History for June 8

History for June 8 - On-This-Day.com:
Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1625, Frank Lloyd Wright 1867, Francis Crick 1916


Barbara Bush 1925 - Wife of President George H.W. Bush, Joan Rivers 1933 - Television personality, Bonnie Tyler 1953


0452 - Italy was invaded by Attila the Hun.


1790 - The first loan for the U.S. was repaid. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was negotiated and secured on September 18, 1789 by Alexander Hamilton.


1869 - Ives W. McGaffey received a U.S. patent for the suction vacuum cleaner.


1872 - The penny postcard was authorized by the U.S. Congress.


1904 - U.S. Marines landed in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S. citizens.


1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregated restaurants in Washington, DC.


1995 - U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady was rescued by U.S. Marines after surviving alone in Bosnia after his F-16 fighter was shot down on June 2.


1998 - The National Rifle Association elected Charlton Heston to be its president.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2017/06/june-7-2017-comrades-in-ideology-by.html

Comrades in Ideology

By Tammy Derouin

In typical and ever so predictable fashion, art becomes the expected guardian, the go-to shield of protection when a hate stunt, by someone on the Left, isn't as well received as hoped. When comrades in ideology abandon or at least publicly abandon the method in which the message was delivered, scrambling to rationalize such actions goes into high gear. Claiming a Constitutional right is the obvious way to go. After all, we have the First Amendment. It's amazing how quickly the importance of our rights become when someone feels they need protection. This last ditch desperate attempt to justify vile actions becomes critical. How would they feel if the tables were turned? That's the all important critical answer.

When someone does something controversial or takes it to the extreme by going off the deep end, there are usually some consequences for their actions. No matter how outlandish, every American citizen has a right to express their thoughts and opinions. It is your right to believe what you want to believe. There are however, consequences when a message isn't well received. The beauty of this wonderful land in which we live is that every citizen is entitled to their own opinion. So, if you're going to expose or overexpose yourself in a controversial act, expect that others will exercise their right to tell you how they feel.

I think it is fairly safe to say, had a conservative expressed himself the same way, using a likeness of the severed head of the former president or the head of the whining sore loser who couldn't make it to the presidency, as their artistic object, things would be much different. Not only would the adjectives be flying like bullets out of their finger guns, I mean, spit wads out of straws, but there would be a call to restrict the First Amendment.......

The way we were-----The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight

The problem of campus feminism - The College Fix

The problem of campus feminism - The College Fix
"Meaningless academia and helpless victimhood

There are a great many social movements and groups on college campuses these days, but among them there is perhaps none more enervating and exhausting than campus feminism. 

“Feminism” itself has become a kind of tiresome buzzword within the wider pop culture landscape, a way for celebrities and other public figures to kowtow to liberal activists without actually doing anything, but it is on college campuses that feminism—modern feminism, shot through with the worst elements of historical progressivism and neurotic social preoccupations—really comes into its own. And that is a problem for colleges.
Case in point: the recent story about a “feminist researcher” who “supports ‘combining intersectionality and quantum physics’.” 
It might surprise you to learn that quantum physics can be “combined” with anything; most people reasonably assume that bosons, quarks, wave functions and other elemental functions of the universe were Sui generis and thus not subject to “combinations” of any kind. 
But campus feminism cannot help itself: it has to put a feminist spin on every academic field possible. 
So you have an academic—a real person employed by a real person paid for with real tax dollars—making arguments along these lines:

Stark identifies “classical Newtonian physics” as one of the guiding sciences at the heights of Western imperialism, “which identifies separated beings and absolute differences between particles and waves, space and time.”

“This structural thinking of individualized separatism with binary and absolute differences as the basis for how the universe works… is embedded in many structures of classification,” according to Stark.

These structures of classification, which separate humans, include gender (such as male or female) and national borders, according to Stark.

Stark goes on to argue that “the arbitrary exceptionalism or fetishizing understanding of (human) bodies as segmented integrities … is part of the apparatus that enables oppression.

“This is biopolitical.”...

Read on! 

Your tax money for this?!!--Note they don't use the word "illegal"?-----Report highlights immigrants' economic contribution to Detroit | Crain's Detroit Business

Report highlights immigrants' economic contribution to Detroit | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Following the uproar over President Donald Trump's now-stalled executive order on limiting immigration from certain Middle East nations, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan reaffirmed the city's commitment to immigrants.
New data released Tuesday makes the case for why.
While the city continued to lose native-born residents between 2010 and 2014, its immigrant population grew, helping it ease economic tensions.
Between 2010 and 2014, Detroit's foreign-born population grew by 12.1 percent, or 4,137 new residents, to 38,444, according to a report released by nonprofits Global Detroit and the New American Economy.
...The new report emphasizes the immigrant population's importance to the city and its economy.
..."We are very excited to see the report released, highlighting the tremendous contributions immigrants have made throughout the City's history that continue into today," Duggan said in a press release."...

