History for December 20

History for December 20 - On-This-Day.com:
Samuel Mudd 1833 - Physician that set John Wilkes Booth's leg after the assissination of President Lincoln, Harvey Firestone 1868 - Founder Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Walter Adams 1876 - Astronomer



Max Lerner 1902, George Roy Hill 1922 - Director, Uri Geller 1946


1606 - The "Susan Constant," "Godspeed" and "Discovery" set sail from London. Their landing at Jamestown, VA, was the start of the first permanent English settlement in America.


1699 - Peter the Great ordered that the Russian New Year be changed from September 1 to January 1.


1860 - South Carolina became the first state to secede from the American Union.


1880 - New York's Broadway became known as the "Great White Way" when it was lighted by electricity.


1892 - Alexander T. Brown and George Stillman patented the pneumatic tire.


1946 - The Frank Capra film "It's A Wonderful Life" had a preview showing for charity at New York City's Globe Theatre, a day before its "official" world premiere. James Stewart and Donna Reed star in the film.


1989 - General Noriega, Panama's former dictator, was overthrown by a United States invasion force invited by the new civilian government. The project was known as Operation Just Cause.


1990 - The world's first website and server go live at CERN. The first website was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.

None of the Hollywood celebrities who vowed to leave American if Trump won have left the U.S. – TheBlaze

None of the Hollywood celebrities who vowed to leave American if Trump won have left the U.S. – TheBlaze:

"None of the celebrities who vowed to move out of the United State if Donald Trump became president have followed through on their promise to do so.

According to Heat Street, in the nearly six weeks following President-elect Donald Trump’s Election Day victory, only 28 Americans have applied for “Trump related refugee status” to Canada — with none of them appearing to be celebrities.

More from Heat Street:"

The Video That Just May Sink Hillary's Ship... »

The Video That Just May Sink Hillary's Ship... » Louder With Crowder:
"...But this ad, is without a doubt, the most effective anti-campaign ad that I’ve ever seen.
And it shows Conservatives the blueprint on how to beat Hillary.
Attack the dishonesty.
I’ve been saying this for years.
Hillary Clinton is more than a slimy politician, she’s a compulsive liar.
She lies about big things, but more importantly, she lies about little things when she thinks that nobody’s watching. 
For no reason!
Ignore the “sexism” claims from the left, speak freely, and focus on this.
Watch below.
It’s a must."

Data Shows Fake News Sites Have Tiny Audience

Data Shows Fake News Sites Have Tiny Audience | The Daily Caller
"Despite a media blitz portraying fake news sites as having a real impact in national politics — and even capable of affecting the outcome of a presidential election — fake news sites struggle to reach any sort of real audience.
Fake news site DenverGuardian.com, subject of coverage from the New York Times and the Washington Post, is ranked 91,688 in web traffic in the U.S., according to web analytics firm Alexa. To put that number in perspective: the site supposedly impacting the national political scene is more than 84,000 slots behind the website for a Virginia community college.
On Sunday, the New York Times devoted front-page coverage to a site called the “Patriot News Agency.” 
The Times’ story emphasized the fact that “operators of Patriot News had an explicitly partisan motivation: getting Mr. Trump elected.” (RELATED: NYT Devotes Front-Page Coverage To Irrelevant Fake News Site)
But “Patriot News Agency” is even less popular than the “Denver Guardian,” ranking in at 184,898 in the country, according to Alexa.
The site’s Facebook page has 113 total likes at this time.
Fake news site “MSNBC.com.co,” whose name meant to fool readers into confusing it with liberal network MSNBC, received mentions from the Washington Post and liberal website Vox.com, among others.
But “MSNBC.com.co” reaches a tiny audience, according to Alexa’s data, which has the site ranked 549,714 in the United States.
The minuscule reach of fake news sites hasn’t kept the Times from running headlines like “As Fake News Spreads Lies, More Readers Shrug At The Truth” or “Media’s Next Challenge: Overcoming The Threat Of Fake News.”
...In response to public pressure to do something about “fake news,” Facebook has appointed four “fact-check” organizations to label stories deemed “fake” as illegitimate.
One of Facebook’s newly-appointed fact-checkers, the mythbusting website Snopes, almost exclusively employs leftists and has a history of itself getting the facts wrong while trying to “fact-check” conservative news stories.

