History for June 3

History for June 3 - On-This-Day.com
Jefferson Davis 1808/1808 - American soldier, politician, President of the Confederate states of America during the U.S. Civil War,  Josephine Baker 1906 - Dancer, singer and Actress, Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz) 1925 - Actor ("Sweet Smell of Success," "Some Like it Hot," father of actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis


Allen Ginsberg 1926 - Writer, poet, Chuck Barris 1929 - Producer, creater and game show host ("The Gong Show"), Larry McMurtry 1936 - Author ("Lonesome Dove")


1098 - Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seized Antioch, Turkey.


1539 - Hernando De Soto claimed Florida for Spain.


1805 - A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tripoli was completed in the captain's cabin on board the USS Constitution.


1856 - Cullen Whipple patented the screw machine.


1923 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini granted women the right to vote.


1937 - The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson.


1959 - The first class graduated from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO.


2003 - Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) broke a bat when he grounded out against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The bat he was using was a corked bat. (Illinois, Florida)

Intel source: IG report ups pressure on DOJ to seek criminal charges against Clinton | Fox News

Intel source: IG report ups pressure on DOJ to seek criminal charges against Clinton | Fox News:

"The 83-page inspector general's report, released last week, concluded that Clinton and her team consistently broke government rules for email and record-keeping. The decision to use a personal, unsecured server exclusively for government business had the effect of moving classified information outside secure government channels."

Defense Department falls prey to campus-style 'gender-neutral' political correctness

Defense Department falls prey to campus-style 'gender-neutral' political correctness - The College Fix:
"Poor Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
He is struggling, you see — not with strategies to fight ISIS or thwarting terror attacks here and abroad — but with how to make the whole of the Defense Department gender-neutral.
“One wants to signify a reality, which is a very favorable reality for us in defense, of the modern era, which is that we’re making full use of the wonderful talents of half of the population of the country,” he said.
“And it would be a huge mistake not to do so.”
The Navy and Marine Corps have been busy excising the word “man” from job titles, but Carter admits one term may be a a real challenge: “unmanned.”
[H]e has yet to come up with a practical alternative for those jobs that have “unmanned” as part of the title, such as “unmanned vehicle operator.”
Carter suggested that not only the titles, but also the programs and equipment might be examined for a less gender-specific name.
“We have all these programs that begin with ‘U.’
And I guess you can have a tech challenge for somebody who comes up with a word that begins with ‘U,’ which is — which — which doesn’t specify whether it’s a man or woman, but makes sure — but specifies that homo sapiens isn’t driving the thing,” he said..."

Home Internet Providers Are Going to Start Charging by the Gig, Just Like Your Phone Company Does

Home Internet Providers Are Going to Start Charging by the Gig, Just Like Your Phone Company Does:
"You must have known it was coming; if not then you were living in blissful ignorance.
AT&T has moved first, the second-largest broadband internet provider in the U.S. has imposed data usage limits on its customers. 
If it doesn’t already, your home internet will soon come with a data plan just like your phone. 
This could also put an end to mobile wireless networks and “hotspots,” as usage will cost money.
For AT&T U-Verse customers, limits between 300GB – 1 TB have been instituted depending on their plan.
That’s enough for somewhere between 100-400 hours of high-definition streaming.
Much like your phone, going over the data limit will result in additional charges.
It’s a model that looks to rapidly transform the home internet market..."

National Honor Society Collars Barred at HS Graduation — and You Won’t Believe the Reason (No, Actually You Will) | Video | TheBlaze.com

National Honor Society Collars Barred at HS Graduation — and You Won’t Believe the Reason (No, Actually You Will) | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"When seniors who are National Honor Society members attend graduation at Plano (Texas) Senior High School this month, they aren’t allowed to wear collars (i.e., stoles) bearing the NHS emblem, WFAA-TV reported."

