History for August 4

History for August 4 - On-This-Day.com
Louis Armstrong 1901 - Musician, singer, Raoul Wallenberg 1912 - Sweedish humanitarian during World War II, Richard Belzer 1944 - Actor, comedian ("Law and Order: Special Victims Unit")



John Riggins 1949 - Football player, Billy Bob Thornton 1955 - Actor, Barack Hussein Obama 1961 - 44th President of the United States


1735 - Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that "the truth is not libelous."


1790 - The Revenue Cutter Service was formed. This U.S. naval task force was the beginning of the U.S. Coast Guard.


1944 - Nazi police raided a house in Amsterdam and arrested eight people. Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was one of the people arrested. Her diary would be published after her death.


1972 - Arthur Bremer was found guilty of shooting George Wallace, the governor of Alabama. Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison.


1977 - U.S. President Carter signed the measure that established the Department of Energy.


1983 - New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield threw a baseball during warm-ups and accidentally killed a seagull. After the game, Toronto police arrested him for "causing unnecessary suffering to an animal."


1984 - Upper Volta, an African republic, changed its name to Burkina Faso.


1987 - The Fairness Doctrine was rescinded by the Federal Communications Commission. The doctrine had required that radio and TV stations present controversial issues in a balanced fashion.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/08/due-to-mid-summer-break-im-running.html

Due to a mid-summer break, I'm running a column which originally ran on March 23, 2016.

Spiral Death Spin

By Tammy Derouin

The administration wants civil unrest and the most uninformed among us are bound and determined to deliver it right to his door step.  They are clueless to the fact that they are being used to destroy the very country that acknowledges their God given rights.  They demand that their voices be heard but they will do everything in their power to silence anyone who dares to disagree with them.  This is liberal hypocrisy at its best.

The executive and his administration have worked tirelessly to divide our nation.  They never waste an opportunity to undermine or chip away at our freedoms and liberties.  Their foot soldiers are being used to deny others their God given rights.  Can you imagine the outcry if conservatives were attempting to silence liberals?  It would be a much different story.

Our rights are not a one party benefit.  This is precisely why our founding fathers created a governing system of laws, not men.  They understood that everyone is entitled to their opinions and beliefs.  Having an opinion or in many cases, facts, which differ from the ruling party is proving to be very dangerous.  Everyone has the right to speak freely and to assemble but not when it interferes with the rights of others.  We know the liberal Left would not tolerate the same malicious treatment.

Today many liberals feel safe while trampling on the rights of others.  After all, the administration turns a blind eye to their unruly behavior. They cannot see they are destroying themselves in the process. If they think they are being ignored or not being heard now, wait until their party turns on them.  They will scream foul when their rights are infringed upon.  But, will there be any rights left to claim?     

The Left demands tolerance, yet they will not tolerate anyone who disagrees with their agenda of destruction.  Our society is in a spiral death spin. We are now hearing that Republican lives don’t matter and that there will be riots if a certain candidate moves forward.  What the followers of the liberal Left fail to understand, is that the conservative side of the political spectrum is trying to preserve the freedoms and liberties of all, not just one party or group. 

You do not have to agree with Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton but, if we want to remain a free society, you need to acknowledge and defend their right to speak and believe as they wish. 

Isn’t it better to know the true ideology of a person or group?  You should always know as much as possible about an individual who wishes to represent you.  Had we demanded more information about the current executive, we may have dodged a tyrant.  As of right now, it is still your right to counter rally and challenge their ideology. You have freedom of speech and the right to assemble, as long as you do not infringe on the rights of others.  

Instead of acknowledging and tolerating that everyone has an opinion and sees things from a different point of view, the Left has aggressively begun to deny others the same rights they demand for themselves. To see so much prompting and provocation coming directly from the administration, is proof of how determined the executive is to transform our country from freedom and liberty to enslavement and dependence.

