History for July 10

History for July 10 - On-This-Day.com:
John Calvin 1509, Aldolphus Busch 1842, Nikola Tesla 1856



Marcel Proust 1871, David Brinkley 1920, Arthur Ashe 1943


1913 - The highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was 134 degrees in Death Valley, CA.


1925 - The official news agency of the Soviet Union, TASS, was established.


1928 - George Eastman first demonstrated color motion pictures.


1940 - The 114-day Battle of Britain began during World War II.


1953 - American forces withdraw from Pork Chop Hill in Korea after heavy fighting.


1962 - The Telstar Communications satellite was launched. The satellite relayed TV and telephone signals between Europe and the U.S.


1991 - Boris Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.


1998 - The U.S. military delivered the remains of Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Blassie to his family in St. Louis. He had been placed in Arlington Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown in 1984. His identity had been confirmed with DNA tests.

Bill to limit office expenses of ex-presidents sent to Obama | Fox News

Bill to limit office expenses of ex-presidents sent to Obama | Fox News: "

WASHINGTON –  Congress voted Friday to put limits on the expense accounts ex-presidents get from American taxpayers.

The bill, which cleared the House by voice vote, is heading to President Barack Obama's desk. The legislation sets an annual allowance of $200,000 a year for travel, staff and office costs that have become a standard part of life after the Oval Office."

"Absent reform, Social Security's trustees project that within 20 years, benefits will have to be cut by 21 percent."

Retirement Solutions | Peter G. Peterson Foundation:
"Absent reform, Social Security's trustees project that within 20 years, benefits will have to be cut by 21 percent."

Liberal "leaders"-----Disgraced Former Case Western Law School Dean Changes Name To Ezra Wasserman Mitchell: A 'Jewish Kunte Kinte'

TaxProf Blog:

Cleveland Scene,
Disgraced Former Case Western Law School Dean Writes About Changing His Name Without Mentioning All The Reasons He'd Disgraced His Former Name:

Lawrence Mitchell is now Ezra Wasserman Mitchell. That matters very little to most people but for some others it's certainly worth noting, because Lawrence Mitchell was the former law school dean at Case Western Reserve University. 

Former is the key word there. Mitchell departed after the school settled a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit that, among other things, included multiple allegations that he'd propositioned students for threesomes. 

He's dipped off the radar — moving away from Cleveland and recording himself reading creepy poetry — and now, Lawrence Mitchell is off the radar altogether.

In a post on his site Mitchell announces that he's changed his name to Ezra Wasserman Mitchell:

After almost two decades of indecision, I today emerged from the New York City Civil Courthouse as Ezra Wasserman Mitchell.  For the two or three of you who are interested, I shall explain. ...

My name doesn’t fit for several reasons.  Most basic — and least spiritual – is aesthetic.  I have known several fine Lawrences and Larrys in my life.  But I personally don’t like the way either name sounds. ...

[M]y Hebrew name — Eliezer Ezra ben Shlomo (or really the Yiddish-Hebrew Lazar Ezra ben Shlomo ) — does mean something to me.  Of Ezra Ha’Sofer — the prophet who returned the people to Jerusalem and the Torah to the people following the Babylonian exile — it is said that if Moses had not received the Torah from Ha’Shem, Ezra would have been qualified to have done so. ... Ezra, to me, is softly melodic, while at the same time quite strong. ...

I have included Wasserman as part of my name.  (וואסערמאנ in Yiddish.)

Whence the Wasserman? Here I present myself as a Jewish Kunte Kinte. 

Dem Congresswoman Indicted After Investigation Reveals She Allegedly Used Charity as ‘Personal Slush Fund’ | TheBlaze.com

Dem Congresswoman Indicted After Investigation Reveals She Allegedly Used Charity as ‘Personal Slush Fund’ | TheBlaze.com:

"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown of Florida and her chief of staff pleaded not guilty Friday to multiple fraud charges and other federal offenses in a grand jury indictment unsealed after an investigation into what prosecutors call a phony charity turned into a personal slush fund.

