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History for August 3

History for August 3 - On-This-Day.com

Leon Uris 1924

• 1492 - Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The voyage led him to what is now known as the Americas. He reached the Bahamas on October 12.
• 1777 - During the Siege of Fort Stanwix the first U.S. flag was officially flown during battle.
• 1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. was founded.
• 1914 - Germany declared war on France. The next day World War I began when Britain declared war on Germany.
• 1923 - Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the U.S. after the sudden death of President Harding.
• 1933 - The Mickey Mouse Watch was introduced for the price of $2.75.
• 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.
• 1984 - Mary Lou Retton won a gold medal at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics.

Breitbart - Bill Barr: Hunter Biden Investigation Warrants Special Counsel

Breitbart - Bill Barr: Hunter Biden Investigation Warrants Special Counsel: 

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said on Thursday that President Joe Biden’s top law enforcement officer should appoint a special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation, following revelations by whistleblowers within the FBI that top brass were working to discredit allegations against the first son.

The way we were-----American Bandstand 1970 – 1970 Dance Contest Finalists – Up Around The B...

Washington DC is Enemy Occupied Territory, It is Time to Take America Back...

Manchin and the Democrats are making the IRS more powerful than ever. Here’s how--- Grover Norquist

Manchin and the Democrats are making the IRS more powerful than ever. Here’s how 
"...Start with the spending explosion for the Internal Revenue Service that Biden demanded from the start. 

That is $80 billion to deploy 87,000 new IRS agents. 

• Enough to fill every seat in Nationals Park twice. 
• Enough to fill the Roman Colosseum 1.7 times.
• That’s more new IRS agents than the entire combined personnel of all U.S. aircraft carriers..."

"Poison pill"-----Dems snuck unrelated spending into veterans’ bill, then ‘unleashed pseudo-celebrity’ Jon Stewart to trash GOP for opposing it

Dems snuck unrelated spending into veterans’ bill, then ‘unleashed pseudo-celebrity’ Jon Stewart to trash GOP for opposing it

"Republican Senator Pat Toomey hotly defended his vote against the burn pits bill on Sunday, calling out “pseudo-celebrities” such as Jon Stewart for attacking him and Democrats for using vets as political pawns.
The bill would have ostensibly expanded healthcare benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits during their service. 

• However, Democrats reportedly inserted legislation that had nothing to do with that. 

When Republicans were not allowed to amend the bill and voted against it, the left then proceeded to insinuate they hate veterans..."

Chicago mother loses custody of daughter after denying child is transgender: 'My child is a girl' - TheBlaze

Chicago mother loses custody of daughter after denying child is transgender: 'My child is a girl' - TheBlaze: 

The grieving mother explained, "The thing that I am clearly not complying with is this concept that good parenting means that you affirm a child's idea that there is something wrong with them – I'm not willing to do that."

Fake invisible catastrophes and threats of doom

Another January 6 Lie: No ‘Armed Mob’

Another January 6 Lie: No ‘Armed Mob’

• If January 6 was so bad, why do they have to keep lying about it?

"To hear Andrew McCarthy tell it, Donald Trump’s racuous speech at the Ellipse on January 6 ended with a “Braveheart” moment when the president beseeched his throng of weapon-wielding supporters to attack government leaders at the U.S. Capitol that afternoon.

...Hutchinson recalled a conversation with deputy White House chief of staff Tony Ornato, who described the cache to Meadows and her. “I remember Tony mentioning knives, guns in the form of pistols and rifles, um, bear spray, body armor, spears, and flagpoles,” she said.
...Setting aside serious questions as to why these men weren’t found and arrested given their close proximity not only to the president but numerous government officials present at the rally that morning, if true, how is that Trump’s fault? 

• Why did Cheney assume the alleged “armed” men were Trump supporters? She had no other identifying information like, say, an arrest record detailing the motive of the suspects. Who were they? Were their weapons even real? Loaded? Further, the idea of armed marauders freely roaming downtown D.C. with impunity is absurd; the place was crawling with both undercover and uniformed agents from multiple law enforcement agencies.
• ...As of last month, according to the Justice Department, about 80 Capitol protesters have been charged with possessing a “dangerous or deadly weapon.” Examples of those weapons include pepper spray, flags, walking sticks or batons, a helmet, a taser, and a fire extinguisher—hardly the kind of items that could be successfully used in overthrowing the government..."

Lunch video-----World Economic Forum calls for end to private car ownership

"FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo, Dagen McDowell and Verdence Capital Advisors CEO Leo Kelly discuss the World Economic Forum's proposal that aims to reduce reliance on critical metals."

Noon-toon

World Economic Forum calls for transition away from 'ownership' of vehicles to reduce demand - TheBlaze

World Economic Forum calls for transition away from 'ownership' of vehicles to reduce demand - TheBlaze: 

This is the bottom line: Transitioning away from fossil fuels with current technologies will require people to give up rights like private car ownership. The question is whether people will voluntarily surrender their liberties or whether they will be forced to.

Propagandist press.

 

Not Even the FDA Trusts the FDA To Regulate Food Safety

Not Even the FDA Trusts the FDA To Regulate Food Safety

• The FDA has effectively thrown up its hands over its most important food-related role.

"Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the agency has sought an external review of its approach to food safety...
..."Even if implemented to absolute perfection"—as I detail in my book, Biting the Hands that Feed Us: How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable— "the FDA's own best-case scenario is that [two key FSMA rules pertaining to human food] would spur a 2.6% reduction in total annual foodborne illness cases,"

...But FSMA hasn't even achieved that underwhelming improvement.

• I know FSMA stinks. 
• But does the FDA?..."

Remember. You children will grow up in this self-deluding world if the left has their way.

 

Cross-Examining the Climate Change Cultists--Kurt Schlichter

Cross-Examining the Climate Change Cultists

• If you want to watch the pinkos fret, simply state the indisputable truth that what they call “climate change” is a massive hoax. 
  

"Their fallback is inevitably that “science”...has decreed that because we peons insist on not living in caves like primitive tribesmen (okay, non-binary tribespeople) the Earth is going to cook. 

...There’s no time to think, no time to reflect, and certainly no time to argue. 

• Why, who are you to question the scientists?

...I was told that in the context of climate change the science is settled, that there is only one possible answer and that anything else is at least quackery and possibly felony denial.
...The weather cultists even have a uniquely dumb and offensive slur for people who dare test their evidence, such as it is: “Denier.”

...And does it seem strange to you that climate advocates like John Kerry are zipping across the Atlantic to party in Davos and folks like Barack Obama are buying beachfront property if this is an existential crisis?

#1 This day 1960-----Brian Hyland "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"

Violent crime in large cities across the nation is getting worse

Violent crime in large cities across the nation is getting worse

• Death spiral for America?” Violent crime in large U.S. cities is getting worse, and police are all but powerless to stop it.

"In a op-ed written by Michael Snyder with The Economic Collapse Blog, the hard truth is exposed … the country is experiencing a major breakdown of law and order, and thanks to the progressive “defund the police movement” that snowballed after the death of George Floyd, there are not enough qualified police officers to respond to serious crimes that are overpowering large cities.

• In many cases, police officers either do not show up when a crime is being committed or their response time is over an hour long, like in Seattle. 

Across the country, the number of serious, violent crimes keeps increasing..."

Bozos at every level. Our national embarrassment.

 

Linda Sanchez changes story about giving finger to Republicans at Congressional Baseball Game - TheBlaze

Linda Sanchez changes story about giving finger to Republicans at Congressional Baseball Game - TheBlaze: 

However, the insinuation made by Sanchez was disputed by Corey Inganamort – who is the mascot coordinator for the Washington Nationals.

“I was in the dugout with the Republicans last night. She is lying,” Inganamort said of Sanchez. “Nothing offensive or misogynistic was said by anybody. In fact, everybody was shocked by what @RepLindaSanchez did.”

Visualized: The Top 25 U.S. Newspapers by Daily Circulation

Visualized: The Top 25 U.S. Newspapers by Daily Circulation

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History for August 2

History for August 2 - On-This-Day.com 

James Baldwin 1924

• 1791 - Samuel Briggs and his son Samuel Briggs, Jr. received a joint patent for their nail-making machine. They were the first father-son pair to receive a patent.
• 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.
• 1887 - Rowell Hodge patented barbed wire.
• 1892 - Charles A. Wheeler patented the first escalator.
• 1983 - U.S. House of Representatives approved a law that designated the third Monday of January would be a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The law was signed by President Reagon on November 2.
• 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.

Jean-Pierre insists that Biden is not 'finishing' Trump's wall when Doocy asks about plan to close border wall gaps in Arizona - TheBlaze

Jean-Pierre insists that Biden is not 'finishing' Trump's wall when Doocy asks about plan to close border wall gaps in Arizona - TheBlaze: 

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday repeatedly insisted that the Biden administration is not finishing President Donald Trump's border wall, even though the administration said it will complete unfinished gaps of wall in Arizona.

The way we were-----1958 Mars Bluff Nuclear Bomb Incident

"The latest consequence of climate change"

"Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels."

Trust the Artificial Intelligence, Part One.

Instapundit--Trust the Artificial Intelligence, Part One.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Trust the Artificial Intelligence, Part One.

"The next political crisis may be triggered by a further loss of trust in authority, coupled with another institutional demand for power...

Yet this loss in institutional trust coincided with unprecedented demands by institutions for a vast increase in power...

Finally, institutions demanded the power to ‘check facts’ in any speech and ‘de-platform’ anyone suspected of uttering misinformation, thus insulating themselves against criticism.

Since the institutions were so mistrusted...

Glenn has been writing about the loss of trust often in recent years and Richard’s piece is an important addition. Read the whole thing. --Posted by Stephen Green

What the hell???-----Farmington schools consultant sees problems with strong family structure

Farmington schools consultant sees problems with strong family structure

• 
  ‘Systemic familialism’ is the name for the privilege held by people with intact families

"An audit of Farmington schools by an outside consultancy recommends reprogramming teachers who resist the consultant’s brand of diversity, equity, and inclusion — which includes labeling the U.S. government’s definition of family as “systemic familialism.”..."

Inflation Reduction Act will have no effect on inflation - TheBlaze

Inflation Reduction Act will have no effect on inflation - TheBlaze: 

Analysis from the Penn Wharton Budget Model – a nonpartisan group at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School – found that the Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act would have so little impact on inflation that the effects would be "statistically indistinguishable from zero."