History for May 12

History for May 12 - On-This-Day.com:
Florence Nightingale 1820 - Nurse, contributed to modern nursing procedures, author, Mildred McAfee 1900 - Captain Mildred McAfee (Horton), first director of U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service), Katherine Hepburn 1907 - Actress ("Morning Glory", "On Golden Pond [1981]", "The Rainmaker")


Yogi Berra 1925 - Baseball player, manager, Tom Snyder 1936 - Journalist, television host, George Carlin 1937 - Comedian, actor


1847 - William Clayton invented the odometer.


1885 - In the Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebelled against the Canadian government.


1888 - Charles Sherrill of the Yale track team became the first runner to use the crouching start for a fast break in a foot race.


1926 - The airship Norge became the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.


1950 - The American Bowling Congress abolished its white males-only membership restriction after 34 years.


1957 - A.J. Foyt won his first auto racing victory in Kansas City, MO.


1975 - U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez was seized by Cambodian forces in international waters.


1978 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that they would no longer exclusively name hurricanes after women. 

Obama’s Former Defense Secretary: Yeah, We Lied To The Israelis That We’d Stop Iran From Going Nuclear | Daily Wire

Obama’s Former Defense Secretary: Yeah, We Lied To The Israelis That We’d Stop Iran From Going Nuclear | Daily Wire:

"Rhodes himself admits, “We created an echo chamber. They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say … In the absence of rational discourse, we are going to discourse the [expletive] out of this. We had test drives to know who was going to be able to carry our message effectively, and how to use outside groups like Ploughshares, the Iran Project and whomever else. So we knew the tactics that worked.”

Worse, Rhodes admits it didn’t really matter whether the “moderates” are moderate at all,

Millennials claim to want socialism, but do they even know what it is? Here are the facts – TheBlaze

Millennials claim to want socialism, but do they even know what it is? Here are the facts – TheBlaze:

"According to Gallup, 69% of millennials say that they’d be willing to vote for a socialist for president. Do millennials understand that socialism is anathema to the values of independence, entrepreneurship and ambition they so proudly tout? Allie Stuckey explains why socialism is NOT the route millennials want to go down."

The way we were-----Flying Legends 2014 - Men of Honor.

Half a Million Asylum Seekers on German Welfare Handouts

Half a Million Asylum Seekers on German Welfare Handouts:
"According to new statistics, over half a million asylum seekers now receive some kind of welfare benefit from the German state.
In neighbouring Austria, the migrant unemployment rate is now over 20 per cent.
The numbers come from the German Federal Agency for Employment (BA) are were announced earlier this week.
The statistics come as many still worry about the ability of the over one million migrants who came to Germany during the migrant crisis to integrate into the German job market, T-Online reports.
...The IAB claimed last December a mere three per cent of migrants who arrived in the country recently had managed to find work. 
The group said: “It would be an illusion to believe we will manage to find jobs for a decent proportion of refugees in well-paid industry jobs like car manufacturing...”"

The Bin Laden Raid: Tactical Brilliance, Strategic Dissonance - American Greatness

The Bin Laden Raid: Tactical Brilliance, Strategic Dissonance - American Greatness:
"...Following the raid, the Obama Administration was desperate to tout its foreign policy success in the run up to the 2012 Presidential election.
In the process of this incessant backslapping, critical sources and methods were revealed to the press.
Due to this, heroic Pakistanis who risked everything to ensure Bin Laden’s location was forwarded to the United States were inadvertently revealed to the vengeful Pakistani authorities. 
These brave souls now languish hopelessly in a horrific Pakistani prison.
The Obama Administration’s loose lips sent a signal to anyone seeking to help the United States: you will be exposed and possibly arrested or killed for your trouble.
...The Bin Laden Raid worsened America’s strategic position on all three counts. 
That is the true legacy of the Obama Administration’s Raid in Abbottabad.
We must never forget this sad fact.
And we must never lose sight of American strategic interests again.
The costs are too high."

10 Times Democrats Slammed James Comey, Called For His Firing - Katie Pavlich

10 Times Democrats Slammed James Comey, Called For His Firing - Katie Pavlich:

"A number of Democrats in Washington D.C. this morning are expressing outrage over President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey. But it wasn't long ago that many of them called Comey unfit for public office, said they lacked confidence in his ability to lead the Bureau and called for his firing.

1. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer"

Germany will become an Islamic State, says Merkel – and adds they’ll have to come to terms with it | JEWSNEWS

Germany will become an Islamic State, says Merkel – and adds they’ll have to come to terms with it | JEWSNEWS:
"Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germans have failed to grasp how Muslim immigration has transformed their country and will have to come to terms with more mosques than churches throughout the countryside, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily.
“Our country is going to carry on changing, and integration is also a task for the society taking up the task of dealing with immigrants,” Ms. Merkel told the daily newspaper.
“For years we’ve been deceiving ourselves about this. Mosques, for example, are going to be a more prominent part of our cities than they were before.”
Germany, with a population of 4-5 million Muslims, has been divided in recent weeks by a debate over remarks by the Bundesbank’s Thilo Sarrazin, who argued Turkish and Arab immigrants were failing to integrate and were swamping Germany with a higher birth rate.
The Chancellor’s remarks represent the first official acknowledgement that Germany, like other European countries, is destined to become a stronghold of Islam.
She has admitted that the country will soon become a stronghold.
In France, 30% of children age 20 years and below are Muslims.
The ratio in Paris and Marseille has soared to 45%. 
In southern France, there are more mosques than churches..."

SMUGGLED PHOTOS reveal what life is REALLY like in North Korea's communist tyranny ⋆ Silence is Consent

SMUGGLED PHOTOS reveal what life is REALLY like in North Korea's communist tyranny ⋆ Silence is Consent:
"This is a grocery store, usually only accessible to upper classes (but not the elite). 
Notice the mostly empty shelves. 

This store has three items you can buy. 
Apples, turnips, and leeks. 

Bon appetite..."

Much more, read on!

Lunch video-----Bill Warner, PhD: The Political Side of Hijabs

Noon-toon

We’re Still Learning About the Younger Years of Barack Obama | National Review

We’re Still Learning About the Younger Years of Barack Obama | National Review:

"In Garrow’s telling, Obama made emotional judgments on political grounds. A close mutual friend of the couple recalls Obama explaining that “the lines are very clearly drawn. . . . If I am going out with a white woman, I have no standing here.” And friends remember an awkward gathering at a summer house, where Obama and Jager engaged in a loud, messy fight on the subject for an entire afternoon. (“That’s wrong! That’s wrong! That’s not a reason,” they heard Jager yell from their guest room, their arguments punctuated by bouts of makeup sex.) Obama cared for her, Garrow writes, “yet he felt trapped between the woman he loved and the destiny he knew was his.”"

Trouble ahead!-----The Prospects for Progress in Africa - Reason.com

The Prospects for Progress in Africa - Reason.com
"...By mid-century, there will be more Nigerians than Americans. 
Nigeria is one of the world's worst run countries and its unemployment rate hovers around 24 percent. A dysfunctional country and an exploding population do not mix very well. What is true of Nigeria is also true of large parts of the African continent.

As we speak, one out of seven inhabitants of the planet lives in Africa. 
By mid-century, one in four people on Earth will be African. 
If the current trends continue, somewhere between one third and one half of the world's population will live in Africa by 2100. 
African unemployment is not easy to guesstimate, but South Africa, the continent's economic powerhouse, suffers from an unemployment rate of 27 percent. 
How, I wonder, are all of these people going to make a living?..."

Posse Comey Tantrum :: SteynOnline

Posse Comey Tantrum :: SteynOnline:
"...Which is how we arrive at the brain-exploding scenario of Trump firing Comey for being unfair to Hillary. 
Boy, that Putin is always nine chess moves ahead, isn't he?

Back in the real world, the memorandum from Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, outlining the case for firing Comey, lays bare the FBI Director's brazenness:

The director was wrong to usurp the Attorney General's authority on July 5, 2016, and announce his conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution. It is not the function of the Director to make such an announcement. At most, the Director should have said the FBI had completed its investigation and presented its findings to federal prosecutors. The Director now defends his decision by asserting that he believed attorney General Loretta Lynch had a conflict. But the FBI Director is never empowered to supplant federal prosecutors and assume command of the Justice Department.

That's true. If the County Attorney has a conflict of interest, the Sheriff doesn't unilaterally step in and assume the role of prosecutor.

