Saturday, August 03, 2019
History for August 3
History for August 3 - On-This-Day.com
Ernie Pyle 1900, John T. Scopes 1900, P.D. James 1920
Leon Uris 1924, Martin Sheen 1940 - Actor, Martha Stewart 1941 - Television personality
1923 - Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the U.S. after the sudden death of President Harding.
1981 - U.S. traffic controllers with PATCO, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, went on strike. They were fired just as U.S. President Reagan had warned.
Friday, August 02, 2019
Border Patrol Chief: 5,800 'Fake Families' Discovered at the Border | Trending
Border Patrol Chief: 5,800 'Fake Families' Discovered at the Border | Trending:
WASHINGTON -- Acting Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Mark Morgan told a Senate committee on Tuesday that 5,800 "fake families" have been discovered trying to enter the U.S. illegally this year.
"Our laws prevent us from holding people more than 20 days and because we can't get the information we're probably releasing them even sooner than that in many cases, correct?" Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) asked Morgan during a Senate Homeland Security hearing on the border crisis.
"Our laws prevent us from holding people more than 20 days and because we can't get the information we're probably releasing them even sooner than that in many cases, correct?" Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) asked Morgan during a Senate Homeland Security hearing on the border crisis.
How they steal your vote!-----Voter Fraud and Voter I.D., by Dr. Thomas Sowell | Creators Syndicate
Voter Fraud and Voter I.D., by Dr. Thomas Sowell | Creators Syndicate
"One of the biggest voter frauds may be the idea promoted by Attorney General Eric Holder and others that there is no voter fraud, that laws requiring voters to have a photo identification are just attempts to suppress black voting.
Reporter John Fund has written three books on voter fraud and a recent survey by Old Dominion University indicates that there are more than a million registered voters who are not citizens, and who therefore are not legally entitled to vote.
...One of these frauds involved sending out absentee ballots to people who had never asked for them.
Then a political operator would show up — uninvited — the day the ballots arrived and "help" the voter to fill them out.
Sometimes the intruders simply took the ballots, filled them out and forged the signatures of the voters..."
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"One of the biggest voter frauds may be the idea promoted by Attorney General Eric Holder and others that there is no voter fraud, that laws requiring voters to have a photo identification are just attempts to suppress black voting.
Reporter John Fund has written three books on voter fraud and a recent survey by Old Dominion University indicates that there are more than a million registered voters who are not citizens, and who therefore are not legally entitled to vote....One of these frauds involved sending out absentee ballots to people who had never asked for them.
Then a political operator would show up — uninvited — the day the ballots arrived and "help" the voter to fill them out.
Sometimes the intruders simply took the ballots, filled them out and forged the signatures of the voters..."
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The incendiary balloon of international law | MelaniePhillips.com
The incendiary balloon of international law | MelaniePhillips.com
"For months now, Israel has been attacked by aerial incendiary weapons launched by Hamas during riots at the Gaza border fence.
These weapons – balloons or kites attached to flammable material – are driven by the winds off the sea towards southern Israel.
In just one week in June, they started nearly 100 fires in farmland and forests, in playgrounds and private yards.
By last month, Hamas had burned more than 7,400 acres of Israeli land.
...Aiesi says the United Nations or countries like Egypt working towards peace in the region should seek the surrender of those committing these war crimes to stand trial before a fair and competent jurisdiction.
Yet beyond Israel, these attacks are scarcely reported at all.
And virtually no one is even stating that they are self-evidently war crimes.
The United Nations remains silent on the point..."
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"For months now, Israel has been attacked by aerial incendiary weapons launched by Hamas during riots at the Gaza border fence.
These weapons – balloons or kites attached to flammable material – are driven by the winds off the sea towards southern Israel.In just one week in June, they started nearly 100 fires in farmland and forests, in playgrounds and private yards.
By last month, Hamas had burned more than 7,400 acres of Israeli land.
...Aiesi says the United Nations or countries like Egypt working towards peace in the region should seek the surrender of those committing these war crimes to stand trial before a fair and competent jurisdiction.
Yet beyond Israel, these attacks are scarcely reported at all.
And virtually no one is even stating that they are self-evidently war crimes.
The United Nations remains silent on the point..."
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Tom Homan: ICE detention facilities -- The left is working hard to keep critical information from you | Fox News
Tom Homan: ICE detention facilities -- The left is working hard to keep critical information from you | Fox News:
We have several Democratic senators and House members running for their party’s presidential nomination who have said they would end immigration detention and what they call “for-profit prisons." These candidates who have been or who are currently lawmakers are ignoring facts.
