History for September 18

History for September 18 - On-This-Day.com:
Samuel Johnson 1709, John George Diefenbaker 1895, Greta Garbo 1905


Robert Blake 1933 - Actor (TV: "Baretta"), Frankie Avalon 1939 - Singer, Lance Armstrong 1971 - Cyclist


1789 - Alexander Hamilton negotiated and secured the first loan for the United States. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was repaid on June 8, 1790 at the sum of $19,608.81.


1850 - The Fugitive Slave Act was declared by the U.S. Congress. The act allowed slave owners to claim slaves that had escaped into other states.


1851 - The first issue of "The New York Times" was published.


1946 - Mound Metalcraft was founded in Mound, MN. On November 23, 1955, the company changed its name to Tonka Toys Incorporated.


1947 - The United States Air Force was established as a separate military branch by the National Security Act.


1955 - The "Ed Sullivan Show" began on CBS-TV. The show had been "The Toast of the Town" since 1948.


1981 - A museum honoring former U.S. President Ford was dedicated in Grand Rapids, MI.


1997 - Ted Turner, U.S. Media magnate, announced that over the next ten years he would give $1 billion to the United Nations.

Trump officially donates $1 million to Harvey relief efforts

Trump officially donates $1 million to Harvey relief efforts:

"President Trump made good on his promise to donate $1 million to Harvey relief efforts, according to a report Saturday.

The president sent 12 checks to various organizations helping Texas and Louisiana recover after last month's disastrous storm, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed to The Hill."

The Awan breach on Capitol Hill gets murkier and leads to more questions

The Awan breach on Capitol Hill gets murkier and leads to more questions:

"On April 6, at midnight, in a small room once used as a phone booth on the second floor of the Rayburn House Office Building, a Capitol Hill Police Officer doing his security rounds discovered evidence that will possibly reveal one of the the biggest security breaches involving House Democrats by the Awan family, a group of entrusted IT staffers, according to court records, police reports and news reports.

In the small room, the U.S. Capitol Police found a laptop computer registered to Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, a Florida Democrat and former DNC chairwoman. Wasserman-Schultz had been fighting authorities for months to return the laptop, that she once claimed was not hers."

The way we were-----Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay (Official Video)

Boob-tube-----CBS NEWS LIVE Coverage of The Assassination of President John F Kenned...

The Joy of Destruction | The Weekly Standard

The Joy of Destruction | The Weekly Standard
"...“I don’t equate kicking or putting back tear-gas canisters as attacking police,” he told the television audience.
Sadly, the police did equate all that with attacking the police, and they had no trouble identifying him from his postings and his television interview.
On August 24, Joshua Stuart Cobin, 29 years old, of Scottsdale, Arizona, was arraigned on three charges of felony assault.
Nearly every part of this saga would have been unintelligible 20 years ago, mostly because nearly every part of it is driven by computer connectivity.
...To arrive at the notion that hurling things at the police isn’t attacking them, Josh had to confuse what one can get away with saying on a Reddit feed with what one can get away with actually doing on the streets of Phoenix.
...The glory of the Internet is that it allows like-minded people to find one another.
And the horror of the Internet is that it allows like-minded people to find one another.
...And that instantaneity allows a radicalizing more rapid than the world has ever seen.
Back in a 1999 study called “The Law of Group Polarization,” legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein suggested that discussion among people with similar views causes a hardening of opinion.
...With sufficient group discussion on one side of an issue, everyone involved takes a step toward the extreme: 
The mildly supportive become strongly supportive, the strongly supportive become wildly supportive, and the wildly supportive become fanatical psychopaths.

Susan Rice Lied About Her Role In Obama Admin Unmasking Scandal

Susan Rice Lied About Her Role In Obama Admin Unmasking Scandal:

"Perhaps Nunes’ reasons were partisan. Perhaps his framing was exaggerated. We’ll see. But if CNN’s reporting is correct, everything Nunes claimed that day was basically true. Which is a lot more than we can say for others.

