History for August 5

History for August 5 - On-This-Day.com
John Huston 1906, Robert Taylor 1911, Neil A. Armstrong 1930 


John Saxon 1935, Loni Anderson 1946 - Actress ("WKRP in Cincinnati"), Maureen McCormick 1956 - Actress ("The Brady Bunch") 


1833 - The village of Chicago was incorporated. The population was approximately 250. 


1861 - The U.S. federal government levied its first income tax. The tax was 3% of all incomes over $800. The wartime measure was rescinded in 1872. 


1864 - During the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Adm. David G. Farragut were led into Mobile Bay, Alabama. 


1921 - The cartoon "On the Road to Moscow", by Rollin Kirby, was published in the "New York World". It was the first cartoon to win a Pulitzer Prize. 


1964 - U.S. aircraft bombed North Vietnam after North Vietnamese boats attacked U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. 


1966 - In New York, groundbreaking for the construction of the original World Trade Center began. 
 

1981 - The U.S. federal government started firing striking air traffic controllers. 


1991 - Iraq admitted to misleading U.N. inspectors about secret biological weapons. 


1992 - Federal civil rights charges were filed against four Los Angeles police officers. The officers had been acquitted on California State charges. Two of the officers were convicted and jailed on violation of civil rights charges. 


1998 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein began not cooperating with U.N. weapons inspectors. 


2011 - Standard & Poor's Financial Services lowered the United States' AAA credit rating by one notch to AA-plus. 

Bobby Jindal Terminates Louisiana’s Medicaid Contract With Planned Parenthood | TheBlaze.com

Bobby Jindal Terminates Louisiana’s Medicaid Contract With Planned Parenthood | TheBlaze.com:

"Louisiana is among at least nine states across the country that have opened up investigations into Planned Parenthood after an anti-abortion group released several videos seemingly showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of aborted fetal tissue for research.

The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals informed Planned Parenthood that is terminating the group’s Medicaid provider agreement."

Legionnaires’ Disease Town Hall Coming To Bronx Museum of the Arts

Legionnaires’ Disease Town Hall Coming To Bronx Museum of the Arts « CBS New York
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The South Bronx Legionnaires’ disease outbreak has now taken the lives of seven people, officials said Monday.
The total number of deaths was up from four reported as of late last week.
...The total number of people infected by Legionnaires’ in the South Bronx has risen to 81, and the number hospitalized has risen to 64.
A total of 28 of those 64 patients have been discharged.
City health officials said of the 22 buildings tested in the outbreak area, cooling towers at five buildings tested positive for the bacteria Legionella: Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, the Concourse Plaza Mall, the Opera House Hotel, a Verizon office building, and the Streamline Plastic Co.

Fiorina: Thatcher Wasn't Content to Manage Decline, Neither Am I

Fiorina: Thatcher Wasn't Content to Manage Decline, Neither Am I - Breitbart:
"Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina channeled former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Monday’s Voters First Presidential Forum in New Hampshire.
Fiorina stated, “I started out as a secretary in a little nine person real estate firm. 
I went on to lead the largest technology country in the world, and now I’m running for the presidency of the United States.
My story is only possible in America.
But our nation is at a pivotal time.
Whatever your issue or cause or festering problem that you hope would be resolved, the political class has let you down.
Margaret Thatcher once said, ‘I am not content to manage the decline of a great nation.’ 
Neither am I.
We need a president who understands the economy, the world, how it works, who’s in it, bureaucracy, how to hold them accountable, cut them down to size, technology.
I have a proven track record of challenging the status quo and problem solving.
With your support and your vote, I will lead the resurgence of a great nation.”"

Watch Democrat’s Face When Former Bush Adviser Tells Her the Left Won’t ‘Stand Up to Selling Unborn Baby Parts’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Watch Democrat’s Face When Former Bush Adviser Tells Her the Left Won’t ‘Stand Up to Selling Unborn Baby Parts’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Matt Schlapp, a former White House political director under George W. Bush, had some tough words for the Obama administration, and liberals more broadly, during a Monday appearance on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.”

The remarks — particularly the claim that the American left won’t stand up to decry Planned Parenthood’s alleged sale of aborted fetal remains — led his opponent, Mary Anne Marsh, a former adviser to John Kerry, to fervently shake her head and scowl in disagreement."

Evil people. And those who support them are evil. Mengele must be smiling------Intact Fetuses "Just a Matter of Line Items" for Planned Parenthood....

America's Internet Control Near Its End...

America's Internet Control Near Its End... | Conservative Byte:
Under the plan, nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) would create a separate legal entity that would be contracted to handle key technical functions of the online address system.
As Reported By AFP:
A “Customer Standing Committee” would monitor performance of what would essentially be an ICANN subsidiary, and a review process involving stake-holders would be put in place.
...ICANN president Fadi Chehade said last month that the end of the US role is now set for mid-2016, with the transition pushed back by a year to allow time for input from the Internet community and review by the US government and Congress.
ICANN will become an independent entity without US government oversight for the Internet’s domain and address system, Chehade said, noting that the transition is likely to take place between July and September 2016.
“We will further empower the community to ensure the accountability of ICANN as an institution,” Chehade said in an interview with AFP in Washington.
“By making this independent and neutral we are enhancing the longevity of this model.”
Yeah, right...

