Tuesday, October 03, 2017

History for October 3

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History for October 3 - On-This-Day.com
Thomas Wolfe 1900, Harvey Kurtzman 1902 - Founder of "Mad" magazine, James Herriot 1916
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Gore Vidal 1925, Chubby Checker 194, Tommy Lee 1961 Musician (Motley Crue), Motley Crue Merchandise
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1863 - U.S. President Lincoln declared that the last Thursday of November would be recognized as Thanksgiving Day.
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1893 - The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented by J.S. Thurman.
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1906 - W.T. Grant opened a 25-cent department store.
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1954 - "Father Knows Best" began airing on CBS-TV.
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1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premiered on CBS-TV.
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1955 - "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiered on ABC-TV.
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1961 - "The Dick Van Dyke Show" debuted on CBS-TV.
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2006 - North Korea announced that it would conduct a nuclear test as a key step in the manufacture of atomic bombs that it viewed as a deterrent against a U.S. attack. A date for the test was not announced.
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Monday, October 02, 2017

CBS Takes Action Against VP For Comments On Las Vegas Attack

CBS Takes Action Against VP For Comments On Las Vegas Attack:

Image result for free clip art Fired"CBS has fired one of its vice presidents after she said she’s “not even sympathetic” to the victims of Sunday night’s Las Vegas, Nevada, shooting.

Hayley Geftman-Gold, who served as CBS’ vice president and top senior counsel, was fired on Monday after making several disturbing comments on Facebook regarding the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival.

Among other things, Geftman-Gold wrote that she was “actually not even sympathetic (because) country music fans often are (R)epublican gun toters.”"



LIMBAUGH: Unfair Charges of Systemic Racism | Daily Wire

LIMBAUGH: Unfair Charges of Systemic Racism | Daily Wire:

Image result for flickr commons images American Flag"So when certain NFL players kneel during the national anthem, the dominant liberal media culture celebrates them, while anyone who objects to their action is accused of infringing on their liberties, even though no state action is involved and no constitutional question is at issue.

It is leftists who want to chill the speech of those criticizing the protesters for disrespecting the American flag. Instead of invoking bogus free speech issues, shouldn't we talk about the content of the protesters' complaints and the propriety of their manner of expressing them?

It seems the thrust of the protesters' complaint is that American law enforcement and America itself are systemically racist."

The way we were-----The Night Chicago Died

Boob-tube-----When Color TV Came to Sacramento

Catalan Referendum: 90% Back Independence | Statista

• Chart: Catalan Referendum: 90% Back Independence | Statista
"Following a contentious referendum marred by violence, Catalan officials have said that 90 percent of those who voted on Sunday favor independence from Spain. 
Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has said that the region has won the right to statehood and that the door has been opened to a unilateral declaration of independence. 
Spain has bitterly opposed the vote and the country's constitutional court banned it..."
Read on!
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'Racist Anthem': Francis Scott Key Memorial Vandalized In Baltimore | Daily Wire

'Racist Anthem': Francis Scott Key Memorial Vandalized In Baltimore | Daily Wire:

Image result for flickr commons images Francis Scott Keys"Vandals defaced a statue of Francis Scott Key in Baltimore Tuesday night, scrawling "racist anthem" on the memorial's base and splashing it with red and black paint, the Baltimore Sun reports.

Authorities also say two stanzas of the third verse of Key's "Star Spangled Banner," the national anthem, were scrawled on the ground, in an apparent effort to explain why poor Francis was the latest target in a string of statue defacing incidents:"

A Yankee Visits Charlottesville, Where Gen. Lee Is Under Cover - WSJ

A Yankee Visits Charlottesville, Where Gen. Lee Is Under Cover - WSJ
A covered statue of confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Va., Sept. 19."This city seems to be in mourning.
On the campus where Thomas Jefferson planted the “academical village” that grew up to be the University of Virginia, the university’s statue of Jefferson was briefly swathed in black plastic.
In nearby Emancipation Park, a 26-foot-high equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee remains swathed in black, mostly to prevent defacement. 
In the wake of the Aug. 12 riot between fanatics of the neo-Nazi right and the new Red Guards of the Antifa left, an uneasy atmosphere prevails throughout Charlottesville, as if awaiting, like Pompeii, yet another eruption..."

