History for October 14

History for October 14 - On-This-Day.com:
Akbar (Akbar the Great) 1542 - Mughal Dynasty ruler in India, William Penn 1644 - Penn was the colonist that founded the Pennsylvania colony for Quakers., Dwight David Eisenhower 1890 - 34th president of the United States


E.E. Cummings 1894, Eugene Fodor 1905, John Wooden 1910


1066 - The Battle of Hastings occurred in England. The Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeated King Harold II of England.


1912 - Theodore Roosevelt was shot while campaigning in Milwaukee, WI. Roosevelt's wound in the chest was not serious and he continued with his planned speech. William Schrenk was captured at the scene of the shooting.


1926 - The book "Winnie-the-Pooh," by A.A. Milne, made its debut.


1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution after being accused of conspiring against Adolf Hitler and the execution that would follow.


1947 - Over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California, pilot Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first person to break the sound barrier.


1954 - C.B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", starring Charlton Heston, began filming in Egypt. The epic had a cast of 25,000 people.


1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began. It was on this day that U.S. intelligence personnel analyzing data discovered Soviet medium-range missile sites in Cuba. On October 22 U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that he had ordered the naval "quarantine" of Cuba.


1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent resistance to racial prejudice in America. He was the youngest person to receive the award.

WATCH: Hillary Staffer Doesn't Know He's on Camera... Okays the Unthinkable

WATCH: Hillary Staffer Doesn't Know He's on Camera... Okays the Unthinkable:

"A video released by Project Veritas Action revealed just how low some supporters of Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton would go, and it’s surprisingly low — even for Democrats.

The project wanted to see in particular how Clinton staffers would react to hearing that Republican voter registration cards had been destroyed, so a journalist from Project Veritas told Trevor LaFauci, Field Organizer at Florida Democrat Party, that’s exactly what he did. The reporter claimed to have torn up three Republican registration forms."

Welcome to the ‘White Identity Retreat’: The Rise in Student Segregation

Welcome to the ‘White Identity Retreat’: The Rise in Student Segregation - The Daily Beast:
"Racial segregation in higher education is not just a topic confined to history classrooms.
After last year’s protests across the country over racial inequality, more universities have warmed to the idea that students should be segregated by race in clubs, diversity initiatives, housing, and conversations about race.
Come November, the University of Vermont will host a three-day “Examining White Identity Retreat” for students who self-identify as white.
The retreat aims to educate students about white privilege, start a dialogue to combat racism at the university, and “conceptualize and articulate whiteness from a personal and systemic lens,” according to the university’s website.
The University of Oregon is planning similar retreats for January 2017, one for white students and one for white faculty members.
Last June, minority students, faculty, and staff at the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Multicultural Student Center held separate meetings for minority students and white students to discuss the shootings of African-American men in Missouri and Louisiana.
...More new are the efforts to educate white students about white privilege, and the criticism from both minority students and white students of racially segregated programs.
Concordia University, St. Paul’s annual orientation for minorities backfired recently when a student of color took offense to a letter that said all minority students were “expected” to attend.
Another minority student called the orientation “discriminatory.”...

The perilous whiteness of … pumpkins?

The perilous whiteness of … pumpkins? - The Globe and Mail:
"Hey, you!
You, with the Starbucks pumpkin-spiced latte in your hand.
That ridiculous concoction – with its fluffiness, lack of substance, and triviality – is the ultimate expression of white privilege. 
So shame on you.
I learned about the true meaning of the pumpkin-spiced latte in a scholarly paper, called The Perilous Whiteness of Pumpkins. 
It was peer-reviewed and published in a genuine academic journal. 
Lisa Jordan Powell, its lead author, is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia. “Starbucks PSLs are products of coffee shop culture, with its gendered and racial codes,” it warns.
They make up just one part of the “pumpkin entertainment complex, whose multiple manifestations continue the entanglements of pumpkins, social capital, race, and place.”
Ms. Powell (who did not respond to an offer to comment on her paper) is merely one of countless academics toiling in the fertile field of race and gender studies.
I don’t mean to pick on her in particular.
Like everybody else, she must publish or perish.
They churn out this stuff like Halloween candy. 
We pay for it..."

