History for April 4

History for April 4 - On-This-Day.com
Linus Yale 1821 - Inventor (Yale Infallible Bank Lock and cylinder lock), Isoroku Yamamoto 1884, Arthur Murray (Moses Teichman) 1895 - Dancer 


Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) 1913 - Blues singer, guitarist ("Closet to You", "Honey Bee"), Anthony Perkins 1932 - Actor (Movies: "Psyco" series), Hugh Masekela 1939 - Musician, band leader 


Craig T. Nelson 1944 - Actor (Movies: "Turner and Hooch", "Stir Crazy", "Poltergeist"), Robert Downey, Jr. 1965 - Actor (Movie: "U.S. Marshals"), Barry Pepper 1970 - Actor 


1581 - Francis Drake completed the circumnavigation of the world. 



1818 - The U.S. flag was declared to have 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars and that a new star would be added for the each new state. 


1841 - U.S. President William Henry Harrison, at the age of 68, became the first president to die in office. He had been sworn in only a month before he died of pneumonia. 



1917 - The U.S. Senate voted 90-6 to enter World War I on the Allied side. 


1932 - After five years of research, professor C.G. King, of the University of Pittsburgh, isolated vitamin C. 


1945 - During World War II, U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany. 


1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of 39. 


1974 - Hank Aaron tied Babe Ruth's major league baseball home-run record with 714. 

Surprising Numbers of Americans Feel that Obama is a MORE Imminent Threat than Putin | John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Surprising Numbers of Americans Feel that Obama is a MORE Imminent Threat than Putin | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:

"That’s according to a poll was conducted by Reuters-Ipsos online and questioned 2,809 Americans on threats facing the nation and asked them to rate them on a scale of 1 – 5 with one being no threat and 5 being imminent.

According to the poll Republicans had Obama in the top spot with 34 percent, Putin second at 25 percent and Assad third with 23 percent."

Setting The Record Straight: New Federal Regulations Will Cause Hot Water Heaters To Become More Expensive April 16

Setting The Record Straight: New Federal Regulations Will Cause Hot Water Heaters To Become More Expensive April 16:
More Federal regulations, making hard of the average family to afford, bigger much more expensive hot water heaters and you may even have to remodel to fit them in your home.
Was there anything really wrong with the old models?
Typical, no need to give consumers a choice, its so good the government will force you to buy it!
Light bulbs, health care and now water heaters!
...While new ones will provide savings on energy costs, consumers will have to pay much more in upfront costs.
...Effective April 16, a federal law requires all manufacturers to make most water heaters more efficient and that means a bigger tanks with more insulation – up to two inches wider and taller–which may require some remodeling if it’s in a tight space.
If it’s in cubby hall or underneath a counter top, that’s going to be a problem.
And there is another issue–the new and improved version could cost hundreds of dollars more, which has many rushing out to buy a “new” old model.
Manufactures can no longer produce them after April 16 and retailers say the remaining “old models” are going fast..."

‘Where Is Everyone?’: Greta Van Susteren Perplexed Why Media Isn’t Covering This Important Story | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘Where Is Everyone?’: Greta Van Susteren Perplexed Why Media Isn’t Covering This Important Story | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“Let’s all go off-the-record for a minute,” Van Susteren said at the conclusion of her program. “Why is it just Montel Williams? Where is everyone? We have a U.S. Marine veteran Amir Hekmati being held by Iran in their worst prison known for torture and the only one I hear talking about it and showing outrage is Marine veteran Montel Williams.”

“It’s bad enough that we have a Marine veteran sitting in an Iranian prison and left behind, but now we are leaving Montel behind,” the Fox News host added. “We should all be standing by and with Montel, helping him. Where is everyone?”

The Shoddiest Media Coverage of Religious Liberty You’ll See Today

The Shoddiest Media Coverage of Religious Liberty You’ll See Today
The mainstream media coverage of Memories Pizza — and Indiana’s state Religious Freedom Restoration Act generally — has been abysmal. 
But this segment from CNN manages to gather all the worst aspects of that coverage into just three fear mongering, condescending, religiously illiterate minutes.

