History for April 4

History for April 4 - On-This-Day.com:
Dorothea Dix 1802, Linus Yale 1821 - Inventor (Yale Infallible Bank Lock and cylinder lock), Isoroku Yamamoto 1884 


Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) 1913 - Blues singer, guitarist ("Closet to You", "Honey Bee"), Anthony Perkins 1932 - Actor (Movies: "Psycho" series), Robert Downey, Jr. 1965 - Actor (Movie: "U.S. Marshals") 


1917 - The U.S. Senate voted 90-6 to enter World War I on the Allied side.


1932 - After five years of research, professor C.G. King, of the University of Pittsburgh, isolated vitamin C.


1945 - During World War II, U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany.


1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of 39.


1973 - In New York, the original World Trade Center twin towers opened. At the time they were the tallest building in the world.


1974 - Hank Aaron tied Babe Ruth's major league baseball home-run record with 714.


1975 - More than 130 people, most of them children, were killed when a U.S. Air Force transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashed just after takeoff from Saigon.


1991 - Pennsylvanian Senator John Heinz and six others were killed when a helicopter collided with Heinz's plane over a schoolyard in Merion, PA.

PETA Now Protesting Milk, Not Because of Farms, But Because of "White Supremacy" ⋆ The Constitution

PETA Now Protesting Milk, Not Because of Farms, But Because of "White Supremacy" ⋆ The Constitution:

"The group, who are known for saving an extremely meager percentage of the animals that they take in while euthanizing the rest, have staged bizarre protests in the name of animal rights for decades.  While animal cruelty is certainly no laughing matter, PETA’s publicity stunts are absolutely some of the most unbelievable nonsense ever to fall under the umbrella term of “activism”."

After North Korea attacks: An ominous Asian future imagined

After North Korea attacks: An ominous Asian future imagined:
"With the world's collective gaze — and most certainly U.S. surveillance satellites — fixed on North Korea's next potential nuclear test, it is past time to consider the horror that the so-called "hermit kingdom" could inflict on its neighbors if it actually went to war.
Thanks to one of the largest standing armies on the planet — with over 1.2 million men under arms and another 7.7 million in reserve — and with chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons carried by over 1,000 missiles, Pyongyang has the capability to kill millions of people and start a conflict that could quickly escalate into the next global catastrophe.
How might such a war begin?
Read on!

What happens when an upscale restaurant bans young children? « Hot Air

What happens when an upscale restaurant bans young children? « Hot Air:
"This seems to be a perennial argument in the food service industry but it never fails to attract my interest. 
The Washington Post picked up the story of an an upscale Italian restaurant in North Carolina called Caruso’s. 
They had run into a number of issues with parents bringing young and too often horribly behaved children into the eatery for dinner who then wound up annoying the rest of the clientele. 
As they tell the story, the straw which broke the camel’s back was a young girl with an i-Pad who was playing videos at full volume despite being asked to turn it down (or off) and the parents were completely failing to discipline her or resolve the situation. 
Shortly after that they imposed a ban on bringing children under the age of five into the establishment.
The typical howls of outrage from some parents began immediately, but there was another reaction as well.

The ban — conceived by the restaurant’s owner, Pasquale Caruso — has led to a dramatic increase in reservations, said Nunez, who said Caruso’s has seen a spike in diners, from about 50 per day to around 80.

“Banning children has always been a topic in the industry and every owner says, ‘I wish I could do it,’” he said. “Our owner has the full support of the staff. We work here to make a living, too, and we support our owner 100 percent.”

It’s hard to say whether child bans are officially a restaurant industry trend, but they’re no longer particularly unusual. Caruso’s — which describes itself as “traditional, classy, intimate” on its website — is the latest in a series of eateries to ban children or introduce measures to control them.

Good for them. 
Too often you see only one side of this debate in the press and it centers on the parents who are complaining and saying that families are being stigmatized or punished or what have you. 
...The fact that Caruso’s saw such a huge spike in reservations immediately after doing it should tell us all we need to know. 
There is absolutely a demand for this type of service and those willing to absorb the endless media abuse for doing it will probably be rewarded."

Democrats & Russian-Hacking Allegations -- Putin Is Smiling | National Review

Democrats & Russian-Hacking Allegations -- Putin Is Smiling | National Review:

"So now, there is just one very inconvenient problem for the “Russia hacked the election” narrative, the tireless media-Democrat harangue since November 8: Everything of substance that is known to the U.S. government about Russian meddling was already known in those pre-election weeks when Clinton and the Democrats were hailing the legitimacy of the process.

They’ve changed their tune not because the facts changed, but because they lost."

