History for April 2

History for April 2 - On-This-Day.com
Hans Christian Andersen 1805 - Author ("The Ugly Duckling"), Frederic Bartholdi 1834, Emile Zola 1840 - Novelist


Walter Chrysler 1875 - Auto manufacturer (Chrysler Corporation), Buddy Ebsen 1908 - Actor ("The Beverly Hillbillies," "Barnaby Jones"), Sir Alec Guinness (Alec Guinness de Cuffe) 1914 - Actor ("Bridge Over River Kwai," "A Passage to India," "Star Wars")


1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. The next day he went ashore.


1889 - Charles Hall patented aluminum.


1902 - The first motion picture theatre opened in Los Angeles with the name Electric Theatre.


1910 - Karl Harris perfected the process for the artificial synthesis of rubber.


1935 - Sir Watson-Watt was granted a patent for RADAR.


1972 - Burt Reynolds appeared nude in "Cosmopolitan" magazine.

1982 - Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands. The following June Britain took the islands back.

Hollywood, Nancy Pelosi, George Soros gang up on Devin Nunes - Washington Times

Hollywood, Nancy Pelosi, George Soros gang up on Devin Nunes - Washington Times:

"Rep. Devin Nunes, whose investigation revealed that the Democratic Party funded the Christopher Steele dossier and that the FBI used the unverified charges to spy on a Trump volunteer, says Hollywood and George Soros are combining to try to take his congressional seat in November.
His work to reveal a competing narrative in the Trump-Russia saga has put a bull’s-eye on his back.
“Now, their attacks against me are growing stronger — extreme liberals in Hollywood, Washington D.C. and across the country have set their sights on me and may seat in Congress,” Mr. Nunes says in a new fundraising letter. “They will say and do anything to support their far-left candidate against me ….. Nancy Pelosi, George Soros and their assembly of deep-pocketed, far-left insiders are willing to spend whatever they have in order to defeat me.”"

The way we were-----Billy Joel - Uptown Girl

Boob-tube-----Suspense - Suspicion (1949) TV drama anthology

25 great reasons for never letting newspapers die

25 great reasons for never letting newspapers die

Gun-Control Assignment – Georgia Middle School | National Review

Gun-Control Assignment – Georgia Middle School | National Review
"In Georgia, propaganda in the classroom
Students at Hampton Middle School in Hampton, Ga., were given a homework assignment that required them to write a letter asking lawmakers for stricter gun-control laws.
The seventh-grade social-studies assignment, a copy of which was obtained by Blue Lives Matter, stated:
“For this assignment, you are writing a letter to the lawmakers of the United States. 
The purpose of this letter is to pressure lawmakers to have stricter gun laws in the United States. 
Your letter should contain at least five complete sentences. 
Make sure that you use proper grammatical skills when writing your letter,” read the assignment given out by social studies teacher Corey Sanders to his students at Hampton Middle School.
A parent of one of the students, William Lee, told Blue Lives that his son came home from school “and said he had to write a paper on gun control.”...
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Dick Morris: Is This Finally the End of Mueller?

Dick Morris: Is This Finally the End of Mueller?:

"In a huge breakthough, attorneys for Paul Manafort have filed a motion to dismiss his indictment based on a possibly fatal flaw in the authority of special prosecutor Bob Mueller to bring the charges.
Mueller, they point out, derives his authority from his appointment by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosensetein. Rosenstein, in turn derives his from the recusal by Attorney General Jeff Sessions from “any existing or future investigations of any matters related in any way to the campaigns for President of the United States.”
But, Manafort’s lawyers point out, Sessions’ recusal applies only to matters relating to the campaign. As Mueller’s probe has ranged far and wide quite apart from anything that happened during the campaign, he is exceeding the authority Rosenstein was able to confer on the prosecutor."

How your WiFi can protect against intruders | ScienceNordic

How your WiFi can protect against intruders | ScienceNordic:
...use WiFi Internet for very different purposes: 
To identify and track the movement of people within a building covered by a wireless network. 
It’s a high tech surveillance system that not even The Night Fox of Ocean’s Twelve could capoeira his way out of without triggering the alarm.
A new generation of security monitoring

These applications could lead to a new generation of security or monitoring systems for detecting physical intrusion by humans in your home or workplace, using only the radio frequency (RF) signals of your wireless network.

In some cases, this could avoid the cost of physically mounting traditional burglar alarm systems, such as the widely used Passive InfraRed (PIR) sensors, ultra-sound sensors, door contacts, motion detectors, or glass break detectors.

...A simple security system

Consider a classic PIR based surveillance system, where the PIR unit is divided into two parts: An infrared sensor and a wireless communication part.

The PIR is physically mounted in a room and communicates, typically via WiFi, with the main alarm system elsewhere in the house.