Hillary to Disappear for 20 Days Just Prior to the Election Because... | The Federalist Papers

Hillary to Disappear for 20 Days Just Prior to the Election Because... | The Federalist Papers:

"Throughout the 2016 Presidential campaign, we have witnessed numerous tricks by the magician Hillary Clinton. She has made tens of thousands of e-mails, indictments, and objective debate moderators suddenly disappear.

Unfortunately, for this Democratic-Houdini, she is unable to make her failing health and symptoms disappear."

News - University of Colorado Course Bans Climate Change Skeptics

News - University of Colorado Course Bans Climate Change Skeptics | Heartland Institute:
"Three professors co-teaching an online course titled “Medical Humanities in the Digital Age” at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs (UCCS), a public university, informed students via e-mail man-made climate change and the harmful effects of fracking are not open for debate and said those who think otherwise should drop the course.
The e-mail said, “The point of departure for this course is … [the] premise that human induced climate change is … occurring.
We will not, at any time, debate the science of climate change, nor will the ‘other side’ of the climate change debate be … discussed in this course.
“If you believe [humans are causing dangerous climate change] to be an issue for you, we respectfully ask that you do not take this course,” said the professors.
The professors also banned discussion between students about man’s role in global climate change in online classroom forums. 
Additionally, students using outside sources for research for the course may only use materials peer-reviewed by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which says humans are the primary cause of climate change.
The course also examines the “health effects of fracking,” solely using materials that promote fracking’s purported negative impacts.
The course fails to examine the benefits of fracking..."

We Shall Fight on the Beaches

We Shall Fight on the Beaches :: SteynOnline
"All this week we're observing the tenth anniversary of my bestselling book America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It by revisiting some of the early reaction. 
You can find the first part of this series here, and the second here. 
For this third episode, here's the "of course" passage that got me in hot water with the totalitarian hacks of Canada's "human rights" commissions:

...Of course, not all Muslims are terrorists - though enough are hot for jihad to provide an impressive support network of mosques from Vienna to Stockholm to Toronto to Seattle. Of course, not all Muslims support terrorists – though enough of them share their basic objectives (the wish to live under Islamic law in Europe and North America) to function wittingly or otherwise as the "good cop" end of an Islamic good cop/bad cop routine. But, at the very minimum, this fast-moving demographic transformation provides a huge comfort zone for the jihad to move around in. 

...You may vaguely remember seeing some flaming cars on the evening news toward the end of 2005. Something going on in France, apparently. Something to do with – what's the word ? – "youths". When I pointed out the media's strange reluctance to use the M-word vis a vis the rioting "youths", I received a ton of e-mails arguing there's no Islamist component, they're not the madrassah crowd, they may be Muslim but they're secular and westernized and into drugs and rap and meaningless sex with no emotional commitment, and rioting and looting and torching and trashing, just like any normal healthy western teenagers. These guys have economic concerns, it's the lack of jobs, it's conditions peculiar to France, etc. As one correspondent wrote, "You right-wing shit-for-brains think everything's about jihad."

Actually, I don't think everything's about jihad. But I do think, as I said, that a good 90 per cent of everything's about demography. Take that media characterization of those French rioters: "youths". What's the salient point about youths? They're youthful. Very few octogenarians want to go torching Renaults every night. It's not easy lobbing a Molotov cocktail into a police station and then hobbling back with your walker across the street before the searing heat of the explosion melts your hip replacement. Civil disobedience is a young man's game.

Now ponder that bland statistic you heard a lot in the news reports: "about ten per cent of France's population is Muslim". Give or take a million here, a million there, that's a broadly correct 2005 statistic - as far as it goes. But the population spread isn't even. And when it comes to those living in France aged 20 and under, about 30 per cent are said to be Muslim and in the major urban centers about 45 per cent. If it came down to street-by-street fighting, as Michel Gurfinkiel, the editor of Valeurs Actuelles, points out, "the combatant ratio in any ethnic war may thus be one to one" – already, right now. It is not necessary, incidentally, for Islam to become a statistical majority in order to function as one. At the height of its power in the eighth century, the "Islamic world" stretched from Spain to India yet its population was only minority Muslim. Nonetheless, by 2010, more elderly white Catholic ethnic frogs will have croaked and more fit healthy Muslim youths will be hitting the streets. One day they'll even be on the beach at St Tropez, and if you and your infidel whore happen to be lying there wearing nothing but two coats of Ambre Solaire when they show up, you better hope that the BBC and CNN are right about there being no religio-ethno-cultural component to their "grievances"...

