History for December 6

History for December 6 - On-This-Day.com:
Ira Gershwin 1896 - Lyricist, brother of composer George Gershwin, Agnes Moorehead 1906, Wally Cox 1924


James Naughton 1945, Tom Hulce 1953, JoBeth Williams 1953


1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.


1884 - The construction of the Washington Monument was completed by Army engineers. The project took 34 years.


1907 - In Monongah, WV, 361 people were killed in America's worst mine disaster.


1917 - More than 1,600 people died when two munitions ships collided in the harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia.


1926 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini introduced a tax on bachelors.


1973 - Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the vice-president of the United States after vice-president Spiro Agnew resigned.


1994 - Orange County, CA, filed for bankruptcy protection due to investment losses of about $2 billion. The county is one of the richest in the U.S. and became the largest municipality to file for bankruptcy.


1998 - In Venezuela, former Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez was elected president. He had staged a bloody coup attempt against the government six years earlier.

Texas Gov: Sanctuary Campuses Will Lose State Funding | The Daily Caller

Texas Gov: Sanctuary Campuses Will Lose State Funding | The Daily Caller:

"Texas Gov. Greg Abbot says the state will cut off funding to any public school that declares itself a “sanctuary campus” for illegal immigrants.

Abbot made the announcement Thursday via Twitter, in response to a petition effort in the state by students seeking to have their universities protect illegal immigrants. Abbott made it clear such a move wouldn’t fly in Texas."

Worth your time!-----The new age of propaganda

Blog: The new age of propaganda:
"The video embedded below of a TED talk by Sharyl Attkisson deserves to be viewed by American Thinker readers.
In it she discusses astroturf groups, the fake grass roots movements funded from above in order to influence media coverage of a political issue. 
It is a bit over 10 minutes, not an outrageous investment of your time compared to the valuable information it provides.

‘At war with itself’: Obama Dept of Energy says Obama EPA climate rule to cost 400,000 jobs

‘At war with itself’: Obama Dept of Energy says Obama EPA climate rule to cost 400,000 jobs | Climate Depot:
"Testifying before Congress, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy says that the Obama Department of Energy is wrong with its analysis that the Agency’s Clean Power Plan will “reduce economic growth, increase electricity costs, and result in almost 400,000 jobs lost over the next 15 years”. 
McCarthy: “That is exactly opposite of what we believe will happen based on our independent analysis.”

CONGRESSMAN LAMAR SMITH: “The non-partisan Energy Information Administration at the Department of Energy has found that the Clean Power Plan will reduce economic growth, increase electricity costs, and result in almost 400,000 jobs lost over the next 15 years; and all this is with very little impact on climate change itself. 
So why has the Obama Administration imposed this regulation on the American people?”[…]

CONGRESSMAN SMITH: “Have you read their report on the Clean Power Plan?”

ADMINISTRATOR GINA MCCARTHY: “In the past.”

CONGRESSMAN SMITH: “And, you disagree with that?”

ADMINISTRATOR MCCARTHY: “I don’t know what just you read, sir. I don’t know which one it is. So, I’m happy to take a look.”

CONGRESSMAN SMITH: “Well, again, reduce economic growth, increase electricity cost and cost 400,000 jobs over the next 15 years.”

ADMINISTRATOR GINA MCCARTHY: “That is exactly opposite of what we believe will happen based on our independent analysis.”

CONGRESSMAN SMITH: “It’s nice to have the Administration at war with itself.”

Watch: Eric Bolling slams Democrats for blaming their election loss on ‘sexism’ and ‘racism’ – TheBlaze

Watch: Eric Bolling slams Democrats for blaming their election loss on ‘sexism’ and ‘racism’ – TheBlaze:

"He added that Clinton had many clear advantages over Trump including money, polls, the media and the electoral map, but Trump was able to still come away with a decisive victory, including winning many of the counties and states that President Barack Obama won in 2008 and 2012.

But there was one message of Clinton’s that did resonate with voters, Bolling contended: when she called half of Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables.”

“That comment hit home, but to the wrong group."

5 Reasons Barack Obama Will Be Viewed As One Of The Worst Presidents of All Time

5 Reasons Barack Obama Will Be Viewed As One Of The Worst Presidents of All Time - John Hawkins:
"Compiling a list of reasons why Barack Obama is a terrible president seems like a project for a book rather than a column.
However, when we start looking at the catastrophic mistakes he’s made that may reverberate for years to come, it’s clear that he’s been a disaster for America on a scale that few other Presidents can match. Just look at his record.
1) Nearly Doubling The National Debt... 
2) Unleashing The Genie From The Nuclear Weapons Bottle In The Middle East... 
3) Facilitating Illegal Immigration... 
4) Encouraging Racial Polarization...
5) Losing A War We Had Already Won In Iraq..."
Read the entire article.