On the same day, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice was interviewed by PBS’s Judy Woodruff and asked to respond to Nunes’ accusation that she had unmasked those Trump officials in the waning days of the Obama administration. Here is the exchange:"

Communism's Barbaric Cruelty By the Numbers - Reason.com

Communism's Barbaric Cruelty By the Numbers - Reason.com
"Writing in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, A. Barton Hinkle remembers "A century of ghastly communist sadism," which started when a relatively small number of Bolshevik anarchists led by Vladimir Lenin managed to overthrow the Russian government of Alexander Kerensky in November 1917. 
As Hinkle writes, "while the Soviet Union is no more and communism has been discredited in most eyes for many years, it is hard even now to grasp the sheer scale of agony imposed by the brutal ideology of collectivism."
The Black Book of Communism, which came out in 1997, estimated that some 95 million people were either killed or made to starve to death in the communist attempt to create an egalitarian paradise on earth. Current research puts the number of victims of communism anywhere between 43 million and 162 million. 
As such, the original 100 million figure remains a remarkably accurate midway point. 
It is, also, a figure so large that people may have difficulty comprehending it without additional context. 
Leaving the (rightly) well-known example of the Holocaust aside, let us look at some other bywords for human cruelty....

• Or take another byword for savagery—the Inquisition. According to Professor Agostino Borromeo, a historian of Catholicism at the Sapienza University in Rome who authored a 783-page study of the Inquisition that was based on the Church's own records, "there were some 125,000 trials of suspected heretics in Spain... [between 1478 and 1834, but only] about 1 percent of the defendants (i.e., 1,250) were executed."...

• Queen Mary, the eldest daughter of Henry VIII, who has come to be known as Bloody Mary for her attempt to restore Catholicism to England between 1553 and 1558, sent 280 dissenters to the stake..

• Lastly, consider apartheid, which the United Nations declared a "crime against humanity" in 1966. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was tasked by Nelson Mandela's government to provide a definitive account of apartheid abuses between 1960 and 1994, found (Volume 5, p. 232) that the "IFP (Inkatha Freedom Party—a black nationalist movement) remains the major perpetrator of killings on a national scale, being allegedly responsible for over 4,500 killings compared to 2,700 attributed to the SAP (white-dominated South African Police) and 1,300 to the ANC (African National Congress—another black nationalist movement)."

...Put in proper perspective, in other words, communism really does take the cake when it comes to the scale and intensity of human rights abuses."

Stop What You're Doing and Look at This Photo of an 11-Year-Old Mowing the WH Lawn With Trump

Stop What You're Doing and Look at This Photo of an 11-Year-Old Mowing the WH Lawn With Trump:

"This summer, the White House began a new tradition of reading aloud some of the letters President Donald Trump received from children. One of those letters had to do with a little boy named 'Pickle.' Another had to do with the young man wanting to cut the White House lawn.

Earlier in August, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders read aloud this letter from a then-10-year-old named Frank offering to cut the White House lawn for free even though he usually charges $8:"

Lunch video-----Why Self-Esteem Is Self-Defeating

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Enrollment drops at schools known for 'social justice warfare' - Washington Times

Enrollment drops at schools known for 'social justice warfare' - Washington Times:

"Universities known for being hotbeds of campus protest and liberal activism are struggling with declining enrollments and budget shortfalls, and higher education analysts say that’s no coincidence.
Take Oberlin College. According to a document leaked to The Oberlin Review, the school’s student newspaper, the small liberal arts college famous for social justice hoaxes has had trouble attracting and retaining students, missing this year’s enrollment mark by 80 and racking up a $5 million budget deficit in the process."

Should You Tell the Cops You Have a Gun? - Reason.com

Should You Tell the Cops You Have a Gun? - Reason.com:
"The fatal shooting of Philando Castile last year by a Minnesota police officer reinvigorated an old debate about how people who are licensed to carry a concealed weapon (CCW) should handle interactions with the cops. 
The officer, who was acquitted of manslaughter in June, panicked during a traffic stop after Castile, a CCW licensee, told him he was armed.
Some gun owners argue that disclosure is considerate and prudent, while others worry it will escalate a routine traffic stop into a tense, unpleasant, and possibly life-threatening encounter.
But virtually everyone agrees it's important to know the relevant legal requirements, which vary from state to state."

