History for January 23

History for January 23 - On-This-Day.com
John Hancock 1737, Edouard Manet 1832, Ernie Kovacs 1919
 

Chita Rivera 1933, Rutger Hauer 1944, Princess Caroline of Monaco 1957 


1845 - The U.S. Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. 


1849 - English-born Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive medical degree. It was from the Medical Institution of Geneva, NY. 


1937 - In Moscow, seventeen people went on trial during Josef Stalin's "Great Purge." 


1943 - The British captured Tripoli from the Germans. 


1960 - The U.S. Navy bathyscaphe Trieste descended to a record depth of 35,820 feet (10,750 meters) in the Pacific Ocean. 


1964 - Ratification of the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was completed. This amendment eliminated the poll tax in federal elections. 


1968 - North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the nation's territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was released 11 months later. 


1971 - In Prospect Creek Camp, AK, the lowest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was reported as minus 80 degrees. 


1975 - "Barney Miller" made his debut on ABC-TV. 


1985 - O.J. Simpson became the first Heisman Trophy winner to be elected to pro football’s Hall of Fame in Canton, OH. 


2003 - North Korea announced that it would consider sanctions an act of war for North Korea's reinstatement of its nuclear program.

This Shady Move During the SOTU Address Shows What a Conniving, Liar Obama Truly Is

This Shady Move During the SOTU Address Shows What a Conniving, Liar Obama Truly Is:

"There’s only one problem.

Rebekah Erler is not only a former Democrat operative, who worked on the Obama presidential campaign and as a campaign staffer for Washington State Senator Patty Murray, but Obama has previously used her in another snake oil sales attempt.

Rush Limbaugh shed light on this shady move by Barack Obama on his radio show on Wednesday."

Kiss of Death: Obama Mentions Company in SOTU, Then This Happens

Kiss of Death: Obama Mentions Company in SOTU, Then This Happens:

"As part of his attempt to snow over the public, Obama cited what he said are the millions of jobs that people are working in that didn’t exist 10 to 20 years ago. One of the companies he specifically mentioned as a success story in the creation of these jobs was Ebay, the popular online auction site.

Less than 24 hours later,"


This is what liberals call an opportunity, right?  Instead of going to work, they will be able to pursue hobbies and interests.  

SOTU Fact Check: College Is Less Affordable And Students Are Billions In Debt - Conn Carroll

SOTU Fact Check: College Is Less Affordable And Students Are Billions In Debt - Conn Carroll:

"When Obama first came into office, the average tuition for a four year in state college was $6,591. Today, it is $9139, a 38 percent increase. The growth in tuition for private schools was even higher.

Meanwhile, house hold median income has fallen from  $54,059 when Obama took office to $51,939 today. 

So college tuition has gone up while income has fallen. That is the opposite of making college more affordable."

Hey Paris, You Really Don’t Want to Sue Fox News. Here’s Why | TheBlaze.com

Hey Paris, You Really Don’t Want to Sue Fox News. Here’s Why | TheBlaze.com:

"A government entity, even a municipality, suing a news outlet, especially one with a limited presence in its country, sets a terrible precedent. That’s because it’s not the government’s job to hold the press accountable; on the contrary, it’s the press that keeps government in check.

You and I hold the news media accountable. Every time we change the channel. Or write a blog post. Or point out a factual error on social media.

Media organizations also hold each other accountable. Cable news channels call each other out on errors all the time. And Jon Stewart, well, he gives all of them hell, especially Fox."

Spending is POWER-------State Budget Has Increased $5 Billion the Past Three Years

State Budget Has Increased $5 Billion the Past Three Years [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Amid all the publicity of the city of Detroit’s bankruptcy and bailout, the scramble to find money for road repairs and school superintendents who have spun funding increases as reductions, what may be lost is that the overall state budget is projected to increase by $2 billion in fiscal 2014-15.
In fact, the state will spend about $4.7 billion more than it did in 2011-12, according to the Senate Fiscal Agency...
The state has appropriated $53.12 billion for 2014-15.
The overall state budget was $48.42 billion in 2011-12,

BREAKING: DOJ Finds NO Civil Rights Abuses in Ferguson Shooting

BREAKING: DOJ Finds NO Civil Rights Abuses in Ferguson Shooting:

"The DOJ is preparing a memo recommending that no civil rights charges be filed in response to the shooting death. However, an overall investigation into the Ferguson Police Department’s treatment of minorities remains ongoing.

