History for August 8

History for August 8 - On-This-Day.com
Matthew Henson 1866 - Explorer, along with Robert Peary and their Eskimo guide, were the first people to reach the North Pole, Russel Markert 1899, Esther Williams 1923


Dustin Hoffman 1937, Connie Stevens 1938, Donny Most 1953


1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena, in the South Atlantic. The remainder of his life was spent there in exile.


1844 - After the killing of Joseph Smith on June 27, Bringham Young was chosen to lead the Mormons.


1876 - Thomas Edison received a patent for the mimeograph. The mimeograph was a "method of preparing autographic stencils for printing."


1911 - The number of representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives was established at 435. There was one member of Congress for every 211,877 residents.


1940 - The German Luftwaffe began a series of daylight air raids on Great Britain.


1966 - Michael DeBakey became the first surgeon to install an artificial heart pump in a patient.


1978 - The U.S. launched Pioneer Venus II, which carried scientific probes to study the atmosphere of Venus.


1992 - The "Dream Team" clinched the gold medal at the Barcelona Summer Olympics. The U.S. basketball team beat Croatia 117-85.

The Unsung Hero Who Financed the American Revolution, and His Lesson for Today | The Heritage Foundation

The Unsung Hero Who Financed the American Revolution, and His Lesson for Today | The Heritage Foundation:

Our nation is once again at a crossroads between liberty and tyranny, with the ideals of the Founders challenged by the liberal left.
As Morris asserted in a letter to Col. Joseph Reed, “[I]t is the duty of every individual to act his part in whatever station his country may call him to in times of difficulty, danger, and distress.”
More than ever, we need generous conservatives to take up the mantle of Robert Morris and employ whatever skills and passions they have toward reclaiming America.

The way we were-----It's All In The Game - Tommy Edwards

Boob-tube-----Cannonball TV Series 1958 Full Episode Part 1

Must read!!-----Anarchy Breaks Out in Portland, With the Mayor’s Blessing - WSJ

Anarchy Breaks Out in Portland, With the Mayor’s Blessing - WSJ
"A vicious mob targeted the ICE office and even a food cart. 
The police followed orders to do nothing.
Along the trolley tracks behind the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, a biohazard cleanup crew works under police protection. 
It finds used needles and buckets of human waste simmering in nearly 100-degree heat. 
The smell of urine and feces fills the block. 
For more than five weeks, as many as 200 people had occupied the site to demand ICE’s immediate abolition. 
They’re gone now, but a community is left reeling. 
Thirty-eight days of government-sanctioned anarchy will do that.
A mob surrounded ICE’s office in Southwest Portland June 19. 
They barricaded the exits and blocked the driveway. 
They sent “guards” to patrol the doors, trapping workers inside. 
At night they laid on the street, stopping traffic at a critical junction near a hospital. 
Police stayed away. 
“At this time I am denying your request for additional resources,” the Portland Police Bureau’s deputy chief, Robert Day, wrote to federal officers pleading for help. 
Hours later, the remaining ICE workers were finally evacuated by a small federal police team. 
The facility shut down for more than a week.
Signs called ICE employees “Nazis” and “white supremacists.” 
Others accused them of running a “concentration camp,” and demanded open borders and prosecution of ICE agents. 
Along a wall, vandals wrote the names of ICE staff, encouraging others to publish their private information online..."
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RENEWABLE NOTHING: New York Spent $5 Million On Wind Turbines That Don’t Even Work. The project…

Instapundit  Blog Archive  RENEWABLE NOTHING: 
RENEWABLE NOTHING: New York Spent $5 Million On Wind Turbines That Don’t Even Work.

The project was expensive, with the five windmills costing $4.8 million and another $500,000 for design expenditures. The authority believed that the turbines would pay for themselves, saving as much as $420,000 annually on energy bills.
However, the project did not go as planned. Of the five turbines that are dotted across the thruway from Eden, New York to the Pennsylvania state line, four aren’t even spinning.

“They are currently offline waiting for replacement parts and/or maintenance,” thruway authority spokeswoman Jennifer Givner said, according to Buffalo News. “We’re working with the manufacturer to get replacement parts.”

Between October 2017 and January 2018, all the turbines except for one were taken offline. The issue appears to stem from inoperable parts made from Vergnet, a French renewable energy company that declared itself insolvent a year ago.

The lifespan of a windmill typically spans 20 to 25 years, but these turbines began to break down in less than three.

"Yes, but did all the right contractors and union officials get paid?"---Posted by Stephen Green

WATCH: Dana Loesch To Jim Acosta: Remember Your Network's 'Public Lynching' Of Me And Marco Rubio? | Daily Wire

WATCH: Dana Loesch To Jim Acosta: Remember Your Network's 'Public Lynching' Of Me And Marco Rubio? | Daily Wire:

"I wonder if Acosta can imagine what it feels like when his network allows guest after guest, day after day, to refer to you as a 'murderer,'" Loesch continues. "To refer to six million law-abiding Americans as people who hate children and are terrible parents simply because we believe in the right of self-defense."