When an intruder enters the room, the PIR sensor measures the heat radiation from that person and converts these measurements to a digital signal, which is then communicated through the wireless network to the main alarm unit. If the changes in heat radiation are sufficient then the alarm is sounded..."

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Here Are the Companies Boycotting Laura Ingraham, Let's Boycott Them Right Back

Here Are the Companies Boycotting Laura Ingraham, Let's Boycott Them Right Back:
"The left’s “tolerance” is on display once again.
Outspoken student activist David Hogg has unleashed his followers against conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham, and is essentially threatening her livelihood because she spoke her mind on Twitter.
Ingraham is facing a loss of advertisers on her program after the 17-year-old Hogg called on supporters to boycott her.
The reason?
She shared an article that accurately reported the teen activist’s problems being accepted into major universities.
“David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it,” Laura Ingraham posted on Wednesday.
She linked to an article that was not even written by her, but was penned by Daily Wire contributor Joseph Curl.
David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA…totally predictable given acceptance rates.) https://t.co/wflA4hWHXY
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 28, 2018
“David Hogg, a self-appointed spokesman for a generation, revealed on Tuesday that four universities he has applied to have rejected his application,” the Daily Wire article shared by Ingraham explained...
...Several advertisers sided with the now-famous teen activist, and announced that they would be pulling their sponsorship of “The Ingraham Angle.”
According to Time Magazine, as of Friday afternoon, these companies are:

• Atlantis Bahamas, 
• Expedia, 
• Hulu, 
• Jenny Craig, 
• Johnson & Johnson, 
• Liberty Mutual, 
• Nestle, Nutrish, 
• Stitch Fix, 
• TripAdvisor, and 
• Wayfair.

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Kyle Kashuv Takes On David Hogg In Tweets | The Daily Caller

Kyle Kashuv Takes On David Hogg In Tweets | The Daily Caller:

"Conservative Parkland student Kyle Kashuv went on a tweet storm about David Hogg on Friday that will have pro-Second Amendment Americans cheering.

In response to a tweet from Hogg, Kashuv said:"

20 Questions You’re Not Supposed to Ask in 2018 America - John Hawkins

20 Questions You’re Not Supposed to Ask in 2018 America - John Hawkins:
"As politics has become more tribal and geared toward demonization instead of debate, it’s amazing how many important questions don’t seem to be asked any more.
Instead of discussing issues rationally, people are stuck in little boxes based on where they fall on an issue.
Whatever happened to actually assuming that there are two potentially legitimate sides to a debate and hashing them out based upon which one makes more sense?
Of course, to do that, you’ve got to get beyond political correctness to ask the basic questions -- questions that are deemed racist, sexist, fascistic, etc., etc., as part of an effort to shut down necessary conversations...
1) Are we really doing transsexuals a favor by pretending they can change into another gender and allowing them to mutilate themselves via surgery or are we actually setting them up for failure when we pretend that they’re not mentally ill?
...3) Are the problems black Americans have as a group a result of racism or a result of the sort of culture that Thomas Sowell talks about in “Black Rednecks and White Liberals?”  A culture that leads to a significant percentage of black Americans committing more crime, being more anti-intellectual and producing far more children out of wedlock than many other groups?
...5) If the government gives money to Planned Parenthood and PBS, why would it be wrong for the government to give money to the NRA or Heritage Foundation?...
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Today's "Planet Earth Report" --"Our Declining Biological Age" -Is 70 the New 50? - The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel

Today's "Planet Earth Report" --"Our Declining Biological Age" -Is 70 the New 50? - The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel:
"Yale and USC researchers found that American seniors are aging more slowly according to their "biological age."
U.S. life expectancy has lengthened significantly for the last 60 years.
But at least part of the gains in life expectancy may be due to a change in the rate of biological aging, rather than simply keeping very sick people alive for longer, according to a study by USC and Yale University researchers.
“This is the first evidence we have of delayed ‘aging’ among a national sample of Americans,”...
Using health and nutrition data from more than 21,500 Americans, the researchers examined how biological age — relative to chronological age — changed in the U.S. from 1988 to 2010, while considering the contributions of health behaviors..."
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#1 This day 1984------Kenny Loggins - Footloose (from Outside: From The Redwoods)

WHAT DAVID HOGG’S LAURA INGRAHAM BOYCOTT IS REALLY ABOUT: The March For Our Lives folks are smart…

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WHAT DAVID HOGG’S LAURA INGRAHAM BOYCOTT IS REALLY ABOUT:

"The March For Our Lives folks are smart enough to realize this advantage and exploit it to maximum effect. It’s hard to promote your viewpoint when it comes at the price of your revenue stream.

