History for November 2

History for November 2 - On-This-Day.com
Daniel Boone 1734, James Knox Polk (U.S.) 1795, Warren G. Harding (U.S.) 1865 


Burt Lancaster 1913, Patrick J. Buchanan 1938, David Schwimmer 1966 - Actor ("Friends") 


1783 - U.S. Gen. George Washington gave his "Farewell Address to the Army" near Princeton, NJ. 


1917 - British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a "national home" for the Jews of Palestine. 


1921 - Margaret Sanger's National Birth Control League combined with Mary Ware Denetts Voluntary Parenthood League to form the American Birth Control League. 


1930 - The DuPont Company announced the first synthetic rubber. It was named DuPrene. 


1947 - Howard Hughes flew his "Spruce Goose," a huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California. It was the plane's first and only flight. The "Spruce Goose," nicknamed because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it, never went into production. 


1948 - Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency. The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." The Truman victory surprised many polls and newspapers. 


1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 


1992 - Magic Johnson retired from the NBA again, this time for good because of fear due to his HIV infection. 

Newt Gingrich Just Dropped A MASSIVE Prediction About Hillary... She May Go Into Hiding After This

Newt Gingrich Just Dropped A MASSIVE Prediction About Hillary... She May Go Into Hiding After This:

"Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has never been one to mince words, and what he recently predicted about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during an interview on Fox News’ “Outnumbered” sent a strong signal to moderate and independent voters.

While Clinton’s hardcore fan base praised her for making it through the grueling, 11-hour hearing at the hands of the bipartisan House Select Committee on Benghazi, it didn’t take long for an intelligent person to realize that Clinton denied hundreds of requests for extra security from the murdered ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens."

Here's The SICK Thing Prophet Muhammed Did... Muslims Do NOT Want You To Know About This

Here's The SICK Thing Prophet Muhammed Did... Muslims Do NOT Want You To Know About This:

"Many liberals and Muslims constantly feel the need to tell everyone that Islam is a religion of peace, and all the atrocities that the Islamic State and other like-minded groups commit are not based on the Quran.

The Ex-Muslim reported otherwise when it listed off several quotes from the Hadith (“authentic sayings of Muhammad”) that show just how brutal Muhammad actually was."

Australian Islamic Leader Says Muslim Schoolchildren Shouldn’t Have to Sing National Anthem | TheBlaze.com

Australian Islamic Leader Says Muslim Schoolchildren Shouldn’t Have to Sing National Anthem | TheBlaze.com:

"The spokesman of a controversial Islamic group in Australia on Sunday said that Muslim schoolchildren should not be required to sing the national anthem nor should immigrants have to recite a citizenship oath.

In a speech to a conference designed to train Australian Muslims to defend themselves against undercover police investigations, Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Uthman Badar called government efforts at weeding out Islamic radicalism “forced assimilation.”

“If you don’t share those values, why should they be forced to sing it?” Badar said of the Australian national anthem which he asserted presents “a disputed view of history.”

Franz Kafka in Footie Pajamas

Franz Kafka in Footie Pajamas - WSJ:
"...Rhea Lana’s operations are similar to more than a thousand other consignment event businesses in the country.
Our locations host two sales a year, each running two to eight days.
Before a sale, consignors list their clothes and toys on our website, along with their asking prices.
On the day of the event, they bring the items to the location and set them up for display.
Consignors keep 70% of the proceeds.
They can also volunteer before and during the event—doing everything from setting up display racks, to checking out customers, to helping buyers carry heavy purchases to their cars.
As a perk, volunteers are allowed to shop before the general public, and they are sometimes given preferential treatment on display locations for their own items.
But such mutually beneficial exchange is apparently a foreign concept to the federal government.
In January 2013 the Labor Department audited our employment practices.
Four months later the bureaucracy concluded that our volunteers are actually “employees.”
As such, we were told that we were in violation of Sections 6 and 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act regarding minimum wages and overtime pay.
I was told this during a face-to-face meeting, without any accompanying written complaint or advance notice of allegations.
In a word, this was terrifying.
I’m a small-business owner in Arkansas, not a major corporation with an army of lawyers familiar with such federal inquiries.
Three months later—and still before we had received written notice or had any official action taken against us—the department sent letters to our consignors and volunteers inviting them to sue us for back wages. 
Tellingly, not a single person did..."

