History for December 13

History for December 13 - On-This-Day.com
Dick Van Dyke 1925 - Actor, comedian, John Davidson 1941 - Singer, actor, game show host ("That's Incredible," "Hollywood Squares"), Ted Nugent 1948 - Musician 


Steve Buscemi 1957 - Actor, Jamie Foxx 1967 - Actor, comedian, Taylor Swift 1989 - Singer, songwriter 


1636 - The United States National Guard was created when militia regiments were organized by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 


1809 - The first abdominal surgical procedure was performed in Danville, KY, on Jane Todd Crawford. The operation was performed without an anesthetic. 


1862 - In America, an estimated 11,000 Northern soldiers were killed or wounded when Union forces were defeated by Confederates under General Robert E. Lee, at the Battle of Fredericksburg. 


1913 - In the U.S., the Federal Reserve System was established. 






1937 - Japanese forces took the Chinese city of Nanking (Nanjing). An estimated 200,000 Chinese were killed over the next six weeks. The event became known as the "Rape of Nanking." 


1964 - In El Paso, TX, President Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion that diverted the Rio Grande River, reshaping the U.S.-Mexican border. This ended a century-old border dispute. 


1978 - The Philadelphia Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony U.S. dollar. The coin began circulation the following July. 


2000 - U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the 2000 Presidential election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush. The Florida electoral votes were won by only 537 votes, which decided the election. The election had been contested up to theU.S. Supreme Court, which said that the Florida recount (supported by the Florida Supreme Court) was unconstitutional. 

What France Has Found In Mosque Raids Deeply Disturbing - Proof that Trump Is 100% Right ⋆ US Herald

What France Has Found In Mosque Raids Deeply Disturbing - Proof that Trump Is 100% Right ⋆ US Herald:

"Once again Donald Trump has created a firestorm and media frenzy as news outlets across the country played almost nonstop, Trumps speech calling for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country, and within seconds of completing his speech a firestorm of condemnation erupted almost immediately, and from virtually all quarters.

And while Trump was being vilified and attacked as a racist and a bigot for even suggesting a ban on this peaceful religion, back in Paris the authorities were raiding Islamic mosques to see what was hidden."

Military Activist Who’s Trying to Stop Air Force Football Players’ On-Field Prayers Doubles Down: ‘Propaganda Bonanza for the Islamic State’ | TheBlaze.com

Military Activist Who’s Trying to Stop Air Force Football Players’ On-Field Prayers Doubles Down: ‘Propaganda Bonanza for the Islamic State’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Activist Mikey Weinstein believes that the team prayers that are regularly uttered before Air Force Academy football games are blatantly unconstitutional and “putrid,” charging that they provide a “propaganda bonanza for [the Islamic State].”

The debate over the Air Force Falcons players’ pre-game prayers on the field has gone viral in recent days, with strong opinions emerging on both sides of the divide."

‘Intelligence Community Is Concerned’: Here’s How Islamic State Members ‘May Have Traveled to U.S.’ | TheBlaze.com

‘Intelligence Community Is Concerned’: Here’s How Islamic State Members ‘May Have Traveled to U.S.’ | TheBlaze.com:

"A Department of Homeland Security report issued to law enforcement last week indicated Islamic State members may have snuck into the U.S. using fake passports the terror group printed using its own machine."

New Focus on San Bernardino Attackers’ Friend Who Spoke of ‘Sleeper Cells’ | TheBlaze.com

New Focus on San Bernardino Attackers’ Friend Who Spoke of ‘Sleeper Cells’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Enrique Marquez — who authorities said bought firearms for childhood friend Syed Rizwan Farook used in the deadly San Bernardino shooting massacre — didn’t strike those acquainted with him as very credible when he brought up the topic of terrorism."

Back in My Day...

