History for December 8

History for December 8 - On-This-Day.com
Horace 65 B.C., Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots) 1542, Diego Rivera 1886 


James Thurber 1894, Lee J. Cobb 1911, Sammy Davis, Jr. 1925 



1765 - Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, MA. Whitney invented the cotton gin and developed the concept of mass-production of interchangeable parts. 


1776 - George Washington's retreating army in the American Revolution crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey to Pennsylvania. 


1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. The theory holds that Mary, mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment she was conceived. 


1941 - The United States entered World War II when it declared war against Japan. The act came one day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Britain and Canada also declared war on Japan. 


1949 - The Chinese Nationalist government moved from the Chinese mainland to Formosa due to Communists pressure. 


1952 - On the show "I Love Lucy," a pregnancy was acknowledged in a TV show for the first time. 


1987 - The "intefadeh" (Arabic for uprising) by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories began. 



1992 - Americans got to see live television coverage of U.S. troops landing on the beaches of Somalia during Operation Restore Hope. (Due to the time difference, it was December 9 in Somalia.) 


1993 - U.S. President Clinton signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement. 


1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police could not search a person or their cars after ticketing for a routine traffic violation. 

Texas Legislator Introduces “Poptart Gun” Bill to Combat the Left’s Anti-Gun Hysteria

Texas Legislator Introduces “Poptart Gun” Bill to Combat the Left’s Anti-Gun Hysteria:

"The left’s anti-gun zealotry has reached an absolute absurd level. Under the flimsy pretense of trying to create a “safer” environment, liberals have relentlessly pushed upon children a stigmatization of firearms. Because of this irrational hatred and hoplophobia (a more-recent term coined to describe an irrational fear of all things firearm related), children are now missing class time due to in-school penalties incurred for having pointed their finger like a gun or, in a now-infamous example, eating a Poptart into a shape that vaguely resembles a firearm."

Think Obama's Executive Action on Immigration Was Outrageous? Check Out What He's Doing at the EPA.

Think Obama's Executive Action on Immigration Was Outrageous? Check Out What He's Doing at the EPA.:

"As an act of total desperation, the EPA is now playing the race card. The agency is adopting the theme that shutting down coal plants and other fossil fuel development is necessary to secure “climate justice for communities of color.” Ms. McCarthy pitched this gibberish in August: “Carbon pollution standards are an issue of justice. If we want to protect communities of color, we need to protect them from climate change.”

2014 on Course to be Hottest Year Ever (So Long as You Ignore All the Hotter Years)

2014 on Course to be Hottest Year Ever (So Long as You Ignore All the Hotter Years)

....Otherwise casual onlookers might begin to suspect that this whole "man-made global warming thing" was just a massive scam, cooked up by an unholy cabal of green activists, shyster politicians, grant-grubbing activist-scientists, rent-seeking corporatist greedsters, Hollywood luvvies and other professional charlatans. 

And then it would be game over for their entire sham industry.

So who are we to believe: the gatekeepers of the Mother Gaia's Holy Temple of Endlessly Rising Global Temperatures? 

Or reality?

Well, here's what reality tells us in the form of the most accurate records of global climate data - the satellite records from the UAH.

What could possibly go wrong?------Transgender students to play on sports teams of their (gender) choice

Transgender students to play on sports teams of their (gender) choice:

The Minnesota State High School League has voted to allow boys who identify as girls, and girls who identify as boys, to play and compete on sports teams of their “preferred gender.”

The new rule will take effect in the 2015-2016 season.

Fox News reports:

The policy requires transgender student-athletes to provide a written statement from a parent or guardian affirming the gender identity and a note from a health care professional regarding the student’s consistent gender identification.

But in a column for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, attorney John Hagen said the new rules would open the state up to lawsuits if it tried to gauge the sincerity of gender claims.

“Imagine the following scenario,” Hagen wrote. “An adolescent counterpart of Clay Matthews (the very long-haired, very burly linebacker for the Green Bay Packers) comes before your school board. He declares: ‘I always have had a feminine self-image. I never told anyone, because of society’s expectations, but I’m revealing it now. My long hair is evidence of my sincerity and my feminine self-expression.’

“A biological male has a larger skeletal structure, more muscle. Generally speaking this is true,” Michele Lentz, the state coordinator of the Minnesota Child Protection League, told MPRNews.com. “To put them in a position where they are competing against girls, puts those girls in a situation where they could get hurt.”

Sen. Mary Landrieu Defeated: What This Means for Republicans

Sen. Mary Landrieu Defeated: What This Means for Republicans:

"Landrieu’s defeat is, perhaps, the most-telling defeat this election year. Landrieu was expected to run a significantly competitive race in Louisiana and many political analysts were split on whether she would win. However, the tides turned as the national elections became a referendum on the job of the President to whom virtually every Democrat had tied their wagon at one point or another.

