History for May 20

History for May 20 - On-This-Day.com:
William Thornton 1759 - Inventor, painter, designed the United States Capitol, first Superintendent of the United States Patent Office, Dolley Payne Madison 1768 - U.S. First Lady, wife of 4th President James Madison, Honore de Balzac 1799 - Novelist 


John Stuart Mill 1806 - Editor, philosopher, Jimmy Stewart 1908 - Actor (Philadelphia Story [1940]; The Glenn Miller Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), Joe Cocker 1944 - Singer, songwriter 


1506 - In Spain, Christopher Columbus died in poverty.


1520 - Hernando Cortez defeated Spanish troops that had been sent to punish him in Mexico.


1774 - Britain's Parliament passed the Coercive Acts to punish the American colonists for their increasingly anti-British behavior


1873 - Levi Strauss began marketing blue jeans with copper rivets.


1899 - Jacob German of New York City became the first driver to be arrested for speeding. The posted speed limit was 12 miles per hour.


1927 - Charles Lindbergh took off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard his airplane the "Spirit of St. Louis." The trip took 33 1/2 hours.

1932 - Amelia Earhart took off to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She became the first woman to achieve the feat.


1939 - The first regular air-passenger service across the Atlantic Ocean began with the take-off of the "Yankee Clipper" from Port Washington, New York.

Here’s a List of Obama's Scandals that Didn’t Get a Special Counsel | The Sean Hannity Show

Here’s a List of Obama's Scandals that Didn’t Get a Special Counsel | The Sean Hannity Show:


"The left’s hypocrisy couldn’t be more transparent.
For eight years the Obama administration and Clintons skated through scandal after scandal –many of which violated federal law- without a peep from the Attorney General or the FBI.

Here’s a 'short' list."

Let’s Hit Left-Wing Colleges Where It Hurts. In the Pocketbook.

Let’s Hit Left-Wing Colleges Where It Hurts. In the Pocketbook.:

"Americans who see themselves as either liberal or conservative should rise up against this totalitarian trend on America’s college campuses.

I believe the most effective way to do so is to hit these campus tyrants where it hurts the most—in the pocketbook. Lawmakers should slash budgets, and donors should keep their money in their pockets."

The way we were-----Judith Durham Danny Boy (With introduction To Song) 1968

Last Year, Obama Offered to Share U.S. Intelligence With Russia, and the Mainstream Media Was Fine With It | The Daily Sheeple

Last Year, Obama Offered to Share U.S. Intelligence With Russia, and the Mainstream Media Was Fine With It | The Daily Sheeple:

"Russia-Gate remains in full swing, and the latest bout of hysteria is related to President Trump’s alleged sharing of intelligence with Russia.
The original report about the supposed leak came from The Washington Post.
The Post reported that the leak put a source of intelligence on the Islamic State at risk. 
But the spokeswoman for the Russian foreign ministry, Maria Zakharova, said on Tuesday that the reports were nothing except “yet another fake.”
As Darius Shatahmasebi wrote on Wednesday,

According to the Post, Trump gave his Russian counterparts information “considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government.” Specifically:

“Trump went on to discuss aspects of the threat that the United States learned only through the espionage capabilities of a key partner. He did not reveal the specific intelligence-gathering method, but he described how the Islamic State was pursuing elements of a specific plot and how much harm such an attack could cause under varying circumstances. Most alarmingly, officials said, Trump revealed the city in the Islamic State’s territory where the U.S. intelligence partner detected the threat.”

Apparently, this information was too sensitive for Trump to give to Russian representatives, but not too sensitive for anonymous officials to leak to the Washington Post, who turn broadcasted it to the entire world.

Shatahmasebi adds,

In other words, the Post also knows the details of this classified information. Anonymous officials can leak sensitive information to an unaccountable media outlet, but Trump can’t disclose that information to a delegation of people who could actually benefit from the information? How does that work?

Just last year, the Post didn’t seem to have any problems with the US government sharing intelligence with Russia.

Here are some excerpts from the June 30, 2016 article shown in the image above, titled U.S. Offers to Share Syria Intelligence on Terrorists With Russia:

Click to read 'em!

It's ALL about money .... and lawsuits-----U.S. judge allows first transgender person to sue under disability law

U.S. judge allows first transgender person to sue under disability law:
"A U.S. judge ruled on Thursday that a transgender woman could move forward with a sex discrimination lawsuit against her employer under the Americans with Disabilities Act, even though the ADA explicitly excludes transgender people from protection.
The plaintiff, Kate Lynn Blatt, becomes the first transgender person to be allowed to sue under the ADA for gender dysphoria, according to her Philadelphia-based lawyer, Neelima Vanguri.
...Blatt is suing her former employer, the retail chain Cabela's Inc, for sex discrimination, saying she was fired after a pattern of harassment that included denying her use of the women's bathroom and temporarily forcing her to wear a name tag with her male name given at birth..."

Rush Limbaugh: Obama Actually Did What Trump Is Accused of Doing - Breitbart

Rush Limbaugh: Obama Actually Did What Trump Is Accused of Doing - Breitbart:

"Wednesday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh argued former President Barack Obama “actually did” what New York Times report has accused President Donald Trump of doing regarding an FBI investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

According to Limbaugh, Obama had the FBI back off of an investigation into Hillary Clinton."

Harvard Study Reveals Huge Extent of Anti-Trump Media Bias | Heat Street

Harvard Study Reveals Huge 
"A major new study out of Harvard University has revealed the true extent of the mainstream media’s bias against Donald Trump.
Academics at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzed coverage from Trump’s first 100 days in office across 10 major TV and print outlets.
It found that the tone of some outlets was negative in as many as 98% of reports, significantly more hostile than the first 100 days of the three previous administrations:
The academics based their study on seven US outlets and three European ones..."

