History for April 15

History for April 15 - On-This-Day.com:

United States: Income Tax Pay Day

Happy Birthday! Roy Clark, Emma Thompson, Heloise Cruse Evans

1817 - The first American school for the deaf was opened in Hartford, CT. 


1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died from injuries inflicted by John Wilkes Booth. 


1871 - "Wild Bill" Hickok became the marshal of Abilene, Kansas. 


1912 - The ocean liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. 1,517 people died and more than 700 people survived. 


1940 - French and British troops landed at Narvik, Norway. 


1945 - During World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. 


1952 - The first B-52 prototype was tested in the air. 


1959 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro began a U.S. goodwill tour. 

1967 - Richard Speck was found guilty of murdering eight student nurses. 


1983 - Tokyo Disneyland opened. 


1986 - U.S. F-111 warplanes attacked Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5, 1986. 


1994 - The World Trade Organization was established. 





1998 - Pol Pot died at the age of 73. The leader of the Khmer Rouge regime thereby evaded prosecution for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians.
 

Obama to Sharpton’s Group: ID Laws are ‘Real Voter Fraud’ | TheBlaze.com

Obama to Sharpton’s Group: ID Laws are ‘Real Voter Fraud’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Obama said most studies show voter fraud is not a problem.
“The real voter fraud is those that try to deny our rights by making arguments about voter fraud. but i have to say, there have been some of these officials who have been passing these laws have been more blunt,” Obama said."

Anti-bullying law is bullying, court told

Anti-bullying law is bullying, court told:
"It alleges that enforcing draconian and fluid anti-bullying rules violates the rights of students under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

“What school officials conveniently seem to keep forgetting is that students do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate,” said John W. Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute and author of “A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State.” “While we all want our schools to be safe, nurturing environments for our children, anti-bullying statutes – well-meaning as they may start out – are Orwellian in nature and inevitably run afoul of the Constitution’s protections for free speech and expression.”"

OK. We (just who is "we"?) give the UN scientists $90 billion every year and they promise .....just what?--------The world must shift to solar and wind power rapidly to avoid catastrophic global warming, say UN scientists in major report

The world must shift to solar and wind power rapidly to avoid catastrophic global warming, say UN scientists in major report | Mail Online:
-The world must shift to solar and wind power rapidly to avoid catastrophic global warming, say UN scientists in major report
-Governments need to ditch fossil fuels, like coal and oil, says UN report
-Emissions of greenhouse gases 'need to fall 70 per cent by 2050'
-The report warns that the drastic changes should be made within 15 years
...Global investment in fossil fuels will have to drop by £20billion a year until 2030, while world investment in low-carbon alternatives will have to rise by £90billion a year.

Our Psychodramatic Campuses

Works and Days » Our Psychodramatic Campuses:
Dartmouth College students recently staged an overnight sit-in the office of their president Philip Hanlon. They had over seventy demands.
Apparently, they grew out of their alleged suffering at the hands of “racist, classist, sexist, heterosexist, trans-homophobic, xenophobic, and ablest structures.”
Translating into English, the students elaborated, "Our bodies are already on the line, in danger, and under attack” — suggesting conditions similar to the teen-aged Marines who stormed Fallujah in November 2004, or perhaps the iron-workers who tip-toe on girders 1,000 feet above Manhattan, or an acquaintance of mine whose work clothes reveal that he pumps out quite messy rural cesspools.
As redress for their suffering, the oppressed students issued Orwellian calls to ban particularly hurtful vocabulary, to create new faculty positions based entirely on race, and to ensure gender-neutral student housing.
Most of the students represent the .01% of American society. 
They can enjoy their four- to five-year hiatus from the American rat race, either due to wealthy parents or to charity in the forms of grants that allow them to pay the $60,000 per year plus in room, board, and tuition.
Again, most Americans either do not have such money or access to such money to afford the quarter-million-dollar “under attack” Dartmouth experience.
President Hanlon apparently felt the students’ pain of what they had called “micro-aggressions,” or the day-to-day psychodramatic angst that these young elites feel that are their own versions of the world of the Wal-Mart checker, the roofer in Delano who nails in 105 degree August heat, or the tractor driver who has disked half-mile long rows day in and day out on the farm.