Report: One of Facebook’s new ‘fact checkers’ almost exclusively employs liberals – TheBlaze

Report: One of Facebook’s new ‘fact checkers’ almost exclusively employs liberals – TheBlaze:

"Snopes.com, which will be one of Facebook’s U.S.-based “fact checkers,” employs almost exclusively liberals, according to a report.

From the Daily Caller:
Almost all of the writers churning out fact checks for Snopes have a liberal background, and many of them have expressed contempt for Republican voters. The Daily Caller could not identify a single Snopes fact-checker who comes from a conservative background. Snopes did not respond to a list of questions from TheDC regarding the site’s ideological leaning."

8-Year-Old Girl Carries Out Suicide Bombing in Damascus

8-Year-Old Girl Carries Out Suicide Bombing in Damascus
"The girl was strapped with a homemade bomb.
When she entered a police station, the bomb was detonated by remote control.
An eight-year-old girl carried out a suicide bombing attack at a Damascus police station, according to SANA (the Syrian Arab News Agency) and as reported by RT.
The agency cited a source in the Damascus Police Command that reported, “Terrorists sent an eight-year-old girl with a small homemade bomb to a police station in the Midan neighborhood.
When she entered the building, militants activated the explosive device with a remote control, the child died at the scene, one police officer suffered light injuries.”
The bombing has not been claimed by any group as yet. The girl reportedly came to the police station and said she was lost.
The blast killed her and lightly injured one policeman."

The Liberal Ideological Complex

The Liberal Ideological Complex | The Weekly Standard:
".  .  . vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil." (Winston Churchill)
In 1961 President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the danger of a military-industrial complex.
This powerful public-private collaboration, he said, had the potential to exert "unwarranted influence" over America's democratic processes.
A half-century later, there are still those on the left who cling to this fear.
But it seems that Eisenhower's warning had its intended effect—and perhaps then some.
In 1961 defense spending constituted 9.1 percent of the gross domestic product, and there were 2,483,000 uniformed military personnel.
Today, defense spending is 3.2 percent of GDP and 1,390,000 men and women serve in the uniformed military.
If this behemoth is threatening America's democratic processes, it is not doing so very successfully.
There is, however, another interlocking public-private collaboration that is at once more insidious, more powerful, and more straightforwardly partisan: the liberal ideological complex. 

• We do not always see this collaboration so clearly, because we tend to view each aspect of it as unique and not part of a larger picture. 
• We look, for example, at public sector unions as a labor issue. 
• We look at funding for Planned Parenthood through the lens of abortion policy. 
• We look at EPA regulations and grants in terms of global warming and job destruction. 
• And so on and so forth, down to the smallest, most narrowly tailored grant awards of the federal government.

Yet in each of these cases, the complex functions in essentially the same way.
Federal funds are provided for organizations that carry out liberal policies.
In turn, these groups employ like-minded staff and both the leadership and the staff of these groups contribute money, time, and services to the politicians who favor this use of federal funds.
This creates a vicious circle in which campaign funds are indirectly skimmed off the top of taxpayer-funded organizations, all in the service of liberal ideology..."

Lunch video-----Dennis Miller: Nancy Pelosi is Bat Shit Crazy

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Fox’s Judge Jeanine Pirro rips Michelle Obama: ‘Americans rejected you and everything you stand for’ – TheBlaze

Fox’s Judge Jeanine Pirro rips Michelle Obama: ‘Americans rejected you and everything you stand for’ – TheBlaze:


"Obama said during a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey that under her husband, President Barack Obama, the country faced a momentum of hope following his election in 2008 and 2012, but now that hope has run out.

“Since when does hope rise and fall with you and Barack in the White House?” Pirro questioned.

“This from a woman who, in 2008 at age 44, said ‘for the first time I’m proud of my country,'” Pirro added. “[Now] eight years later you’re out of hope?”"

