History for August 9

(the President was Franklin Roosevelt)

History for August 9 - On-This-Day.com:
Jean Piaget 1896, Sam Elliott 1944, Melanie Griffith 1957


Whitney Houston 1963, Deion Sanders 1967, Gillian Anderson 1968


1854 - "Walden" was published by Henry David Thoreau.


1892 - Thomas Edison received a patent for a two-way telegraph.


1910 - A.J. Fisher received a patent for the electric washing machine.


1936 - Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics. He was the first American to win four medals in one Olympics.


1944 - The Forest Service and Wartime Advertising Council created "Smokey the Bear."


1945 - The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The bombing came three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. About 74,000 people were killed. Japan surrendered August 14.


1974 - U.S. PresidentRichard Nixon formally resigned. Gerald R. Ford took his place, and became the 38th president of the U.S.


2001 - U.S. President Bush announced he would support federal funding for limited medical research on embryonic stem cells. 

Documents Show DOJ Was in Panic Mode After Loretta Lynch's Secret Meeting With Bill Clinton Was Exposed - Katie Pavlich

Documents Show DOJ Was in Panic Mode After Loretta Lynch's Secret Meeting With Bill Clinton Was Exposed - Katie Pavlich:

"Fast forward more than a year and it turns out hundreds of documents related to the meeting do exist and show the Department was in a panic over how to respond to inquiries about why the meeting took place. "

Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Sequel' meets with cool reception, placing 15th at box office - Washington Times

Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Sequel' meets with cool reception, placing 15th at box office - Washington Times:

"Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” drew a lukewarm response from moviegoers, ranking 15th at the box office in its first weekend of wide release and earning tepid reviews from audiences.
The sequel to Mr. Gore’s influential 2006 climate-change documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” has earned about $1 million since its limited release July 28, prompting one critic to say Paramount Pictures “effectively sabotaged” the rollout."

The way we were-----Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Fortunate Son"

Lots of rich, wisdomly Clarice. Read it all!-----Articles: A Consequential President in the Time of Pygmies

Articles: A Consequential President in the Time of Pygmies:
"Once when my son was about 6 or 7 I took him to the circus with some of his friends. 
The acrobats, clowns, and lion tamer in the center ring enthralled the other kids. 
Not him. 
He turned to me and said, “How do you think they make money producing a circus? I think it’s the concessions.” 
It struck me then that among the people in the world, there are some -- too few, actually -- who are not distracted by spectacles, but, instead, keep their eyes on the bottom line.

That’s how I see the President. 
His stated goals have always been to make us safe, get the economy booming, enable a job-creation economy, and make life better and safer for all Americans.

As the news is filled with tittle-tattle about the phony baloney Russian collusion story and moronic punditry, the president keeps plowing on with his agenda.American Digest lists 220 things the President has achieved while in office, despite the vitriolic attacks on him and what appears to be a silent coup by the press, bureaucrats, and entrenched officeholders...

The stock market is booming although the NYT twists itself into a pretzel to deny the President’s role in this, per Tom Maguire: 

Just imagine how different the tone of The Resistance would be if the stock market were in hideous retreat, as per Nobel Laureate Krugman's infamous early prediction in response to Trump's election.

But that pesky stock market keeps going up! So the Times explains why, doing their Very Bestest to keep Trump out of it. Spoiler Alert: They nearly succeed.

‘Wall Street, Climbing Sharply, Skips Washington’s ‘Soap Opera’

By Nelson D. Schwartz  Aug 2, 2017

Despite the disorder in Washington — with a revolving door at the White House and roadblocks on Capitol Hill — Wall Street and corporate America are booming...