Laughing At Liberals As They Lose Their Minds

Laughing At Liberals As They Lose Their Minds - Kurt Schlichter:
"I reached peak Twitter this week when I was sucked into a tweet battle with a liberal dwarf.
True story.
Donald Trump’s victory had the militant munchkin fuming.
I have to admit that I was a little short with her myself.
But I should be smiling – we conservatives should all be smiling – because everything is going our way.
For heaven’s sake, our next Secretary of Defense is going to be nicknamed “Mad Dog.” 
We just spent eight years being ruled by people who would prefer it be someone nicknamed “Hugs N’ Stuff.”
The liberals are truly going nuts, and it’s beautiful.
They recently resurrected Nancy Pelosi for another glorious term winnowing away the House Democrat caucus.
Pretty soon it’s just going to be her and some guy representing Berkeley who they recruited while he was shouting “Workers of the world unite!” at bored coeds on Telegraph Avenue.
You know, if you want to reach out to the kind of hard-working, salt-of-the-earth, normal Americans who voted for the black guy then allegedly refused to vote for the woman because they are racist, you totally want an ancient, rich, snooty, San Francisco leftist and Botox after-picture like the Nanster.
The only way you could further alienate these alienated voters is, I don’t know, making your DNC chairman some radical leftist, urban black Muslim who hates guns, loves Farrakhan and who parties with Middle Eastern scumbags who issue fatwas to kill those voters’ soldier sons and daughters.
...Yes, we are living in wonderful times. 
Democrats are out of power, the media has been neutered – hell, it could play Ken – and the liberal cultural institutions are talking themselves into ritual suicide.
Now, all I have to do to bring it full circle is to get back on Twitter and get caught up in a spat with a socialist gnome or some transitioning elf."

Lunch video-----The BEST compilation of people saying #Trump will not be President

Noon-toon

Mike Rowe responds to critical fan: Our American flag is more than a ‘mere symbol’ – TheBlaze

Mike Rowe responds to critical fan: Our American flag is more than a ‘mere symbol’ – TheBlaze:

"“The thing about ‘mere symbols’ Susanne, is that they represent ‘mere ideas,’ and ‘mere ideas’ are the backbone of ‘mere humanity.’ In the case of the flag, we’re talking about ideas that are wrapped into the Constitution – a document that separates us from every other country on the planet,” Rowe added.

Those ideas, Rowe wrote, are the reason people “fight and die” and have many of the rights Americans get to enjoy, like free speech, carry guns and desecrate symbols that represent those freedoms."

Trump is FDR with the fireside tweet

Trump is FDR with the fireside tweet: Glenn Reynolds
"Democrats think caring means a government program. 
Trump thinks caring is getting to keep your job, just as he promised.
President Clinton said, “I feel your pain.”
President Franklin Roosevelt had "fireside chats.”
And now President-elect Donald Trump is reaching out to forgotten Americans with a message that he cares about their problems, and wants to help.
This could be the Democrats’ worst nightmare.
As Walter Russell Mead notes in The American Interest, it’s an old style of politicking that more recent politicos seem to have forgotten. 
Trump’s Carrier event saved only a tiny fraction of jobs that are being lost around the country, and it might not make much difference in the long run, but that wasn’t the point.
The point was “that the people at the top are aware of the problems of the people at the bottom," Mead writes.
"It’s smart governance, but it’s something that the technocratic progressive mind tends to undervalue.”
...Trump, by contrast, promised to save Carrier jobs during the campaign and then, even though Obama mocked him for it at the PBS town hall (“What are you going to do? ... What magic wand do you have?”) 
Trump then went ahead and delivered.
A conspicuously kept campaign promise that benefits the little guy sends a signal of caring that talk of macroeconomics does not.
FDR knew this.
His New Deal economic policies were mostly snake oil — according to a study by UCLA economists, they actually prolonged the Great Depression by seven years.
But FDR made people feel like he cared, even though he was a rich man from New York who had never been poor himself.
Now another rich man from New York seems to be repeating the formula. 
FDR gave the Democrats two decades of political dominance.
Today’s Democrats should be worrying that Trump could do the same for the Republican Party."

