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History for May 5

History for May 5 - On-This-Day.com

Karl Marx 1818 - Socialist writer ("Das Kapital", "The Communist Manifesto"), founder of communism

• 1809 - Mary Kies was awarded the first patent to go to a woman. It was for technique for weaving straw with silk and thread.
• 1862 - The Battle of Puebla took place. It is celebrated as Cinco de Mayo Day.
• 1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery in the U.S.
• 1892 - The U.S. Congress extended the Geary Chinese Exclusion Act for 10 more years. The act required Chinese in the U.S. to be registered or face deportation.
• 1912 - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda began publishing.
• 1945 - A Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon. A pregnant woman and five children were killed.
• 1961 - Alan Shepard became the first American in space when he made a 15 minute suborbital flight.

DISNEY'S NOSEDIVE: House of Mouse Down $63B Since Going to War With DeSantis

DISNEY'S NOSEDIVE: House of Mouse Down $63B Since Going to War With DeSantis: 

The Walt Disney Company is taking a huge financial hit in its woke war against Florida’s parents and Governor Ron DeSantis. The House of Mouse has lost $63 billion dollars in market capitalization since March.

The way we were-----31 Wonderful Color Photos of Russia During the 1950s

China’s DYING Belt and Road Initiative

Feds: Number of Job Openings Hit New High in March

Feds: Number of Job Openings Hit New High in March link

(The Center Square) – Job openings in the U.S. continue to rise, now nearly doubling the number of job seekers, according to newly released federal data.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the new data Tuesday showing 11.5 million job openings for the month of March, a new record.

That figure is up from 11.3 million in February and is a roughly 36% increase from the same time last year.

• ...The data is the latest troubling economic indicator alongside the highest inflation in four decades as a third of small businesses consider shutting their doors..."

McCaughey: Biden Says Kids Belong to Their Teachers

McCaughey: Biden Says Kids Belong to Their Teachers link
"Schools are becoming indoctrination factories, trying to turn children against their country and their own parents’ values. 

It’s what the teachers unions intend.
Amazingly, that’s just fine with President Joe Biden, who told a gathering of teachers and union bigwigs on April 27 that the kids are “yours when they’re in the classroom.” 

That wasn’t just a Biden stumble. 

He repeated it for emphasis: “They are all our children … They are not somebody else’s children.”
Sorry, Joe. 

But parents have a right to know what their children are being taught, and to set limits..."

FNC's Turley: Biden 'Arguably the Most Anti-Free Speech President Since John Adams'

FNC's Turley: Biden 'Arguably the Most Anti-Free Speech President Since John Adams': 

“I think it’s telling that the Biden administration went out and recruited one of the most outspoken critics of free speech,” Turley stated on “America Reports.”

“[M]y expectation is that they are going to now try to minimize this group,” he added. “But what is really important about this is that she is pitch-perfect for the Biden administration. I mean, President Biden, I’ve said before, is arguably the most anti-free speech president since John Adams. I mean, the record of this administration is chilling.

UNCHARTED WATERS Dinesh D’Souza Podcast Ep322

"In this episode, Dinesh explores how the findings of the documentary, if validated by further investigation, put the country into uncharted constitutional waters.  

Biden establishes a Ministry of Truth, but Dinesh argues its objective seems to be to serve as a Ministry of Lies. 

Debbie joins Dinesh to discuss how the November election is not a choice between Republicans and Democrats, but between America and Venezuela. 

Dinesh examines the significance of J.D. Vance for the future of the GOP.  "

When you go from celebrating children to preying on children!-----Disney Lost $63 Billion in Market Capitalization Since Going Full Woke in Florida

Disney Lost $63 Billion in Market Capitalization Since Going Full Woke in Florida link

The Walt Disney Co. has lost nearly $63 billion in market capitalization since it decided in March to embrace radical LGBTQ activism and declare war on Florida by opposing the state’s Parental Rights in Education law.
...Disney’s free fall comes as the company has embraced woke, far-left politics, specifically the exposure of young children to radical LGBTQ ideology. 

In so doing, the entertainment giant has alienated millions of customers and picked a fight with Florida GOP leaders..."

Lunch video-----Climate Change Roundtable ep12: Earth Day Edition! Failed Dire Predictions...

Noon-toon

 

White House Defends DHS Disinformation Board as 'Non-Partisan and Apolitical' Despite Nina Jankowicz Public Support for Hillary Clinton

White House Defends DHS Disinformation Board as 'Non-Partisan and Apolitical' Despite Nina Jankowicz Public Support for Hillary Clinton: 

In 2020, Jankowicz even defended Christopher Steel’s thoughts on disinformation after his widely discredited Russian dossier was widely discredited as a major source for lies about President Trump during the campaign.

Jankowicz also defended Biden’s handling of Ukraine, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin invading the country during his presidency.

Eighty-four percent demand voter ID, want ‘Zuckerbucks’ banned

Eighty-four percent demand voter ID, want ‘Zuckerbucks’ banned

"Despite President Joe Biden’s assault on election integrity efforts in several states, voters in record numbers are demanding that 

• identification be presented to get a ballot and 
  
• want reforms across the board in all 50 states.

New polling provided to Secrets Monday showed that 84% want voter ID, and huge percentages of black and Hispanic voters are behind the surge in support as the nation readies for the fall congressional midterm elections..."

No "chip shortage" forleft-loons.

 

As the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) runs out, carnage in the small business world!-----Longtime Grand Haven Deli Closing Permanently

Longtime Grand Haven Deli Closing Permanently

The location at 427 N. 6th Street has served as a business for several decades. According to Did's website:

There has always been a business located here. Over the years it was a meat market, a grocery store, then in 1972 Pixie Gifford created Did’s Deli & Catering..."

