History for September 5

History for September 5 - On-This-Day.com
Louis XIV (King of France) 1638, Jesse James 1847, Bob Newhart 1929 - Actor, comedian (The Bob Newhart Show) 


Raquel Welch 1940 - Actress, Freddie Mercury (Queen) 1946, Cathy Lee Guisewaite 1950 - Cartoonist ("Cathy")


1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards.


1774 - The first session of the U.S. Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. The delegates drafted a declaration of rights and grievances, organized the Continental Association, and elected Peyton Randolph as the first president of the Continental Congress.


1793 - In France, the "Reign of Terror" began. The National Convention enacted measures to repress the French Revolutionary activities.


1836 - Sam Houston was elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.


1881 - The American Red Cross provided relief for disaster for the first time. The disaster was the Great Fire of 1881 in Michigan.


1914 - The Battle of the Marne began. The Germans, British and French fought for six days killing half a million people.


1939 - The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.

1960 - Cassius Clay of Louisville, KY, won the gold medal in light heavyweight boxing at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. Clay later changed his name to Muhammad Ali.

NH Dem Chair: Rural, Disaffected Voters Are & | The Daily Caller

NH Dem Chair: Rural, Disaffected Voters Are & | The Daily Caller:

"New Hampshire’s Democratic Party chair referred to rural, disaffected voters as “white supremacists” and “extremists” on Sunday"

Carr: When will all the Lefties do the right thing? | Boston Herald

Carr: When will all the Lefties do the right thing? | Boston Herald:

"How many flood victims in South Texas have been rescued by the Antifa navy?

Just asking, because on TV this week I’ve been watching the “Cajun Navy” pull one Dunkirk after another all around the Gulf Coast.

And those good old boys look like they just came off the set of “Duck Dynasty.” They could be wearing MAGA hats. Hell, I’ll bet one or two of them may have even been falsely accused of committing a fake hate crime or two since the election by some unhinged Social Justice Warrior."

The way we were-----Phil Collins - You Can`t Hurry Love [HIGH QUALITY] VideoClip

Common Core? 6th Graders Taught How to Use Strap-On Dildo - Tea Party News

My bad.
This one is totally fake.
I guess that's good.
Common Core? 6th Graders Taught How to Use Strap-On Dildo - Tea Party News
"Explicit: 11-12 year olds given sex toy lesson in Jacksonville

(Infowars) – Shocking images out of a classroom in Jacksonville, Florida illustrate how 11-12 year olds in 6th grade are being taught how to use strap-on dildos amidst a debate about Common Core sex education standards which have been attacked by some as pornographic.

...In another image, the woman shows the children how to wear a harness to which the strap-on is attached.

Clinton Middle School in Duval County hired 39-year-old Sharon Mercer to teach the sex education class but after the photos emerged she was suspended and the school refused further comment...

The teaching of so-called “alternative” sexual lifestyles is mandated in many states under Common Core.
...Perhaps the most infamous example of how Common Core will manifest itself in America’s schooling system was illustrated by a bizarre video in which a Common Core curriculum director said that 3 x 4 = 11 could be considered a correct answer so long as students could explain how they reached that number..."
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A Word To The Wise - "You're A Mercenary If..." | Zero Hedge

A Word To The Wise - "You're A Mercenary If..." | Zero Hedge
"The Burning Platform's Jim Quinn notes that:
I have no idea if Major General Higginbotham actually penned this or not but it is a stark warning, one that I have maintained for years, that a civil war in North America (if it happens in the USA it will take Mexico and Canada along for the ride) will not be as cut and dry and as some folks would like.
There are no definable sides to our current predicament, no political organization to speak of, and as such a wide spread conflict would become chaos in short order.
The continent would get very tribal very quickly. Political ideologues proceed with caution.
 You won’t like what you are about to read.-Via Kunckledraggin.com"

“If you are paid $25.00 an hour to show up to a rally to “counter” the other party using physical force and violence, you are not a “counter protestor.”
You are a mercenary.
There is no need for further debate on this.
You were paid to attack someone you don’t know for reasons that you couldn’t care enough about to go there for free.
You did your “job” and collected your check and your reimbursement of expenses.
You’re a mercenary.
Not a Patriot. 
Not a Social Justice Warrior. 
Not a Defender of Freedom or Liberty. 
Not an upholder of Truth or Justice. 
None of those things you claim to be. 
You are a mercenary.
...All you young and naive kids on both sides of this equation who think that having a Civil War will advance your agenda or restore your vision of what you think is America, just remember this… Those of us older generations aren’t having any of this shit.
And if you jump off, you better be prepared to deal with US.
We don’t care what color you’re wearing or what sign you’re holding if you come after us, our friends, our family, our co-workers, our neighbors, etc., WE will kill you.
So remember that when you’re thinking that it’s just Left vs Right, or Liberal vs Conservative, or Commie vs. Fascist.
We are the variable you’re not considering.
That “Silent Majority” that you pretend does not exist is getting really sick and tired of your bullshit.
Geoffrey B. Higginbotham
Major General, USMC (Ret.)
-SS

Hate-Filled Liberals Attack POTUS For Pledging $1 Million to Hurricane Harvey Relief

Hate-Filled Liberals Attack POTUS For Pledging $1 Million to Hurricane Harvey Relief:

"Liberals prove everyday that they truly are the mentally ill of society. Many liberals implied the money was coming from a Russian bank, others complained that it wasn’t enough money. Remember when Obama pledged $1 million of his own money to the Louisiana flood victims? Neither do we."

"I am highly insulted by the racially charged name of the Washington Redskins"---Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web Today:
"Here is an e-mail sent to Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune after an article he published concerning a name change for the Washington Redskins.
Dear Mr. Page: I agree with our Native American population.
I am highly insulted by the racially charged name of the Washington Redskins. 
One might argue that to name a professional football team after Native Americans would exalt them as fine warriors, but nay, nay.
We must be careful not to offend, and in the spirit of political correctness and courtesy, we must move forward.

• Let's ditch the Kansas City Chiefs, the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians. If your shorts are in a wad because of the reference the name Redskins makes to skin color, then we need to get rid of the Cleveland Browns.
• The Carolina Panthers obviously were named to keep the memory of militant Blacks from the 60's alive. Gone. It's offensive to us white folk.
• The New York Yankees offend the Southern population. Do you see a team named for the Confederacy? No! There is no room for any reference to that tragic war that cost this country so many men's lives.
• I am also offended by the blatant references to the Catholic religion among our sports team names. Totally inappropriate to have the New Orleans Saints, the Los Angeles Angels or the San Diego Padres.
• Then there are the team names that glorify criminals who raped and pillaged. We are talking about the horrible Oakland Raiders, the Minnesota Vikings, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Pittsburgh Pirates!

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Revisiting wind turbine impacts – Erroneous recent calculation highlights need to assess renewable energy sustainability claims | Watts Up With That?

Revisiting wind turbine impacts – Erroneous recent calculation highlights need to assess renewable energy sustainability claims | Watts Up With That?:
"An article I wrote several weeks ago had a couple of stupid math errors.
This column attempts to correct them – and take readers on a journey to the futuristic world of 100 percent “clean, green, sustainable, renewable” wind energy. 
Since the assumptions always replacing the 2.85 terawatts of electricity generated worldwide in 2016 – while ensuring stored power for just 48 windless hours – would require:
guide the analysis, this column lays mine out, crunches the numbers, and concludes that

• 14.4 million 1.8-GW turbines … 570 million acres (30% of the Lower 48 US states) … and 1.4 trillion Tesla 100-kWh lithium-ion battery packs!
• Need stored electricity for seven windless days? 50 million turbines, the US-Canadian land mass, and 5 trillion battery packs should do it.

Disagree with this analysis?
Wade in with your own.
Let’s have a wide-open debate, before renewable energy activists and politicians lock us into an energy future that might be horrendous for humanity and planet. (Or might save us from calamitous climate change.)..."