The New York Times reports:

The state authorities concluded their investigation into Mr. Brown’s death in November and similarly recommended no charges.
 There is a high legal bar for bringing federal civil rights charges, and federal investigators had for months signaled that they were unlikely to do so. The Justice Department plans to release a report explaining its decision, though it is not clear when."

Scientists Fear Another 'Little Ice Age' Is On The Way

Scientists Fear Another 'Little Ice Age' Is On The Way | The Daily Caller:
Winter is coming.

Last year may have been the warmest on record, but it has done little to quell the fears of scientists arguing that declining sunspot activities could bring on another “little ice age.”

Shrinivas Aundhkar, director of India’s Mahatma Gandhi Mission at the Centre for Astronomy and Space Technology, said declining amounts of sunspots being observed in the last two solar cycles could mean a “mini ice age-like situation” is around the corner.

“The sunspots that can be seen on the sun have comparatively less temperature compared to other surfaces on it,” Aundhkar told people at a lecture entitled “Get Ready for Little Ice Age.”

“The sun undergoes two cycles that are described as maximum and minimum,” Aundhkar said.
“The activity alternates every 11 years, and the period is termed as one solar cycle. At present, the sun is undergoing the minimum phase, reducing global temperatures.”

For years now, scientists have been warning that fewer observed sunspots could mean the Earth is heading for a cooling period.
This view, however, has not been adapted by many scientists studying global warming, who say that human activity and natural climate cycles are warming the planet.

High sunspot activity has been associated with periods of warming on the Earth, like the period between 1950 and 1998. 
Scientists have noted that low sunspot activity has coincided with cooler periods, like the so-called “Little Ice Age” that lasted from the late Middle Ages to the 19th century, where temperatures were much cooler than today.

After Four Veto Threats, Obama Lectures Congress: ‘You Can’t Just Say No’ | TheBlaze.com

After Four Veto Threats, Obama Lectures Congress: ‘You Can’t Just Say No’ | TheBlaze.com:

“Some of the commentators last night said that’s a nice speech but none of this can pass this Congress,” Obama told the Idaho crowd. “But my job is to put forward what I think is best for America.”

“The job of Congress is to put forward alternative ideas, but they’ve got to be specific, they can’t just be no,” the president continued. “I’m happy to start a conversation, tell me how we’re going to get to the things that need to be done. Tell me how we get to yes. I want to get to yes.”
This year, the White House has issued veto threats on the bills in Congress to build the Keystone XL pipeline, for a 40 hour work week regarding Obamacare, and on a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
During the State of the Union address Tuesday, Obama said he would veto legislation that undermined the Affordable Care Act, the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill and his immigration executive actions to block deportations."


No, it's his job to protect the country and faithfully execute the law.
He's not capable and has no desire to do either one.  

White House Calls Boehner Invitation to Netanyahu a Breach of Diplomatic Protocol | TheBlaze.com

White House Calls Boehner Invitation to Netanyahu a Breach of Diplomatic Protocol | TheBlaze.com:

"White House press secretary Josh Earnest said House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayahu to address Congress was a breach of diplomatic protocol."

Texas Free Speech Rally Draws Thousands to Speak Out Against "Radical" Islam

Texas Free Speech Rally Draws Thousands to Speak Out Against "Radical" Islam - Eagle Rising:
"This rally came in the face of the Obama administration's warning that it would fight against the free speech of Americans to speak the truth about Islam. Well, as they say, don't mess with Texas… or Americans! Thousands of red-blooded Americans came to protest against attempts to silence lawful free speech against Islam.

