- 1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity.
- 1794 - The U.S. Congress prohibited citizens from serving in any foreign armed forces.
- 1851 - Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in "The National Era."
- 1884 - U.S. Civil War General William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."
- 1933 - President Roosevelt signed the bill that took the U.S. off of the gold standard.
- 1940 - During World War II, the Battle of France began when Germany began an offensive in Southern France.
- 1947 - U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined the Marshall Plan.
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Sunday, June 05, 2022
History for June 5
History for June 5 - On-This-Day.com
Saturday, June 04, 2022
Biden calls for gun control during address - TheBlaze
Biden calls for gun control during address - TheBlaze:
The president said that "the Second Amendment, like all other rights, is not absolute."
Biden said that the issue is not about eliminating people's rights, but rather about protecting people.
The End Of Corn
"“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue"
A worthy read by a simple (albeit genius) FB friend.----"...A nation that asks nothing of government, but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart..."
Facebook Michael Smith
“Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order.
“Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order.
It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more.
A nation that asks nothing of government, but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.”
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
"As time passes, cultures exhibit stages of maturity – a defined lifecycle.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
"As time passes, cultures exhibit stages of maturity – a defined lifecycle.
As times change and the old are replaced by the young, a culture progresses, and mores and attitudes change as the members and their perspectives change.
The maturity level of a given culture is often expressed by the maturity level of the younger demographic as it prepares to assume control of the culture.
The Greatest Generation enjoyed unparalleled prosperity in the post WWII years.
The Greatest Generation enjoyed unparalleled prosperity in the post WWII years.
This prosperity provided the opportunity to extend childhood through leisure opportunities afforded by that prosperity.
- Parents of this generation wanted better for their children, striving to create an easier life for the Baby Boomer kiddies, and as a result the Boomers grew up in an environment where they had and did more as they received the benefits of their parents’ success.
- Protected from the harshness their parents knew, Boomer children grew up in far less demanding circumstances; however, their resulting training as adults was incomplete.
- Where their parents worked as children to assist in family survival, Boomers worked after school jobs to pay for comic books or to buy things they wanted.
- Reaching adulthood, Boomers also sought to “make things better” for their kids to the point that they (and the culture they built) began to frown on children holding even a part-time job (even making it illegal in some circumstances), substituting “enrichment”, sports, or sloth for the lessons a job would teach their children..."
“Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.” — Bobby Jindal-----Millions of new faces in Biden's foreign-born boom
Millions of new faces in Biden's foreign-born boom
In a new analysis for the Center for Immigration Studies, my colleague Karen Zeigler and I show that the total foreign-born or immigrant population reached 47 million in April 2022 — the highest number ever in American history...
These numbers are extraordinary, not only because they indicate that America has lost control of its borders, but also because they raise profound questions about how many people the country can successfully integrate.
- 2 million new faces in 16 months: The Biden era’s foreign-born boom
In a new analysis for the Center for Immigration Studies, my colleague Karen Zeigler and I show that the total foreign-born or immigrant population reached 47 million in April 2022 — the highest number ever in American history...
These numbers are extraordinary, not only because they indicate that America has lost control of its borders, but also because they raise profound questions about how many people the country can successfully integrate.
...Since 2000, the total foreign-born population has grown by 50%.
It has also doubled since 1990, tripled since 1980, and quintupled since 1970..."
New York Democrat threatens to nuke filibuster and pack Supreme Court in order to grab guns - TheBlaze
New York Democrat threatens to nuke filibuster and pack Supreme Court in order to grab guns - TheBlaze:
A Democratic lawmaker on the House Judiciary Committee casually threatened to blow up the Senate filibuster and pack the U.S. Supreme Court to confiscate guns during markup on a series of gun control proposals Thursday.
The laws and the rules FAILED! We don't need more of the same failure!-----Has Anyone Highlighted This Key Detail About the Texas Shooter's Background Check?
Has Anyone Highlighted This Key Detail About the Texas Shooter's Background Check?
- Ramos was known to be trouble. He got into fights, slashed his own face, told friends he hoped to join the military so he could kill people and posted multiple rape and death threats on the app Yubo...
"There were plenty of laws that could have stopped this kid, granted some need updating—but let’s talk about the background check.What happened with this process?
If Ramos put his grandparents’ address on the 4473 form with the ATF, he would have been denied.
He should have been denied. His grandfather has a criminal record.
He admitted that he cannot be around firearms because of this, adding that if he had known Ramos had guns, he would have to inform the police (via NY Daily News):
So, what happened here?