How To Be A Thug and Have Social Media Defend You

How To Be A Thug and Have Social Media Defend You - Doug Giles - Page full:
"How many of you have ever wanted to beat the crap out of an aging high school teacher who’s just trying to do his unappreciated and underpaid job in a whacked-out world, and have yourself appear as a “victim” even though you spawned the aforementioned hell?
You have?
Well then … keep reading."
...Now, see, wannabe-thugs, how easy it is to get away with insane behavior that would otherwise not be afforded to any white punk?
Heck, white kids can’t wear American flag shirts to school or bite a pop-tart into the shape of a gun without having both the school, social media and MSNBC pitch them as right-wing terrorists out to slaughter the innocent masses.
But you can – but only if you’re Black and the authority figure is White.
Never forget that."

New Clinton Emails Show Tripoli Embassy Warned D.C. Not to ‘Conflate’ Video With Benghazi Attack | TheBlaze.com

New Clinton Emails Show Tripoli Embassy Warned D.C. Not to ‘Conflate’ Video With Benghazi Attack | TheBlaze.com:

"Clinton continued to cite a controversial YouTube video as the reasoning behind the 2012 attack that killed four Americans. Family members have said that Clinton blamed the video in her conversations with them — even after the email from the Embassy Tripoli.

“This email shows that State Department staff privately raised concerns about conflating the terrorist attacks in Benghazi with a video on the Internet, even as the Secretary of State and other Obama administration officials continued to do so publicly,” Matt Wolking, the House Select Committee on Benghazi press secretary, told TheBlaze in a statement Saturday morning. “Furthermore, according to the former head of the CIA, intelligence ‘analysts never said the video was a factor in the Benghazi attacks.’ So while Secretary Clinton may use the ‘fog of war’ as a convenient excuse for why she said one thing in private and something else in public, the reality is that’s just another smokescreen.”

Been changin' forever. Democrat loonies ain't gonna stop it with your money--------The climate fact no one will admit: 2 °C warming is inevitable

The climate fact no one will admit: 2 °C warming is inevitable | New Scientist:
"It is time to start preparing for a world more than 2 °C warmer than now.
The UN’s own analysis of what countries are offering to do to limit greenhouse gas emissions shows they fall far short of what’s required.
In fact, they suggest the world will have emitted enough carbon dioxide to warm the planet 2 °C by around 2036.
These offers, formally known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs, will be the basis of the global treaty on climate change to be finalised in Paris in December.
It was always clear that this treaty would not go nearly far enough to limit warming to 2 °C by 2100, but now the numbers are in.
Ahead of the meeting, 119 INDCs have been submitted, representing 147 countries and 88 per cent of current emissions. The UN has now released a synthesis report analysing what impact they will have. It concludes that even if countries stick to them, annual global emissions will hit 43 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (GtCO2) by 2030 – and will still be rising.
...At a meeting in London on 28 October, New Scientist asked the chief UN climate negotiator, Christiana Figueres, if it was now time for the world to accept that limiting warming to 2 °C is unrealistic and to start preparing for even greater warming. Figueres vehemently rejected this idea.
“Would you want that for your children,” she responded. “This is about the quality of life on this planet.” The Paris treaty would “build a pathway” to 2 °C, she said, by paving the way for further cuts.
This claim is repeated in the official UN press release accompanying the latest report, which says the INDCs “keep the door open to” the 2 °C limit.
But the grim numbers in the report tell a very different story.
So why do some reports still claim that 2 °C is achievable? 
The answer is that they almost always assume that the world will resort to geoengineering and somehow suck vast quantities of CO2 out of the atmosphere, so-called “negative emissions”. 
But many scientists are extremely sceptical about the idea that this can be done on the stupendous scale required..."

Weird story. Weird broad-----Fox News Anchor's Suit Over Toy Hamster Likeness Results In Hilarious Point-By-Point Hasbro Rebuttal

Fox News Anchor's Suit Over Toy Hamster Likeness Results In Hilarious Point-By-Point Hasbro Rebuttal | Techdirt:
Okay, damn it, fine, let's talk about Harris Faulkner and her insane likeness rights lawsuit against Hasbro over a toy hamster. I've been avoiding this stupidity since September, when the lawsuit was filed, because how do you even broach a topic like a cable news anchor suing a toy company over a tiny little inanimate hamster? In any case, Harris Faulkner, an award winning Fox News anchor, sued Hasbro over its "Harris Faulkner" hamster, alleging that the toy not only shared her name, but was an appropriation of her "unique and valuable name and distinctive persona." Her lawsuit, in fact, spends a great deal of time making sweet love to Faulkner's awesomeness for reasons I can't even begin to understand.

In her time at FNC, Faulkner has covered many major news stories. She has anchored key moments of FNC’s political coverage, including the 2013 government shutdown, the 2013 State of the Union Address, the 2012 vice presidential debate, and the 2012 election night. She has also reported on significant international news events, including the fall of Tripoli in 2011 and the death of North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il, as well as some of the most significant domestic news in recent memory, from the death of Whitney Houston, to the trial of George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin, and the Emanuel A.M.E. Church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.

Hopefully lawyers for Hasbro will be willing to stipulate that Harris Faulkner is indeed the cat's pajamas. The problem is that, other than sharing the not-really-super-unique name Harris Faulkner, the tiny toy hamster doesn't share any of the likenesses that Faulkner has alleged.

Yeah, one of them is a lovely looking woman news anchor and the other is a hamster. That, combined with the absurdity of the idea that Hasbro was somehow marketing toy hamsters to Fox News loving tots really should be all that's necessary to understand how silly this all is. We don't really need to write out a blow by blow explanation of how Faulkner and this toy hamster aren't similar, do we? No, we don't, because Hasbro chose to do it for us in their response.

"First, Ms. Faulkner is an adult, African-American, human, female newscaster; the Hamster Toy is an inch-tall, cartoon-like plastic animal, which has no apparent gender or profession, or even clothing that might identify its gender or profession," Hasbro responds. "Second, contrary to Plaintiff’s allegation, the Hamster Toy does not have the same 'complexion' as Ms. Faulkner," continues Hasbro. "The animal depicted by the Hamster Toy has 'fur' (not skin), which is golden yellow, a wisp of 'hair' that is medium-brown, a pink nose,and a muzzle that is white. Third, despite Plaintiff’s claim, neither the 'shape' of the Hamster Toy’s eyes, nor the 'design of its eye makeup' misappropriate Ms. Faulkner’s likeness," Hasbro puts forth. "Ms. Faulkner has brown, almond-shaped eyes; the Hamster Toy has large, circular blue eyes."

Hasbro also asked the court to note that identical names aren't enough on their own to cause a valid publicity rights violation, so this whole thing comes down to whether Faulkner and the hamster are similar in appearance. Which they aren't. At all. As lovingly detailed above in one of the most absurdly awesome court rebuttals I've ever seen. However, Faulkner gets a chance to respond to Hasbro's response, which at this point I sincerely hope she does, because I want to see what her legal team comes up with next. 

Publicity rights, man. They provide such entertainment.

Obamacare Is A Disaster: Co-Op Insurers Across America Are Collapsing, And Now There Is Fraud

Obamacare Is A Disaster: Co-Op Insurers Across America Are Collapsing, And Now There Is Fraud | Zero Hedge:
Two weeks ago we reported that in what at the time was still a rather isolated incident, Colorado's largest nonprofit health insurer (aka co-op), Colorado HealthOP is abruptly shutting down, forcing 80,000 Coloradans to find a new insurer for 2016.

At the time, we said that the health insurer had been decertified by the Division of Insurance as an eligible insurance company because the cooperative relied on federal support, and federal authorities announced last month they wouldn't be able to pay most of what they owed in a program designed to help health insurance co-ops get established.

In other words, one of the 24 co-ops funded with Federal dollars and created to give more policyholders control over their insurers - especially those who wished to stay away from various corporate offerings, had failed simply because the government was unable to subsidize it: the same government that spends $35 billion in global economic "aid" but can't support its most important welfare program.

Fast forward to today, when we learn that another co-op, this time New York's Health Republic Insurance - the largest of the nonprofit cooperatives created under the Affordable Care Act - is not only shuttering, but was engaging in fraud...

... will only get worse, as the premium increase even more with every passing year, as more Co-Ops fail, as more of the publicly-held insurers merge, and as a single-payer system, one which benefits not taxpayers but a select handful of shareholders, becomes the norm.

Haislmaier's take: "The bottom line: Obamacare has made health insurance costlier and the business of offering it riskier. To survive in that new world, health insurers need to be cautious, or even pessimistic, and hope that their customers can continue to pay escalating premiums. It’s not a pretty picture."

It isn't but what are customers going to do: after all the "Affordable Care Act" is a tax (one which "boosts" GDP every quarter no less) and you must pay it by law; sadly the Supreme Court forgot that when it makes a service mandatory, corporations can charge any price they want. 

 And that's precisely what they are doing.

Noon-toon

OBAMA DISCOVERS TOWN REJECTS MUSLIMS: So He Enacts This Sick Revenge ⋆ Doug Giles ⋆ #ClashDaily

OBAMA DISCOVERS TOWN REJECTS MUSLIMS: So He Enacts This Sick Revenge ⋆ Doug Giles ⋆ #ClashDaily:

"CAIR swings a lot of weight in such cases. It portrays itself as a human rights group. But their practice seems to be that of bullies who, whenever rulings go against them, will initiate legal action as an end run to get the courts to do for them what elected officials will not. The strategy has even been given a name. It’s called “Lawfare Jihad”.

CAIR, while it hypes itself as a human-rights type organization, has a dubious history. (Something about its connections, including Hamas, are laid out here.)

Do we really want Federal Officials usurping local officials’ authority, invoking “compelling government interest”, just to appease special interest groups whose motivations are somewhat less than transparent, and probably not in the public interest?"

Another lie debunked. Didja hear about it on TV?-----Arctic snow not darkening due to soot, dust

Arctic snow not darkening due to soot, dust -- ScienceDaily:
"For millennia, Greenland's ice sheet reflected sunlight back into space, but satellite measurements in recent years suggest the bright surface is darkening, causing solar heat to be absorbed and surface melting to accelerate.
Some studies suggest this "dirty ice" or "dark snow" is caused by fallout from fossil fuel pollution and forest fires.
But a new Dartmouth-led study shows that degrading satellite sensors, not soot or dust, are responsible for the apparent decline in reflectivity of inland ice across northern Greenland. 
The study's results suggest the ice sheet hasn't lost as much reflectivity as previously thought, and that black carbon and dust concentrations haven't increased significantly and are thus not responsible for darkening on the upper ice sheet..."

Bill Whittle: Gaslighting

"You're not crazy. The Obama Administration will just keep GASLIGHTING you until you think you are."

FBI Knew Jared Fogle Was a Pedophile, Let Him Continue Molesting Children for Years

FBI Knew Jared Fogle Was a Pedophile, Let Him Continue Molesting Children for Years | The Daily Sheeple:
Editor’s Note: Warning — This story is literally gag-inducing. We apologize if it makes you want to throw up. 
But the question has to be asked. 
The FBI KNEW this guy was victimizing kids for YEARS… why did they take that long to arrest him???

In August, we learned the shocking truth that a familiar face on television—Jared Fogle, the Subway guy—was a pedophile who used his wealth, status, and secrecy to exploit kids.

Fogle pleaded guilty to having sex with two minors and possessing homemade child pornography, although there were many more victims. He agreed to a plea deal where he will serve 5 to 12.5 years in prison and pay $1.4 million in restitution to his victims.