Wow! Obama Tries to Trash Donald Trump and Turns into a Stuttering Mess

MUST SEE VIDEO=> Wow! Obama Tries to Trash Donald Trump and Turns into a Stuttering Mess

Poor Barack. He wanted to sound more powerful. He really did!

The lame duck president went to Indiana today to hold a rally and trash-talk Donald Trump.
Unfortunately, it didn’t go as planned.
He turned into a stuttering mess.

Barack Obama: If we turn against each other based on division of race or religion. If-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if we fall for, you know, a bunch of okie-doke, just because, you know it-it-it. You know, it-it-it-it-it-it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative.

Someone really needs to check that Teleprompter.
Via The Five:

Paris bans pre-1997 cars from its streets during the week

Paris bans pre-1997 cars from its streets during the week | Ars Technica
Parisians with cars built before 1997 are going to need to head to the nearest car dealership if they want to keep driving in the city after July 1.

The French capital has experienced quite horrific air pollution in the last few years, and there was a massive spike in March 2015 that saw the city's air quality drop lower than that of Beijing, China. 

After trying out temporary restrictions to vehicle traffic, Les Echos reports that the city has decided to implement new rules that will ban older and more polluting vehicles from its streets on weekdays. Those restrictions will also tighten over time; in 2020, only cars built since 2011 will be allowed.

The vehicle classification scheme means you get one of these window stickers based on which Euro emissions standard your vehicle complies with.

...Any vehicle made on or before December 31, 1996 was built to conform with Euro 1, the weakest of these standards, and it's these cars that are no longer allowed in the capital. 

Pre-2000 motorbikes and other two-wheeled vehicles are also on the hit list.

Lunch video-----Why Did America Fight the Korean War?

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Judge Napolitano: Clinton’s Top Aide Gave a ‘Devastating’ Answer About Private Email Server | TheBlaze.com

Judge Napolitano: Clinton’s Top Aide Gave a ‘Devastating’ Answer About Private Email Server | TheBlaze.com:

"Napolitano called the response “devastating” for Clinton, questioning whether Mills and her lawyers really “thought through” that answer.

“It means that Mrs. Clinton, Cheryl Mills and Bryan Pagliano, who’s the next person to be deposed in this case — if he even answers any questions — engaged in a conspiracy to frustrate the operations of the State Department,” he said, noting that the agency is required by law to preserve records so that they may be accessible for FOIA requests."

"Black pride"?-----Woman Who Stomped on American Flag Just Got THIS Bad News

WATCH - Woman Who Stomped on American Flag Just Got THIS Bad News
"Perhaps you have heard of the piece of work that is Erica Walker.
This woman recently made viral headlines when she stomped on the American Flag, but now she has received some bad news.
After the Ocala (FL) Post contacted her employer, WAOK the Voice of the Community, they learned she had lost her job.
A representative with the radio station release the following statement a few days after being contacted:
“We appreciate your thoughts on this matter and taking the time to share them with us.
Please note that Erica Walker is no longer with the station.”

...Walker’s despicable act is also a part of a larger issue however.
Her decision to stomp on the American flag and then record it on YouTube is a disgusting knockoff of the ALS Bucket Challenge.
This is called the Eric Sheppard Challenge, which is named for a member of the New Black Panthers who staged a protest at Valdosta State University in Georgia.
He stomped the flag, and challenged his supporters to do so. 
Naturally, this caused a lot of controversy on the campus and Sheppard found himself wanted by the police.
To make a long story short, the coward ran.
Erica Walker is a devoted follower of Eric Sheppard..."