Here are a few facts that the left does not want you to know.
Some 72 percent of all migrants detained in an ICE facility are congressionally mandated to be detained.
Here are a few facts that the left does not want you to know.
Some 72 percent of all migrants detained in an ICE facility are congressionally mandated to be detained.
Why Illinois Is In Trouble - 63,000 Public Employees With $100,000 Salaries Cost Taxpayers $10B
Why Illinois Is In Trouble - 63,000 Public Employees With $100,000 Salaries Cost Taxpayers $10B:
- Illinois is broke and continues to flirt with junk bond status. But the state’s financial woes aren’t stopping 63,000 government employees from bringing home six-figure salaries and higher.
Silencing dissent!-----Babylon Bee, Snopes & BuzzFeed -- BuzzFeed Publishes a Misleading Story About the Controversy | National Review
Babylon Bee, Snopes & BuzzFeed -- BuzzFeed Publishes a Misleading Story About the Controversy | National Review
"Earlier this week I wrote a piece about the fact-checking website Snopes and its bizarre and seemingly hostile approach to the Babylon Bee, a website for conservative Christian satire.
It routinely fact-checks the Bee’s clearly satirical stories.
One of its fact checks last year caused Facebook to threaten the Bee with sanctions, and a fact check last week was so clearly flawed that Snopes substantially corrected and clarified its post.
The issue, as I saw it, was that the controversy was yet another example of how ideological blindness was causing previously respected institutions to throw away their credibility through partisan misjudgments and partisan acts.
Well, today BuzzFeed covered the controversy, and its report is something else.
First, here is how it frames the story:
The Babylon Bee, a self-proclaimed Christian satire site with half a million followers on Facebook, has accused fact-checking site Snopes.com of unfairly debunking some of its satirical articles as fake news. The accusation has jump-started a conspiracy theory that fact-checking websites are targeting conservative humor in an effort to de-platform right-wing publishers.
“Conspiracy theory” is a strong accusation.
What’s the evidence?
Well, the writer does explain that the Bee was angry at Snopes for its “fact check” last week — the very fact check that Snopes had to substantially revise.
But that’s not a conspiracy theory.
Snopes did write a flawed post, by its own admission.
Moreover, there’s a curious omission from the story (at least the version that’s online as I type this post).
Although the writer links to the Bee’s statement against Snopes that provides the background of the Bee’s concerns, he fails to note some rather important context.
Last year Facebook actually threatened to take action against the Bee because of a Snopes fact check.
So the “conspiracy theory” I suppose is that the Bee is concerned that something that happened once could possibly happen again.
Here’s Facebook’s warning to the Bee from last year..."
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"Earlier this week I wrote a piece about the fact-checking website Snopes and its bizarre and seemingly hostile approach to the Babylon Bee, a website for conservative Christian satire.
One of its fact checks last year caused Facebook to threaten the Bee with sanctions, and a fact check last week was so clearly flawed that Snopes substantially corrected and clarified its post.
The issue, as I saw it, was that the controversy was yet another example of how ideological blindness was causing previously respected institutions to throw away their credibility through partisan misjudgments and partisan acts.
Well, today BuzzFeed covered the controversy, and its report is something else.
First, here is how it frames the story:
The Babylon Bee, a self-proclaimed Christian satire site with half a million followers on Facebook, has accused fact-checking site Snopes.com of unfairly debunking some of its satirical articles as fake news. The accusation has jump-started a conspiracy theory that fact-checking websites are targeting conservative humor in an effort to de-platform right-wing publishers.
“Conspiracy theory” is a strong accusation.
What’s the evidence?
But that’s not a conspiracy theory.
Snopes did write a flawed post, by its own admission.
Moreover, there’s a curious omission from the story (at least the version that’s online as I type this post).
Although the writer links to the Bee’s statement against Snopes that provides the background of the Bee’s concerns, he fails to note some rather important context.
Last year Facebook actually threatened to take action against the Bee because of a Snopes fact check.
So the “conspiracy theory” I suppose is that the Bee is concerned that something that happened once could possibly happen again.
Here’s Facebook’s warning to the Bee from last year..."
