Friday, August 07, 2015
History for August 7
History for August 7 - On-This-Day.com:
Mata Hari 1876, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer 1927, B.J. Thomas 1942
Garrison Keillor 1942, David Duchovny 1960, Charlize Theron 1975
1789 - The U.S. War Department was established by the U.S. Congress.
1782 - George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart.
1888 - Theophilus Van Kannel received a patent for the revolving door.
1942 - U.S. forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II.
1960 - The Cuban Catholic Church condemned the rise of communism in Cuba. Fidel Castro then banned all religious TV and radio broadcasts.
1964 - The U.S. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which gave President Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.
1974 - French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center.
1990 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered U.S. troops and warplanes to Saudi Arabia to guard against a possible invasion by Iraq.
2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he would run for the office of governor.
Thursday, August 06, 2015
Read the Alert Issued By the FBI Warning of ‘Middle-Eastern Males Approaching Families’ of Military | TheBlaze.com
Read the Alert Issued By the FBI Warning of ‘Middle-Eastern Males Approaching Families’ of Military | TheBlaze.com:"The Islamic State terror group has on several occasions threatened to strike military members in their homes. In March, a group calling itself the “Islamic State Hacking Division” posted a list of addresses purportedly belonging to approximately 100 military members. The group called for their beheadings, saying it leaked the information “so that our bothers residing in America can deal with you.”
PHOTO: Nearly 100,000 People Just "Liked" This EPIC Sign About Barack Obama
PHOTO: Nearly 100,000 People Just "Liked" This EPIC Sign About Barack Obama:
"In the wake of the terrorist shooting of U.S. Marines in Chattanooga, Tennessee, many called upon the president to remove gun-free zones on military property. Instead, the president and his allies clamped down, even going so far as to label gun-carrying citizens who gathered to protect disarmed Marines a “threat.”
At about the same time, Obama and his administration orchestrated an appeasement deal with Iran over its nuclear program. Far from stopping the Iranians from becoming a nuclear power, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned, “it paves Iran’s path to the bomb.”
"In the wake of the terrorist shooting of U.S. Marines in Chattanooga, Tennessee, many called upon the president to remove gun-free zones on military property. Instead, the president and his allies clamped down, even going so far as to label gun-carrying citizens who gathered to protect disarmed Marines a “threat.”At about the same time, Obama and his administration orchestrated an appeasement deal with Iran over its nuclear program. Far from stopping the Iranians from becoming a nuclear power, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned, “it paves Iran’s path to the bomb.”
Looting Turns Deadly In Venezuela Amid Severe Food Shortages
Looting Turns Deadly In Venezuela Amid Severe Food Shortages:
"CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A man was killed and dozens were arrested Friday as a mob looted a supermarket and other shops in an industrial Venezuelan city, Bolivar state authorities said.
In announcing the looting, Gov. Francisco Rangel pushed back against opponents of Venezuela's socialist government who attributed the unrest to widespread scarcities of basic goods across the oil-rich nation.
He said more than two dozen people were arrested in connection with the looting in the southeastern city of
Ciudad Guyana and added that there was no excuse for the behavior.
"No one is starving," he said.
Rangel also suggested to the television station Globovision that the looting might have been driven by people with "political motives."
Tensions are running high in Venezuela as the country gears up for December legislative elections.
Local newspaper Correo del Caroni said the commotion, which centered on four stroes, caused merchants to temporarily shutter nearby businesses in fear they might be attacked, too.
Venezuela has been grappling with worsening shortages of basic goods like cooking oil and flour. The administration has adopted a variety of measures to address the situation and discourage hoarding, including fingerprinting shoppers who buy food at subsidized prices at supermarkets.
Officials also limit the days that people can buy certain products.
Few items are produced locally, and rigid currency controls and a scarcity of U.S. dollars have made it increasingly difficult for Venezuelans to find imported products.
Price controls don't help either, with producers complaining that some goods are priced too low to make a profit and justify production.