Libs learn about price elasticity-----How many hundred thousand bus rides The Rapid is down since 16-percent fare hike

How many hundred thousand bus rides The Rapid is down since 16-percent fare hike | MLive.com: "KENT COUNTY, MI – Fixed-route bus rides were down 7 percent in the first six months since The Rapid increased fares last fall.
Ridership already had been trending down from a record high, off 1.8 percent in the fiscal year that ended in September 2015.
Since a 16-percent fare hike took effect in October, that ridership decline has accelerated.
Quarterly data reviewed by the transit agency's board shows a 4-percent drop in rides from January through March, compared to the first three months of 2015.
Combined with a 10-percent drop during the last three months of last year, fixed-route ridership is down 7.2 percent over the first half of the Rapid's 2016 fiscal year.
That's a decline of 316,661 rides.
"We knew that with a fare increase that we could expect a (decline)," Rapid spokeswoman Jennifer Kalczuk said.
"Generally, that's what happens when you raise fares. There's a dip in ridership.""

From $4.5 Billion To Nothing: Forbes Revises Estimated Net Worth Of Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes

From $4.5 Billion To Nothing: Forbes Revises Estimated Net Worth Of Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes - Forbes:
"Last year, Elizabeth Holmes topped the FORBES list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women with a net worth of $4.5 billion.
Today,  FORBES is lowering our estimate of her net worth  to nothing. 
Theranos had no comment.
Our estimate of Holmes’ wealth is based entirely on her 50% stake in Theranos, the blood-testing company she founded in 2003 with plans of revolutionizing the diagnostic test market.
Theranos shares are not traded on any stock market; private investors purchased stakes in 2014 at a price that implied a $9 billion valuation for the company.
Since then, Theranos has been hit with allegations that its tests are inaccurate and is being investigated by an alphabet soup of federal agencies.
That, plus new information indicating Theranos’ annual revenues are less than $100 million, has led FORBES to come up with a new, lower estimate of Theranos’ value..."

Dad Sees His Sons' School Bend To Obama's Transgender Push...Instantly Makes This BOLD Move

Dad Sees His Sons' School Bend To Obama's Transgender Push...Instantly Makes This BOLD Move:

“The president continues to violate the Constitution by trying to rewrite laws as if he were a king,” said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in explaining why his state would file suit against the Obama administration. “The states serve as the last line of defense against an unlawfully expansive federal government.”

Blind Louisiana Man Sues McDonald's for Refusing Him Drive-Thru Service

Blind Louisiana Man Sues McDonald's for Refusing Him Drive-Thru Service - NBC News
"McDonald's has until mid-June to respond to a federal lawsuit accusing it of discrimination for refusing to serve blind customers who walk up during late-night hours when only the drive-thru window is open.
The plaintiff, Scott Magee of Metairie, Louisiana, said in court documents filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago that he was laughed at and turned away from the drive-thru window at a McDonald's in the New Orleans suburb late at night last August.
It wasn't the first time that had happened, Magee alleged.
Many McDonald's restaurants nationwide continue service through their drive-thru windows late at night after the main restaurant entrance has closed.
But the company's policy is not to serve pedestrians at the drive-thru, and blind customers can't drive, so they're effectively barred from patronizing the world's largest fast food chain by revenue, according to the suit, which seeks class-action status for all blind Americans who may have had difficulty ordering at McDonald's..."

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History for June 2

History for June 2 - On-This-Day.com
Marquis de Sade 1740 - French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer, Thomas Hardy 1840 - Novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, Johnny Weissmuller 1904 - Olympic swimmer, he was the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in movies


Pete Conrad (Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.) 1930 - American naval officer, third person to walk on the moon, Marvin Hamlisch 1944 - Composer, Jerry Mathers 1948 - Actor ("Leave it to Beaver")


1774 - The Quartering Act, which required American colonists to allow British soldiers into their houses, was reenacted.


1793 - Maximillian Robespierre initiated the "Reign of Terror". It was an effort to purge those suspected of treason against the French Republic.


1883 - The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.


1897 - Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He was responding to the rumors that he had died.


1953 - Elizabeth was crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey.


1954 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that there were communists working in the CIA and atomic weapons plants.


1995 - Captain Scott F. O'Grady's U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs. He was rescued six days later.


