History for May 8

History for May 8 - On-This-Day.com:
Miguel Hidalgo 1753, Jean Henri Dunant 1828, Oscar Hammerstein 1847


Harry S. Truman (U.S.) 1884 - 33rd president of the United States, Bishop Fulton Sheen 1895, Don Rickles 1926 - Comedian


1541 - Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River. He called it Rio de Espiritu Santo.


1943 - The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.


1945 - U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.


1956 - Alfred E. Neuman appeared on the cover of "Mad Magazine" for the first time.


1958 - U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.


1959 - Mike and Marian Ilitch founded "Little Caesars Pizza Treat".


1984 - The Soviet Union announced that they would not participate in the 1984 Summer Olympics Games in Los Angeles.


1985 - "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.

The Consequences of Historical Ignorance

The Consequences of Historical Ignorance:

"Americans should be outraged that our schools have failed to teach even the most basic historical facts to the younger generations. Worse, the education they receive has often only turned into a justification for superficial social activism, lacking in depth and veracity.
David Hogg, the teen survivor of the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, who became a gun-control activist, exemplifies this worsening problem. He recently tweeted:"

The way we were-----The Tremeloes - Here Comes My Baby 1967

Boob-tube-----Top 10 Best Super Bowl 50 Commercials (2016 Funniest Ads)

From 2017!-----U.S. Faces Looming Shortage Of Primary Care Physicians « CBS New York

U.S. Faces Looming Shortage Of Primary Care Physicians « CBS New York:
"NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – America will soon face a shortage of as many as 90,000 doctors.
CBS2’s Dr. Max Gomez reports a combination of retiring doctors and increasing demand will lead to a significant need for primary care physicians. 
...The U.S. is in need of more primary care doctors, partly because many older physicians are retiring, citing increased paperwork and decreased time with patients.
...By 2025 there could be a shortage of up to 35,000 primary care physicians. 
Koeppen says money plays a role..."
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"WHY DOES GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE LEAD TO RATIONING?

(4) Unbiased America - Posts: 
"WHY DOES GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE LEAD TO RATIONING?
by Kevin Ryan
"I posted a video the BBC produced about how Britain's single-payer healthcare system has led to massive wait times and inadequate service, and several people responded that "that's normal". 
The people who say "this is normal" don't understand economics.
In a market system, a huge, unmet demand for service (be it medical or anything else) draws providers in because it's an opportunity to earn money. 
Think about a town without a grocery store or a long stretch of road without a gas station. 
These SHOULD be situations that providers flock to to make money. 
But when the government manipulates a market via price controls or other interference, shortages or surpluses are the inevitable result, as any student of economics could tell you.
There are many ways of explaining this problem. 
The attached graphic shows the basic economics explanation..."
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ACLJ Unearths Evidence Obama State Department Misled Congress on the Use of Taxpayer Funding to “Influence the Current Israeli Election” | American Center for Law and Justice

ACLJ Unearths Evidence Obama State Department Misled Congress on the Use of Taxpayer Funding to “Influence the Current Israeli Election” | American Center for Law and Justice:

"The ACLJ has just obtained new documents showing the Obama State Department misled Members of Congress about taxpayer funding going to an organization that was attempting to unseat the government of our ally Israel."

Your Culture is My Underpants | Klavan On The Culture

Your Culture is My Underpants | Klavan On The Culture:
"Your culture is my underpants.

I mention this because, earlier this week, a young lady named Keziah Daum tweeted a picture of herself in a Chinese-style prom dress. In the picture, Keziah was standing with her date. 
She looked absolutely adorable in the pretty dress and her date was obviously wondering how he got so lucky. 
It was a photo to inspire a smile in anyone who feels pleasure at the sight of youth, beauty, life, love, joy or the harmless delights of just being human.

So, you guessed it, leftists were triggered. 
"My culture is not your prom dress," tweeted one presumably Asian knucklehead. And plenty of other angry little trolls joined in.