And he did it while wasting $9 Trillion!-----Obama was terrible for economic growth | New York Post

Obama was terrible for economic growth | New York Post:
"On Thursday we closed the book on the Obama economic “miracle” — and it’s a miracle we are not in a recession.
Last week the Commerce Department released its third revision for fourth-quarter 2016 gross domestic product.
The number came in at a paltry 2.1 percent, meaning that growth during President Obama’s final year in office — the end of an “Error of Hope” — landed with a big thud at just 1.6 percent.

That low-water mark puts the Obama presidency in last place among all the post-World War II presidents when it comes to economic growth.
There have been 13 post-WWII presidents, beginning with Harry Truman, who had the disadvantage of beginning in the aftermath of war in 1946, during which the economy contracted 11.6 percent — four times the contraction any other negative year since — and even he bested Obama’s economic record!
Truman, a moderate Democrat, also posted the two best years of growth on record: 1950 at 8.7 percent and 1951 at 8 percent, and there was no zero percent interest rate to gin up the economy back then.

Thirteenth of 13 presidents is no mild distinction. Obama had eight full years to enact a growth policy, while many of his predecessors never had two complete terms.
George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter had just four years each, Gerald Ford had less than three years and Richard Nixon had five.
I’m not the least bit surprised the Obama economy was a failure. I’ve chronicled it for more than seven years in this column.
Here are the average growth rates for each president:

• Johnson (1964-68), 5.3 percent 
• Kennedy (1961-63), 4.3 percent 
• Clinton (1993-2000), 3.9 percent 
• Reagan (1981-88), 3.5 percent 
• Carter (1977-80), 3.3 percent 
• Eisenhower (1953-60), 3 percent 
• Nixon (1969-74), 2.8 percent 
• Ford (1975-76), 2.6 percent 
• G.H.W. Bush (1989-92), 2.3 percent 
• G.W. Bush (2001-08), 2.1 percent 
• Truman (1946-52), 1.7 percent 
• Obama (2009-16), 1.6 percent

With a grangparent like this...-----Grandfather of Teen Killed in Oklahoma Burglary Says Homeowner's AR15 Made for 'Unfair' Fight

Grandfather of Teen Killed in Oklahoma Burglary Says Homeowner's AR15 Made for 'Unfair' Fight:

"Three teen suspects were shot and killed during an attempted home burglary in Oklahoma last week.

Now the grandfather of one of the suspects says the “fight” was “unfair” — because the homeowner's son killed the trio with an AR-15.

As reported by KTUL in Tulsa, Leroy Schumacher, grandfather of 17-year-old Jacob Redfearn, said the teenagers behaved “stupidly,” but they didn't deserve to die for it.

“What these three boys did was stupid. They knew they could be punished for it. But they did not deserve to die.

Brass knuckles against an AR-15? C'mon. Who was afraid for their life?"

Sheriff's deputies believe the shooting was in self-defense — Schumacher disagrees.

“There's got to be a limit to that [self defense] law. He shot all three of them. There was no need for that...”

Noon-toon

The Nuclear Option: Obama Silent over Trump Tower Wiretaps - Breitbart

The Nuclear Option: Obama Silent over Trump Tower Wiretaps - Breitbart:

"What is with this curious — now deafening — silence from former President Barack Obama on these charges that his administration spied on a political opponent at the very height of a presidential campaign?"

BREAKING=> KREMLIN CONNECTION CONFIRMED! Podesta Company Paid One Billion Rubles from Russian Govt.

BREAKING- KREMLIN CONNECTION CONFIRMED! 
Podesta Company Paid One Billion Rubles from Russian Govt.:

FINALLY — INVESTIGATORS UNCOVER KREMLIN CONNECTION IN 2016 US ELECTION!

Confirmed—The Putin Government gave John Podesta 35 millions dollars (1 billion rubles) while he advised Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Investigative reporter and author Peter Schweizer went on FOX and Friends to discuss Kremlin influence on US politics — and how the Clinton camp was in bed with the Putin regime.

Peter Schweizer: In 2011 John Podesta joined the board of this very small energy company called Joule Energy based out of Massachusetts. About two months after he joins the board a Russian entity called RUSNANO puts a billion rubles, which is about $35 million, into John Podesta’s company. Now, what is RUSNANO? RUSNANO is not a private company, Steve. It is a fund directly funded by the Kremlin. In fact the Russian finance minister called RUSNANO “Putin’s Child.” So you have the Russian government investing in one of John Podesta’s business in 2011 while he is an adviser to Hillary Clinton at the State Department.

Steve Doocy: OK. Does anybody in the Trump circle rise to the level that there is this kind of money involved?

Peter Schweizer: No.

And, once again, the frenzy on the left is all a disguise to hide their own rampant corruption.