Humor: Back in My Day... — The Patriot Post:

Liberals have chosen The Donald as their 'Destructor'

Glenn Reynolds: Liberals have chosen The Donald as their 'Destructor':
"...Everyone is aghast at Trump’s latest plan, to suspend all immigration by Muslims.
But it’s no coincidence that Trump’s announcement came less than a day after a limp, toneless speech by President Barack Obama on terrorism, one that left Americans feeling much less safe.
After the September 11, 2001 attacks, then-president George W. Bush made clear that Muslims weren’t our enemy: Radical Islamists were. 
Because Bush took steps against those radical Islamists that made people feel safer, there was no significant anti-Muslim backlash, though all the bien-pensant types thought it certain that those rubes in flyover country would get violent...
Enter Donald Trump.
People who are unhappy with the things Trump is saying need to understand that he’s only getting so much traction because he’s filling a void.
If the responsible people would talk about these issues, and take action, Trump wouldn’t take up so much space.
And there’s a lesson for our ruling class there: 
Calling Trump a fascist is a bit much (fascism, as Tom Wolfe once reported, is forever descending upon the United States, but somehow it always lands on Europe), but movements like fascism and communism get their start because the mechanisms of liberal democracy seem weak and ineffectual and dishonest. 
If you don’t want Trump — or, perhaps, some post-Trump figure who really is a fascist — to dominate things, you need to stop being weak and ineffectual and dishonest.
Right now, after years of Obama hope-and-change, a majority of Americans (56%) think Islam is incompatible with American values.
That’s true even for 43% of Democrats.
In that sort of environment, where people feel unsafe and where the powers-that-be seem to be, well, weak and ineffectual and dishonest, the appeal of someone who doesn’t seem weak and ineffectual grows stronger..."

Fetal Remains Found in Ohio Landfills Amid Planned Parenthood Investigation, Attorney General Says (UPDATED) | TheBlaze.com

Fetal Remains Found in Ohio Landfills Amid Planned Parenthood Investigation, Attorney General Says (UPDATED) | TheBlaze.com:

“The vast majority of the documents showed they were going to landfills,” Dan Tierney, a spokesman for Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office, told TheBlaze. “Planned Parenthood cooperated with the investigation, and that is what the findings revealed.”

Tierney said the investigation began after the release of the videos by the Center for Medical Progress and that DeWine “felt it necessary” to investigate the state’s Planned Parenthood facilities."

Why are we subsidizing single parentage?-----Reducing youth aggression isn’t as easy as “Kumbaya”

Reducing youth aggression isn’t as easy as “Kumbaya” | Intellectual Takeout
"As crime rates continue to rise in many cities, the media continues to debate how to curb violent behavior before it starts.
A Wednesday column entitled “Parenting with Pete” in a New Jersey newspaper exemplifies a typical response.
“Stopping violence needs to begin long before a teenager or adult picks up a gun and decides to shoot another human being,” writes Peter Herbst. 
Herbst argues that we should “commit to reducing the violence in our own lives and promote peace and compassion instead,” and makes a number of suggestions: 
“Don’t gift violent computer games”; “Learn, practice and teach conflict resolution skills”; “Express love for your children with hugs, kisses and nurturing words”; “Empathize with the suffering of other people.”
Fine suggestions, all, but research suggests that the “nurturing words” promoted by media are a band-aid for a problem that runs much deeper.
Psychologists worry about aggressive children—and with good reason.
In a recent study, researchers at Towson University in Maryland explained the urgent need for a deeper understanding of the problem:
“Aggressive children who bully peers and make trouble for teachers and neighbors are more likely than other children are to have difficulties both as a child and as an adult. They are more likely to have problems with academic work and peer relationships and display antisocial behavior, juvenile delinquency, conduct disorders, and drug abuse during adolescence. As adults, aggressive children are more likely to suffer substance abuse, alcoholism, accidents, unemployment, divorce, and physical and psychiatric illness, commit delinquent and violent behavior, and require more social and remedial services.”
To better understand the social circumstances that foster such aggression,..
Their analysis suggests that when marriage bells stop ringing in a neighborhood, the children in that neighborhood turn mean...
If Americans want to subdue the inner-city aggression that has sent far too many young people to prison and early graves, it may take more than teaching students the words of “Kumbaya.”
It may take preachers, teachers, parents, and civic leaders affirming wedlock as a cherished part of urban culture.

