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Tuesday, September 12, 2017
History for September 12
History for September 12 - On-This-Day.com
Richard Gatling 1818, H.L. Mencken 1880, Jesse Owens 1913
Ian Holm 1931, Glenn Davis 1934, Barry White 1944
1914 - The first battle of Marne ended when the allied forces stopped the German offensive in France.
1922 - The Episcopal Church removed the word "Obey" from the bride's section of wedding vows.
1938 - In a speech, Adolf Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.
1953 - U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.
1953 - Nikita Krushchev was elected as the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1954 - "Lassie" made its television debut on CBS. The last show aired on September 12, 1971.
1963 - The last episode of "Leave it to Beaver" was aired. The show had debuted on October 4, 1957.
1992 - Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first African-American woman in space. She was the payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Endeavor. Also onboard were Mission Specialist N. Jan Davis and Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Mark C. Lee. They were the first married couple to fly together in space. And, Mamoru Mohri became the first Japanese person to fly into space.
Monday, September 11, 2017
WATCH: Mattis Delivers STRONG Message On 9/11 Anniversary | Daily Wire
WATCH: Mattis Delivers STRONG Message On 9/11 Anniversary | Daily Wire:
"Mattis then issued a stern warning to the Islamic terrorists.
"While we never asked for this fight, we are steadfastly committed to seeing it through, as President Trump has made it abundantly clear," Mattis said.
The defense secretary then mocked the Islamic terrorists as "maniacs disguised in false religious garb," saying they were wrong to think they could frighten Americans into submission."
"Mattis then issued a stern warning to the Islamic terrorists.
"While we never asked for this fight, we are steadfastly committed to seeing it through, as President Trump has made it abundantly clear," Mattis said.
The defense secretary then mocked the Islamic terrorists as "maniacs disguised in false religious garb," saying they were wrong to think they could frighten Americans into submission."
UC Berkeley Battles Students Over "Offensive" Building Names | Daily Wire
UC Berkeley Battles Students Over "Offensive" Building Names | Daily Wire:
"“Many were hopeful” when the university said it would review building names in the wake of concerns about Barrows Hall, “but more than a year later, the committee tasked with reviewing building names instead simply recommended creating yet another committee,” the paper said, claiming that nearly every building on Berkeley's campus honored a "racist.""
"“Many were hopeful” when the university said it would review building names in the wake of concerns about Barrows Hall, “but more than a year later, the committee tasked with reviewing building names instead simply recommended creating yet another committee,” the paper said, claiming that nearly every building on Berkeley's campus honored a "racist.""
The real story of flight 93 | World news | The Guardian
The real story of flight 93 | World news | The Guardian:
"Todd Beamer was a religious family man.
Mark Bingham was gay, a PR executive and a keen sportsman.
Cockpit recordings from 11 September now show how these two very different men became heroes of America
First published on Saturday 1 December 2001
The words everywhere.
They have become America's favourite, bittersweet and articulate bumper sticker.
They were used by President Bush to dispatch his bombers to the mountains and deserts of Afghanistan - but they resonate further than that.
For they are also the words that closed a remarkable conversation on 11 September between a man called Todd Beamer and Lisa Jefferson, a telephone switchboard operator.
The words are: 'Let's Roll'.
Jefferson was in a suburb of Chicago, at the headquarters of the GTE phone company, when she took the call that, she now says, changed her life. Beamer, the caller, was aboard the hijacked and doomed United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco.
Beamer, who didn't want to worry his pregnant wife, had called GTC, the company that provides the telephone service on United Airlines flights.
He and Jefferson talked for 13 minutes, during which they recited together the Lord's Prayer and Psalm 23 - 'Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.'
Beamer had ideas about that valley, and how many dead it should claim.
For as Flight 93 was gnarled off course, he and other passengers learnt through an extraordinary series of calls they made to relatives and partners that their plane was one of a quartet turned into terrorist guided missiles.
And in the hopeless claustrophobia of a tubular steel trap 30,000 feet up, they tried to defy death.
By the time Beamer dialled GTE, his aircraft had been re-routed by the terrorists towards Washington, and perhaps on course for the White House, or the Capitol.
Beamer and other passengers decided to take on the hijackers and wrest control of the plane.
The recent release of tapes from the cockpit voice recorder indicates just how close they came to doing so..."
"Todd Beamer was a religious family man.
Mark Bingham was gay, a PR executive and a keen sportsman.
Cockpit recordings from 11 September now show how these two very different men became heroes of America
First published on Saturday 1 December 2001
The words everywhere.
