic party to be their standard bearer in 2020.
How else to explain Clinton’s latest media blitzkrieg?...
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New York City Just Sent Its Transportation Industry Back to the 1930s | The Heritage Foundation

New York City Just Sent Its Transportation Industry Back to the 1930s | The Heritage Foundation:

The consequences are predictable: Service shortages and higher prices are inevitable when artificial caps prevent supply from growing to meet demand. Taxis experienced both problems, and now Uber and Lyft will, too.
Those high prices will only be worsened by the proposed $17.22 minimum wage for drivers—an average pay hike of more than 22 percent, some estimate. Consumers will bear that cost.
And that’s just to start.

Only white people can be racists-----Sorority's racially charged comments lead to calls for campus-wide 'sensitivity training' - The College Fix

Sorority's racially charged comments lead to calls for campus-wide 'sensitivity training' - The College Fix
"After some racially charged comments were overheard at a University of New Mexico sorority during a “welcome” event, students and staff are calling for “sensitivity training” across the board.

Remarks allegedly overheard by African-American students at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house include “black people get away from me” and “black people stop wearing grills.”

Brandi Stone of UNM’s African American Student Services said the comments “essentially […] came down to not feeling safe around black people.”
KRQE reports UNM students were “appalled” upon hearing of the comments...
Maybe if the sorority had done something like make “All White People Are Racist” hoodies the university wouldn’t have said a word … other than “it’s a free speech issue.”

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How Dianne Feinstein is conspiring to destroy Brett Kavanaugh

How Dianne Feinstein is conspiring to destroy Brett Kavanaugh:

Who paid for Blasey Ford’s polygraph, and who is covering her legal bills? Who leaked her letter to The Washington Post? Katz and Demand Justice did not reply to requests for comment. Nor did Feinstein’s office.
But one thing is for sure: Feinstein and her former aide’s fingerprints are all over the smearing of Kavanaugh — and that’s an ironic shame, given that Feinstein was swept into Congress as a reaction to the then-Democrat Senate’s mishandling of the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas sex allegations. The San Francisco-based senator has made her own missteps some 25 years later.

Lunch video-----War on Electric Scooters

Noon-toon

When Every Boy Is Guilty, Every Girl Becomes a Monster | Trending

When Every Boy Is Guilty, Every Girl Becomes a Monster | Trending:

But this nonsense with the accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh — which, by the way, not only doesn’t rise to “credible,” it’s barely past the level of “inane ramblings of crazy woman on the corner” — is being given credibility and the Senate is bending over backward to give that crazy woman the chance to ramble at them. Any way she wants to.
Which is a symptom of deeper corruption.

Arctic sea ice melt has turned the corner for 2018 | Watts Up With That?

Arctic sea ice melt has turned the corner for 2018 | Watts Up With That?
"Not surprising that MSM has gone schtum about the remarkable persistence of their favorite “canary” not being dead yet.

This year’s min is greater then 2007 when AR4 was getting major push in MSM and Al Gore was trying to BS us all with his climate disinformation.
The alleged ‘death spiral’ and ‘runaway melting’ has been essentially not going anywhere for over a decade now. 
Why isn’t this great climate news being told to the world?
I’ll be honest, the Arctic minimum has become so passe in the era of ever shrill pronouncements about “ice free Arctic”, “Arctic death spiral” etc, I forgot all about it.
As a metric for global warming, it certainly hasn’t lived up to predictions from 10 years ago., much less recent ones, such as this one from Peter Wadhams – Anthony"
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#1 Movie this week 1950-----Sunset Boulevard - Trailer

The Ides of May: Brexit, Irexit, and the Shape of Europe to Come | Unexamined Premises

The Ides of May: Brexit, Irexit, and the Shape of Europe to Come | Unexamined Premises
"Since she succeeded David Cameron in the wake of the Brexit vote, the accidental British prime minister, Theresa May, has been trying without success to have things both ways.
On the one hand she's having to pretend to observe the wishes of the British public, which voted to leave the European Union, but her own inclination -- shared by many Tory Remainers -- is to keep fumbling the football until the clock runs out. 
Meanwhile, the Labour Party, which is now led by an out-and-out communist in Jeremy Corbyn, is delighted with the whole mess.
Across the Irish Sea, Britain's ever-restive former colony, Ireland, is having its own troubles. 
The withdrawal from the EU by the United Kingdom will mean that the rump state of Northern Ireland (whose votes Mrs. May needs to keep her in power, as shaky as her current hold on it is now) will require some sort of border with the Republic to the south.
...Poetically, one of the major sticking points over Britain's departure from the EU is the Irish border. Since the Good Friday Agreement... there have been no militarized checkpoints at the internal Irish line of division, but as the Brexit negotiations continue, the EU has been pushing for a hard customs border, which neither the Irish nor the British want..."
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#1 This day 1965-----Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction

GE's $31 billion pension nightmare

GE's $31 billion pension nightmare
"John Flannery, the man hired to fix General Electric, inherited a $31 billion ticking time bomb when he replaced longtime CEO Jeff Immelt last year.