Furthermore:

We do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information about the subject of a declined criminal investigation. Derogatory information sometimes is disclosed in the course of criminal investigations and prosecutions, but we never release it gratuitously. The Director laid out his version of the facts for the news media as if it were a closing argument, but without a trial. It is a textbook example of what federal prosecutors and agents are taught not to do.

That's also true. In a functioning legal system, the accused has the right to confront his accuser in open court. If you're not going to bring it into court, you don't do a drive-by prosecution at a press conference.

And more:

In response to skeptical question at a congressional hearing, the Director defended his remarks by saying that his "goal was to say what is true. What did we do, what did we find, what do we think about it." But the goal of a federal criminal investigation is not to announce our thoughts at a press conference. The goal is to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to justify a federal criminal prosecution, then allow a federal prosecutor who exercises authority delegated by the Attorney General to make a prosecutorial decision, and then - if prosecution is warranted - let the judge and jury determine the facts.

True yet again. It is for the jury to decide "what do we think about it" and thereby determine the truth of the matter - not a copper by public proclamation. So, having usurped the role of prosecutor, Comey was also adding one-man jury to the many arrows in his quiver.

And another:

Concerning his letter to the Congress on October 28, 2016, the Director cast his decision as a choice between whether he would "speak" about the FBI's decision to investigate the newly-discovered email messages or "conceal" it. "Conceal" is a loaded term that misstates the issue. When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information.

...I have disliked James Comey ever since discovering he was the fellow who sent Martha Stewart to jail for supposedly lying to the FBI in a matter in which there was no underlying crime..."

How Much Are Goldfish Worth? $4.3M If Called ‘Great Lakes Restoration’ [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

How Much Are Goldfish Worth? $4.3M If Called ‘Great Lakes Restoration’ [Michigan Capitol Confidential]: 
"When President Donald Trump proposed eliminating $300 million in annual spending labeled the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, many politicians and media voices warned of catastrophic consequences for the nation’s largest bodies of fresh water.
...Previous stories here have described it being spent on better 

• moose management in Minnesota, 
• training Mohawks to write fish advisories and 
• reverting an Ottawa County golf course to a “more natural state.”

 Approved in 2013 and scheduled to be completed by 2019, it would replace 162 acres of pond and marsh on the city’s south side with savanna and grassland riparian habitats.
One benefit of the $4.3 million project, as stated by Jackson Park Advisory Council President Louise McCurry, would be exposing city children to a native habitat. 
McCurry also said in a local newspaper that the money could control goldfish and carp, considered invasive species, that were in the park’s lagoon.
Jackson Park is along the shore of Lake Michigan..."

You ought to know!

DNC Shatters The Illusion Of American Democracy In Order To Keep People’s 27 Bucks

DNC Shatters The Illusion Of American Democracy In Order To Keep People’s 27 Bucks:

"The elites of the Democratic party are trying to have it both ways. They’re trying to maintain the system which obstructs independents and third parties from finding meaningful purchase within the political process, while at the same time ensuring that no democracy is happening within that rigid two-party system. They’re trying to maintain the “A vote for a third party is a vote for the Republican!” narrative from one side of their mouths while saying “It’s our party, we can rig the primaries however we want!” "

FOX Expert Herridge: Comey Was Fired Because He Refused to Reveal Obama Unmaskers (VIDEO)

FOX Expert Herridge: Comey Was Fired Because He Refused to Reveal Obama Unmaskers (VIDEO)
"FOX News national security expert Catherine Herridge told The Five last night that FBI Director James Comey was fired because he refused to reveal the Obama administration “unmaskers” to President Trump.
The Obama administration spied on and unmasked the identities and conversations of several Americans in 2016 including officials close to President-elect Donald Trump.
General Michael Flynn resigned after Obama officials leaked his discussions with the Russian ambassador – which were completely legal – to the liberal media.

Herridge said Comey stalled turning the information over to the Trump administration.

Catherine Herridge: The accusation against the former FBI director, and this comes mostly from Republicans, is that he has been sort of slow walking records about the Americans who were identified or unmasked in these intelligence reports and providing them to Congress. And the reason that’s a big deal is that everyone in the IC, in the intelligence community knows that there is no bigger, deeper, wider, extensive paper trail than there is when you unmask or identify an American citizen. And it should not take months. It should take weeks if not the course of several days to know who was unmasked and who made those requests and that has not been provided.

Via The Five:

AM Fruitcake-The liberal's dream!