The grandfather of the Texas teen who killed 21 people in an elementary school Tuesday said he can’t be around guns and would have reported that his grandson had two of them had he known...
So, what happened here?
Was this a background check failure?
It’s not the first time.
Dylann Roof, Devin Patrick Kelley, and Nikolas Cruz were all able to legally buy their weapons either due to severe clerical errors or authorities simply dropping the ball.
If that’s the case, then this whole narrative about expanding background checks has been delivered a massive blow.
The system is only as good as the people tasked with its maintenance..."
Lunch video-----Looking At The Sun
"Climate alarmists downplay or dismiss the role of the sun in climate change, attributing most or all of it to CO2 and to man-made CO2 at that.
But in this Climate Discussion Nexus "Backgrounder" video Dr. John Robson explains that a technical dispute about satellite readings of solar output since 1979 is of enormous importance here because if one side is right, temperature fluctuations over the last four decades correlate very closely with cycles in the sun's activity and if the other is, they're almost entirely unrelated.
And once again, the refusal of one side to admit there's a dispute, and to try to suppress evidence of it, tells you a lot about who's doing real climate "science".
Jamie Dimon's and Glenn Beck's economic warning - TheBlaze
Jamie Dimon's and Glenn Beck's economic warning - TheBlaze:
Glenn also warned that the looming financial crisis goes far beyond high prices. The far left is creating an "emergency" in nearly every sector of our society —an energy crisis, a food crisis, a climate crisis, a money crisis, a housing crisis, a crime crisis, and more — and it’s all part of its plan.
Does America not care about honest elections any more??-----The Fraud That Dare Not Speak Its Name
The Fraud That Dare Not Speak Its Name - Hans von Spakovsky / @HvonSpakovsky
True the Vote was able to isolate specific cellphones that traveled to the locations of the ballot drop boxes that liberals insisted had to be installed because of the COVID-19 epidemic.
...Of course, lots of ordinary voters did travel to drop boxes to drop off their ballots.
- Dinesh D’Souza’s new documentary "2,000 Mules" raises serious questions about possible skullduggery in the 2020 election, involving absentee ballots across multiple states.
- But neither the liberal media, nor election officials, nor law enforcement seem to have much interest in investigating that potential wrongdoing.
True the Vote was able to isolate specific cellphones that traveled to the locations of the ballot drop boxes that liberals insisted had to be installed because of the COVID-19 epidemic.
...Of course, lots of ordinary voters did travel to drop boxes to drop off their ballots.
Therefore, True the Vote isolated its search to cellphones whose owners appeared to visit more than 10 drop boxes, a very suspicious occurrence for which there does not seem to be a legitimate explanation.
These same cellphones repeatedly visited the addresses of the same five or more liberal nonprofit groups, although they are not named or identified in the documentary...
These same cellphones repeatedly visited the addresses of the same five or more liberal nonprofit groups, although they are not named or identified in the documentary...
- Who were these individuals, the so-called mules, and what were they doing?
- Where did they get these ballots?
- Why were they repeatedly going to absentee-ballot drop box locations?
- Were the ballots legitimately obtained, or were they fraudulent or stolen from voters, or were voters intimidated, pressured, or coerced to hand over their ballots?
- Who was paying them to engage in this behavior, particularly in states like Arizona where vote trafficking—having third parties pick up and deliver absentee ballots—is against the law?
D’Souza’s analysis indicates that the 2,000 mules were on average visiting 38 drop boxes, sometimes in the middle of the night, and often inserting multiple ballots.
Of course, enterprising reporters like the Miami Herald crew who helped the newspaper win a Pulitzer Prize could also use the documentary to try to identify and interview some of these mules and the staff at these nonprofits if they really wanted to get at the truth.
If we still had a healthy fourth estate in this country, that would be a great job for them.
Of course, enterprising reporters like the Miami Herald crew who helped the newspaper win a Pulitzer Prize could also use the documentary to try to identify and interview some of these mules and the staff at these nonprofits if they really wanted to get at the truth.
If we still had a healthy fourth estate in this country, that would be a great job for them.
But apparently there isn’t anyone left in mainstream journalism interested in the truth when it comes to election issues—just regime flunkies paid to criticize D’Souza, or anyone else who even broaches the topic."
Where are the men of courage? They're gone thanks to 'toxic masculinity'
Where are the men of courage? They're gone thanks to 'toxic masculinity'
"So. We vilify action men, brand chivalry and valor “toxic masculinity,” stamp on the manly virtues that made civilization possible.