Read on! 

Lunch video-----The Popularity of Baby Names by US State

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Washington Post fact checks Obama’s claim that ‘a whole bunch of people who are in charge’ at VA were fired | TheBlaze.com

Washington Post fact checks Obama’s claim that ‘a whole bunch of people who are in charge’ at VA were fired | TheBlaze.com:

"The Washington Post has given four “Pinocchios” to President Barack Obama’s claim that his administration has fired many of the people running various VA facilities that were at the heart of wait-time scandals regarding the poor treatment of American veterans — meaning the commander in chief’s statement was completely untrue."

University of Michigan Students Monitored for Cultural Sensitivity

University of Michigan Students Monitored for Cultural Sensitivity | National Review
"The University of Michigan is going to start using an “Intercultural Development Inventory” to monitor its students “cultural sensitivity levels” as part of its new $85 million diversity initiative — and it’s pretty clearly an irresponsible use of money.
The point of the inventory — which is explained in this very creepy video — is, according to the school website, to judge students’ “ability to shift cultural perspective and appropriately adapt behavior to cultural differences and commonalities,” give students a “customized learning plan and a variety of intercultural training opportunities designed to improve cross-cultural engagement by targeting specific areas for skill development and increased personal capacity” based on their answers, and then test them again later to see if they’ve “improved.”  
According to an article in the school’s official newspaper, The Michigan Daily, the school plans to spend $85 million on diversity initiatives over the next five years — in addition to the $40 million it’s already allotted to spend annually — at a school where tuition has increased 3.9 percent this year..."

Election Update: Men and women are different?!!!

Election Update: Women Are Defeating Donald Trump | FiveThirtyEight

Anyone who says we're enduring "unprecedented global warming" is lying or woefully misinformed

Anyone who says we're enduring "unprecedented global warming" is lying or woefully misinformed - Ice Age Now:
It is colder right now than throughout almost all of history.

Look at this chart. The blue line shows temperatures for the past 600 million years.

Look at the far right side of the chart (today), and you’ll see that blue line plunge to its lowest point in almost 250 million years.

There have been only two periods in the past 600 million years when it has been colder than today.

Right now, today, we are living through one of the coldest periods in geologic history. The last few year’s minor rise in temperature is too minuscule to even show up on the chart.

Anyone who says we’re enduring “unprecedented global warming” is lying or woefully misinformed.

How dumb does Washington think we all are? | New York Post

How dumb does Washington think we all are? | New York Post:

"How dumb do Washington bureaucrats think you are? Really amazingly dumb. Now we have hard data to prove it.

Instead of polling Americans about Washington again, a pair of academics at Johns Hopkins tried something new — polling Washington about Americans. What they found was a combination of ignorance, contempt and disdain."

Maryland students pay for their own sexual witch hunts with new Title IX fee

Maryland students pay for their own sexual witch hunts with new Title IX fee - The College Fix
Rape-prevention training doesn’t work, Title IX director admits

Taking a page from the Democratic Party’s new platform language in favor of taxpayer-funded abortions, University of Maryland student leaders have decided that accused students should pay for their own prosecutions.

BuzzFeed reports the Student Government Association approved a $34 fee that students must pay every year, which is expected to nearly double the budget of the Title IX office.

...The Title IX office is only two years old, but its budget jumped from $643,000 the first year to $1.01 million the second.

It’s still not enough for Director Catherine Carroll, whose gripes before student leaders about the average investigation length – 140 business days – led them to approve the mandatory student fee two weeks ago..."

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History for October 13

History for October 13 - On-This-Day.com:
Molly Pitcher (Mary Hays McCauley) 1744, Rudolf Carl Virchow 1821 - Doctor, pathologist, biogist, Herblock (Herbert Lawrence Block) 1909 - Editorial cartoonist


Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider) 1925 - Comedian, satirist, Margaret Thatcher 1925 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Paul Simon 1941 - Musician


1775 - The U.S. Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.


1792 - The cornerstone of the Executive Mansion was laid in Washington, DC. The building became known as the White House in 1818.


1812 - American forces were defeated at the Battle of Queenstown Heights. The British victory effectively ended an further U.S. invasion of Canada.


1843 - B'nai B'rith, the Jewish organization, was founded by Henry Jones and eleven others in New York City, NY.