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Ilhan Omar: America Has a Responsibility to Provide Abortions to Illegal Immigrants
Ilhan Omar: America Has a Responsibility to Provide Abortions to Illegal Immigrants:
When I described this as a clarion call for free abortions for illegal immigrants, some people objected that Omar wasn't making that explicit argument. But she was. Omar is unequivocally in support of repealing the Hyde Amendment barring taxpayer funding of most abortions, she's actively in favor of the State paying to terminate pregnancies for women who can't afford abortions, and she opposes popular measures to restrict late-term abortions. Combine those stances with her tweet above, and there's no doubt that she believes US taxpayers should bankroll abortions for women who lack legal status. Also, this notion is already gaining steam on the Left, even becoming law via radical legislation in places like Oregon.
12 New Papers Provide Robust Evidence The Earth Was Warmer During Medieval Times
12 New Papers Provide Robust Evidence The Earth Was Warmer During Medieval Times
Claims that modern temperatures are globally warmer than they were during Medieval times (~800 to 1250 A.D.) have been contradicted by a flurry of new (2019) scientific papers.
Claims that modern temperatures are globally warmer than they were during Medieval times (~800 to 1250 A.D.) have been contradicted by a flurry of new (2019) scientific papers.
"...The Medieval Warm Period (1100 years BP) was 1.5°C warmer than today (14°C vs. 12.5°C) in the SE Pacific or Southern Ocean.
Antarctica/Southern Ocean (SSTs)
Elephant seals used to breed on the Victoria Land Coast ~1000 years ago because there was open water access back then whereas this region is locked in sea ice today.
To escape the reach of modern sea ice, elephant seal breeding colonies are now located ~2,400 km further north (sub-Antarctic islands) of where they bred during Medieval times..."
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Terrible city ordinance forces political firms to work for causes they oppose
Terrible city ordinance forces political firms to work for causes they oppose"Two businessmen, Grant Strobl and Jacob Chludzinski own ThinkRight Strategies, a political consulting and marketing firm, in Michigan have filed a lawsuit against the city of Ann Arbor for enforcing a law that is discriminatory.
Ann Arbor passed an ordinance that makes it illegal for businesses to discriminate based on political beliefs, so ThinkRight, a firm that advocates for right-of-center ideas, must create advocacy material for both liberal and conservative causes or face fines of up to $500 per day.
...The law bans Strobl and Chludzinski from posting statements on their website indicating they work with conservative clients.
It even requires the consulting firm to try to recruit clients from the liberal Left so long as it is also soliciting clients from the conservative Right.
...If this kind of stifling ordinance sounds vaguely familiar, California had a similar one in place that demanded that pro-life pregnancy centers promote abortion..."
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Michael Moore urges Michelle Obama to run against Trump | TheHill
"Filmmaker Michael Moore said in a new interview that there is only one candidate up to the challenge to “crush” President Trump in 2020, “and her last name rhymes with Obama.”
“In fact, it is Obama — Michelle Obama,” Moore said on MSNBC. “Everybody watching this right now knows she is a beloved American and she would go in there and she would beat him.”
...“The only way to remove Trump is to crush Trump. And that’s the question that has to be asked, who can crush Trump? Who’s the street fighter?” Moore said..."
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...“The only way to remove Trump is to crush Trump. And that’s the question that has to be asked, who can crush Trump? Who’s the street fighter?” Moore said..."
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RNC's McDaniel: Democrats Revealed 'a Total Socialist Plan,' 'Takeover of All of Our Health Care' | Breitbart
RNC's McDaniel: Democrats Revealed 'a Total Socialist Plan,' 'Takeover of All of Our Health Care' | Breitbart:
Tuesday after the Democratic presidential debate that aired on CNN, Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel commented on the policy proposals the candidates put forth on health care.
McDaniel said those Democrats revealed a “total socialist plan” on health care with the Medicare for all and that Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) plans would take away health care some already have.
Tuesday after the Democratic presidential debate that aired on CNN, Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel commented on the policy proposals the candidates put forth on health care.
McDaniel said those Democrats revealed a “total socialist plan” on health care with the Medicare for all and that Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) plans would take away health care some already have.
Threatening teachers' ability to control their classrooms - Washington Times
Threatening teachers' ability to control their classrooms - Washington Times:- How the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights gets it wrong on school discipline
"Shoddy work is not uncommon for government commissions.
But with its awkwardly-titled new report — ”Beyond Suspensions: Examining School Discipline Policies and Connections to the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students of Color with Disabilities” — the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights goes beyond shoddy.
Its unsupported claims threaten teachers’ ability to keep control of their classrooms..."
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History for August 2
History for August 2 - On-This-Day.com
James Baldwin 1924, Carroll O'Connor 1924, Peter O'Toole 1932
Lance Ito 1950, Victoria Jackson 1959 - Actress, comedian, 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.