Brown, a 69-year-old Democrat, and Chief of Staff Elias “Ronnie” Simmons, 50, entered pleas in Jacksonville federal court on charges of mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, obstruction and filing of false tax returns."

Hillary Clinton Blames Whites, Cops for Deaths of Young Black Men

Hillary Clinton Blames Whites, Cops for Deaths of Young Black Men - Breitbart
Hillary Clinton used a CNN interview on Friday to completely embrace the Democrats’ claim that white people and cops must change to help reduce the number of African-Americans killed in tense exchanges with cops.

“I will call for white people, like myself, to put ourselves in the shoes of those African-American  families who fear every time their children go somewhere, who have to have ‘The Talk,’ about, you now, how to really protect themselves [from police], when they’re the ones who should be expecting protection from encounters with police,” Clinton told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

“I’m going to be talking to white people, we’re the ones who have to start listening to the legitimate cries coming from our African-American fellow citizens,” she said.

...“We’ve got to start once again respecting and treating each other with the dignity that every person deserves,” she said.

The statement echoed a tweet from Friday morning. 

 Follow

Hillary Clinton 

✔@HillaryClinton

White Americans need to do a better job of listening when African Americans talk about the seen and unseen barriers you face every day.

6:24 PM - 8 Jul 2016

 
•  4,6754,675 Retweets
 
•  9,6999,699 likes

To win in November, Clinton need a high turnout of African-American voters. 

Neither Blitzer nor Clinton suggested that African-American communities have a role in reducing police-encounter deaths, which usually occur in tense engagements between a few cops and a few suspects with extensive criminal histories.

In general, young African-American men are far more likely to commit crimes than young white men, young Asian men or young Latino men. A November 2011 report by the Justice Department showed that young African-American men are just 1 percent of the population, yet are responsible for a disproportionate percentage of murders in the nation. 

Clinton suggested that people who disagree with her agenda are racists. “There is so much more to be done… we can’t be engaging in hateful rhetoric or incitement of violence, we need to be bringing people together … we need more love and kindness.”

Stopping Taxpayer-backed Too-big-to-fail Banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley From Physical Commodities is Long Overdue

Stopping Taxpayer-backed Too-big-to-fail Banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley From Physical Commodities is Long Overdue | Better Markets:
"Washington, D.C. – Dennis Kelleher, President and CEO of Better Markets, issued this statement following comments by Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo calling for an end to allowing taxpayer-backed banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to engage in trading physical commodities.
“When Wall Street’s too-big-to-fail banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley lose on their big market bets, they run to U.S. taxpayers for bailouts like they did in 2008.
That’s why their highest risk activities need to be eliminated, limited, and regulated, including their massive multi-billion operations trading physical commodities like oil, aluminum, natural gas, and copper.
For example, taxpayer-backed Goldman Sachs is now a bigger natural gas merchant in North America than Chevron and ExxonMobil. 
“Making matters worse, in addition to trading physical commodities, these banks also engage in the derivatives, futures and cash commodities markets, all while their analysts regularly comment on these markets.
These multiple, simultaneous activities provide unique opportunities for these banks to manipulate the markets and otherwise take advantage of market participants, including commodity purchasers and producers who are trying to hedge genuine risk..."

Lunch video-----Andrew Klavan: Fake Climate Change

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Justice Department prosecuted 4 cases like Hillary’s

Justice Department prosecuted 4 cases like Hillary’s:

"In his announcement on Tuesday, Comey said, “Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent.”

But WND found four cases in which the Justice Department did pursue criminal charges against defendants for mishandling classified information without even considering their intent."