But actually, they were all wrong, every one of them. Because you know what? 
Your culture is her prom dress. 
It's also my underpants.
In fact, I have the entire history of the Ming dynasty embroidered on the seat of my jockeys. Occasionally I even dig around back there and use the Prince of Yan to scratch an itch. 
The sometimes-tragic and occasionally triumphant journey of black Americans adorns the pouch up front. 
Mexicans get the left leg, the Irish the right, and various mixed races are spread across the elastic waist because, you know, they're flexible.

Now none of this is to insult any of these peoples. 
It's to insult leftists. 
Or more precisely, it's to tell leftists they can pound sand, every one of them. 

No matter where you're from, no matter what you look like, your culture is not your culture. Your culture is just there and I can appropriate it any time I want for any reason I see fit. Know why? 

I'm a free American man, I don't care what you think and I can do whatever I like. 

And I like scratching my butt itches with the Prince of Yan..."

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Why we can't fix the things that really matter----- Leon Drolet - Yesterday, I attended a well-publicized town hall...

(6) Leon Drolet - Yesterday, I attended a well-publicized town hall...:

Leon Drolet

May 4 at 10:19am · 

"Yesterday, I attended a well-publicized town hall meeting of the Detroit Regional Transit Authority in Mt. Clemens designed to seek public input and support for a new tax on your home to expand mass transit.

19 citizens showed up (including me) out of a Macomb population of 865,000.

Plus 4 RTA employees, 2 RTA board members, and two reporters.

Cult-like religion was on full display as RTA staff spouted "facts" about the "demand" for more mass transit - saying things like "Residents of Ray Township will benefit because more mass transit money given to rural communities will help those residents get to jobs in places like Troy, Detroit, etc.".

I know Ray Township. Absolutely nobody who lives there is car-less if they work. It is mostly farms. I asked the RTA guy who made the statement how many workers in Ray Twp. need help getting to jobs. He admitted that the RTA had no data, but assured me he had heard so anecdotally. In other words, "Just believe".

During Q&A, one lady in the audience asked why the new RTA plan did not include extending the Detroit People Mover to Mt. Clemens. You have to live in Michigan to understand how preposterously ludicrous such a question is. Yet, the entire meeting was about faith and believing and embracing only the facts that support the One True Faith.

While at least two of the other 18 citizens attending opposed the RTA plan, I assumed the other 16 citizens supported it based on their zen-like state when discussing their god (plus a guy wearing his 'Green Party' pin).

Both the left and the right and libertarians have a fringe element that embraces tenets of their political views in a cult-like manner by seeing the world only through the prism of their doctrine. And the left's worship was on full display among the tiny group at yesterday's town hall.

RTA to collect feedback on transit plan

Transit authority plans six public meetings, online survey to gauge reaction, needs

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Michael Shmina The mantras are contagious and tier healing power know no bounds. Yesterday WDET had a quote from someone opposed to making able bodied Michiganders work 30 houris for Medicaid say first we must address one of the real reasons for rural unemployment: no access to Mass Transit. Hopefully one of the Mt Clemens People Mover stops will connect with a North Avenue Q Line that extends clean up to Berville.

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Mike Moreau Just read the Q line debt will be transferred to the RTA in 2027. Is this an example of the creeping expansion of debt on the taxpayer? What RTA are they talking about? Patterson and Hackel have been vocal in their opposition of the RTA millage and have said they do not want to see it on a ballot. I hope they stand firm.

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Lunch video-----Penn & Teller Helps Gun Control Supporters Understand The 2nd Amendment

Noon-toon-----Wondermark » Archive » #1396; A Page a Day

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John Kerry under fire for reported 'shadow diplomacy' to save Iran deal | Fox News

John Kerry under fire for reported 'shadow diplomacy' to save Iran deal | Fox News:

"Former Secretary of State John Kerry is under fire over a report claiming that he has been engaged in “shadow diplomacy” with officials from Iran and Europe as part of a final attempt to save the seemingly doomed 2015 Iran nuclear deal."