A few thoughts: 
First, there is something to be said for “getting the other side of the story,” but what CNN clearly has in mind is not presenting an objective (let alone sympathetic) account of those who value religious liberty protections, but an exposé of hypothetical Christian bigotry. 
So — much like the media types who finally stumbled upon the O’Connors, turning them into national hate-totems — CNN goes questing for these nutty religious fanatics somewhere else, to press them on how they would handle a situation that is statistically unlikely ever to come to pass. 
And in the interest of such responsible reporting, where does CNN go? 
Jeff Davis County, Georgia. 
Cute. 
Second, having found a few small-town Baptist florists brave/foolish enough to appear on camera, host Gary Tuchman, CNN’s national correspondent, conducts the most condescending interviews in recent television history. 
“You’re talking about the Bible, how important it is,” he says to Florist No. 1. 
“I mean, the Bible talks an awful lot about love and loving your fellow man . . .” 
When his interlocutor says that there is no contradiction between loving one’s fellow man and obeying the dictates of conscience, Tuchman, resident theological scholar, rebukes her: “You’re not loving them if you don’t want to serve them, right?” 
Another theological scuffle breaks out with Florist No. 2: “You know, in the Ten Commandments it says you can’t commit adultery, that you need to honor your father and mother. 
If someone didn’t honor their parents or commit adultery, would you serve them?” 
But the parallel Tuchman is attempting to set up fails. 
Being asked to cater a same-sex wedding is not the same as being asked to serve “an adulterer.” The actual parallel would be: “If someone asked you to provide flowers for a birthday party for his mistress, would you serve them?” 
And it would be entirely theologically consistent for the florist to refuse. 
It’s unclear what the Fifth Commandment parallel would be — “If someone wanted you to bake a cake to celebrate your mother’s terminal cancer diagnosis…”, perhaps? — but is the point clear? Attempts by Tuchman (and many others) to make Christians look like hypocrites fail, with just a moment’s reflection. 
Finally, there is the patently inaccurate reporting at the clip’s end: “At these flower shops, they are happy to do business with you, but not so much if you tell them you’re gay.” 
That’s simply false, and it spreads the great falsehood of this entire media firestorm: that “being gay” is what proprietors are objecting to. 
Buried at the end of the story about Memories Pizza, entirely ignored in the media coverage, is this: “The O’Connor family told ABC 57 news that if a gay couple or a couple belonging to another religion came in to the restaurant to eat, they would never deny them service.” 
Of course not. 
But conflating this scenario with participating in a same-sex wedding is a crucial act of intellectual dishonesty that the Left must perpetuate to object to what are, considered calmly, basic, common-sense protections of conscience.

Krauthammer Reveals What He Found to Be the ‘Most Astonishing Thing’ About Iran Framework Agreement | Video | TheBlaze.com

Krauthammer Reveals What He Found to Be the ‘Most Astonishing Thing’ About Iran Framework Agreement | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“But the second, the most astonishing thing is that in return, they are not closing a single nuclear facility,” Krauthammer said. “Their entire nuclear infrastructure is intact.”

“The soundbite you showed of the president, and that was in December, no more than a year and a half ago, he talked about you don’t need the Fordow facility, they are keeping it, it’s not going to close,” he continued.

“So, they are going to have the entire infrastructure in place either for a breakout after the agreement expires or when they have enough sanctions relief and they want to cheat and to breakout on their own,” Krauthammer concluded."

New Study Is A ‘Death Blow’ To Global Warming Hysteria

New Study Is A ‘Death Blow’ To Global Warming Hysteria | The Daily Caller:
"...The Max Planck study suggests “that aerosol radiative forcing is less negative and more certain than is commonly believed.”
In layman’s terms, aerosols are offsetting less global warming than was previously thought.
And if aerosols aren’t causing as much cooling, it must mean carbon dioxide must be causing less warming than climate models predict.
“Going forward we should expect less warming from future greenhouse gas emissions than climate models are projecting,” write climate scientists Pat Michaels and Chip Knappenberger with the libertarian Cato Institute, adding that this study could be a “death blow” to global warming hysteria.
...Basically, the IPCC says aerosols deflect a lot of warming — the opposite of the Max Planck study’s finding.
...But incorporate the Max Planck study results and warming would only be as high as 1.8 degrees Celsius — less than half what the IPCC originally predicted.
Michaels and Knappenberger say Lewis’s findings basically eliminate “the possibility of catastrophic climate change—that is, climate change that proceeds at a rate that exceeds our ability to keep up...”