For seven years we have witnessed a blow by blow attack by the executive and his administration on our country.  He calls our Constitution a document of negative liberties. It is, however, quite the contrary.  It is a document of positive liberties; a document which recognizes the power of the people to govern and to be self-reliant.  Since that fateful day when our current executive took the oath of office, our Constitution has been under attack.  He has done everything he can to undermine our system of government and our exceptionalism, our freedom.

The fact that he was not voted out of office when we had the chance and only gained more power, proves how lost, how far off course we have drifted as a nation.  He has convinced so many that the government has all the answers. It isn’t the government’s responsibility to fulfill the needs and solve the problems facing each individual. He doesn’t believe that we can survive without his guidance and executive commands.  What will our independence cost us?  Dependency breeds tyranny. 

This administration had proven time and time again, that the only thing it is capable of flawlessly executing, is the creation of more problems.

“The Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”

Thomas Jefferson

Election Officials Excuse Voter Fraud in Michigan

Election Officials Excuse Voter Fraud in Michigan | Project Veritas:
"In this video, James O’Keefe visits various polling locations in Michigan and requests the ballot of Jocelyn Benson, the Dean of Wayne State University Law School. O’Keefe is offered the ballot without ID, proving that voter fraud is easy to commit."

America’s Electronic Voting Machines Are Scarily Easy Targets

America’s Electronic Voting Machines Are Scarily Easy Targets | WIRED
THIS WEEK, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump openly speculated that this election would be “rigged.”
...We’ve previously discussed the sad state of electronic voting machines in America, but it’s worth a closer look as we approach election day itself, and within the context of increased cyber-hostilities between the US and Russia. 
Besides, by now states have had plenty of warning since a damning report by the Brennan Center for Justice about our voting machine vulnerabilities came out last September.
Surely matters must have improved since then.
Well, not exactly.
In fact, not really at all.
...In many cases, those dated machines were replaced with electronic voting systems.
The intentions were pure.
The consequences were a technological train wreck.
“People weren’t thinking about voting system security or all the additional challenges that come with electronic voting systems,” says the Brennan Center’s Lawrence Norden. “Moving to electronic voting systems solved a lot of problems, but created a lot of new ones.”
The list of those problems is what you’d expect from any computer or, more specifically, any computer that’s a decade or older.
Most of these machines are running Windows XP, for which Microsoft hasn’t released a security patch since April 2014.
T...he extent of vulnerability isn’t just hypothetical; late last summer, Virginia decertified thousands of insecure WinVote machines.
As one security researcher described it, “anyone within a half mile could have modified every vote, undetected” without “any technical expertise.”
...The worst part about the current state of voting machines is that they don’t even require outside interference to undo an election.
“They’re all computers.
They run on tens of thousands of lines of code,” says Norden.
“It’s impossible to have a perfectly secure, perfectly reliable computer.”
...The problem is that not every state does post-election audits.
And even some that require them by law, namely Pennsylvania and Kentucky, don’t actually use voter-verifiable paper trails, meaning they have no way to complete an audit.
That suspicion is the real danger of electronic voting systems, and especially of those that can’t be easily or effectively audited.
If you can’t guarantee that there was no tampering—which not every state can—it might not matter if any actually took place. 
In the wrong hands, the doubt itself is damaging enough."

Hillary Never Completed Security Briefings At State Dept | The Daily Caller

Hillary Never Completed Security Briefings At State Dept | The Daily Caller:

"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton completed no security briefings or courses on the proper handling of classified materials and how to conduct secure communications while at the Department of State, according to new Obama administration legal filings before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia."

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Flashback: The massive scale of the Clintons’ speech-making industry. …

Instapundit » Blog Archive » CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Flashback: The massive scale of the Clintons’ speech-making industry. …:
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Flashback: The massive scale of the Clintons’ speech-making industry.