Via FOX and Friends

Must read of the day!-----Russia? No, the Pony in the Manure Is the Corruption of our Intelligence Officials

Articles: Russia? No, the Pony in the Manure Is the Corruption of our Intelligence Officials
"There’s so much in print and online about the House and Senate intelligence committees and Russian “collusion” with Trump that I can’t blame people with real lives to lead who just throw their hands up and garden or go hiking. 
Some will assume there’s got to be a pony in there somewhere, as Ronald Reagan used to joke about the kid digging through manure. 
I think there is, but it isn’t that Russia corrupted the 2016 election, it’s that Obama and his closest aides, including some at the highest level in the intelligence community, illegally intercepted one or more Republican candidates’ communications before the election, circulated them widely to their cohorts and then tried to use this information to defeat and later to hamstring Trump when Hillary -- to their surprise -- lost the election.

I also suspect that the attacks on Flynn have nothing to do with his Russian contacts which he disclosed, but, rather, to misdeeds respecting the Middle East, particularly Iran, the country he observed as Obama’s head of the DIA.

The Surveillance and “Unmasking” of Trump and his Associates 

We learned this week that surveillance of Trump began long before he was the Republican nominee, and that the names in the intercepted communications were “unmasked” -- that is, identified by name or context -- by someone high up in the intelligence community. 

In addition, citizens affiliated with Trump’s team who were unmasked were not associated with any intelligence about Russia or other foreign intelligence, sources confirmed. The initial unmasking led to other surveillance, which led to other private citizens being wrongly unmasked, sources said.

"Unmasking is not unprecedented, but unmasking for political purposes... specifically of Trump transition team members... is highly suspect and questionable,” an intelligence source told Fox News. “Opposition by some in the intelligence agencies who were very connected to the Obama and Clinton teams was strong. After Trump was elected, they decided they were going to ruin his presidency by picking them off one by one."

Nunes and Surveillance Reports

The best summation of this week’s distraction -- respecting chairman of the House intelligence committee, Devin Nunes -- is Victor Davis Hanson’s which I urge those of you interested to read in its entirety. 

First, the central question remains who leaked what classified information for what reasons; second, since when is it improper or even unwise for an apprehensive intelligence official to bring information of some importance to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee for external review -- in a climate of endemic distrust of all intelligence agencies?[snip] Nunes also said that the surveillance shown to him “was essentially a lot of information on the President-elect and his transition team and what they were doing.” Further, he suggested that the surveillance may have involved high-level Obama officials. When a reporter at Nunes’ second March 22 press conference asked, “Can you rule out the possibility that senior Obama-administration officials were involved in this?” Nunes replied, “No, we cannot.” Ipso facto these are startling disclosures of historical proportions -- if true, of an anti-constitutional magnitude comparable to Watergate. Given the stakes, we should expect hysteria to follow, and it has followed..."

Must read it all! 

Watch: Woman on a German Train Witnesses Dark Side of Syrian Refugees...

Watch: Woman on a German Train Witnesses Dark Side of Syrian Refugees...:
"Syrian “Migrant” crisis is, as we all know, not as simple as people fleeing war. 
It’s entirely possible the Syrians or “Syrians” who use Syrian passports to pass themselves off as Syrians, are invading Europe to conduct jihad. 
Or terrorism. If that makes me a racist, so be it. 
You know who else will be labeled a racist? 
This German woman who, fluent in Arabic, took a midnight train going anywhere. 
She heard the “migrants” say some abominable things. 
She saw them do disgusting things. 
Trigger warning: defecation and rape references abound. 
But you know, tolerance"

Transcript of the highlights:

They shouted various insults in my direction, they tried to take away my luggage. Since, like I said, I’m perfectly fluent in Arabic, I understood everything that they were saying. While I waited for my train, I saw what was happening in the station. People without shame, simply defecated right where they stood. The women shouted, they were beaten by their own kind, not by the police who didn’t even touch them. Children were screaming, there were huge piles of trash. They could not speak a single European language. They were noisy, shouting, and all they could think to do in the heat of the moment was to grab the luggage of passerby and shout obscenities after them..."

Ninety percent of them were men between 18 and 45, completely healthy men who grabbed random children and fought their way forward, using the children as human shields..."

Read on! 

You ought to know!

U.S. Education Department Asked to Eliminate Lesson Plans on Islam

U.S. Education Department Asked to Eliminate Lesson Plans on Islam:

"The Christian Action Network (CAN) says the U.S Department of Education is funding an Islamic education program in America’s public schools, in which students in grades 5 through 12 are taught the Islamic way of life in a way that crosses the line from academics to indoctrination."

