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Tuesday, August 18, 2015
History for August 18
History for August 18 - On-This-Day.com:
Merriwether Lewis 1774, Max Factor 1904, Caspar Weinberger 1917
Shelley Winters 1920, Rosalynn Carter 1927, Roman Polanski 1933
Robert Redford 1937, Martin Mull 1943, Patrick Swayze 1952
1227 - The Mongol conqueror Ghengis Khan died.
1587 - Virginia Dare became the first child to be born on American soil of English parents. The colony that is now Roanoke Island, NC, mysteriously vanished.
1894 - The Bureau of Immigration was established by the U.S. Congress.
1914 - The "Proclamation of Neutrality" was issued by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. It was aimed at keeping the U.S. out of World War I.
1919 - The "Anti-Cigarette League of America" was formed in Chicago IL.
1963 - James Meredith graduated from the University of Mississippi. He was the first black man to accomplish this feat.
1991 - An unsuccessful coup was attempted in against President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The Soviet hard-liners were responsible. Gorbechev and his family were effectively imprisoned for three days while vacationing in Crimea.
2004 - Donald Trump unveiled his board game (TRUMP the Game) where players bid on real estate, buy big ticket items and make billion-dollar business deals.
Monday, August 17, 2015
Former CIA spy on Clinton emails: 'You and I would get fired and possibly jailed' for this | Washington Examiner
Former CIA spy on Clinton emails: 'You and I would get fired and possibly jailed' for this | Washington Examiner:
"Baer said that when he was on assignment, he wasn't allowed to receive messages at that level of classification, and that putting it on a private server or handheld device was a major mistake.
"If this was on her server and it got into her smartphone, there's a big problem there," he claimed. "Seriously, if I had sent a document like this over the open Internet, I'd get fired the same day — escorted to the door, and gone for good, and probably charged with mishandling classified information."
"Baer said that when he was on assignment, he wasn't allowed to receive messages at that level of classification, and that putting it on a private server or handheld device was a major mistake.
"If this was on her server and it got into her smartphone, there's a big problem there," he claimed. "Seriously, if I had sent a document like this over the open Internet, I'd get fired the same day — escorted to the door, and gone for good, and probably charged with mishandling classified information."
How a few D.C. bureaucrats will destroy college football
How a few D.C. bureaucrats will destroy college football - MarketWatch:
"Student athletes aren’t employees, and shouldn’t be allowed to form a union
Women’s athletic scholarships do not constitute a “transfer of economic value.”
The omission of women could pose substantial Title IX problems for universities, because under court interpretations of Title IX women are supposed to be treated the same as men.
Otherwise, according to the Department of Education, their civil rights are violated.
Universities already have to make sure the same proportion of women as men join top division teams, with the result that some men’s teams have closed down because fewer women choose to participate. One can quickly imagine the cries of horror from feminists, the negative headlines, and the flood of lawsuits if male but not female players are permitted to unionize.
Treating football students on scholarship as employees immediately opens a hornets’ nest as to how to treat students who are not on scholarship.
A team could have some students on scholarship and the rest who pay tuition.
Out of 112 players, 85 were on scholarship.
Would the remaining 27 students on the team not form part of the union?
Would they be considered “free riders” in that they might receive benefits of a better schedule without having to pay union dues?
Or, would they be required to pay agency fees to the union, in the same way the public teachers in California have to pay fees to the California Teachers’ Association...?
"Student athletes aren’t employees, and shouldn’t be allowed to form a union
Women’s athletic scholarships do not constitute a “transfer of economic value.”
The omission of women could pose substantial Title IX problems for universities, because under court interpretations of Title IX women are supposed to be treated the same as men.
Otherwise, according to the Department of Education, their civil rights are violated.
Universities already have to make sure the same proportion of women as men join top division teams, with the result that some men’s teams have closed down because fewer women choose to participate. One can quickly imagine the cries of horror from feminists, the negative headlines, and the flood of lawsuits if male but not female players are permitted to unionize.
Treating football students on scholarship as employees immediately opens a hornets’ nest as to how to treat students who are not on scholarship.
