History for August 2

History for August 2 - On-This-Day.com
James Baldwin 1924, Carroll O'Connor 1924, Peter O'Toole 1932
 

Wes Craven 1939, Victoria Jackson 1959 - Actress, comdian, Mary-Louise Parker 1964


1861 - The United States Congress passed the first income tax. The revenues were intended for the war effort against the South. The tax was never enacted.


1887 - Rowell Hodge patented barbed wire.


1892 - Charles A. Wheeler patented the first escalator.


1921 - Eight White Sox players were acquitted of throwing the 1919 World Series.


1939 - Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the U.S. to have an atomic weapons research program.


1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act. The act prohibited civil service employees from taking an active part in political campaigns.


1945 - The Allied conference at Potsdam was concluded.


1990 - Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by OPEC.

US workers see biggest pay, benefit increase in 10 years | Fox Business

US workers see biggest pay, benefit increase in 10 years | Fox Business:

U.S. workers saw the largest increase in wages and benefits since September 2008, according to a new report from the Labor Department on Tuesday.
The employment cost index, a gauge of total compensation for civilian workers, increased 0.6% in the second quarter. The cost of pay and benefits jumped 2.8% in the 12-month period ended in June, the highest yearly growth rate in nearly a decade.

The way we were-----Bobby Pickett "Monster Mash"

Boob-tube-----Andy Griffith Show mistakes and filming insights

The List of Times the Media Has Called for Violence Against Trump or His Supporters Is Mind-Blowing!

The List of Times the Media Has Called for Violence Against Trump or His Supporters Is Mind-Blowing!
"On Sunday New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger complained to President Trump about “potential” violence against reporters. 
The New York Times has ignored the hundreds of violent attacks against Trump supporters.

There have been over 538 violent attacks against Trump supporters since the 2016 election season.

The liberal mainstream media has ignored these violent attacks.

Instead, the liberal fake news media has fomented, encouraged and threatened, and harassed Trump supporters.

If you run a quick search on Bing of “media calls for violence against Trump” the number of videos that pop us is shocking.

Here are the first 8 pages:

This is the first eight pages.
And this isn’t even all of them.
It’s almost as if the liberal media is purposely avoiding reality."

Very worthy read!-----EXCLUSIVE: An "ugly" chapter that didn't make the Bestseller Book: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change | Watts Up With That?

EXCLUSIVE: An "ugly" chapter that didn't make the Bestseller Book: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change | Watts Up With That?

EXCLUSIVE: An "ugly" chapter that didn't make the Bestseller Book: The Politically Incorrect Guide® to Climate Change

Marc Morano of Climate Deport has given me exclusive publication of this special chapter, that is not included in the book. It details all of the comparisons to Holocaust deniers and RICO and death threats, etc. against climate skeptics. He writes:

Excerpts:

The Earth does not have a fever. Scientific evidence simply doesn’t support the belief that man-made climate change is a catastrophic threat to the planet. And unreliable climate models are poor substitutes for actual data.

Then why don’t more scientists buck the “consensus”? 
The answer is simple. 
Anyone who questions the climate change scare is attacked and threatened. As more and more scientists speak out, dissenting from the climate change orthodoxy, the attacks against them have increased...

Climate campaigners seem to think: If you can’t counter the message, silence the messenger. 

From smears to intimidation to name-calling to lawsuits and threats of criminal prosecution, climate activists are leaving no stone unturned. 

Activists—and “reporters” for theoretically objective media outlets— have targeted skeptical scientists.…

...Much more, read/click on!

You can read the entire chapter here, free: Morano-PIG-Climate-Change-Bonus-Chapter (PDF)

The book has now climbed to #80 on Amazon as of this writing, maybe it will climb higher.

Available on Amazon here

Black Gay Vet Scorches Democrat Party, Reveals What Drove Him To Become Conservative

Black Gay Vet Scorches Democrat Party, Reveals What Drove Him To Become Conservative:

“I didn’t lose friends when I came out as gay. I’ve lost friends since coming out as Republican,” Smith told Watters.
“People do not understand it and these are the… left, that’s supposed to be so tolerant and inclusive. These are the people who were the first to shun me when I came out as conservative.”
“I have been called everything but child of God,” he added.