Teacher quits, blames Common Core

Teacher quits, blames Common Core:
"Her letter says, in part, “I can no longer be a part of a system that continues to do the exact opposite of what I am supposed to do as a teacher – I am supposed to help them think for themselves, help them find solutions to problems, help them become productive members of society. Instead, the emphasis is on Common Core Standards and high stakes testing that is creating a teach-to-the-test mentality for our teachers, and stress and anxiety for our students.

“Students have increasingly become hesitant to think for themselves, because they have been programmed to believe that there is one right answer,” she said."

Democrat candidate, Liberal, KKK murderer----------Hate—and Hitler—in the Heartland: The Arrest of Frazier Glenn Miller

Hate—and Hitler—in the Heartland: The Arrest of Frazier Glenn Miller - The Daily Beast:
"In recent years, Miller ran unsuccessfully for elective offices, including the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S Senate, receiving 23 and seven votes, respectively.
His 2010 Senate campaign—for which his slogan was “It’s the Jews, Stupid”—landed him an interview on The Howard Stern Show."

The next ObamaCare disasters

Read 'em all and weep for our children and our country......
The next ObamaCare disasters | New York Post:

On Friday the president used the long-awaited resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to again claim victory for his namesake health law. “She got it fixed, got the job done,” Obama said. Right.

Sorry, there is plenty of more bad news ahead.

It’s not called SebeliusCare, and she wasn’t to blame for most of its problems. The horrors were mostly baked into the law, with some made worse by the president’s dishonest hard sell to get unsuspecting Americans to sign up.

Premium defaults

Obama claimed Friday that 7.5 million people have enrolled in exchange coverage. In fact, perhaps 20 percent haven’t paid their first premium and therefore aren’t covered, according to estimates by RAND Corp. and Goldman Sachs.

The bigger question is how many will keep paying premiums. That’s got the American Medical Association, a chief ObamaCare booster, so worried that it’s sending warnings to its members.

Why the concern? First-time insurance purchasers, especially those living paycheck to paycheck, will be shocked by ObamaCare’s high deductibles, about $3,000 for the silver plan (the most commonly selected) and $5,000 for the bronze plan (the most affordable).

Basically, you’ll have to pay thousands out of pocket for appointments, tests and prescriptions until you reach your deductible.

Feminists Go Bonkers Over Kirsten Dunst's One, Simple Comment

Feminists Go Bonkers Over Kirsten Dunst's One, Simple Comment:

"The left seems to count on Hollywood stars to toe the ideological line, reacting harshly whenever a celebrity shows any sign of independent thought. Actress Kirsten Dunst was among the latest targets following a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar.
By embracing a view that was almost universally shared among Americans just a few generations ago, she faced cruel ad hominem attacks from numerous media outlets and feminist leaders.
She said feminine qualities that were once celebrated have “been a little undervalued” in our current society."

32 Tattoo Fails That Are SO Embarrassing - Hilarious Misspelled Tattoos

32 Tattoo Fails That Are SO Embarrassing - Hilarious Misspelled Tattoos

Escape from Liberal Despair?

Articles: Escape from Liberal Despair?
If you want to understand why there are so many liberals in New York City, listen to the story of a couple I know all too well. 
 Donna and Frank, earning six-figures in salary, lived in relative squalor in Brooklyn, NY, as I related to AT readers in February.   
They resided in a dark, dingy, rat-infested one room apartment.  
Their neighborhood consisted of streets of dilapidated industrial buildings and sidewalks littered with trash and makeshift habitats for the homeless.  
This was punctuated by the deafening traffic noise and exhaust fumes from the elevated expressway that ran overhead.
Like flies in the proverbial vinegar jar, they believed it was the sweetest place on Earth.  
However, there was a subliminal anger dwelling deep within them, a vague feeling that some outside force was waging war on their existence.