The "Heather Mac Donald" interview-----Rush Limbaugh - July 8, 2016 Full Podcast

26 police killed so far in 2016, up 44% from 2015

26 police killed so far in 2016, up 44% from 2015:
"The number of police officers shot and killed in the USA is 44% higher than at this time last year following the Dallas ambush Thursday night that left five officers dead, according to data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
The deaths of four Dallas police officers and one Dallas transit officer from sniper fire during a protest in the city Thursday raised the national total of firearm deaths among police to 26.
This compares with 18 at this point in time in 2015, said Nick Breul, director of research for the fund in Washington, D.C.
Breul said it was also the latest of 11 ambushes of police officers so far this year across the country, already outpacing the eight ambushes of law enforcement that occurred last year.
"That's certainly a concern for us.
It's troubling and it's something that we watch," Breul, a former Washington, D.C., police officer, said about the shootings.
"It's really an assassination.
You're taking advantage of an officer and you're ensuring that you're able to kill them through them either being vulnerable or through a complete surprise attack.""

MUST READ of the DAY!-----Heather Mac Donald Talks About Her Essential Book: The War on Cops - The Rush Limbaugh Show

Heather Mac Donald Talks About Her Essential Book: The War on Cops - The Rush Limbaugh Show:
"...MAC DONALD:  Well, let's look at some of the numbers. 
I know numbers are sometimes tough over the radio, but a larger proportion of white and Hispanic homicide deaths are the results of police killings than black homicide deaths. 
That is, 12 percent of all whites and Hispanics who die of homicide are killed by police officers.  Four percent of all blacks, homicide victims, are killed by police officers.  
So if we're going to have an Anti‑Cop Lives Matter movement it would make more sense to call it White and Hispanic Lives Matter.
The fact is that over 6,000 blacks die of homicide each year.  
That is more than white and Hispanic homicide victims combined, even though blacks are 13 percent of the nation's population. 
And the reason they are dying of homicide at a rate six times higher than whites and Hispanics combined is because they commit homicide at eight times the rate higher than whites and Hispanics combined. 
And that type of crime disparity means that when the police are trying to save lives, they are in minority neighborhoods confronting people engaged in drive‑by shootings, killing children... "
Read/listen to the entire conversation.
Lots of FACTS here!

While Dems, Obama Fight for Gun Control, Federal Agencies Are Arming Up | PJ Media

While Dems, Obama Fight for Gun Control, Federal Agencies Are Arming Up | PJ Media:

"According to a recent report from openthebooks.com, non-military spending on guns, ammo and military-style equipment soared from $119.3 million in 2008, President George W. Bush’s last year in office, to a high of $224.7 million dollars in 2012, the year Obama won re-election."

Special election for a 7 week term? Strange!-----Gov. Rick Snyder calls special election to fill seat of Rep who died hiking

Gov. Rick Snyder calls special election to fill seat of Rep who died hiking | MLive.com
LANSING, MI -- Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday called a special election to fill the seat of Rep. Julie Plawecki, D-Dearborn, who died suddenly while hiking in Oregon last month.
A special primary will take place on Aug. 30 and the general election for the remainder of Plawecki's term -- which runs through Dec. 31, 2016 -- will take place Nov. 8. Candidates must file for the special election primary by July 12.
Meanwhile, Democratic precinct delegates in the 11th House District will select the primary candidate who will run for the next term, which begins in January.
Plawecki did not have a challenger in the Democratic primary, meaning the party's delegates can fill the ballot vacancy by selecting somebody to run against the Republican primary winner.
The election for the next term, beginning Jan. 1, 2017, will also take place on Nov. 8 along with elections for all House members.

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Cops: Tennessee shooter targeted white victims, similar to Dallas ambush - CBS News

Cops: Tennessee shooter targeted white victims, similar to Dallas ambush - CBS News:

"The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has released the name of the suspect behind Thursday morning's random shooting in Bristol, TN that claimed the life of an area newspaper carrier and injured three others, including a local police officer."

