History for March 16

History for March 16 - On-This-Day.com
James Madison 1751 - Fourth president of the United States., George S. Ohm 1787 - Physicist and mathematician, Josef Mengele 1911 - Known as the "the Angel of Death" during World War II 


Jerry Lewis 1926 - Actor, comedian, Chuck Woolery 1941 - Game show host ("Love Connection", "Lingo"), Robin Williams 1947 - Country singer, Nancy Wilson 1954 - Musician (Heart) 


1190 - The Crusaders began the massacre of Jews in York, England.


1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines. He was killed the next month by natives.


1802 - The U.S. Congress established the West Point Military Academy in New York.


1850 - The novel "The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was published for the first time.


1926 - Physicist Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fuel rocket.


1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson submitted a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress.

1988 - Mickey Thompson and his wife Trudy were shot to death in their driveway. Thompson, known as the "Speed King," set nearly 500 auto speed endurance records including being the first person to travel more than 400 mph on land.


1993 - In France, ostrich meat was officially declared fit for human consumption.

Another State Department IT Official Refuses to Talk About Hillary Clinton Emails With Senate Investigators | TheBlaze.com

Another State Department IT Official Refuses to Talk About Hillary Clinton Emails With Senate Investigators | TheBlaze.com:

"A former top State Department official is refusing to cooperate with Senate investigators regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

John Bentel, now retired, managed State’s IT security matters. He has declined to voluntarily talk to staff investigators from two Senate panels — the Judiciary Committee and the Homeland Security Committee — Politico reported."

Don Surber: Police arrest Global Warming scientist

Don Surber: Police arrest Global Warming scientist:
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong." --- Richard P. Feynman.
From Heartland:
Climate scientist Daniel Alongi has been indicted by the Australian government on charges of defrauding taxpayers out of $556,000 in false expenses since 2008.
Alongi has already admitted to creating false invoices, credit card statements, and e-mails to cover his misappropriation of funds.
Alongi’s indictment raises serious questions concerning the credibility of his research. 
During the period of Alongi’s alleged fraud, his research focusing on the impact of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef, coastal mangroves, and coastal ecosystems was published in numerous national and international journals.
Meteorologist Anthony Watts said in a post on his popular climate website Watts Up With That he’s concerned Alongi may have falsified scientific findings to justify his expenses. 
Alongi has published 140 scientific publications and his work has been cited 5,861 times by other researchers.
“If Alongi falsely claimed to have spent half a million dollars on radioisotope testing, it would look pretty strange if he didn’t produce any false test results, to justify the expenditure of all that money,” wrote Watts..."

Chicago Cop: Anti-Trump Mob More Aggressive and Destructive than Reported

Chicago Cop: Anti-Trump Mob More Aggressive and Destructive than Reported - Breitbart:
The protests launched by militant leftists who shut down Donald Trump’s Chicago rally were far more aggressive and destructive than reported, says a Chicago Police officer.

“It seems the [media] aren’t broadcasting footage of the debris being thrown across Harrison by Sanders/Hillary supporters at Trump fans,” the officer wrote shortly after the canceled Trump event.

The officer, who posed anonymously on the Second City Cop blog, also noted the media didn’t report that protesters were running through parking lots and breaking windows of cars with Trump stickers on them, or that the department called out emergency Incident Teams to cope with the anti-Trump riot at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Later that same day the officer posted a second, much longer post, to detail the failures of the police leaders to plan for and respond to the protests.

The officer insisted there was “pretty much zero in terms of a unified Command Post” for the event, and that officers had no central command to report to or coordinate response from.

“Who wrote this plan?” the officer wrote. “

We’ve seen and heard reports that UIC was woefully unprepared for this..."

Read on!

ALERT: Obama's NSA Is Just About To Get Even More Power Regarding Your Privacy...Wow!

ALERT: Obama's NSA Is Just About To Get Even More Power Regarding Your Privacy...Wow!:

"The National Security Agency is one of the rare entities whose controversial activities are capable of bringing Americans from the far left to the far right together in opposition. Complaints about overly intrusive data mining programs have been a consistent refrain as intelligence officials attempt to collect information about terror suspects.

According to a recent New York Times report, the spy agency is on the verge of getting even more power to gather and distribute private information from U.S. citizens."