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NFL Legend: Black Victimhood Narrative A Democrat 'Political Strategy' That Just Creates 'Misery' | Daily Wire

NFL Legend: Black Victimhood Narrative A Democrat 'Political Strategy' That Just Creates 'Misery' | Daily Wire:

Image result for free clip art Failed"NFL players pushing anti-American racial agitation were politically misled, said Owens:

Let me tell you what the flag represents and what our country represents; it’ a place of hope, it’s a place of second chances, and we have these young men that are literally millionaires … with billions of dollars represented on that sideline, and they have no clue that we the people — they — are the solution, because they’ve been brought up in this socialist, liberal, Marxist environment in which they’re not given hope. …"


Byron York: As fight enters second month, FBI still withholding dossier documents

Byron York: As fight enters second month, FBI still withholding dossier documents:
"It has now been more than a month since a House Intelligence Committee subpoena set a September 1 deadline for the FBI and the Justice Department to turn over documents related to the Trump dossier.
Not a single document has been produced. 
The first deadline was extended once, then again, then again, and is now on some sort of hold.
But no documents have been handed over.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein met with committee chairman Devin Nunes last Thursday -- the committee can perhaps take comfort in the fact that it is being put off by progressively higher-ranking officials -- but it is not clear if the committee is any closer to receiving the documents than when it first issued its subpoena on August 24..."

Puerto Rican Cop Says Local Gov Preventing Aid From Getting to People

Puerto Rican Cop Says Local Gov Preventing Aid From Getting to People
"A Puerto Rican police officer says that the United States military needs to take over disaster relief on the hurricane-ravaged island because the local government is not doing what needs to be done.
The distraught female officer, who was able to get a call in to a Hispanic radio station in New York (La Mega) last week, described the gross incompetence and inaction she has been witnessing in the wake of the hurricane. 
She said she couldn't give her name because she works for Puerto Rico's police department.
FEMA reported in a news release on September 21 that commodities such as meals, water, cots, and blankets were already pre-positioned and ready for distribution at its Distribution Center and Warehouse in San Juan. 
More supplies have been shipped in since then.
As of September 30, at least 10,000 shipping containers of food, water, medicine and other critical supplies were sitting on the docks at the port in San Juan, but were not moving because of a lack of truck drivers, some of whom appear to be on strike..."
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#1 This day 1973-----Cher - Half Breed

The Psychology of Overrated Art - Foundation for Economic Education - Working for a free and prosperous world

The Psychology of Overrated Art - Foundation for Economic Education - Working for a free and prosperous world:
"For as long as I can remember, the "My child could do that" critique of modern painting and sculpture has resonated with me. 
Broadly defined, I hasten to add, modernity creates great new visual art all the time; just look at graphic novels over the last forty years
But to my eyes, high-status painting and sculpture - the kind displayed in the "modern" section of museums - almost always looks like junk. 
Image result for piss jeasusWhen my little boy loudly declared, "That's not art!" at the modern section of the National Art Gallery, I thought of the Emperor's New Clothes and proudly smiled.
I know that most art aficionados will attribute my philistine position to ignorance. 
But what's my theory about where they go wrong? 
I can hardly call them ignorant; they plainly know vastly more about the art they prize than I do.
Instead, I blame their aesthetic errors on some well-known psychological biases. Leading the list:
  1. Confirmation bias. Human beings have a serious case of "believing is seeing." If they expect some artworks to be good - say, because they're in a museum - they'll look around for the faintest sign of aesthetic merit. They'll rationalize. And before long, many viewers will convince themselves that almost anything they expected to be good is good.
  2. Hindsight bias. Once people know what actually happened, they find it hard to believe that anything else was ever possible. Even when "luck" and "coincidence" clearly drive the results, we prefer stories about "deep causes" and "inevitability." Thus, when an artist achieves worldwide fame, our natural inclination is to attribute his success to aesthetic skill - and dismiss the possibility that he merely won a lottery.
  3. Conformity. Psychologist Solomon Asch famously designed an experiment with one subject and seven confederates. He gave them a simple task - comparing the lengths of lines–then repeatedly ordered all the confederates to give the false answer. Result: When everyone else says something wrong, people do more than say the wrong thing. When debriefed, many subjects seem to sincerely believe the wrong thing. So if you're in a museum where everyone around you claims soup cans are great art, mere consensus can plausibly change your mind for no good reason.
  4. Social Desirability Bias. People prefer to say and believe whatever sounds good. "The stuff in the museum is great" sounds a lot better than "My child could do that."
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NFL Brand Favorability PLUMMETS. Viewership Drops. League Execs Hit Panic Button. | Daily Wire

