History for November 12

History for November 12 - On-This-Day.com:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815, Auguste Rodin 1840, Grace Kelly 1929


Charles Manson 1934, Wallace Shawn 1943, Tonya Harding 1970



1927 - Joseph Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union. Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party leading to Stalin coming to power.


1942 - During World War II, naval battle of Guadalcanal began between Japanese and American forces. The Americans won a major victory.


1944 - During World War II, the German battleship "Tirpitz" was sunk off the coast of Norway.


1946 - The first drive-up banking facility opened at the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, IL.


1948 - The war crimes tribunal sentenced Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese leaders to death.


1985 - In Norfolk, VA, Arthur James Walker was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a spy ring run by his brother, John A. Walker Jr.


1997 - Ramzi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.


1998 - Daimler-Benz completed a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler AG.

Yale professor makes midterm optional for students distraught over Trump win | Fox News

Yale professor makes midterm optional for students distraught over Trump win | Fox News:

"Liberal students across the nation watched in shock as Donald Trump clinched victory from Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States.

But some wiped their tears, and pulled themselves together enough to ask their professors to cancel their exams because they were so upset by the results.

And one Yale economics professor heard the cry, and decided to protect his snowflake charges by making the test optional."

Ghosts Of Corporate Welfare Past To Suck $7.6 Billion From State Budget

Ghosts Of Corporate Welfare Past To Suck $7.6 Billion From State Budget [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"In 2010-11, the last year of Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s second and final term, the state of Michigan approved 72 economic development deals with companies in what appears to have been a binge of corporate welfare handouts.
Some $2.4 billion dollars were promised to companies in 2011 under a since-discontinued program called the Michigan Economic Growth Authority (MEGA).
Most of that went to a pair of car companies — $1.36 billion to Chrysler and $909 million to Ford.
No longer were politicians claiming to grow or transform the economy: These were so-called job “retention” deals, with the state paying companies for up to 20 years to maintain their state workforce numbers.
The MEGA program was discontinued in 2011, but the financial impact of its corporate welfare deals will fall on state budgets for decades.
While the actual numbers are kept secret, much or most of the “credits” are simply checks written by the Michigan Treasury Department to the companies with the deals.
A recent report from the Senate Fiscal Agency states that Michigan taxpayers are still on the hook for these deals until at least 2032, at a cost of $7.6 billion. 
The agency estimates the payments represent a 4 percent to 5 percent annual hit to the state budget over that period.
Last year the state paid out $654.8 million under these MEGA deals.
And from 2017 to 2032, the estimate is that future legislatures will have to budget more than a half billion dollars every year until at least 2028 and pay out a total of $7.6 billion through 2032."

GM announces first layoffs in six years, cuts 2,000 jobs

GM announces first layoffs in six years, cuts 2,000 jobs - Nov. 9, 2016:
"General Motors is cutting 2,000 factory jobs in Michigan and Ohio -- its first round of layoffs since 2010.
The company said it will cut the third shift of production at the Lordstown, Ohio plant, which makes the compact Chevrolet Cruze.
It's also cutting jobs at the Lansing, Mich., Grand River plant where it makes the Chevy Camaro and the Cadillac ATS and CTS.
GM (GM) said the job losses will hit 1,200 factory workers in Ohio and 800 in Michigan, though some of those workers may be offered other positions.
The jobs will be eliminated in January. GM had 97,000 U.S. workers as of the end of last year.
He added that the company did not announce the layoffs before the election because it did not want to be accused of trying to affect the election results.
Related: The rich are still buying lots of cars..."

"This is Not a Day Care. It’s a University!" : College President Writes Scathing Letter About Students Wanting To Play The Victim And Blame Others - US Chronicle

"This is Not a Day Care. It’s a University!" : College President Writes Scathing Letter About Students Wanting To Play The Victim And Blame Others - US Chronicle:

"Everett Piper, who is the President of the school, wrote a letter to the students admonishing them that playing the victim, blaming others and not admitting mistakes is not a way to live a productive and meaningful life.  Here is the letter titled “This is Not a Day Care. It’s a University!”"