Are These 20 Basic Skills in Danger of Extinction?

Are These 20 Basic Skills in Danger of Extinction? | Intellectual Takeout:
If teenagers today need to locate something on Google Maps, no problem. 
If they need to locate something using a traditional map, they’re probably screwed.

Skills such as being able to read a map or start a fire were once considered essential for everyday life. Now, however, possession of these skills is increasingly rare.

A study conducted last year by Ordnance Survey—the national mapping agency for Great Britain—showed that the British believe the following 20 basic skills are now in serious danger of dying out among their people, and among most peoples in the developed world:

1. Reading a map
    
2. Using a compass
    
3. Tie a specific knot
    
4. Darn socks
    
5. Looking something up in a book using an index rather than “Googling it” 
Read 'em all

What could possibly go wrong?-----In Mexico, Artists Can Pay Taxes With Artwork

In Mexico, Artists Can Pay Taxes With Artwork - The Atlantic:
"...For the past 28 years, Gritón has not paid a dime to the Tax Administration Service (SAT), the Mexican equivalent of the IRS. 
But he is no criminal.
In fact, in a country that has lost an estimated $872 billion to money laundering and tax evasion over the past four decades, Gritón is in good standing with the law.
Like more than 700 artists across Mexico, he takes part in a Pago en Especie (Payment in Kind) program—the only one of its type in the world—that allows artists to pay federal income taxes with their own artwork.
The program was hatched in 1957, in the throes of the so-called “Mexican Miracle,” a period of 40 years that saw sustained annual economic growth of between 3 and 4 percent.
As legend has it, muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of the most influential artists of his generation, approached the secretariat of finance in 1957 with a proposal to keep a friend and fellow artist out of jail for tax evasion:
Let him pay his debt in art..."

I saw 2 of these! -Lunch video-----The scariest plane crashes ever caught on camera

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Carly Fiorina for Veep! | PJ Media

Carly Fiorina for Veep! | PJ Media:

"A few days ago, former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina came out and endorsed Ted Cruz for president. Today she explained on Fox News why she chose Cruz and why she believes the entire Republican Party should immediately rally behind him:

Ted Cruz is the only guy who can beat Donald Trump. The only way to beat Donald Trump is at the ballot box."

4-Year-Old Boy Recommended for Counter-Terrorism Program After Saying 'Cooker Bomb' Instead of 'Cucumber'

4-Year-Old Boy Recommended for Counter-Terrorism Program After Saying 'Cooker Bomb' Instead of 'Cucumber' - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
A 4-year-old boy who mispronounced the word "cucumber" as "cooker bomb" so freaked out his pre-school teachers that they recommended him for a de-radicalization program.
This happened in Britain, where nursery staff clearly couldn't keep a stiff upper lip when faced with all the horror that is a pre-schooler with pronunciation problems.
In their defense, it wasn't just the way the boy garbled the name of the salad staple.
He had also drawn a stick figure of a man cutting that vegetable with a giant knife.
No wonder they wanted to ship him off to the counter-terrorism brigade!
That's two counts against the radical little rugrat.
As we know very well in America, even the drawing of a weapon can be considered a weapon. 
...Which means we are all suspects.
Even preschoolers."

Stamp Out White Privilege - College Provides Self-Loathing Courses For Oppressive White People

Stamp Out White Privilege - College Provides Self-Loathing Courses For Oppressive White People ⋆ UFP NEWS:
"It’s not their fault they were born with the silver spoon of whiteness in their mouths.
Still, having recognized that being white is unacceptable, inaction simply cannot be tolerated.
It’s one thing to have been born white; it’s quite another to accept it as normal.
As mankind is now beginning to understand, a lack of sufficient pigmentation is irrefutable evidence of social oppression, self-obsession and a reckless propensity to abuse others.
Put in the simplest of terms, being white is evil, and it must be recognized as such. 
While it may not be possible to change one’s stripes, there are ways white folks can help through appropriate self-loathing and social amends. 
The decision to deny the validity of your own existence is an important first step and Portland Community College is here to help.
They’re observing “Whiteness History Month,” what they describe as an “educational project” exploring how the “construct of whiteness” creates racial inequality.
Their website describes “a multidisciplinary, district-wide, educational project examining race and racism through an exploration of the construction of whiteness, its origins, and heritage".
Blame the Vikings, they started it.
Maybe it was those pasty, bad-toothed Brits...