Hypocrite Democrats Lecture Country, Exempt Themselves, Resemble Jimmy Swaggart | National Review

Hypocrite Democrats Lecture Country, Exempt Themselves, Resemble Jimmy Swaggart | National Review:

"So perhaps what drives proverbially average Americans crazy is not the success and money of others, but the condescension and hypocrisy of what a particular elite says contrasted with how it lives: The disconnect recalls the Reverend Jimmy Swaggart, the televangelist who on Sunday mornings three decades ago used to break into tears as he loudly condemned the sins of the flesh, while he privately indulged his worldly appetites.

Elites, whose lifestyles lead them to burn lots of carbon, rail about the Paris accords to those who get by burning lots less. What is galling is to see how little the elites’ green rhetoric is backed up by their green behavior."

A national disgrace!-----52 Michigan high schools where less than 5% test as college-ready | MLive.com

52 Michigan high schools where less than 5% test as college-ready | MLive.com:
"About a third of Michigan public school students in the Class of 2017 tested as fully "college ready" based on their SAT scores as juniors.
Below is a list of the 52 Michigan public  high schools where less than 5% hit the full college-ready benchmark. 
The list is limited to schools with at least 40 test-takers, and some of the schools are alternative programs for struggling students.
The schools are ranked by the number of test-takers, so the largest schools are listed first.
Students must get at least a 530 SAT subscore on the math section and a 480 subscore on the evidence-based reading and writing section to meet the SAT's college-ready standards.
The data here is based on SAT tests administered in March 2016 to the Class of 2017 when they were 11th-graders..."

Roving Band of Bat-Wielding Protestors Spotted At The Evergreen State College | The Liberty Conservative

Roving Band of Bat-Wielding Protestors Spotted At The Evergreen State College | The Liberty Conservative:
"Reports emerged on Monday that packs of student protestors at the infamous Evergreen State College had been spotted “patrolling” campus armed with baseball bats.
...The trend of embarrassments for the College began when a collective attempt to purge White students and faculty from campus for a day was revealed, in part due to a Biology Professor Bret Weinstein’s refusal to acquiesce to the purge, which he deemed an “act of oppression.”
Weinstein’s stance against the anti-white campus event led him to be confronted by a mob of belligerent students enraged at his refusal to leave campus.
Weinstein would go on to provide insightful details on the College’s state of existence on the Joe Rogan Experience, comparing the attitude of the faculty to that of a “cult.”..."
Read on!

Lunch video-----Putting Up the Flag

Noon-toon

Judicial Watch Finds New Emails Showing Huma Abedin Doing Clinton Foundation Favors For Russia Connected Group While at The State Department - Katie Pavlich

Judicial Watch Finds New Emails Showing Huma Abedin Doing Clinton Foundation Favors For Russia Connected Group While at The State Department - Katie Pavlich:

"Government watchdog Judicial Watch has found a number of new emails belonging to former Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton containing classified information and showing favors being done for a Russia connected organization through the Clinton Foundation while she was Secretary of State. The emails were obtained through a lawsuit against the Department and a recent court order. "

These people are nuts!-----CNN's Comey Countdown Clock Ticks Down the Seconds to Testimony Time

CNN's Comey Countdown Clock Ticks Down the Seconds to Testimony Time: "Hours... Minutes... "Seconds...
The world awaits the very moment former FBI Director James Comey begins his testimony on June 8 before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
It could be the most momentous world event in decades...or even centuries! 

And we must all thank CNN for providing us with the Comey Countdown Clock so we can be aware of exactly how long we have to wait until our lives are changed forever.
Of course, a killjoy out there could point out that Comey already did testify before the Senate a month ago on May 3 when he said there was no effort to get him to stop the investigation into supposed collusion between Russia and the Donald Trump campaign. 
In fact, if he were to contradict his previous testimony he would be opening up himself to a perjury charge.
But no matter.
Just watch CNN's Comey Countdown Clock below and enjoy the imaginary drama queen tension for now. Oh, and pay no attention to John King.
He is just saying the same liberal stuff he always says.
All that is important is that Comey Countdown Clock.
Look at it carefully.
Be sure not to take your eyes off of it as it counts down every crucial second to testimony time."