Europe's New Lie: Comparing Asylum Shelters to Nazi Concentration Camps

Europe's New Lie: Comparing Asylum Shelters to Nazi Concentration Camps

• In the current crisis, governments, NGOs, charities and the media have all embraced migrants in the millions, and welcomed them with open arms. The Jews during the Second World War -- most of whom were turned away, turned in, or betrayed by all European governments -- were not so fortunate.
• All of Europe's efforts have been devoted to rescuing migrants: on borders, at sea and in cities that host asylum centers. Such distinctions, however, are apparently not enough: the immigration question must become a new ideology, like a religion. That seems why there is an orchestrated attempt by large segments of the establishment to turn Europe's rescue operations into a "new Holocaust". Questioning them must become a taboo. Even Pope Francis, who compared a center for migrants to "concentration camps", adopted this nonsense.
• Despite Muslims historically having been the most aggressive colonizers, Europe's élites have come to idealize them due to a mix of demographic decline, misconception of Islam, self-hate for the Western culture and a fatal, romanticized attraction for the decolonized Third World people.

What is the best way to shut down the debate on immigration? 
By heightening the language to levels impossible to be debated. 
That is what has been happening in the new -- and false -- trend of comparing the waves of migrants arriving in Europe to Jews during the Holocaust..."

Lunch video-----Incredible time-lapse of lightning storms in Hurricane Harvey

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Eligible to Vote: Obama Administration Allowed Thousands of DACA Recipients to Receive Green Cards, Leading to Citizenship - Katie Pavlich

Eligible to Vote: Obama Administration Allowed Thousands of DACA Recipients to Receive Green Cards, Leading to Citizenship - Katie Pavlich:

"According to information released Friday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, the Obama administration not only gave protection to millions of illegal immigrants through DACA, but also allowed DACA recipients to obtain green cards.

"Preliminary data provided by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in response to recent inquiries from the House and Senate Judiciary Committees indicate that the Obama administration allowed thousands of DACA recipients to exploit an immigration law loophole to obtain green cards. "

Ferguson Erects A Memorial For Michael Brown : Here is What a Police Officer Has To Say - Patriot Chronicle

Ferguson Erects A Memorial For Michael Brown : Here is What a Police Officer Has To Say - Patriot Chronicle:
"From IJreview
“I don’t think a criminal that was killed while assaulting a police officer deserves to be memorialized. It sends the wrong message.
Every time people are paid to protest a supposed injustice before the facts are known we lose credibility in the justice system.
Michael Brown was a criminal, he had moments earlier committed or assisted with a strong armed robbery.
When the officer approached, Brown attacked.
The officer shot him in self-defense and it was proven to be justified by a Grand Jury..."

#! Movie this week 1975-----Jaws Official Trailer #1 - Richard Dreyfuss, Steven Spielberg Movie (197...

The inside story of what it took to keep a Texas grocery chain running in the chaos of Hurricane Harvey | Chip Cutter | Pulse | LinkedIn

The inside story of what it took to keep a Texas grocery chain running in the chaos of Hurricane Harvey | Chip Cutter | Pulse | LinkedIn

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In Texas, a grocery chain is now inspiring memes.

One goes like this: "State and federal resources are struggling to get into impacted areas. H.E.B. — outta the way, we're coming."

Another adds: "I’ll see your FEMA and Red Cross and raise you my Texas grocery store chain."

The images refer to the largest grocer in the state, H-E-B, with about 350 stores scattered throughout Texas and Mexico. At a time when retail watchers question the future of brick-and-mortar stores due to Amazon's continued ascendance, the 112-year-old retailer is drawing widespread praise after managing to open 60 of its 83 stores in Houston last Sunday, hours after Hurricane Harvey slammed into Texas as a Category 4 storm. (Now, 79 of the 83 stores are open.)..."

#1 This week 1966-----The Supremes: You Can't Hurry Love - Original (Take 1)

A "Super-Powerful" EMP Attack: North Korea's Newest Weapon Against The U.S. | Zero Hedge

A "Super-Powerful" EMP Attack: North Korea's Newest Weapon Against The U.S. | Zero Hedge
"...And while the North bragged about the weapon’s “great destructive power” in a TV broadcast, what caught analysts’ attention was a mention of a different tactic: detonating  an H-bomb at high altitude to create an electromagnetic pulse that could knock out parts of the US electrical grid.