#1 This day 1959---The Fleetwoods - Come Softly To Me

It's the Bee. But it's what libs are telling us is true!-----White Liberals Watch In Amazement As Black Man Acquires ID | The Babylon Bee

White Liberals Watch In Amazement As Black Man Acquires ID | The Babylon Bee  link

HAMPTON FALLS, IA—White liberals gathered in the town of Hampton Falls were shocked and astonished as local black man, accountant, and father of three Michael Sparkton walked right into a DOT office and acquired an ID without any assistance from liberals whatsoever.
"It was amazing -- he was smart, clean, and articulate enough to walk right in and acquire the ID without consulting us white people at all," said anti-racist activist Chloe Ryder to reporters. 

"He walked right in and got the ID, no questions asked. We thought it would be way above his intelligence level because, well. You know what I'm saying, right? Yeah. You know."..."

Believe in magic!

AOC advocates student debt cancellation, even though it would not benefit those who paid off loans - TheBlaze

AOC advocates student debt cancellation, even though it would not benefit those who paid off loans - TheBlaze: 

In response to a question about how student debt cancellation would benefit people who have already paid off their loans, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) suggested that while individuals who have already paid down their student debt will not benefit from debt cancellation, they might benefit from another program — "It all comes around," she wrote.

Imagine the mediameltdown if this had been Trump-----Hunter Biden flew to Moscow for a meeting with now-sanctioned Russian oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov | Daily Mail Online

Hunter Biden flew to Moscow for a meeting with now-sanctioned Russian oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov | Daily Mail Online  link

"EXCLUSIVE: Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin met with Hunter Biden in Moscow over potential investment deal before meeting TWICE more in New York and DC - and is now sanctioned by the UK (but NOT the US)

• Emails obtained by DailyMail.com reveal Hunter Biden had courted Vladimir Yevtushenkov, a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin 
• The billionaire, 73, owned a company which has reportedly supplied Putin's forces with drones used for deadly bombings in Ukraine
• He was sanctioned by the UK and Australia this month but remains unsanctioned by the Biden administration 
• Emails from his abandoned laptop show Hunter booked a trip to Moscow for a dinner with the oligarch at his company Sistema's headquarters in February 2012..."

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History for May 4

History for May 4 - On-This-Day.com

George F. Will 1941 - Columnist ("Newsweek"), editor

• 1626 - Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on Manhattan Island. Native Americans later sold the island (20,000 acres) for $24 in cloth and buttons.
• 1886 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter patented the gramophone. It was the first practical phonograph.
• 1904 - The U.S. formally took control of the property for construction of the Panama Canal.
• 1942 - The United States began food rationing.
• 1970 - The Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on students during an anti-Vietnam war protest at Kent State University. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded.
• 1979 - Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman prime minister.
• 1981 - The Federal Reserve Board raised its discount rate to 14%.
• 1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed a historic accord on Palestinian autonomy that granted self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

Samantha Power says 'catastrophic' food shortages are an opportunity to implement left-wing policies - TheBlaze

Samantha Power says 'catastrophic' food shortages are an opportunity to implement left-wing policies - TheBlaze: 

"So never let a crisis go to waste," she concluded. She went on to defend the Biden administration against criticism that its policies led to high food prices.

The way we were-----Tucker: Michigan AG arrested guest after appearing on this show

McEnany: This kind of leak has never happened

Own the children, own the future!-----MN Likely to Teach Students That Police Started as Slave Patrols - Intellectual Takeout

MN Likely to Teach Students That Police Started as Slave Patrols - Intellectual Takeout link

• Police have existed since the ancient Sumerian civilization, thousands of years ago. They did not originate with slave patrols. 
• But Minnesota is preparing to teach students that policing began with slave patrols. 
• This false teaching is included in a draft ethnic studies component to Minnesota social studies classes.

It’s a weird, historically-inaccurate new curriculum drafted under progressive Governor Tim Walz. 

Walz’s administration replaced subject-matter experts on history with left-wing activists on the committee charged with updating Minnesota’s social-studies curriculum. 

The new curriculum could go into effect by 2024..."

Free Speech as a ‘Right Wing Value.’

Instapundit--Free Speech as a ‘Right Wing Value.’  link

IT’S COME TO THIS: Free Speech as a ‘Right Wing Value.’
“I know everything is polarized these days, but I still have a hard time understanding how we can’t all agree that the government creating a Disinformation Governance Board led by a person famous for spreading disinformation is a batsh*t, awful move.”

...“All the Left had to do was not be crazy. They couldn’t meet that bar.”

UPDATE: ‘It just got real’: Musk fires back at ‘lovely people’ at MSNBC in a big way for calling all Republicans ‘Nazis’ and OH HELL YEAH. 

“NBC basically saying Republicans are Nazis…Same org that covered up Hunter Biden laptop story, had Harvey Weinstein story early & killed it & built Matt Lauer his rape office. 

Lovely people,” Musk tweets.--Posted by Ed Driscoll"...read all.

Bill Maher slams Twitter for flagging The Babylon Bee - TheBlaze

Bill Maher slams Twitter for flagging The Babylon Bee - TheBlaze: 

On Friday's episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher," the HBO host welcomed former Democratic Alabama Senator Doug Jones and MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi to discuss what – if any – moderation Twitter should have as the online town square.

Maher asked, "Has Twitter failed in setting itself up in the past as the judge of what can go out there?" He then answered his own question, "And I would say yes, you have."

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