Suddenly, being an Obama loyalist was a political liability and Landrieu’s campaign began to falter."

What are they hiding?-----Judge who denied release of Michael Brown's juvenile record forced to explain

Judge who denied release of Michael Brown's juvenile record forced to explain - National Conservative | Examiner.com:
"An appeals court has required that a judge who is withholding Michael Brown's juvenile criminal record explain herself by December 18 via a "response brief."
The Hon. Ellen Levy Siwak denied the request made by Charles C. Johnson of GotNews who filed a lawsuit in August for Brown's juvenile criminal record, should one exist, but did not give an explanation for the denial."

Undocumented students in D.C. cost taxpayers millions

Undocumented students in D.C. cost taxpayers millions « Watchdog.org:
"WASHINGTON, D.C.- It costs an estimated $86.8 million a year to educate undocumented students in D.C., based on a data analysis by Watchdog.org.
There are about 4,065 undocumented children in D.C., according to 2012 data from the Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project.
With D.C. spending $21,347 per student, the total amount spent on undocumented children comes to over $86 million a year.
Others estimate it costs even more to educate students in the U.S. illegally because of Limited English Proficiency classes and free and reduced lunch programs.
One advocacy group opposed to illegal immigration, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), estimates that D.C. pays $186 million a year to education undocumented students.
Bob Dane, a spokesperson for FAIR, said this number will increase by $7.4 million due to the influx of over 50,000 unaccompanied children that crossed the border earlier this year.
“This is an unfunded mandate,” he said.
“It was unbudgeted, and they were transferred at the very last minute…
The illegal immigrants were not on the curriculum this year.”"

Elizabeth Lauten and the Week the Media Broke

Elizabeth Lauten and the Week the Media Broke - Bloomberg Politics:
"And the press covered this like Lauten had stuffed the Obama girls in the trunk of a car and driven into Mexico.
As Alana Goodman documented at the Washington Free Beacon, ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today Show both gave precious time to the Lauten resignation, and two news trucks parked outside her parents' home.
The three main evening news broadcasts, on which time is even more precious, all covered Lauten. The fate of a GOP staffer who blurted about the president's daughters was judged to be important enough to take up four and a half of the 66 minutes the networks were using to describe everything that happened on Earth that day.

The conservative backlash to this was intense, and correct—and it will endure.
The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway, who is conservative media criticism what Alton Brown is to recipes, titled her reaction "Dear Media: This Elizabeth Lauten Nonsense Is Why Everybody Hates You."
Hemingway connected the four and a half minutes the networks gave to Lautengate to how the "same outlets either dramatically delayed or completely failed to cover Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber saying the healthcare law was passed in 2010 thanks to a 'lack of transparency' and the 'stupidity of American voters.'""

DHS to Hire 1,000 Employees to Implement Executive Amnesty | The Weekly Standard

DHS to Hire 1,000 Employees to Implement Executive Amnesty | The Weekly Standard:

"Homeland Security officials wasted little time in ramping up for President Obama's amnesty, posting 1,000 job openings the day after his announcement and announcing it already has space for hundreds of employees at a new space in Arlington, Virginia — an indication that it had laid its plans well before Mr. Obama said."

How A 96-Year-Old Law Has Jeopardized America's Ports

How A 96-Year-Old Law Has Jeopardized America's Ports - Jared Meyer - Page 1

Recent slowdowns at West Coast ports, the result of ongoing labor disputes, are jeopardizing the more than $2 trillion in cargo that pass though these ports each year.

The slowdowns are not the only way U.S. maritime shipping unions are holding back the American economy. Most Americans have not heard of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, also known as the Jones Act, but this piece of antiquated legislation increases costs for American consumers and discourages domestic business investment.

The Jones Act is a federal statute that requires all goods transported by water between U.S. ports to be carried on ships built in America, owned by citizens, and crewed by U.S. residents.

...Contrary to the claims of Jones Act supporters, the law does not increase economic growth. A select few benefit, but most consumers lose. 

...To highlight the absurdity of this law, consider goods being shipped from Japan to the Hawaii. Foreign ships must pass Hawaii on their way to San Francisco, so an American ship can take that cargo and bring it back to Hawaii. No wonder Hawaii has the nation’s highest cost of living, 12 percent higher than second-place Connecticut.

How the Science Got Settled :: SteynOnline

How the Science Got Settled :: SteynOnline:
"Anyway, here's what I had to say about Climategate in my column for Maclean's (Canada's equivalent to Time magazine basically) on December 7th 2009. 
...In the meantime, here's Climategate as it looked half a decade back:

..3) The Settled Scientists have attempted to (in the words of one email) "hide the decline" — that's to say, obscure the awkward fact that "global warming" stopped over a decade ago.

