History for November 17

History for November 17 - On-This-Day.com:
Bernard Law Montgomery (Britain) 1887, Rock Hudson 1925, Gordon Lightfoot 1938 - Singer 


Martin Scorsese 1942 - Director, Danny DeVito 1944 - Actor, Daisy Fuentes 1966 - Actress, model 


1558 - Elizabeth I ascended the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary Tudor.


1603 - Sir Walter Raleigh went on trial for treason.


1869 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and the Red seas.


1913 - In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm banned the armed forces from dancing the tango.


1968 - NBC cut away from the final minutes of a New York Jets-Oakland Raiders game to begin a TV special, "Heidi," on schedule. The Raiders came from behind to beat the Jets 43-32.


1973 - U.S. President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, FL, "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."


1988 - Benazir Bhutto became the first woman leader of an Islamic country. She was elected in the first democratic elections in Pakistan in 11 years.


1997 - 62 people were killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt. The attackers were killed by police.

New Islamic State Video Released After Paris Attacks: ‘We Will Strike America at Its Center in Washington’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

New Islamic State Video Released After Paris Attacks: ‘We Will Strike America at Its Center in Washington’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“We say to the states that take part in the crusader campaign that, by God, you will have a day, God willing, like France’s and by God, as we struck France in the center of its abode in Paris, then we swear that we will strike America at its center in Washington,”  a man dressed in fatigues and a turban and identified in subtitles as Al Ghareeb the Algerian said, according to Reuters.

The same man also warned of more attacks in Europe."


War has been declared on the United States and the executive will not say Islamic Radicals!
Will the rest of the country wake up and see his true colors?

Watch How Seemingly Annoyed Obama Reacts to CNN Reporter’s Tough Islamic State Question at G-20 Summit | Video | TheBlaze.com

Watch How Seemingly Annoyed Obama Reacts to CNN Reporter’s Tough Islamic State Question at G-20 Summit | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"President Barack Obama appeared visibly annoyed following a reporter’s tough question on his administration’s strategy to combat the Islamic State following the deadly terror attacks in Paris."


Did a reporter actually do their job?

Anti-Islam Demonstrators Take To The Streets Of France

Anti-Islam Demonstrators Take To The Streets Of France:

"As demonstrators gathered in the city of Lille to show their solidarity with the people of Paris, a group of protestors who have been linked to the “identitarian” movement joined them, lighting flares and holding a banner saying “Expel the Islamists”.

America's Power |

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BREAKING: REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR Changes Mind On Populating MI With Syrian Refugees: Cites Paris Terror Attack As Reason » 100percentfedUp.com

BREAKING: REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR Changes Mind On Populating MI With Syrian Refugees: Cites Paris Terror Attack As Reason » 100percentfedUp.com:

"LANSING — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says he is suspending efforts to bring Syrian refugees to Michigan in light of the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday.

“Given the terrible situation in Paris, I’ve directed that we put on hold our efforts to accept new refugees until the U.S. Department of Homeland Security completes a full review of security clearances and procedures,” Snyder said in a statement released by his office on Sunday."

Cool Civilizational Death Wish Goes Viral!

Cool Civilizational Death Wish Goes Viral! :: SteynOnline:
"Steyn said, "... I've been listening to you guys all morning, and it's striking to me, every interview you've had, Tucker has said... some variation of:
'Is it really a good idea to admit millions and millions of Muslims to European countries?'
And people then start to tap dance around that issue, but when you get to it, that's at the heart of it - that there is a large pool of people who...provide a comfort zone within which this virus incubates. 
And at some point, if M Hollande, and Mr Cameron, and all these people talking about 'our values' this morning are serious about that, they will have to do as Tucker did and ask themselves that question, and come up with an answer to it...""

Interpol: allowing citizens to carry guns in public is most effective way to prevent terror attacks