The administration blames the shortages both on companies speculating with an eye toward future profits and on black market vendors who buy groceries at subsidized prices and illegally resell them for several times the amount.
The looting came a day after Venezuela's largest food distributor, Polar, protested a government seizure of one of its warehouses in Caracas and warned that any takeovers could exacerbate supply problems.
The opposition immediately seized on the looting incident as a demonstration of how bad things have gotten under the current administration.
Henrique Capriles, a former presidential candidate who lost a close race with President Nicolas Maduro in the last presidential election, said the looting shows that shortages have become dire in Venezuela.
"The farther you get from the capital, the worse the economic situation is," he said."
"CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A man was killed and dozens were arrested Friday as a mob looted a supermarket and other shops in an industrial Venezuelan city, Bolivar state authorities said.
He said more than two dozen people were arrested in connection with the looting in the southeastern city of
Ciudad Guyana and added that there was no excuse for the behavior.
"No one is starving," he said.
Rangel also suggested to the television station Globovision that the looting might have been driven by people with "political motives."
Tensions are running high in Venezuela as the country gears up for December legislative elections.
Local newspaper Correo del Caroni said the commotion, which centered on four stroes, caused merchants to temporarily shutter nearby businesses in fear they might be attacked, too.
Venezuela has been grappling with worsening shortages of basic goods like cooking oil and flour. The administration has adopted a variety of measures to address the situation and discourage hoarding, including fingerprinting shoppers who buy food at subsidized prices at supermarkets.
Officials also limit the days that people can buy certain products.
Few items are produced locally, and rigid currency controls and a scarcity of U.S. dollars have made it increasingly difficult for Venezuelans to find imported products.Price controls don't help either, with producers complaining that some goods are priced too low to make a profit and justify production.
The administration blames the shortages both on companies speculating with an eye toward future profits and on black market vendors who buy groceries at subsidized prices and illegally resell them for several times the amount.
The looting came a day after Venezuela's largest food distributor, Polar, protested a government seizure of one of its warehouses in Caracas and warned that any takeovers could exacerbate supply problems.
The opposition immediately seized on the looting incident as a demonstration of how bad things have gotten under the current administration.
Henrique Capriles, a former presidential candidate who lost a close race with President Nicolas Maduro in the last presidential election, said the looting shows that shortages have become dire in Venezuela.
"The farther you get from the capital, the worse the economic situation is," he said."
Low-information voters: Unknown truck driver who spent no money on campaign is Mississippi Dem nominee for guv
Marathon Pundit: Low-information voters: Unknown truck driver who spent no money on campaign is Mississippi Dem nominee for guv:
"Truck driver and political neophyte Robert Gray raised and spent no money in his campaign for the Democratic nominee for governor in Mississippi. Gray's electioneering was limited to attending a couple of rallies.
He didn't even vote for himself.
Gray's mother didn't know he was running--although she voted for him--mom thought she was choosing a candidate with the same name as as her son's.
Gray didn't advertise.
He produced no yard signs.
But Gray collected 51 percent of the vote in a three-way race.
Attorney Vicki Slater spent over $200,000 on her effort to win the Democratic Party nomination--some of it was her own money.
This is your 21st century Democratic Party--it is dominated by low-information voters who have no idea what they are voting for when they enter the polling place... "
He didn't even vote for himself.
Gray's mother didn't know he was running--although she voted for him--mom thought she was choosing a candidate with the same name as as her son's.
Gray didn't advertise.
He produced no yard signs.
But Gray collected 51 percent of the vote in a three-way race.
Attorney Vicki Slater spent over $200,000 on her effort to win the Democratic Party nomination--some of it was her own money.
This is your 21st century Democratic Party--it is dominated by low-information voters who have no idea what they are voting for when they enter the polling place... "
See How GOP Senator Responds When Barbara Boxer Says She Doesn’t Like ‘Lectures By Men’ on Pregnancy | Video | TheBlaze.com
See How GOP Senator Responds When Barbara Boxer Says She Doesn’t Like ‘Lectures By Men’ on Pregnancy | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"A Republican senator responded directly to Sen. Barbara Boxer Monday after the California liberal said during debate over Planned Parenthood that she didn’t appreciate “lectures by men” on the matter."