‘Capitulation,’ ‘Detached from Wretched Reality’: Negative Reaction to Iran Nuclear Deal Pours in From Israel | TheBlaze.com

‘Capitulation,’ ‘Detached from Wretched Reality’: Negative Reaction to Iran Nuclear Deal Pours in From Israel | TheBlaze.com:

"Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said Iran was essentially getting an international stamp of approval for its secret nuclear activity and hinted Israel had not ruled out a military option to address the threat.

“The world’s most radical Islamic terror regime received today an official kosher stamp for its illicit nuclear program,” Bennett wrote on Facebook. “Today, it is important to stress: Deal or no deal, Israel will do what is needed to protect itself and its citizens.”

As of 10:00am Good Friday----Support Memories Pizza by Lawrence Billy Jones III - GoFundMe

Support Memories Pizza by Lawrence Billy Jones III - GoFundMe

URGENT: We Just Learned the TRUE Identity of Obama's Iran Adviser... This Is Pure Betrayal

URGENT: We Just Learned the TRUE Identity of Obama's Iran Adviser... This Is Pure Betrayal:

"The Obama administration has for the past few weeks been fighting a losing battle with Iran.
It seems like every week, the administration makes yet another concession to the terror-supporting nation that aspires to one day possess nuclear weapons."

ATF’s Recent Gun Raid Wasn’t on Just Any Gun Shop | Video | TheBlaze.com

ATF’s Recent Gun Raid Wasn’t on Just Any Gun Shop | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives raided a gun shop that was the setting for the reality show “American Guns,” Colorado media outlets reported.

The raid began at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday and dragged throughout the day until midnight, ATF Denver field office spokesman Christopher Amon told TheBlaze."

Most enlightening 6 minutes of the day!: Gay Wedding Cakes at Muslim Bakeries?

History for April 3

History for April 3 - On-This-Day.com:
Washington Irving 1783 - Author ("Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"), Doris Day (Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff) 1924 - Singer, actress, Marlon Brando 1924 - Actor ("The Godfather", "Apocalypse Now") 


Jan Barry 1941 - Songwriter, singer (Jan and Dean), Wayne Newton 1942 - Singer, Eddie Murphy 1961 - Comedian ("Saturday Night Live"), actor ("48 Hrs.", "Beverly Hills Cop", "Doctor Doolittle") 


1882 - The American outlaw Jesse James was shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward. There was later controversy over whether it was actually Jesse James that had been killed. 


1936 - Richard Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and death of the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. 


1942 - The Japanese began their all-out assault on the U.S. and Filipino troops at Bataan. 


1946 - Lt. General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines. 


1948 - U.S. President Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan to revive war-torn Europe. It was $5 billion in aid for 16 countries. 


1949 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis debuted on radio on the "Martin and Lewis Show". The NBC program ran until 1952. 


1953 - "TV Guide" was published for the first time. 


1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "mountaintop" speech just 24 hours before he was assassinated. 


1986 - The U.S. national debt hit $2 trillion. 


2010 - The first Apple iPad was released. 

WATCH Harry Reid's 'Disgusting' Dishonesty Burnt To A Crisp By Fire-Breathing Fox News Host

WATCH Harry Reid's 'Disgusting' Dishonesty Burnt To A Crisp By Fire-Breathing Fox News Host:

"And now, shortly after announcing that he won’t seek re-election in 2016, the senator has all but admitted that he was lying at the time to keep Romney from being elected…and he’s happy that it worked."

The United Nuts (UN) Gotta Go! - Eagle Rising

The United Nuts (UN) Gotta Go! - Eagle Rising:

"This is a country where women are executed for surviving a rape… because it’s always the woman’s own fault for getting raped! Come on ladies, where is the outcry?!

Women are discriminated against in personal status matters related to marriage, divorce, inheritance, and child custody. A woman requires her male guardian’s approval for marriage regardless of her age. An Iranian woman cannot pass on her nationality to her foreign-born spouse or their children. A woman may not obtain a passport or travel outside the country without her husband’s written permission."

Nobel Prize, baby!