Ted Cruz Vows To 'Utterly Destroy ISIS' As President - Breitbart

Ted Cruz Vows To 'Utterly Destroy ISIS' As President - Breitbart:

"He then went on to say, “We will utterly destroy ISIS. We won’t degrade them. We won’t weaken them. We will utterly destroy them.”

Lunch video-----Burglars for Gun Control

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Ted Cruz Denounces Loretta Lynch - The Rush Limbaugh Show

Ted Cruz Denounces Loretta Lynch - The Rush Limbaugh Show:

"CRUZ:  Loretta Lynch told a gathering the day after the San Bernardino attack that her department would move to prosecute anyone whose, quote, "anti-Muslim rhetoric," quote, "edged towards violence."  The day after a terror attack, 14 innocent lives snuffed away.  As has been the case all too often in the Obama administration, we may be facing once again the weaponization of one of our own government agencies, deployed not to protect Americans, but to force them to submit to the Obama administration's code of what is and is not acceptable speech.

RUSH:  Heck, I'd go even farther than that."

Interesting insight-----Frank Sinatra's Drummer Tells the Story of His Final Concert

Frank Sinatra's Drummer Tells the Story of His Final Concert | Vanity Fair:
"...The musical relationship between Frank and his musicians, especially his drummer, was intense and personal.
Frank loved the powerful rhythmic propulsion at his back, often driven by a cracking “back beat” on the snare that he wanted targeted dead in the middle of his unparalleled rhythmic sense.
It was 80 percent reaction and 20 percent action.
If I let up, even for an instant, he would turn my way looking for more heat.
I never took my eyes off of him.
Yet despite our intense stage relationship, a year into my role I had never so much as lifted a glass with him, much less held a conversation. 
I thought it odd—I was a fan too, after all.
But it was Bill Miller, Frank’s longtime pianist, who told me early on that “Frank needs a drummer, not another friend.” I got it.
That all changed one late night in 1992, at the Monaco Red Cross Gala, in Monte Carlo..."

"Trump IS providing leadership!"-----Don't Blame Trump For Muslim Ban Comments , He Speaks For The Masses...Who Can Blame Americans For Not Wanting To End Up Like UK?

BRITISH TV PERSONALITY: Don't Blame Trump For Muslim Ban Comments , He Speaks For The Masses...Who Can Blame Americans For Not Wanting To End Up Like UK? [VIDEO]
"...After a Muslim couple gunned down 14 residents of San Bernardino, California, Americans looked for strong leadership. 
Just like after 9/11 when Bush made like a dog of war and took the fight to the terrorists.
It took the President a couple of days to even admit the attack was terror and when he did finally address a nervous nation on Sunday night his tone-deaf message was that Muslims were their ‘friends, neighbours and sports heroes.’
In contrast, Trump IS providing leadership. 
He knows some of his grand-standing is hot air.
But he is articulating a sentiment held by millions and reinforcing himself as a protector of the American people.
It’s the reason Trump is the Republican front runner.
He has spent just $330,000 on broadcasting to Jeb Bush’s $42.5 million —which is indicative of how much America is enthralled by this new voice.
...Trump said: ‘We have places in London so radicalised that police are afraid for their lives.’
Within moments the Met Police, Prime Minister David Cameron, and the clownish Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, jumped to defend the reputation of the UK and distance themselves from this glaring truth.
Yet, at the time of writing, no less than five bobbies on the beat have come forward to confirm that there ARE estates where they will only patrol out of uniform.
There is fear among the police AND the public.
I work with a team of cameramen in town who text their wives and partners on the hour to confirm they are safe.
My family is not keen for me to be in the capital.
Some friends will no longer come to London.
How do you feel about the security of the city’s shopping centres right now, after what happened in Paris?
I watch the BBC news, our national broadcaster, ramming home messages of inclusiveness.
Today they gave platform to a representative of the Muslim community telling Trump he is an Islamophobe and is not welcome here.
But that’s not my voice. 
That is not the voice of a nation. 
All Brits don’t think that way.
Being force-fed multi-culturalism brought us to this place. 
When the only permitted message is acceptance, any views to the contrary result in a label to shame you into silence.
...History teaches us lessons were refuse to learn.
The IRA would not have enjoyed decades of success without many among the Northern Irish Catholic population acting just the same way as the imams and family and friends of extremists in Luton today.
We have gone too far and lost control of vast swathes of our country.
In part we ARE a radicalised nation and it does nobody any favours to deny the obvious.
Trump wants to call a temporary halt to Muslim immigration until America figures out what is going on.
Adversaries may be quick to jump on Trump and make him the problem.
But look around.
You are too busy gazing at the fluff in your navel to see the gangrene in your foot.
You lost sight of terrifying.
It isn’t a big, brash American untroubled by the need to be loved. 
It is the march of ISIS and the so-called Islamic State.
You may want to distance yourself from Trump.
You may want to carry on navel gazing.
But for many Americans, Europe is rapidly becoming an example of everything they never want to be.
Via: UK Daily Mail

