History for October 24

History for October 24 - On-This-Day.com
Sarah J. Hale 1788 - She wrote the poem "Mary Had A Little Lamb.",
Moss Hart 1904 - Playwright, Bob Kane 1915 - Comic book artist, creator of Batman
 

F. Murray Abraham 1939 - Actor, Kevin Kline 1947 - Actor, Kweisi Mfume 1948 - President of NAACP


1632 - Scientist Anthony van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, Holland. He created the first microscope lenses that were powerful enough to observe single-celled animals.



1648 - The Holy Roman Empire was effectively destroyed by the Peace of Westphalia that brought an end to the Thirty Years War.


1836 - Alonzo D. Phillips received a patent for the phosphorous friction safety match.


1929 - In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged starting the stock-market crash that began the Great Depression. 

1939 - Nylon stockings were sold to the public for the first time in Wilmington, DE.


1948 - The term "cold war" was used for the first time. It was in a speech by Bernard Baruch before the Senate War Investigating Committee.


1962 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. military forces went on the highest alert in the postwar era in preparation for a possible full-scale war with the Soviet Union. The U.S. blockade of Cuba officially began on this day.


2003 - In London, the last commercial supersonic Concorde flight landed.

Colin Kaepernick, the left's example of How to Make Money - Washington Times

Colin Kaepernick, the left's example of How to Make Money - Washington Times:

"That Kaepernick thinks he actually has a grievance is proof positive of how far this country has strayed into leftist lunacy. Kaepernick created his own out-of-work status by chasing a social justice butterfly on the field — on the same field where he was paid to play football. He used his place of work for a personal political cause.
He created a controversy. He divided a football nation. He fashioned himself into a political cause first; quarterback, second. He failed to do the job for which he was hired."

The way we were-----The Troggs - Wild Thing

Boob-tube-----Banned Cartoons NTSC

Americans Agree More Than They Realize - Reason.com

Americans Agree More Than They Realize - Reason.com
"Some days, it can seem as if half the country has come down with rabies. 
...Part of it probably comes from the fact that Americans increasingly sort themselves into like-minded communities.
That means they're less apt to get to know people who think differently, and therefore less likely to understand where they're coming from.
...And part of it also probably has to do with the fact that both parties have grown more extreme in recent years.
...Many media outlets only make matters worse. 
Take a look at The Daily Caller or The Huffington Post—watch a late-night comic or tune into cable "news"—and you will be presented with an endless litany of outrages committed by Those Awful People.
This is, unfortunately, a successful business model.
It works because it ratifies the viewers' existing prejudices and makes them feel superior. 
Nothing like a little dopamine squirt to brighten your day.
But this exaggerated emphasis on differences obscures the degree to which Americans still agree.
And on some topics, the public is of one mind, or as close to that as you can get.
A few examples:

• Universal background checks. Nine out of 10 Americans think a background check should be required for every firearm purchase. That includes three-fourths of all NRA members.
• Dreamers. These are undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as young children, grew up here, and have little or no connection to their countries of origin. Eighty-five percent of Americans agree that they should not be deported.
• Civil asset forfeiture. This practice allows the police to confiscate property—cash, cars, homes—from people they suspect might be involved in criminal activity, even if the individual is never even charged with a crime, let alone convicted. Across the ideological spectrum, 84 percent of Americans disapprove of the practice.
• Medical marijuana. Eighty-three percent of Americans agree that doctors should be able to prescribe cannabis for their patients.
• Extremist bigotry. Eighty-three percent of Americans think it's unacceptable to hold neo-Nazi or white-supremacist views. Nine percent think it's OK, and 8 percent aren't sure (!).
• Sanctuary cities. In contrast to attitudes on Dreamers, 80 percent of American voters disapprove of sanctuary cities and agree that local authorities should report illegal immigrants to federal authorities...
• (many more. Read on!)

Still, for people tired of constant snark and contrived controversy, it might be comforting to know that in many ways America is not nearly so divided as it's sometimes made out to be. 