What could possibly go wrong?-----Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Pledge to Work With Trump on Economic Issues

Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Pledge to Work With Trump on Economic Issues | Liberty Blitzkrieg:
"... I want Trump to be successful because our fellow countrymen and women need him to succeed.
...In order to be a truly great president, Trump needs to unite as many Americans as possible around his agenda.
On the positive front, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have both pledged to work with Trump in order to help our less fortunate fellow citizens get back on the right track. 
I really hope this happens.
...In a speech at the nation’s largest labor federation, Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Americans are right to be angry that “Washington dithers and spins and does the backstroke in an ocean of money, while the American Dream moves further and further out of reach for too many families.”
She credited Trump for spotlighting the problem.
“President-Elect Trump spoke to these issues. Republican elites hated him for it. But he didn’t care,” she told the AFL-CIO. “So let me be 100 percent clear about this.
When President-Elect Trump wants to take on these issues, when his goal is to increase the economic security of middle class families, then count me in.
 I will put aside our differences and I will work with him to accomplish that goal. 
I offer to work as hard as I can and to pull as many people as I can into this effort. 
If Trump is ready to go on rebuilding economic security for millions of Americans, so am I and so are a lot of other people-Democrats and Republicans.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who challenged Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, expressed a similar sentiment.
“Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media,” he said in a press release.
“To the degree that Mr. Trump is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in this country, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him.”
This would be a very good thing for Trump’s Presidency and for America as a whole.
In Liberty,
Michael Krieger"

Gotta be true. I saw it on the internet!

Snowflake Meltdown :: SteynOnline

Snowflake Meltdown :: SteynOnline:
"Today is Armistice Day, when the guns fell silent on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. 
We know it as Veterans Day in America, or, across the Commonwealth, Remembrance Day. I have some thoughts on the subject, and on the most famous Canadian poem of the Great War, here.

Via my compatriot Dr Roy, here is that most famous Canadian war poem, by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, as recited by a far more famous Canadian poet, Leonard Cohen:

Leonard Cohen died yesterday. 
Godspeed.

~This is probably not the occasion to compare the vast conscript armies who slogged it out on the Western Front a century ago with their solipsistic progeny, the ululating ninnies of Generation Snowflake. 
This week American universities, now among the most expensive yet worthless institutions on the planet, have held mass "cry-ins" to protest Tuesday's election. 
At the University of Michigan, sufferers from PTSD (Post-Trumptastic Stress Disorder) were consoled with Play-Doh and coloring books. 
Can you imagine any of the teenagers who stormed the beaches of Normandy - boys who were men, and often five, six, seven years younger than today's elderly "students" - agreeing to participate in anything so ostentatiously self-indulgent as a "cry-in" followed by free Play-Doh?

What comes after the cry-ins? 
Monisha Rajesh, a journalist with The Guardian and my old newspaper The Sunday Telegraph, is hot for a "presidential assasination"...

Lunch video-----A Veterans Day Tribute to the US Military: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine...

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Hundreds of thousands of Hillary supporters sign petition to overturn election results – TheBlaze

Hundreds of thousands of Hillary supporters sign petition to overturn election results – TheBlaze:


 "A petition started by a man in North Carolina to persuade the Electoral College to elect Hillary Clinton as president is gaining traction on the internet — more than 352,000 people have signed the Change.org petition since it was created Wednesday night.

The petition asks members of the Electoral college to vote for Hillary Clinton because she won the popular vote and expresses that President-elect Donald Trump is unfit to serve.

The full text reads:"

Terry Kelly - A Pittance of Time

7 Harsh Realities Of Life Millennials Need To Understand

7 Harsh Realities Of Life Millennials Need To Understand | Zero Hedge:
"They may not yet be the present, but they’re certainly the future.
These young, uninitiated minds will someday soon become our politicians, doctors, scientists, chefs, television producers, fashion designers, manufacturers, and, one would hope, the new proponents of liberty.
But are they ready for it?
Time after time, particularly on college campuses, millennials have proven to be little more than entitled, spoiled, anti-intellectual brats who place far too much emphasis on feelings and nowhere near enough emphasis on critical thinking. 
To the millennial, words are cause for the creation of safe spaces, alternative ideas must be stifled, and anything they perceive to be a microaggression is enough to send them spiraling into a state of mental distress.
It’s time millennials understood these 7 harsh realities of life so we don’t end up with a generation of gutless adult babies running the show.
1. Your Feelings Are Largely Irrelevant"...

Samuel L. Jackson on Donald Trump: “If That Motherf*cker Becomes President I Will Move my Black Ass to South Africa” -

Samuel L. Jackson on Donald Trump: “If That Motherf*cker Becomes President I Will Move my Black Ass to South Africa” -:
If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll know that liberal actor Samuel L. Jackson has been feuding with his golfing buddy Donald Trump quite a bit, lately.