Wind turbines generating regret; $100,000 turbines to create $1.50 in electricity monthly

Wind turbines generating regret; $100,000 turbines to create $1.50 in electricity monthly - Peninsula Daily News:
PORT ANGELES — Three windmill-like turbines loom motionless over the city of Port Angeles’ new Waterfront Park.
The $107,516 spires stand immobile more than two months after they were erected and more than a year after the city council approved them.
Once they are working to generate electricity, they will produce so little power — $1.50 worth of electricity a month in savings — that at least one council member is regretting her decision to purchase them.
...“By implementing the latest in wind energy technology, the city would set a trend in alternative energy innovation that sets a positive example and speaks to the city wanting to be part of state-of-the-art alternative energy technology.
“Collectively the park is intended to inspire community pride, enjoyment, and a vibrancy that for many years Port Angeles had been without.”
The park was mostly grant-funded, West added.

End of the EU?-----Angela Merkel: False Prophet of Europe

Angela Merkel: False Prophet of Europe:

• With his initiative for tighter gun laws, to prevent weapons getting into "the wrong hands," Justice Minister Maas does not mean to target the Islamists who pose an existential threat to Germany, but an obscure German group called the "Reichsbürger."
• As the German newspaper Bild describes the law proposed by Maas, "a 13-year-old child bride would have to testify against her husband, saying that her well-being as a child is under threat. If neither the child nor the Child Welfare Service lodges a complaint, for all practical purposes the marriage would be declared legitimate." This law clearly does not take into account the possibility of private coercion against a child, let alone the blinding likelihood of outright threats.
• Justice Minister Maas evidently cares more about "gender image" than he cares about truly oppressed women and vulnerable children. In a recently drafted new law by his ministry, Mass refused to ban child marriage.
• With both France and Germany going to polls next year, there is the possibility of a democratic, peaceful "European Spring."

5 Reasons Barack Obama Will Be Viewed As One Of The Worst Presidents of All Time - John Hawkins

5 Reasons Barack Obama Will Be Viewed As One Of The Worst Presidents of All Time - John Hawkins:

"Compiling a list of reasons why Barack Obama is a terrible president seems like a project for a book rather than a column. However, when we start looking at the catastrophic mistakes he’s made that may reverberate for years to come, it’s clear that he’s been a disaster for America on a scale that few other Presidents can match. Just look at his record."

HA! Dick Cheney To CNN Reporter: Trump Took Us To Point Where We Don't Need You Guys Anymore (VIDEO)

HA! Dick Cheney To CNN Reporter: Trump Took Us To Point Where We Don't Need You Guys Anymore (VIDEO):
"Vice President Dick Cheney landed a major zinger on a CNN reporter this weekend. He was at an event with Obama’s former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. They were talking with CNN reporter Barbara Starr about national security and foreign policy.

Cheney had a few really funny lines but the one about the press was hysterical.

Here;s a transcript via Real Clear Politics:

CHENEY: "I think he needs to be careful but he’ll learn as he goes along. I think he is putting some brains and good people with him. I am a big fan of Mike Pence. I know Mike well from his 12 years in the House and I think he’s a great choice as Vice President. He’s going to play a major role. I think Mr. Trump is taking very, very seriously the job that he has gotten now. Staffing up the administration. I think one of the reasons people get so concerned about the tweets is it is sort of a way around the press. He doesn’t have to rely upon, uh, rely upon — this is the modern era, modern technology. He’s at the point where we don’t need you guys anymore. [Laughter] CHENEY: I apologize.

This video is cued to start at the exact right moment, so just push play:

AM Fruitcake

History for December 5

History for December 5 - On-This-Day.com:
Martin Van Buren (U.S.) 1782, George Armstrong Custer 1839, Walt Elias Disney 1901 - Disney movies, music and books 


Otto Preminger 1906, Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) 1932, Jim Messina 1947 - Musician (Buffalo Springfield), Margaret Cho 1968 


1776 - In Williamsburg, VA, at the College of William and Mary the first scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta Kappa, was organized.


1797 - Napoleon Bonaparte arrived in Paris to command forces for the invasion of England.
1812 - Napoleon Bonaparte left his army as they were retreating from Russia.


1848 - U.S. President Polk triggered the Gold Rush of '49 by confirming the fact that gold had been discovered in California.


1876 - The Stillson wrench was patented by D.C. Stillson. The device was the first practical pipe wrench.