"...Meanwhile, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has brought the grand jury proceedings to Washington D.C. which as  I have already noted, and Professor Alan Dershowitz  agrees, is a highly partisan anti-Republican venue, and he has continued to stack his team with Democratic lawyers most of whom have donated to Hillary, supported the Democrats, and some have even expressed anti-Trump sentiments.
Is he trying to provoke his firing and a crisis? 
Or is he continuing the game he and James Comey first played on President Bush with the nonsensical Plamegate investigation, which in both cases were ginned up by false reports from left-wing provocateur David Corn?
In the meantime, pay attention to the bottom line. 
Trump is not losing. 
The media and the Democratic party they work for are."
Read it all.

Nearly a dozen Calif. counties had more registered voters than eligible voters in 2016 election – TheBlaze

Nearly a dozen Calif. counties had more registered voters than eligible voters in 2016 election – TheBlaze:
"Nearly one dozen California counties had more registered voters on their voter rolls than people eligible to vote living in their county, a new Judicial Watch letter has revealed.

...According to a Judicial Watch press release:

In the letter, Judicial Watch noted that public records obtained on the Election Assistance Commission’s 2016 Election Administration Voting Survey and through verbal accounts from various county agencies show 11 California counties have more registered voters than voting-age citizens: Imperial (102%), Lassen (102%), Los Angeles (112%), Monterey (104%), San Diego (138%), San Francisco (114%), San Mateo (111%), Santa Cruz (109%), Solano (111%), Stanislaus (102%), and Yolo (110%).

...The organization notes in their press released that in April they also sent a letter to 11 states threatening to sue should they fail to comply with the NVRA. 

Those states included: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Tennessee.

President Donald Trump lost California in last year’s presidential election to Hillary Clinton by more than 3.4 million votes..."

15-Year-Old Boy Undergoes Sex Change. What Happens Next Is Heartbreaking. | Daily Wire

15-Year-Old Boy Undergoes Sex Change. What Happens Next Is Heartbreaking. | Daily Wire:

"As conservatives throw cold water on the push to give children suffering from gender confusion puberty blockers and put them on the path to "change" their sex via medical means, the left is doing their best to drown-out their warnings with phony shouts of "transphobia." But the left's misguided stance is leaving a wake of real victims in its path, tragically and predictably so.

This seems to be the case with 23-year-old Ria Cooper, born Brad Cooper, who has "swapped" his sex a reported three times."

Extreme weather 'could kill up to 152,000 a year' in Europe by 2100 - BBC News

Extreme weather 'could kill up to 152,000 a year' in Europe by 2100 - BBC News

• Extreme weather could kill up to 152,000 people yearly in Europe by 2100 if nothing is done to curb the effects of climate change, scientists say.
• The number is 50 times more deaths than reported now, the study in The Lancet Planetary Health journal said.
• Heat waves would cause 99% of all weather-related deaths, it added, with southern Europe being worst affected...

If nothing is done to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to improve policies to reduce the impact against extreme weather events, the study by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre says:

• Deaths caused by extreme weather could rise from 3,000 a year between 1981 and 2010 to 152,000 between 2071 and 2100
• Two in three people in Europe will be affected by disasters by 2100, against a rate of one in 20 at the start of the century
• There will be a substantial rise in deaths from coastal flooding, from six victims a year at the start of the century to 233 a year by the end of it

Read on!

Less Than A Year After Bailout, Detroit Schools Again Scramble to Stay Afloat [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Less Than A Year After Bailout, Detroit Schools Again Scramble to Stay Afloat [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"In June 2016, the newly reconstituted Detroit public school district received a $617 million bailout from the Michigan Legislature, wiping some $415 million in accumulated debt from its books.
The full bailout amount included a projected interest expense and an additional $150 million grant to the district for so-called transition costs.
But by the end of that same year, the “new” school district

• had to leave 300 vacant positions unfilled, 
• sell $10 million in property,
• and use a one-time transfer of $15.7 million left on the “old” district’s books 

to keep from racking up another round of deficits and debt..."
Read on!

Lunch video-----Detroit in RUINS! (Crowder goes Ghetto)

Noon-toon

Feminists RUIN Everything, And Since I Can't List Everything, Here Are Some Things | Daily Wire

Feminists RUIN Everything, And Since I Can't List Everything, Here Are Some Things | Daily Wire:

"When it comes to the wrath of feminists, no such shield exists. Unlike the groups above, feminists hit us at our most vulnerable spots: our wives, our husbands, our children, our bedrooms and our houses of worship. Simply put, feminists get personal. Not only do they seek to brainwash our daughters into becoming promiscuous she-wolves who think waving "My P–ssy, My Choice" signs at an Amber Rose "SlutWalk" is a great way to spend the weekend, they also conspire to mutate every man into a sniveling pajama boy.

Wherever they go, they impugn without mercy. Like vampires, they suck their prey dry of organic life until all that remains is a hollowed out shell of something that resembles its former self."

Someone Just Noticed That Trump Is Getting Stuff Done | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

Someone Just Noticed That Trump Is Getting Stuff Done | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD: 
"Achievements: After weeks and months of fixating on tweets and Russia, someone in the press decided to have a look at what the Trump administration has been up to since January. 
Lo and behold, they discovered that it's getting a lot done.
"Trump Has Quietly Accomplished More Than It Appears" reads the headline in the Atlantic.
"With the Trump administration's chaos sucking up all the attention," the article begins, "it's been able to move forward on a range of its priorities.... 
It is 

• remaking the justice system, 
• rewriting environmental rules, 
• overhauling public-lands administration, and 
• greenlighting major infrastructure projects. 
• It is appointing figures who will guarantee the triumph of its ideological vision for decades to come."

It goes on to detail these achievements, many of which we've highlighted on these pages.
Border crossings, for example, have plummeted, even though all Trump has done so far is promise to enforce existing laws.
...What else? 
Well, 

• Trump pulled out of the Paris climate change deal, which as we noted in this space is a yuuuge win for the economy.
• The EPA, meanwhile, is dismantling Obama's coal-killing, growth-choking Clean Power Plan, 
• and draining the heavy-handed Waters of the United States rule. 
• When a veteran EPA official resigned this week, she complained in a letter to her former colleagues that "the new EPA Administrator already has repeals of 30 rules under consideration," which the New York Times described as "a regulatory rollback larger in scope than any other over so short a time in the agency's 47-year history."
• Trump promised to kill two regulations for every new one enacted, but in his first six months the ratio was 16-to-1.
• Trump also approved the Keystone XL and other pipeline projects held up by Obama. He's also rolled back a ban on coal mining on public lands..."

Read on!

How they "think"-----Earth is on its way to the biggest mass extinction since the dinosaurs, scientists warn - The Washington Post

Earth is on its way to the biggest mass extinction since the dinosaurs, scientists warn - The Washington Post:
"Have humans damaged the Earth's ecosystems so severely that we're well on our way to the biggest mass extinction since the dinosaurs vanished 66 million years ago? 
And are we running out of time to reverse the negative impacts of our actions?
Three scientists who have studied extinctions of thousands of species of vertebrates believe so, though others are skeptical of the doomsday-like findings.
A new study published Monday paints a grim picture: 
The populations of nearly 9,000 vertebrate species, including mammals such as cheetahs, lions and giraffes, have significantly declined between 1900 and 2015.
Almost 200 species have gone extinct in the past 100 years alone — a rate of two per year.
The study says the losses are indicative of the planet's “ongoing six major extinction events” and has cascading consequences for human life on Earth.
“This is the case of a biological annihilation occurring globally, even if the species these populations belong to are still present somewhere on Earth,” Rodolfo Dirzo, the study's co-author and a Stanford University biology professor, said in a news release.
...“I am an alarmist. My colleagues are alarmists. We're alarmed, and we're frightened.
And there's no other way to put it,” he said..."