A team could have some students on scholarship and the rest who pay tuition.
Out of 112 players, 85 were on scholarship.
Would the remaining 27 students on the team not form part of the union?
Would they be considered “free riders” in that they might receive benefits of a better schedule without having to pay union dues?
Or, would they be required to pay agency fees to the union, in the same way the public teachers in California have to pay fees to the California Teachers’ Association...?
How much will their bailout cost us?-----There is no California
There is no California - Victor Davis Hanson - Page 1:
"...Consider the disconnects:
California's combined income and sales taxes are among the nation's highest, but the state's deficit is still about $16 billion.
It's estimated that more than 2,000 upper-income Californians are leaving per week to flee high taxes and costly regulations, yet California wants to raise taxes even higher; its business climate already ranks near the bottom of most surveys.
Its teachers are among the highest paid on average in the nation, but its public school students consistently test near the bottom of the nation in both math and science.
The state's public employees enjoy some of the nation's most generous pensions and benefits, but California's retirement systems are underfunded by about $300 billion.
The state's gas taxes -- at over 49 cents per gallon -- are among the highest in the nation, but its once unmatched freeways, like 101 and 99, for long stretches have degenerated into potholed, clogged nightmares unchanged since the early 1960s.
The state wishes to borrow billions of dollars to develop high-speed rail, beginning with a little-traveled link between Fresno and Corcoran -- a corridor already served by money-losing Amtrak. Apparently, coastal residents like the idea of European high-speed rail -- as long as noisy and dirty construction does not begin in their backyards.
As gasoline prices soar, California chooses not to develop millions of barrels of untapped oil and even more natural gas off its shores and beneath its interior.
Home to bankrupt green companies like Solyndra, California has mandated that a third of all the energy provided by state utilities soon must come from renewable energy sources -- largely wind and solar, which presently provide about 11 percent of its electricity and almost none of its transportation fuel.
How to explain the seemingly inexplicable?
There is no California, which is a misnomer.
There is no such state.
Instead there are two radically different cultures and landscapes with little in common, each equally dysfunctional in quite different ways.
Apart they are unworldly, together a disaster..."
"...Consider the disconnects:
California's combined income and sales taxes are among the nation's highest, but the state's deficit is still about $16 billion.
It's estimated that more than 2,000 upper-income Californians are leaving per week to flee high taxes and costly regulations, yet California wants to raise taxes even higher; its business climate already ranks near the bottom of most surveys.
Its teachers are among the highest paid on average in the nation, but its public school students consistently test near the bottom of the nation in both math and science.
The state's public employees enjoy some of the nation's most generous pensions and benefits, but California's retirement systems are underfunded by about $300 billion.
The state's gas taxes -- at over 49 cents per gallon -- are among the highest in the nation, but its once unmatched freeways, like 101 and 99, for long stretches have degenerated into potholed, clogged nightmares unchanged since the early 1960s.
The state wishes to borrow billions of dollars to develop high-speed rail, beginning with a little-traveled link between Fresno and Corcoran -- a corridor already served by money-losing Amtrak. Apparently, coastal residents like the idea of European high-speed rail -- as long as noisy and dirty construction does not begin in their backyards.
As gasoline prices soar, California chooses not to develop millions of barrels of untapped oil and even more natural gas off its shores and beneath its interior.
Home to bankrupt green companies like Solyndra, California has mandated that a third of all the energy provided by state utilities soon must come from renewable energy sources -- largely wind and solar, which presently provide about 11 percent of its electricity and almost none of its transportation fuel.
How to explain the seemingly inexplicable?
There is no California, which is a misnomer.
There is no such state.
Instead there are two radically different cultures and landscapes with little in common, each equally dysfunctional in quite different ways.
Apart they are unworldly, together a disaster..."
BOOM: Michelle Obama Furious After What Israel Just Said About Her... This Is Awesome
BOOM: Michelle Obama Furious After What Israel Just Said About Her... This Is Awesome:
"After First Lady Michelle Obama banned American schools from celebrating student birthdays with scrumptious treats like cupcakes, Israel’s Education Ministry decided to do the same thing.