Phil Jones, July 5, 2005:

The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. Okay it has but it is only seven years of data and it isn't statistically significant.

4) The Settled Scientists have tortured the data into compliance with political requirements.

From the computer code for one of the "Mann" models:

Plots (1 at a time) yearly maps of calibrated (PCR-infilled or not) MXD reconstructions of growing season temperatures. Uses 'corrected' MXD - but shouldn't usually plot past 1960 because these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to the real temperatures.

Yet perhaps the most important revelation is not the collusion, the bullying, the politicization and the evidence-planting, but the fact that, even if you wanted to do honest "climate research" at the Climatic Research Unit, the data and the models are now so diseased by the above that they're all but useless. 

Let Ian "Harry" Harris, who works in "climate scenario development and data manipulation" at the CRU, sum it up. 

Mr. Harris was attempting to duplicate previous results—i.e., to duplicate all that science that's supposedly settled, and the questioning of which consigns you to the Climate Branch of the Flat Earth Society. How hard should it be to confirm settled science? 

After much cyber-gnashing of teeth, Harry throws in the towel:

ARGH. Just went back to check on synthetic production. Apparently - I have no memory of this at all - we're not doing observed rain days! It's all synthetic from 1990 onwards. So I'm going to need conditionals in the update program to handle that. And separate gridding before 1989. And what TF happens to station counts?
OH F**K THIS. It's Sunday evening, I've worked all weekend, and just when I thought it was done I'm hitting yet another problem that's based on the hopeless state of our databases. There is no uniform data integrity, it's just a catalogue of issues that continues to grow as they're found.

Afterburner w/ Bill Whittle -- Lights Out! How We Could Lose Everything

VA Incompetence Slammed | The Daily Caller

VA Incompetence Slammed | The Daily Caller:

"Veterans groups are furious after an Inspector General audit said tens of thousands of veterans who called for help reached only an answering machine."

Rolling Stone’s disastrous U-Va. story: A case of real media bias

Rolling Stone’s disastrous U-Va. story: A case of real media bias - The Washington Post
The story and Erdely’s comments about it, moreover, suggest an effort to produce impact journalism. While media critics on the right and the left cry about media bias in just about every news cycle, the complaints generally amount to nothing but ideological posturing. There are few things like a good media-bias claim to distract from a substantive conversation.

In the case, of Erdely’s piece, however, there’s ample evidence of poisonous biases that landed Rolling Stone in what should be an existential crisis. It starts with this business about choosing just the “right” school for the story. What is that all about? In his first, important piece on this story, the Washington Post’s Paul Farhi described the author’s thought process:

So, for six weeks starting in June, Erdely interviewed students from across the country. She talked to people at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. None of those schools felt quite right. But one did: the University of Virginia, a public school, Southern and genteel, brimming with what Erdely calls “super-smart kids” and steeped in the legacy of its founder, Thomas Jefferson.

A perfect place, in other words, to set a story about a gang rape.

Remember Pearl Harbor---Attack At Pearl Harbor, 1941

Attack At Pearl Harbor, 1941:
December seventh, 1941: the surprise was complete. The attacking planes came in two waves; the first hit its target at 7:53 AM, the second at 8:55. By 9:55 it was all over. By 1:00 PM the carriers that launched the planes from 274 miles off the coast of Oahu were heading back to Japan.

Poster commemorating the attack, 1942

Behind them they left chaos, 2,403 dead, 188 destroyed planes and a crippled Pacific Fleet that included 8 damaged or destroyed battleships. In one stroke the Japanese action silenced the debate that had divided Americans ever since the German defeat of France left England alone in the fight against the Nazi terror.

Approximately three hours later, Japanese planes began a day-long attack on American facilities in the Philippines. (Because the islands are located across the International Dateline, the local Philippine time was just after 5 AM on December 8.) Farther to the west, the Japanese struck at Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand in a coordinated attempt to use surprise in order inflict as much damage as quickly as possible to strategic targets.

Although stunned by the attack at Pearl Harbor, the Pacific Fleet's aircraft carriers, submarines and, most importantly, its fuel oil storage facilities emerged unscathed. These assets formed the foundation for the American response that led to victory at the Battle of Midway the following June and ultimately to the total destruction of the Japanese Empire four years later.

History for December 7

History for December 7 - On-This-Day.com
Donald Albert Hall 1898 - Aircraft designer (Spirit of St. Louis), Eli Wallach 1915, Ted Knight 1923 


Harry Chapin 1942, Larry Bird (NBA) 1956, C. Thomas Howell 1966 


1732 - The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) was opened. 


1787 - Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. constitution becoming the first of the United States. 


1796 - John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States. 


1836 - Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States. 


1926 - The gas operated refrigerator was patented by The Electrolux Servel Corporation. 


1941 - Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II. 


