History for August 13

History for August 13 - On-This-Day.com
Annie Oakley 1860, Bert Lahr 1895, Alfred Hitchcock 1899


Fidel Castro 1926 - Cuban leader, Don Ho 1930, Danny Bonaduce 1959 - Actor ("The Partridge Family")
 

1521 - Present day Mexico City was captured by Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez from the Aztec Indians.


1889 - A patent for a coin-operated telephone was issued to William Gray.


1932 - Adolf Hitler refused to take the post of vice-chancellor of Germany. He said he was going to hold out "for all or nothing."

1942 - Henry Ford unveiled his "Soybean Car." It was a plastic-bodied car that weighed about 1000 lbs. less than a steel car.


1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, NY.


1959 - In New York, ground was broken on the $320 million Verrazano Narrows Bridge.

Twitter Bans Conservative Commentator Gavin McInnes | Breitbart

Twitter Bans Conservative Commentator Gavin McInnes | Breitbart:

Everywhere one looks, high-profile media figures are being cut off from their audiences without warning, either for discussing forbidden topics or embracing forbidden political positions.

The way we were-----We'll Sing in the Sunshine

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Woman protests sharing abuse-shelter room with man who says he’s female

Woman protests sharing abuse-shelter room with man who says he’s female
"A Canadian woman seeking help in an abuse shelter fled the facility after she was placed in a room for two nights with a man who says he’s a woman.
They were assigned to the double room by the managers of the Palmerston House, run by the Jean Tweed Center.
The National Post reported Kristi Hanna has filed a formal complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario after the Ontario Human Rights Legal Support Center warned that her description of the roommate as a “man” might be considered illegal discrimination.
Since fleeing the facility, she’s been sleeping on friends’ couches.
The two nights at the abuse shelter “were hell for me,” she said.
“It’s affecting everyone in the house. This can completely ruin your recovery, let alone your safety, let alone your life,” she told the Post.
The center is for women who are recovering addicts, and she claimed the staff “forced her” to share a small double room with a “pre-operative male-to-female transgender person.”...
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‘Diversity’ Looks a Lot Like Old-Fashioned Discrimination - WSJ

‘Diversity’ Looks a Lot Like Old-Fashioned Discrimination - WSJ-By Michael Blechman
"At 76 I am old enough to have experienced the old-fashioned kind of discrimination.
It happened in 1965, when I was in my second year at Harvard Law School.
...He told me that the most important thing for any lawyer was to be able to relate to the clients, and that of course it is always easiest for clients to relate to lawyers who are like themselves.
...Since my experience in 1965, all of the firms at which I had interviewed have overcome their prejudices and now hire and promote Jewish lawyers, as well as women, blacks, Hispanics and Asians...
Yet as the old kind of discrimination has died out, a new form has emerged—this time under the banner of “diversity.” 
It’s good to open opportunities to people who were previously excluded.
But promoting “diversity” by discriminating against nonfavored categories of people seems quite a different thing.
A continuing suit against my alma mater is a case in point.
...Furthermore, Harvard’s admissions team has allegedly justified its rejection of qualified Asian-American applicants by giving negative assessments of their character traits.
The result, according to the plaintiff, is a de facto quota for Asian-Americans—very much like the express quota of 20% imposed by Harvard on the number of Jews it would admit in the 1920s.
...Thus, the old liberal ideal of equality of opportunity has been replaced by a new goal, demographic proportionality, pursued at the cost of inequality of opportunity..."
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Woman protests sharing abuse-shelter room with man who says he’s female

Woman protests sharing abuse-shelter room with man who says he’s female:

A Canadian woman seeking help in an abuse shelter fled the facility after she was placed in a room for two nights with a man who says he’s a woman.

Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria Donations Never Given Out, Left Sitting in Parking Lot

Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria Donations Never Given Out, Left Sitting in Parking Lot
"At least 10 trailers filled food, water and medical supplies donated to victims of Hurricane Maria have been found sitting unattended in a parking lot outside a state elections office in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The containers had been broken open and were infested with rats, The New York Times reported.
A local radio station—Radio Isla—posted a video on Friday showing cases of a range of supplies, including food and water, covered in rat and lizard droppings.
The election commission office was being used a collection point for humanitarian supplies.
...Officials have now admitted the trailers have been sat there for more than a year, even though citizens are still struggling to recover..."
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The Rise Of Mass Knife Attacks Around The World Shows The Problem Isn't Guns. It's People | Zero Hedge

The Rise Of Mass Knife Attacks Around The World Shows The Problem Isn't Guns. It's People | Zero Hedge
"In China, where firearms are tightly restricted, it’s probably no surprise that those who want to hurt people found another way to do it. 
The dramatic rise of knife attacks around the world shows that the problem these days isn’t with guns. 
It’s with people.

Mass knife attacks have become so common over the years that a Chinese police department recently released a video to teach citizens how to defend themselves against knife-wielding assailants and it has gone viral, with 16 million views in just a few days. 

It has subtitles and some great advice that even I would be able to follow.

All humor aside, some folks in the US who want to do away with the Second Amendment are probably saying smugly, “Well, knife attacks are bad, but only people with GUNS can kill dozens of victims quickly.”

Those folks would be wrong.

For example…

• In 2014, 33 people were killed and 130 more were injured when a group of men coordinated a terror attack using knives at a train station in southwest China’s Yunnan Province.
• In 2015, fifty workers at a Chinese coal mine were killed in a coordinated knife attack. Fifty more workers were injured.
• In 2016, a facility for the disabled was attacked by a man with a knife. He killed 15 people and injured 45, then later surrendered himself to police.
• In 2017, 18 people walking down a city street were injured when a man attacked them with a knife
• 13 people were seriously injured by a knife-wielding assailant at a shopping mall in Beijing earlier this year. One woman died from her injuries.