This coincidence had many students in Israel blaming Michelle for this unfortunate twist of fate, and it appears that their criticism was on point."
"After First Lady Michelle Obama banned American schools from celebrating student birthdays with scrumptious treats like cupcakes, Israel’s Education Ministry decided to do the same thing.
This coincidence had many students in Israel blaming Michelle for this unfortunate twist of fate, and it appears that their criticism was on point."
Guardian Angels patrolling NY's Central Park again for first time in 2 decades
Guardian Angels patrolling NY's Central Park again for first time in 2 decades | Daily Mail Online
Guardian Angels are patrolling Central Park again for the first time in two decades amid rise in crime in NYC
Guardian Angels volunteers have made a pointed return to Central Park for one night per week - citing a 26 per cent rise in crime
Founder Curtis Sliwa and eight other Guardian Angels, ranging from graying longtimers to a 20-year-old woman, are patrolling the New York site..."
Guardian Angels are patrolling Central Park again for the first time in two decades amid rise in crime in NYC
Guardian Angels volunteers have made a pointed return to Central Park for one night per week - citing a 26 per cent rise in crime
Founder Curtis Sliwa and eight other Guardian Angels, ranging from graying longtimers to a 20-year-old woman, are patrolling the New York site..."
How Will Liberals Respond to Dogophobic Muslims?
How Will Liberals Respond to Dogophobic Muslims? | PJ Lifestyle
The recent Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay marriage has highlighted once again, as Mark Steyn notes, the precarious alliance between progressives and Muslims: only in the leftist imagination could “a nice chichi gay couple at 27 Elm Street and a fire-breathing imam and his four child brides at 29 Elm Street” be a recipe for social harmony.
Indeed, it once seemed inevitable that the coalition of pro-gay and pro-Islam forces would show visible strain.
But the issue was all but decided without any real contest in 2010 when Judith Butler, the intellectual doyenne of the progressive queer community, declared her primary allegiance to lie with Muslims, even Muslim gay bashers.
She refused to accept an award from a German gay pride organization because it had expressed concern over Muslim anti-gay violence.
While not actually denying Muslim anti-gay violence, Butler made it clear that talking about it is a form of Islamophobia strictly off limits even amongst those gays with reason to fear for their lives.
...Is there any group amongst progressives who might still refuse to become Sharia-compliant?
I hold a small shred of hope for progressive dog owners: that they may find within themselves the heart to stand and say “Thus far and no further!”
Many progressives may still not be aware — given media silence on all criticism of Islam — that many Muslims dislike dogs as “unclean” animals according to Islamic religious edict, insisting that they be kept away from parks, beaches, and taxi cabs.
The treatment of dogs in Islamic countries is worse than inhumane.
The recent Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay marriage has highlighted once again, as Mark Steyn notes, the precarious alliance between progressives and Muslims: only in the leftist imagination could “a nice chichi gay couple at 27 Elm Street and a fire-breathing imam and his four child brides at 29 Elm Street” be a recipe for social harmony.
Indeed, it once seemed inevitable that the coalition of pro-gay and pro-Islam forces would show visible strain.
But the issue was all but decided without any real contest in 2010 when Judith Butler, the intellectual doyenne of the progressive queer community, declared her primary allegiance to lie with Muslims, even Muslim gay bashers.
She refused to accept an award from a German gay pride organization because it had expressed concern over Muslim anti-gay violence.
While not actually denying Muslim anti-gay violence, Butler made it clear that talking about it is a form of Islamophobia strictly off limits even amongst those gays with reason to fear for their lives.
...Is there any group amongst progressives who might still refuse to become Sharia-compliant?
I hold a small shred of hope for progressive dog owners: that they may find within themselves the heart to stand and say “Thus far and no further!”
Many progressives may still not be aware — given media silence on all criticism of Islam — that many Muslims dislike dogs as “unclean” animals according to Islamic religious edict, insisting that they be kept away from parks, beaches, and taxi cabs.
The treatment of dogs in Islamic countries is worse than inhumane.
