History for December 5

History for December 5 - On-This-Day.com
Martin Van Buren (U.S.) 1782, George Armstrong Custer 1839, Walt Elias Disney 1901 - Disney movies, music and books


Otto Preminger 1906, Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) 1932, Margaret Cho 1968


1945 - The so-called "Lost Squadron" disappeared. The five U.S. Navy Avenger bombers carrying 14 Navy flyers began a training mission at the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station. They were never heard from again.


1988 - Jim Bakker and former aide Richard Dortch were indicted by a federal grand jury in North Carolina on fraud and conspiracy charges.

‘The Public Apparently Isn’t Buying It’: Chris Wallace Presses Hakeem Jeffries On Declining Impeachment Support | The Daily Caller

‘The Public Apparently Isn’t Buying It’: Chris Wallace Presses Hakeem Jeffries On Declining Impeachment Support | The Daily Caller:

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace pressed Democratic New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on declining public support for impeachment despite the House’s public hearings.
“There’s been an awful lot about investigating, impeaching, and removing the president since he took the oath of office,” Wallace told Jeffries during the congressman’s “Fox News Sunday” appearance.

The way we were-----20 Seriously Funny Restaurant Signs

Boob-tube-----25 Worst TV Spin Offs of All Time

Main stream media misinformation about rising sea levels.-----Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming

Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming--Eric Negron
"Challenge: I would like to counter the main stream media misinformation about rising sea levels. Needed your opinion to verify the facts. I admit I may be wrong, but if I’m right, ...
Statement: “The two major causes of global sea level rise are thermal expansion caused by warming of the ocean (since water expands as it warms) and increased melting of land-based ice, such as glaciers and ice sheets.”...
Alarmers want you to believe liquid water expands because it is heated.
That isn’t true of ocean water at depth or pressure greater than 1 atmosphere. 

It is only true at the surface layer, perhaps the top 10 feet where the SUNLIGHT AFFECTS the thermal expansion properties of water molecules, and convectional currents may raise the water molecule to the surface and evaporation takes place..."

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  Terry Haskew 

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• You have the facts correct. There are recent studies and empirical evidence that there has been no significant rise in sea levels for the entire 20th century. Add to that (yes i know its pushing the limits) the pH of the ocean is at the lower end of normal variability which is an indication of cooling.
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    Terry Haskew Yea except that other tide gauges show 
  • zero sea level rise and one even shows a drop. The error margins on the instruments is never shown. The argo bouys dont measure sea levels. Their coverage is at best minimal. Each bouy on average covers a surface area of over 90,000 square kilometers and reach a depth of 2,000 metres which as the average ocean depth is at least 4,000 metres they miss out on 50% of the ocean. They are good science BUT they need to be operational for a lot longer before they can provide baselines to understand ocean cycles.

New Jersey sues New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for relocating homeless out of state - The Washington Post

New Jersey sues New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for relocating homeless out of state - The Washington Post
"  A New York City program coerces homeless residents to move to out-of-state apartments that are frequently dilapidated and uninhabitable, officials in Newark alleged in a lawsuit filed Monday.
The complaint, which names the city of New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Social Services Commissioner Steven Banks as defendants, accuses the city’s Special One-Time Assistance program, or SOTA, of violating commerce laws by pushing recipients into Newark apartments that are not suitable for living and sometimes illegal..."
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Klein: Four Reasons Adam Schiff Is a Fact Witness in Impeachment Hoax | Breitbart

Klein: Four Reasons Adam Schiff Is a Fact Witness in Impeachment Hoax | Breitbart:

Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is rejecting Republican requests for him to testify before the Judiciary Committee, denying that he is a “fact witness” in the Democrats’ controversial impeachment probe.
Below, in no particular order, are four major reasons Schiff is indeed a fact witness despite his protestations to the contrary. Schiff should be called to testify to explain these significant issues.

Kid Rock not renewing lease on his Made in Detroit restaurant at LCA

Kid Rock not renewing lease on his Made in Detroit restaurant at 
"DETROIT – Kid Rock is not renewing his lease for his Made in Detroit restaurant inside Little Caesars Arena..."

"Kid Rock

about an hour ago

"I will not be renewing my licensing agreement for my Made In Detroit Restaurant this April.
I appreciate all who have patronized our place and still have much love for the City of Detroit and the people / organizations that I have helped there for years, black, white, whatever, but learned long ago, go where you're celebrated, not tolerated.
I guess the millions of dollars I pumped into that town was not enough. I will let the NAN network and others go ahead and take the wheel now. Good luck.
I may be guilty of being a loud mouth jerk at times, but trying to label me racist is a joke, and actually only does a disservice to the black community, which I have supported my entire life, by trying to alienate myself and many others.

PS - Hey Al Sharpton, you or your cronies will never beat me you tax evading, race baiting clown!

Trump 2020!!

