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History for January 16

History for January 16 - On-This-Day.com

Ethel Merman 1909

• 1547 - Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of Russia.
• 1896 - The first five-player college basketball game was played at Iowa City, IA.
• 1919 - The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages, was ratified. It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.
• 1920 - Prohibition went into effect in the U.S.
• 1988 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was fired as a CBS sports commentator one day after telling a TV station in Washington, DC, that, during the era of slavery, blacks had been bred to produce stronger offspring.
• 1991 - The White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm. The operation was designed to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.

CDC identifies possible 'safety concern' for certain people receiving COVID vaccines | Fox News

CDC identifies possible 'safety concern' for certain people receiving COVID vaccines | Fox News: 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that a preliminary COVID-19 vaccine "safety signal" has been identified and is investigating whether the Bivalent Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine creates an increased risk of ischemic stroke in people 65 and older. In the Friday statement, the CDC said that the preliminary signal hasn't been identified with the Bivalent Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

The way we were-----The 1859 Carrington Event

Rare complications

"Sheilasydney Notyerbizniz - 

• As a former nurse I am very well aware that up to 2021, my.oc.ar.di.tis was indeed rare. 
• As of 2021 it is not. 

And we are told left is right, up is down, politicians and health institutions never lie, and doctors are not to be believed but censored. 

I think everyone with half a braincell has learned to read between the lines by  now. 

Thank you John, you are one of the very rare doctors with integrity left it seems."

If it saves just one life!-----The Coming Gas Stove Culture War - WSJ

The Coming Gas Stove Culture War - WSJ

• Don’t believe this week’s denials. 
• Progressive Democrats really are coming for your kitchen appliances. By The Editorial Board

A sign of the media times is how quickly our leading progressive organs rally to deny that Democrats are doing what Democrats really are doing.

 A classic example was this week’s flare up in the coming climate war over banning gas stoves.
A Biden appointee on the Consumer Product Safety Commission explicitly threatened to ban gas stoves based on dubious evidence of public-health harm. 

“This is a hidden hazard,” said commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”

• Progressive cities such as Berkeley, San Francisco and New York City have already banned gas stoves and other appliances in new buildings. 
• New York Gov. Kathy Hochul this week proposed a ban on gas equipment including stoves in new small buildings in 2025 and larger ones in 2028.
• Come 2030, New Yorkers won’t be allowed to replace their gas stoves with new ones if they break down. “As you begin making a transition, everyone will have to switch out appliances,” a state official explained. This is how the left’s green-energy “transition” will work for all things. 
• Come 2035, New Yorkers and Californians won’t be able to buy new gasoline-powered cars either....

Yet asking the question will get you blocked, banned, fired!-----‘All Three Vaccines Are Breaking Through:’ Emails Show Discussion of Vaccine Failure Among Health Officials

‘All Three Vaccines Are Breaking Through:’ Emails Show Discussion of Vaccine Failure Among Health Officials

• Officials in Washington state recorded jumps in post-vaccination infections, hospitalizations, and deaths in mid-2021, according to newly disclosed internal emails.
• ...The emails were sent after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a study showing that 74 percent of COVID-19 cases from an outbreak in Massachusetts occurred among fully vaccinated people, undercutting claims from top health officials that the vaccinated would not get infected. 
• The outbreak investigation prompted the agency to recommend vaccinated people wear masks indoors, a reversal from about two months prior...

Idaho school board shuts down parents, state senator objecting to transgender locker rooms | Fox News

Idaho school board shuts down parents, state senator objecting to transgender locker rooms | Fox News: 

Idaho parents expressed outrage after their concerns over a proposed school policy that would allow biological boys to use girls' restrooms and locker rooms were shut down by the local school board. Brittany Gish, her daughter Gianna and Idaho State GOP Sen. Chris Trakel joined "Fox & Friends First" on Friday to discuss their fight against the proposed policy in the Caldwell School District. "They have no interest in hearing how the parents feel," Brittany said. "They have no interest in including us in their decisions. They are just tyrants, and they just want to push their agenda and do their own thing. They've proven that time and time again."

The trajectory of the FBI seemed to have changed: Former FBI special age...