Federal Government Hires Lunatic Comedian Dick Gregory to Deliver Anti-White Tirade to Employees

Federal Government Hires Lunatic Comedian Dick Gregory to Deliver Anti-White Tirade to Employees - The Gateway Pundit:
Your tax dollars at work–
The US Census Bureau brought in lunatic black activist, comedian and “nutritionist” Dick Gregory to deliver a speech to employees.
Judicial Watch reported:
...But Gregory’s angry outburst at the Census Bureau was not funny to some employees and the agency was forced to explain that it will thoroughly review its procedures for selecting future speakers to “ensure their views are appropriate for the federal workplace.”
Based on Gregory’s well-known reputation as a fiery race-baiter, it’s unlikely that the government officials who booked him didn’t know about his discriminating, shock-based performances.
The Census Bureau paid Gregory $1,400 to “share a wealth of history as a Civil Rights Activist,” according to the records obtained by JW under the federal public records law known as the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Instead, American taxpayers funded a disgusting stand-up routine filled with the “N word” and replete with conspiracy theories about whites and the U.S. government targeting prominent blacks—including Martin Luther King and Malcom X—for assassination or career destruction (golfer Tiger Woods and beleaguered comedian Bill Cosby).
Gregory also said whites stole black inventions, such as ice hockey and the cotton gin, and accused the U.S. government of conspiring to kill Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio.
The movie King Kong is really a depiction of former heavyweight champion Jack Johnson dating white women,
Gregory claimed at the Census Bureau performance, and whites treat President Obama “like dirt” and “like he’s a Redneck Cracker that can’t read or write.”
Gregory delivered most of his routine in Ebonics (also known as African American Vernacular English) and advised his black audience not to obey “white racist cops,” which he also referred to as “filth.”
And this: http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/08/u-s-pays-black-comedian-to-deliver-anti-white-racist-tirade-at-fed-agency/

CNN Host Gives 12-Word Suggestion to WH Press Sec After Exchange Over Planned Parenthood Videos | Video | TheBlaze.com

CNN Host Gives 12-Word Suggestion to WH Press Sec After Exchange Over Planned Parenthood Videos | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"White House press secretary Josh Earnest was given a piece of advice by CNN host Jake Tapper following an exchange Monday about the series of undercover Planned Parenthood videos purporting to show officials discussing the sale of aborted fetus parts."

2015’s Best and Worst States for Student Debt

2015’s Best and Worst States for Student Debt | WalletHub®:
"In order to find those states, WalletHub used seven key metrics to compare the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Our data set ranges from the average student debt to the unemployment rate for people aged 25 to 34 to the percentage of students with past-due loan balances.
The results of our study, as well as additional insight from experts and a detailed methodology, can be found below."

Clinton, Asked What She’ll Do About Money in Politics, Explains “Mrrph Blvvvr Lrrrrg”

Clinton, Asked What She’ll Do About Money in Politics, Explains “Mrrph Blvvvr Lrrrrg”:
"Newly available video shows Hillary Clinton at the Iowa City Public Library responding to a request from Mason Buonadonna, a 19-year-old University of Iowa student, to “name two civic things that you’re going to do to combat money in politics.”
Clinton, who has vaguely vowed to make “Revitalizing Our Democracy” one of the “Four Fights” of her presidential campaign, responded largely with a flavorless mush of platitudes...
Transcript:
BUONADONNA: Do you know if you support publicly financed elections?
CLINTON: Yeah?
BUONADONNA: And can you name two civic things that you’re going to do to combat money in politics?
CLINTON: Well, let me say that I believe in publicly financed elections, we’ve had a check box on the tax form for a long time, and most people don’t check it anymore. 
And with the Supreme Court opening the door to all this unaccountable, undisclosed money, it’s very difficult to get the changes we need. 
And then we’ve got a Federal Elections Commission that is paralyzed because Republicans won’t enforce the laws, even as we think that they should be. 
So I think we have to do several things. 
Most importantly, we have to reverse the effects, not just of Citizens United, but of the Buckley case, and I’m going to do everything I can to appoint Supreme Court justices who understand that, I’ll do everything I can to then go to a legal framework and, as I said, if necessary I will support a constitutional amendment, okay?
BUONADONNA: Thank you so much.
CLINTON: Thank you.

Alpha Natural Resources files for bankruptcy

Alpha Natural Resources files for bankruptcy - Longview News-Journal - Longview, TX:
"Alpha Natural Resources, once a powerhouse of the American coal industry, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection so it may emerge from the grip of a $3 billion debt at a time utilities are switching to natural gas and coal prices are plummeting.
Alpha borrowed heavily in 2011 to buy Massey Energy for $7.1 billion, seeking, like many coal companies at the time, to acquire an empire of Appalachian coal mines in the hope China would be a growth market for exports.
That deal turned out to be a disaster for the company when demand for both steel-making and power-generating coal declined domestically and in several important international markets in recent years."