...And maybe, despite his annoying bumper-sticker, the two of you actually agree on quite a bit."

Important read!-----Secrets and Lies: Three Russian Stories

Secrets and Lies: Three Russian Stories
"The major developing stories this week have been so scantily and poorly covered in the mainstream press that you may want an easy primer.
To fully understand it you have to look at alternative media, because just as Harvey Weinstein counted on complicit enablers -- his colleagues, victims and the press -- Hillary Clinton, Robert Mueller and a cast of characters, including a press determined to cover for them have hidden what occurred. 
It’s taken some time, to be sure, but the evidence of their wrongdoing is becoming harder and harder to hide.
Stalling and misdirection are their last redoubt.
WHO:
Here are some of the principal figures:
Robert Mueller... 
Andrew McCabe, appointed by former president Obama, was Assistant FBI Director in charge of investigating charges by the FBI’s own underground informant to the effect that the Russians...
The unnamed FBI undercover informant, represented by criminal attorney Victoria Toensing, was witness to the scheming, kickbacks and corruption in the Russian effort to obtain 20% of U.S. uranium supplies held by Canadian-based Uranium One...
Loretta Lynch...
Hillary Clinton...
Bill Clinton...
(many more. Read on!)
There are actually three Russian Collusion Stories – two, involving Hillary and present and past FBI and DOJ officials, have merit.
The third, the subject of Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation, is nonsensical.
1. Hillary and the Uranium One deal
What is Being Charged About the Clinton’s Role in the Uranium One Sale..?
2. The Second Hillary-Russian scandal (The Ghost Story)
3. Russia and Trump..
Much here the MSM does NOT want you to know!
Read on!

Report: Most Signatories Are ‘Ignoring’ or ‘Abandoning’ Paris Climate Commitments

Report: Most Signatories Are ‘Ignoring’ or ‘Abandoning’ Paris Climate Commitments:

"Following President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, a number of other nations have quietly begun ignoring the Paris energy goals, according to a new report out of Canada.
According to Lawrence Solomon of Energy Probe, a Toronto-based environmental organization, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is one of the only signers of the Paris agreement who is actually abiding by the exacting demands of the accord."

Why are sanctuary cities helping the Mexican heroin cartels? - NetRight Daily

Why are sanctuary cities helping the Mexican heroin cartels? - NetRight Daily
"About 14 of the 284 rejected Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer requests for illegal aliens by local law enforcement were individuals on narcotics charges, including trafficking, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Judicial Watch from the Department of Homeland Security has revealed. The period covered the first three months of 2017.
When an ICE detainer request is rejected, the criminal gets released prior to interception by the ICE agents, and is back on the street..."
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How important is international trade to each US state’s economy? Pretty important for a lot of our states - AEI

How important is international trade to each US state’s economy? Pretty important for a lot of our states - AEI:
"...the average trade share for US states in 2015 was 16.7%, and ranged from a low of 4.7% for South Dakota to a high of nearly 39.0% for Michigan..."

Lunch video-----Robert Spencer: Why are police ignoring evidence that mosque is preachin...

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A few questions for Loretta Lynch

A few questions for Loretta Lynch:

"Here are a few questions for Loretta Lynch that reporters, Democrats and many Republicans are afraid to ask because they won't like the answers:"

IMPORTANT READ!!-----Uranium One Deal: Obama Administration Complicit, Not Just Clintons| National Review