1998 - Voters in California passed Proposition 227. The act abolished the state's 30-year-old bilingual education program by requiring that all children be taught in English.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki--LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/06/hiroshima-and-nagasaki-by-tammy-derouin.html

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By Tammy Derouin

The quest to humiliate and embarrass the United States is a never ending endeavor for our apologetic leader.  He took his band wagon on the road once again and performed his one-man act.  The words may change according to his location and audience but the premise of his famous apology tours remains the same. He disapproves of the United States and everything that made it a great and powerful nation.

I read the speech he gave in Hiroshima, Japan, this past weekend.  He didn’t come right out and apologize on behalf of the United States for dropping the atomic bomb, but he performed well enough to give his traveling apology show one more successful performance.

Obama began his speech with these words, “Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed.”  As I continued to read his speech, what was most upsetting was that he doesn’t express the same emotional outpouring, be it outrage or sympathy, when America is attacked and American lives are lost.

Obama continued, “Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima?  We come to ponder a terrible force unleashed in a not-so-distant past.”  Why did we originally come to this place, to Hiroshima? The answer is American history, Mr. Executive. 

Articles: Who helped Barack Obama avoid the taint of Chicago corruption?

Articles: Who helped Barack Obama avoid the taint of Chicago corruption?
"How did Barack Obama emerge from Chicago in 2008 untainted by political corruption?
His rise to power began at the 2004 Democratic Party Convention when Illinois State Senator Barack Obama was catapulted onto the national stage by the alluring force of his oratory.
Four years later, in December 2008, Rod Blagojevich, the fourth governor in recent Illinois history to be imprisoned, was arrested by the F.B.I. culminating a long investigation led by the U.S. Attorney (USA) in Chicago.
“Blago’s” arrest came just as he was about to meet with someone to negotiate a bribe in exchange for appointing then-U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. to complete President Obama’s senatorial term.
On the day Blago was arrested, the agent in charge of the Chicago F.B.I. Office said, “If [Illinois] isn’t the most corrupt state in the United States, it is certainly one hell of a competitor.”
Jackson, Co-Chair of President-Elect Obama’s campaign, was later arrested, along with his wife, and sentenced, in August 2013, to 30 months in jail for stealing $750,000 from his own campaign fund.
One year before Obama was inaugurated President, Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a key fundraiser for both Obama and Blagojevich, and one of three core members of Obama’s 2004 senatorial campaign finance committee, was arrested by F.B.I. agents acting on evidence gathered by the USA in Chicago. Three years later, Rezko was sentenced to 10.5 years in prison.
There’s no need here to rehash Rezko’s and Blago’s criminal transgressions in detail, or document the many Illinois politicians, from both major parties, who, over the years, traded their business suits for jump suits.
It is common knowledge that Chicago is the center of political corruption in a widely corrupt state.
Yet, somehow, the 44th President of the United States emerged from that toxic cauldron called “Crook County” untainted by the maelstrom of high-profile corruption cases that engulfed several of his closest, political associates.
The question is…
How did that happen?
Read on!

White House Secretly Squashed IRS Resistance to ObamaCare's Illegal Subsidies

White House Secretly Squashed IRS Resistance to ObamaCare's Illegal Subsidies - Breitbart
"The New York Times reports on a secret meeting from 2014, exposed thanks to sworn testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, at which a vanload of IRS officials were told to stifle their complaints about billions of dollars in flagrantly illegal ObamaCare funding.
Upon arrival, the I.R.S. officials, some of whom had expressed doubts that the Obama administration had the proper authority to spend billions of dollars on a crucial element of its [Obamacare] health care law, were ushered into a conference room.
There, they were presented with an Office of Management and Budget memo laying out the administration’s justification for spending $3.9 billion on consumer health insurance subsidies.
They were told they could read it but could not take notes or make copies.
The O.M.B. officials left the room to allow their visitors a moment to absorb the document, and then returned to answer a few questions and note that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. had been briefed and signed off on the legal rationale.
“It was not a common practice in my 10 years in government at the three agencies where I worked,” said David Fisher, a former I.R.S. financial risk officer, recounting the odd meeting during a deposition on May 11 conducted by investigators for the House Ways and Means Committee..."
Read on and see their lies!