Last week, Hillary Clinton’s campaign released her most recent personal financial disclosure, detailing ways in which she and her husband earned money in 2015. Most of their income came from book royalties and giving paid speeches. Bill Clinton, for example, gave a speech to the National Association of Manufacturers in March 2015, being paid $325,000 for his time.

You probably don’t need to be reminded that $325,000 is more than most people make in a year. The median income for a family of four in 2014 was $53,657 — what Clinton made about a sixth of the way into that one speech.

And that was one of 22 speeches Bill Clinton gave last year. The NAM speech was the most lucrative, but Bill earned more than $5 million combined from those 20 days of work. Since the Clintons left the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton have been paid more than $150 million from speeches alone.

If journalists were doing their job, they’d be asking Hillary if Bill would still give paid speeches if she were President. Oh, wait, for that to happen, she’d have to take questions from the press.

Something Strange Emerges When Looking At A Congresswoman's Daytrading Records

Something Strange Emerges When Looking At A Congresswoman's Daytrading Records | Zero Hedge
"...While we would be the last to begrudge Ms. Chu her daytrading largesse, whether or not in possession of material, non-public inside info at time of trading - after all, if it is legal, by all means trade on inside information - something did catch our interest.

According to her public profile, the Democrat representing the 27th Congressional District, taught psychology for 20 years in an East LA Community College system, from 1981 to 2001, and reported a pension worth between $100,001 and $250,000 for those years of work. She also draws a smaller pension from serving on the Monterey Park City Council. She became a member of Congress in 2009.

In other words, a community college psychology teacher who daytrades S&P calls and puts in size up to $15,000?  Maybe she is merely "piggybacking" on her husband's net worth? Then again, maybe not. Her husband, former Assemblyman Mike Eng, is a senior partner at an immigration law firm in Los Angeles valued between $250,001 and $500,000.

* * *

And then we look at her net worth, which is where things get interesting, because this career psych professor, currently has an average net worth of $3.5 million, which according to InsideGov makes her the 103rd richest member of the House.  Chu's net worth was 3.2 times more than the average member of Congress and 4 times more than the average representative. When compared to the California Congressional Delegation, Chu had a net worth that was 3.6 times more than the average.

But most interesting is the history of Rep. Judy Chu's net worth over a short 6 year period, as shown in the chart below.

To summarize: a former East LA psychology professor (with an annual pension) started off her Congressional career with virtually nothing in the bank, and over the next 5 years, built up a net worth of over $3 million. We are curious how: it wasn't with the modest salary that members of the house collect; it wasn't from outside activities, it wasn't from her husband.

Which leaves just one possibility: her phenomenal daytrading skills, which are made even more phenomenal since her trades are exempt from regulatory oversight.

We are curious: why does Ms. Chu waste her amazing trading talent in D.C. when she could be working for Steve Cohen, or better yet, run her own hedge fund, making billions. Because if she can recreate her phenomenal 6 year return with outside capital, we would be the first in line to let her manage our money... assuming of course she can repeat her trading performance when the SEC at least pretend to care..."

Lunch video-----FOOD HACKS

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U.S. Marine and Navy Vet Sends HARDCORE Letter to Muslim Father Who Slammed Trump

U.S. Marine and Navy Vet Sends HARDCORE Letter to Muslim Father Who Slammed Trump:

"Military all across the country are defending Donald Trump. Lieutenant colonel and conservative legend Allen West had a “PERSONAL message for the Muslim father whose son was killed in Iraq”, and it is an absolute must read!

Allen West certainly wasn’t alone. Military veteran Chris Mark wrote this intense letter to Khizr Khan, the father of a fallen U.S. soldier who attacked Donald Trump at the DNC for never having sacrificed for his country.

Check it…"

Howard Dean: 'I Don't Consider Iran to Be a Muslim Country'

Howard Dean: 'I Don't Consider Iran to Be a Muslim Country'
PARIS — Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean told Breitbart News that “Iran is the farthest thing from an Islamic Republic” and that Iran is not “a Muslim country.”