They have become America's favourite, bittersweet and articulate bumper sticker.
They were used by President Bush to dispatch his bombers to the mountains and deserts of Afghanistan - but they resonate further than that.
For they are also the words that closed a remarkable conversation on 11 September between a man called Todd Beamer and Lisa Jefferson, a telephone switchboard operator.
The words are: 'Let's Roll'.
Jefferson was in a suburb of Chicago, at the headquarters of the GTE phone company, when she took the call that, she now says, changed her life. Beamer, the caller, was aboard the hijacked and doomed United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco.
Beamer, who didn't want to worry his pregnant wife, had called GTC, the company that provides the telephone service on United Airlines flights.
He and Jefferson talked for 13 minutes, during which they recited together the Lord's Prayer and Psalm 23 - 'Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.'
Beamer had ideas about that valley, and how many dead it should claim.
For as Flight 93 was gnarled off course, he and other passengers learnt through an extraordinary series of calls they made to relatives and partners that their plane was one of a quartet turned into terrorist guided missiles.
And in the hopeless claustrophobia of a tubular steel trap 30,000 feet up, they tried to defy death.
By the time Beamer dialled GTE, his aircraft had been re-routed by the terrorists towards Washington, and perhaps on course for the White House, or the Capitol.
Beamer and other passengers decided to take on the hijackers and wrest control of the plane.
The recent release of tapes from the cockpit voice recorder indicates just how close they came to doing so..."
How Democrats left America naked before North Korea’s nukes | New York Post
How Democrats left America naked before North Korea’s nukes | New York Post
"With last weekend’s surprise nuclear test, North Korea has reached the final stage of its crash course to develop thermonuclear weapons that can reach and destroy US cities.
So why are we not on a crash course to protect our cities from North Korean nuclear missiles?
Opposition to missile defense has been an article of faith for Democrats since President Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983.
Sen. Edward Kennedy led the early opposition to what Democrats derisively labeled “Star Wars,” denouncing missile defense as a “mirage.”
Reagan nonetheless moved forward with research and development, and his successor, George H.W. Bush, put missile defense on track for deployment with the Global Protection Against Limited Strikes program.
But as soon as President Bill Clinton took office, he terminated GPALS and cut national missile-defense funding 80 percent.
Clinton also signed an agreement to revive the moribund Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which banned deployment of missile defense..."
Read on!
"With last weekend’s surprise nuclear test, North Korea has reached the final stage of its crash course to develop thermonuclear weapons that can reach and destroy US cities.
So why are we not on a crash course to protect our cities from North Korean nuclear missiles?
- Answer: Because for more than three decades, Democrats have done everything in their power to prevent, obstruct or delay ballistic-missile defense.
Opposition to missile defense has been an article of faith for Democrats since President Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983.
Sen. Edward Kennedy led the early opposition to what Democrats derisively labeled “Star Wars,” denouncing missile defense as a “mirage.”
Reagan nonetheless moved forward with research and development, and his successor, George H.W. Bush, put missile defense on track for deployment with the Global Protection Against Limited Strikes program.
But as soon as President Bill Clinton took office, he terminated GPALS and cut national missile-defense funding 80 percent.
Clinton also signed an agreement to revive the moribund Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which banned deployment of missile defense..."
Read on!
If voter fraud by out-of-state Democrats managed to sway New Hampshire elections the implications are huge | Fox News
If voter fraud by out-of-state Democrats managed to sway New Hampshire elections the implications are huge | Fox News:
"In the 15 states that have same-day voter registration, the vast majority of voters who use the law are recent arrivals who’ve moved from other states. But apparently not in New Hampshire.
The vast majority of the 6,240 voters in New Hampshire who registered on the same day they cast ballots – 70 percent – used out-of-state identification to prove their identities, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation. That’s something that people who have just moved into the state can do, prior to obtaining New Hampshire ID."
"In the 15 states that have same-day voter registration, the vast majority of voters who use the law are recent arrivals who’ve moved from other states. But apparently not in New Hampshire.
The vast majority of the 6,240 voters in New Hampshire who registered on the same day they cast ballots – 70 percent – used out-of-state identification to prove their identities, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation. That’s something that people who have just moved into the state can do, prior to obtaining New Hampshire ID."
To Hell and Back: The Untold Story of the Real Heroes of Benghazi - Maxim
To Hell and Back: The Untold Story of the Real Heroes of Benghazi - Maxim
"They survived Benghazi only to become unwitting players in a never-ending scandal. If they have to fight, they'll fight — but this time it's to protect their own.