Last week, he made headlines when he said that if you don’t have a certain amount of money, it’s as if you don’t exist in Trump’s eyes.

More recently, he went on The Jimmy Kimmel show and said that if Trump gets elected President, he’d “move his black a$$ to South Africa.”

Let’s all remember this and hold him to his word when Trump’s elected.

Indiana Pastors Caught on Camera Paying for People to Go to Polls and Vote Democrat | PJ Media

Indiana Pastors Caught on Camera Paying for People to Go to Polls and Vote Democrat | PJ Media:

"The latest Project Veritas video is proof of pastors being paid by political operatives to get their congregants to the polls. They'll even pay for the congregants to be bussed to the polls and to grab lunch, as long as they all agree to vote Democrat. These churches could very easily lose their tax-exempt status over what we see in this video."

St. Paul schools offer ’emotional support’ for kids upset by election results

St. Paul schools offer ’emotional support’ for kids upset by election results – Twin Cities:
St. Paul Public Schools said Wednesday that additional emotional support staff would be made available, if necessary, to students upset by the surprise election of Donald Trump.

Supervisory counselors were slated to check in with school staff to identify any schools that are “more impacted by the results,” spokeswoman Toya Stewart Downey told the Pioneer Press early Wednesday. 
If needed, lead counselors and social workers and those in temporary administrative roles would be sent to work in schools. 
“If there are schools that seem to be over capacity (in terms of the support they can offer), we will look to deploy support staff from the district who can provide additional support,” Stewart Downey said. 
...Stewart Downey noted that the capacity to respond to upsetting events is greater in the district this school year. 
The district added 20 counselors, six social workers and five school psychologists as a result of teacher contract negotiations...

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Should be interesting explaining this election without emotion.

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History for November 11

History for November 11 - On-This-Day.com:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 - Novelist, short story writer, journalist, Thomas Aldrich 1870, George Patton 1885


Alger Hiss 1904, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 1922, Jonathan Winters 1925


1620 - The Mayflower Compact was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower when they landed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod. The compact called for "just and equal laws."


1851 - The telescope was patented by Alvan Clark.


1918 - World War I came to an end when the Allies and Germany signed an armistice. This day became recognized as Veteran's Day in the United States.


1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns was dedicated at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia by U.S. President Harding.


1938 - Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio.


1940 - The Jeep made its debut.


1981 - The U.S.S. Ohio was commissioned at the Electric Boat Division in Groton, CT. It was the first Trident class submarine.


1993 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Women's Memorial was dedicated to honor the more than 11,000 women who had served in the Vietnam War.

Carson plans to be involved in Obamacare replacement effort | Washington Examiner

Carson plans to be involved in Obamacare replacement effort | Washington Examiner:

"Former neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Wednesday he would have a role in creating a replacement plan for Obamacare.

Carson told Politico on Wednesday that he intends to help design a plan that is "appealing and easy to understand.""

DETROIT: Top school board candidate wins with 4% of vote

DETROIT: Top school board candidate wins with 4% of vote | EAGnews.org:
"Voters in Detroit elected seven members of the newly created Detroit Public Schools Community District Board of Education, though none of them received more than 4 percent of the vote.

A total of 63 Detroit residents filed to run for seats on the board, which was created after state officials dissolved Detroit Public Schools and created the new district as a fresh start for the city’s students after decades of dysfunction.

...Last month, the Free Press reported that the majority of those running for the new Detroit school board face legal, financial or criminal problems, including 12 candidates who had filed for bankruptcy, 13 who had lost properties for failing to pay their taxes or mortgages, and 28 who had been sued over unpaid bills or other defaults.

Of those who won Tuesday, LaMar Lemmons lost an eviction case in 2005, while Peterson-Mayberry filed for bankruptcy in 2003, faced a default judgement for $1,174 in 2007, and was evicted in 2008.

Hunter-Harvill has also had money problems, including a property she lost in 2013 over $233,473 she owed to a lender, and two small default judgements against her in 2002 and 2015, according to the Free Press.

Fox 2 also pointed out that the Lemmons family has a history of stacking local ballots with family members. LaMar and Georgia Lemmons appeared on the 2016 school board ballot with Georgia’s sister, Bettie Jean Alexander, who received a mere 1 percent of the vote Tuesday..."