1904 - The Russian fleet was destroyed by the Japanese at Port Arthur, during the Russo-Japanese War.


1932 - German physicist Albert Einstein was granted a visa making it possible for him to travel to the U.S.


1945 - The so-called "Lost Squadron" disappeared. The five U.S. Navy Avenger bombers carrying 14 Navy flyers began a training mission at the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station. They were never heard from again.


1951 - The first push button-controlled garage opened in Washington, DC.

Bowe Bergdahl wants a pardon — just not from Trump – TheBlaze

Bowe Bergdahl wants a pardon — just not from Trump – TheBlaze:

"Disgraced Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has written a letter to President Barack Obama pleading with him for a pardon before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Bergdahl allegedly deserted his Army outpost in Afghanistan in 2009 and was taken prisoner, and held in captivity for 5 years, by the Taliban. There was much debate about Bergdahl’s intentions in allegedly deserting when Obama made a prisoner swap for his release in 2014."

Liberal Doesn't Know Difference of ILLEGAL and LEGAL Immigrants

Liberal Doesn't Know Difference of ILLEGAL and LEGAL Immigrants
"Our friend Lauren Southern tweeted this. 
A Trump-supporter tried debating a liberal (upset over a “Make America Great Again Hat”) over the differences between “immigrants” and “illegal immigrants.” 
Brace yourself for the LOLs. 
Wrap your ribs carefully.

Because the liberal wasn’t understanding the differences.
So she stole his hat…"

 Follow

Lauren Southern 

✔@Lauren_Southern

Trump supporter has his hat stolen after crazy chick can't differentiate between legal and illegal immigrants.

5:25 AM - 15 Sep 2016

 
•  1,6861,686 Retweets
 
•  2,8752,875 likes

"It’s remarkable, because while older liberals lie, saying there’s no difference between illegal and legal immigration (even though they do know the difference), their Millennial padawans really don’t know the difference. 
Meaning the mind tricks Democrats have pulled? 
Totally worked. 
These are not the immigrants we’re talking about.

I weep for America sometimes. 
When I’m not laughing about how stupid some liberals are. 
Most liberals, I mean. 
Also, bet your MAGA hat that this dunderhead and all her dunderhead friends are voting. Seems the more obviously stupid, the more one is able to find a voting booth..." 

HARVARD PUTS MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY TEAM ON ATHLETIC PROBATION

News from The Associated Press:
"BOSTON (AP) -- Harvard University has placed its men's cross country team on athletic probation after school lawyers found that the 2014 team made "crude and sexualized" documents about the women's cross country team.
Harvard Athletic Director Robert Scalise sent an email to team members Friday night.
He says no problems were found with the current team and they've been truthful and forthright about shortcomings in the team's culture.
Probation means the runners' behavior will be monitored.
Scalise had asked for an investigation after The Harvard Crimson student newspaper reported that the men's team produced yearly spreadsheets about the women's team, sometimes rating appearances and making lewd comments.
Harvard canceled its men's soccer season this fall after finding that soccer players created a similar document with sexually explicit comments about women's soccer players."

It’s a new record: Americans not participating in the labor force nears 100 million – TheBlaze

It’s a new record: Americans not participating in the labor force nears 100 million – TheBlaze:

"The number of eligible Americans not participating in the labor force grew to more than 95 million in November, according to statistics released by the Bureau of Labor.

The unfortunate number is a new record.

November saw an increase of 446,000 Americans, according to the statistics, making the overall number now 95,055,000. "

Stanford Study Reveals California Pensions Underfunded By $1 Trillion Or $93k Per Household

Stanford Study Reveals California Pensions Underfunded By $1 Trillion Or $93k Per Household | Zero Hedge:
"...revealed some fairly startling realities about California's public pension underfunding levels.  
After averaging $77,700 per household in 2014, the amount of public pension underfunding for the state of California jumped to a staggering $92,748 per household in 2015.  
But don't worry, we're sure pension managers can grow their way out of the problem...hedge fund returns have been stellar recently, right?

...Oddly enough, California isn't even the worst off when it comes to pension debt as Alaska leads the pack with just over $110,000 per household.
Of course, at this point the question isn't "if" these ponzi schemes will blow up but rather which one will go first?  
We have our money on Dallas Police and Fire..."