Instead, Dean said, Iran is “a republic that’s been hijacked by thugs and murderers.” He explained that he does not know Muslims whom he respects and who behave the way the regime does.
...During the interview, Dean also pointed out his belief that the term “radical Islamic terrorism” is a manufactured phrase “for political, domestic consumption in America.”...

Why Western leftists adore right-wing religious extremists abroad

Why Western leftists adore right-wing religious extremists abroad - Opinion - Jerusalem Post:
"When the history of the West is written it will say: they educated themselves to hate themselves and love what they hate about themselves in the other.
On a fairly consistent basis people in the West embrace values abroad that they shun at home.
This is particularly odd and contradictory among those who self-identify as “Left” and “liberal” and then embrace movements, leaders, ideologies and religions that are manifestly illiberal and right- wing extremist abroad.
For instance American philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler said in 2006 that “understanding Hamas [and] Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of the global left, is extremely important.”
That contradictory view is emblematic of a phenomenon spanning everything from Michel Foucault’s embrace of the Islamic Revolution in Iran to those “anti-war” activists in the UK who support Syrian President Bashar Assad and Russia’s bombing of civilians.

• Why do people who support women’s rights in the US or France excuse the Iranian regime? 
• Why do those who dislike militarism view as romantic people in uniform in Pakistan or Moscow?
• Why do those who dislike US presidential candidate Donald Trump find bombastic populists like Venezuala’s Hugo Chavez so endearing?
• Why is Assad’s war on terror so good, but George W. Bush’s so bad?

...To understand this phenomenon we have to unpack what it means to be “left-wing” in the West.
To be on the Left is to be good, to be progressive, to be for women’s rights, gay rights, environmentalism, social justice, worker’s rights, and to be against racism and discrimination, perhaps against nuclear energy, against war.
It didn’t always mean that.
Before the defeat of Nazism, to be left-wing was largely an ideological choice to be part of a “global Left” of various movements.
...Loyalty to these left-wing movements was largely ideological, if not contradictory. 
So Stalin was supported simply because some left-wingers in the West accepted the Soviet Communist Party’s line; others liked comrade Trotsky and therefore did not like Stalin.
Not because they were liberals, but because the party told them so.
...This entire phenomenon is what should be known as “locational liberalism.”
Locational liberalism means you support liberalism only in one place, and support its diametric opposite somewhere else. 
The result is that there are basically two right-wing forces at war with each other in the West.
One supports right-wing religious nationalist forces abroad, the other supports them at home.

Terrifying scenes as 40 people are injured in beer festival stampede after someone shouts 'ISIS' for joke

Terrifying scenes as 40 people are injured in beer festival stampede after someone shouts 'ISIS' for joke - Mirror Online:
"These were the terrifying scenes as hundreds of people ran for their lives at a beer festival after someone shouted 'ISIS' for a joke.
More than 40 people were injured in the stampede at the Beer Fest in Kosovo’s capital of Pristina after apparently a gun was fired and many wrongly thought it was a terror attack.
After hearing the name of the terror group being called in the crowd, people started to run away as fast as they could from the square in which the festival was held.
Two people were seriously injured in the stampede, and there were also unconfirmed reports in local media that a boy aged 15 had been shot.
It is not uncommon for people in Kosovo to own a gun, so a weapon may have been fired in the panic.
According to some estimates, about 20 percent of the country owns a gun.
In a video of the stampede, people can be seen pushing each other after the panic broke out.
In one case, a man can be seen treading on another man as he flees.
People were hiding in alleys and smashing their way into buildings to look for a place to hide..."

Frustration mounts over ObamaCare co-op failures | TheHill

Frustration mounts over ObamaCare co-op failures | TheHill:

"A new wave of failures among ObamaCare's nonprofit health insurers is disrupting coverage for thousands of enrollees and raising questions about whether regulators could have acted earlier to head off some of the problems.