Uranium One Deal: Obama Administration Complicit, Not Just | National Review
"Not only the Clintons are implicated in a uranium deal with the Russians that compromised national-security interests.
Let’s put the Uranium One scandal in perspective: 
The cool half-million bucks the Putin regime funneled to Bill Clinton was five times the amount it spent on those Facebook ads — the ones the media-Democrat complex ludicrously suggests swung the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. 
The Facebook-ad buy, which started in June 2015 — before Donald Trump entered the race — was more left-wing agitprop (ads pushing hysteria on racism, immigration, guns, etc.) than electioneering. The Clintons’ own long-time political strategist Mark Penn estimates that just $6,500 went to actual electioneering. (You read that right: 65 hundred dollars.)
By contrast, the staggering $500,000 payday from a Kremlin-tied Russian bank for a single speech was part of a multi-million-dollar influence-peddling scheme to enrich the former president and his wife, then–secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
At the time, Russia was plotting — successfully — to secure U.S. government approval for its acquisition of Uranium One, and with it, tens of billions of dollars in U.S. uranium reserves.
Here’s the kicker:
The Uranium One scandal is not only, or even principally, a Clinton scandal.
It is an Obama-administration scandal.
 The Clintons were just doing what the Clintons do: cashing in on their “public service.”
The Obama administration, with Secretary Clinton at the forefront but hardly alone, was knowingly compromising American national-security interests.
The administration green-lighted the transfer of control over one-fifth of American uranium-mining capacity to Russia, a hostile regime — and specifically to Russia’s state-controlled nuclear-energy conglomerate, Rosatom. 
Worse, at the time the administration approved the transfer, it knew that Rosatom’s American subsidiary was engaged in a lucrative racketeering enterprise that had already committed felony extortion, fraud, and money-laundering offenses..."
Read it all!!

#1 Movie this week 1975-----Let's Do It Again (1975, trailer) [Bill Cosby, Sidney Poitier, Calvin Lo...

104 YEARS OF FEDERAL INCOME TAX HAS FUELED EXPLOSIVE GROWTH IN GOVERNMENT-Unbiased America

Unbiased America - Posts
104 YEARS OF FEDERAL INCOME TAX HAS FUELED EXPLOSIVE GROWTH IN GOVERNMENT-by Kevin Ryan

Revenues from the federal income tax have increased an astonishing 340,000% since the program was established by Woodrow Wilson in 1913. 
And yes, that's adjusted for inflation!
Originally intended to only apply to the very wealthy, FDR expanded it to the middle class, and it's grown steadily since then. 
Today, Americans pay over $2.2 trillion in federal individual and corporate income tax.
$2,206,704,000,000 in 2017
$6,782 per capita in current dollars.
$15,224 per worker
SOURCES: http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/revenue_chart_1913_2017USk_18s1li011mcn_10f
http://www.atr.org/104-years-income-tax-then-and-now
https://unemploymentdata.com/charts/current-employment-data/

#1 This day 1968-----The Beatles - Hey Jude

Yes!-----Michigan Closer to More Available Dental Care [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Michigan Closer to More Available Dental Care [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"The Michigan Senate recently passed Senate Bill 541, which would create a new license for the dental profession, called a dental therapist.
Sen. Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, is the lead sponsor of the bill, and it moves to the House for consideration.
The Mackinac Center published a report last year laying out the case for dental therapists, and Michael Van Beek, the Center’s director of research and author of that study, recently published an op-ed in the Oakland Press.
He summed up SB 541 this way:
This bill allows dentists the freedom to expand their practices and gives hygienists an opportunity to further their training and take on more responsibility if they choose to pursue a dental therapist license. 
Dentists need more flexibility to better meet patients’ needs and this could be an important part of that effort. 
Several other states have used dental therapists or similarly licensed professionals to help meet the needs of their residents — Michigan should simply follow their lead..."
Read on!

You ought to know!

The TSA Is Coming To A Highway Near You

The TSA Is Coming To A Highway Near You:

"In the dead of night, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) administratively reclassified airport security screeners as Transportation Security Officers. The TSA then moved to administratively upgrade TSOs uniforms to resemble those of a federal law enforcement officer. They further completed the makeover with metal law enforcement badges. Not surprisingly, government bureaucrats at the TSA left out one crucial component during the artificial makeover - actual federal law enforcement training as is required of Federal Air Marshalls.