#1 This day 2008-----Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl (Official)

Several Baltimore schools report 0 students proficient in math, reading | Education Dive

Several Baltimore schools report 0 students proficient in math, reading | Education Dive
Dive Brief:

• Six Baltimore City schools — five high schools and one middle school — were found to have not a single student who scored proficient in math or reading in 2016, Fox45 News reports. 
• One student interviewed by the station said he believes students aren't passing the state assessments because the material on the tests is not covered in class. 
• Data shows that despite maintaining one of the country's highest per-pupil spending levels, a recent study out of Harvard University found Baltimore to have the lowest rate of mobility out of poverty in the country, a statistic tied directly to education as much as it is economic opportunity. 

Dive Insight:

The news in Baltimore again underscores the debate over the impact of funding on school quality. Some say the education level of adults and parents in the district is the greatest determinant of student achievement, while other research has found a direct correlation between school funding and student graduation rates. And with Baltimore City Public Schools out-spending both Howard and Montgomery Counties in the state — both perennial exemplars in student achievement — questions loom over exactly where the money is going in Baltimore..."

Read on!

You ought to know!

Betsy DeVos, education secretary, dedicated to shrinking federal footprint - Washington Times

Betsy DeVos, education secretary, dedicated to shrinking federal footprint - Washington Times:

"Education Secretary Betsy DeVos insists that everything she does at the department is aimed at getting the federal government out of local schools, making good on that populist campaign promise from President Trump while his big-ticket legislative goals remain mired in Congress.
Whether it’s replacing Obama-era school dictates with flexible guidelines or boosting school choice programs in districts across the country, the federal footprint in education is shrinking, Mrs. DeVos said.
Washington’s education establishment is not happy with the change of course. Teachers unions and liberal activists decry the retreat and accuse the Trump administration of leaving children and college students at the mercy of for-profit schools."

Much here. Worth a look!-----China's Minsky Moment Is Imminent | Zero Hedge

China's Minsky Moment Is Imminent | Zero Hedge
Crescat Capital's Q2 letter to investors shouold be retitled "everything you wanted to know about the looming bursting of the world's biggest credit bubble... but were afraid to ask..." 
Don't say we didn't warn you...

History has proven that credit bubbles always burst. 

China by far is the biggest credit bubble in the world today. 

We layout the proof herein. 

There are many indicators signaling that the bursting of the China credit bubble is imminent, which we also enumerate. 

The bursting of the China credit bubble poses tremendous risk of global contagion because it coincides with record valuations for equities, real estate, and risky credit around the world.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has identified an important warning signal to identify credit bubbles that are poised to trigger a banking crisis across different countries: 

Unsustainable credit growth relative to gross domestic product (GDP) in the household and (non-financial) corporate sector. 

Three large (G-20) countries are flashing warning signals today for impending banking crises based on such imbalances: China, Canada, and Australia.

The three credit bubbles shown in the chart above are connected..."
Read on!

AM Fruitcake

History for August 8

History for August 8 - On-This-Day.com
Matthew Henson 1866 - Explorer, along with Robert Peary and their Eskimo guide, were the first people to reach the North Pole, Russell Markert 1899, Dino DeLaurentiis 1919


Dustin Hoffman 1937, Connie Stevens 1938, Donny Most 1953


1844 - After the killing of Joseph Smith on June 27, Bringham Young was chosen to lead the Mormons.


1876 - Thomas Edison received a patent for the mimeograph. The mimeograph was a "method of preparing autographic stencils for printing."


1899 - The refrigerator was patented by A.T. Marshall.


1911 - The number of representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives was established at 435. There was one member of Congress for every 211,877 residents.


1940 - The German Luftwaffe began a series of daylight air raids on Great Britain.


1966 - Michael DeBakey became the first surgeon to install an artificial heart pump in a patient.


1974 - U.S. President Nixon announced that he would resign the following day.


1988 - It was announced that a cease-fire between Iraq and Iran had begun.