Four ObamaCare co-ops have failed due to financial problems since the beginning of the year, the latest trouble for the struggling program.

The co-ops were set up under ObamaCare to increase competition with established insurers, but just seven of the original 23 co-ops now remain. 
The latest round of failures poses an even thorn"

Pat Caddell on 'Cooked' Reuters Poll: 'Never in My Life Have I Seen a News Organization Do Something So Dishonest'

Pat Caddell on 'Cooked' Reuters Poll: 'Never in My Life Have I Seen a News Organization Do Something So Dishonest' - Breitbart:
"On Sunday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow, political strategist Pat Caddell outlined his charge that Reuters tampered with its own daily tracking poll to manufacture a sudden surge for Hillary Clinton.
“They not only changed their formula, to put Hillary ahead. They went back and changed the results, for a week of results where Trump was ahead, and then they turned those into Hillary leads,” said Caddell.
“They also erased all the former polling off the site. 
They didn’t tweak their procedure – they cooked it.”
“Never in my life have I seen a news organization, and a supposedly reputable poll, do something so dishonest,” Caddell continued. “
What they have done is, they decided the people who said, ‘oh, I’m never for someone’ – oh, those must be Hillary votes. They used to be Trump voters.”
“They made a switch, as much as nine points, in their results from the beginning of last week, the 25th and 26th.
It is, beyond doubt, the most outrageous thing,” he declared, noting that results in three- and four-way polls that include independent candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein were also skewed."

AM Fruitcake

History for August 3

History for August 3 - On-This-Day.com
Ernie Pyle 1900, John T. Scopes 1900, P.D. James 1920


Leon Uris 1924, Tony Bennett 1926, Martha Stewart 1941 - Television personality


1492 - Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The voyage led him to what is now known as the Americas. He reached the Bahamas on October 12.


1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. was founded.


1914 - Germany declared war on France. The next day World War I began when Britain declared war on Germany.


1923 - Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the U.S. after the sudden death of President Harding.


1933 - The Mickey Mouse Watch was introduced for the price of $2.75.


1936 - Jesse Owens won the first of his four Olympic gold medals.


1981 - U.S. traffic controllers with PATCO, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, went on strike. They were fired just as U.S. President Reagan had warned.


1984 - Mary Lou Retton won a gold medal at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics.

NY Post: Report Raises Questions About ‘Clinton Cash’ from Russians During ‘Reset’ - Breitbart

NY Post: Report Raises Questions About ‘Clinton Cash’ from Russians During ‘Reset’ - Breitbart:

"A report out Monday, “From Russia With Money — Hillary Clinton, the Russian Reset and Cronyism,” raises serious questions about the cash connections between the Clintons and participants in the State Department’s failed five-year effort to improve, or “reset,” US-Russia relations during Hillary’s reign as secretary of state.

Key players in a main component of the reset — a Moscow-based Silicon Valley-styled campus for developing biomed, space, nuclear and IT technologies called “Skolkovo” — poured tens of millions of dollars into the Clinton Foundation, the report by journalist Peter Schweizer alleges."

Why CVTs Are Awesome Transmissions

Why CVTs Are Awesome Transmissions:
"If there is one transmission that has the most detractors, it's the continuously variable transmission, or CVT.
It's criticized for how it sounds, how it operates, and how it feels.
The main criticism is that it feels unnatural compared to the gearboxes that were used to.
Thing is, the CVT is actually one of the best gearboxes that you can have in a car.
It's so good, that when it was first used in an F1 car by Williams, it was banned because of the advantage it'd give.
And that's because a lot of the CVT on the market are inherently compromised, because people just don't understand them.
In reality, a CVT can keep the engine in its powerband, like it can hold peak torque for longer, or peak horsepower..."
(start at 6 min.)