Sharia Law or One Law for All?

Sharia Law or One Law for All?:
"Here is the fulcrum around which so much of the problem turns: the belief that Islamic law has every right to be put into practice in non-Muslim countries, and the insistence that a parallel, if unequal, legal system can function alongside civil and criminal law codes adhered to by a majority of a country's citizens.
...The greatest expression of this failure to integrate, indeed a determined refusal to do so, may be found in the roughly 750 Muslim-dominated no-go zones in France, which the police, fire brigades, and other representatives of the social order dare not visit for fear of sparking off riots and attacks. Similar zones now exist in other European countries, notably Sweden and Germany.
According to the 2011 British census there are over 100 Muslim enclaves in the country.
As millions of Muslims flow into Europe, some from Syria, others from as far away as Afghanistan or sub-Saharan Africa, several countries are already experiencing high levels of social breakdown..."

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Drunken kayaker attacks deputy, gets tasered, sheriff says

http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2016/03/drunken_kayaker_attacks_deputy.html#incart_2box_news_muskegon

MEDC discloses details on bids to redesign Michigan travel website, which went to Florida company

Miles Media was neither highest nor lowest bid out of 22 firms vying for contract

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160314/NEWS/160319922/medc-discloses-details-on-bids-to-redesign-michigan-travel-website

Fans can now find shortest lines for bathroom, beer in real time at The Palace

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160314/NEWS/160319928/fans-can-now-find-shortest-lines-for-bathroom-beer-in-real-time-at

Ingham County Prosecutor allegedly engaged prostitutes 'hundreds of times'

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/ingham_county_prosecutor_alleg.html#incart_most_shared-news

Accused mass shooter says he was possessed by Uber app

http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2016/03/accused_mass_shooter_says_he_w.html#incart_most-readnews

"How we die: Michigan's top 10 causes of death"

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/how_we_die_michigans_top_10_ca.html#0

Racial slur scrawled on bellies of students roils parents at Grosse Pointe high school

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2016/03/racial_slur_scrawled_on_bellie.html#incart_most-commented_news

Vote now for the coolest tattoo shop in the Muskegon area

http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2016/03/vote_now_for_the_coolest_tatto.html#incart_river_index

No prison for former GVSU employee who embezzled from university

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2016/03/no_prison_for_former_gvsu_empl.html#incart_river_index

New signs will spell out weapon bans at DeVos Place and Performance Hall

http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2016/03/new_signs_will_spell_out_weapo.html#incart_river_index

Coffins line street as union members call on Gov. Rick Snyder to resign

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2016/03/coffins_line_city_street_as_un.html#incart_river_index

State senator sentenced to 10 months in prison, may not be forced to resign

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2016/03/state_senator_sentenced_to_10_1.html#incart_river_index

Angela Merkel is punished in Germany's elections as Anti Immigration party wins big | Daily Mail Online

Angela Merkel is punished in Germany's elections as Anti Immigration party wins big | Daily Mail Online:

"German voters turned to the far right in droves yesterday in a damning verdict on Angela Merkel’s open door border policy.

In regional elections she was humiliated by the anti-immigrant AfD – Alternative for Germany – party.

Formed just three years ago, it has surged in popularity following Mrs Merkel’s decision to roll out the red carpet for more than a million migrants.

Frauke Petry, who leads the Eurosceptic party, has suggested German border guards should open fire on illegal immigrants."

Once you've lost Salon-----Bill Clinton’s odious presidency: Thomas Frank on the real history of the ’90s - Salon.com

Bill Clinton’s odious presidency: Thomas Frank on the real history of the ’90s - Salon.com: "Everyone remembers the years of the Bill Clinton presidency as good times.
The economy was booming, the stock market was ascending, and the mood was infectious.
You felt good about it even if you didn’t own a single share.
And yet: What did Clinton actually do in his eight years on Pennsylvania Avenue? 
While writing this book, I would periodically ask my liberal friends if they could recall the progressive laws he got passed, the high-minded policies he fought for—you know, the good things Bill Clinton got done while he was president.
Why was it, I wondered, that we were supposed to think so highly of him—apart from his obvious personal charm, I mean?
It proved difficult for my libs.
...No one could think of any great but hopeless Clintonian stands on principle; after all, this is the guy who once took a poll to decide where to go on vacation.
His presidency was all about campaign donations, not personal bravery—he basically rented out the Lincoln Bedroom, for chrissake, and at the end of his time in office he even appeared to sell a presidential pardon..."