State Department’s Former Top Watchdog Debunks Clinton’s Main Claim in Email Scandal | TheBlaze.com

State Department’s Former Top Watchdog Debunks Clinton’s Main Claim in Email Scandal | TheBlaze.com:

“I would have been stunned had I been asked to send an email to her at a personal server, private address,” he continued. “I would have declined to do so on security grounds, and if she had sent one to me, I probably would have started an investigation.”

Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, has repeatedly said, even after the current inspector general’s report was released, that her use of her server was not “unprecedented” as other secretaries of state did the same thing.

However, as Krongard noted in his interview with Fox News, the IG report specifically contradicts that claim as it revealed that only Colin Powell used a personal email and only occasionally. He also worked with the State Department to ensure his email was secure — something the report found that Clinton did not do."

A 'diet' to give California drivers indigestion

A 'diet' to give California drivers indigestion - The Orange County Register:
"...The newest outrage comes from the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research in the form of a proposed “road diet.”
This would essentially halt attempts to expand or improve our roads, even when improvements have been approved by voters. 
This strategy can only make life worse for most Californians, since nearly 85 percent of us use a car to get to work.
This in a state that already has among the worst-maintained roads in the country, with two-thirds of them in poor or mediocre condition.
The OPR move reflects the increasingly self-righteous extremism animating the former Jesuit’s underlings.
Ironically, the governor’s proposals to impose this road diet rest partly on expanding the California Environmental Quality Act, which Brown, in a more insightful moment, described as a “vampire” that needs a “stake through the heart.”
Now, instead, the inquisitors seize on vague legislative language and push it to what the Southern California Leadership Council has dubbed “an undesirable and unmanageable extreme.”
In essence, the notion animating the “road diet” is to make congestion so terrible that people will be forced out of their cars and onto transit. 
It’s not planning for how to make the ways people live today more sustainable.
It has, in fact, more in common with Soviet-style social engineering, which was based similarly on a particular notion of “science” and progressive values..."

Hillary Clinton’s E-mail Scandal -- Joe Biden Could Be the Democrats’ ‘Torricelli Solution’

Hillary Clinton’s E-mail Scandal -- Joe Biden Could Be the Democrats’ ‘Torricelli Solution’ | National Review:
"In an excellent column following release of the inspector general’s report, National Review’s John Fund envisioned the increasingly plausible implosion of Clinton’s candidacy — i.e., a scenario in which Democrats dump her owing to her metastasizing legal woes, coupled with her extraordinarily high negatives (general disapproval, untrustworthiness, unlikability, etc.). The latter are set in stone after a quarter-century’s antics.
Relatedly, on Twitter, I floated the possibility that Democrats could resort to the “Torricelli Solution.”
In October 2002, seeking reelection while beset by an indefensible corruption investigation, Senator Robert Torricelli was badly trailing his Republican rival, Doug Forrester, as the race came down to the wire — no small thing in the blue Garden State.
At the eleventh hour (actually, more like after the twelfth hour), Democrats persuaded “the Torch” to step aside.
Into his place they slid 78-year-old Frank Lautenberg, a reliably partisan former senator.
The lateness of the switcheroo denied Republicans a meaningful opportunity to campaign against Lautenberg, in violation of state election laws.
But New Jersey’s solidly Democratic judiciary predictably looked the other way.
Overnight, the polls flipped and Lautenberg won going away.
The point of my tweet was to poll the Twitterverse about who might play Lautenberg to Hillary’s Torricelli.
The consensus choice was Vice President Joe Biden, who appeared poised to enter the race months back and seems to have been chomping at the bit ever since.
There was also a common inkling that Elizabeth Warren would be chosen as veep and heiress apparent.
The hard-left senator is a natural choice: She would appease not only lefty women dismayed by Hillary’s implosion but also socialist Bernie Sanders supporters, who are the energy in the party at the moment."