1972 - Apollo 17 was launched at Cape Canaveral. It was the last U.S. moon mission. 


1993 - Six people were killed and 17 were injured when a gunman opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train. 


1998 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of President Clinton over 1996 campaign financing. 

OUCH! This Open Borders Advocate Learns to NOT Pull the Race Card When Trey Gowdy is Around…

OUCH! This Open Borders Advocate Learns to NOT Pull the Race Card When Trey Gowdy is Around…:

“You suggested race was the basis for why we may have this constitutional perspective; did I understand you correctly?” Rep. Gowdy asked Hincapie in a confrontational tone that immediately lets one know that she’s about to get annihilated.
When Hincapie began with a convoluted response, Gowdy jumped in."



Not only is this classic Trey Gowdy, but listen to the very end when she states what Obama has created.

Another Race-Based Attack In Saint Louis – Three Black Youth Drag White Woman From Vehicle For Beating…

Another Race-Based Attack In Saint Louis – Three Black Youth Drag White Woman From Vehicle For Beating… | The Last Refuge
….Now a 26-year-old white Bosnian woman is dragged from her car early this morning by another three black thugs carrying a gun and crowbar. 

She was pulled from her car, thrown to the ground, kicked and beaten.

The police finally call it what it is a “Hate Crime” – from the Police Report:
Location: 4600 block of Lansdowne
Date/Time: 12/5/14 @ 05:25
Victim: 26-year old white female
Suspect(s): Three unknown black males, late teens-early 20s
​The victim stated she was driving in the 4600 block of Lansdowne when three unknown suspects walked in front of her vehicle. 

When the victim attempted to drive around them, the suspects displayed a firearm and ordered her to stop her vehicle, to which she complied. 

One of the suspects then approached the driver’s side, produced an object, possibly a crowbar, and struck the windshield of her vehicle.
The suspects then ordered the victim to exit her vehicle. 

The victim refused and one of the suspects pulled her out of the car. 

During this time, another suspect opened the passenger side door of the vehicle, went through the victim’s purse and stated that it was empty. 

One of the suspects then pushed the victim to the ground and kicked her. 

All three suspects then fled the scene.

How To Reduce Police Violence—–Eliminate Nanny State Crimes

How To Reduce Police Violence—–Eliminate Nanny State Crimes | David Stockman's Contra Corner:
"Wrote Nick Gillespie in the Daily Beast,
“Clearly something has gone horribly wrong when a man lies dead after being confronted for selling cigarettes to willing buyers.”
Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, appearing on MSNBC, also blamed the statute:
“Some politician put a tax of $5.85 on a pack of cigarettes, so they’ve driven cigarettes underground by making them so expensive.”
The problem is actually broader.
It’s not just cigarette tax laws that can lead to the death of those the police seek to arrest.
It’s every law.
Libertarians argue that we have far too many laws, and the Garner case offers evidence that they’re right.
I often tell my students that there will never be a perfect technology of law enforcement, and therefore it is unavoidable that there will be situations where police err on the side of too much violence rather than too little. 
Better training won’t lead to perfection. 
But fewer laws would mean fewer opportunities for official violence to get out of hand."

Is Obama considering sanctions against Israel? Dozens of lawmakers demand an answer. | TheBlaze.com

Is Obama considering sanctions against Israel? Dozens of lawmakers demand an answer. | TheBlaze.com:

"Dozens of House Republicans on Friday demanded that President Barack Obama explain and clarify recent reports that say his administration is considering new sanctions against Israel.
The Obama administration has repeatedly said it disapproves of Israel’s decision to build new homes in East Jerusalem, and that this construction undermines the peace process. But officials on Friday refused to confirm or deny reports that they are considering sanctions against Israel."

Union President Concedes Right-to-Work Lawsuit; Strike Back Against Workers Who Left [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Union President Concedes Right-to-Work Lawsuit; Strike Back Against Workers Who Left [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:

"After a teachers union president lost a legal battle involving forcing a non-union member to pay part of her salary for union-related activities, she responded by publishing the names of all former members who opted out of the union in a newslette"

Read 'em all and DO SOMETHING!!!-------Five Facts About Crony Profits from Food Stamps

Five Facts About Crony Profits from Food Stamps | The Daily Sheeple

2.The Biggest Food Stamp Lobbyists are Mega Banks and Mega Corporations

Some 76 billion in food stamps were handed out just last year alone. But the biggest recipients aren’t the people on food stamps.

In fact, the biggest lobbyists for the food stamp program aren’t poor people or organizations who represent low-income families, but big Wall Street banks and mega corporations. 

Two quick examples: J.P. Morgan Chase raked in $209 million for just two contracts agreeing to administer EBT card benefits in Florida and New York; and Walmart made half a billion in food stamps just off Oklahoma residents and in just a two-year period. (source)