250k donated to Eastern Market for the Kid Rock community kitchen
250k donated for the Barbara Bush reading innovative in Detroit
1m raised to help save The DSO
many, many more 10’s if not 100’s of thousands of dollars raised and donated in Detroit by Kid Rock"

IMPORTANT because EVERY GOP appointee is on the dems impeach-list!----21 Reasons Not To Believe Ford's Claims About Justice Kavanaugh

21 Reasons Not To Believe Ford's Claims About Justice Kavanaugh
"The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California recently presented Christine Blasey Ford with its Roger Baldwin Courage Award. 
It is unclear why politicians and pundits still claim to believe Ford, given the lack of evidence in support of her serious accusations.
...Many Democratic politicians and members of corporate media proudly announce that they “believe” Ford and believe that Kavanaugh should be impeached.
..."I still believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. And like the man who appointed him, Brett Kavanaugh should be impeached.-- Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) September 28, 2019
...It is unclear why these politicians and pundits claim to believe Ford, given the lack of evidence in support of her serious accusations.
Here are 21 reasons reasonable people may doubt Ford’s claims about Kavanaugh.
1. There Is No Evidence that Ford and Kavanaugh Ever Met
Apart from Ford’s claim, no evidence was ever provided that Ford and Kavanaugh had ever met, much less that the party she described had occurred, much less that the assault she described occurred..."
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Lunch video-----The Myth of Voter Suppression

Noon-toon

'60 Minutes:' More Than 300 Ads by Trump Campaign Taken Down by Google and YouTube | Breitbart

'60 Minutes:' More Than 300 Ads by Trump Campaign Taken Down by Google and YouTube | Breitbart:

More than 300 of President Donald Trump’s political ads have taken down by Google and its video platform YouTube, mostly over the summer, according to a report by 60 minutes.
The CBS reporters were unable to find specific reasons for the mass takedowns of Trump ads, a common problem with social media companies, which are often reluctant to explain precisely why a ban or other act of censorship has happened. “We found very little transparency in the transparency report,” concluded 60 Minutes.

This is a "paid-for" news article!----Wait till the Big advertising gets going!----- great wintertime cannabis strains | SummitDaily.com

5 great wintertime cannabis strains | SummitDaily.com

• There are some cannabis strains that stand out above the rest in terms of fitting in with Summit County’s winter lifestyle.

"Nothing says wintertime like a cannabis strain that smells like Christmas.
...The budtenders at Organix in Breckenridge say it’s common for customers to seek out specific strains during different seasons.
They love to point folks toward Star Killer around the holidays because of its evergreen scent, but the appeal of other winter-friendly strains comes in the form of the highs they deliver.
Some folks want an adrenaline-packed sativa to aid in their outdoor adventures..."
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How 'bout an investigation into this?

What Trump is guilty of

What Trump is guilty of
"Donald Trump, the president of the United States, behaved as any innocent man would, behave having been framed by fabricated propaganda prepared by foreign intelligence agents and paid for by his political enemies.

• He behaved as any innocent man might when prosecutors hounding him were enabled and appointed by his political enemies.  
• He behaved as any innocent man might when he realized that his prosecutors included the chief counsel of the Clinton Family Foundation and Barack Obama's deputy assistant attorney general and that the chief witness against him was represented by Hillary Clinton's longstanding lawyer whom the Washington Post called "The Ultimate Clinton Loyalist."
• He acted as any innocent man might who realized that his home, phone lines, offices, and associates were being spied on, wiretapped, surveilled, followed, photographed, and even infiltrated by paid spies and foreign agents sent by his domestic political enemies who deliberately set him and his family up in a sting operation. Meanwhile, the selfsame people vehemently denied that the spying took place.

In other words, he acted against the blatant injustice by pushing back against criminal operatives conspiring to frame him.
...The president is guilty of self-defense..."
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#1 This day 1959-----Mack the Knife-Bobby Darin

The important news of the day!-----Actually, the husband in the Peloton commercial is a hero | Spectator USA

Actually, the husband in the Peloton commercial is a hero | Spectator USA

• This man spent nearly $3,000 on the Instagram-worthy exercise machine of the bourgeoisie
• A woman gives her husband a video to thank him for buying her a $3,000 exercise bike

"Exercise company Peloton found itself at the center of the Twitter outrage machine this week after they dropped a new Christmas advertisement, ‘The Gift that Gives Back.’
The commercial kicks off when a husband gifts his young, attractive (and thin!) wife with a Peloton bike on Christmas morning...
Critics slammed the ad as sexist, declaring that a man should never give his wife exercise equipment as a gift because it implies she needs to lose weight.
But don’t be fooled by the outrage mob.
Watch a bit more closely, and you’ll come to realize that the husband is actually the hero of this story.
This man spent nearly $3,000 on the Instagram-worthy exercise machine of the bourgeoisie and was rewarded with a shitty thank you video made up of selfies that cost exactly zero dollars and very little time to make..."
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And each prediction came with demand for your money to "fix" it!

Possibly the most depressing news of the year-----UM: In the US, 13.5% of 15-year-olds can distinguish between fact and opinion when trying to interp…

Instapundit Blog Archive UM: In the US, 13.5% of 15-year-olds can distinguish between fact and opinion when trying to interp…
"UM: In the US, 13.5% of 15-year-olds can distinguish between fact and opinion when trying to interpret a complex reading task.

That’s awful. 
Our kids are so dumb, unlike those smart Europeans. 
Well, not so much: 
“In the UK, it’s just 11.5%. 
Those results are both better than the OECD average of 9%, according to the latest results of PISA, or the Programme for International Student Assessment, an international test of math, science, and reading which is administered by the OECD every three years.”
It does suggest that K-12 education sucks everywhere, which is not a huge surprise. 
It also suggests that if, as I’ve argued, education in critical thinking is essential to protect against the harms of fake news and toxic viral ideas, well, we’ve got a long way to go. 
Makes you wonder if the powers that be actually want citizens who can think critically.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds" 

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