"A Republican senator responded directly to Sen. Barbara Boxer Monday after the California liberal said during debate over Planned Parenthood that she didn’t appreciate “lectures by men” on the matter."This Map Reveals One Thing About the American People and Donald Trump
This Map Reveals One Thing About the American People and Donald Trump:
"The American people can’t get enough of Donald Trump.
At least according to this map released by Google Trends.
As the clock ticks down to the first Republican Debate, Americans are racing to their computers to learn more about one of the seventeen candidates.
And they’re searching for Donald Trump."
"The American people can’t get enough of Donald Trump.At least according to this map released by Google Trends.
As the clock ticks down to the first Republican Debate, Americans are racing to their computers to learn more about one of the seventeen candidates.
And they’re searching for Donald Trump."
Slate Says "Homophobic" Grandmothers Should Die...
Slate Says "Homophobic" Grandmothers Should Die...:
"I love when the left reminds us of who they are.
Someone wrote Slate that “Help, my grandma refuses to be in the same room as my brother’s boyfriend.”
This was Slate’s response…
"The world will be a better place when such grandmas shuffle off this mortal coil..."
This is liberalism.
If you have a viewpoint that is different than mine, you should be dead.
And she was even speaking about one specific grandma.
But all grandmas who share this opinion, which, if I were a betting man… is probably most grandmas!
Is this the answer the guy was looking for? “Grandma, you don’t like my brothers boyfriend, therefore you should die. Thanks for the crumpets, you geriatric, hellhound whore!”
Well done, Slate."
Someone wrote Slate that “Help, my grandma refuses to be in the same room as my brother’s boyfriend.”
This was Slate’s response…
"The world will be a better place when such grandmas shuffle off this mortal coil..."
This is liberalism.
If you have a viewpoint that is different than mine, you should be dead.
And she was even speaking about one specific grandma.
But all grandmas who share this opinion, which, if I were a betting man… is probably most grandmas!
Is this the answer the guy was looking for? “Grandma, you don’t like my brothers boyfriend, therefore you should die. Thanks for the crumpets, you geriatric, hellhound whore!”
Well done, Slate."
Phase Two of Obama’s Plan to Federalize the Police Force Just Happened in Baltimore | TheBlaze.com
Phase Two of Obama’s Plan to Federalize the Police Force Just Happened in Baltimore | TheBlaze.com:
"President Barack Obama’s administration has begun the second phase in federalizing the police. And as predicted, he is again using Baltimore to expand his agenda.
As you may recall, I wrote in May that Obama would use the recent events in Baltimore to convince the American public that federalization of the police force was necessary in order to fix the problems of Baltimore and other cities.
I also said that in order for the administration to succeed in their plan, several “actors” would be required to play their role."
"President Barack Obama’s administration has begun the second phase in federalizing the police. And as predicted, he is again using Baltimore to expand his agenda.As you may recall, I wrote in May that Obama would use the recent events in Baltimore to convince the American public that federalization of the police force was necessary in order to fix the problems of Baltimore and other cities.
I also said that in order for the administration to succeed in their plan, several “actors” would be required to play their role."
This Saturday! Come on and join us!!!-----Muskegon Community Paddle heads out on the Muskegon River Aug. 8
Muskegon Community Paddle heads out on the Muskegon River Aug. 8 | MLive.com: "MUSKEGON, MI – The Muskegon Community Paddle series of meet-up events will have a unique gathering Saturday, Aug. 8.
In past years, all of the Community Paddles started and finished at the same place, mainly at various locations around Muskegon Lake.
Saturday's Community Paddle will be a float on the lower portion of the Muskegon River from Muskegon Township's North Creston Street-end launch site to Veterans Memorial Park near the river outlet on Muskegon Lake.
