History for November 5

History for November 5 - On-This-Day.com
Eugene Victor Debs 1855 - American union leader, socialist politician, Will Durant 1885 - American historian, philosopher, author, Natalie Schafer 1900 - Actress ("Gilligan's Island") 


Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye) 1911 - Singer, guitarist, and actor, Vivien Leigh 1913 - Actress ("Gone with the Wind (1939)"), Art Garfunkel 1941 - Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Simon & Garfunkel) 


1605 - The "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in Britain to celebrate his failure to blow up all the members of Parliament and King James I.


1895 - George B. Selden received the first U.S. patent for an automobile. He sold the rights for $200,000 four years later.


1911 - Italy officially annexed Tripoli.

1935 - The game "Monopoly" was introduced by Parker Brothers Company.


1946 - John F. Kennedy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives at the age of 29.


1986 - The White House reaffirmed the U.S. ban on the sale of weapons to Iran.






1990 - Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Kach movement, was shot to death after a speech at a New York Hotel. His assassin, Egyptian El Sayyid, was later convicted of the murder and was sentenced to life in prison for his part in the World Trade Center bombing.


1998 - In the U.S., Chairman Henry Hyde of the Judiciary Committee asked President Clinton to answer 81 questions for the House impeachment inquiry.


2009 - At Fort Hood, near Kileen, TX, Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 people and wounded 30 others.

Obama’s IRS Has Never Stopped Targeting Conservatives

Obama’s IRS Has Never Stopped Targeting Conservatives:

"Those who cultivated the scandal by pressuring ideological allies inside the IRS shrugged and moved on. Those within the agency lawyered up, pled the Fifth, and moved on. Those defending the IRS in court engaged in unconscionable dilatory tactics that continue today. New faces replaced old and nothing changed. That the government’s most feared agency had blatantly discriminated against the president’s ideological foes was declared history."

LAWSUIT: BYU expelled, retaliated against student falsely accused of sexual harassment

LAWSUIT: BYU expelled, retaliated against student falsely accused of sexual harassment - The College Fix:
Less than a week after Brigham Young University said it would stop investigating alleged rape victims for drinking and premarital sex, it was hit with a lawsuit by a former student who said he’s the victim of anti-male bias.

The Mormon institution expelled and retaliated against the unnamed Kenyan man following an almost comically large list of charges against him – not just sexual harassment but plagiarism, admissions fraud and other Honor Code violations, The Deseret News reports. (The newspaper is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.)

The lawsuit asks for $3 million in damages against BYU, saying the school defamed him by sharing his misleading record with Utah Valley University and Auburn University:

He lost jobs at both schools and Auburn expelled him from a doctoral program last year, according to the suit.

The man said BYU administrators favored his female accusers “to shield themselves from accusations that they fail to protect women from sexual assault,” and denied him due process. 
His lawyer called the allegations “scurrilous.”

Read the story.

Hillary-----EVITA - "And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out)"

 I wonder why this isn't on every TV and radio.

Farragut student suspended for extra chicken nugget

Farragut student suspended for extra chicken nugget

"Justice has been served for a Farragut High School student after his suspension for buying an extra chicken nugget in the lunch line was overturned.

Carson Koller received the one-day suspension on Monday for buying the extra nugget.

Koller — a senior, Eagle Scout and the captain of the band's drum line — was suspended for theft of property after he took six chicken nuggets from the lunch line instead of the usual five, to his mother's outrage.

"How is it theft if he paid for it?" Koller's mother, Carrie Koller Waller, wrote in a Facebook post. "It's food. FOOD!!! Not weapons. Not drugs. Not alcohol. Not cheating on a test. ... I am shaking my head over this and not sure what to do. Laugh, punish, argue, dress him up as a nugget bandit, or let it go."

The suspension was rescinded on Tuesday morning after Waller sent a letter to several school administrators and spoke to Farragut Principal Ryan Siebe on the phone.

"I know it wasn't your intent to overcharge Carson and I know it was not my son's intent to steal an extra nugget from you," Waller wrote in the letter, which she posted to Facebook. "He was hungry. He took six total nuggets. He entered his number, and the cashier rang him up. The cashier then realized Carson had more food than what she calculated. He entered his number again and paid the additional charge. Everything on his tray was paid for prior to walking away. He was then asked for his name and told to sit in another area and speak to the principal."

School officials initially said Koller had stolen the nugget, but a screenshot posted by Waller on Facebook showed her son had been charged three times for the lunch — one extra lunch charge of $2.75, one lunch entree charge of $2.50, and another charge of $2.75.

Hillary Clinton’s Scandals Recall Richard Nixon’s Watergate Resignation | National Review

Hillary Clinton’s Scandals Recall Richard Nixon’s Watergate Resignation | National Review:

"At this point, Clinton has trumped former president Richard Nixon’s skullduggery — but without the offset of Nixon’s foreign-policy accomplishments.

Even before the most recent scandals, Clinton’s campaign had an eerie resemblance to the Nixon playbook."