And the kids get the tax bill-----Teacher Union Executives Get Double-Digit Raises While Liabilities Skyrocket

Teacher Union Executives Get Double-Digit Raises While Liabilities Skyrocket [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"While the teachers they represent have seen very small pay increases or even pay freezes over the past three years, high level executives at the Michigan Education Association union received large raises.
The average increase in the salaries paid to the top four union officials was 18.6 percent over three years. 
At the same time, the MEA's liabilities increased by nearly $100 million, or 50 percent in one year.
Vice President Nancy Strachan received a 25 percent salary increase between 2012 and 2015 ($119,520 to $149,433). Secretary-Treasurer Rick Trainor was also up 25 percent during the period ($121,476 to $151,675). President Steve Cook’s salary increased 16 percent ($182,154 to $211,390) and Executive Director Gretchen Dziadosz had a 13 percent increase from 2012 to 2015 ($190,196 to $215,222).
...Teachers are not getting anywhere near those kinds of raises.
For example, a teacher in Plymouth-Canton Community Schools saw her salary increase by 5 percent over a three-year period..."

Actor Kurt Russell Fiercely Pushes Back Against Anti-Gun Hollywood Interviewer: ‘What Are You Going to Do, Ban Everything?’ | TheBlaze.com

Actor Kurt Russell Fiercely Pushes Back Against Anti-Gun Hollywood Interviewer: ‘What Are You Going to Do, Ban Everything?’ | TheBlaze.com:

"When Wells went on to say that guns are a ”metaphor that disenfranchised white guys need,” Russell let loose.

“If you think gun control is going to change the terrorists’ point of view, I think you’re, like, out of your mind,” he began. “I think anybody [who says that] is. I think it’s absolutely insane.”

America's iconic war machine

America's iconic war machine - BBC News:
"..."Every B-52 I flew in smelled like stale sweat, piss and engine oil," he writes.
The "facilities" for the crew consist of a can with a lid on it, which sometimes leaks.
"And if you have to go the other way, it's the 'honey bucket'," laughs Ward.
"But he who uses that is banished forever.
On that round-the-world flight we had a bet going - whoever breaks first buys the beers.
"We made it all the way to the Aleutian Islands before our co-pilot broke out in a sweat and bolted up.
"A voice came over the intercom: 'We have a winner!" Then everybody went full oxygen..."
So it's uncomfortable to fly in.
Maybe it's a joy to manoeuvre?
You can forget that idea, says Ward.
"It is a pig to fly. It's a dump truck. I equate it to herding buffalo.
"You turn the yoke… nothing happens. Turn it again… nothing happens. You turn it the third time, and the first instruction is kicking in.
"It's not nimble. But you come to respect it...""

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History for December 12

History for December 12 - On-This-Day.com:
Edvard Munch 1863 - Norwegian artist, Edward G. Robinson 1893, Frank Sinatra 1915 


Dionne Warwick 1940, Cathy Rigby 1952, Jennifer Connelly 1970 


1792 - In Vienna, 22-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven received one of his first lessons in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn. 