Comey’s FBI Needs to Investigate Violent Democratic Tantrums

Comey’s FBI Needs to Investigate Violent Democratic Tantrums | Observer:
"It’s time for the FBI to conduct a detailed investigation into the violence and political thuggery that continue to mar the presidential election’s aftermath. 
A thorough probe of the protests—to include possible ties to organizations demanding vote recounts—will give the Bureau’s integrity-challenged director, James Comey, a chance to sandblast his sullied badge.
Director Comey must also include “elector intimidation” on his post-election investigation list. Reports that members of the Electoral College are being harassed and threatened by angry, vicious (and likely Democratic Party) malcontents require Comey’s quick and systematic attention.
Michael Banerian, one of Michigan’s 16 electors, told CNN:
“Obviously, this election cycle was pretty divisive. Unfortunately it’s bled over into the weeks following the election and I have been inundated with death threats, death wishes, generally angry messages trying to get me to change my vote to Hillary Clinton or another person, and unfortunately, it’s gotten a little out of control.”
A little out of control?
What an understatement.
Let me put it to  you straight and personal, Jim. Identifying electors and then attempting to intimidate them into switching their votes is an ipso facto effort to overturn a national election.
...Which leads to a question a competent FBI Director would already have his agents asking:
Is this elector threat scheme a coordinated operation?
Which takes us back to the violent protests and political thuggery.
Let me introduce you to two vicious Democratic Party operatives FBI agents should have quizzed and collared two months ago: Robert Creamer and The Hideous Scott Foval.
These two creeps starred in Project Veritas’ video investigation of violent incitement during the political campaign.
Note this column called Creamer a political terrorist.
The charge is legitimate. “Bottles and baseball bats are not Al Qaeda’s high explosives—but they incite fear and when they crack heads they cause casualties. People bleed. Street thuggery as an arm of politics is violent, criminalized politics on an ugly downward slope to much worse, the worse including lynchings and pogroms. If you don’t think street thuggery is terror then consider Kristalnacht.”...
Read on.
Someone has to investigate these many outrages!

Lunch video-----HILLARYS FINAL DISGRACE

Noon-toon

Report: Jill Stein drops election recount effort in Pennsylvania – TheBlaze

Report: Jill Stein drops election recount effort in Pennsylvania – TheBlaze:

"Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein dropped her statewide recount effort in Pennsylvania late Saturday afternoon, according to Philly.com.

More from Philly.com:"

Praise the gay lifestyle or be PUNISHED!!-----BuzzFeed’s Attack on Chip and Joanna Gaines Backfires

BuzzFeed’s Attack on Chip and Joanna Gaines Backfires
"Bullying Christians may be a favorite strategy of the left—but it’s not necessarily an effective one. 
Chip and Joanna Gaines of HGTV’s popular show “Fixer Upper” may be sending that message without ever opening their mouths.

In what can only be described as a politically motivated witch hunt, BuzzFeed posted a non-story about how the fan favorites attend a church where it’s apparently news that the pastor preaches straight out of the Bible.
In her hit piece (disguised as journalism), author Kate Aurthur implies that Chip and Joanna may be hateful people for attending a church that has the nerve to believe what Scripture says:

So are the Gaineses against same-sex marriage? And would they ever feature a same-sex couple on the show, as have HGTV’s ‘House Hunters’ and ‘Property Brothers?’ Emails to Brock Murphy, the public relations director at their company, Magnolia, were not returned.

Not surprisingly, Aurthur’s piece got instant attention—not much of it good. BuzzFeed readers are angry that the site is trying to destroy a couple that many consider the best duo on HGTV. 
Even The Washington Post, hardly an ally of Christian conservatives, piled on, posting an op-ed from gay columnist Brandon Ambrosino called “BuzzFeed’s Hit Piece on Chip and Joanna Gaines Is Dangerous.” 
In it, he talks about the important message of the election, which is that “gotcha” stories like this only reinforce people’s negative opinion of the press.

[This story] validates everything that President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters have been saying about the media: that some journalists—specifically younger ones at popular digital publications—will tell stories in certain deceitful, manipulative ways to take down conservatives. (And really, I can’t for the life of me imagine any other intention of the Gaines story.) … The old strategy of journalists shaming ‘hicks’ is not going to work anymore…

As for Chip and Joanna, most people agree with Ambrosino, who argues, “I do not think these conservatives should be shamed or mocked. I do not think they should be fired. And I certainly do not think they should be the butt of a popular BuzzFeed article.”
...Also, to hear from Chip and Joanna themselves, click on the video below. I think it will help a lot of people know not only them, but their hearts better.