NFL Brand Favorability PLUMMETS. Viewership Drops. League Execs Hit Panic Button. | Daily Wire:

Image result for Football Player Silhouette"Following the National Football League's full embrace of the #TakeAKnee national anthem protests this weekend, a new Morning Consult poll provides yet more evidence that the league's handling of the issue has done real damage to the brand. The survey found the NFL's brand favorability nearly sliced in half in a week and at its lowest point since they began tracking it back in May. The news follows dramatic drops in viewership on Sunday, down around 10% over last year, and Thursday, down 13%."

Articles: How to Destroy a Nation

Articles: How to Destroy a Nation
How to Destroy a Nation
"In The Possessed, Dostoyevsky has his character Shatov exclaim:
If a great people does not believe that the truth is only to be found in itself alone (in itself alone and exclusively); if it does not believe that it alone is fit and destined to raise up and save all the rest by its truth, it would at once sink into being ethnographical material, and not a great people…
Put another way, if a nation has confidence in itself, it continues as a viable political entity. Once it loses that, it lacks cohesion and becomes only a collection of random people living together.
In the 19th century, the British people believed in themselves. 
This confidence fueled their impetus for Empire; they embraced the need, the duty, even, to bring democracy, Christianity, and the British way of life to the entire world. 
No one doubted their heaven-sent mandate to do so. 
So much so, that Britain almost singlehandedly assumed the mission of ending the slave trade
As much as one-sixth of the Royal Navy was eventually assigned to this task, patrolling the Atlantic, and eventually freeing in the process 150,000 African captives. 
In Zanzibar, the ancient Muslim slave market was closed and an Anglican church erected on the spot, with the slave whipping post being exchanged for an altar. 
Truth, justice, and righteousness had prevailed, thanks to British arms.
In another part of Africa, David Livingston, after observing an Arab slave raid on an African village, devoted himself to the crusade -- there is no better term for it -- against the traffic, becoming an English hero for so doing.
And if my disclosures regarding the terrible Ujijian slavery should lead to the suppression of the East Coast slave trade, I shall regard that as a greater matter by far than the discovery of all the Nile sources together. -- (Livingstone in a letter to the editor of the New York Herald)
In India, the thug cult of stranglers was suppressed. As was Sati, by General Charles Napier:
This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."  
Fast forward now to the America of the 21st century. 
U.S. Army soldier hears the screaming of young boys as they are being sexually abused by Afghan police. 
"At night we can hear them screaming, but we're not allowed to do anything about it." 
His superior officers, according to the account, "told him to look the other way because it's their culture." 
It is not an American custom. 
But America no longer believes that it has any right to intervene. 
All cultures are alike, we have been told; no one is better than any other, not even our own. 
We have lost our moral confidence.
If you want to destroy a nation, you find a way to denigrate its belief in itself.

  • Smear its founders. 
  • Belittle its accomplishments. 
  • Pillory it for failing to live up to its ideals. 
  • Mock its most sacred traditions. 
  • Deride its heroes.
In the end, you will no longer have a nation, but only a collection of tribes, who occupy the same space but share no common concepts. 
There is nothing to unify them. 
In other words, you will be able to pinpoint that country with geographical data, but you will not find a national people.
One can argue that Britain ceased to be a nation when "to be British" no longer referred to a shared set of cultural beliefs. 
Today we may speak only of the "British Isles". 
America too now has headed down that long path to cultural oblivion. 
Being "American" once meant mom, apple pie, Sunday School, fair play, democracy, equality, and decency. 
But who is there going to be left who retains the moral confidence necessary to be an American in that old sense, once our political and academic leaders have finished their job of wrecking our past?"