Interpol: allowing citizens to carry guns in public is most effective way to prevent terror attacks | 10News.dk:
How long would the jihadis at Charlie Hebdo, Westgate, Mumbai – and many other terror attacks to come – be able to continue killing if they were surrounded by armed citizens? 
Interpol states that the only way to stop such attacks is to allow citizens to carry arms (the only alternative to an armed citizenry is “extraordinary security” surrounding every area where many people meet – train stations, super markets, schools, etc. – which is of course completely unrealistic). 
If guns are illegal, only violent criminals, fanatic jihadis and our over-worked, understaffed police will have them.
In case you are unsure whether it is a good idea that citizens legally own firearms: Switzerland has very liberal gun laws and one of the lowest percentages of homicide in the world. Interesting statistics on guns, homicides and firearm related accidents in the US here.
Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said today the U.S. and the rest of the democratic world is at a security crossroads in the wake of last month’s deadly al-Shabab attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya – and suggested an answer could be in arming civilians.
....In the interview with ABC News, Noble was more blunt and directed his comments to his home country.
“Ask yourself: If that (Westgate terror attack) was Denver, Col., if that was Texas, would those guys have been able to spend hours, days, shooting people randomly?” 
Noble said, referring to states with pro-gun traditions. 
“What I’m saying is it makes police around the world question their views on gun control. 
It makes citizens question their views on gun control. 
You have to ask yourself, ‘Is an armed citizenry more necessary now than it was in the past with an evolving threat of terrorism?’ 
This is something that has to be discussed.'”

22 Times: Climate Change a Greater Threat than Terrorism

22 Times: Climate Change a Greater Threat than Terrorism
ISIS has taken responsibility for the horrifying attacks in Paris that have left more than 150 dead and hundreds wounded.
French President Francois Hollande is calling for the closure of his country’s borders.
President Barack Obama didn’t condemn Islamic radicals for the attacks, but he did call them “an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians” and “an attack on all of humanity and the universal values we share.”
...Below are 23 times Obama or his administration officials claimed climate change a greater threat than radical Islamic terrorism.
In a January 15, 2008 presidential campaign speech on Iraq and Afghanistan, Barack Obama said the “immediate danger” of oil-backed terrorism “is eclipsed only by the long-term threat from climate change, which will lead to devastating weather patterns, terrible storms, drought, and famine.
That means people competing for food and water in the next fifty years in the very places that have known horrific violence in the last fifty:
Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.
Most disastrously, that could mean destructive storms on our shores, and the disappearance of our coastline.”
...During a September 28 (2015) address at the United Nations, President Obama said that ““We can roll back the pollution that we put in our skies,” adding that “No country can escape the ravages of climate change.”
Read 'em all and understand there IS a difference between the  democrat party and the republican party.

Noon-toon

France Launches ‘Massive’ Air Strikes Against Islamic State HQ as Hunt Continues for More Members of Sleeper Cell That Carried Out Paris Terror Attacks | Video | TheBlaze.com

France Launches ‘Massive’ Air Strikes Against Islamic State HQ as Hunt Continues for More Members of Sleeper Cell That Carried Out Paris Terror Attacks | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"PARIS (AP) — France launched “massive” air strikes on the Islamic State group’s de-facto capital in Syria Sunday night, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials say the attacks on Paris were planned.

Twelve aircraft including 10 fighter jets dropped a total of 20 bombs in the biggest air strikes since France extended its bombing campaign against the extremist group to Syria in September, a Defense Ministry statement said. The jets launched from sites in Jordan and the Persian Gulf, in coordination with U.S. forces."

Liars lie. Always-----DNC Chair Freaks Out After Andrea Mitchell Actually Fact-Checks Hillary

DNC Chair Freaks Out After Andrea Mitchell Actually Fact-Checks Hillary
On Friday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell actually fact-checked Hillary Clinton’s suspicious tale of trying to join the Marines in 1975:
“Those comments are being mocked by Republicans today and they’re getting two Pinocchios from Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler....Why on earth would she go to a Marine recruiter in 1975?...It doesn't make sense.”
Her guest, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was so taken aback that the Florida congresswoman attacked Mitchell for asking questions:
“With all due respect, Andrea, why on earth are we talking about this?” 
Mitchell hit back: “Because she brought it up in New Hampshire the other day. 
If she hadn't brought it up, it would not be an issue in this campaign.”
Schultz argued: “Andrea, Andrea, what the story illustrated was that we have made a lot of progress in America. Secretary Clinton is absolutely right.
I mean, back then, you did have a much tougher time for women to be able to make it successfully through the recruitment process and move up in the military and we’ve made tremendous progress since then.”
Mitchell replied:
I mean, with all due respect, I won't defer to anyone in terms of people who have done stories over the decades about the challenges of women in the military....So I don't think that's the point.
I think the point is just, did this happen? ..”
...Here is a full transcript of the November 13 interview:

Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes claims proper vetting procedures and databases are in place for Syrian refugees contradicting sworn FBI congressional testimony that sufficient databases don't exist.

Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes claims proper vetting procedures and databases are in place for Syrian refugees contradicting sworn FBI congressional testimony that sufficient databases don't exist. | PJ Tatler:
"In the wake of Friday’s horrific terror attacks in Paris, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was dispatched to the Sunday morning talk shows to spin his boss’ claim the previous day that the ISIS threat had been “contained.”
...Ben, are you confident enough in our vetting process as the United States brings Syrian refugees into our country to pledge that this will never happen here?
RHODES:  Well, first of all, Jake, the threat of foreign fighters has been front and center from the very beginning of this counter-ISIL campaign.  
We have made that a focus, so that we’re working with countries to share information, to improve their laws and authorities to be able to monitor and detain people.
And we’re going to continue to do that.
That will be a focus of discussion here in Turkey.
With respect to refugees, we have the most extensive security vetting that we have ever had to deal with Syrian refugees coming into the United States that involves not just the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department, but also our intelligence community, the National Counterterrorism Center, so that anybody who comes to the United States, we are carefully vetting against all of our information.
...But as I reported here two weeks ago at PJ Media, FBI Director Robert Comey testified before the House Judiciary Committee that vetting Syrian refugees will be “challenging” when asked by Rep. Louie Gohmert about the quality of intelligence and information that exists on Syrians:
Gohmert: Well, without a good fingerprint database, without good identification, how can you be sure that anyone is who they say they are if they don’t have fingerprints to go against?
Comey: The only thing we can query is information that we have.
So, if we have no information on someone, they’ve never crossed our radar screen, they’ve never been a ripple in the pond, there will be no record of them there and so it will be challenging..."

Four campus stories that will make your BRAIN HURT

Four campus stories that will make your BRAIN HURT - The College Fix:
College students are living up to all the names they’ve been called this week.
Exhibit A: Protest supporting black students canceled because it was organized by white students.
MRCTV reports:
An organized protest at Cornell University supporting racial equality has been canceled after a black student group complained about the “lack of people of color in the planning and attendance” of the event, which appears to have been organized by a white student.
Exhibit B: Student government bans 9/11 remembrance because it would make campus “unsafe.”
Campus Reform reports:
The undergraduate student government at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities rejected a resolution for a moment of recognition on future anniversaries of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. … “The passing of this resolution might make a space that is unsafe for students on campus even more unsafe,” said [a student government representative].
Exhibit C: Student government shuts down campus group that wants to cheer up dying people because they don’t like the club’s name.
The College Fix reports:
A student proposal at Pitzer College to start a DreamCatchers club to cheer up terminally ill hospice patients was “tabled indefinitely” by the school’s student government after its members expressed concerns that the term “dreamcatchers” was a form of cultural appropriation toward Native Americans.
Exhibit D: Asian student shamed and silenced for saying “black people can be racist” and asking her peers to look beyond skin color to see people’s hearts.
The Daily Caller reports:
An Asian student at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, was shutdown in mid-speech during a campus protest Thursday, when she said that “black people can be racist.”
Here’s the video:

Cruz: Obama 'Does Not Wish To Defend This Country,' Refugee Plan 'Nothing Less Than Lunacy' - Breitbart

Cruz: Obama 'Does Not Wish To Defend This Country,' Refugee Plan 'Nothing Less Than Lunacy' - Breitbart:

"He added, “President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s idea that we should bring tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees to America is nothing less than lunacy. If you look at the early waves of refugees that have flooded into Europe, one estimate was that 77 percent of those refugees were young men, that’s a very odd demographic for a refugee wave. The director of national intelligence here in America has said of those in Europe, it is clear that a number of them may well be ISIS terrorists. It makes no sense whatsoever for us to be bringing in refugees who are intelligence and cannot determine if they are terrorists here to kill us or not."

Hillary Still Wants to Bring in 65,000 Syrian Refugees

Hillary Still Wants to Bring in 65,000 Syrian Refugees | The Weekly Standard
During Saturday night's Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton was asked about bringing in Syrian refugees.
"I think that is the number one requirement. I also said that we should take increased numbers of refugees.
The [Obama] administration originally said 10 [thousand]. 
I said we should go to 65 [thousand], but only if we have as careful a screening and vetting process as we can imagine, whatever resources it takes.
I do not want us to in any way inadvertently allow people who wish us harm to come into our country."
This is particularly relevant, as early reports on yesterday's attacks in Paris suggest that they may have been committed by Syrian refugees.
Clinton did not explain the specifics of her proposed screening and vetting process.
Watch the exchange here:

History for November 16

History for November 16 - On-This-Day.com
Burgess Meredith 1908, Clu Gulager 1928, Steve Railsback 1948 


Marg Helgenberger 1958 - Actress ("C.S.I."), Oksana Baiul 1977, Maggie Gyllenhaal 1977 - Actress 


1952 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy first held a football for Charlie Brown. 