"So. We vilify action men, brand chivalry and valor “toxic masculinity,” stamp on the manly virtues that made civilization possible.
Then we are shocked when armed cops stand around outside a classroom while children are slaughtered, or when straphangers watch passively as a woman is assaulted on the subway.
What’s the answer?
What’s the answer?
...But armchair Twitter warriors, armed with minimal real data, ranting about cowardice and drumming up death threats for Uvalde police, are missing the point.
- You can’t bully people to be brave or nag them into valor.
- They either are or they aren’t that way.
- ...Now their inheritors show up at emergencies and the public throws bottles of urine at them.
- Social-justice warriors and their eager media accomplices smear cops every day as racists and murderers. #ACAB (“All cops are bastards”) is their favorite hashtag.
- We pathologize manly virtues and bow to the tyranny of identity politics that seeks power by overthrowing a make-believe patriarchy.
- We raise boys in a soup of reproach and negativity that tells them their intrinsic nature is diseased..."
CNN-Biden not mentioned. Oil companies and our appetite for oil are the culprits! A deep recession (and other nifty ideas!) are the answer!!!------ The world may be careening toward a 1970s-style energy crisis -- or worse | CNN Business
The world may be careening toward a 1970s-style energy crisis-- or worse | CNN Business
"...Current and former energy officials tell CNN they worry that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the wake of years of underinvestment in the energy sector have sent the world careening into a crisis that will rival or even exceed the oil crises of the 1970s and early 1980s.
“We’re not doing nearly enough to reduce hydrocarbon demand consistent with our climate goals,” said Bordoff.
...In March, the IEA also urged governments around the world to consider drastic steps to slash oil demand, including reducing speed limits on highways, working from home up to three days a week where possible and car-free Sundays in cities.
And there’s at least one other development that has been front-and-center lately and would ease the energy crisis: An economic recession, or at least one that’s deep enough to cause demand to collapse..."
"...Current and former energy officials tell CNN they worry that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the wake of years of underinvestment in the energy sector have sent the world careening into a crisis that will rival or even exceed the oil crises of the 1970s and early 1980s.
- ...Today’s energy turmoil is not simply the result of the war in Ukraine. It is also the byproduct of cratering investment in oil and natural gas, which are depleting resources that require massive sums of money just to maintain their production, let alone increase it.
“We’re not doing nearly enough to reduce hydrocarbon demand consistent with our climate goals,” said Bordoff.
...In March, the IEA also urged governments around the world to consider drastic steps to slash oil demand, including reducing speed limits on highways, working from home up to three days a week where possible and car-free Sundays in cities.
And there’s at least one other development that has been front-and-center lately and would ease the energy crisis: An economic recession, or at least one that’s deep enough to cause demand to collapse..."
'Your life will be over': Teammate of Lia Thomas says UPenn officials warned women's team of consequences for complaints about trans swimmer's presence - TheBlaze
'Your life will be over': Teammate of Lia Thomas says UPenn officials warned women's team of consequences for complaints about trans swimmer's presence - TheBlaze:
A teammate of controversial transgender swimmer Lia Thomas said University of Pennsylvania officials warned women swimmers they'd face consequences for speaking out against the presence of Thomas — a biological male who identifies as female — on the women's swim team.
“They’ve made it pretty clear if you speak up about it, your life will be over in some way, you’ll be blasted all over the Internet as a transphobe … you’ll never be able to get a job,” the teammate told Matt Walsh as part of his just-released "What Is a Woman?" documentary, according to the Daily Wire.
Child predators!!-----Pediatrician says prepubescent kids are ready for HRT 'when they ask for it' in new documentary | Daily Mail Online
Pediatrician says prepubescent kids are ready for HRT 'when they ask for it' in new documentary | Daily Mail Online
"New documentary shows pediatrician saying prepubescent kids are ready for trans hormone therapy 'whenever they ask for it' and claiming you can 'pause' hormones 'like music' with the same drugs used to chemically castrate pedophiles.
- Matt Walsh's documentary What Is A Woman aired last night on The Daily Wire
- Walsh questions pediatric professor Dr. Michelle Forcier
- She talked about how 'wonderful' puberty blockers are and how they can halt puberty in its tracks
- She also said there's no objective truth when it comes to gender ..."