1800 - Washington, DC, was established as the capital of the United States. 


1899 - George Grant patented the wooden golf tee. 


1900 - Charles M. Schwab formed the United States Steel Corporation. 


1915 - The first all-metal aircraft, the German Junkers J1, made its first flight. 


1917 - Father Edward Flanagan opened Boys Town in Nebraska. The farm village was for wayward boys. In 1979 it was opened to girls. 


1925 - The "Motel Inn," the first motel in the world, opened in San Luis Obispo, CA. 


1975 - Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to a charge of trying to kill U.S. President Ford in San Francisco the previous September. 

Arrested Illegal Alien From United Arab Emirates Paid $11k in Cash for 53 Nights in a Hotel, Had 10 Cellphones — but That’s Not All | TheBlaze.com

Arrested Illegal Alien From United Arab Emirates Paid $11k in Cash for 53 Nights in a Hotel, Had 10 Cellphones — but That’s Not All | TheBlaze.com:

"Federal law enforcement agents recently arrested a 25-year-old man from the United Arab Emirates who they found in a Florida hotel with firearm ammunition.

Hamid Mohamed Ahmed Ali Rehaif was arrested and charged with ”possession of ammunition by an unlawful or illegal alien”

Newspaper Editorial Board Excoriates Hillary Clinton Over Her ‘Most Repugnant Lie’ | TheBlaze.com

Newspaper Editorial Board Excoriates Hillary Clinton Over Her ‘Most Repugnant Lie’ | TheBlaze.com:

"The New York Post editorial board labeled Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton a “liar” after she claimed she didn’t tell the families of the Benghazi victims that an anti-Muslim video was the cause of the terror attack. The editorial is headlined, “Hillary Clinton’s most repugnant lie.”

Several family members have come forward and said Clinton immediately blamed the video in private conversations following the attack."

BREAKING: Congress Releases Their Case For Impeaching Obama… There Is No Way He Will Win »

BREAKING: Congress Releases Their Case For Impeaching Obama… There Is No Way He Will Win »:

"We hereby allege that the history of the current President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the American people. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world—

ARTICLE 1—Contempt for the Constitution

ARTICLE 2—False pretenses

ARTICLE 3—Criminal fraud"

.... It continues!!

Donald Trump's 'Muslims' Comment Defies Political Correctness

Donald Trump's 
"The more analysts try to figure out Donald Trump’s appeal, the more they sound baffled.
Pundits cite Trump’s verbal sloppiness and ridiculousness as proof that he must soon implode.
But Trump sees his daily bombast as an injection of outrage for a constituency now hooked on someone who finally voices their pent-up anger.
The more reckless Trump’s doses of scattergun outrageousness, the better the fix for his supporters.
Trump’s vague “make America great again” was the natural bookend to Barack Obama’s even more vacuous “hope and change.”
The popularity of such empty slogans reflects a culture in which no one any longer trusts institutions, the media, government, or politicians. 
The public no longer respects U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the IRS, the VA, or the GSA.
Even the once-hallowed Secret Service has become a near laughingstock of incompetency, corruption, and politicization.
Is the purpose of NASA really Muslim outreach, as NASA chief Charles Bolden suggested in 2010? The world that we are told about by our government bears no resemblance to what we see and hear every day.
President Obama has exacerbated this current disconnect between the public and its officials.
In unserious fashion, he shares his selfies, parades his annual Final Four picks, and jets off to Los Angeles to appear on late-night talk shows, even as he hectors Americans in sermons about their Islamophobia, their carbon footprints, their immigration xenophobia, and their gun obsessions..."
READ ON!

White House Finalizing Plan to Take Major Gun Control Action Using Executive Authority, Valerie Jarrett Says | TheBlaze.com

White House Finalizing Plan to Take Major Gun Control Action Using Executive Authority, Valerie Jarrett Says | TheBlaze.com:

"White House adviser Valerie Jarrett says the president has asked his team to complete a proposal and submit it for his review “in short order.” She says the recommendations will include measures to expand background checks."