The second and final Community Paddle will be the following Saturday Aug. 15 at the Harbour Towne Beach on the west end of Muskegon Lake as part of the Muskegon Lake Effect Boating's Michigan Maritime Celebration...
For Aug. 8, organizers are working with Guy's Ultimate Kayak Service of Muskegon to provide equipment and logistics for what can be an hour to up to two hours on the river depending on participants' preferences.
The point-to-point paddle will launch from the Creston Street-end launch at approximately 10 a.m.
The launch site is at the end of Giles Road beyond the Reeths-Puffer school facilities.
Take Giles to North Creston Street and turn right, south to the road's end at the river.
The Community Paddle will end at the Veteran's Memorial Park adjacent to the parking lot on the southbound bridge of M-120 in the northwest corner of the refurbished park.
There is plenty of parking on the south bank of the Muskegon River both near the northbound and southbound M-120 bridges.
Parking is more limited at the Creston Street-end launch site.
However, organizers will provide transportation between the launch sites before the event beginning at 9 a.m. and at the end of the Community Paddle.
The kayak service has a large trailer able to haul canoes and kayaks between the two sites.
Owner Guy DeBor said he'd offer that service for tips.
Anyone can participate in the Muskegon Community Paddle with a kayak, canoe, standup paddle board or other paddle craft. Participants must have a U.S. Coast Guard-approved personal flotation device.
Guy's Ultimate Kayak will provide Community Paddle participants with a basic kayak for $10 – a 50 percent discount for the event. Equipment is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Contact Guy's Ultimate Kayak at 231-740-0227 or check out the business' website at www.guyskayaks.com.
"Everyone loves being on the Muskegon River," said DeBor, who is in the second year of his kayak and River Cat rental business.
"Unlike the Grand River or the upper Muskegon River, the lower Muskegon through the Muskegon State Game Area has no residences. It is natural and quiet.""
In past years, all of the Community Paddles started and finished at the same place, mainly at various locations around Muskegon Lake.
Saturday's Community Paddle will be a float on the lower portion of the Muskegon River from Muskegon Township's North Creston Street-end launch site to Veterans Memorial Park near the river outlet on Muskegon Lake.
For Aug. 8, organizers are working with Guy's Ultimate Kayak Service of Muskegon to provide equipment and logistics for what can be an hour to up to two hours on the river depending on participants' preferences.
The point-to-point paddle will launch from the Creston Street-end launch at approximately 10 a.m.
The launch site is at the end of Giles Road beyond the Reeths-Puffer school facilities.
Take Giles to North Creston Street and turn right, south to the road's end at the river.
The Community Paddle will end at the Veteran's Memorial Park adjacent to the parking lot on the southbound bridge of M-120 in the northwest corner of the refurbished park.
There is plenty of parking on the south bank of the Muskegon River both near the northbound and southbound M-120 bridges.
Parking is more limited at the Creston Street-end launch site.
However, organizers will provide transportation between the launch sites before the event beginning at 9 a.m. and at the end of the Community Paddle.
The kayak service has a large trailer able to haul canoes and kayaks between the two sites.
Owner Guy DeBor said he'd offer that service for tips.
Anyone can participate in the Muskegon Community Paddle with a kayak, canoe, standup paddle board or other paddle craft. Participants must have a U.S. Coast Guard-approved personal flotation device.
Guy's Ultimate Kayak will provide Community Paddle participants with a basic kayak for $10 – a 50 percent discount for the event. Equipment is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Contact Guy's Ultimate Kayak at 231-740-0227 or check out the business' website at www.guyskayaks.com.
"Everyone loves being on the Muskegon River," said DeBor, who is in the second year of his kayak and River Cat rental business.
"Unlike the Grand River or the upper Muskegon River, the lower Muskegon through the Muskegon State Game Area has no residences. It is natural and quiet.""