Federal Taxpayer Bailout Likely For Big Union Pension Funds – Michigan Capitol Confidential

Federal Taxpayer Bailout Likely For Big Union Pension Funds – Michigan Capitol Confidential
"...A pension fund administered by the Teamsters union, with more than 43,000 participants in Michigan, expects to run out of the money it needs to pay its beneficiaries by 2025.
Due to the size of this fund and the benefits it has promised to pay out, some experts project that its insolvency will single-handedly bankrupt the federal body created to insure private pension funds, the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation.
The Teamsters fund is among the largest union-sponsored multiemployer retirement plans that are underfunded and in danger of not being able to meet their obligations in the next decade.
This fund, called the Central States Pension Fund, is estimated to have assets sufficient to cover only 33 percent of its promises. 
It has $36 billion in unfunded liabilities, according to a recent filing with the federal government.
When this and similar multiemployer pension plans fail to meet their pension obligations, the PBGC is supposed to pay a portion of the benefits promised to retired workers.
But the PBGC itself projects that it will no longer have enough money to pay retirees by 2025.
To avoid reduced benefit payments to their members — or seeing no benefit payments at all — labor groups are lobbying Congress for a bailout..."
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WATCH: Liberal Activists Chant ‘F--- White Supremacy’ at Candace Owens, Who Is Black | pluralist

WATCH: Liberal Activists Chant ‘F--- White Supremacy’ at Candace Owens, Who Is Black | pluralist
"Is this the civil rights era all over again?"
What: Conservative activists Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk were harassed on Monday outside a Philadelphia restaurant by liberal protestors allegedly with Antifa.
Owens and Kirk -- the communications director and founder of the right-wing organization Turning Point USA, respectively -- were exiting the restaurant when protesters pounced on them. 
In a video posted Twitter, the protesters pour water on Kirk and shout "F--k white supremacy" to Owens, who is black. ​

Candace Owens

✔@RealCandaceO

To be clear: ANTIFA, an all-white fascist organization, just grew violent and attacked an all-black and Hispanic police force.

Because I, a BLACK woman, was eating breakfast.

Is this the civil rights era all over again?

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Lunch video-----The New York Times Just Hired a Racist

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Daily Inter Lake - Frank Miele: Editor's 2 Cents, The left’s love affair with doublethink

Daily Inter Lake - Frank Miele: Editor's 2 Cents, The left’s love affair with doublethink:

The twists and turns in the logic of doublethink are exhausting, and I think it is safe to say that part of the power of liberalism is that it is easier to surrender to its hypnotic fluttering rhetoric than to pin it down like a bug and analyze it under a microscope. Yet once you face facts, there is no going back, no matter how isolated it may make you feel.

Michigan Sen. David Knezek: Social studies changes are ‘mind-numbing’ | Bridge Magazine

Michigan Sen. David Knezek: Social studies changes are ‘mind-numbing’ | Bridge Magazine
"...Proposed changes to Michigan social studies standards ‒ which remove or downplay volatile U.S. social issues and cut “democratic” from “core democratic values” ‒ are running into opposition on the State Board of Education.
The eight-member board must approve the controversial revisions for them to impact what’s taught in Michigan public school classrooms. 
The four Democrats on the elected board would vote in a block to oppose proposed changes to the standards, according to two board members who spoke to Bridge Wednesday.
If that happens, even if the four Republican members voted for the conservative-inspired revisions, the 4-4 tie would not be enough to approve the standards.

• ...First person: Michigan Sen. Patrick Colbeck: ‘There is a culture war going on’
• ...First person: Michigan Sen. David Knezek: Social studies changes are ‘mind-numbing’..."

In dueling speeches on the Michigan Senate floor Tuesday night, state Sen. David Knezek, D-Dearborn Heights, and state Sen. Patrick Colbeck, R-Canton Twp., debated controversial changes in a draft of new social studies standards in Michigan classrooms. 
This is a transcript of Knezek’s speech. (A transcript of Colbeck’s responsecan be found here.) 

Fascinating!-----Here's How America Uses Its Land

Here's How America Uses Its Land:
"There are many statistical measures that show how productive the U.S. is. 
Its economy is the largest in the world and grew at a rate of 4.1 percent last quarter, its fastest pace since 2014. The unemployment rate is near the lowest mark in a half century.
What can be harder to decipher is how Americans use their land to create wealth. 
The 48 contiguous states alone are a 1.9 billion-acre jigsaw puzzle of cities, farms, forests and pastures that Americans use to feed themselves, power their economy and extract value for business and pleasure..."
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#1 this day 1958-----Ricky Nelson- Poor Little Fool