Police Calm Millennial Protesters By Handing Out Participation Trophies

Police Calm Millennial Protesters By Handing Out Participation Trophies | The Babylon Bee:
"U.S.—As anti-Trump rallies nationwide turned hostile overnight with widespread reports of violence, looting, vandalism, and death threats against the president-elect and his supporters, police in numerous major cities were able to instill calm and regain control by handing out participation trophies to all millennial protesters who were enraged about losing the election, sources confirmed.
The shrewd tactic was the idea New York Police Officer Joe Butler, who has three twentysomething children himself, and noted to reporters Thursday that he remembered how his children “never had to deal with losing as they were growing up.”
“It’s a foreign notion to them.
Even in sports—win or lose, everyone won, and everyone got a trophy no matter what.
This is the millennial way,” he said.
“So I had the idea—hey, why not start handing out participation trophies to the protesters, and telling them ‘Hey, you know what? You may have lost the election, but look—everyone gets a trophy. Everyone’s a winner.'”
Seeing how the trophies had an instantaneous calming effect on the millennials and filled them with a sense of fulfillment and achievement, word spread quickly among police departments nationwide, and emergency trophies were procured by the thousands for use at the rallies.
At publishing time, police had regained control in cities across the country, and the crowds of now-content protesters were heading home with their trophies, according to sources."

Obama executive orders, regulations, pardons expected as presidency draws to close - Washington Times

Obama executive orders, regulations, pardons expected as presidency draws to close - Washington Times:

"Look out for the executive orders, the “midnight” regulations and, perhaps most controversially, the pardons.

As President Obama runs out the clock on his eight-year tenure, analysts say, he still has plenty of business left undone, and they expect him to follow the lead of other presidents and issue a series of rules, to add to his list of executive orders, to continue his record-setting pace of commutations and perhaps add a controversial pardon or two into the mix."

U. Michigan professor postpones exam due to 'serious stress' over election results - The College Fix

U. Michigan professor postpones exam due to 'serious stress' over election results - The College Fix:
"A University of Michigan professor has postponed an exam after many students emailed him and complained about their “serious stress” over the election results.
John Snodgrass’ psychology class will still meet today, but the previously scheduled exam will now be moved to next week, he told students in an email obtained by The College Fix.
“However one feels about the results of this important election, it’s clear that it (and the period leading up to it) is/has been very distracting and upsetting to many students. 
Relatedly, I’ve been receiving many emails in recent hours from students requesting to delay the exam due to associated serious stress,” the lecturer wrote to students.
“With this in mind, and to give everyone a chance to do their best on the exam, and after consulting with our GSIs and Psychology Administration, I’ve decided to postpone Exam 2 one week (i.e., it will now occur next Weds., Nov. 16).”
“… We WILL still have class today–I’ll begin lecturing on the next topic (Knowledge, Ch. 9).
This way, the overall class schedule will remain intact, allowing us to cover the necessary material,” he continued.
“I wish you all the best in this tumultuous time, and look forward to seeing you in lecture.”"

Safe Space? Ann Arbor Landmark Painted With 'Kill'em All' After Trump Victory

Safe Space? Ann Arbor Landmark Painted With 'Kill'em All' After Trump Victory [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"The Rock" is an iconic landmark in Ann Arbor that has been painted on numerous occasions.
The face of an iconic rock in Ann Arbor was painted with the words “Kill Em All” in white surrounded by red along with a picture of a blue elephant, the traditional mascot of the Republican Party.
Another side of the rock also had a donkey, the mascot of the Democratic Party, with two stars around it and no words.
And another side had a profanity that says "F*** America" on it.
The photo was taken after Tuesday's election in which Republican Donald Trump upset Democrat Hillary Clinton to become the next president.
“The Rock” sits on the corner of Washtenaw Avenue and Hill Street and borders the University of Michigan campus but is officially part of a city of Ann Arbor park. It historically has been painted over the years on numerous occasions.
“We understand students are in the process of repainting the rock now,” said U-M Spokesman Rick Fitzgerald..."

Lunch video-----FULL - Ted Nugent Performance at Donald Trump Rally in Grand Rapids, MI....

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Paul Ryan: Trump victory is ‘the most incredible political feat I have seen in my lifetime’ – TheBlaze

Paul Ryan: Trump victory is ‘the most incredible political feat I have seen in my lifetime’ – TheBlaze:

"Speaker Paul Ryan, addressing the press from his home state of Wisconsin on Wednesday, said he has congratulated President-elect Donald Trump on what he described as the “the most incredible political feat I have seen in my lifetime.”"