.......I credit the “broken windows” theory.  
A deleterious and toxic environment, such as the one Frank and Donna experienced in Brooklyn, is a cancer to the soul.  
The result is a darkness that produces envy, frustration, and a hopelessness that is the foundation for a distorted leftist political philosophy.  
As a growing, less-regulated and more free-market environment, sunny Orlando has been their repaired window. 

If two such individuals can rehabilitate themselves, perhaps all is not lost for the rest of us.  

How Being a Doctor Became the Most Miserable Profession

How Being a Doctor Became the Most Miserable Profession - The Daily Beast:
Nine of 10 doctors discourage others from joining the profession, and 300 physicians commit suicide every year. 
When did it get this bad?

By the end of this year, it’s estimated that 300 physicians will commit suicide. 

While depression amongst physicians is not new—a few years back, it was named the second most suicidal occupation—the level of sheer unhappiness amongst physicians is on the rise

Simply put, being a doctor has become amiserable and humiliating undertaking. Indeed, many doctors feel that America has declared war on physicians—and both physicians and patients are the losers.

Hookers turning Airbnb apartments into temporary brothels

Hookers turning Airbnb apartments into temporary brothels | New York Post:

Hookers are using the controversial Airbnb home-sharing Web site to turn prime Manhattan apartments into temporary brothels, The Post has learned.

One escort service is even saving a bundle by renting Airbnb apartments instead of hotel rooms for clients’ quickies, says a 21-year-old call girl who works for the illicit business.

“It’s more discreet and much cheaper than The Waldorf,” said the sex worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“Hotels have doormen and cameras. They ask questions. Apartments are usually buzz-in.”

The prostitute, a buxom brunette who charges up to $500 an hour, said her escort service generally rents an Airbnb apartment in the Financial District or Midtown West for up to a week at time — then cycles numerous hookers through the place for trysts around-the-clock.

Consumers Energy Outage Map-as of 7:17 AM

Consumers Energy Outage Map:

Obama On The Red Line And On The Rat Line

Obama On The Red Line And On The Rat Line | Zero Hedge:
"At the eleventh hour Obama backed down when General Dempsey said flat out no—and then lied that he had changed his mind after a walk around the White House with his clueless chief of staff.
The foolish incumbent in the White House and his clownish Secretary of State, the man with the big head of hair and self-evidently not much underneath, then had to suffer the indignity of being rescued from their disastrous schemes and misadventures by Vladimir Putin. 
Does that not explain their subsequent insensible campaign to destabilize the Ukraine and then to provoke the current insane showdown with Russia that has resulted from the putsch against a legitimately elected government in Kiev?

Does not Obama’s incredible follies and abuses of power here described provide a palpable warning that it is time to dismantle the Warfare State?
That is, before still another election turns out to be a mere ratification of an American Imperium being conducted by a permanent rogue regime buried deep within the Warfare State that our national security no longer requires?
As I said, read Seymour Hersh’s devastating expose and think about it."

Virginia college 'free-speech zones' latest to fall | Fox News

Virginia college 'free-speech zones' latest to fall | Fox News:

"Coast to coast, these kinds of restrictions on student speech are a widespread problem," said Parks' attorney, David Hacker of the Christian legal advocacy organization Alliance Defending Freedom.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education says about six in 10 colleges nationwide have policies that violate First Amendment rights -- and about one in six impose "free speech zones" like the policy at issue in the Virginia case -- even though such restrictions rarely survive constitutional challenges."

Raw Data: Michigan ZIP codes with the highest average adjusted gross income

Raw Data: Michigan ZIP codes with the highest average adjusted gross income | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:

"Michigan’s average adjusted gross income (AGI) was $51,992 in 2011 — lower than the U.S. average of $56,961, according to tax return data aggregated by the IRS.

Connecticut had the highest average AGI, at $86,382, and Mississippi was the lowest, at $42,677.

In Michigan, ZIP codes with the lowest income levels could be found in Saginaw, Hamtramck, Flint and Detroit.

Twenty-five ZIP codes in Michigan had average AGI levels that were more than $95,000."

History for April 14

History for April 14 - On-This-Day.com:

Passover begins at sundown.

