History for June 7

History for June 7 - On-This-Day.com
Beau Brummel (George Bryan Brummell) 1778 - Arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England, Paul Gauguin (Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin) 1848 - Post-Impressionist artist, painter, sculptor, Jessica Tandy 1909 - Actress 


Dean Martin (Dino Paul Crocetti) 1917 - Singer, actor ("The Dean Martin Show", "Rio Bravo", "Young Lions"), Tom Jones 1940 - Singer, Ken Osmond 1943 - Actor, known for his role as Eddie Haskell in the original "Leave It To Beaver" television series 


Liam Neeson 1952 - Actor,  Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson) 1958 - Musician, actor ("Purple Rain", "Sign 'O' the Times", "Under the Cherry Moon"), Anna Kournikova 1981 - Tennis player 


1654 - Louis XIV was crowned king of France. 


1775 - The United Colonies changed their name to the United States. 


1892 - John Joseph Doyle became the first pinch-hitter in baseball when he was used in a game. 


1903 - Professor Pierre Curie revealed the discovery of Polonium. 



1937 - The cover of "LIFE" magazine showed the latest in campus fashions of the times, which included saddle shoes. 


1942 - The Battle of Midway ended. The sea and air battle lasted 4 days. Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties. 


1942 - Japan landed troops on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutians. The U.S. invaded and recaptured the Alutians one year later. 



1966 - Sony Corporation unveiled its brand new consumer home videotape recorder. The black and white only unit sold for $995. 


1968 - Legoland Billund opend in Billund, Denmark. It was the original Legoland park. 


1981 - Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed Iraq’s only nuclear reactor. 

Satellite Data Shows No Global Warming For Nearly 19 Years | The Daily Caller

Satellite Data Shows No Global Warming For Nearly 19 Years | The Daily Caller:

"Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a study Thursday claiming there’s no hiatus in global warming. But new satellite-derived temperature measurements show there’s been no global warming for 18 years and six months.

“For 222 months, since December 1996, there has been no global warming at all,” writes climate expert Lord Christopher Monckton, the third viscount Monckton of Brenchley"

Reagan swelled with pride for soldiers in D-Day anniversary speech; Obama expresses pride in undocumented immigrants

Megyn Kelly | Reagan swelled with pride for soldiers in D-Day anniversary speech; Obama expresses pride in undocumented immigrants
“Here in Normandy, the rescue began,” Reagan said.
“Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.”
Reagan described the undertaking of the allied forces against seemingly insurmountable odds.

"The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers — the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machine-guns and throwing grenades.
And the American Rangers began to climb.
They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up.
When one Ranger fell, another would take his place.
When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again.
They climbed, shot back, and held their footing.
Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe.
Two hundred and twenty-five came here.
After 2 days of fighting, only 90 could still bear arms.

And then he delivered the line that gave the speech its name.

“These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. 
These are the men who took the cliffs. 
These are the champions who helped free a continent. 
These are the heroes who helped end awar.”

In contrast, President Barack Obama marked D-Day by expressing pride in undocumented immigrants:

Thinkin' Bill n Hill gonna use this-----Europe Goes Down the Memory Hole With the 'Right to Be Forgotten'

Europe Goes Down the Memory Hole With the 'Right to Be Forgotten' - Reason.com:
"...The right to be forgotten recently celebrated its first birthday.
It was introduced last May, when a Spanish man went to the European Court of Justice to complain about the fact that a story about his home once having been repossessed was still showing up when his name was Googled.
This was an infringement of his privacy, he claimed.
The ECJ agreed, and instituted what has come to be known as the right to be forgotten. 
It said citizens have a right to demand the erasure of search-engine links to stories containing "irrelevant" or "outdated" data about them. 
This means, weirdly, that online news reports about, for example, that Spanish man's financial travails will still exist—Europeans just won't be able to find them, at least not by using Google or any of the other main search engines.
In the year since the ECJ effectively gave us the right to say "It does not exist!" there have been tens of thousands of requests for the rewriting of history.

Taxpayer subsidies don't pay: Milwaukee Bucks arena backers are bucking history

Taxpayer subsidies don't pay: Milwaukee Bucks arena backers are bucking history - Watchdog.org
MADISON, Wis. — For those banking on an economic boom from a new taxpayer-subsidized Milwaukee Bucks arena, it may be time for a history lesson.
“Most studies find very little economic impact from sports facilities, which would, of course, suggest the argument for public subsidies is very weak,” said Richard Alm, researcher at Southern Methodist University’s O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom.
...Gov. Scott Walker summed up the cold hard facts as he sees them.
“We’ve considered the financial impacts on the state should the Bucks stay or go, and quite simply, we found it’s cheaper to keep them,” the Republican governor said at a Capitol press conference.
“Cheaper to keep them” doesn’t sound like a ringing endorsement of a big-ticket plan that critics see as ransom in a hostage situation.
But Walker’s point is plain: 

If the city of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County and the state don’t come up with a way to help pay for a new playground for the Bucks, the NBA will make good on its threat to buy back the team from its owners and then shop the franchise to some other city willing to play ball.
... research is backed and cited by a study in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis,which also noted that almost all economists and development specialists, at least those not working for a chamber of commerce or similar organization, conclude the rate of return a city receives for its investment is generally below that of alternative projects.
“In addition, evidence suggests that cities and metro areas that have invested heavily in sports stadiums and arenas have, on average, experienced slower income growth than those that have not,” the report noted.
...“Very little evidence exists to suggest that sporting events are better at attracting tourism dollars to a city than other activities,” the report states. 

“More often than not, tourists who attend a baseball or hockey game, for example, are in town on business or are visiting family and would have spent the money on another activity if the sports outlet were not available.”
...The impact study on the Bucks Arena, prepared by a Marquette University professor for the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, estimates development of Milwaukee’s long-vacant Park East Corridor would add 700 apartment units, 225,000 square feet of office space and 280,000 square feet of retail.
Zimbalist said there also are the intangibles, the positive social and cultural impacts of a city hosting a professional sports team. 

Those are impossible to measure.
Taxpayer subsidies for sports facilities in general is bad public policy, Alm said.
“We don’t subsidize the local supermarket, if the owner threatens to leave town,” he said. 

“The difference is professional sports is a monopoly where sports owners can extract these kinds of deals.”

Mr. President, Tear Down This Wall... Of Secrecy: TiSA Details Emerge - Breitbart

Mr. President, Tear Down This Wall... Of Secrecy: TiSA Details Emerge - Breitbart:

"Americans aren’t being allowed to see what’s in ObamaTrade. In fact, the agreements that lawmakers are supposed to vote on next week are so secret that lawmakers aren’t even allowed to keep any notes they make about what the deals contain.

But that wall of secrecy is being pulled down.

WikiLeaks is conducting a campaign to expose all the ObamaTrade documents. That effort is already paying off for curious voters."

Powerless to stop student's use of cell phones in class!-----Fed-up teacher suspended for jamming students’ cell phones so they’d pay attention in class

Fed-up teacher suspended for jamming students’ cell phones so they’d pay attention in class | Fusion
Pop quiz: If you don’t want students using cell phones in class, do you:

A) Ask students to turn them off?

B) Confiscate them at the beginning of class and return them at the end?

C) Use an illegal cell phone jamming device?

Dean Liptak, a science teacher at Hudson High School in Bradenton, Fla., has been suspended without pay for five days for choosing C.

According to the Bradenton Herald, he was frustrated by his students’ inability to pay attention in class.

“My intent for using the device was to keep students academically focused on schoolwork,” he wrote in a letter to the school district.

But Liptak ended up jamming cell phones throughout the school.
When the phone company came to investigate, they realized what had occurred.

“There was some issues with the signal all through the school, people were complaining about it, and during that time he wasn’t saying, ‘Oh, it’s me, I’ve got the jammer,'” Betsy Kuhn, head of employee relations at the school, told the Herald.

Cell phone jammers are illegal in the U.S., and the FCC has an entire webpage, and a downloadable poster (below), aimed at people like Liptak...

A Virginia town remembers the Bedford Boys, who gave their lives on D-day

A Virginia town remembers the Bedford Boys, who gave their lives on D-day - LA Times:
"There is perhaps no place more appropriate in which to remember the magnitude of the sacrifice of those who stormed ashore on D-day than Bedford, Va., a town of 6,000 that’s 200 miles southwest of Washington, D.C.
If you’ve heard of , it’s likely because of the Bedford Boys, 30 National Guard soldiers from Bedford who landed on France’s Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944.
By day’s end, 19 Bedford soldiers were dead. 
Four more died later in the Normandy campaign.
Proportionately, the town of Bedford, then about 3,200 residents, suffered the nation’s most severe D-day losses.
In 1996, Congress warranted the establishment of a National D-day Memorial in Bedford; after significant planning and fundraising, it was dedicated June 6, 2001, by President George W. Bush...

D-Day invasion: Reporter’s firsthand account on June 6, 1944

D-Day invasion: Reporter’s firsthand account on June 6, 1944 - NY Daily News:
"Originally published by the Daily News on June 7, 1944. This story was written by Donald MacKenzie.)
A B-26 MARAUDER BASE IN ENGLAND, June 6. - Riding in the van of the American air spearhead which covered the landing of American Rangers on the coast of France, this reporter had a panoramic view this morning of the D-Day invasion and saw the first Americans come ashore from smoking landing boats which had ridden through a curtain of German gunfire to reach the beach a few minutes before.
Deep behind the invaded beach, American paratroops and glider-borne Rangers were locked in battle along a wide, irregular front.
Airborne units had landed soon after dawn and were engaged with the enemy when warships of the Unite Nations steamed in open order to within a few miles of the coast and commenced to pour in a steady fire....."

Another Paint-By-The-Numbers Friday

Another Paint-By-The-Numbers Friday | David Stockman's Contra Corner
It’s another paint-by-the-numbers Friday. 
The headline number was predictably rosy, but please don’t look underneath the hood. 
The jobs engine is still coughing and sputtering.

For instance, among the grand total of 280,000 new jobs reported for May, the entire goods producing sector—-construction, manufacturing, mining and energy—- accounted for just 6,000 or 2% of the gain. 
And that’s not just a monthly aberration.
Employment in the most productive sector of the US economy has been shrinking for 15 years, and is still 2.4 million or 11% below its pre-recession level.

Its worth noting that the average pay in the goods sector during May amounted to $47,000 at an annualized rate—-or in the vicinity of a living wage. Not so with the big gainers in today’s report, however.

According to the BLS, the nation gained 57,000 jobs in the leisure and hospitality sector—-that is, bartenders, waiters, bellhops and hot dog vendors at the ball park.  
While the talking heads were cheerleading the headline number, of course, they naturally failed to note that from a production and income point of view, these are just one-third jobs.  
Owing to low hourly rates and only about 26 hours per week on average, the annualized pay equivalent in the leisure and hospitality category is just$16,000.

Another Controversy Over Hillary Clinton’s Time at the State Department | TheBlaze.com

Another Controversy Over Hillary Clinton’s Time at the State Department | TheBlaze.com:

"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did nothing to stop the sale of a Michigan battery company to a Chinese firm, despite making complaints about it on the campaign trail last month, the Detroit Free Press reported.

A123 Systems was sold to Wanxiang in early 2013. During a campaign stop in New Hampshire last month, Clinton raised concerns about the sale during a town hall meeting."

Proof of global warming!!-----A-Basin :YTD Snowfall 338 Inches

Al's Blog: YTD Snowfall 338 Inches:
"YTD Snowfall 338 Inches
By the end of May, Arapahoe Basin had received 338 inches of snow.
This is 98% of average snowfall based on our records going back to 1978. 
On paper this indicates a very average snow season.
As we all know, this season was anything, but average.
November and December saw great snowfall, January and March had light snowfall and warm temperatures, February and April saw "average" snowfall and, as well all know, May saw fantastic spring snowfall.
All and all, this makes for an "average" snowfall season - more like an amalgamation of extremes.
I commonly tell people that in Colorado average snowfall means great skiing."

Bee Colony Collapse Is Overhyped

Bee Colony Collapse Is Overhyped | National Review
Sorry to be a buzzkill, but U.S. honeybee colonies are at a 20-year high. 
You’ve probably heard by now that bees are mysteriously dying. 
In 2006, commercial beekeepers began to witness unusually high rates of honeybee die-offs over the winter — increasing from an average of 15 percent to more than 30 percent. 
Everything from genetically modified crops to pesticides (even cell phones) has been blamed. 
The phenomenon was soon given a name: colony collapse disorder. 
Ever since, the media has warned us of a “beemaggedon” or “beepocalypse” posing a “threat to our food supply.” 
By 2013, NPR declared that bee declines may cause “a crisis point for crops,” and the cover of Time magazine foretold of a “world without bees.” 
...But here’s something you probably haven’t heard: There are more honeybee colonies in the United States today than there were when colony collapse disorder began in 2006. 
In fact, according to data released in March by the Department of Agriculture, U.S. honeybee-colony numbers are now at a 20-year high. 
And those colonies are producing plenty of honey. U.S. honey production is also at a 10-year high. Almost no one has reported this, but it’s true. 
...How can this be? 
In short, commercial beekeepers have adapted to higher winter honeybee losses by actively rebuilding their colonies. 

Egg rationing in America has officially begun

Egg rationing in America has officially begun - The Washington Post:
"In recent days, an ominous sign has appeared throughout Texas.
"Eggs [are] not for commercial sale," read warnings, printed on traditional 8 1/2-by-11-inch pieces of white paper and posted at H-E-B grocery stores across Texas.
"The purchase of eggs is limited to 3 cartons of eggs per customer."
H-E-B, which operates some 350 supermarkets, is one of the largest chains not only in the state, but in the whole country. 
And it has begun, as the casual but foreboding notices warn, to ration its eggs.
"The United States is facing a temporary disruption in the supply of eggs due to the Avian Flu," a statement released on Thursday said.
"H-E-B is committed to ensuring Texas families and households have access to eggs. The signs placed on our shelves last week are to deter commercial users from buying eggs in bulk.""

EPA Chief: Just Trust Us On Climate Science | The Daily Caller

EPA Chief: Just Trust Us On Climate Science | The Daily Caller:

"Americans are just going to have to trust the EPA’s 44 years of experience dealing with environmental issues when it comes to figuring out ways to cope with man-made global warming, says the agency’s chief.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told Big Think in an interview that while there are limits to how much the federal government can do for issues like global warming, the public needs to trust how the EPA translates the “complicated” science into real-life actions."


The government is so willing to think for you too!

Hispanic culture movin' up to USA?-----!-----Hungry, desperate Venezuelans are targeting and looting food trucks

Hungry, desperate Venezuelans are targeting and looting food trucks | Fox News Latino
CARACAS –  One of the many byproducts of Venezuela’s acute political and financial crisis is food truck looting, a pattern that is plaguing the country’s highways with chaos and fear.

Just last week, some 200 looters swarmed into an overturned tractor-trailer carrying canned juice — men, women and children were seen taking as many boxes of juice as they could, either by foot or on motorcycles.
Drivers and even emergency personnel just stood by, unaffected.

"The two Venezuelas" (Las dos Venezuelas), a catchphrase so commonly used here these days to describe the rift between the poor and the middle or upper class, were exposed in broad daylight for everyone to see: the looters and the citizens.

...Indeed, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office, in Venezuela about 98 percent of all crimes are not prosecuted.

The non-governmental Venezuelan Violence Observatory said that during 2014 the South American country registered 24,980 violent deaths, or 82 per 100,000 residents.

These figures make Venezuela the country with the second-highest homicide rate in the world, exceeded only by Honduras, with 104 killings per 100,000, according to studies presented by the World Health Organization.

History for June 6

History for June 6 - On-This-Day.com
Nathan Hale 1755 - Soldier for Continental Army during American Revolutionary War, considered to be America's first spy, known for his famous quote "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.", John Trumbull 1756 - Artist during the American Revolutionary War period, Gary U.S. Bonds (Gary Levone Anderson) 1939 - Singer 


Robert Englund (Robert Barton Englund) 1948 - Actor, best known for player the character of Freddy Krueger , Harvey Fierstein 1954 - Actor, playwright, Bjorn Borg 1956 - Tennis player 


1813 - The U.S. invasion of Canada was halted at Stony Creek, Ontario. 


1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association was founded in London. 


1882 - The first electric iron was patented by H.W. Seely. 


1925 - Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Percy Chrysler. 


1932 - In the U.S., the first federal tax on gasoline went into effect. It was a penny per gallon. 


1944 - The D-Day invasion of Europe took place on the beaches of Normandy, France. 400,000 Allied American, British and Canadian troops were involved. 


1968 - U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy died at 1:44am in Los Angeles after being shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy was was shot the evening before while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination. 


1971 - "The Ed Sullivan Show" aired for the last time. It was canceled after 23 years on the air. Gladys Knight and the Pips were the musical guests on show. 

When Men Were Men: Classic Clip of The Duke Shutting Down A Liberal

When Men Were Men: Classic Clip of The Duke Shutting Down A Liberal:

"The iconic star of westerns represented everything good about American ideals; he emitted strength, grit, and self reliance.  He was an America original; a real, honest-to-goodness man.

Whether in real life, or on the screen, The Duke embodied rugged conservativism, and was never afraid to speak up in defense of the values upon which our nation was founded."