Monday, March 08, 2021
History for March 8
History for March 8 - On-This-Day.com
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1841
- 1618 - Johann Kepler discovered the third Law of Planetary Motion.
- 1880 - U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes declared that the United States would have jurisdiction over any canal built across the isthmus of Panama.
- 1911 - British Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Gray declared that Britain would not support France in the event of a military conflict.
- 1917 - Russia's "February Revolution" began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg. The revolution was called the "February Revolution" due to Russia's use of the Old Style calendar.
- 1941 - Martial law was proclaimed in Holland in order to extinguish any anti-Nazi protests.
- 1945 - Phyllis Mae Daley received a commission in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. She later became the first African-American nurse to serve duty in World War II.
- 1965 - The U.S. landed about 3,500 Marines in South Vietnam. They were the first U.S. combat troops to land in Vietnam.
Sunday, March 07, 2021
Washington Football Team is growing more woke: No more cheerleaders next season - TheBlaze
Washington Football Team is growing more woke: No more cheerleaders next season - TheBlaze:
The Washington Football Team — previously known the world over as the "Redskins" before ownership ditched the increasingly controversial moniker last summer amid a left-wing wave that crashed upon America's institutions — appears to be growing even more woke.
The NFL franchise will not have cheerleaders this coming season — a first after more than 50 years, USA Today reported.
S.F. police commissioner called to apologize for tweets — or face removal
S.F. police commissioner called to apologize for tweets — or face removal
"San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin said Friday that he would seek to remove Police Commissioner John Hamasaki from his position unless Hamasaki apologizes for a series of controversial social media posts he made this week about teens, guns and other members of the Board of Supervisors.
- ...The debate began Tuesday, following a tweet in which the commissioner argued that it was dangerous in some cases for police to seize guns from teens.
Supervisors Catherine Stefani and Ahsha Safaà both called for Hamasaki’s resignation...
- ...“I wholeheartedly believe in the dialogue that I was trying to generate, which is that gun control doesn’t end with taking guns off the street,” he said. “We need to get to the core of why people feel the need to pick up guns.”...Read all.
California: High school baseball team suspended because 8 seniors took a yearbook photo without masks - TheBlaze
California: High school baseball team suspended because 8 seniors took a yearbook photo without masks - TheBlaze:
A varsity baseball team at a California high school was suspended after pictures of the team's seniors were posted on social media. They were suspended because they were not wearing masks in the photo. Eight senior baseball players at John Burroughs High School in Burbank, California, took a picture in January as part of a nearly 20-year tradition for varsity seniors to take a group photo for the yearbook.
Adverse Incident Reports Show 966 Deaths Following Vaccination for COVID-19 | CLG News
Adverse Incident Reports Show 966 Deaths Following Vaccination for COVID-19 | CLG News
"According to adverse incident reports collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 966 individuals have died after having received an mRNA vaccine for COVID-19.
Between Dec. 14 and Feb. 19, 19,769 reports were made to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) following immunizations with either the Moderna or Pfizer BioNTech mRNA vaccines (the only two vaccines given during the time period assessed).
At this time, VAERS data is not available after Feb. 19.
The 966 deaths represent 5 percent of the total number of adverse events reports...Read all.
Opinion: Looting the Boy Scouts - WSJ
Opinion: Looting the Boy Scouts - WSJ
The Boy Scouts filed for bankruptcy a year ago amid what it acknowledges are legitimate claims of sexual abuse by some scout leaders.
"The plaintiff bar long ago turned mass torts into a business model, but never underestimate legal creativity.
The attempted looting of the Boy Scouts of America is highlighting the need for tort reform in a modern era of social media and lawsuit marketing.
BSA and its insurers have been working in good faith to settle those claims.
Which is why insurers owned by Chubb Ltd. and Hartford Financial Services are asking U.S. bankruptcy Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein to allow discovery into the methods of plaintiff lawyers who produced a 55-fold increase in new claims in less than a year.
You read that right.
Insurer court filings note that when BSA filed for bankruptcy, it was a defendant in 275 cases and had been notified of a potential 1,400 more.
BSA now faces 95,000 claims.
Behind this assault is a sophisticated new tort machine that leverages
- Wall Street litigation funding,
- third-party brokers to collect and
- commoditize claims, and
- sweeping online marketing that recruits and coaches claimants.
This is the new mass tort industry...Read all.
Dan Crenshaw rips Biden's slam on Texans for 'Neanderthal thinking': 'That's rich' coming from the guy with 'low cognitive capacity' - TheBlaze
Dan Crenshaw rips Biden's slam on Texans for 'Neanderthal thinking': 'That's rich' coming from the guy with 'low cognitive capacity' - TheBlaze:
During a meeting at the White House on Wednesday, Biden ripped into the southern governors' announcements, calling the moves a "big mistake" and praising the efficacy of restrictions and face masks.
But he wasn't done there. Instead of just disagreeing with Abbott's and Reeves' decisions, he got personal and derisive.
Cuomo accuser says gov had someone else take sex harass training for him
Cuomo accuser says gov had someone else take sex harass training for him
"Gov. Andrew Cuomo had someone else take his mandatory workplace sex harassment training course for him — then signed off on it as if he’d taken it himself, accuser Charlotte Bennett says in a bombshell new interview aired Friday night.