‘American Great Satan’: While Obama Aims to Sell Iran Deal at Home, Here’s What Iran’s Supreme Leader Is Telling Iranians | TheBlaze.com

‘American Great Satan’: While Obama Aims to Sell Iran Deal at Home, Here’s What Iran’s Supreme Leader Is Telling Iranians | TheBlaze.com:

"While President Barack Obama aimed to sell Congress on the Iran agreement, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was working on his own domestic front, releasing a book detailing his plan to eliminate the “cancerous tumor” Israel.

Journalist Amir Taheri obtained a copy of the 416-page book entitled “Palestine,” published last week in Tehran, in which Khamenei also denied the Holocaust, an event he described as “a propaganda ploy.”

“If there was such a thing … we don’t know why it happened and how,” Khamenei wrote,"

Joe Bastardi: All This for .01 Degrees Celsius?

Joe Bastardi: All This for .01 Degrees Celsius? — The Patriot Post:
As the president reveals his plan to reduce greenhouse gases to save us from an apocalyptic atmosphere, I wish to remind people of three things:

1.) The true hockey stick of the fossil fuel era: Global progress in total population, personal wealth and life expectancy.

This is truly amazing. 
To show how fossil fuels played a roll in expanding the global pie, there are many more people alive today living longer and enjoying a higher GDP. 
One has to wonder if someone against fossil fuels is simply anti-progress. 
Ironic since many in the camp of anthropogenic global warming like to label themselves “progressive.” 
They’re certainly anti-statistic given something like this staring them in the face.

2.) The geological time scale of temperatures versus CO2.

As much as I struggle, I can’t see the linkage. 

Maybe it’s like one of those books where you have to stare at it and cross your eyes to see the picture.
3.) EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy admitted that the steps being taken would only prevent .01 degrees Celsius of warming, but it was the example that counted for the rest of the world.
This article sums that up pretty nicely.
This in addition to the fact that, in 2011, she admitted she did not know how much CO2 was in the atmosphere.
And its lines of evidence for this are provably false!
Given the facts, I can’t help but wonder: Did policymakers ever take Economics 101, or a course in how to read a chart?
When I see simple questions that can raise doubts, if not outright debunk all this, it’s like watching the opening from the old Twilight Zone Series: “You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!”

History for August 4

History for August 4 - On-This-Day.com:
Louis Armstrong 1901 - Musician, singer, Raoul Wallenberg 1912 - Sweedish humanitarian during World War II, Billy Bob Thornton 1955 - Actor 


Barack Hussein Obama 1961 - 44th President of the United States, Dennis Lehane 1965 - Author, 
Jeff Gordon 1971 - Race car driver, Jeff Gordon Merchandise 


1735 - Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that "the truth is not libelous." 


1790 - The Revenue Cutter Service was formed. This U.S. naval task force was the beginning of the U.S. Coast Guard. 


1944 - Nazi police raided a house in Amsterdam and arrested eight people. Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was one of the people arrested. Her diary would be published after her death. 


1958 - The first potato flake plant was completed in Grand Forks, ND. 


1958 - Billboard Magazine introduced its "Hot 100" chart, which was part popularity and a barometer of the movement of potential hits. The first number one song was Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool." 


1972 - Arthur Bremer was found guilty of shooting George Wallace, the governor of Alabama. Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison. 


1977 - U.S. President Carter signed the measure that established the Department of Energy. 


1987 - The Fairness Doctrine was rescinded by the Federal Communications Commission. The doctrine had required that radio and TV stations present controversial issues in a balanced fashion. 


1991 - The Oceanos, a Greek luxury liner, sank off of South Africa's southeast coast. All of the 402 passengers and 179 crewmembers survived. 


1997 - Teamsters began a 15-day strike against UPS (United Parcel Service). The strikers eventually won an increase in full-time positions and defeated a proposed reorganization of the company's pension plan.

Ohio Judge Says He ‘Can’t Set a Bond High Enough’ to Illegal Immigrant Accused of Murder and Attempted Rape | TheBlaze.com

Ohio Judge Says He ‘Can’t Set a Bond High Enough’ to Illegal Immigrant Accused of Murder and Attempted Rape | TheBlaze.com:

"During the Friday hearing, Razo said with the help of an interpreter that he did not have a license, identification or passport. His also said his birth certificate is in Mexico.

“I have somebody who we don’t even know who he is, why he is in this country, why he is here illegally and why he allegedly committed a murder,” Cicconetti said.

Razo pleaded not guilty and will appear at a preliminary hearing on Monday, according to CNN.

The Latino grassroots organization HOLA attempted to shift the blame to Razo’s mental health instead of his immigration status, according to WKYC-TV."