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After N.J. Police Deny Him a Concealed Carry Permit, This Army Lt. Colonel Takes His Case to Court — Here’s How the Judge Ruled | TheBlaze.com

After N.J. Police Deny Him a Concealed Carry Permit, This Army Lt. Colonel Takes His Case to Court — Here’s How the Judge Ruled | TheBlaze.com:

"On paper, Lt. Col. Terry S. Russell, who has served 27 years in the Army and holds a senior position at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, appears to be the perfect candidate for a concealed carry permit. However, he was recently deemed unworthy of such a license.

Apparently, neither his expertise nor the fact that he works at a military base that has been under threat of terrorist attacks was enough for the state to grant Russell a permit."

THIS IS THE DUMBEST, FAKEST, DIDN’T HAPPENEST THING HILLARY EVER SAID:

Instapundit » Blog Archive » THIS IS THE DUMBEST, FAKEST, DIDN’T HAPPENEST THING HILLARY EVER SAID: The sexism is less virulen…:
THIS IS THE DUMBEST, FAKEST, DIDN’T HAPPENEST THING HILLARY EVER SAID:

The sexism is less virulent now than it was in 2008, she said, but still she encounters people on rope lines who tell her, “...‘I really admire you, I really like you, I just don’t know if I can vote for a woman to be president.’ I mean, they come to my events and then they say that to me.”

Given who the supporters of the candidate who knocked Hillary out of the primaries in 2008 were, perhaps the real question here is why are Democrat-run organizations — in this case, the Democratic party itself — such noxious cesspits of virulent sexism?

FDA Finds Majority of Herbal Supplements at GNC, Walmart, Walgreens, And Target Don’t Contain What They Claim – Instead Cheap Fillers Like Wheat And Soy Powder

FDA Finds Majority of Herbal Supplements at GNC, Walmart, Walgreens, And Target Don’t Contain What They Claim – Instead Cheap Fillers Like Wheat And Soy Powder - Healthy Food House:
The lack of regulations in regards to herbal products helps Walmart, Walgreens, Target, and GNC to take full advantage and sell the public supplements that do not contain the herbs on the label.
The New York State attorney general’s office conducted an investigation into store-brand supplements at four national retailers — GNC, Target, Walgreens and Wal-Mart.
The investigation found that these giant retail stores sell dietary supplements that do not contain the herbs specified on their labels.
Moreover, many of these supplements included potential allergens which were not identified in the ingredients list.

Applying Basic Physics to Climate

Applying Basic Physics to Climate · Science Speak:
"A mistake in climate model architecture changes everything.
Heat trapped by increasing carbon dioxide just reroutes to space from water vapor instead.
The scare over carbon dioxide was just due to a simple modelling error.
A whole category of feedbacks was omitted, which greatly exaggerated the calculated sensitivity to carbon dioxide.
Main Messages
The scientists who believe in the carbon dioxide theory of global warming do so essentially because of the application of “basic physics” to climate, by a model that is ubiquitous and traditional in climate science. 
This model is rarely named, but is sometimes referred to as the “forcing-feedback framework/paradigm.”
Explicitly called the “forcing-feedback model” (FFM) here, this pen-and-paper model estimates the sensitivity of the global temperature to increasing carbon dioxide..."

SiriusXM Temporarily Suspends Glenn Beck Over Brad Thor’s Comments About Trump: ‘This Is NOT What He Meant’ | TheBlaze.com

SiriusXM Temporarily Suspends Glenn Beck Over Brad Thor’s Comments About Trump: ‘This Is NOT What He Meant’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Beck and radio co-host Pat Gray responded to the ordeal in a Facebook post, saying the Drudge Report, which shared the original story, is “a total fraud and an embarrassment” and founder Matt Drudge is a “despicable lying scumbag.”

“That is NOT what he meant, nor is it what we thought. How evil do you have to be to think this?” Beck wrote"