This tells me that it isn’t really a problem with guns. 
It’s a problem with people..."
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Dem revolt against Pelosi grows, amid fears her shadow could cast pall over midterm hopes | Fox News

Dem revolt against Pelosi grows, amid fears her shadow could cast pall over midterm hopes | Fox News:

Democratic congressional candidates are revolting against Nancy Pelosi in even bigger numbers, amid fears that her grip on power could hurt the party's chances in the midterms and hold back its next generation of leaders.
The list of candidates refusing to support the California Democrat for speaker -- or refusing to state their position -- has steadily grown, though estimates vary.
The Washington Post counts at least 27 Democratic House candidates who won't commit support.

How @CNN and Other #FakeNews Media Are Now Working to Silence Dissent : The Other McCain

How @CNN and Other #FakeNews Media Are Now Working to Silence Dissent : The Other McCain
"Journalists or Activists?
CNN, Which Admitted They Were Responsible for Getting Alex Jones Deplatformed from YouTube, Apple, and FaceBook, Now Admits It’s Also Pressuring Twitter to Deplatform Him
This is shameful.
When I was working for The Washington Times, we did not seek to prevent the distribution of The Washington Post, nor during my years as a correspondent for The American Spectator have we ever sought to silence any competing publication.
Yet CNN and other so-called “mainstream” media operations are now actively engaged in a smear campaign intended to “de-platform” alternative voices online.

...And this is why I deplore the habit of people who, in opposing the suppression of someone like Alex Jones, feel an obligation to characterize him in a negative way, as if he is a special case in some way substantially different from those who are not (yet) de-platformed.
Is Alex Jones more “racist” than, say, Jordan Peterson or Charles Murray?
Is Alex Jones a “conspiracy theorist” in a way that, say, Jim Hoft or Pamela Geller are not?
Is Alex Jones more “controversial” than, say, Glenn Reynolds or Rush Limbaugh?
Do you see my point here?
...personally I have a hard time forgiving him for siccing a mob of his supporters on Michelle Malkin at the 2008 DNC in Denver.
Yet this is not why Alex Jones is being de-platformed now.
Rather, CNN and others on the Left are seeking to silence Alex Jones because he has been effective in calling attention to various facts that the Left desperately seeks to conceal from the general public. Please go read the entirely of the Ace of Spades post about this and ask yourself: “Who’s next?”

Why Taxpayers Are Shelling Out More Money for Worse Service – Michigan Capitol Confidential

Why Taxpayers Are Shelling Out More Money for Worse Service – Michigan Capitol Confidential
In some places, cities pay two or three times the base salary for one person-By Jarrett Skorup 
In cities around Michigan – including those in severe financial trouble – taxpayers are paying large amounts of money in overtime and extra pay.
 In some cases, cities pay two or three times a typical salary for just one person to do a job.
Some recent stories from Michigan Capitol Confidential highlight the problem:

• The president of the union representing supervisors and managers in the Flint water department earned $161,000 in 2016 and $149,000 in 2017. In both years, his base salary was roughly one-third his gross pay. The rest came from overtime, “standby” time, and union release time.
• Several other
  
  employees in Flint had similar situations in 2017. One operator foreman earned $117,000, more than half from overtime. The other operators in the water department made $107,000, $96,000 and $82,000 . Their base salaries were between $56,000 and $60,000 that year.
• A maintenance worker for the Detroit People Mover elevated train collected nearly $175,000 – more than his general manager – in 2017. His base salary was $57,000. There were 11 employees paid six figures by the entity and nearly all of them had base salaries between $45,000 and $60,000, with the rest of their pay coming from overtime.
• In Ann Arbor, police officers earn one-third or more of their total pay as overtime. One detective spiked his pension payment by boosting his final year’s compensation by nearly $50,000. Other employees used payments for unused compensation, vacation and sick time to do the same.
• In Grand Rapids, 26 city employees made more than $20,000 in overtime last year. Through overtime, 378 employees were able to push their pay to more than $80,000.

So why are public entities paying so much money to one person when they could hire an extra person instead?..."
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Abolishing ICE Is Only The First Step | Current Affairs

Abolishing ICE Is Only The First Step | Current Affairs
"...I am both heartened and surprised to see Democratic politicians likewise adopt Abolish ICE as a rallying cry and campaign slogan.
...I am surprised, because the Democratic Party presided over the deportation of 203,674 people in 2014, and 193,217 people the year before, to take but two examples.
...This mass expulsion did not occur over the objection of Democrats, but was instead facilitated by programs they created and legislation they championed.
...I hope Abolish ICE spreads further beyond the progressive wing of the party.
I fear, though, that focusing on the agency obscures the real message behind the hashtag, which is not about merely scrapping a single agency, but about a total abolition of our immigration enforcement system as it presently exists.
...Want to end illegal immigration? 
Make migration legal.
Abolishing ICE is an urgent and necessary step, but it cannot be the outer limit of our imagination..."

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Fact-checking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s media blitz - The Washington Post

Fact-checking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s media blitz - The Washington Post:

For instance, in an appearance on CNN on Monday, when challenged on the costs of government-financed health care, she answered: “Why aren’t we incorporating the cost of all the funeral expenses of those who died because they can’t afford access to health care? That is part of the cost of our system.”
Huh?
Several readers have asked us to vet some of her claims and, because of summer vacation schedules, we’ve been a bit slower to follow up than our fact-checking colleagues. So here’s a quick roundup of some of her recent eyebrow-raising claims, though to be fair to Ocasio-Cortez, the average member of Congress might easily make many bloopers over the course of so many live interviews.

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