The plan was to make jack-o’-lanterns. John Tiegen and Mark Geist have brought their families out here, to the scraggly wilds of Tiegen’s 40-acre Colorado property, so the kids can carve pumpkins while the men hunt small game.
But the guns prove more appealing to everyone, so the plans converge.
“Cover your ears, guys,” Tiegen says as he slaps a 14-round magazine into his NEMO Watchman, the Ferrari of semiautomatic precision rifles.
To his right, Geist stares through the scope of his custom AR-15.
Then they light up the pumpkins.
Orange guts explode.
The kids cheer.
The men move on to the animals.
“Want me to skin that?” Geist asks, pointing to a rabbit with a bullet in its head. Geist’s family settled on the eastern plains more than 100 years ago.
He grew up the way kids here always have, with guns and horses and Wild West lore.
He can tell the time using nothing but the horizon and his fist. Point to a random tree or cactus and he knows its name.
He, like Tiegen, is a man of self-reliance.
And so he places the carcass on the ground, kneels over it, and pulls back the sleeves of his camouflaged jacket.
His left forearm is a map of scars.
He’s always been proficient with a knife, but these days, his thumb doesn’t flex naturally; he has to compensate, clamping the knife hilt between his fingers and his palm.
“I used to be faster at this,” he mutters.
The black memorial bracelet on his wrist flashes in the sun.
Tiegen wears one, too.
It reads: Tyrone “Rone” Woods, Glen “Bub” Doherty/Libya 9-12-12.
Two of the dead in Benghazi..."
"They survived Benghazi only to become unwitting players in a never-ending scandal. If they have to fight, they'll fight — but this time it's to protect their own.
The plan was to make jack-o’-lanterns. John Tiegen and Mark Geist have brought their families out here, to the scraggly wilds of Tiegen’s 40-acre Colorado property, so the kids can carve pumpkins while the men hunt small game.
But the guns prove more appealing to everyone, so the plans converge.
“Cover your ears, guys,” Tiegen says as he slaps a 14-round magazine into his NEMO Watchman, the Ferrari of semiautomatic precision rifles.
To his right, Geist stares through the scope of his custom AR-15.
Then they light up the pumpkins.
Orange guts explode.
The kids cheer.
The men move on to the animals.
He grew up the way kids here always have, with guns and horses and Wild West lore.
He can tell the time using nothing but the horizon and his fist. Point to a random tree or cactus and he knows its name.
He, like Tiegen, is a man of self-reliance.
And so he places the carcass on the ground, kneels over it, and pulls back the sleeves of his camouflaged jacket.
His left forearm is a map of scars.
He’s always been proficient with a knife, but these days, his thumb doesn’t flex naturally; he has to compensate, clamping the knife hilt between his fingers and his palm.
“I used to be faster at this,” he mutters.
The black memorial bracelet on his wrist flashes in the sun.
Tiegen wears one, too.
It reads: Tyrone “Rone” Woods, Glen “Bub” Doherty/Libya 9-12-12.
Two of the dead in Benghazi..."
Remembering 9/11: Rick Rescorla, a Singing Hero - Victory Girls Blog
Remembering 9/11: Rick Rescorla, a Singing Hero - Victory Girls Blog
"Every culture tells the stories of its heroes.
There are multiple reasons for telling the stories of heroes.
As long as we tell the story and say the name of the hero, he still lives.
Telling the story of the hero inspires each successive generation to heroism.
Rick Rescorla was a hero on September 11, 2001 in the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, New York City.
His story must be told and the name of Rick Rescorla must be said aloud to keep him alive..."
"Every culture tells the stories of its heroes.
There are multiple reasons for telling the stories of heroes.
As long as we tell the story and say the name of the hero, he still lives.
Telling the story of the hero inspires each successive generation to heroism.
Rick Rescorla was a hero on September 11, 2001 in the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, New York City.
His story must be told and the name of Rick Rescorla must be said aloud to keep him alive..."
Democrats and ‘Dogma’ - WSJ
Democrats and ‘Dogma’ - WSJ:
"Thus did California Sen. Dianne Feinstein pronounce on Wednesday that, by virtue of being a faithful Catholic, Amy Barrett, a respected law professor at Notre Dame, may have excluded herself from a federal judgeship. President Trump has nominated Ms. Barrett for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. But the Democratic obsession with Ms. Barrett’s religion transformed what should have been a routine Senate confirmation hearing into a tour of the mind of the modern secular left.
