History for February 6

History for February 6 - On-This-Day.com:
Christopher Marlowe 1564, Aaron Burr 1756 , Babe Ruth 1895 


Ronald Wilson Reagan 1911 Actor, 40th President of the United States, Zsa Zsa Gabor 1919, Bob Marley 1945 - Musician (The Wailers, Bob Marley and the Wailers) 


1926 - The National Football League adopted a rule that made players ineligible for competition until their college class graduated.


1932 - Dog sled racing happened for the first time in Olympic competition.


1933 - The 20th Amendment to the Constitution was declared in effect. The amendment moved the start of presidential, vice-presidential and congressional terms from March to January.


1952 - Britain's King George VI died. His daughter, Elizabeth II, succeeded him.


1971 - NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used a six-iron that he had brought inside his spacecraft and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon.


1973 - Construction began on the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


1998 - Washington National Airport was renamed for U.S. President Ronald Reagan with the signing of a bill by U.S. President Clinton.


1999 - Excerpts of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky's videotaped testimony were shown at President Clinton's impeachment trial.

This is Madness – The Media are Just as Complicit In The DOJ Corruption and FISA Abuse… | The Last Refuge

This is Madness – The Media are Just as Complicit In The DOJ Corruption and FISA Abuse… | The Last Refuge:

"As more evidence surfaces the relationship between journalists, Fusion-GPS, Chris Steele and the media’s DOJ/FBI sources begins blending together.  The FBI was using media reports, which were based on Fusion-GPS pitches, to bolster its investigative documents to the FISA court:"

The way we were-----Gene Pitney - (The Man Who Shot) Liiberty Valance

Boob-tube-----Captain Norton

Officials Behind $500 Million Vikings' Stadium Subsidy Get Free Luxury Box Tickets for Family and Friends - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Officials Behind $500 Million Vikings' Stadium Subsidy Get Free Luxury Box Tickets for Family and Friends - Hit & Run : Reason.com:

Stadium deals are always bad for taxpayers, and this is one of many reasons why.

Jerry Holt/ZUMA Press/NewscomSix government appointees, including the son of a vice president, who negotiated how much public money would be spent building the Minnesota Vikings' new football stadium get free access to luxury boxes for all events in the stadium.

Which, you know, might call into question how hard they really negotiated for the taxpayers on that one.

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that the six members of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (MSFA), the quasi-government agency created in 2012 to oversee the public subsidies for the building of U.S. Bank Stadium, get free tickets to two lower-level luxury suites for all events held there. Even though taxpayers covered more than half of the cost of the $1.1 billion stadium, which opened earlier this year, the public is being kept in the dark about who occupies those 36 seats and the adjoining luxury suites during Vikings home games and other events. 
The team claims that the suites are used for "marketing purposes," but the Star-Tribune's investigation found that family and friends of the board members are usually in attendance too..."
Read on!

Think California politics is on the far-left fringe? Just wait for the next elections. - The Washington Post

Think California politics is on the far-left fringe? Just wait for the next elections. - The Washington Post:
"SACRAMENTO — For those who think California politics is on the far-left fringe of the national spectrum, stand by. 
The next election season, already well underway here, will showcase a younger generation of Democrats that is more liberal and personally invested in standing up to President Trump’s Washington than those leaving office.

Here in the self-labeled “state of resistance,” the political debate is being pushed further left without any sign of a Republican renaissance to serve as a check on spending and social policy ambitions. 

Even some Republicans are concerned about the departure of Gov. Jerry Brown (D), who proved to be fiscally cautious after inheriting a state seven years ago in deep recession..."

A demonstrator holds a sign that reads “Resist Persist Vote” while listening to speakers at Grand Park during the second annual Women's March Los Angeles on Jan. 20. (Dania Maxwell/Bloomberg News)

Why the FISA memo could lead to perjury convictions of Comey & Co.

Why the FISA memo could lead to perjury convictions of Comey & Co.:

"Comey & Co., along with allies such as Eric Holder, have every reason to be nervous. The FBI, DOJ, and FISA warrant process seem to have been corrupted, not just by partisan politics, but potentially perjurious actors who omitted material information in the warrant-procuring process."

City’s Politicians Strive To Beat The Clock Spending Federal Money [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

City’s Politicians Strive To Beat The Clock Spending Federal Money [Michigan Capitol Confidential]: 
"City council members scrambling at the last minute to think up a project so they can beat a deadline for spending $260,000 in federal money may not be the best example of good stewardship of tax dollars.

But that’s what happened in one Michigan city when elected officials considered spending that $260,000 to build a new home on vacant property, even though a house just two blocks away was sold for about $11,000 last year.
After the council rejected the proposal by a 4-3 vote, it scheduled a special meeting and approved spending most of the federal money instead on a lighting project for a park in a historically high crime area..."
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And this in Muskegon: https://muskegonpundit.blogspot.com/2016/12/when-morons-have-control-of-your-free.html

Hilarious Moments When Dogs Realized They Were Going To The Vet Instead of The Park

Hilarious Moments When Dogs Realized They Were Going To The Vet Instead of The Park
Read on for MORE unhappy pups!

Lunch video-----Bill Warner, PhD: Professional Ignorance

"Our institutions are not doing their due diligence to learn and explain the true nature of political Islam. Islam is not the problem. 
We are the problem."

Noon-toon

Worse Than Watergate - American Greatness

Worse Than Watergate - American Greatness:

"Nearly 50 years ago, the Watergate scandal forced a president from office. The Left thought it could do it again. But the Nunes memo—and the millions of documents and hundreds of hours of interviews behind it—makes clear that rogue elements within the FBI and Justice Department broke the law in an attempt to use the police power of the United States government first to throw the election to Hillary Clinton and then to destroy the presidency of Donald Trump.
This cannot stand. There must be consequences. And they must be swift, public, and severe."

Cop Hurt as Cycling Mob Rides Wrong Way Through NYC Streets, Attacks Drivers: Witnesses, Police - NBC New York

Cop Hurt as Cycling Mob Rides Wrong Way Through NYC Streets, Attacks Drivers: Witnesses, Police - NBC New York:
"A mob of dozens of bicyclists roamed through the streets of Manhattan against traffic and attacked drivers who confronted them, witnesses say, and police say an officer was injured after being hit by a driver trying to chase down the unruly group.
Some of the cyclists were wearing masks as they zig-zagged through cars on Seventh Avenue in Chelsea on Saturday evening and clashed with drivers. 
Cell phone video shows the group rolling through the streets between cars..."
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Cell Video Shows Violent Mob Cycling Through NYC Streets

Cell phone video shows dozens of bicyclists riding the wrong way through streets in Chelsea on Saturday. Drivers say they damaged cars and one man says he was attacked by several cyclists.

(Published Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018)