Here’s WSJ:

“North Korea’s threats against the U.S. now include a tactic long discussed by some experts: an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, triggered by a nuclear weapon that would aim to shut down the U.S. electricity grid.

North Korea’s state news agency made a rare reference to the tactic in a Sunday morning release in which the country said it was able to load a hydrogen bomb onto a long-range missile. The bomb, North Korea said, ‘is a multifunctional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP attack.’”

Unlike a conventional nuke, an EMP blast - think Oceans' 11 - is not directly lethal, and serves mostly to knock out key infrastructure (useful when robbing a casino).

However, it would probably lead to an unknown number of indirect deaths as hospitals and essential infrastructure lose power.

“...electromagnetic waves from the nuclear explosion would generate pulses to overwhelm the electric grid and electronic devices in the same way a lightning surge can destroy equipment.”

In the worst possible scenario, regional power grids could be offline for months (years?), potentially costing many deaths as people would eventually start running out of necessities like food and medicine. 
Lawmakers and the US military have been aware of the EMP threat for many years, according to WSJ. 
In a 2008 report commissioned by Congress, the authors warned that an EMP attack would lead to “widespread and long-lasting disruption and damage to the critical infrastructures that underpin the fabric of US society...”
Much more here.
Read on!

You ought to know!

IRS Gives Tax Exempt Status to Satanic Group in 10 Days - Makes Christian Groups Wait For Years

IRS Gives Tax Exempt Status to Satanic Group in 10 Days - Makes Christian Groups Wait For Years:

"Bill Marshall uncovered this stunning abuse by Obama’s IRS.

“An after school Satanic club was set up by the Satanic temple of Seattle, I believe was the sponsoring organization. What I was most curious about was how long it took the Reason Alliance to get its tax exempt status because as you may remember, the Tea Party groups back in 2010, ’11, ’12 effectively had their applications for tax exempt status from the IRS halted through log rolling,” Bill explained.

“So I contacted the IRS and I got the tax exemption application for the Reason Alliance…do you know how long it took them to get their tax exempt status?"

"Self Drive Act" Passes House Committee 54-0: Safety Standards Scrapped, 25,000 Driverless Cars Coming Right Up | Zero Hedge

"Self Drive Act" Passes House Committee 54-0: Safety Standards Scrapped, 25,000 Driverless Cars Coming Right Up | Zero Hedge
"Many contend that self-driving trucks and cars will not happen anytime soon for numerous reasons (most of them easily refuted).
One of the reasons is of lack of approval from Congress.
That argument will go on the ash heap of history by the end of the year because a bipartisan House Panel Approves Legislation Speeding Up Deployment of Self-Driving Cars.
An influential U.S. House committee on Thursday approved a revised bipartisan bill on a 54-0 vote that would speed the deployment of self-driving cars without human controls and bar states from blocking autonomous vehicles. 
The bill would allow automakers to obtain exemptions to deploy up to 25,000 vehicles without meeting existing auto safety standards in the first year, a cap that would rise to 100,000 vehicles annually over three years...."

AM Fruitcake

History for September 4

History for September 4 - On-This-Day.com
Henry Ford II 1917, Paul Harvey 1918, Craig Claiborne 1920



Dick York 1928, Damon Wayans 1960 - Actor, comedian ("My Wife and Kids"), Beyoncé Knowles 1981 - Singer (Destiny's Child)


1781 - Los Angeles, CA, was founded by Spanish settlers. The original name was "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula," which translates as "The Town of the Queen of Angels."


1882 - Thomas Edison's Pearl Street electric power station began operations in New York City. It was the first display of a practical electrical lighting system.


1886 - Geronimo, and the Apache Indians he led, surrendered in Skeleton Canyon in Arizona to Gen. Nelson Miles.