Expert: Cash Transferred by Obama Admin to Tehran Led to Expansion of Iranian Military Budget by 39 Percent

Expert: Cash Transferred by Obama Admin to Tehran Led to Expansion of Iranian Military Budget by 39 Percent | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com:
"The controversial transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars in cash to Tehran by the Obama administration a few months ago is likely being used to expand Iran’s defense budget, according to an analysis by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
According to former senior MEMRI analyst Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli, though “money is fungible,” and it cannot be established that the $1.7 billion (originally reported as $400 million) delivered in two tranches to the Islamic Republic in exchange for the release of American hostages has gone directly to Iran’s various military branches and operations,
...at a minimum, enabled the government to release an equal amount of money for defense purposes. It is noteworthy that the increase in the proposed defense budget for 2017 is approximately equal to the amount transferred by the US.
...Raphaeli wrote that since mid-2013, when Hassan Rouhani succeeded Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president, the regime’s allocations to the military have continuously grown.
But ahead of the next fiscal year (March 2017-March 2018), the government submitted a draft budget that sees a sharp increase of 39 percent – amounting to a total of $10.3 billion – for defense, including a big increase in the budget of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)...

No outrage from the media here-----Detroit's election woes: 782 more votes than voters

Detroit's election woes: 782 more votes than voters:
"Another 382 Detroiters were listed as voting but their ballots never showed up in the count.
Whether the result of machine malfunction, human error or even fraud, the unexplained voting discrepancies in Detroit last month were not sizable enough to affect the outcome in Michigan of the presidential election, according to a new Free Press analysis of voting precinct records.
In 248 precincts, there were a total of 782 more votes tabulated by voting machines than the number of voters listed as picking up ballots in the precincts’ poll books. 
...The Free Press analysis found there were 248 precincts in Detroit where voting machines tabulated more Election Day votes than people who were counted as checking in to vote.
The affected precincts represent 37% of the city's 662 precincts..."

Why we need the Electoral College

Why we need the Electoral College - Personal Liberty®:
"...The Founding Fathers feared two things above all else: a democracy and an overly powerful executive. 
The Electoral College was designed to prevent both. 
For a good history of the Electoral College and its evolution over the years, read “Origins of the Electoral College,” by Randall G. Holcombe.
...The election process has drifted far from where the Founders intended.
Still, the Electoral College is essential for preventing the U.S. from becoming a democracy with the president elected by popular vote.
Democracies are mob rule or groupism, as I explained in “How the anti-Trump crowd clamors for its own slavery.”
Democracy is anathema to individual liberty. Democracy is tyranny with a pretty face.
Without the Electoral College a presidential candidate would merely have to win a big majority of the population in the five or six of the most populace states to carry the election – say California, New York, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. 
As it is, Democrats hold a decisive advantage in the Electoral College math because they advocate for socialism, minorities love socialism, and minorities tend to congregate in the urban areas.
As a result, Democrats can win only about 20-30 percent of the counties of the America and still win the election, even with the Electoral College.
Look at the map* below.
It shows the counties won by Hillary Clinton (blue) and Donald Trump (red)."

BREAKING: Senate Delivers Epic, Veto-Proof Defense Bill to Obama

BREAKING: Senate Delivers Epic, Veto-Proof Defense Bill to Obama:

"According to Fox News, the Senate voted 92-7 on Thursday to pass the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, a spending bill of about $611 billion that will fund the military for fiscal year 2017.

The veto-proof bill, which has already passed the House by an extremely wide margin, will increase defense spending over the amount President Barack Obama had requested, halt the draw-down of active-duty Army troops, forestall planned base closings, prohibit the closure of the military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and give troops a long-awaited pay raise."

"Best #Election map yet

John Cardillo on Twitter: "Best #Election map yet. #MAGA https://t.co/1hV54jlwG9":

Best #Election map yet. #MAGA

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History for December 19

History for December 19 - On-This-Day.com:
William Parry 1790, Leonid Brezhnev (Russia) 1906, Edith Piaf 1915


David Susskind 1920, Cicely Tyson 1933, Al Kaline 1934


1732 - Benjamin Franklin began publishing "Poor Richard's Almanac."


1843 - Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was first published in England.


1957 - Meredith Wilson’s "The Music Man" opened at the Majestic Theatre in New York City. It ran for 1,375 shows.


1972 - Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.


1973 - Johnny Carson started a fake toilet-paper scare on the "Tonight Show."

 











1989 - U.S. troops invaded Panama to overthrow the regime of General Noriega.


1996 - The school board of Oakland, CA, voted to recognize Black English, also known as "ebonics." The board later reversed its stance.

1998 - U.S. President Bill Clinton was impeached on two charges of perjury and obstruction of justice by the U.S. House of Representatives.