"Texas was amazing," said Pamela Geller, author of Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. Geller's organization, American Freedom Defense Initiative, set up the rally. "Our protest at the Avenge the Prophet conference drew thousands of patriots stood for freedom against oppression, subjugation and jihad."

Georgia Cop Tickets Motorist For Eating McDonald's Double Quarter Pounder While Driving

Georgia Cop Tickets Motorist For Eating McDonald's Double Quarter Pounder While Driving | The Smoking Gun:
A motorist was cited for “eating while driving” after a cop spotted him noshing on a McDonald’s Double Quarter Pounder with ceese as he drove along a Georgia roadway.

Madison Turner, 36, was ticketed by a Cobb County policeman shortly after he left a McDonald’s drive-thru in Marietta on January 10.
The ticket issued to Turner, a web developer from Alabama, alleges that the driver failed to exercise due care while behind the wheel.
In the ticket’s “remarks” section, Officer Delaney wrote, “Eating While Driving.”
Turner, who was pulled over around 3:40 PM, told TSG that the cop specifically told him that his 2009 BMW was not swerving in the roadway, nor was he driving above the speed limit. 
Turner, seen above, contends that he was not distracted while enjoying his McDonald’s grub.Turner, who intends to fight the ticket, is scheduled for a February 3 court appearance.

New Illinois law requires students to turn over social media passwords to schools

New Illinois law requires students to turn over social media passwords to schools - EAGnews.org: "SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A recently implemented Illinois law now gives school officials the authority to demand social media passwords from students as a means of combating “cyberbullying.”
But many parents, students, and experts believe the measure is a gross invasion of privacy.

...The new law allows school district and university officials to demand a student’s social media credentials if they have reasonable cause to believe the student violated a school’s disciplinary policies, regardless of whether the activity occurred during school hours or on campus, according to the news site.
The law, ironically named “The Right to Privacy in the School Setting Act,” went into effect Jan. 1.

2014 Was NOT the Warmest Year on Record

2014 Was NOT the Warmest Year on Record | Heartlander Magazine:
The science journal Nature trumpets “2014 was the hottest year on record” and cites the Japan Meteorological Agency, the World Meteorological Organization, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
However, NOAA and several other principal terrestrial temperature datasets – which are subject to measurement, coverage, and bias uncertainties and have been repeatedly revised in a questionable fashion over the past year to show ever greater rates of warming – have not yet reported their December 2014 values.
The two satellite datasets – RSS and UAH – have both reported.

...It is immediately apparent from the graph that 2014 was not “the warmest year on record.” 

Several previous years had been warmer, including the El Niño years 1998 and 2010. 

In fact, some 70% of the years since the last Ice Age were warmer than today.

Famous rabbi: Biblical warnings in Obama’s speech

Famous rabbi: Biblical warnings in Obama’s speech:

"He sees dark storm clouds closing in on Obama’s rays of sunshine, citing “harbingers” that the country is sliding headlong toward a collapse – with blindfolds securely fastened.

“Listening to the president’s State of the Union address, I was reminded of ancient Israel,” said Jonathan Cahn, author of “The Mystery of the Shemitah” and “The Harbinger,” which draws parallels between America’s falling away from God and a series of judgments that will come as a result."

Joni Ernst Slams Obama On Liberal Policies In Camouflage Heels

Joni Ernst Slams Obama On Liberal Policies In Camouflage Heels:
"The newly sworn-in Senator – a Lieutenant Colonel in the Iowa Army National Guard – gave the address from the Senate Armed Forces Committee Room Tuesday, a committee she will serve on this term.
“Americans have been hurting; but when we demanded solutions, too often Washington responded with the same stale mindset that led to failed policies like Obamacare.
It’s a mindset that gave us political talking points, not serious solutions,” Ernst asserted in her response."