1888 - George Eastman registered the name "Kodak" and patented his roll-film camera. The camera took 100 exposures per roll.


1957 - The Ford Motor Company began selling the Edsel. The car was so unpopular that it was taken off the market only two years.


1967 - "Gilligan's Island" aired for the last time on CBS-TV. It ran for 98 shows.


1967 - Michigan Gov. George Romney said during a TV interview that he had undergone "brainwashing" by U.S. officials while visiting Vietnam in 1965.


1972 - Swimmer Mark Spitz captured his seventh Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter medley relay event at Munich, Germany. Spitz was the first Olympian to win seven gold medals.

Trump, Mattis, Mnuchin warn North Korea of 'overwhelming' military response, halted trade | Fox News

Trump, Mattis, Mnuchin warn North Korea of 'overwhelming' military response, halted trade | Fox News:

"President Trump suggested Sunday, after another underground nuclear test by North Korea, that he’ll halt trade with any country doing business with the rogue nation, as two members of the president's Cabinet issued tough warnings of their own.

“The United States is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea,” tweeted Trump, in response to the regime of Kim Jong Un claiming to have detonated a hydrogen bomb underground."

The case for a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton | New York Post

The case for a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton | New York Post:

"America tried to let Hillary Clinton off the hook. Despite cries of “lock her up” during the campaign, most of the nation had little appetite for prosecuting her after the election, with even Donald Trump willing to give her a free pass.
“I don’t want to hurt the Clintons, I really don’t,” Trump told The New York Times two weeks after his victory. “She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways.”
But the Clinton e-mail scandal, like Clinton herself, won’t go away. It remains a blot on the legacy of the Obama administration, the Justice Department and the FBI, and now comes fresh evidence that the investigation that cleared her was a total sham."

Google Ultimatum to Conservative Website: Take Down 'Hateful' Article or Be Demonetized

Google Ultimatum to Conservative Website: Take Down 'Hateful' Article or Be Demonetized:


"On Tuesday evening, Google sent a conservative website an ultimatum: remove one of your articles, or lose the ability to make ad revenue on your website. The website was strong-armed into removing the content, and then warned that the page was "just an example and that the same violations may exist on other pages of this website.""

The way we were-----Bobby Darin - Dream Lover

Boob-tube-----The Price Is Right - May 31, 1957

ABC’s ‘Pink Slime’ Report Tied to $177 Million in Settlement Costs - The New York Times

ABC’s ‘Pink Slime’ Report Tied to $177 Million in Settlement Costs - The New York Times:
"The Walt Disney Company said in its latest quarterly financial statement that it had $177 million in costs related to settling litigation.
The announcement came just weeks after ABC News, a Disney unit, reached a settlement with a meat producer that accused the network of defamation for its reports about so-called pink slime, a processed beef product used as low-cost filler.
...on Thursday, Dan K. Webb, a lawyer who represented Beef Products in the trial, said the settlement was higher.
“As Disney disclosed, $177 million is not the total settlement amount. 
Based on Disney’s disclosure, it appears that Disney is funding $177 million of the settlement and its insurers are paying the rest,” he said in a statement emailed by a spokesman.
...Beef Products said a report in 2012 by Jim Avila, an ABC News correspondent, misled consumers about the safety of the product, which is officially known as “lean finely textured beef.”
The company had sought $1.9 billion in damages, but the figure could have grown to as much as $5.7 billion under a South Dakota law..."
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Joan of Arc statue in French Quarter tagged with 'Tear It Down' graffiti | NOLA.com

Joan of Arc statue in French Quarter tagged with 'Tear It Down' graffiti | NOLA.com
The phrase "Tear it Down" was hastily sprayed in black paint across the base of the golden Joan of Arc statue on Decatur Street in the French Quarter sometime earlier this week. It has since been removed, with only the vaguest traces of the paint remaining.

The "Tear it Down" tag would seem to relate to the debate surrounding the city's ongoing removal of four Confederate monuments. 
But the statue of Joan of Arc, a 15th-century military leader, martyr and Catholic saint, hasn't been mentioned in the controversy to this point..."