...The explosive revelations were made by the 25-year-old former Cuomo aide in an interview on “CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.”
...Also in the interview, Bennett said the governor tasked her with “finding” him a girlfriend — then impatiently asked a day later if she had done so, a revelation teased in previews earlier Friday...Read all.
Critical Race Theory — A Requirement for Graduation?
Critical Race Theory — A Requirement for Graduation?
...The lawsuit has to do with a class called Sociology of Change.
- A curious lawsuit in Nevada demonstrates the destructive madness of Critical Race Theory in education.
"Should Critical Race Theory training be a requirement for high school graduation?
It’s a yearlong mandatory class for seniors at Democracy Prep high school.
According to the lawsuit, the course required students to reveal their race, gender, sexual orientation, and any disabilities.
Each of these strands of information was put into one of two buckets: privilege or oppression.
The court filings say, “William Clark was compelled to participate in public professions of his racial, religious, sexual, and gender identities, and would be labeled as an ‘oppressor’ on these bases.”
...Democracy Prep is a network of public charter schools.
Based out of New York, they operate 21 campuses throughout the country, with a total enrollment of about 6,500...Read all.
China Using 'Emotion Recognition Technology' to Arrest People
China Using 'Emotion Recognition Technology' to Arrest People:
China’s state-run Global Times boasted in an article on Thursday that Chinese people are increasingly becoming accustomed to the use of “emotion recognition technology,” artificial intelligence that allows the government to track human feelings, as part of everyday life.
I can't believe this is not satire. But this is not satire. They're really doing this. | Not the Bee
I can't believe this is not satire. But this is not satire. They're really doing this. | Not the Bee
"Yes, this a real product. 
Yeah.
It's a ridiculous-looking Groucho-style air filter you wear over your schnoz all day long.
So that the air you breathe in through your nose is cleaner and less virus-y.
Because nowadays everything is trying to kill you, remember?
Oh this next video ... vomit warning:
...One of the most insufferable parts about this is that they're trying to make this absurd plastic beak look like some sort of high-fashion designer accessory.
It's so bad.
I swear to you this is not satire ... they're from the company's Instagram account...Read all.
History for March 7
History for March 7 - On-This-Day.com
0322 BC - Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, died.
- 1850 - U.S. Senator Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a method of preserving the Union.
- 1854 - Charles Miller received a patent for the sewing machine.
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received a patent (U.S. Patent No. 174,465) for his telephone.
- 1908 - Cincinnati's Mayor Leopold Markbreit announced before the city council that, "Women are not physically fit to operate automobiles."
- 1911 - In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. sent 20,000 troops to the border of Mexico.
- 1933 - The board game Monopoly was invented.
- 1936 - Hitler sent German troops into the Rhineland in violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles.
Saturday, March 06, 2021
Freedom Watch: China Behind Global Decline in Freedom
Freedom Watch: China Behind Global Decline in Freedom:
Freedom House on Wednesday released the 2021 edition of its annual Freedom in the World report, charting an alarming “deterioration of democracy” around the world in 2020.
The report cited the “malign influence of the regime in China” as one of the most “profound” factors in the rising tide of authoritarianism.
Yes, The Bee...or is it real?-----Study Finds Book Burners Always Stop With Just A Few Fringe Books, So There's Nothing To Worry About | The Babylon Bee
Study Finds Book Burners Always Stop With Just A Few Fringe Books, So There's Nothing To Worry About | The Babylon Bee
"U.S.—A new study has confirmed that people who burn books always stop with just a few obscure, third-tier books with a couple of problematic things, and their book-burning activities never go beyond that, so there's really nothing to worry about when books start getting burned.
The study covered book burnings carried out by governments and private groups throughout history.
In every case, the researchers claim, book burners never went beyond their original targets.
...Unfortunately, the study was found to be problematic and has been burned...Read all!
"Days Away From A Crisis": 100,000 Illegal Immigrants Arrested At US Mexico Border; Most For February In 15 Years | ZeroHedge
"Days Away From A Crisis": 100,000 Illegal Immigrants Arrested At US Mexico Border; Most For February In 15 Years | ZeroHedge.
"...Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), whose Congressional district lies near the U.S.-Mexico border, warned that more than 10,000 illegal immigrants have been apprehended in a single border sector in Texas in about a week, with Reuters adding that a stunning 100,000 migrants were detained at the border in February, the highest arrest total for the month of February since 2006.
“We are weeks, maybe even days, away from a crisis on the southern border. Inaction is simply not an option,” the Texas Democrat said in a news release on Thursday.
“Our country is currently unprepared to handle a surge in migrants in the middle of the pandemic.”...Read all.
Mississippi passes bill blocking transgender athletes from participating in girls' sports - TheBlaze
Mississippi passes bill blocking transgender athletes from participating in girls' sports - TheBlaze:
Mississippi Republican State Sen. Angela Hill, who sponsored the bill, said, "If we do not move to protect female sports from biological males who have an unfair physiological advantage, we will eventually no longer have female sports."
She added, "This issue is imminent in Mississippi. We have to make a statement that women matter, female sports matter."
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