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History for March 15

History for March 15 - On-This-Day.com
Andrew Jackson 1767, Judd Hirsch 1935 - Actor ("Taxi"), Jimmy Lee Swaggart 1935 - Pastor 


Mike Love 1941 - Musician (The Beach Boys), Sly Stone 1944 - Musician (Sly & the Family Stone), Fabio 1961 - Model 


44 BC - Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was assassinated by high ranking Roman Senators. The day is known as the "Ides of March."


1892 - Jesse W. Reno patented the Reno Inclined Elevator. It was the first escalator.


1937 - In Chicago, IL, the first blood bank to preserve blood for transfusion by refrigeration was established at the Cook County Hospital.


1938 - Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia.






1956 - The musical "My Fair Lady" opened on Broadway.


1964 - In Montreal, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were married.


1990 - The Ford Explorer was introduced to the public.


1998 - CBS' "60 Minutes" aired an interview with former White House employee Kathleen Willey. Wiley said U.S. President Clinton made unwelcome sexual advances toward her in the Oval Office in 1993.

A Clear Path to Victory for Ted Cruz | Glenn Beck

A Clear Path to Victory for Ted Cruz | Glenn Beck:

"Rubio and Kasich Must Drop Out
Glenn has been saying this for weeks now, but head-to-head, Cruz destroys Trump — so narrowing the field to a two-man race is critical. Should this occur, Glenn even suggested the Cruz camp should be fine with losing every race on Tuesday."

BREAKING! Admiral Issues Dire Warning To America - "Why Would An American President Embrace The Muslim Brotherhood?" [VIDEO] ⋆ US Herald

BREAKING! Admiral Issues Dire Warning To America - "Why Would An American President Embrace The Muslim Brotherhood?" [VIDEO] ⋆ US Herald:

“Why would an American President embrace the Muslim Brotherhood?”

That question no doubt as been asked (in various forms), perhaps a thousand times, and the speculations as to “why” is perhaps just as many. However one thing is certain Obama has no doubt “transformed America, and not for the good!"

Sheriff Clarke - Don't Blame Trump, Obama Stoked Racism For 8 Years

Sheriff Clarke - Don't Blame Trump, Obama Stoked Racism For 8 Years | RickWells.US
Clarke – Anarchists See Trump As A Threat – That’s Why They’re Attacking Him
Sheriff Clarke identifies the disrupters that are targeting Donald Trump as riot starters who show up for the express purpose of creating chaos.
He says, “This is a threat to ordered liberty in the United States of America.
Look, these presidential candidates and their supporters have every right to participate in this process in our democratic state here in the United States of America.”
“And for that to be thwarted by these bullies, these goons, is downright wrong.” Clarke says,
“Look, the Chicago police, the officers were under-resourced last night.
Shame on the Chicago Police administrators for not putting their line officers in a position to be able to accomplish their mission, which was to have this rally go on.”
He says, “This rally was cancelled in the name of public safety?
Why don’t we cancel these rebellions in the name of public safety? 
These people had their civil rights violated, who showed up at this rally and wanted to participate, as the Constitution allows, in our presidential election politics.
Donald Trump’s First Amendment rights were squashed last night because of the cancellation of this rally.”...

Feel-good story of the day-----Hatchet Swinging Robber Gets Gunned Down By Concealed Carry Customer

Hatchet Swinging Robber Gets Gunned Down By Concealed Carry Customer
A concealed carrier shot and killed a masked man armed with a hatchet after seeing a robbery in progress at his favorite convenience store.
“There’s a chair that sits really close to the clerk’s counter.
He was sitting back there having his morning coffee,” King County Sheriff Sgt. Cindi West said. “The guy came in with a mask just swinging the hatchet at both of them.”
One of the stores regulars, a customer with a concealed carry license, saw the man go into the store and knew he had to act. 
He entered and engaged the attacker, mortally wounding him.
“[The] customer, the shooter, is shaken up but from everything that we see right now from the scene – there’s no wrongdoing on his part,” West said.
“In fact, he probably saved a life in this case.”
“Fortunately, because of this customer with his weapon, this could have been a lot worse,” said West. “The clerk could be the one laying there dead on the floor right now and fortunately he’s not, thanks to the customer.”

