History for June 10

History for June 10 - On-This-Day.com
Andre-Marie Ampere 1836 - Developed technology for measuring electricity, Hattie McDaniel 1889, Clyde Beatty 1903 


Saul Bellow 1915, Judy Garland 1922, F. Lee Bailey 1933 - Attorney 


Jurgen Prochnow 1941, Elisabeth Shue 1963, Jeanne Tripplehorn 1963 - Actress 


1793 - The Jardin des Plantes zoo opened in Paris. It was the first public zoo. 


1801 - The North African State of Tripoli declared war on the U.S. The dispute was over merchant vessels being able to travel safely through the Mediterranean. 


1902 - The "outlook" or "see-through" envelope was patented by Americus F. Callahan. 


1903 - Binney & Smith Company began developing a product line of wax crayons. The product was named Crayola. 


1916 - Mecca, under control of the Turks, fell to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt. 


1920 - The Republican convention in Chicago endorsed woman suffrage. 


1925 - The state of Tennessee adopted a new biology text book that denied the theory of evolution. 


1935 - Alcoholic Anonymous was founded by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith. 


1943 - Laszlo Biro patented his ballpoint pen. Biro was a Hungarian journalist. 


1948 - Chuck Yeager exceeded the speed of sound in the Bell XS-1. 


1994 - U.S. President Clinton intensified sanctions against Haiti's military leaders. U.S. commercial air travel was suspended along with most financial transactions between Haiti and the U.S. 


1996 - The Colorado Avalanche defeated the Florida Panthers in a 1-0 triple overtime game. The win ended a four-game sweep for the Stanley Cup.

Former WH Chief of Staff Unloads on Obama Admin: ‘Dumb,’ ‘Tone Deaf’ and ‘Incompetence’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Former WH Chief of Staff Unloads on Obama Admin: ‘Dumb,’ ‘Tone Deaf’ and ‘Incompetence’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“Dumb,” “tone deaf,” “boggles the mind,” “insensitive” and “incompetence.”

Those are some of the words former White House chief of staff for George H.W. Bush, John Sununu, used in discussing the Obama administration and its decision to send Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to a pro-Israel conference where he praised the administration’s Iran deal. He was booed."

Plus, I think the have "winter" in these other countries-----You Don't See This Every Day...

You Don't See This Every Day... | Zero Hedge:
"Day in, and day out, American investors are bombarded with bloviation on how the American economy is leading the world (and that's why you need to buy moar stocks).
The only problem is... it's a lie, as the following chart clarifies."

The Full Story of The McKinney Texas, Pool Mob – Inside The “Craig Ranch” Subdivision…

The Full Story of The McKinney Texas, Pool Mob – Inside The “Craig Ranch” Subdivision… | The Last Refuge:
The Full Story of The McKinney Texas, Pool Mob – Inside The “Craig Ranch” Subdivision…

Posted on June 8, 2015 by sundance

Here’s The Story of The McKinney Pool Fiasco

The Origin – The woman who organized the event in McKinney, Texas is named Tatiana Rhodes (or Tatyana Rhodes). She is approximately 19-years-old; however, she retains a fake id and has began scrubbing most of her social media accounts, so her exact age is undetermined. Update: confirmed profile DOB 04/02/1995, so Tatiana Rhodes is 20.

Tatiana had been promoting a party via twitter under the hashtag name “Dime Piece Cookout” for approximately a month.  She planned the event at a sub-division called “Craig Ranch” in McKinney Texas.

Tatiana (pictured below left) lives in the sub-division with her mother Lashana Burkes (pictured right).  Both appear to be natives of Chicago.

The Craig Ranch subdivision has a neighborhood park and a gated pool and clubhouse for residents.  The pool and clubhouse is gated and a scan card is needed to gain access. (You an explore via google earth here)

The subdivision has a Homeowners Association (HOA) which regulates and controls the activities in/around the HOA swimming pool and clubhouse and has strict rules for usethereof.

In addition to HOA rules the local community has a resident magazine which provides information to Craig Ranch residents on events and reminders of activities.  One of therecent articles covered the use of the recreational facilities to include the pool and clubhouse:

Neither Tatiana Rhodes nor her mother sought permission to use the pool or clubhouse area as part of the event.  However, Tatiana hired a DJ and promoted the event to include a pool party:

There are numerous social media links reflecting that Tatiana organizes these “parties”, and charges for attendance, as a profit generating business.  Her enterprise name is promoted under the auspices of “Twinzzpromotions” and uses the email address twinnzzpromotions@gmail.com:
Click top link to read it all.