Hypocrisy and self-delusion combined!-----The Clean Energy Manufacturing Renaissance Falsehood - Watts Up With That?

The Clean Energy Manufacturing Renaissance Falsehood - Watts Up With That?

"...The main report (available here) identifies China being the main manufacturer of renewable components as a supply chain risk.

… China currently dominates the manufacturing and trade of most clean energy technologies...For mass-manufactured technologies like wind, batteries, electrolysers, solar panels and heat pumps, the three largest producer countries account for at least 70% of manufacturing capacity for each technology – with China dominant in all of them. …

Read more: https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-technology-perspectives-2023/executive-summary

The report also predicts renewable energy component prices will continue to fall, despite admitting resource constraints are driving up prices – but I can’t find a clear explanation for WHY they believe costs will continue falling, other than some vague statements about specialisation and government policy;...

Lunch video-----Here’s When Car Prices Will Drop Like a Stone

Noon-toon

 

Joe Rogan calls out leftist billionaire George Soros: 'It's like he wants these cities to fall apart. He wants crime to flourish.' - TheBlaze

Joe Rogan calls out leftist billionaire George Soros: 'It's like he wants these cities to fall apart. He wants crime to flourish.' - TheBlaze: 

Joe Rogan suggested on his podcast this week that the wanton violence and seeming lawlessness in various American cities may not be accidental, but rather by design. The podcaster told former CIA agent Mike Baker on a recent episode of the "Joe Rogan Experience" that leftist billionaire George Soros, 92, "wants crime to flourish" and "funds corrosion."

New American priorities.

The face of the american news media-----MSNBC Host Rebukes Reporter On-Air for Saying 'Pro-Life' - Todd Starnes

MSNBC Host Rebukes Reporter On-Air for Saying 'Pro-Life' - Todd Starnesttr
"MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell scolded a correspondent for using the term “pro-life” mid-report.
NBC News senior Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett Haake was detailing why Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) voted for two “anti-abortion bills” after telling the liberal network she wanted the GOP to focus instead on birth control access.
“She told reporters after the fact that at the end of the day, she was, as she described herself, ‘pro-life,'” Haake said of Mace. 
Mitchell cut him off...
“Garrett, let me just interrupt and say that ‘pro-life’ is a term that they — an entire group wants to use. But that’s not an accurate description,” she said.
“I’m using it because it’s the term she used to describe herself, Andrea,” Haake responded.
...The exchange was visibly awkward for Haake, who was following AP guidelines in his report...

"...it's the 10s of millions..."

 

1st cousin of "merit" is the other great motivator, "shame".-----The Death of Merit

The Death of Merit

• America has always been a land of opportunity. That’s because our nation was founded as a meritocracy, the wellspring of excellence. This concept is central to American exceptionalism.

"...Leftists detest America’s meritocracy. 

The reason is simple: recognizing merit means there will be winners and losers, a fact that motivates all of us to try harder with a belief in and reliance upon oneself.

• Those who exhibit greater merit - through hard work, resourcefulness, perseverance, innate aptitude and so forth - usually enjoy more success...
• The polar opposite of meritocracy is equality of outcome, which requires the entire society, save for political and cultural elites, to exist at the lowest common denominator. 

It is the foundation of socialist and communist dictatorships, enforced through violence, because totalitarians know that living life at the lowest common denominator is contrary to human nature and natural law...

#1 This day 1976-----Barry Manilow I write the songs

"soft bigotry of low expectations"-----Reedley College seeks ‘social injustice’ instructor

Reedley College seeks ‘social injustice’ instructor

• Successful applicant will be ‘equity-minded individual’

"A California community college is looking for a tenure-track “social injustice” instructor to teach its ethnic studies courses.

• Applications should have a “willingness” to adjust “one’s instructional, relational, and classroom practices to more effectively engage and support racially minoritized students.”
• The job description is heavy on identifying the educational shortcomings of minority students as a fault of the instructor...

Climate-cultists "win" by repeating the lie. Again. And again.