While TSOs may have the appearance of a federal law enforcement officer they have neither the authority nor the power."

Cleveland State president blasted for backing 1st Amendment in response to anti-LGBT flyer - The College Fix

Cleveland State president blasted for backing 1st Amendment in response to anti-LGBT flyer - The College Fix:
"Officials at Cleveland State University are facing a wave of criticism for its response to a placard urging gay people to commit suicide.
“Follow your fellow fa**ots,” the sign had read, which featured various statistics related to suicide in the LGBT community.

According to Time, the university’s initial reaction was to stick up for the First Amendment, not denounce the hateful message:
“We will continue to protect free speech to ensure all voices may be heard and to promote a civil discourse where educational growth is the desired result,” school president Ronald Berkman said.
Predictably, Berkman’s statement did not go over very well:
The school’s response angered students and provoked protests, petitions, and a tense, crowded town hall meeting where students spoke about LGBT people they knew who took their own lives.
Peter Sherman, a 23-year-old gay Cleveland State theater major, says he participated in the protests and town hall session because he believes the school should ban flyers urging students to kill themselves.

“People are free to believe whatever they want, but free speech doesn’t protect incitements to violence,” Sherman told The Associated Press on Friday. 

“Asking people to commit suicide is an incitement to violence.”
...In the meantime, keep your eyes and ears open to news of who was responsible for the flyer. That is, if you can find it.

AM Fruitcake

History for October 23

History for October 23 - On-This-Day.com
Johnny Carson 1925 - Television host, comedian, Jim Bunning 1931 - Baseball player, Pelé 1940 - Soccer player


Michael Crichton 1942 - Author, director, physician ("Jurassic Park"), Sam Raimi 1959 - Director, actor, "Weird Al" Yankovic 1959 - Singer, musician


1915 - The first U.S. championship horseshoe tourney was held in Kellerton, IA.


1942 - During World War II, the British began a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein, Egypt.


1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.


1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time.


1956 - Hungarian citizens began an uprising against Soviet occupation. On November 4, 1956 Soviet forces enter Hungary and eventually suppress the uprising.


1958 - Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He was forced to refuse the honor due to negative Soviet reaction. Pasternak won the award for writing "Dr. Zhivago".


1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and seat Communist China.

Fusion GPS files in court to block lawmakers from accessing records - Washington Times

Fusion GPS files in court to block lawmakers from accessing records - Washington Times:

"The company behind the anti-Trump intelligence dossier that rocked last year’s U.S. election is mounting a legal challenge to block the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from getting access to its banking records.
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes issued a subpoena seeking bank records of Fusion GPS on Oct. 4 and the company fired back Friday, filing a complaint in federal court to block the bank from turning over the records."

Former Senior Obama Official Samantha Power Blames Others for Her Unmasking Scandal | American Center for Law and Justice

Former Senior Obama Official Samantha Power Blames Others for Her Unmasking Scandal | American Center for Law and Justice:

"Now, we have just learned that in her testimony before the House Oversight Committee this week in a closed-door interview she claimed others in the intelligence community used her name obtain this unprecedented unmasking. According to the Committee Chairman Representative Trey Gowdy, her only defense was it’s not me it’s my subordinates.

During an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Gowdy explained Power’s troubling testimony:"

The way we were-----Rodney Carrington - Titties and Beer

Boob-tube-----Archie Bunker on Democrats

Former NPR CEO opens up about liberal media bias | New York Post

Former NPR CEO opens up about liberal media bias | New York Post
"Most reporters and editors are liberal — a now dated Pew Research Center poll found that liberals outnumber conservatives in the media by some 5 to 1, and that comports with my own anecdotal experience at National Public Radio. 
When you are liberal, and everyone else around you is as well, it is easy to fall into groupthink on what stories are important, what sources are legitimate and what the narrative of the day will be.

This may seem like an unusual admission from someone who once ran NPR, but it is borne of recent experience. 