History for June 4
History for June 4 - On-This-Day.com
Carl Gustaf Mannerheim 1867
- 1783 - A hot-air balloon was demonstrated by Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier. It reached a height of 1,500 feet.
- 1896 - Henry Ford made a successful test drive of his new car in Detroit, MI. He called the vehicle was called a "Quadricycle."
- 1940 - The British completed the evacuation of 300,000 troops at Dunkirk, France.
- 1942 - The Battle of Midway began. It was the first major victory for America over Japan during World War II. The battle ended on June 6 and ended Japanese expansion in the Pacific.
- 1944 - During World War II, the U.S. Fifth Army entered Rome, which began the liberation of the Italian capital.
- 1974 - The Cleveland Indians had "Ten Cent Beer Night". Due to the drunken and unruly fans the Indians forfeited to the Texas Rangers.
- 1974 - Sally Murphy became the first woman to qualify as an aviator with the U.S. Army.
- 1989 - In Beijing, Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square to crush the pro-democracy movement. It is believed that hundreds, possibly thousands, of demonstrators were killed.
Friday, June 03, 2022
Illegal immigration surges 10% under Biden's watch, report says - TheBlaze
Illegal immigration surges 10% under Biden's watch, report says - TheBlaze:
There are now 47 million foreign-born persons living in the U.S. as of April 2022, the most ever recorded in any U.S. government survey or census. The percentage of foreign-born persons as a share of the total U.S. population is at a 112-year high, CIS said.
Trusting government functionaries to protect your children, family?-----School shootings show our leaders, not Americans, are the moral failures
School shootings show our leaders, not Americans, are the moral failures - Glenn H. Reynolds
"It’s a standard pattern.
"It’s a standard pattern.
After a horror like the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, pundits, journalists and politicians come forward to say that the event is evidence of some deep moral failure, a flaw in America’s soul.
Predictably enough, of course, they then preach that salvation can only come by doing what they want.
But when the facts come in, it invariably turns out that the tragedy doesn’t stem from a spiritual failing in America but rather from the fact that some (most?) of our institutions are run by creeps, crooks and incompetents.
But when the facts come in, it invariably turns out that the tragedy doesn’t stem from a spiritual failing in America but rather from the fact that some (most?) of our institutions are run by creeps, crooks and incompetents.
- We’ve learned that a door was propped open or left unlocked at Robb Elementary School (the story keeps changing on what exactly happened), allowing the shooter to enter the building.
- We’ve also discovered the Uvalde police — despite well-established doctrine that a mass shooter must be confronted immediately by whoever is at hand — hung back for nearly an hour while children were murdered inside...
- And we’ve seen video of the police not simply failing to protect the children but blocking (and even arresting) parents who tried to get past them to help their kids...
They died because the people in charge of protecting them were cowards and frauds, and now those cowards and frauds are trying to avoid responsibility.
- We saw the same thing with the Parkland school shooting in Broward County, Fla., where once again a dangerous student was repeatedly let off the hook by fashionably lax disciplinary policies until he committed mass murder. Then, when he did, the police were cowards who hid outside..."
Illinois High School Changing Grading Criteria to Achieve Racial Equity of Outcome
Illinois High School Changing Grading Criteria to Achieve Racial Equity of Outcome
They’re not going to assign grades based on race, but they will stop penalizing certain students for tardiness, not turning in assignments, etc.
Oak Park and River Forest High School administrators will require teachers next school year to adjust their classroom grading scales to account for the skin color or ethnicity of its students..."
- Many OPRFHS teachers are successfully exploring and implementing more equitable grading practices such as: utilizing aspects of competency-based grading, eliminating zeros from the grade book, and encouraging and rewarding growth over time”
They’re not going to assign grades based on race, but they will stop penalizing certain students for tardiness, not turning in assignments, etc.
Oak Park and River Forest High School administrators will require teachers next school year to adjust their classroom grading scales to account for the skin color or ethnicity of its students..."
Radical socialist San Francisco DA poised to be ousted from his job in embarrassing fashion - TheBlaze
Radical socialist San Francisco DA poised to be ousted from his job in embarrassing fashion - TheBlaze:
Boudin, the son of violent radicals and the former employee of Venezuelan socialist dictator Hugo Chavez, was elected in 2019 as part of a national tide of progressive prosecutors running for office on promises to roll back decades of tough-on-crime policies, which they claimed disproportionately affected minority people.
His candidacy was supported by several key national progressive figures, such as Vice President Kamala Harris and socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and radical anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour, who claimed that she cried tears of joy following his victory.
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