Doomsday clock for global market crash strikes one minute to midnight as central banks lose control
Doomsday clock for global market crash strikes one minute to midnight as central banks lose control - Telegraph:
When the banking crisis crippled global markets seven years ago, central bankers stepped in as lenders of last resort.
Profligate private-sector loans were moved on to the public-sector balance sheet and vast money-printing gave the global economy room to heal.
Time is now rapidly running out.
From China to Brazil, the central banks have lost control and at the same time the global economy is grinding to a halt.
It is only a matter of time before stock markets collapse under the weight of their lofty expectations and record valuations.
The FTSE 100 has now erased its gains for the year, but there are signs things could get a whole lot worse.
1 - China slowdown
2 - Commodity collapse
3 - Resource sector credit crisis
4 - Dominoes begin to fall
5 - Credit markets roll over
6 - Interest rate shock
7 - Bull market third longest on record
8 - Overvalued US market
When the banking crisis crippled global markets seven years ago, central bankers stepped in as lenders of last resort.
Profligate private-sector loans were moved on to the public-sector balance sheet and vast money-printing gave the global economy room to heal.
Time is now rapidly running out.
From China to Brazil, the central banks have lost control and at the same time the global economy is grinding to a halt.
It is only a matter of time before stock markets collapse under the weight of their lofty expectations and record valuations.
The FTSE 100 has now erased its gains for the year, but there are signs things could get a whole lot worse.
1 - China slowdown
2 - Commodity collapse
3 - Resource sector credit crisis
4 - Dominoes begin to fall
5 - Credit markets roll over
6 - Interest rate shock
7 - Bull market third longest on record
8 - Overvalued US market
Bombshell Reports: Highly Likely That Backup Was Made of Hillary Clinton’s Home Computer Server; 60 Classified Emails Allegedly Identified | Video | TheBlaze.com
Bombshell Reports: Highly Likely That Backup Was Made of Hillary Clinton’s Home Computer Server; 60 Classified Emails Allegedly Identified | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"It’s highly likely that full backup was made of Hillary Clinton’s home computer server, ABC News reported Sunday, citing the Colorado firm that set up the device."
"It’s highly likely that full backup was made of Hillary Clinton’s home computer server, ABC News reported Sunday, citing the Colorado firm that set up the device."
How they "think"....and they're deathly afraid of the Donald--------The G.O.P.’s Misogyny Primary
The G.O.P.’s Misogyny Primary - The New Yorker
The first Republican Presidential debate offered a chance to think about the relationship between misogyny and certain types of opposition to abortion.
In the United States, our most successful demagogues have often become so by making skillful use of whatever the newest media was at the time.
Charles Coughlin, the Catholic priest who railed against Jews and capitalism in the nineteen-thirties, did most of his railing via the radios that the American masses had just recently acquired.
In the early fifties, Joseph McCarthy took advantage of television’s advent to attract gavel-to-gavel attention for his congressional hearings.
Donald Trump is a celebrity demagogue, and, for the moment, anyway, the leading Republican Presidential candidate, because of reality television and Twitter.
Both forms shaped Trump’s persona: he’s their creature.
On his own reality-TV show, “The Apprentice,” and now on the campaign trail, Trump displays the particular personality traits that get amped up, hyped, and rewarded on the crassest of these series: he’s as thin-skinned, tantrum-prone, “outrageous,” and narcissistic as a “Real Housewives” villain.
Trump also does a lot of his posturing on the Internet, where trollish taunts can win you a following, and where women sometimes come in for particular contempt.
He has a taste for that, too, as we all know now, if we didn’t before the debate last Thursday.
Here in America, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, sexism is very much on the wane, but misogyny is not.
Sexism—the conviction that women don’t deserve equal pay, political rights, or access to education—can be combatted by argument, by anti-discrimination laws, and by giving women the opportunity to prove their ability.
Misogyny is not amenable to such advances; they can in some circumstances exacerbate it, though they may drive it underground.
An example of misogyny is when someone online threatens to rape and mutilate a woman whose opinions that person does not like.
Another is when a Presidential candidate says of a female journalist whose questions he finds impertinent, “There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her—wherever.”