Mike Rowe’s Stellar Reply to Letter Writer Calling His Work Ethic Movement ‘Right-Wing Propaganda’ | TheBlaze.com

Mike Rowe’s Stellar Reply to Letter Writer Calling His Work Ethic Movement ‘Right-Wing Propaganda’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Last week at a policy conference in Mackinac, I talked to several hiring managers from a few of the largest companies in Michigan. They all told me the same thing – the biggest under reported challenge in finding good help, (aside from the inability to “piss clean,”) is an overwhelming lack of “soft skills.” That’s a polite way of saying that many applicants don’t tuck their shirts in, or pull their pants up, or look you in the eye, or say things like “please” and “thank you.” This is not a Michigan problem – this is a national crisis. We’re churning out a generation of poorly educated people with no skill, no ambition, no guidance, and no realistic expectations of what it means to go to work.

These are the people you’re talking about Craig, and their number grows everyday."

Country-rap! Showin' some balls!!!-----Rick Perry Taps a Defiant Country-Rap Tune

Rick Perry Taps a Defiant Country-Rap Tune | RealClearPolitics:
"Rick Perry “don’t back down,” no matter how many other candidates join the 2016 Republican presidential race.
At least, that’s what his new campaign theme song asserted at his kickoff rally in Dallas last Thursday.
Perry marched up to the podium to a personalized version of “Answer to No One,” a country-rap song originally co-written and sung by Georgia native Colt Ford."

Students demand conservative-libertarian columnist be fired for ‘racist, unsafe’ views

Students demand conservative-libertarian columnist be fired for ‘racist, unsafe’ views:
"PETITION: ‘We do not believe students have a protected right to use a student publication … as a platform to proliferate racist stereotypes and misinformation’
A student at Duke University who has penned columns for the Duke Chronicle that favor conservative and libertarian principles is now the target of a student protest demanding his termination as the campus newspaper’s opinion editor in a petition that calls the columnist’s views “racist” and “unsafe.”
Duke student Jonathan Zhao – a rising senior tapped as the new opinion page editor of the Duke Chronicle – has written columns in the past titled “Gay marriage is not a right,” “Equal pay is anti-feminist” and “A farewell to arms control.”
...While he has often touted positions counter to mainstream politically correct beliefs on campus, the tipping point against Zhao came after he penned a column May 27 titled “The plight of black America” that stated: 
“The greatest obstacle to the advancement of black Americans isn’t racism or past injustices but rather the black community itself.” 
...The petitioners do not address Zhao’s lengthy “black America” column point by point, but rather attack his character and suggest anyone who believes as he does is unfit to serve as editorial page editor...

Pathetic republicans here in Michigan-----Conservative Review - Scorecard

Conservative Review - Scorecard:

In Chicago, a Public University Moves to Seize Private Property | TheBlaze.com

In Chicago, a Public University Moves to Seize Private Property | TheBlaze.com:

"Should a public university be allowed to seize private property from people who don’t want to sell?

That’s what Northeastern Illinois University is trying to do.

The school is located in a north side Chicago neighborhood with an eclectic offering of restaurants and mom-and-pop stores. Many of the small businesses in the area have been in the owners’ families for generations – but that’s not what university officials want on their campus. The university is suing to bulldoze those private businesses and turn over the property to a private developer instead."

10 Bloody Amusement Park Accidents

10 Bloody Amusement Park Accidents - Listverse
8Action ParkPhoto: Geoff Cooper

Action Park
Vernon, New Jersey

New Jersey’s Action Park boasted perhaps the worst reputation of any amusement park in history. The place was a perfect storm of unsafe rides, drunken patrons, and disinterested teenage employees. Countless injuries were suffered on the park’s water slides. At least six people were killed during the park’s history, including three drownings, an electrocution, and a heart attack allegedly caused by the shock of frigid water beneath a rope swing.

One man died when the car he was riding on leapt off the Alpine Slide, causing him to smash his head on a rock. By 1998, the crushing weight of lawsuits forced the owners to close down Action Park. A few years later, it was reopened in a sanitized version as Mountain Creek with a new emphasis on safety, the reckless and sinister history buried beneath signs and regulations.