Wall Street Adviser: Actual Unemployment Is 37.2%, 'Misery Index' Worst In 40 Years

Wall Street Adviser: Actual Unemployment Is 37.2%, 'Misery Index' Worst In 40 Years - Tea Party News:
"Don’t believe the happy talk coming out of the White House, Federal Reserve and Treasury Department when it comes to the real unemployment rate and the true “Misery Index.”
Because, according to an influential Wall Street advisor, the figures are a fraud.
In a memo to clients provided to Secrets, David John Marotta calculates the actual unemployment rate of those not working at a sky-high 37.2 percent, not the 6.7 percent advertised by the Fed, and the Misery Index at over 14, not the 8 claimed by the government.
...“The unemployment rate only describes people who are currently working or looking for work,” he said. That leaves out a ton more.
“Unemployment in its truest definition, meaning the portion of people who do not have any job, is 37.2 percent. 
This number obviously includes some people who are not or never plan to seek employment.
But it does describe how many people are not able to, do not want to or cannot find a way to work. Policies that remove the barriers to employment, thus decreasing this number, are obviously beneficial,” he and colleague Megan Russell in their new investors note from their offices in Charlottesville, Va.
...Then there is the Misery Index, which is a calculation based in inflation and unemployment, both numbers the duo say are underscored by the government.
He said that the Index doesn’t properly calculate how Uncle Sam is propping up the economy with bond purchases and other actions.
“These tricks, along with a host of other dubious accounting schemes, underreport inflation by about 3 percent,” they wrote, adding that the official inflation rate is just 1.24 percent.
“Today, the Misery Index would be 7.54 using official numbers,” they wrote.
But if calculations tabulating the full national unemployment including discouraged workers, which is 10.2 percent, and the historical method of calculating inflation, which is now 4.5 percent, ‘the current misery index is closer to 14.7, worse even than during the Ford administration.”"

THE ANSWER!: Norway deports record number of Muslims, crime rate drops dramatically

Powdered Wig Society THE ANSWER: Norway deports record number of Muslims, crime rate drops dramatically - Powdered Wig Society
THE ANSWER: Norway deports record number of Muslims, crime rate drops dramatically

One country has finally learned that have a flow of Muslim immigrants creates problems. No, not just problems, horrific crimes.

Along with the introduction of Islam into European countries comes a drastic increase in rape, child molestation, murder, violence, and protests, all justifiable in the Quran and Hadith.

Jihadists, collectively known as mujahideen, implement terror cells and patrol the streets of commandeered zones to enforce Islamic Sharia law.

Norway has experienced the horrors of Islamic integration, and rather than appease Muslims for fear of being politically incorrect, they acted.

According to The Local, a record number of immigrants, namely Muslims, have been deported from Norway, beginning last year. With the deportation comes a dramatic decrease in crime, much to the delight of overwhelmed law enforcement.

History for January 22

History for January 22 - On-This-Day.com
Sir Francis Bacon 1561, André Ampère 1775, Linda Blair 1959 


1771 - The Falkland Islands were ceded to Britain by Spain. 



1874 - A patent was issued to Samuel W. Francis for the spork. 



1900 - Off of South Africa, the British released the German steamer Herzog, which had been seized on January 6. 

1901 - Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for nearly 64 years. Edward VII, her son, succeeded her. 


1917 - U.S. President Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory." America entered the war the following April. 


1941 - Britain captured Tobruk from German forces. 


1944 - Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy, during World War II. 


1950 - Alger Hiss, a former adviser to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, was convicted of perjury for denying contacts with a Soviet agent. He was sentenced to five years in prison. 


1968 - "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In", debuted on NBC TV. 


1973 - Joe Frazier lost the first fight of his professional career to George Foreman. He been the undefeated heavyweight world champion since February 16, 1970 when he knocked out Jimmy Ellis. 


1973 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws that had been restricting abortions during the first six months of pregnancy. The case (Roe vs. Wade) legalized abortion. 


1984 - Apple introduced the Macintosh during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII. 


1995 - Two Palestinian suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip detonated powerful explosives at a military transit point in central Israel, killing 19 Israelis. 