Scumbag leftist buying elections and no leftists complainin'-----George Soros Cash Funding Liberal District Attorneys | The Daily Caller

George Soros Cash Funding Liberal District Attorneys | The Daily Caller:
"George Soros has all but bought another district attorney’s seat.

The left-wing billionaire turned the Philadelphia district attorney’s race on its head by giving $1.45 million to fund a super PAC in support of his preferred candidate, Larry Krasner. Krasner, a progressive lawyer who has never worked as a prosecutor, sailed to an easy victory in the Democratic primary on Tuesday. Because Philadelphia is a Democratic stronghold, Krasner’s primary victory all but guarantees him to win the general election in November.

The influx of money from Soros gave Krasner a significant leg up over his opposition. 

Despite splitting votes with six other candidates, Krasner, who was not a favorite to win before Soros’ investment, finished 18 points ahead of the second-place finisher. As one Philadelphia Inquirer writer put it after the billionaire’s investment: “Soros changed the game.” (RELATED: Hillary Bankroller George Soros: ‘Implicit Bias’ A Ploy To Change Anti-Discrimination Laws)..."

Lunch video-----Bill Whittle - Racism - Democrats and Republicans switch sides?

Noon-toon

Clapper 'Reforms' Helped Susan Rice 'Unmask' Americans? | The Daily Caller

Clapper 'Reforms' Helped Susan Rice 'Unmask' Americans? | The Daily Caller:

"Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper’s creation of a cloud-computing platform in 2013 made it far easier for officials like former White House National Security Advisor Susan Rice to ‘unmask’ individual Americans without creating a digital paper trail leading back to her, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned.

Clapper’s system enabled tens of thousands of government officials to share previously off-limits intelligence information, according to knowledgeable officials who tracked the cloud-computing initiative of the former DNI under President Barack Obama.

Commander Jennifer E. Dyer, a 21-year naval intelligence officer, told TheDCNF that Clapper’s effort dramatically altered the rules that previously barred access to phone records of U.S. citizens unless there was prior approval following rigorous National Security Agency (NSA) review."

14-Year-Old Boy Facing Assault Charge, Sex Offender Registry for Sex with 12-Year-Old Girl - Hit & Run : Reason.com

14-Year-Old Boy Facing Assault Charge, Sex Offender Registry for Sex with 12-Year-Old Girl - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"A Houston-area seventh-grade boy has been charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child because he engaged in consensual sex with his sixth-grade girlfriend.
Unless a judge decides to show leniency, he could be forced to register as a sex offender.
That's according to the Houston Chronicle, which redacted the names of both kids.
The boy is 14, the girl, 12.
Are they too young to be engaged in a sexual relationship?
Sure.
But what business is it of the state's?
Who is well-served by criminalizing this kind of thing?
Certainly not the boy, who will face significant difficulties finishing school, getting into college, finding a job, and even just finding a place to live, if he is placed on the sex offender registry.
"The idea that a 14-year-old who has sex with a person just a little bit younger then him or her would be treated as the worst of the worst in our society and placed on the sex offender registry is really sick," the teen's attorney, Joseph Gutheinz, told the Chronicle.
It's as sick as the law is arbitrary.
In Texas, teens are immune from prosecution for underage sex if they are within 3 years of age of each other.
But this does not apply if either party is over the age of 18, or under the age of 14.
 If the sexual encounter had taken place two months earlier, before the boy's 14th birthday, it would not have been a crime..."

Caught! Minnesota Muslims with ‘bomb-making devices’ in car

Caught! Minnesota Muslims with ‘bomb-making devices’ in car
"Suspects arrested last Thursday, May 11, 2017 in Minneapolis, allegedly with an arsenal in their vehicle.
Suspects Abdullah Alrifahe and Majid Alrifahe, both of Minneapolis, were arrested last Thursday, May 11, 2017 in Minneapolis, allegedly with an arsenal in their vehicle.
A routine police check in Minnesota resulted in the arrest of two Muslim men on charges they were driving around with an arsenal of weapons including bomb-making devices.
Abdullah N. Alrifahe, 27, and Majid N. Alrifahe, 26, both of Minneapolis, were arrested May 11 after police had reason to search their car and found a hand grenade, handgun, several assault rifles and magazines and a large quantity of ammunition, according to the police report.
They also found cellphones, drone parts, computers and electronics devices capable of igniting a bomb.
Former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said the size of the cache should send off alarm bells for local police, as it signals that an active Islamic terrorist cell could be operating in the city.
But the city seems paralyzed by political correctness, she said.
“Of course we have cells in Minnesota, but the Minneapolis police believe the religion of peace doesn’t commit terror acts,” Bachmann said.
“The hijab-wearing Minneapolis mayor [Betsy Hodges] and the police department blind and disarm themselves because their Muslim advisers tell them that’s what they should do.”
According to police, both men gave their address as a nearby public housing building. 
Both have a criminal history.
Abdullah has prior convictions for weapons violations.
He has also been convicted of receiving stolen property. Both men are listed as having numerous arrests, not only in Minnesota but also in Texas..."

Note the "unbiased" (LIE) they insert for Dec. 9-----House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump - The Washington Post

House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump - The Washington Post
KIEV, Ukraine — A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.

Before the conversation, McCarthy and Ryan had emerged from separate talks at the Capitol with Ukrainian Prime Minister Vladi­mir Groysman, who had described a Kremlin tactic of financing populist politicians to undercut Eastern European democratic institutions.

News had just broken the day before in The Washington Post that Russian government hackers had penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee, prompting McCarthy to shift the conversation from Russian meddling in Europe to events closer to home.

Some of the lawmakers laughed at McCarthy’s comment. 
Then McCarthy quickly added: “Swear to God.”..."

You ought to know!