The first Republican Presidential debate offered a chance to think about the relationship between misogyny and certain types of opposition to abortion.
In the United States, our most successful demagogues have often become so by making skillful use of whatever the newest media was at the time.
Charles Coughlin, the Catholic priest who railed against Jews and capitalism in the nineteen-thirties, did most of his railing via the radios that the American masses had just recently acquired.
In the early fifties, Joseph McCarthy took advantage of television’s advent to attract gavel-to-gavel attention for his congressional hearings.
Donald Trump is a celebrity demagogue, and, for the moment, anyway, the leading Republican Presidential candidate, because of reality television and Twitter.
Both forms shaped Trump’s persona: he’s their creature.
On his own reality-TV show, “The Apprentice,” and now on the campaign trail, Trump displays the particular personality traits that get amped up, hyped, and rewarded on the crassest of these series: he’s as thin-skinned, tantrum-prone, “outrageous,” and narcissistic as a “Real Housewives” villain.
Trump also does a lot of his posturing on the Internet, where trollish taunts can win you a following, and where women sometimes come in for particular contempt.
He has a taste for that, too, as we all know now, if we didn’t before the debate last Thursday.
Here in America, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, sexism is very much on the wane, but misogyny is not.
Sexism—the conviction that women don’t deserve equal pay, political rights, or access to education—can be combatted by argument, by anti-discrimination laws, and by giving women the opportunity to prove their ability.
Misogyny is not amenable to such advances; they can in some circumstances exacerbate it, though they may drive it underground.
An example of misogyny is when someone online threatens to rape and mutilate a woman whose opinions that person does not like.
Another is when a Presidential candidate says of a female journalist whose questions he finds impertinent, “There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her—wherever.”
Read it all!--A national disgrace!!!-----Hero Marine Nailed for Secret Email: What Did He Do That Hillary Didn’t?
Hero Marine Nailed for Secret Email: What Did He Do That Hillary Didn’t? - The Daily Beast
"Clinton could still become president after her email scandal, but a decorated Marine is being forced out over one classified report he sent to avert a disaster.
No matter how much classified material is found in her personal email server, Hillary Clinton will no doubt continue campaigning to become our next president.
Meanwhile, a decorated Marine officer who has deployed four times faces being discharged from the corps he loves because he used his personal email to send a single classified report as an urgent warning when lives were at stake.
The stateside message from Marine Reserves Major Jason Brezler to Forward Operating Base Delhi in Now Zad, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, went unheeded.
Three young Marines were shot to death as they worked out in a gym by an Afghan teen brought on the base by the same corrupt and double-dealing pedophile police chief whom Brezler had declared to be an immediate threat.
Yet the only person to be investigated in connection with the killings is Brezler, the Marine who sought to prevent them..."
"Clinton could still become president after her email scandal, but a decorated Marine is being forced out over one classified report he sent to avert a disaster.
No matter how much classified material is found in her personal email server, Hillary Clinton will no doubt continue campaigning to become our next president.
Meanwhile, a decorated Marine officer who has deployed four times faces being discharged from the corps he loves because he used his personal email to send a single classified report as an urgent warning when lives were at stake.
The stateside message from Marine Reserves Major Jason Brezler to Forward Operating Base Delhi in Now Zad, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, went unheeded.
Three young Marines were shot to death as they worked out in a gym by an Afghan teen brought on the base by the same corrupt and double-dealing pedophile police chief whom Brezler had declared to be an immediate threat.
Yet the only person to be investigated in connection with the killings is Brezler, the Marine who sought to prevent them..."
NSA Internet Spying Aided by ‘Highly Collaborative’ ‘Partnership’ With AT&T, N.Y. Times Reports | TheBlaze.com
NSA Internet Spying Aided by ‘Highly Collaborative’ ‘Partnership’ With AT&T, N.Y. Times Reports | TheBlaze.com:
"The new information shows the NSA’s decades-long relationship with AT&T has been “considered unique and especially productive,” the Times reported, adding that one document in particular noted the telecommunication company’s “extreme willingness to help” the agency.