Breitbart learned this lesson after becoming the primary target for an economic pressure campaign by the left-wing group Sleeping Giants. The conservative news outlet reportedly lost 90 percent of its advertisers due to this campaign.

Media Matters has wanted to replicate this effect for Fox News for some time. In the past, they were able to get Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly hauled off the air by pressuring their advertisers. Now the progressive group hopes to do the same with Ingraham and Sean Hannity.

The pressure campaign isn’t intended to promote civility or “facts-based” discourse. If that was the goal, Hogg would be the primary target of that effort. He’s taken every chance to smear his opponents as blood-thirsty murderers and spouted reckless rhetoric. Yet, Hogg is still a respected hero because he demands gun control. (RELATED: Don’t Expect Gun Grabbers To Be Civil)

* * * * * * * *

Fox will hopefully hold its ground and stand by its host. Axing her show would open up all of their hosts to the same kind of economic intimidation. A punitive action against Ingraham would only show blood in the water to its adversaries.

The Left knows it can count on corporations to do its bidding when called upon — and it’s going to be more frequently used against the Right in the years to come. It’s time for conservatives to acknowledge this problem and let corporate America know it can’t turn into the enforcer of progressivism.

Related: “Companies including Wayfair, TripAdvisor, Nutrish, and Nestlé have canceled their ads with Ingram. Now David Hogg is seeking reparations from one of America’s most beloved fast food chains. In a series of tweets late Thursday evening [Hogg] went after Arby’s for their advertising on Ingraham’s show. Hogg went as far as to publish the private names and emails of executives at Arby’s to pressure them into pulling their advertisements.”

Who knew that Saul Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals was required reading at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School?---Posted by Ed Driscoll"

You ought to know!

Brazil’s Upcoming Elections Could Put It on the Path Toward Social Instability | The Heritage Foundation

Brazil’s Upcoming Elections Could Put It on the Path Toward Social Instability | The Heritage Foundation:

"former presidents Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva and Dilma Rousseff launched Brazil on what is now a decade-long, downward economic trajectory.

Those two socialists have been out of power since 2016, yet the country’s economy continues to flail. Its score in The Heritage Foundation’s annual Index of Economic Freedom fell again this year, reflecting a significant deterioration of Brazil’s fiscal health—aggravated by decreases in labor freedom, business freedom, government spending, and government integrity.

At the same time, Brazilian politics and social institutions have become increasingly unstable."

Anatomy of TV Shows

Anatomy of TV Shows:
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History for April 1

History for April 1 - On-This-Day.com:
Otto Von Bismarck 1815 - First chancellor of united Germany, William Manchester 1922 - Writer, Gordon Jump 1932 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati")


Debbie Reynolds (Mary Frances Reynolds) 1932 - Singer, Actress, mother of actress Carrie Fisher, Ali MacGraw 1938 - Actress, Samuel Alito 1950 - U.S. Supreme Court justice


1778 - Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, created the "$" symbol.


1826 - Samuel Mory patented the internal combustion engine.


1891 - The William Wrigley Jr. Company was founded in Chicago, IL. The company is most known for its Juicy Fruit gum.


1924 - Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for high treason in relation to the "Beer Hall Putsch."


1933 - Nazi Germany began the persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish businesses.


1945 - U.S. forces invaded Okinawa during World War II. It was the last campaign of World War II.


1946 - Weight Watchers was formed.


1954 - The U.S. Air Force Academy was formed in Colorado.

Google is literally writing the book on all of us

Google is literally writing the book on all of us:

"Let’s face it, Google is the ultimate Big Brother.
Facebook is the current scapegoat for all our paranoia about technology, privacy, data collection and social media. But they’re just the first mega-tech company to have something go wrong in a big way. They won’t be the last.
If you think Facebook is bad, have you checked out what Google is up to?"

The way we were-----Feels So Good - Chuck Mangione [FULL VERSION]

Boob-tube-----MTV Original Broadcast 8/1/1981

US: Won't pay over 25 percent of UN peacekeeping anymore

US: Won't pay over 25 percent of UN peacekeeping anymore:
"UNITED NATIONS — The United States will no longer shoulder more than a quarter of the multibillion-dollar costs of the United Nations' peacekeeping operations, Washington's envoy said Wednesday.
"Peacekeeping is a shared responsibility," U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said at a Security Council debate on peacekeeping reform. 
"All of us have a role to play, and all of us must step up."
The U.S. is the biggest contributor to the U.N.'s 15 peacekeeping missions worldwide. 
Washington is paying about 28.5 percent of this year's $7.3 billion peacekeeping budget, though Haley said U.S. law is supposed to cap the contribution at 25 percent.
The second-biggest contributor, China, pays a bit over 10 percent..."
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