1973 - Skylab 3 carrying a crew of three astronauts, was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, on an 84-day mission. 


1973 - U.S. President Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law. 


1981 - A vaccine for hepatitis B was approved. The vaccine had been developed at Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research. 


1998 - It was announced that Monica Lewinsky had signed a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with U.S. President Clinton. 


1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court said that union members could file discrimination lawsuits against employers even when labor contracts require arbitration. 


1999 - Chrica Adams, the pregnant girlfriend of Rae Carruth, was shot four times in her car. She died a month later from her wounds. The baby survived. Carruth was sentenced to a minimum of 18 years and 11 months in prison for his role in the murder. 


2004 - A NASA unmanned "scramjet" (X-43A) reached a speed of nearly 10 times the speed of sound above the Pacific Ocean. 

Matt Drudge Slams Obama for Importing Muslims into the United States - Breitbart

Matt Drudge Slams Obama for Importing Muslims into the United States - Breitbart:

"But many migrants have brought their belief in jihad into the United States.

Since 2011, more than 100 Muslim immigrants have been charged with jihad-related crimes in the United States, as domestic surveillance has expand to keep pace with jihadist plots. Even the Southern Poverty Law Center, a progressive advocacy group, admits that many Muslim migrants have gotten involved in terrorism.

The Washington Post has acknowledged this large-scale import of terrorism:"

ALERT: As ISIS Celebrates Paris Terror, This GOP Candidate Steps Up With A Plan To Keep US Safe -

ALERT: As ISIS Celebrates Paris Terror, This GOP Candidate Steps Up With A Plan To Keep US Safe -:
"Could it happen here? That’s the question many Americans are asking in the wake of the horrific terror attacks in Paris that left at least 127 dead and 180 injured, some seriously. Others are wondering not “could” it happen in America, but “how long” before we suffer the kind of barbaric bullet and bomb assaults carried out late Friday in the City of Light, reportedly by eight ISIS terrorists armed with automatic weapons and suicide belts."

I’D BET THEY’RE ASLEEP IN BERKELEY. I’D BET THEY’RE ASLEEP ALL OVER BLUE STATE AMERICA

Instapundit » Blog Archive » I’D BET THEY’RE ASLEEP IN BERKELEY. I’D BET THEY’RE ASLEEP ALL OVER BLUE STATE AMERICA: Greg Gutfeld…:
I’D BET THEY’RE ASLEEP IN BERKELEY. 
I’D BET THEY’RE ASLEEP ALL OVER BLUE STATE AMERICA: 
Greg Gutfeld asks what part of ‘never forget’ we all forgot.
Pretty much all of it. 

Earlier this year, Mark Steyn said, “Our generation will be treated far more brutally by history because these guys are all standing up there at the big ‘Never Again’ ceremony slapping each other on the back and saying what marvellous fellows they are, that’s on page 1, and on page 37 there’s the story of this weeks’ Kosher grocery bombing. 

It’s disgusting…

What people don’t understand, I think, is when countries transform, is that you not only lose your future, you lose your past too.”

Or as Gutfeld tweets today, “#MTVStars is top US [Twitter] trend. Never forget indeed.”

2002!!!-----The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Autumn 2002

The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Autumn 2002
The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris
Surrounding the City of Light are threatening Cities of Darkness.
Autumn 2002
Everyone knows la douce France: the France of wonderful food and wine, beautiful landscapes, splendid châteaux and cathedrals. More tourists (60 million a year) visit France than any country in the world by far. Indeed, the Germans have a saying, not altogether reassuring for the French: “to live as God in France.” Half a million Britons have bought second homes there; many of them bore their friends back home with how they order these things better in France.

But there is another growing, and much less reassuring, side to France. I go to Paris about four times a year and thus have a sense of the evolving preoccupations of the French middle classes. A few years ago it was schools: the much vaunted French educational system was falling apart; illiteracy was rising; children were leaving school as ignorant as they entered, and much worse-behaved. For the last couple of years, though, it has been crime: l’insécurité, les violences urbaines, les incivilités. Everyone has a tale to tell, and no dinner party is complete without a horrifying story. Every crime, one senses, means a vote for Le Pen or whoever replaces him.