125th birth anniversary of English historian Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975).

Happy Birthday! Julie Christie, Loretta Lynn, Pete Rose

1775 - The first abolitionist society in U.S. was organized in Philadelphia with Ben Franklin as president. 

1828 - The first edition of Noah Webster's dictionary was published under the name "American Dictionary of the English Language."

1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. He actually died early the next morning.

1902 - James Cash (J.C.) Penney opened his first retail store in Kemmerer, WY. It was called the Golden Rule Store. 

1912 - The Atlantic passenger liner Titanic, on its maiden voyage hit an iceberg and began to sink. 1,517 people lost their lives and more than 700 survived. 

1918 - The U.S. First Aero Squadron engaged in America's first aerial dogfight with enemy aircraft over Toul, France.

1939 - The John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" was first published. 

1953 - Viet Minh invaded Laos with 40,00 troops. 

1986 - U.S. President Reagan announced the U.S. air raid on military and terrorist related targets in Libya. 

1988 - In New York, real estate tycoons Harry and Leona Helmsley were indicted for income tax evasion. 

2002 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to office two days after being arrested by his country's military. 

Family, friends of US contractor held in Cuba plead for US to do more to secure release | Fox News

Family, friends of US contractor held in Cuba plead for US to do more to secure release | Fox News:

"The Maryland resident, who repeatedly has denied working for any intelligence agency, was arrested by Cuban authorities in 2009, stripped of his rights and thrown into a foreign prison.

Since then, his family has worked tireless – and unsuccessfully -- to bring him home.

Gross currently is being held at the Carlos Finlay Military Hospital in the Havana Providence in Cuba where he spends 23 hours a day in a small cell with two other men. He is let out of his cramped quarters for an hour each day, led to a small courtyard with high walls and if he is lucky, he gets to catch a glimpse of the sun.
After his 60 minutes are up, the 64-year-old man who is facing another long decade behind bars heads back to his cell. "

The ‘Disconcerting’ Things Dallas IRS Employees Did Around Obama’s Reelection May Have Been Illegal | Video | TheBlaze.com

The ‘Disconcerting’ Things Dallas IRS Employees Did Around Obama’s Reelection May Have Been Illegal | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The behavior may be a violation of the federal Hatch Act.

“The fundamental bottom line for the Hatch Act is to limit the Executive Branch—also known as the President—from having an army of federal employees being active in political campaigning, to try to re-elect the President and some of their sponsored candidates,” Dallas lawyer Pete Schulte told KTVT-TV. “So, it’s to prevent federal employees from actively engaging in political activities while they’re on the clock.”"

Can the government seize your tax refund to pay a relative's debt?

Can the government seize your tax refund to pay a relative's debt? - CBS News:

Two months ago, Mary Grice, a career employee at the Food and Drug Administration, was notified the U.S. Treasury had confiscated her state and federal tax refunds totaling $4,500.

The government had to take the money before she knew there was a problem.

"To be honest, I was ticked off," Grice said. 

"I'm like 'how can they intercept or take my funds without my first being notified about it?'"

The claim against her came from the Social Security Administration which said it overpaid death benefits to Mary's family after her father Scott Grice died in 1960. Mary was five years old. 
In other words, without notice and for a debt that was not hers, the government had her refund seized anyway.

U.S. Navy Christens New High-Tech Warship

U.S. Navy Christens New High-Tech Warship - gCaptain Maritime & Offshore News:
"The U.S. Navy on Saturday christened its newest warship, the future USS Zumwalt (DDG1000), during a ceremony at Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine where it has been under construction since 2009.
The ship is the first of three in the Navy’s new Zumwalt destroyer class, a technologically-advanced stealth warship designed for littoral operations and land attack.
 The future USS Zumwalt is the largest ship ever constructed at Bath Iron Works and the Navy’s largest destroyer."

IRS misses XP deadline, pays Microsoft millions for patches

IRS misses XP deadline, pays Microsoft millions for patches - Network World:

Computerworld - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) acknowledged this week that it missed the April 8 cut-off for Windows XP support, and will be paying Microsoft millions for an extra year of security patches.