The ugly implication of Mrs. Feinstein’s words is underscored by the context. "
"Thus did California Sen. Dianne Feinstein pronounce on Wednesday that, by virtue of being a faithful Catholic, Amy Barrett, a respected law professor at Notre Dame, may have excluded herself from a federal judgeship. President Trump has nominated Ms. Barrett for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. But the Democratic obsession with Ms. Barrett’s religion transformed what should have been a routine Senate confirmation hearing into a tour of the mind of the modern secular left.
The ugly implication of Mrs. Feinstein’s words is underscored by the context. "
Fact Check Hurricane Rumors on FEMA's Website
Fact Check Hurricane Rumors on FEMA's Website:
"With the approach of Irma and aftermath of Harvey, there’s started to be a ton of #fakenews circulating about everything from whether or not you can have pets in hotels, to if can catch the plague from flood waters.
To help combat the rumor train, FEMA has released a new “Rumor Control” portion of its site where it addresses some of the most common rumors going around and explains why they might be true or false.
It plans to update the site as time goes on, so new rumors that pop up are likely to be addressed on the site as well.
Going forward, if you see something going around that sounds a little fishy, you can fact check it here.
As for some of the biggest rumors circulating out there.
To help combat the rumor train, FEMA has released a new “Rumor Control” portion of its site where it addresses some of the most common rumors going around and explains why they might be true or false.
It plans to update the site as time goes on, so new rumors that pop up are likely to be addressed on the site as well.
Going forward, if you see something going around that sounds a little fishy, you can fact check it here.
As for some of the biggest rumors circulating out there.
Here’s what FEMA has to say:
- Hotels and Motels participating in the Transitional Sheltering Assitance program are NOT required to accommodate pets. If you have a pet and are headed to one of these, you should call first to make sure your pet is ok.
- Floodwaters are NOT bringing the plague with them. The plague is spread by fleas, not water.
- Undocumented immigrants will NOT be reported to ICE or CBP if they seek shelter, and neither group is conducting immigration enforcement at hurricane relief sites.
- If you were in Texas, you did NOT have to file a flood insurance claim before September 1. The law that people site in this rumor, “House Bill 1774” does not affect flood insurance policies or claims.
Judicial Watch: IRS Produces Recovered Lerner Emails
Judicial Watch: IRS Produces Recovered Lerner Emails:
"“These recovered Lois Lerner emails had to be dragged out of the Obama IRS, which is still resisting a federal court order requiring disclosure of Lerner’s ‘lost’ emails,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “This material shows that the IRS’ cover-up began years ago. We now have smoking-gun proof that top officials in the Obama IRS unlawfully harassed taxpayers just to keep them from complaining to Congress about IRS’ targeting and abuse. No wonder the Obama IRS has had such little interest in preserving or finding Lois Lerner’s emails.”"
"“These recovered Lois Lerner emails had to be dragged out of the Obama IRS, which is still resisting a federal court order requiring disclosure of Lerner’s ‘lost’ emails,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “This material shows that the IRS’ cover-up began years ago. We now have smoking-gun proof that top officials in the Obama IRS unlawfully harassed taxpayers just to keep them from complaining to Congress about IRS’ targeting and abuse. No wonder the Obama IRS has had such little interest in preserving or finding Lois Lerner’s emails.”"
History for September 11
History for September 11 - On-This-Day.com:
O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) 1862, D.H. Lawrence 1885, Bear Bryant 1913
Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines) 1917, Tom Landry 1924, Ludacris (Christopher Brian Bridges) 1977 - Rapper, actor
1609 - Explorer Henry Hudson sailed into New York harbor and discovered Manhattan Island and the Hudson River.
1777 - American forces, under General George Washington, were forced to retreat at the Battle of Brandywine Creek by British forces under William Howe. The Stars and Stripes (American flag) were carried for the first time in the battle.
1789 - Alexander Hamilton was appointed by U.S. President George Washington to be the first secretary of the treasury.
1936 - Boulder Dam in Nevada was dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt by turning on the dam's first hydroelectric generator. The dam is now called Hoover Dam.
1959 - The U.S. Congress passed a bill authorizing the creation of food stamps.
1974 - "Little House On The Prairie" made its television debut.
2001 - In the U.S., four airliners were hijacked and were intentionally crashed. Two airliners hit the World Trade Center, which collapsed shortly after, in New York City, NY. One airliner hit the Pentagon in Arlington, VA. Another airliner crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. About 3,000 people were killed.
2012 - Terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Four Americans were brutally murdered and ten others were injured.
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