1951 - In Atlanta, GA, a football with a rubber covering was used for the first time. Georgia Tech beat Louisiana State 25-7.


1957 - Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra introduced the Ford Edsel on an hour long special.


1960 - The World Series ended on a home run for the first time. Bill Mazeroski's homerun allowed the Pirates to beat the Yankees.


1992 - A commercial flight record was set by an Air France supersonic jetliner for circling the Earth in 33 hours and one minute.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/10/loyalty-by-tammy-derouin-one-reason-our.html

Fierce Loyalty

By Tammy Derouin

One reason our country has taken such a downward turn is that we allowed our history to slip away.  The American educational system began to disregard the importance of our existence.  This is so abundantly clear when today’s students cannot answer the most basic questions on American History.

Why did it become necessary for the colonist to sever their ties with an oppressive form of governance?  When did events take place which set us on our path to freedom?  What documents declare and protect our rights?  What personal sacrifices had to be made to guarantee our God given rights for future generations?  Why have we allowed such sacred gifts, our personal freedom, to slip away?

Our government is on a mission to destroy our freedom and to enslave us as a nation.  Our government has become the enemy of the American people.  Because we have forgotten and neglected to teach the importance of our history, we have veered way off course.  The powers that be have found a way to let the citizens themselves, destroy their very own freedom.  They are encouraging the destructive path which will eventually lead to our future prison. When history isn’t known or understood, you begin to self-inflict the very wounds which will eventually destroy you.  You become your own worst enemy. 

We take pride in the things that are important to us and instill that pride in our children.  Before you can have pride in something, you have to be taught to understand their value.  Some things are trivial.  The outcome of a game will not have a direct impact on life.  The loss of country, however, will have a devastating impact on everyone’s life.

Perhaps the largest groups, these days, of acceptable pride is with schools, teams and professional sports.  High school days may not have been perfect but there is a certain amount of pride you take with you for the rest of your life.  People argue and defend university colors, seemingly to the death.  What determines such fierce loyalty, especially for those who have no direct connection?  What draws us to certain sports teams and players?  Not one of these entities is perfect...... 

Duke University Has Institutionalized Systemic Brophobia

Duke University Has Institutionalized Systemic Brophobia:
"I wrote recently about the virulent new campus threat of “brophobia.”
This is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek borrowing of the style and terminology of campus crusades against “homophobia,” but it serves to underscore the hypocrisy.
The same people who plead for “tolerance” have adopted the practice of taking a large minority of the population—biological males who identify as masculine—and describing their sexual preference and gender identity as “toxic.”
This brophobia is now so rampant, casual, and unchecked on our college campuses that it is becoming—what’s the word I’m looking for?—oh, yes, it’s becoming “systemic.”
The practice of demonizing men for their gender identity is being institutionalized.
A Claremont College student group recently hosted a “workshop” at a university “safe space” to discuss “the mental health problems caused by masculinity.”
The group’s Facebook page described its agenda this way: “Masculinity can be extremely toxic to our mental health, both to the people who are pressured to perform it and the people who are inevitably influenced by it.”
A man who attended the event—it’s a little unclear from the reporting whether he was the only one—told the Claremont Independent “that there was ‘a common consensus that masculinity is harmful both to those who express it and those affected by it’ among attendees...”

BROADDRICK: No, he held me down for a long time. And then he did it again...