The Swedes are fleeing the country

The Swedes are fleeing the country
"Sweden's population is constantly increasing.
Meanwhile, emigration reaches record levels. 
Last year, 51,237 Swedes left the country.
It is more than the peak reached in the late 1800s when there was an agriculture crisis in Sweden.
America is the most popular destination, again.
...There may also be a large number of Swedes leaving the country who are not registered, according to Maria Solevid.
...The organization Swedes in the world, shows in a new study that more than 660,000 Swedes now live in another country. 
That is seven percent of the population..."

Hillary Clinton Fox News | Benghazi | Classified Material

Hillary Clinton Fox News | Benghazi | Classified Material:

"Hillary Clinton appeared on Fox News Sunday this morning, and repeated her denial that she told the families of the men killed in Benghazi that the attack was caused by a video.

She went one step further, and patronized the families, declaring “I don’t hold any ill feeling” towards family members who “may not fully recall everything that was or wasn’t said.”"

Bloodsucker!-----Khan specializes in visa programs accused of selling U.S. citizenship

Khan specializes in visa programs accused of selling U.S. citizenship | Washington Examiner:
"The father of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq who is caught up in a war of words with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is an immigration lawyer who specializes in a highly controversial program accused of letting immigrants buy their way into the U.S.
Khizr M. Khan's website notes that he works to help clients with the E-2 and EB-5 programs that let overseas investors buy into U.S. companies and also provides green cards for family members.
It also said that he helps in the purchase of U.S. real estate and businesses.
..."The E-2 and EB-5 are two of the most notoriously abused visa categories that essentially allow wealthy foreigners to buy their way to U.S. residency, and possibly citizenship, with a relatively modest investment," said Jessica Vaughan, the policy director for the Center for Immigration Studies..."

DOUBLE STANDARD: Khizr Khan Receives 50x More Coverage Than Pat Smith on ABC, CBS, NBC

DOUBLE STANDARD: Khizr Khan Receives 50x More Coverage Than Pat Smith on ABC, CBS, NBC
"...While all the grieving parents deserve sympathy, the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network evening and morning shows seemed to only care about the parents that showed up at the Democratic Convention. Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazla’s DNC appearance earned 55 minutes, 13 seconds of Big Three network coverage, nearly 50 times more than Pat Smith, whose RNC speech honoring her son earned just 70 seconds of airtime.

In the days (July 19 to August 1) that followed Smith’s indictment of Clinton from the RNC podium, CBS (3 seconds) ABC (13 seconds) and NBC (54 seconds) gave her speech a total of just 70 seconds of coverage. 

In the four days (July 29 to August 1) following Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazala’s speech NBC (31 minutes, 39 seconds), offered the most amount of time followed by ABC (14 minutes, 21 seconds) and then CBS (9 minutes, 13 seconds)..."

Lunch video-----I Learned More at McDonald's Than at College

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Report: Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Mgr John Podesta Sat on Board of Company that Bagged $35 Million from Putin-Connected Russian Govt Fund - Breitbart

Report: Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Mgr John Podesta Sat on Board of Company that Bagged $35 Million from Putin-Connected Russian Govt Fund - Breitbart:

"Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta sat on the board of a small energy company alongside Russian officials that received $35 million from a Putin-connected Russian government fund, a relationship Podesta failed to fully disclose on his federal financial disclosures as required by law.
That’s one of the many revelations from a 56-page report released late Sunday titled"

Fear the left!-----Leftist Mob Violently Ejects Trump Supporter From New York City Park

Video: Leftist Mob Violently Ejects Trump Supporter From New York City Park:
"A young white man wearing one of Donald Trump’s red ‘Make America Great Again!” hats was violently forced out of New York City’s City Hall Park by a screaming Leftist racist mob of predominantly self-described ‘black and brown’ activists–all while police stood by and did nothing.

The mob was gathered to protest police as part of a “#ShutDownCityHallNYC” rally in the park.

The mob scene was documented by reporters and posted to Twitter with the best imagery being captured on video by Alexander Rubinstein with RT America.

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