Cultural suicide-----Times Op-Ed Goes All In On Student Debt Silliness

Times Op-Ed Goes All In On Student Debt Silliness - Forbes
On Saturday, the New York Times op-ed page went all in on the fact-free faux-populism surrounding student debt. 
In an exceptionally tone-deaf piece—and that’s saying something, given the competition in this area—cultural critic Lee Siegel, author of un-ironically-titled Are You Serious and three-time grad of Columbia University, urges borrowers to default on their student loans, just as he did. 
Siegel argues that student loans are in fact immoral, and that defaulting is the path to liberation:

"Years later, I found myself confronted with a choice that too many people have had to and will have to face. I could give up what had become my vocation (in my case, being a writer) and take a job that I didn’t want in order to repay the huge debt I had accumulated in college and graduate school. Or I could take what I had been led to believe was both the morally and legally reprehensible step of defaulting on my student loans, which was the only way I could survive without wasting my life in a job that had nothing to do with my particular usefulness to society. I chose life. That is to say, I defaulted on my student loans. As difficult as it has been, I’ve never looked back. The millions of young people today, who collectively owe over $1 trillion in loans, may want to consider my example."

Melodrama aside, this is, quite possibly, the worst advice you could give. 
Defaulting on student loans leads to damaged credit, relentless hounding from collection agencies, garnished wages and tax refunds, and—most importantly—an increase in the amount of money you will owe (to cover the cost of collection). 

Selling our country----An Afternoon Visit to a Chinese Maternity Hotel

An Afternoon Visit to a Chinese Maternity Hotel
After driving 30 minutes east of downtown LA, I reached the apartment complex in Rowland Heights, California, that was rumored to contain a so-called Chinese “maternity hotel”: a place of questionable legality, where wealthy women seeking American citizenship for their children and a way around the one-child rule come to stay for a long vacation—one that happens to result in a baby about two-thirds of the way through.
“For about $15,000 you can have our basic package, a three-month stay here, with food and some Los Angeles tours,” Grace explained.
“If you want to pay more, you can get more tours and outings to better shopping and more time around the city.”
This is the going rate for the thousands of wealthy Chinese families looking to ensure a good future for their children.
They pay a deposit, then jet off to Southern California on a tourist visa and give birth to American citizens, which provides them a way around the one-child policy and a pathway for their kids to have easier access to American schools. 
Maternity hotels guide them and shelter them throughout this long process.
The practice is known as birth tourism, and it’s not illegal—strictly speaking.
It is, however, against the law to mislead customs officials into believing you’re in the United States purely as a tourist if your actual intention is to have a child on U.S. soil.
To get around this, many maternity hotels offer a coaching service to help their clients get through customs with ease. (They also provide medical recommendations and transportation when the time comes to give birth.
...Information from one of the search-warrant affidavits revealed that the proprietors of StarBabyCare have been conducting business for more than 16 years..."

Egypt Backtracks on Calling Hamas a Terrorist Group | TheBlaze.com

Egypt Backtracks on Calling Hamas a Terrorist Group | TheBlaze.com:
"CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court overturned a decision naming Hamas a terrorist organization Saturday, a ruling coming after months of increasing hostility to the blockaded rulers of the Gaza Strip.
The Urgent Matters Appeals Court cited a lack of jurisdiction as the reason for annulling the earlier court’s ruling."

France Dumbing Down Their Curriculum?

France Dumbing Down Their Curriculum? | Better Ed
France has one of the highest high school dropout rates in the world at 20%.

According to an NPR article, the distressing dropout rate has led French president Francois Hollande to call for what critics are characterizing as a dumbing down of the curriculum.
This strategy should sound familiar to Americans. 
In response to dropouts and the presumed need to send every student to college, the curriculum in America’s secondary schools has been dramatically watered down in recent decades.
...Next, French reformers wish to present “European civilization through the lens of the slave trade and colonialism” rather than emphasize the ideas that created modern Europe – kind of like A.P. U.S. History, which goes light on the Founding Fathers and heavy on a critique of America’s past wrongs.
An overarching goal of the proposed reform, according to NPR, “is to make the heavy, French middle school curriculum more interesting and lively for students.” 
So, France thinks education will be more effective if school is more entertaining? Americans: does this sound like déjà vu or what?!?...”