As I Was Saying... :: SteynOnline
"...My view of Hillary hasn't changed in decades (she's the stinkingly corrupt enabler of a depraved sexual monster) and my view of Trump hasn't changed since I wrote about him a couple of weeks after he entered the race.
P*ssygate? 
Sorry, I decline to play by Washington Post rules. 
Every GOP nominee is a sexist pig: last time round, it was poor blameless Mitt with his "binders full of women" and his long track record of giving cancer to laid-off workers' wives. 
The fact that this particular nominee for once actually is a vainglorious sexist is not even interesting in a media stopped-clock kind of way - because Trump has more or less been advertising the fact on the Howard Stern show for a quarter-century. 
So the story is chiefly of note as a near parodic example of the ludicrously lop-sided standards applied to Democrats and Republicans: 
I mean, the alternative to a Trump victory is the restoration to the White House of a credibly accused rapist and serial abuser, accompanied by the woman who has gleefully trashed his victims for 40 years. 
This race would be very different if Juanita Broaddrick and "You might want to put some ice on that" had received a thousandth of the media coverage given to Alicia Machado and "Miss Piggy":
In 1998 I was covering the impeachment trial in the US Senate for the UK Telegraph and Canada's National Post and various other non-US outlets when Juanita Broaddrick's story bubbled up around the Capitol. 
NBC's Lisa Myers:
The good news is you're credible. The bad news is you're very credible.
But Ms Myers' colleagues throughout the American media covered their eyes and ears. 
And they've been covering them for almost 20 years:
BROADDRICK: I was completely dressed. I had a skirt and a blouse. He tore the waist of my skirt. And then he ripped my pantyhose. And he raped me. It was very vicious. I was just pinned down... I did not know what to do. I was so frightened. I was only 35 at the time. And it was horrible. I just wanted it to be over with. So he would go away.
KLEIN: He got up?
BROADDRICK: No, he held me down for a long time. And then he did it again. I was so ready for him to leave me alone, when he started raping me again. And it was very brief... And he did get up and he straightened himself. And my mouth was bleeding and it was hurting. And he just straightens himself and goes to the door.
KLEIN: With you still on the bed?
BROADDRICK: Yes, crying. He straightens himself and he goes to the door. And puts on his sunglasses. And tells me to get some ice on that on my lip. And goes out the door... He would push down on my left clavicle and it hurt so much I thought my clavicle was gonna break. And my lip was just ballooning out four times the size that it should have been.
KLEIN: While he was raping you?
BROADDRICK: Yes.
This is the man pearl-clutching Republicans are abandoning a vulgar braggart for - in order to install a rapist as "First Gentleman"...

BOMBSHELL EMAIL: Clinton Camp "Demands" "Compliant Citizenry" for Her Master Plan

BOMBSHELL EMAIL: Clinton Camp "Demands" "Compliant Citizenry" for Her Master Plan:


"An email released in the recent Wikileaks dump laid out Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s real plan for the future — and it didn’t include justice, equality or fairness. Instead, Clinton’s plan for the future revolved around maintaining political power while working to create an “unaware” and “compliant” citizenry."

News - Lawsuit Targets ‘Climate Alarmism Enterprise’

News - Lawsuit Targets ‘Climate Alarmism Enterprise’ | Heartland Institute:
"Mathematician and software engineer Leonid Goldstein is suing more than 40 environmental groups, green investment funds, and foundations who he says is a “climate alarmism enterprise,” committing fraud, racketeering and witness tampering.
Mathematician and software engineer Leonid Goldstein filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on September 12, 2016, against what he says is a “climate alarmism enterprise” (CAE).
The alleged CAE consists of more then 40 environmental groups, green investment funds, and foundations, who Goldstein’s filing states are “engaged in a long-term criminal scheme, involving a false claim that anthropogenic release (or emissions) of carbon dioxide caused a dangerous ‘global warming’ or a dangerous ‘climate change,’ and persecution of the dissidents or demanding government actions, based on this false claim, including money transfer.”
Goldstein says CAE has broken multiple laws and violated ethics by bribing, retaliating against, and tampering with witnesses, bribing public officials, and embezzling trillions of dollars from pension and welfare plans and social security.
...“As a letter sent to Democratic attorneys general threating to prosecute climate skeptics from a number of Republican attorneys general points out, if global warming skeptics can be prosecuted under statutes targeting organized crime for underestimating the risks of climate change, then global warming alarmists could be prosecuted for exaggerating the risks of climate change,” said Ebell.
“Alarmists could also be prosecuted for denying or grossly underestimating the deleterious effects of their energy-rationing policies on human flourishing.
“Millions of poor people … will be further impoverished by the higher energy prices resulting from the alarmists’ policy agenda,” Ebell said.
“Poverty is a lot worse for people’s health and well-being than warmer temperatures.”"

Hmmm. Don't need profits. Don't need kids able to read. Just show up and collect the money-----Look up the salary of your Michigan school superintendent

Look up the salary of your Michigan school superintendent | MLive.com:
"Michigan school superintendents have a compensation package worth an average of $171,311, based on information collected by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
That includes a base salary that averages about $120,000 plus insurance coverage, districts' mandatory payment to the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System, or MPSERS, and other benefits.
The numbers do not include districts' share of Social Security and Medicare taxes..."

Plus 42 paid days off!

Lunch video-----Irish Olymic Sailing commentator has no idea - funny to watch though

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