History for July 9

History for July 9 - On-This-Day.com
Elias Howe 1819, Dean Koontz 1945 - Author, O.J. Simpson 1947 - Football player, actor

Tom Hanks 1956 - Actor, Kelly McGillis 1957 - Actress, Fred Savage 1976 - Actor ("The Wonder Years")


1755 - General Edward Braddock was mortally wounded when French and Indian troops ambushed his force of British regulars and colonial militia. He died on July 13.


1776 - The American Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.


1868 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.


1872 - The doughnut cutter was patented by John F. Blondel.


1877 - Alexander Graham Bell, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Thomas Sanders and Thomas Watson formed the Bell Telephone Company.


1878 - The corncob pipe was patented by Henry Tibbe.

1943 - American and British forces made an amphibious landing on Sicily.


1951 - U.S. President Truman asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany.

Police Chief: Dallas Gunman Said He Was Upset About Recent Shootings, Wanted to Kill Whites | Video | TheBlaze.com

Police Chief: Dallas Gunman Said He Was Upset About Recent Shootings, Wanted to Kill Whites | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"“The suspect said he was upset about Black Lives Matter,” Brown said. “He said he was upset about the recent police shootings. The suspect said he was upset at white people. The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers. The suspect stated that we will eventually find the IEDs. The suspect stated he was not affiliated with any groups, and he stated that he did this alone.”"

Former Prosecutor Trey Gowdy Relentlessly Grills FBI Director on ‘Intent,’ False Statements in Clinton Email Scandal | Video | TheBlaze.com

Former Prosecutor Trey Gowdy Relentlessly Grills FBI Director on ‘Intent,’ False Statements in Clinton Email Scandal | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), a former prosecutor, grilled FBI Director James Comey during a House hearing on Thursday over whether Hillary Clinton demonstrated “intent” in her mishandling of classified information"

New book reveals Ice Age mariners from Europe were America's first inhabitants

New book reveals Ice Age mariners from Europe were America's first inhabitants | Smithsonian Insider
"Some of the earliest humans to inhabit America came from Europe according to a new book Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America’s Clovis Culture.
The book puts forward a compelling case for people from northern Spain traveling to America by boat, following the edge of a sea ice shelf that connected Europe and America during the last Ice Age, 14,000 to 25,000 years ago."
...Through archaeological evidence, they turn the long-held theory of the origins of New World populations on its head.
For more than 400 years, it has been claimed that people first entered America from Asia, via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea.
We now know that some people did arrive via this route nearly 15,000 years ago, probably by both land and sea.
...Groundbreaking discoveries from the east coast of North America are demonstrating that people who are believed to be Clovis ancestors arrived in this area no later than 18,450 years ago and possibly as early as 23,000 years ago, probably in boats from Europe. 
...In “Across Atlantic Ice,” the authors trace the origins of Clovis culture from the Solutrean people, who occupied northern Spain and France more than 20,000 years ago..."

Teecher gots math problems-----Pay for New Ann Arbor Teachers Up 24-44 Percent in Four Years

Pay for New Ann Arbor Teachers Up 24-44 Percent in Four Years [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
"In a speech before the Ann Arbor Board of Education this May, teacher Dan Ezekiel painted a bleak picture of compensation for teachers.
Ezekiel, a science teacher who also is involved in local politics by serving on various county and city boards and commissions, was concerned about the pay of starting teachers in the district.
He said he makes $3,000 less than he did eight years ago.
Michigan Capitol Confidential put in a Freedom of Information Act request for teacher salaries in Ann Arbor for the years 2010-11 to 2014-15.
...Ezekiel’s salary in 2010-11 was $79,830 and $79,177 in 2014-15, a $653 reduction over a four-year span.
...Michigan Capitol Confidential looked at the salaries of 30 Ann Arbor teachers.
Their average salary was $71,960 in 2010-11, which increased to $76,025 in 2014-15.
According to the Michigan Department of Education, the average teacher salary in Ann Arbor was $71,025 in 2010-11 and $72,036 in 2014-15.
The FOIA request for the salary information did not include any additional money teachers could have earned doing extra duties, such as coaching team sports or teaching in summer school..."