Obama Just Sank To An Absolute New Low With What He Said About His Presidency...Wow

Obama Just Sank To An Absolute New Low With What He Said About His Presidency...Wow:

"The United States certainly seems to be much more divided now than it has been at any time since the race riots of the 1970s. While the tensions appeared to fade, starting in the Reagan era, the presidency of the nation’s first African American chief executive seems to have sparked up old resentments and created quite a few new ones. Not that any of that is his fault, apparently.

During a White House press conference with visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Obama claimed that conservative politicians and media are exclusively responsible for the current tone of American politics, claiming it’s something “which I certainly have not contributed to.”

Have All the Income Gains Gone to the Top 1 Percent?

Have All the Income Gains Gone to the Top 1 Percent? | Economics21
To read the full report, click here.

"Some on the political left have used analyses by French economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez to argue that the "top 1 percent" have captured all of America's post--Great Recession economic gains. 

This claim has no basis in fact. 

Focusing only on the recovery leaves out vital context, too: higher-income households see the largest losses during recessions and largest gains during recoveries. 

Painting an accurate picture requires a time frame that includes both.

Saez releases new inequality estimates every year, along with a summary of inequality trends and levels. 

The claim that all gains have gone to the top 1 percent of U.S. households comes from his January 2015 summary, where he noted that 91 percent of the income growth in the U.S. between 2009 and 2012 went to the top 1 percent of tax units. 
But Saez's June 2015 summary updated his data through 2014 and reported that the top 1 percent had received 58 percent of income gains from 2009 to 2014.

...All told, in 2014, the top 1 percent was still poorer, by 18 percent, than it was in 2007, compared with a 9 percent decline for the bottom 90 percent. 

None of this is to deny that income inequality has risen in America in recent decades. 

But all the gains have not gone only to the top, and the rise in income concentration has been considerably less severe than widely acknowledged. 

Indeed, claims that only the very top earners benefit from economic growth--or that the rich are unaffected by recessions--are patently false. 

U.S. income data reveal that an economy that works for those at the top is also one that works for everyone."

This is an excerpt from the new Manhattan Institute report, "Reality Check: The Top 1 Percent Have Suffered Nearly Half of All Losses in This Business Cycle." To read the full report, click here.

Raymond Ibrahim: “Islam Hates Us” More Than You Know

Raymond Ibrahim: “Islam Hates Us” More Than You Know:
Donald Trump’s latest politically incorrect comment concerning Islam is much truer than most know.

After being asked last week on CNN if he believed the West was at war with Islam, the Republican presidential candidate simply said...

While millions of Americans undoubtedly agree with Trump’s assertions—at least those who have eyes and ears to see and hear with—few realize that this “tremendous hatred” is not a product of grievances, political factors, or even an “extremist” interpretation of Islam; rather, it is a direct byproduct of mainstream Islamic teaching.

According to the ancient Islamic doctrine of al-wal’a wa al-bara’, or “loyalty and enmity”—which is well grounded in Islamic scriptures, well sponsored by Islamic authorities, and well manifested all throughout Islamic history and contemporary affairs—Muslims must hate and oppose everyone who is not Muslim, including family members.

Koran 60:4 is the cornerstone verse of this doctrine and speaks for itself: “You [Muslims] have a good example in Abraham and those who followed him, for they said to their people, ‘We disown you and the idols which you worship besides Allah.  
We renounce you: enmity and hate shall reign between us until you believe in Allah alone’” (Koran 60:4, emphasis added).

...Because enmity for non-Muslims is so ironclad in the Koran, mainstream Islamic teaching holds that Muslim men must even hate—and show that they hate—their non-Muslim wives, for no other reason than that they are “infidels.”… Keep reading

Lunch video-----Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening Statement - Attack On 1st Amendment & Trump ...