Hope n' Change Cartoons: Trick or Treaty

Bang for your buck: Best handguns under $500

Bang for your buck: Best handguns under $500 - Photos - Washington Times

Story About First Business to ‘Publicly Vow to Reject Gay Weddings’ Was Fabricated

Instapundit » Blog Archive » JOURNALISM: Story About First Business to ‘Publicly Vow to Reject Gay Weddings’ Was Fabricated …:
APRIL 2, 2015

JOURNALISM: Story About First Business to ‘Publicly Vow to Reject Gay Weddings’ Was Fabricated Out of Nothing.
"See, the attack on this poor small-town pizza place is what bothers me here. 
I’m at best lukewarm on RFRAs at both the federal and state level, and I have increasingly been of the opinion that Scalia was right in Smith, but I understand why a lot of religious folks fear that otherwise the state will reach right into their churches and ceremonies. 
And what’s really troubling here is the sheer meanness of the gay rights community, as shown in the aftermath to Proposition 8, the Brendan Eich affair, and now this.
I was in favor of gay marriage long before those Johnny-come-latelies Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
I may even have been in favor of gay marriage before Dick Cheney.
And nothing from the opponents of gay marriage has shaken my belief. The supporters, on the other hand. . . ."
UPDATE: Matt Welch: Burn Her! She Would Act Like a Witch in a Situation That Will Never Come Up! The anti-pizzeria mob loses its mind. 
Mobs enjoy mobbing. 
It’s fun for them."

Obama Plans ‘Executive Order’ for U.N. Climate Rules, GOP Warns Other Countries

Obama Plans ‘Executive Order’ for U.N. Climate Rules, GOP Warns Other Countries:

"The Obama administration released a plan for U.N. climate change on Tuesday, in which it seeks to solidify its pledge to a global climate agreement to be negotiated late this year in Paris.  The plan calls for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by close to 28 percent from 2005 levels within a decade, using a host of existing laws and executive actions targeting power plants, vehicles, oil and gas production and buildings.

Republicans insist the administration cannot proceed with the unilateral international action without Congressional approval."

Government Corruption Has Become Rampant

Government Corruption Has Become Rampant | The Daily Sheeple
The Cop Is On the Take

Government corruption has become rampant:

• Senior SEC employees spent up to 8 hours a day surfing porn sites instead of cracking down on financial crimes

• Nuclear Regulatory Commission workers watch porn instead of cracking down on unsafe conditions at nuclear plants

• NSA spies pass around homemade sexual videos and pictures they’ve collected from spying on the American people

• NSA employees have also been caught using their mass surveillance powers to spy on love interests, such as girlfriends, obsessions or former wives…and to eavesdrop on American soldiers’ intimate conversations with their wives back home. And see this  (“routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted”…“‘Hey, check this out … there’s good phone sex’”)

• An employee of the Transportation Security Administration admitted that TSA agents share – and laugh at – nude scans of passengers.
Read on. This list is LONG!!

Don’t be an April ‘Earth Month’ Fool

Don’t be an April ‘Earth Month’ Fool | Somewhat Reasonable:
"...But who decided that April was “Earth Month” or that April 22 is “Earth Day”?
Why are we expected to worship the planet that was here billions of years before we showed up and will likely be here long after we manage to destroy ourselves with cataclysmic wars.
And it is worship that is at the heart of these two events.
That alone should tell you how essentially pagan they are.
This Earth Month will celebrate its 45th anniversary, having begun in 1970 and, not surprisingly, its theme is “Our planet in peril.”
Our planet is not in peril. 
It’s been around for 4.5 billion years and short of a rogue asteroid or our getting sucked into a black hole, the planet will be around several billions of years more. 
The galaxy in which we live is relatively predictable and stable, so the notion that the Earth is in peril borders on idiocy.
Well, idiocy, if you think that it is in peril from us, the human species.
This is at the core of the environmental mindset.
It appears that merely using the Earth as a place to live is reason enough to hold us responsible for everything that naturally occurs to it.
Environmentalists do not like the human race and will not hesitate to tell you there are too many of us. 
They do what they can to reduce the population through disease by, for example, banning DDT and any other chemicals that protect us from insect and rodent pests that are major vectors for the transmission of disease...."