Detailed Maps Split the U.S. Into TrumpLand and the Clinton Archipelago | Inverse

Detailed Maps Split the U.S. Into TrumpLand and the Clinton Archipelago | Inverse

"...And this is Clinton’s territory:

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Colluding to steal YOUR vote!-----Noncitizens find it easy to register to vote, cast ballots - Washington Times

Noncitizens find it easy to register to vote, cast ballots - Washington Times
"A Russian national or any other noncitizen can easily influence a U.S. election by simply registering to vote in California — just ask Elizaveta Shuvalova.
Ms. Shuvalova said she didn’t even know her name was added to the San Francisco voter rolls in 2012, when she was a 21-year-old Russian citizen living legally in the U.S. but ineligible to vote.
“I’ve never registered for anything in my entire life,” said Ms. Shuvalova, who became a U.S. citizen early last year.
“This is news to me.”
The Washington Times obtained a San Francisco County voter log that detailed Ms. Shuvalova’s registration history and presented the document to her.
It showed that she signed up as a Democrat in July 2012 and that her registration was canceled in May 2016 after she told election officials she wasn’t a citizen. 
Her registration, as a Republican, was reactivated in March 2017.
“This is definitely a shocker to me.
It is like an identity fraud because this is not coming from my end,” said Ms. Shuvalova, who now lives in New York, works as a personal trainer and calls herself a Democrat.
“Like I told you, I haven’t even been a citizen during that time frame. So what can we do about it?”..."
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Lunch video-----Machinations In The British High Command I THE GREAT WAR Week 180

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WATCH: INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST Sheryl Attkisson Reveals Who’s REALLY Behind The ‘Fake News’ Scheme…And What She Discovered Will BLOW YOUR MIND! * 100PercentFedUp.com

WATCH: INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST Sheryl Attkisson Reveals Who’s REALLY Behind The ‘Fake News’ Scheme…And What She Discovered Will BLOW YOUR MIND! * 100PercentFedUp.com:

Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson gave a Tedx Talk at the University of Nevada a couple of weeks ago. During her “Ted Talk”, Attkisson made a shocking revelation about how the “fake news” narrative began. Watch, as Attkisson ties Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Google, and Facebook to start of the “fake news” propaganda campaign designed to discredit conservative news sources.
Attkisson started out her talk by explaining to her audience that she began her investigation into “fake news” by asking 3 basic questions.

Idiots with your money-----Smug Seattle keeps throwing money after streetcar, bike lane fiasco that’s totally off the rails | Fox News

Smug Seattle keeps throwing money after streetcar, bike lane fiasco that’s totally off the rails | Fox News
"...The idealistic leftists who control the Council are wasting millions of hard-earned taxpayer dollars in failed attempts to solve problems the Council members created.
All this is turning Seattle into the poster city for the failure of Big Government.
The city best known for fish markets, coffee stores, rain and flannel-wearing musicians is now becoming legendary for its incompetent leadership and its financial boondoggles.
The latest example of Seattle senselessness is the Council’s costly and deeply flawed efforts to get more people riding public transportation and bicycles. 
Other than spending lots of money, this effort isn’t accomplishing anything. 

...Taxpayers are paying a big price for the incompetence of city officials.
The public transportation system in Seattle is a mess.
Construction costs for new and upgraded streetcar and light rail lines are skyrocketing well above estimated costs.
One of the more unbelievable mistakes made was the purchase of 10 new streetcars last fall. Apparently, when the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) ordered the cars no one thought to check the measurements.
The order was placed for street cars that are likely too big for the tracks and the maintenance barn. 
The project is already $50 million over budget, not including the $52 million it cost for the 10 cars that may be useless.
How has no one been fired for this?...
Read on. It gets worse.