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History for October 2

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History for October 2 - On-This-Day.com
Mahatma Gandhi 1869, Groucho (Julius) Marx 1890 - "Marx Brothers" movies and his quiz show "You Bet Your Life", Bud Abbott 1895 
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Graham Greene(liberal) 1904, Rex Reed 1938, Don McLean 1945 
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1780 - British army major John Andre was hanged as a spy. He was carrying information about the actions of Benedict Arnold.
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1919 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.
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1924 - The Geneva Protocol adopted the League of Nations.
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1937 - Warner Bros. released "Love Is on the Air." Ronald Reagan made his acting debut in the motion picture. He was 26 years old.
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1950 - "Peanuts," the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, was published for the first time in seven newspapers.
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1955 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" debuted on CBS-TV.
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1959 - "The Twilight Zone" debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes.
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2001 - NATO, for the first time, invoked a treaty clause that stated that an attack on one member is an attack on all members. The act was in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.
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Sunday, October 01, 2017

NFL's Week 4 sees dozens of players kneel, raise fists during national anthem | Fox News

NFL's Week 4 sees dozens of players kneel, raise fists during national anthem | Fox News:

Image result for flickr commons images American Flag"“Very important that NFL players STAND tomorrow, and always, for the playing of our National Anthem. Respect our Flag and our Country!” Trump wrote.

During a fiery speech at a political rally in Alabama on Sept. 22, Trump called for NFL owners to fire players who engaged in such a protest. In the days that followed, the president issued a series of tweets reiterating his views and calling for a boycott of games by fans."


Protest This, Colin: The U.S. Now Ranks 11th In Economic Freedom, Thanks To Obama | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

Protest This, Colin: The U.S. Now Ranks 11th In Economic Freedom, Thanks To Obama | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:

"Here's something worthy of public protest: The U.S. isn't even in the top 10 in the world when it comes to economic freedom. That's bad for anyone in this country struggling to make ends meet.

Image result for free clip art Crashing downEach year, the Cato Institute puts out a comprehensive ranking of more than 150 countries based on five measures of economic freedom: the size of government, the legal system and property rights, sound money, trade policies, and regulation.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the U.S. ranked in the top 5. By 2008, the country had slipped into sixth place.

But then came the Obama years. His big-spending, tax-hiking, regulating policies were, by his own estimation, supposed to quickly end the recession and drive annual economic growth up to 4%."



The way we were-----Toto - Africa

Boob-tube-----NAME THAT TUNE TV Show with George DeWitt

WATCH: Berkeley Protesters Try To Explain What They're Protesting. It's Hilarious. | Daily Wire

WATCH: Berkeley Protesters Try To Explain What They're Protesting. It's Hilarious. | Daily Wire:
"Despite the cancellation of the "Free Speech Week," which was allegedly going to star Milo Yiannopoulos, Ann Coulter, and Steve Bannon, a bunch of social justice activists converged on Berkeley to protest anyhow. 
So YouTube personality Fleccas, real name Austen Fletcher, arrived on the scene to learn firsthand what all those outraged activists were specifically protesting. 
By the end of the day, Fletcher came to the conclusion that a vast majority of them don't really know and even fewer are able to defend their incoherent political positions.
Fletcher posted a simultaneously hilarious and depressing video (below) of his time at Berkeley on YouTube to give everyone a chance to look into the minds of the social justice left. 
The video opens with one hysterical female protester shouting, "You're f***ing insulting my identity! How could you look me in the eye!? How could you do that!? How could you let that happen?! ... I know you feel your racism! I know you feel your privilege!"
"Stop laughing at her!" yells another protester to someone who apparently couldn't hold in a few laughs at the over-the-top accusations..."
Watch the craziness below: