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Sunday, August 07, 2022
‘Worst of all options’: Hotel owners blast proposal to house homeless alongside guests
The council’s vote concerns a voucher program that would house the homeless in hotels alongside guests and workers.
According to documents from the city, every hotel in Los Angeles would have to notify the city every day by 2 p.m. how many vacant rooms are available..."
History for August 7
- 1789 - The U.S. War Department was established by the U.S. Congress.
- 1782 - George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart.
- 1888 - Theophilus Van Kannel received a patent for the revolving door.
- 1914 - Germany invaded France.
- 1942 - U.S. forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II.
- 1960 - The Cuban Catholic Church condemned the rise of communism in Cuba. Fidel Castro then banned all religious TV and radio broadcasts.
- 1974 - French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center.
- 1976 - Scientists in Pasadena, CA, announced that the Viking 1 spacecraft had found strong indications of possible life on Mars.(in order to increase funding)
Saturday, August 06, 2022
Scientist testifies Fauci's claim that NIH never funded gain-of-function research is 'demonstrably false' - TheBlaze
Ted Cruz asks FBI Director why AMERICAN symbols are identified as 'Militia Violent Extremism' - TheBlaze
Federal Prosecutor Sets Up Hotline for Reporting, Among Other Things, People "Espousing ... Hate-Filled Views"
- "In Massachusetts, we have recently seen multiple incidents of groups espousing deeply offensive and hurtful ideologies displayed on our streets."
Ted Cruz checkmates top DOJ official for not enforcing federal law against pro-abortion protesters outside SCOTUS justices' houses - TheBlaze
A 75-Year-Old Warning about Those Who Say ‘Listen to the Science’
- When people say “follow the science,” often what they’re really saying is “follow our plan.”
In many ways, Biden’s words came as no surprise.
Throughout the 2020 campaign and after, Biden had often repeated the phrases “listen to the science” and “I believe in science,” presumably to contrast himself with his opponent.
Biden didn’t stop there, however..."
Fox News anchor guts 'fallacy' narrative that Biden pushed for months over record-high gas prices: 'The war is still raging' - TheBlaze
Our nextPresident?-----Kamala Harris Slams Pro-Life Americans: They're "Extremists" Who Hate Women - LifeNews.com
- ...“This moment requires us to see there are extremist, so-called leaders who believe that the way forward is to restrict rights,” she said.
- ...Speaking in Indiana last week, she claimed that keeping abortion on demand legal is “one of the most critical issues facing our country” right now, according to Townhall..."
Chinese Threat: Renounce Taiwan, or the Global Climate Gets It
"China’s suspension of climate cooperation, in response to Nanci Pelosi’s visit, is giving climate change worriers a taste of the thuggish geopolitical bullying Taiwan has endured over the years.
China suspends climate change cooperation with US and sanctions Nancy Pelosi in retaliation for Taiwan visit--Lawrence Chung in Taipei Teddy Ng in Hong Kong and Amber Wang in Beijing
China has suspended cooperation with the United States in the fight against climate change as part of a range of measures in response to Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, which also included sanctions on the House Speaker and her family...
...China is forcing the Biden Administration to choose between competing values, US support for liberal democracies vs the Biden administration’s obsession with climate change. Democrats will have to admit that climate change is a secondary priority..."
Biden takes executive action, wants taxpayers to subsidize abortion across state lines: 'Ripped away by this extreme court' - TheBlaze
What We Must Do to Restore Confidence in Our Elections - American Thinker
"According to Patrick Basham, there are such things as “non-polling metrics” --
- things like comparative party registrations,
- turnouts in the primary elections,
- social media followings,
- attendance at campaign rallies
- and other measures that had, prior to the 2020 presidential election, predicted the outcome of presidential elections with 100% accuracy.
In 2020, all these measures pointed to a Trump victory.
- In attendance at campaign rallies, for example, Trump’s average attendance exceeded Biden’s by a average ratio of 343 to 1. And yet Biden won.
- There were other anomalies: “…Biden could win only one of the 19 battleground counties around the U.S., but he supposedly won all of the battleground states.”
...And in 2012, again on postal voting, Adam Liptak of the New York Times wrote:
“Voting by mail is now common enough and problematic enough that election experts say there have been multiple elections in which no one can say with confidence which candidate was the deserved winner.”..."
History for August 6
- 1806 - The Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis II abdicated.
- 1890 - Cy Young achieved his first major league victory. He would accumulate 511 in his career.
- 1945 - The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed. (8:16am Japanese time)
- 1960 - Nationalization of U.S. and foreign-owned property in Cuba began.
- 1981 - Fire fighters in Indianapolis, IN, answered a false alarm. When they returned to their station it was ablaze due to a grease fire.