Technical ignorance is not leadership | TechCrunch

Technical ignorance is not leadership | TechCrunch
"There is a peculiar pattern that I have noticed among elites in the United States outside Silicon Valley, which is the almost boastful ignorance of technology.
As my colleague Jon Shieber pointed out today, you can see that ignorance among congressmen throughout the whole Facebook/Cambridge Analytica saga.
...Such a pattern is hardly unique to politics though.
Hang out with enough business executives, lawyers, doctors, or consultants, and you will hear the inevitable “I don’t really do the computer,” with an air of detached disdain.
Yet it isn’t just the technical challenges that this class avoids, but anything to do with implementation in general.
In the policy world, wonks spend decades debating the finer points of healthcare and social spending, only to be wholly ignorant at how their decisions are actually implemented into code. 
There is an elitism in policy between those who make the decisions and those who implement them, just as much as there is a social distinction between corporate executives and the people who have to carry out their directives.
In many ways, this disdain for the technical mirrors the disdain for math, where the phrase “I’m not a math person” has become sufficiently ubiquitous in the U.S. as to be covered regularly in the press.
Being bad at math is a way to signal that someone isn’t one of the worker bees who actually have to care about calculations — they just read the reports prepared by others..."
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#1 Movie this week 1962-----The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Trailer

Swedish child raped by ‘three men’ on her way home: Police refuse to give description of the perpetrators

Swedish child raped by ‘three men’ on her way home: Police refuse to give description of the perpetrators:
"A 10-year-old girl was attacked by three men after she left school and was on her way home.
The child was raped at a cemetery in Östervåla, Sweden’s Aftonbladet reports.
It was Thursday, around 3 pm, that the terrible incident occurred.
According to the police three perpetrators were involved.
At least one of them raped the girl.
“No person has been arrested but we have received a good description of the perpetrators. 
We do not want to publish it in the media”, says police investigator Daniel Nilsson to SVT.
The site has been locked off for a technical examination.
Among other things, police dogs have searched the site for technical evidence.
According to Nilsson, there’s a clear picture of what has happened and there is “no doubt” that the crime occurred at the cemetery.
Nilsson adds he doesn’t want to give more comments on the case now."

#1 This day 1965-----Hermans Hermits - Mrs. Brown you've got a lovely daughter 1965

What if Mueller Questioned Barack Obama? - American Greatness

What if Mueller Questioned Barack Obama? - American Greatness
"Imagine if a right-wing version of Robert Mueller, backed by a properly pro-Trump legal team, had sent former President Barack Obama the same sort of questions that Mueller allegedly delivered this week to President Trump.
The special counsel might dress them up in legalese, innuendo, and with perjury-trap IEDs, thereby casting suspicion with the mere nature of the questions.
If so, the interrogatories might run like the following—
President Obama:

• What did you mean when you were heard, by accident, on a hot mic, providing the following assurances to outgoing Russian Prime Minister Medvedev: “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space . . . This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility”?
• Did you and the Russian government have any private agreements to readjust Russian-American relations during your own 2012 reelection campaign? Were there other such discussions similar to your comments to Prime Minister Medvedev? If so, do you believe such Russian collusion had any influence on the outcome of the 2012 election?
• During the email controversies over the illegal use of a private email account and server by your secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, you stated publicly that you first became aware of her improper use of a private server through press accounts. Yet records show that you yourself communicated with Secretary Clinton over her unauthorized email account. How do you reconcile your public statements with your private actions?
• Did you ever at any time improperly transmit classified information over Secretary of State Clinton’s email server under a pseudonymous email account? Do you feel that you violated federal law by communicating with your secretary of state over an unsecured email server?

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The point is not to embarrass President Obama, but to demonstrate that any president, past or present, could be forced to answer questions to a special prosecutor, both concerning his original mandate but also far beyond it, including matters of his own personal and business past.
His answers could then be used to collate both with public or even surveilled presidential statements to find evidence  of inconsistency, false testimony, obstruction of justice, or collusion with a foreign government.
Give a special counsel the man—including Barack Obama—and his team of partisan investigators could find the necessary crime to charge him.

You ought to know!