Video held for 4 months?!!-----Brutal sucker-punch leads to man’s death

Brutal sucker-punch leads to man’s death | New York Post
By Daniel Prendergast, Kenneth Garger and Natalie Musumeci
"Newly released disturbing surveillance video showing a vicious sucker-punch that led to the death of a 64-year-old man in Queens.
Patrick Gorman was walking near the corner of Queens Boulevard and Main Street in Briarwood when he bumped into the attacker’s girlfriend just after midnight on June 26, cop sources said.
“Excuse me,” Gorman said, before the man belted him in the face, sources said.
The video shows the (BLACK) male suspect punching Gorman, who is seen falling squarely on his back as the duo calmly ambles off.
The victim tries to get back on his feet and then collapses.
Gorman was taken to Jamaica Hospital, where he died the next day at about 9 a.m., police said.
...Rynkowski said that cops should have released the surveillance video of the attack sooner.
“The cops took forever [to release the footage].

They should have released it right away,” he said. 

“It’s usually a safe area. 

I was very upset when it happened. 

Everybody in the building is upset.”
Leon Leone, 67, a resident at Gorman’s Briarwood building also echoed concern about the timing of the release of the video.
“I still don’t understand why it took so long,” said Leone, a member of Briarwood Action Network — the community organization that petitioned cops two years ago to install the security camera that captured the assault..."

Allegiant Air's Planes Are 4 Times More Likely to Fail

In a stunning and comprehensive report, the Tampa Bay Times has uncovered systemic mechanical problems on Allegiant Air’s planes.

The Times states that its investigation, “which included a first-of-its kind analysis of federal aviation records—has found that the budget carrier’s planes are four times as likely to fail during flight as those operated by other major U.S. airlines.”

Here are some of the key findings uncovered by the Times, which were not disputed by the airline:

• “Forty-two of Allegiant’s 86 planes broke down in mid-flight at least once in 2015. Among them were 15 forced to land by failing engines, nine by overheating tail compartments and six by smoke or the smell of something burning.”
• “Eighteen times last year, key parts such as engines, sensors and electronics failed once in flight, got checked out, and then failed again, causing another unexpected landing.”
• “Allegiant relies most heavily on McDonnell Douglas MD-80s, an aging model retired by all but two other major U.S. carriers. The company’s MD-80s fail twice as often as those operated by American Airlines and three times as often as those flown by Delta.”

According to the Times, Allegiant officials initially declined to comment on the story, and in fact had remained mostly silent as anecdotal evidence of the airline’s woeful safety record accumulated. But when the Times presented Allegiant with its findings, they agreed to talk and, ultimately, acknowledged that change is needed.

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Pilots Union Calls Out American Air’s Safety

“I can’t sit here and say that you’re wrong,” Allegiant CEO Maurice Gallagher Jr. told the Times. “We’re very much focused on running a better operation...”

Lunch video-----Pat Buchanan Works Over CNN Clinton Mouthpiece on Making America Great A...

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Attorney General is SUED to come clean on secret meeting with Bill Clinton | Daily Mail Online

Attorney General is SUED to come clean on secret meeting with Bill Clinton | Daily Mail Online:

"Attorney General Loretta Lynch is facing a federal lawsuit to give details of a meeting she had with Bill Clinton days before she was to decide on his wife's fate.

The meeting in June was barely a week before the Justice Department which she heads dropped its probe into Hillary Clinton's private email server."

'Eco Sexuals' Boast of Masturbating Under Waterfalls and F**king Trees To Save The Planet

'Eco Sexuals' Boast of Masturbating Under Waterfalls and F**king Trees To Save The Planet
"Liberals wanting a new way to define their sexuality and signal their green virtues can now combine the two: 2016, already seen by many as the year the world went mad, is likely also to be remembered as the year the world was gifted ‘ecosexuality’.

An attempt to catalogue all the sexualities listed on Tumblr earlier this year identified 80 different varieties including “Neu: feeling attraction towards people who are genderless”; “Iculasexual: being asexual but open to having sex” and even “Pre: a placeholder term for someone who doesn’t think they’ve experienced enough attraction to know their orientation.”

‘Ecosexual’ was not among them. Yet it’s likely to be a short-lived oversight as the movement goes from strength to strength: more than 100,000 people worldwide are now said to be identifying as ecosexual.

Amanda Morgan, a faculty member at the UNLV School of Community Health Sciences who is involved in the ecosexual movement, told Vice that ecosexuality could be measured along a spectrum not unlike the Kinsey Scale..."

Follow the money and the crooks to Detroit!-----E-mails, records show maneuvering in demolition deals

E-mails, records show maneuvering in demolition deals
"One month before the Detroit Land Bank Authority released an audit detailing an improper billing scheme involving some demolition contractors, Timothy Drakeford signed an affidavit saying he was directed by Aradondo Haskins, a former Detroit Building Authority employee, to adjust his demolition prices.
The Free Press obtained the affidavit and related e-mails Tuesday  through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The records shed new light on aspects of the city’s demolition program, which is under federal investigation, and its apparent bidding practices.
...The Land Bank audit, released last week,  is the latest complication for Detroit’s troubled blight demolition program, which is under a federal criminal investigation.
Questions about Mayor Mike Duggan’s demolition program began swirling a year ago after it was revealed costs had risen more than 60%.
...More than $250 million from the federal Hardest Hit Fund has been allocated to Detroit for its demolition program.
The money has helped the city tear down more than 10,000 blighted properties since Duggan took office in 2014.
In addition to the federal probe of the program, the Michigan State Housing Development Authority is conducting its own investigation.
...The U.S. Treasury Department suspended the city demolition program between August and October of this year after discovering problems with how federal money was spent in Detroit..."

Time bomb-----The Facts about Student Debt

The Facts about Student Debt
Who Owns All This Student Debt?

Most student debt is owed to the federal government. The federal government offers student loans with fixed interest rates and flexible repayment plans. As of March 2016, more than 92% of all student debt was owed to the federal government. Perhaps surprisingly, only 8% was owed to private financial institutions.

Attorney General is SUED to come clean on secret meeting with Bill Clinton | Daily Mail Online

Attorney General is SUED to come clean on secret meeting with Bill Clinton | Daily Mail Online:

"Attorney General Loretta Lynch is facing a federal lawsuit to give details of a meeting she had with Bill Clinton days before she was to decide on his wife's fate.

The meeting in June was barely a week before the Justice Department which she heads dropped its probe into Hillary Clinton's private email server."

American hero!-----Linda Tripp: The Colossal Clinton Con

Linda Tripp: The Colossal Clinton Con:
"She’s finally done it.
The country faces a possible constitutional crisis should Hillary win the election.
With a federal criminal investigation of the possible president-elect underway, President Obama might well issue a preemptive presidential pardon on his way out the door. Imagine that.
Pardoned before inaugurated.
Or she will find a way to pardon herself for “the good of the country.”
It will simply never end.
If the past portends the future, we should ponder that which came before. 
The tale of four partners of the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas is a good place to start.
They came to Washington, DC with Bill Clinton in 1993.
You couldn’t turn a corner in the West Wing without bumping into one or all of them.

• Webster Hubbell became Associate Attorney General of the United States. He ended up in a federal pen. 
• Vince Foster became Deputy Counsel to the President and he was found dead by gunshot in Fort Marcy Park. 
• Bill Kennedy became an Associate White House Counsel and was neck deep in Filegate and Travelgate. He also oversaw the ubiquitous Craig Livingstone, the former bar bouncer personally chosen by the First Lady to head the Office of White House Security. 
• Together, Bill Kennedy and Craig Livingstone were the ones to officially identify the body of Vince Foster. 

I knew them all.
Of the four partners, only one is left standing. 
She is currently running for president of the United States.
I am struck by the “none so blind as those who will not see” syndrome..."
Much more!
Read on!

AM Fruitcake

History for November 4

History for November 4 - On-This-Day.com:
Will Rogers (William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers) 1879 - Cowboy, vaudeville performer, actor, Walter Cronkite 1916 - Broadcast journalist ("CBS Evening News"), Arthur William Matthew "Art" Carney 1918 - Actor ("The Honeymooners," "Harry and Tonto")


Alfred Heineken 1923 - Businessman, Loretta Swit 1937 - Actress (M*A*S*H*), Laura Bush 1946 - U.S. First Lady, wife of U.S. President George W. Bush


1842 - Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, IL.


1847 - Scottish obstetrician James Young Simpson discovered the anethestic qualities of chloroform.


1880 - James and John Ritty patented the first cash register.


1942 - During World War II, Axis forces retreated from El Alamein in North Africa. It was a major victory for the British.


1952 - In the United States, the National Security Agency (NSA) was established.


1965 - Lee Ann Roberts Breedlove became the first woman to exceed 300 mph when she went 308.5 mph.


1979 - Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage (90 total hostages). The militants, mostly students, demanded that the U.S. send the former shah back to Iran to stand trial. Many hostages were later released, but 52 were held for the next 14 months.


1991 - Ronald Reagan opened his presidential library in Simi Valley, CA. The dedication ceremony was attended by President Bush and former U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon. It was the 1st gathering of 5 U.S. chief executives.

BREAKING: FBI CONFIRMS Hillary Gave Classified Information to Foreign Countries! Watch Her Biggest Crime! -

BREAKING: FBI CONFIRMS Hillary Gave Classified Information to Foreign Countries! Watch Her Biggest Crime! -:

"Hillary Clinton has not only betrayed the Democrats she has betrayed the entire country. The FBI now has announced that they are “99% sure” that at least 5 foreign intelligence agencies were able to hack into Clinton’s private server and acquire items of national security.

AT LEAST FIVE?!"

Voters: Media more likely than Russian hackers to tamper with election | Washington Examiner

Voters: Media more likely than Russian hackers to tamper with election | Washington Examiner:


"The national political establishment was the second most-suspected group at 21 percent, and another 13 percent were undecided.

Foreign interests, including "Russian hackers," ranked fourth with 10 percent and "local political bosses" came in last with 9 percent of likely voters as the main threat to truthful election results."