Montana Snow About 60 Days Early - Ice Age Now

Montana Snow About 60 Days Early - Ice Age Now:
“Global warming nonsense is only a political expedient …try living here in the cold reality.”– Chet Walker
"I live south of Missoula, Montana, in the Sapphire & Bitterroot Mountains at 3,500 ft; in the area being discussed, and we haven’t been getting snow like this for several years.
Our hunting seasons have been without snow quite regularly and last year we didn’t get ANY snow until the last few days of the season in late November.
However the winter snow sticks around here until early August at higher altitude (6,000 ft+).
So, it’s about 60 days early...
...It’s very early to get this kind of snow, however (trying to be positive) we do need it to possibly dampen and put out some of the high-mountain fires that have been allowed to go unchecked.
Global warming nonsense is only a political expedient …try living here in the cold reality."

#1 This day 1974-----Barry White - Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Baby.

Judicial Watch Says Trump Should Overrule His DOJ And Order A Full Review Of The IRS Scandal

TaxProf Blog:
"...Last week the Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, announced prosecutors will not pursue charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner. 
Lerner is infamous for her deliberate targeting of conservative tea party groups between 2010 and 2012 while leading the tax exempt department inside the agency.
The news was immediately met with outrage by House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady, who said the failure to reopen the case against Lerner (which was closed without charges under the Obama administration) only proves that Washington bureaucrats are held to a much lower standard than every day Americans living outside the protective D.C. bubble. ...
Judicial Watch, which is still pursuing documents related to the IRS targeting scandal and has for years, proving Lerner was at the heart of the targeting, is buying none of it and calling on President Trump to intervene.
"I have zero confidence that the Justice Department did an adequate review of the IRS scandal. 
In fact, we’re still fighting the Justice Department and the IRS for records about this very scandal. 
Today’s [Friday's] decision comes as no surprise considering that the FBI collaborated with the IRS and is unlikely to investigate or prosecute itself," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton released in a statement. "President Trump should order a complete review of the whole issue. 
Meanwhile, we await accountability for IRS Commissioner Koskinen, who still serves and should be drummed out of office."

• The IRS Scandal, Day 1582: Is The IRS Scandal About To Break Wide Open? (Sept. 7, 2017)
• The IRS Scandal, Day 1580: Conservative Group Hoping For 'Perp Walks' After Breakthrough In IRS Lawsuit(Sept. 5, 2017)

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Abedin's mom made sure Clinton's Saudi speech omitted 'freedom' and 'driving for women,' emails show | Fox News

Abedin's mom made sure Clinton's Saudi speech omitted 'freedom' and 'driving for women,' emails show | Fox News:


"Huma Abedin’s mother helped to water down a speech then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave at a Saudi women’s college, warning not to mention “political” terms like “freedom” and “driving for women,” new emails show.

Abedin’s mother, Saleha Abedin, is a sociology lecturer at Dar Al Hekma, a women’s college in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where Clinton spoke to students on Feb. 16, 2010."

More SEIU schemes to bilk the taxpayer - NetRight Daily

More SEIU schemes to bilk the taxpayer - NetRight Daily
"The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the nation’s largest unions, has been filling its coffers with Medicaid dollars for years.
With the help of Democrat politicians, SEIU has been raking in tens of millions of dollars each year by skimming dues off the top of Medicaid checks sent to personal care assistants, who care for Medicaid recipients in their homes.
...Typically, unions are paid to negotiate and enforce contracts between employees and management. But with personal care assistants, having a union makes little sense.
Personal care assistants are “employed” by the person they care for – often their own child, or another relative, or a friend. 
Personal care assistants do not work for the state or the federal government.
And it’s not like SEIU sits down with each Medicaid patient and bargains with them over smoking breaks, time off, and benefits on behalf of each personal care assistant.
...With SEIU doing so little for these caregivers, why should they have to pay hundreds of dollars a year in dues to the union?
...Setting politics aside, SEIU has a long record of sleazy and scandalous behavior. 
For example, SEIU has a policy of refusing to recognize dues opt-out forms outside of arbitrary windows of time that allows it to continue collecting dues even after a member resigns, as an Oregon woman learned.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg..."
Read on.
These are sleazy scumbags!