I first saw l’insécurité for myself about eight months ago. It was just off the Boulevard Saint-Germain, in a neighborhood where a tolerably spacious apartment would cost $1 million. Three youths—Rumanians—were attempting quite openly to break into a parking meter with large screwdrivers to steal the coins. It was four o’clock in the afternoon; the sidewalks were crowded, and the nearby cafés were full. The youths behaved as if they were simply pursuing a normal and legitimate activity, with nothing to fear.

Eventually, two women in their sixties told them to stop. The youths, laughing until then, turned murderously angry, insulted the women, and brandished their screwdrivers. The women retreated, and the youths resumed their “work.”

A man of about 70 then told them to stop. They berated him still more threateningly, one of them holding a screwdriver as if to stab him in the stomach. I moved forward to help the man, but the youths, still shouting abuse and genuinely outraged at being interrupted in the pursuit of their livelihood, decided to run off. But it all could have ended very differently.

Several things struck me about the incident: the youths’ sense of invulnerability in broad daylight; the indifference to their behavior of large numbers of people who would never dream of behaving in the same way; that only the elderly tried to do anything about the situation, though physically least suited to do so. Could it be that only they had a view of right and wrong clear enough to wish to intervene? That everyone younger than they thought something like: “Refugees . . . hard life . . . very poor . . . too young to know right from wrong and anyway never taught . . . no choice for them . . . punishment cruel and useless”? The real criminals, indeed, were the drivers whose coins filled the parking meters: were they not polluting the world with their cars?

Another motive for inaction was that, had the youths been arrested, nothing would have happened to them. They would have been back on the streets within the hour. Who would risk a screwdriver in the liver to safeguard the parking meters of Paris for an hour?..."

What France and Europe Might Learn

What France and Europe Might Learn:

• By constantly endorsing pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli policies, France has obviously been seeking to appease Islamic countries. France seems convinced that such policies will keep Muslim terrorists from targeting French nationals and interests. The French are now in grave danger of mistakenly believing that the November 13 attacks occurred because France did not appease the Muslim terrorists enough.
• When the terrorists see that pressure works -- increasing the pressure should work even more!
• The French and Europeans would do well to understand that there is no difference between a young Palestinian who takes a knife and sets out to murder Jews, and an Islamic State terrorist who murders dozens of innocent people in Paris.
• The reason Muslim extremists want to destroy Israel is not because of the settlements or checkpoints it is because they believe that Jews have no right to be in the Middle East whatsoever. And they want to destroy Europe because they believe that Christians -- and everyone -- have no right to be anything other than Muslim.
• The terrorists attacking Jews also seek to destroy France, Germany, Britain and, of course, the United States. These countries need to be reminded that the Islamist terrorists' ultimate goal is to force all non-Muslims to submit to Islam or face death.

Earlier this year, France was one of eight countries that supported a Palestinian resolution at the United Nations Security Council, calling for a full Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines by the end of 2017.
This vote means that France supports the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, likely to be ruled by the same type of people who on Friday carried out the most grisly terror attacks in France since World War II.
Today, every Palestinian child knows that in the best case, a future Palestinian state will be run by Hamas or Islamic Jihad, and in the worst case by the Islamic State and its affiliates. 
Has it occurred to anyone in Europe that the Palestinian people might not want to live under the rule of any of the groups, any more than Europeans would?
France and the rest of the EU countries have long been working against their own interests in the Middle East. 
By constantly endorsing pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli policies, France has obviously been seeking to appease the Arab and Islamic countries. 
France seems convinced that such policies will keep Muslim terrorists from targeting French nationals and interests. 
That is probably why the French have made the catastrophic mistake of believing that the policy of appeasement toward Arabs and Muslims would persuade the Islamist terrorists to stay away from France. 
The French are now in grave danger of mistakenly believing that the November 13 attacks occurred because France did not appease the Muslim terrorists enough.
...The French and Europeans would do well to understand that there is no difference between a young Palestinian who takes a knife and sets out to murder Jews, and an Islamic State terrorist who murders dozens of innocent people in Paris. 
Once the French and other Europeans understand this reality, it will be far easier for them to engage in the battle against Islamic terrorism.