The story was reignited two days ago when the New York Post revealedthe contents of secretly recorded audio tapes. In them, Fogle’s perversions are laid bare.

“I would fly us clear across the world if we need to. To Thailand or wherever we want to go. If we’re gonna try to get some young kids with us it would be a lot easier,” said 38-year-old Fogle, married father of two, in the tapes. “I had a little boy. It was amazing. It just felt so good. I mean, it felt — it felt so good.”

The recordings were made by Rochelle Herman-Walrond, a former Florida journalist who took it upon herself to stop Fogle after hearing him profess his sexual taste for children. Masking her own disgust, she befriended Fogle so she could record and expose him.

She contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who asked her to wear a wire. Glossed over in the mainstream media, however, is the fact thatthe entire process took ten years, according to an interview Herman-Walrond gave to ABC News.

She wore a wire for four-and-a-half years before the FBI took action and arrested Fogle.

“That was my biggest question, ‘Why was it taking so long?’” journalist Rochelle Herman-Walrond told ABC affiliate WWSB. “A case of this size just happens to take that long, and that’s what I was told.”

Herman-Walrond said she believes the total numbers of victims in Fogle’s perverted spree is greater than 14, in the United States and “international tours” including Thailand.

As Fogle’s comments and admissions got more brazen over the years, he even began asking Herman-Walrond if he could install hidden cameras in the rooms of her two young children. He asked her if she had any friends with “hot” children.

All of this paints a picture of a wealthy, connected pedophile who had years to direct his energies into victimizing more and more children. During this time, he enriched and enabled those who provided access to the kids, in the U.S. and in other countries.

For at least four years, the FBI had evidence of Fogle’s criminal behavior and chose to let the abuse continue. As Herman-Walrond asked, why did it take so long to stop him?

The casual excuse is the bureaucracy itself, but we know that when the government wants to act quickly, it does. It does not hesitate in killing, disappearing, or jailing those it deems are a threat to government, and it sets aside constitutional protections to do so.

However, when the threat is in the form of sexual predation on children, government takes its time because “it just happens to take that long.”

As the horrible audio tapes of Jared Fogle are broadcast for the world, we should also demand some answers from the FBI on why it allowed this pedophilia to grow.

BOOM: Rev. Franklin Graham Goes For The Jugular... Gut-Punches Obama With Brutal Message

BOOM: Rev. Franklin Graham Goes For The Jugular... Gut-Punches Obama With Brutal Message:

"Writing for the latest edition of Decision magazine, Rev. Franklin Graham admonished President Barack Hussein Obama for his culpability in the ongoing cultural demonization and religious persecution of Christians both here and abroad.

“The culture of intolerance and hate against Christians has been rising at an alarming rate across this nation,” Graham explained. “From the media, to the courts, to this current administration, there has been a flagrant, disturbing mockery of Christian values and beliefs.”

Watch Obama Promise He'd Never Send Troops To Syria

Watch Obama Promise He'd Never Send Troops To Syria

OOPS: Watch Obama Promise That He’d Never Send Troops To Syria

"My answer is simple: I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria."

OCTOBER 30, 2015 By Sean Davis

If you like your boots-free Syria, you can keep your boots-free Syria.

The White House reversed course today and announced that the Obama administration would be deploying special forces troops and military advisers to Syria. The new White House policy directly contradicts multiple promises personally made by President Barack Obama in 2013that he would not put combat boots on the ground in Syria.

“I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria,” Obama said during a televised national address on September 10, 2013. “I will not pursue an open-ended action like Iraq or Afghanistan...”

History for November 1

History for November 1 - On-This-Day.com:
Stephen Crane 1871, James Kilpatrick 1920, Larry Flynt 1942 


Marcia Wallace 1942, Lyle Lovett 1957, Toni Collette 1972 


1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public. 


1604 - "Othello," the tragedy by William Shakespeare, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London. 


1765 - The British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American colonies. The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative power of the colonies. 