Chelsea Clinton's parents Hillary and Bill 'helped buy her $9m apartment'
Chelsea Clinton's parents Hillary and Bill 'helped buy her $9m apartment' | Daily Mail Online
The perks of being Chelsea: The Clintons 'helped buy daughter's $9million apartment and let her husband network at foundation events' as it's revealed she 'brought her own team of three with her to stint at NBC'
- New profile in Vanity Fair has looked into the last five years of Chelsea Clinton's life, as she appears to move in the direction of public office
- The report claims the Clintons have continued to hound the press about giving their now 35-year-old daughter privacy
- Sources told the magazine that the Clintons also helped pay for Chelsea's $9.2million New York City apartment - a claim her reps deny
- Meanwhile, Chelsea's husband, hedge-fund manager Marc Mezvinsky, is said to cull his clients from Clinton events
- Chelsea is currently on the board of the Clinton Foundation, but she may have to resign if her mother is elected president
- In that case, experts speculate that she could receive a role in her mother's administration
Planned Parenthood's Pathetic "3 Percent" Lie
Planned Parenthood's Pathetic "3 Percent" Lie | RealClearPolitics:
"The nation’s premier provider of abortions doesn’t want to be known for providing abortions.
Planned Parenthood, embroiled in a scandal over secret videos capturing its cavalier dismemberment of unborn babies and sale of their body parts, insists that abortion is only 3 percent of what it does.
Practically every defender of the organization, fighting to preserve its federal funding, reverts to the 3 percent figure.
How could you possibly, they ask, defund a group that devotes itself overwhelmingly to uncontroversial procedures and services for women?
The 3 percent figure is an artifice and a dodge, but even taking it on its own terms, it’s not much of a defense.
Only Planned Parenthood would think saying that they only kill babies 3 percent of the time is something to brag about.
How much credit would we give someone for saying he only drives drunk 3 percent of the time, or only cheats on business trips 3 percent of the time, or only hits his wife during 3 percent of domestic disputes?
The 3 percent factoid is crafted to obscure the reality of Planned Parenthood’s business.
The group performs about 330,000 abortions a year, or roughly 30 percent of all the abortions in the country.
By its own accounting in its 2013–2014 annual report, it provides about as many abortions as Pap tests (380,000).
The group does more breast exams and provides more breast-care services (490,000), but not by that much.
The 3 percent figure is derived by counting abortion as just another service like much less consequential services.
So abortion is considered a service no different than a pregnancy test (1.1 million), even though a box with two pregnancy tests can be procured from the local drugstore for less than $10.
By Planned Parenthood’s math, a woman who gets an abortion but also a pregnancy test, an STD test, and some contraceptives has received four services, and only 25 percent of them are abortion.
This is a little like performing an abortion and giving a woman an aspirin, and saying only half of what you do is abortion."
"The nation’s premier provider of abortions doesn’t want to be known for providing abortions.
Planned Parenthood, embroiled in a scandal over secret videos capturing its cavalier dismemberment of unborn babies and sale of their body parts, insists that abortion is only 3 percent of what it does.
Practically every defender of the organization, fighting to preserve its federal funding, reverts to the 3 percent figure.
How could you possibly, they ask, defund a group that devotes itself overwhelmingly to uncontroversial procedures and services for women?
Only Planned Parenthood would think saying that they only kill babies 3 percent of the time is something to brag about.
How much credit would we give someone for saying he only drives drunk 3 percent of the time, or only cheats on business trips 3 percent of the time, or only hits his wife during 3 percent of domestic disputes?
The 3 percent factoid is crafted to obscure the reality of Planned Parenthood’s business.
The group performs about 330,000 abortions a year, or roughly 30 percent of all the abortions in the country.
By its own accounting in its 2013–2014 annual report, it provides about as many abortions as Pap tests (380,000).
The group does more breast exams and provides more breast-care services (490,000), but not by that much.
The 3 percent figure is derived by counting abortion as just another service like much less consequential services.
So abortion is considered a service no different than a pregnancy test (1.1 million), even though a box with two pregnancy tests can be procured from the local drugstore for less than $10.
By Planned Parenthood’s math, a woman who gets an abortion but also a pregnancy test, an STD test, and some contraceptives has received four services, and only 25 percent of them are abortion.
This is a little like performing an abortion and giving a woman an aspirin, and saying only half of what you do is abortion."
Charles Krauthammer Reveals Why He Believes ‘Planned Parenthood and Liberals Are so Afraid’ of the Undercover Fetal Remains Footage | Video | TheBlaze.com
Charles Krauthammer Reveals Why He Believes ‘Planned Parenthood and Liberals Are so Afraid’ of the Undercover Fetal Remains Footage | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer revealed the real reason that he believes Planned Parenthood is worried about the undercover videos that purport to show doctors discussing the sale of fetal remains: they expose what actually happens inside clinics.
“The reason that Planned Parenthood and liberals are so afraid of the videos that were released is because it lifts the curtain,” Krauthammer told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday night. “It’s not the selling of the body parts. It’s the production of the body parts. In other words, actually seeing what happens in the back room of the abortion clinic.”
"Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer revealed the real reason that he believes Planned Parenthood is worried about the undercover videos that purport to show doctors discussing the sale of fetal remains: they expose what actually happens inside clinics.
“The reason that Planned Parenthood and liberals are so afraid of the videos that were released is because it lifts the curtain,” Krauthammer told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday night. “It’s not the selling of the body parts. It’s the production of the body parts. In other words, actually seeing what happens in the back room of the abortion clinic.”
Don't let the MSM determine our candidates!-----TV's Campaign '16 News: An Avalanche of Trump Coverage, Not Much for Others
TV's Campaign '16 News: An Avalanche of Trump Coverage, Not Much for Others | Media Research Center:
"There are currently 17 declared candidates for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, but viewers of the three broadcast evening news shows this year have mainly heard about just two of them: former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and New York businessman Donald Trump.
And even though Trump received virtually no TV news attention until he officially declared on June 16, he’s received far more network news coverage in just the last six weeks than Bush has received all year.
Media Research Center analysts reviewed every ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts from January 1 through July 31, including weekends, and tallied all discussion of each declared or prospective GOP presidential candidate.
They found that the Big Three have devoted a combined 116 minutes to coverage of Trump’s campaign, far more than the 72 minutes garnered by the Bush campaign."
"There are currently 17 declared candidates for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, but viewers of the three broadcast evening news shows this year have mainly heard about just two of them: former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and New York businessman Donald Trump.And even though Trump received virtually no TV news attention until he officially declared on June 16, he’s received far more network news coverage in just the last six weeks than Bush has received all year.
Media Research Center analysts reviewed every ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts from January 1 through July 31, including weekends, and tallied all discussion of each declared or prospective GOP presidential candidate.
They found that the Big Three have devoted a combined 116 minutes to coverage of Trump’s campaign, far more than the 72 minutes garnered by the Bush campaign."
History for August 6
History for August 6 - On-This-Day.com:
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809, Sir Alexander Fleming 1881, Lucille Ball 1911
Robert Mitchum 1917, Andy Warhol 1928, Peter Bonerz 1938
1806 - The Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis II abdicated.
1890 - Cy Young achieved his first major league victory. He would accumulate 511 in his career.
1939 - Dinah Shore started her own show on the NBC Blue radio network.
1945 - The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed. (8:16am Japanese time)
1965 - The Voting Rights Act was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1981 - Fire fighters in Indianapolis, IN, answered a false alarm. When they returned to their station it was ablaze due to a grease fire.
1986 - William J. Schroeder died. He lived 620 days with the Jarvik-7 manmade heart. He was the world's longest surviving recipient of a permanent artificial heart.
1990 - The U.N. Security Council ordered a worldwide trade embargo with Iraq. The embargo was to punish Iraq for invading Kuwait.
1997 - Apple Computer and Microsoft agreed to share technology in a deal giving Microsoft a stake in Apple's survival.
1998 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with U.S. President Clinton.
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