More from the Times:"
"The new information shows the NSA’s decades-long relationship with AT&T has been “considered unique and especially productive,” the Times reported, adding that one document in particular noted the telecommunication company’s “extreme willingness to help” the agency.
More from the Times:"
VA hospital repaints Confederate flag in war history mural
VA hospital repaints Confederate flag in war history mural | The American Mirror:
It’s probably a good thing there are no Confederate veterans left, as they would likely be denied care by today’s Veterans Administration.
To most Americans, the Confederate flag is part of our history, but to the VA, it’s a symbol worthy of erasure and political correctness.
Or more specifically, repainting.
The VA Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado recently commissioned a mural depicting American military history.
It features a solider wearing a gas mask during World War I, as well as a jeep and fighter plane from World War II.
All told, the scenes include imagery from the Revolution to the Iraq war.
It also includes two soldiers eye-to-eye with crossed muskets.
One is in blue while the other is in gray.
Behind them are the Union flag and the Confederate battle flag.
After the mural was made public, a call came to hide the Confederate flag, CBS 4 reports.
Workers covered it with a poster for the VA Medical Foster Program.
“The decision was made that we would have to modify the painting, so we called the artist and asked him to ‘rework’ that part of the mural,” Paul Sweeney, Chief of Customer Relations and Public Affairs at the Grand Junction VA, tells Watchdog.
Sweeney claims the order came from on high..."
It’s probably a good thing there are no Confederate veterans left, as they would likely be denied care by today’s Veterans Administration.
To most Americans, the Confederate flag is part of our history, but to the VA, it’s a symbol worthy of erasure and political correctness.
Or more specifically, repainting.
The VA Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado recently commissioned a mural depicting American military history.
It features a solider wearing a gas mask during World War I, as well as a jeep and fighter plane from World War II.
All told, the scenes include imagery from the Revolution to the Iraq war.
It also includes two soldiers eye-to-eye with crossed muskets.
One is in blue while the other is in gray.
Behind them are the Union flag and the Confederate battle flag.
After the mural was made public, a call came to hide the Confederate flag, CBS 4 reports.
Workers covered it with a poster for the VA Medical Foster Program.
“The decision was made that we would have to modify the painting, so we called the artist and asked him to ‘rework’ that part of the mural,” Paul Sweeney, Chief of Customer Relations and Public Affairs at the Grand Junction VA, tells Watchdog.
Sweeney claims the order came from on high..."
History for August 17
History for August 17 - On-This-Day.com:
Davy Crockett 1786 - Frontiersman, soldier and politician. He died at the Battle of the Alamo, Samuel Goldwyn (Samuel Goldfish) 1882 - Film producer, Mae West 1893 - Actress, singer, playwrite, screenwriter
Gary Powers (Francis Gary Powers) 1929 - American pilot shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace (1960 U-2 incident), Robert De Niro 1943 - Actor ("Bang Drum Slowly," "Goodfellas," "Cape Fear"), Nelson Piquet 1952 - Formula One driver
Belinda Carlisle 1958 - Singer (Go-Go's), Sean Penn 1960 - Actor, screenwriter, director, Jim Courier 1970 - Tennis player
1790 - The capital city of the U.S. moved to Philadelphia from New York City.
1807 - Robert Fulton's "North River Steam Boat" (known as the "Clermont") began heading up New York's Hudson River on its successful round-trip to Albany.
1863 - Federal batteries and ships bombarded Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC, harbor during the Civil War.
1894 - John Wadsworth of Louisville set a major league record when he gave up 28 base hits in a single game.
1915 - Charles F. Kettering received a patent for the first electric ignition device.
1945 - The nationalists of Indonesia declared their independence from the Netherlands.
1961 - The Communist East German government completed the construction of the Berlin Wall.
1992 - Woody Allen admitted to being romantically involved with Soon-Yi Previn. The girl was the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow, Allen's longtime companion.
1996 - Ross Perot was announced to be the Reform Party's presidential candidate. It was the party's first-ever candidate.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton admitted to having an improper relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern.
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