.....John Koskinen, the commissioner of the IRS, defended the unfinished migration, saying that his agency had $300 million worth of IT improvements on hold because of budget issues. 

One of those was the XP-to-7 migration.

.....According to Crenshaw, the IRS had previously said it would take $30 million out of its enforcement budget to finish the migration.

......Using that average -- and the number of PCs the IRS admitted were still running XP -- the IRS would pay Microsoft $11.6 million for one year of Custom Support.

The remaining $18.4 million would presumably be used to purchase new PCs to replace the oldest ones running XP. 

If all 58,000 remaining PCs were swapped for newer devices, the IRS would be spending an average of $317 per system.

Obama: In 2014 It’s ‘An Embarrassment’ That We Have This Problem | Video | TheBlaze.com

Obama: In 2014 It’s ‘An Embarrassment’ That We Have This Problem | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“When you compare women and men who are doing the same job and have similar educational backgrounds and experience, the wage gap all but disappears. The whole ‘women make 77 cents for every dollar men make,’ line, no matter how many times the Left says it, is absolutely false when you compare apples to apples,” the conservative non-profit argued.

In fact, according to Heritage, “twenty-something women without children, living in metropolitan areas, earn 8 percent more on average than their male counterparts, according to 2008 Census data.”

"ANOTHER PART TO THE CLIVE BUNDY STORY-A Rancher TELLS ALL:

Read it all-
(2) Chris Parks - Please read:
"ANOTHER PART TO THE CLIVE BUNDY STORY-A Rancher TELLS ALL:
B Hunt wrote:
I live in SW Utah.
I grew up on a ranch less than 100 miles from the Bundy's ranch.
My father knows Cliven Bundy.
I know Cliven's son Ryan.
This is not a hoax, it is an action of force by the BLM.
The BLM was going to sell the cattle at one of the smallest cattle markets in Utah.
No cattle markets in Nevada would take the cattle without a properly signed brand inspection
...Now, for Cliven Bundy, he's not fighting this for his cattle or his own livelihood.

He recognizes that he will probably die before this fight is over.

He has said multiple times that he is fighting this to wake people up about the tyranny of the Federal Government and also to help wake up the western states about getting the rights to their own land back from the federal government, which has repeatedly shut down ranchers and closed off land. "

Stock Market Crash

Stock Market Crash - Business Insider:
"One of the oldest sayings on Wall Street is "Don't fight the Fed."
This saying has meaning in both directions, when the Fed is easing and when it is tightening.
A glance at these charts shows why.
On the positive side, the Fed's tightening phases have often lasted a year or two before stock prices peaked and began to drop.
So even if you're convinced that sustained Fed tightening now will likely lead to a sharp stock-price pullback at some point, the bull market might still have a ways to run.
So those are three reasons why the stock market could experience much more than a garden-variety "correction" — price, profit margins, and Fed tightening.
None of this means for sure that the market will crash or that you should sell stocks (I own stocks, and I'm not selling them.)
It does mean, however, that you should be mentally prepared for the possibility of a major pullback and lousy long-term returns.
So if the recent stock weakness turns out to be the start of a major pullback, don't say you weren't warned!"

Feds to Ban Junk Food in Schools

Feds to Ban Junk Food in Schools | The Weekly Standard:
"The government is putting its (big) foot down.
No more junk food in schools.

As Danica Lo of Epicurious writes:
New rules for school food kick in this July -- and for kids going back to school in the fall, it's sad sad news (okay, not really sad, but healthy healthy news).
According to new regulations being instituted by the USDA, junk food is now totally verboten -- in school vending machines, stores, and lunchrooms. 
That means that fruits, veggies, whole grains, and dairy are good to go -- high-sodium, high-sugar, and high-fat foods are not.
Rules, as we all know, exist to be both enforced and broken and it will be interesting to see how far the Feds will go to make sure the rules are obeyed.
Will it be a zero tolerance regime?
First time offenders getting thrown in the jug for carrying concealed candy bars?"