Spurred by a fear that red and blue America were drifting irrevocably apart, I decided to venture out from my overwhelmingly Democratic neighborhood and engage Republicans where they live, work and pray. 
For an entire year, I embedded myself with the other side, standing in pit row at a NASCAR race, hanging out at Tea Party meetings and sitting in on Steve Bannon’s radio show. 
I found an America far different from the one depicted in the press and imagined by presidents (“cling to guns or religion”) and presidential candidates (“basket of deplorables”) alike.

I spent many Sundays in evangelical churches and hung out with 15,000 evangelical youth at the Urbana conference. 

I wasn’t sure what to expect among thousands of college-age evangelicals, but I certainly didn’t expect the intense discussion of racial equity and refugee issues — how to help them, not how to keep them out — but that is what I got..."

Read on!

Leading brain-training game improves memory and attention better than competing method | KurzweilAI

Leading brain-training game improves memory and attention better than competing method | KurzweilAI:

EEGs taken before and after the training showed that the biggest changes occurred in the brains of the group that trained using the “dual n-back” method (right). (credit: Kara J. Blacker/JHU)

A leading brain-training game called “dual n-back” was significantly better in improving memory and attention than a competing “complex span” game, Johns Hopkins University researchers found in a recent experiment.*

These results, published Monday Oct. 16, 2017 in an open-access paper in the Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, suggest it’s possible to train the brain like other body parts — with targeted workouts to improve the cognitive skills needed when tasks are new and you can’t just rely on old knowledge and habits, says co-author Susan Courtney, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist and professor of psychological and brain sciences.

Johns Hopkins University | The Best Way to Train Your Brain: A Game

...(You can try an online version of the dual n-back test/game here and of the digit-span test here. 

The training programs Johns Hopkins compared are tools scientists rely on to test the brain’s working memory, not the commercial products sold to consumers. )--30 percent improvement in working memory

Hillary Is up to Her Elbows in Russian Uranium – Glenn Beck

Hillary Is up to Her Elbows in Russian Uranium – Glenn Beck:

"How did Russia come to control 20 percent of the U.S. uranium supply? What’s Uranium One, and why is the FBI investigating it? And what do the Clintons have to do with all of this?

Glenn answers those questions and more in this 3-minute clip with what you need to know about the bombshell report this week that may connect a Russian scheme with the Clinton Foundation. The FBI started investigating Russian efforts to control the uranium supply in 2009, and details have slowly surfaced since then."

Did John McCain Provide The Infamous 'Trump Dossier' To BuzzFeed? | Zero Hedge

Did John McCain Provide The Infamous 'Trump Dossier' To BuzzFeed? | Zero Hedge
"After nearly a year of cogitating, no one in the media, usually a fairly leaky institution, has been able to figure out who exactly who provided the infamous "Trump Dossier" to BuzzFeed which was published on January 10, 2017 and promptly debunked within approximately 35 seconds. 

As the Daily Caller points out today, less than a handful of people had access to the dossier before it made its way to BuzzFeed: 
John McCain, David Kramer (a former State Department official and an associate of McCain), then FBI Director James Comey and Fusion GPS (the creator of the document).  Fusion GPS has since admitted under oath that they did not share the document with BuzzFeed which basically just leaves John McCain (and/or his associate) or James Comey.

Asked about the dossier recently, an irritable, and perhaps defensive, McCain lashed out at a Daily Caller reporter (seemingly a new trend for McCain of late) saying only "I don’t know why you’re digging this up now."...

...Of course, the identity of BuzzFeed’s source is significant for two reasons.  

• First, because a Russian tech executive, Aleksej Gubarev, was accused in the document of hacking into DNC computers to dig up dirt on Hillary during the 2016 campaign.  
• And second, but certainly not least, because it could shed light on whether someone in Trump's own party or, and perhaps even more disturbing, within the FBI ordered a "political hit" on the newly elected - if wildly unpopular (at least on the DC circuit) - president..."

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