History for June 9

History for June 9 - On-This-Day.com:
Peter the Great 1672 - Peter I of Russia, Cole Porter (Cole Albert Porter) 1891 - Composer, songwriter, Dick Vitale (Richard J. "Dick" Vitale) 1940 - Basketball sportscaster 


Michael J. Fox 1961 - Actor ("Family Ties"), Johnny Depp (John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II) 1963 - Actor, musician, Natalie Portman 1981 - Actress ("Star Wars" movie series) 


1534 - Jacques Cartier became the first to sail into the river he named Saint Lawrence. 


1861 - Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke began working in Union hospitals. 


1931 - Robert H. Goddard patented a rocket-fueled aircraft design. 


1940 - Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II. 


1943 - The withholding tax on payrolls was authorized by the U.S. Congress. 


1945 - Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declared that Japan would fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender. 


1959 - The first ballistic missile carrying submarine, the USS George Washington, was launched. 


1980 - Richard Pryor was severely burned by a "free-base" mixture that exploded. He was hospitalized more than two months. 


1986 - The Rogers Commission released a report on the Challenger disaster. The report explained that the spacecraft blew up as a result of a failure in a solid rocket booster joint. 

Rep. Jason Chaffetz Reveals Miraculous New Detail About the Border Patrol Chopper Shot at Last Week | TheBlaze.com

Rep. Jason Chaffetz Reveals Miraculous New Detail About the Border Patrol Chopper Shot at Last Week | TheBlaze.com:

"On Friday, a Customs and Border Patrol helicopter took fire from the ground while patrolling near Laredo, Texas, in the southern area of the state. Now, Rep. Jason Chaffetz is showing you one of the bullet holes that forced that chopper to land and giving a new, miraculous detail."

Smoking-gun document said to prove Obama-Muslim Brotherhood ties

Smoking-gun document said to prove Obama-Muslim Brotherhood ties:

"Former Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., who tried to launch an inquiry three years ago into Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the federal government, told WND, “It confirms the questions I originally asked of the inspector generals of five agencies.”

“The recent discovery of an Obama administration document evidencing support for the Muslim Brotherhood is unsurprising,” she said. “It merely confirms the consistent position of the White House’s support of the Muslim Brotherhood since Obama’s election.”

This'll make the libs piddle in their panties-----Double Barreled 1911 pistol quad wield rapid fire! 20 rounds in 1.5 sec.

'New York Times' shows its 'gotcha' colors

Glenn Reynolds: 'New York Times' shows its 'gotcha' colors
Rubio's four traffic tickets aren't news, unless you're publishing political hit pieces.

So Friday's New York Times contained an enormous scoop — one so important that it was bylined by two reporters, Alan Rappeport and Steve Eder, and a researcher, Kitty Bennett.
The scoop?
That Marco Rubio had some traffic tickets.
Well, actually, only four in 18 years.
But the story combined Rubio's driving record with that of his wife so that it could maintain that the couple "had a combined 17 citations.
In other words, Rubio had four, and his wife had 13. 
Worse yet, we're told, the Rubios had to attend driving school on four occasions.

..Folks on Twitter mocked the Times with the #RubioCrimeSpree hashtag, featuring such other alleged crimes as "Drank milk after the expiration," "Red wine with fish," and my favorite, "Called Chris Matthews, asked him if his refrigerator was running."
...Er, except that maybe the Times didn't do the digging. 
The Washington Free Beacon's Brent Scher reported that the Times likely got the records from a Democratic opposition research firm, American Bridge.
"Records show that each of the citations mentioned by the New York Times were pulled in person by American Bridge operatives on May 26, 2015. ...
Neither of the reporters, Alan Rappeport and Steve Eder, appeared on the docket records for any of the traffic citations for Rubio and his wife.
An additional researcher credited in the New York Times, Kitty Bennett, also does not appear on any of the court records..."

BOOM: What Trey Gowdy Just Said Publicly Will Put the Fear of God in Barack Obama...

BOOM: What Trey Gowdy Just Said Publicly Will Put the Fear of God in Barack Obama...:

"While grilling State Department officials during an Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Trey Gowdy asked a question that ought to put the fear of God in the heart of President Barack Hussein Obama.

“Did he have his own personal server?” the bold representative asked in regard to Obama’s email habits."