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.
Thursday, August 01, 2019
How Obama's Justice Dept managed to evade FOIA laws - WND
How Obama's Justice Dept managed to evade FOIA laws - WND:
ACLJ said that having taken control of the laptops, “agreeing to severely limit its searches, agreeing to unlawfully shield the laptops from FOIA, then agreeing to dispose of the laptops, it appears the Comey FBI and Lynch DOJ did everything in their power to protect Clinton’s senior aids and lawyers from both criminal liability <and public scrutiny.”
The agreements documented that in return for temporary, brief and limited access to the computers, “no information directly obtained” will be used against the Clinton staffers.
ACLJ explained that one of its lawsuits seeking information about Obama-administration scandals, it went to court to “to force production of various records surrounding former FBI Director James Comey’s sham investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of private email servers and mishandling of classified information.”
The agreements documented that in return for temporary, brief and limited access to the computers, “no information directly obtained” will be used against the Clinton staffers.
ACLJ explained that one of its lawsuits seeking information about Obama-administration scandals, it went to court to “to force production of various records surrounding former FBI Director James Comey’s sham investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of private email servers and mishandling of classified information.”
When Islam rules-----Multicultural Birmingham Has Highest FGM Rate in UK
"A region of the multicultural Midlands city of Birmingham (UK) has seen the highest rate of newly-reported cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK.
Last year, the National Health Service (NHS) newly-recorded 305 cases of the mutilation in Birmingham and Solihull, nearly six news victims every week, according to BirminghamLive.
...In terms of historic cutting committed when the victims were children, authorities were able to ascertain that 15 of the cases involved women and girls being less than one year old at the time of the abuse; 15 were aged between one and four years old; 45 were was aged five to nine; and around ten were aged 10 to 14..."
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...In terms of historic cutting committed when the victims were children, authorities were able to ascertain that 15 of the cases involved women and girls being less than one year old at the time of the abuse; 15 were aged between one and four years old; 45 were was aged five to nine; and around ten were aged 10 to 14..."
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Multicultural Britain Prepares for Summer Vacation by Warning Children About FGM, Forced Marriages Abroad breitbart.com/london/2018/07…
Taxes paying for hate-filled brainwashing!-----How to make big bucks: Run a white guilt workshop | The College Fix
"Not many people go into teaching for the money, whether it be primary school, high school, or even college.
However, if you want to use an education degree to make some real money, here’s what to do: Offer your services for staff trainings centered on participants’ white guilt.
According to the Daily Caller News Foundation, leaders of such seminars can make more in one day than what the “median black household makes in three months.”
Popular (and Caucasian) “white fragility” lecturer Robin DiAngelo got a cool $12,000 — not counting travel expenses — from the University of Kentucky back in March for a two-hour session on “racial justice.”
Tickets for a recent half-day event in San Francisco featuring DiAngelo went for $120 (adults) and $65 (kids) apiece..."
Tickets for a recent half-day event in San Francisco featuring DiAngelo went for $120 (adults) and $65 (kids) apiece..."
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Rachel Maddow Falls To Fifth In July Ratings, As Hannity, Carlson Dominate Cable News | The Daily Caller
Rachel Maddow Falls To Fifth In July Ratings, As Hannity, Carlson Dominate Cable News | The Daily Caller:
Fox News had the four highest rated cable news programs for the month of July, while MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow continued to see her ratings stagnate.
“The Rachel Maddow Show” fell to fifth it total viewers this month, behind Fox News’ “Hannity,” “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and “The Five,” according to Nielsen Media Research.
Fox News had the four highest rated cable news programs for the month of July, while MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow continued to see her ratings stagnate.
“The Rachel Maddow Show” fell to fifth it total viewers this month, behind Fox News’ “Hannity,” “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and “The Five,” according to Nielsen Media Research.
CANADA allows veiled Muslim women to bypass airport security checks | Ban Islam
CANADA allows veiled Muslim women to bypass airport security checks | Ban Islam
"In Canada now, political correctness trumps security.
Flying while Muslim means you won’t be forced to uncover your face or lift up your burqa before boarding a plane.
Are we feeling safer yet?
Each passenger must submit his/her own passport and boarding pass so they can be identified at the last check in point before boarding the aircraft.
EXCEPT FOR MUSLIMS!
Canada airport security will not ask a veiled Muslim to remove her veil and prove her identity..."
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