1998 - Theodore Kaczynski pled guilty to federal charges for his role as the Unabomber. He agreed to life in prison without parole. 


2000 - Elian Gonzalez's grandmothers met privately with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno as they appealed for help in removing the boy from his Florida relatives and reuniting him with his father in Cuba. 

$7.5 Trillion in Debt Added Under Obama | The Weekly Standard

$7.5 Trillion in Debt Added Under Obama | The Weekly Standard:

"Under President Obama, $7.5 trillion has been added to the national debt. The number is being highlighted by the Republican National Committee ahead of President Obama's State of the Union address"

MEDC's New Program: Government Funding Government

MEDC's New Program: Government Funding Government [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"In promoting a new variation on its expansive mission, a recent Michigan Economic Development Corporation press release referenced a "surge in new businesses, restaurants and shops."
However, none of those enterprises will receive any of the $50,000 MEDC is kicking in to a “crowdfunding” project sponsored by the Michigan Municipal League, a (LIBERAL) lobbying and information resource organization funded by local governments.
Instead, a total of $100,000 will be turned over to the City of Ypsilanti to convert a city-owned farmers market called the Freighthouse into a “community center.”
Essentially, a state “economic development” agency is helping a government-funded lobbyist organization fund an amenity owned by a local unit of government."

Jihad in France: It's Just Beginning

Jihad in France: It's Just Beginning:
"The demonstration gathered nearly four million people, but seeing in it a mobilization against terrorism, jihad and anti-Semitism would be a mistake.
The Ambassador of Saudi Arabia attended, shortly after his nation had just finished flogging the young blogger Raif Badawi with the first 50 lashes of his 1000 lash sentence.
Badawi is being flayed alive -- "very severely," the lashing order said.
He has 950 lashes to go.
Mahmoud Abbas, the President of Palestinian unity government, which includes Hamas and supports jihadist terrorism as well as genocide, was at the forefront -- smiling.
Israel's Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, was originally not invited.
He came anyhow.
He was told not to speak.
He spoke anyhow.
As a sign of disapproval, French officials left before his speech.
Although six Jews were among the seventeen victims, the anti-Semitic dimension of the attacks was barely spoken about.
The words "Islam" and "jihadist" were not mentioned."

A nation united: 10 states considering Article V, more to join in coming weeks - Convention of States

A nation united: 10 states considering Article V, more to join in coming weeks - Convention of States:

"We the People are standing up, fighting back, and reclaiming our heritage, and that national heritage knows no state or regional boundaries. The states created the federal government, and gave it limited enumerated powers. Congress and the President have far exceeded these powers, with the cover of the federal courts. But We the People have reached the limits of our patience and tolerance. And we intend to use the power reserved to our state legislatures in Article V to call a convention to propose amendments to restrain the federal government.

Do we have the support of the majority of Americans? Absolutely. According to Gallup, 66% of Americans think the federal government is too big, and too powerful. That number is so large that it clearly crosses political, ideological and geographical lines in America."

Trickel up poverty-------Barack Obama Floated A Blockbuster Policy Change In His State Of The Union That Almost Everyone Missed

Barack Obama Floated A Blockbuster Policy Change In His State Of The Union That Almost Everyone Missed | John Hawkins' Right Wing News
The whole speech was intentionally deceptive statistics, mixed with transparently dishonest appeals to bipartisanship and outright lies.

However, there was one earth shaking line that seemed to have slipped past most people.

And let’s close the loopholes that lead to inequality by allowing the top one percent to avoid paying taxes on their accumulated wealth.

Obama isn’t merely proposing to “increase taxes on the rich” there. That would involve raising the tax rate on what they earn.

What he’s proposing is actually taking a slice of what PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY EARNED.

This would be just like the income tax.
Today, it would be low and targeting the richest Americans.

Tomorrow, a wealth tax would be sky high and soaking the middle class. 

The government already gets a slice of everything we make, can’t they be satisfied with that? 

Do we really want the government taking part of what we’ve saved after taxes as well? 

Does their greed know no bounds?