1861 - Gen. George B. McClellan was made the general-in-chief of the American Union armies. 


1936 - Benito Mussolini made a speech in Milan, Italy, in which he described the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Berlin and Rome. 


1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate U.S. President Harry Truman. One of the men was killed when they tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, DC. 


1973 - Leon Jaworski was appointed the new Watergate special prosecutor in the Watergate case.
 

1993 - The European Community's treaty on European unity took effect. 

‘I Just Sent This Letter to NBC News’: RNC Dishes Out Debate Punishment Amid CNBC Fallout | TheBlaze.com

‘I Just Sent This Letter to NBC News’: RNC Dishes Out Debate Punishment Amid CNBC Fallout | TheBlaze.com:

"The Republican National Committee said Friday it is “suspending” its partnership with NBC News for an upcoming GOP debate in Houston, citing displeasure with the way CNBC moderators handled the most recent debate."

What did the EPA need with $1.4M worth of guns?

What did the EPA need with $1.4M worth of guns? « Hot Air
It stems from an audit of the department’s spending conducted by Open the Books, a nonprofit outfit pushing for more transparency in the federal government. This comes on the heels of previous revelations, such as the discovery that the EPA had run up a $92M tab for designer furniture recently. But this one is even more curious. Rather than blowing moderately big dollars on designer roll away desks, the EPA has apparently been dumping more than a million dollars into equipping a small army. (Daily Signal)

The headline of an op-ed by economist Stephen Moore in Investor’s Business Daily sums it up well: “Why Does the EPA Need Guns, Ammo, and Armor to Protect the Environment?”

And not just a few weapons. Open the Books found that the agency has spent millions of dollars over the last decade on guns, ammo, body armor, camouflage equipment, unmanned aircraft, amphibious assault ships, radar and night-vision gear, and other military-style weaponry and surveillance activities.

“We were shocked ourselves to find these kinds of pervasive expenditures at an agency that is supposed to be involved in clean air and clean water,” said Open the Books founder Adam Andrzejewski. “Some of these weapons are for full-scale military operations.”

So the obvious question here is… why? Their report cites one instance where the EPA went into lands owned by a group of miners in Alaska who were potentially hostile, so they would want to be protected from any sudden attack. But even that really doesn’t make all that much sense. A journey like that would obviously require a lot pf planning and preparation, and the feds have any number of other agencies who are fully trained and equipped to handle potentially explosive situations. Wouldn’t it have made more sense to bring a team from Homeland Security or the BATF to go with them? We have to ask how much military training a group of environmental scientists have really received which might prepare them for walking into a firefight..."

RNC Suspends Partnership with NBC for February Debate

RNC Suspends Partnership with NBC for February Debate:

The Republican National Committee announced on Friday that it is suspending its partnership with NBC News for a GOP presidential debate in February.

In a letter to NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said Wednesday night’s debate hosted by CNBC, which was universally criticized for its handling of the contest, influenced his decision to cut ties with the network for the Feb. 26 debate at the University of Houston.

“The CNBC network is one of your media properties, and its handling of the debate was conducted in bad faith,” Priebus wrote. “We understand that NBC does not exercise full editorial control over CNBC’s journalistic approach. However, the network is an arm of your organization, and we need to ensure there is not a repeat performance.”

U.S. SCHOOLS: Are Now Appeasing Muslims By Canceling This Popular Holiday ⋆ Doug Giles ⋆ #ClashDaily

U.S. SCHOOLS: Are Now Appeasing Muslims By Canceling This Popular Holiday ⋆ Doug Giles ⋆ #ClashDaily:

 "Evidentially, Muslims just want to destroy everything that isn’t them, according to what’s going on in Milford, Connecticut.   As previously reported, the Milford public schools officially cancelled all Halloween events to avoid “excluding people due to religion, cultural beliefs etc.” Apparently, the school leaders decided it was just easier to exclude everybody. In fact, Milford isn’t even the first Connecticut County to try this. Newington schools banned Halloween costumes by actually using “exclude everybody” as a justification."