Biden spars over classified documents in garage with Fox News' Peter Doocy | Fox News

Biden spars over classified documents in garage with Fox News' Peter Doocy | Fox News: 

President Biden sparred with Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy on Thursday, following revelations that a second batch of classified documents had been discovered at one of Biden's homes in Delaware. The White House Counsel's Office announced the discovery on Thursday, saying it had initiated a search of Biden's homes in Rehoboth Beach and Wilmington after news of the first stash broke this week and found documents in the Wilmington home's garage. "Classified documents next to your Corvette? What were you thinking?" Doocy asked.

The education/culture wars rock on … and conservatives have to keep fighting

The education/culture wars rock on … and conservatives have to keep fighting

• Progressives absolutely hate it when conservatives take advantage of the democratic process to organize and get policies they want enacted.

"Remember a couple of weeks ago that school board guru who complained about the “lies” right-of-center parents were using (re: critical race theory and COVID) to win control of school boards?
As a result, changes had to be made to ensure school boards were more “representative.” 

But of course.
On progressives’ side, naturally, are the mainstream media...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for January 15

History for January 15 - On-This-Day.com

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929 - Pastor, leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement

• 1863 - "The Boston Morning Journal" became the first paper in the U.S. to be published on wood pulp paper.
• 1892 - "Triangle" magazine in Springfield, MA, published the rules for a brand new game. The original rules involved attaching a peach baskets to a suspended board. It is now known as basketball.
• 1943 - The Pentagon was dedicated as the world's largest office building.
• 1967 - The first National Football League Super Bowl was played. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League. The final score was 35-10.
• 1974 - "Happy Days" premiered on ABC-TV.
• 1986 - President Reagan signed legislation making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday to be celebrated on the third Monday of January.

'It shook my faith': New report reveals Moderna neglected to share damning data about its new booster with federal vaccine advisers - TheBlaze

'It shook my faith': New report reveals Moderna neglected to share damning data about its new booster with federal vaccine advisers - TheBlaze: 

According to a CNN report published Wednesday, the infection data that was conveniently withheld from both U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine advisers last summer "suggested the possibility that the updated booster might not be any more effective at preventing Covid-19 infections than the original shots."

The data, which looked at the booster's impact on actual infections, indicated that "1.9% of the study participants who received the original booster became infected" whereas "those who got the updated bivalent vaccine – the one that scientists hoped would work better – a higher

The way we were-----The election of George Washington was weirder than you think

The BBC is publicly denounced for its racial bias against white people

Oh, So That’s What Moderna Forgot to Tell Us About Their COVID Vaccine

Oh, So That’s What Moderna Forgot to Tell Us About Their COVID Vaccine - Matt Vespa

"...death rates for young Americans have spiked, and there may be some inquiries into how these vaccines might be a factor.
Today, we’re going to piggyback off something our friends at RedState touched upon concerning Moderna not being forthcoming about some data about the vaccine. 

Information about the reinfection rate was buried, and an FDA panel member is not too pleased about that development. 
...The data that was not presented to the experts looked at actual infections: who caught Covid-19 and who did not.
There are a few observations that can be made here. 

• First, omitting critical data to the FDA advisory committee isn’t an oversight.
• The reason they did it is pretty simple. Money.
• And let’s not forget that these pharmaceutical companies have full immunity from legal action...

Guardian: To Solve the Climate Crisis We Need to Change How We Think about Wealth - Watts Up With That?

Guardian: To Solve the Climate Crisis We Need to Change How We Think about Wealth - Watts Up With That? 

"...We need to leave the age of fossil fuel behind, swiftly and decisively. 

...To change our relationship to the physical world – to end an era of profligate consumption by the few that has consequences for the many – means changing how we think about pretty much everything: wealth, power, joy, time, space, nature, value, what constitutes a good life, what matters, how change itself happens.

...we must renounce abundance and enter an age of austerity. 

It’s all in the telling. 

To consider our age an age of abundance, you have to be counting sheer accumulated stuff and ignoring how it is distributed...

Biden spars over classified documents in garage with Fox News' Peter Doocy | Fox News

Biden spars over classified documents in garage with Fox News' Peter Doocy | Fox News: 

President Biden sparred with Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy on Thursday, following revelations that a second batch of classified documents had been discovered at one of Biden's homes in Delaware.