Queering Engineering At Purdue | The American Conservative

Queering Engineering At Purdue | The American Conservative
"Having all but ruined humanities education, the Social Justice Warriors now turn to the STEM fields. 
Purdue University has hired Donna Riley as its new head of its School of Engineering Education.  
Here’s an excerpt from Prof. Riley’s biography page at Smith College, where she taught for 13 years:

My scholarship currently focuses on applying liberative pedagogies in engineering education, leveraging best practices from women’s studies and ethnic studies to engage students in creating a democratic classroom that encourages all voices. In 2005 I received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to support this work, which includes developing, implementing, and assessing curricular and pedagogical innovations based on liberative pedagogies and student input at Smith, and understanding how students at Smith conceptualize their identities as engineers. I seek as an engineering educator to be part of a paradigm shift that these pedagogies demand, repositioning concerns about diversity in science and engineering from superficial measures of equity as headcounts, to addressing justice and the genuine engagement of all students as core educational challenges....

And there you were, thinking that the hard sciences and engineering were immune to this kind of thing, because they are about numbers.

Anybody object to bringing cultural politics into the engineering classroom? Anybody think there’s something … off about using engineering courses to “de-center” Western civilization? Go ahead, I dare you to object. You and your white male science privilege!

Here’s the kind of thing Purdue engineering students can expect henceforth. 
It’s from the blog of one of Dr. Riley’s students at Smith, who writes approvingly:
Read on and fear for our country!

AM Fruitcake

History for April 3

History for April 3 - On-This-Day.com:
John Harrison 1693 - Carpenter, clockmaker, inventor of the marine chronometer, Washington Irving 1783 - Author ("Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"), Edward Everett Hale 1822
 

Doris Day (Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff) 1924 - Singer, actress, Marlon Brando 1924 - Actor ("The Godfather", "Apocalypse Now"), Wayne Newton 1942 - Singer


1860 - The first Pony Express riders left St. Joseph, MO and Sacramento, CA. The trip across country took about 10 days. The Pony Express only lasted about a year and a half.


1882 - The American outlaw Jesse James was shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward. There was later controversy over whether it was actually Jesse James that had been killed.


1910 - Alaska's Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in North America was climbed.


1936 - Richard Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and death of the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.


1948 - U.S. President Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan to revive war-torn Europe. It was $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.


1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "mountaintop" speech just 24 hours before he was assassinated.


1986 - The U.S. national debt hit $2 trillion.
ONLY $2 MILLION?

1996 - Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski was arrested. He pled guilty in January 1998 to five Unabomber attacks in exchange for a life sentence without chance for parole.

The HARD TRUTH About Cities Run By Democrats For Generations | The Federalist Papers

The HARD TRUTH About Cities Run By Democrats For Generations | The Federalist Papers:

"Those who support a “right” to access individual needs and services through government do not support liberty. Those who support a middle ground compromise between economic freedom and collectivism are just as guilty. These political platforms– which take monies from everyone’s labor in the desire to provide services for individual wants and needs has NOTHING to do with liberty and everything to do with collectivism."

Why isn't the media demanding this?-----Demand DNC Allow FBI to Examine Allegedly Hacked Servers, Now!

petition: Demand DNC Allow FBI to Examine Allegedly Hacked Servers, Now!:
"If Russia hacked DNC servers, why hasn't the DNC given these computer servers to the FBI for analysis?
According to The Hill "FBI never examined hacked DNC servers itself: report" and "no U.S. intelligence agency has performed its own forensics analysis on the hacked servers." http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/312767-fbi-never-examined-hacked-dnc-servers-report
According to CNN "DNC rebuffed request to examine computer servers" and "The Democratic National Committee "rebuffed" a request from the FBI to examine its computer services after it was allegedly hacked by Russia during the 2016 election."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/politics/fbi-russia-hacking-dnc-crowdstrike/
Since the NSA is only "moderately confident" and CIA has only "high confidence" in Russian hacking narrative, it's imperative DNC servers be analyzed by the FBI.
Currently, no government agency has looked at or conducted forensic tests on servers that are believed to be "evidence" of Russian hacking.
DNC Chairman Tom Perez and the DNC must give their "hacked" computer servers to the FBI for analysis.
Also, why did the DNC refuse the FBI's request to examine these servers?"

Imgur user shows map of every river basin in the US | Daily Mail Online

Imgur user shows map of every river basin in the US | Daily Mail Online
The veins of America: Stunning map shows every river basin in the US 

• The map shows the network of streams and rivers in the 48 contiguous states of the US
• The largest, shown in pink, reveals basins for the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers
• Other basins, including Pacific Northwest, Upper and Lower Colorado, and Great Lakes are shown
•