2018 Global Weather-Related Disaster Losses At Record Low (So Far) | Climate Depot

2018 Global Weather-Related Disaster Losses At Record Low (So Far) | Climate Depot
"The massive fires that took the lives of over 40 people in California were not the only devastating wildfires as of late.
...Since the 1970s, the number of forest fires in the United States has remained fairly constant, but there’s been a significant uptick in the size of these blazes. 
The average wildfire is now twice the size of fires of 40 years ago.
...2015 Reason Foundation study noted...“While it is possible that climate change has played a role in increasing the size of fires, the primary cause seems to be forest management practices, which have changed several times over the course of the past 200 years,” the study said.
The United States Forest Service, which manages most of America’s wilderness, made some big changes in the 1970s that many say have led to our modern predicament.
The selective clearing of forests, in which only certain trees are removed, had been highly successful in the past. 
...“In 1976 Congress tried to resolve the debate by instituting a comprehensive forest planning process,” wrote Randal O’Toole, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute. 
“The resulting plans proved to be a costly mistake: The agency spent more than a billion dollars planning the national forests, but the plans were often based on fabricated data, and they did not resolve any debates.”
Nearly a half century of bureaucratic centralization and environmentalist initiatives have left forests overgrown, vulnerable to fire, and dangerous to individual property owners and the economies of many states..."
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...A large fire near the town of Brian Head, Utah, burned 13 homes and over 93 square miles of land.
Utah state Rep. Mike Noel, a Republican, along with other Utah legislators and officials, made a short video in October explaining how better forest management could have prevented what became the most expensive forest fire in the state’s history..."
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Hollywood Director Goes Rogue, Tarnishes Obama Legacy

Hollywood Director Goes Rogue, Tarnishes Obama Legacy:

But he says little if any of that help came during Obama’s time in office.
“Do you know that I cannot get the radical left to do something about it?” Booyens said Thursday at Turning Point USA’s High School Leadership Summit. “Do you know that we could not get the Obama White House to do something about it?”
President Donald Trump’s administration, on the other hand, has been very active in fighting trafficking, Booyens said.

Britain didn't accept a single Christian refugee, accepted Muslims only

Britain didn't accept a single Christian refugee, accepted Muslims only:
"There were 1,112 Syrian refugees resettled in the UK in the first three months of the year.
The Home Office now admits that there was not a single Christian among them, Premier Christian Radio reports.
The information, including the rejection of Christian applicants, came to light following a freedom of information request by the Barnabas Fund – a charity that supports persecuted Christians.
Only Muslim refugee applicants from the war-torn country have been accepted and resettled..."

AM Fruitcake

History for August 1

History for August 1 - On-This-Day.com
Francis Scott Key 1779, Herman Melville 1819, Arthur Hill 1922


Dom DeLuise 1933, Yves Saint Laurent 1936, Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) 1942


1834 - Slavery was outlawed in the British empire with an emancipation bill.


1893 - Shredded wheat was patented by Henry Perky and William Ford.


1907 - The U.S. Army established an aeronautical division that later became the U.S. Air Force.


1936 - Adolf Hitler presided over the Olympic games as they opened in Berlin.


1943 - In the Solomon Islands, the U.S. Navy patrol torpedo boat PT-109 sank after being hit by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. The boat was under the command of Lt. John F. Kennedy. Eleven of the thirteen crew survived.


1944 - In Warsaw, Poland, an uprising against Nazi occupation began. The revolt continued until October 2 when Polish forces surrendered.


1956 - The Social Security Act was amended to provide benefits to disabled workers aged 50-64 and disabled adult children.


1973 - The movie "American Graffiti" opened.

Mike Rowe to Ben Shapiro: 'Profound' Disconnect Exists Between Elites and Many Americans | Fox News Insider

Mike Rowe to Ben Shapiro: 'Profound' Disconnect Exists Between Elites and Many Americans | Fox News Insider:

Reality TV star Mike Rowe told Ben Shapiro that he believes there is a widening gap between the so-called "elites" and everyday Americans.
In an interview conducted by Ben Shapiro, Rowe, currently the host of TBN's "Somebody's Gotta Do It," was asked whether the gap can be bridged between entertainers and journalists and the "people who are actually working the jobs that are actually getting things done across the country."

The way we were-----Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall In Love

Boob-tube-----21 NEW SHOWS OF FALL TV 1955

China's hacking and influence goes unnoticed while we focus on Russia

China's hacking and influence goes unnoticed while we focus on Russia
"While Russia's role in the 2016 election dominates the news, China's spying and alarming influence within our borders is too little noticed.
We’ve spent a lot of time talking about Russian spying in the United States.
And while a lot of the concern is really just evidence that some people have trouble dealing with a lost election, it’s not as if the Russians haven’t been spying on us since my grandparents' day.
But with all the attention focused on Russia, maybe we need to pay a bit more attention to the spying — and related meddling — being done by the People’s Republic of China.
Because China is a bigger threat in general, and seems to be doing a lot without engendering much of a response, or even much awareness..."
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