Like other companies, GE (GE) has accumulated a significantly underfunded pension. 
But like most things lately at GE, its pension shortfall is much worse.
Not only does GE have the largest pension deficit among S&P 500 companies, that deficit is $11 billion worse than the next closest company, according to Dow Jones S&P Indices. 
...This is not just a math problem: More than 600,000 current and former GE employees are relying on these crucial retirement benefits.
..."GE's balance sheet is a mess," said Gautam Khanna, an analyst for Cowen & Co. 
"They don't generate a lot of cash, and they have a severely underfunded pension plan."...
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You ought to know!

Watch: Michigan State Students Admit Trump Has Improved the Economy | Breitbart

Watch: Michigan State Students Admit Trump Has Improved the Economy | Breitbart:

A new video from Campus Reform shows Michigan State students admitting that President Donald Trump has improved the economy.

Shelby Steele--Why the Left Is Consumed With Hate - WSJ

Why the Left Is Consumed With Hate - WSJ
"Even before President Trump’s election, hatred had begun to emerge on the American left—counterintuitively, as an assertion of guilelessness and moral superiority. 
At the Women’s March in Washington the weekend after Mr. Trump’s inauguration, the pop star Madonna said, “I have thought an awful lot of blowing up the White House.” 
Here hatred was a vanity, a braggadocio meant to signal her innocence of the sort of evil that, in her mind, the White House represented. (She later said the comment was “taken wildly out of context.”)
For many on the left a hateful anti-Americanism has become a self-congratulatory lifestyle. 
“America was never that great,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently said. 
For radical groups like Black Lives Matter, hatred of America is a theme of identity, a display of racial pride.
For other leftists, hate is a license. 
Conservative speakers can be shouted down, even assaulted, on university campuses. 
Republican officials can be harassed in restaurants, in the street, in front of their homes. 
Certain leaders of the left—Rep. Maxine Waters comes to mind—are self-appointed practitioners of hate, urging their followers to think of hatred as power itself...
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History for September 24

History for September 24 - On-This-Day.com
John Marshall 1755, F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896, Jim Henson 1936 - Puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, actor,Creator of The Muppets


Gerry Marsden 1942 - Singer (Gerry and the Pacemakers), Phil Hartman 1948 - Comedian, actor, Kevin Sorbo 1958 - Actor


1957 - U.S. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, AR, to enforce school integration.


1961 - "The Bullwinkle Show" premiered in prime time on NBC-TV. The show was originally on ABC in the afternoon as "Rocky and His Friends."

Google Employees Discussed Tweaking Search Results to Counter Trump Travel Ban | Breitbart

Google Employees Discussed Tweaking Search Results to Counter Trump Travel Ban | Breitbart: 

Google employees brainstormed ways to tweak the tech giant’s search functions to encourage users to push back against Trump policies following the President’s proposed travel ban on certain countries in 2017, according to a report on Tucker Carlson Tonight that was also confirmed by the Wall Street Journal.

The way we were-----Dion - The Wanderer - HD - Video - Stereo Sound .

Boob-tube-----22 NEW SHOWS OF FALL TV 1983

Matthew Dowd Defends Kavanaugh Allegations, Then Knocks Himself Out | Daily Wire

Matthew Dowd Defends Kavanaugh Allegations, Then Knocks Himself Out | Daily Wire:

Christie then interjected to note the fact that Ford's accusations were leaked, saying, "That’s why what Senator Feinstein did here is reprehensible because she and her staff leaked this information."
Dowd lost it.
"We don’t know that!" Dowd exclaimed. "That is an allegation without evidence."

Government "Commuter-care"-----New York City’s Subways Are Slow, Crowded and Smelly—Officials Say Part of the Problem Is You - WSJ

New York City’s Subways Are Slow, Crowded and Smelly—Officials Say Part of the Problem Is You - WSJ
"Subway conductors told to be more assertive closing doors on riders to reduce delays. 
“What’s causing the delays is their incompetence,” one commuter said.
More than five million riders crowd into New York City’s subway on an average workday, and officials say some of them are making everybody late.
...The New York City subway can be a daily adventure. 

• Waterfalls cascade down stairways in storms. 
• Ceilings drip and sometimes collapse. 
• Elevators, when they work, seem to double as urinals. 
• Panhandlers, dancers and musicians hustle for tips. 
• People jostle, argue, clip their nails and eat smelly foods.
• But nothing enrages commuters more than train delays..."

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