Wednesday, April 05, 2023

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History for April 5

History for April 5 - On-This-Day.com
Booker T. Washington 1856 - Educator, author (Up From Slavery)
  • 1614 - American Indian Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.
  • 1887 - Anne Sullivan taught Helen Keller the meaning of the word "water" as spelled out in the manual alphabet.
  • 1892 - In New York, the Ithaca Daily Journal published an ad introducing a new 10 cent Ice Cream Specialty called a Cherry Sunday.
  • 1923 - Firestone Tire and Rubber Company began the first regular production of balloon tires.
  • 1930 - Mahatma Ghandi defied British law by making salt in India.
  • 1951 - Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for committing espionage for the Soviet Union.
  • 1985 - John McEnroe said "any man can beat any woman at any sport, especially tennis."

Tuesday, April 04, 2023

Trump Indictment - TheBlaze

Trump Indictment - TheBlaze

If anyone knows what’s going on in the American political system, it’s the author of "American Marxism," BlazeTV host Mark Levin.

Levin sat down with a Fox News panel to discuss former President Trump’s indictment and the all-out attack on the Republican Party by the left.

The way we were-----The GM "X-Body" and the U.S. Automotive "Malaise."

'NOT ON MY WATCH': Biden says he has news for 'MAGA Republicans'

Daughter of Judge Overseeing Trump's Case Worked For 'Kamala Harris Campaign', Now Serves As President of Company that Has Biden-Harris Campaign As Client | The Gateway Pundit | by Anthony Scott

Daughter of Judge Overseeing Trump's Case Worked For 'Kamala Harris Campaign', Now Serves As President of Company that Has Biden-Harris Campaign As Client | The Gateway Pundit | by Anthony Scott - By Anthony Scott 
"The Gateway Pundit previously reported New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan is presiding over President Trump’s Stormy Daniels ‘hush payment’ case.
  • Judge Merchan previously oversaw the tax fraud cases of the Trump’s Org and the Trump Org’s former CFO Allen Weisselberg.
  • Trump is not a fan of Merchan and took to Truth Social last week and wrote “Juan Manuel Merchan, was hand picked by Bragg & the Prosecutors, & is the same person who “railroaded” my 75 year old former CFO, Allen Weisselberg.”
  • Merchan has been described as a life long Democrat and a bombshell discovery of his daughter’s LinkedIn account reveals his daughter is not just a Democrat but a Democrat who previously worked on Kamala Harris’ Presidential campaign.

EV batteries can’t survive a scratch — Reuters

EV batteries can’t survive a scratch — Reuters - By James David Dickson
  • If cost and range anxiety weren’t enough of a problem, EV collisions will be costly
After losing power for 10 of 14 days between the ice storm of late February and the thundersnow of early March, Cathleen Russ of Royal Oak testified to Michigan lawmakers that she “would not accept an EV right now if you gave me one.”...With no reliable way to charge the vehicle, she would have been paying for Uber rides to and from work.
A report in Reuters last week points toward another problem for the electric vehicle: durability after a crash
Specifically, the electric vehicle’s battery is a problem.
For many electric vehicles, there is no way to repair or assess even slightly damaged battery packs after accidents, forcing insurance companies to write off cars with few miles - leading to higher premiums and undercutting gains from going electric.
  • ...“If that’s not bad enough, customers are now having to face the fact that a minor fender bender could lead to the loss of their entire vehicle,” Hayes said. “Who knows what this is going to do to insurance rates? At what point will we admit this was a bad idea and stick with reliable and effective technologies?”...

EXCLUSIVE: March Southwest Border Migrant Apprehensions Jump to 161K After Two-Month Decline

EXCLUSIVE: March Southwest Border Migrant Apprehensions Jump to 161K After Two-Month Decline

The short-term decrease in migrant apprehensions that followed the new Biden administration immigration policy changes came to an abrupt ending in March when agents apprehended more than 161,000 migrants along the southwest border with Mexico. The nearly 25 percent jump in March follows two months where agents averaged just under 129,000 migrant apprehensions.

Catching Covid Makes Me Resent Big Government Even More

The RESTRICT Act could be used to shut down Truth Social and Rumble, or any app that challenges the ‘reported result’ of an election

The RESTRICT Act could be used to shut down Truth Social and Rumble, or any app that challenges the ‘reported result’ of an election - By Robert Romano


S.686, the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act (RESTRICT Act), contains language that could be used to shut down any website or app with more than 1 million users that challenges the “reported result of a Federal election” — threatening websites and apps that allow free speech on their platforms including Truth Social and Rumble, not just TikTok, the supposed reason for the legislation...

Lunch video-----Tucker eviscerates Dems for exploiting ‘suffering’ people

Noon-toon


Bragg Was Looking to Charge Trump with a Felony, Could Land Himself in Prison for Years Instead

Bragg Was Looking to Charge Trump with a Felony, Could Land Himself in Prison for Years Instead

“If [Bragg] uses Cohen as a witness, he could actually lose his bar license,” Dershowitz told Fox Business Network’s “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo” in a March 26 interview, according to Mediaite.

That was four days before the news of the indictment exploded on the scene on Thursday.

“It’s unethical to put a witness on the stand who you know is lying, and he has to know that Cohen will be lying,” Dershowitz said. “Or he tries the case without Cohen, which would be very difficult, or he does the right thing: He drops the case.”

Yes they are idiots. And they hate us!

 

Un-ban a ban on bans? Michigan may reverse course on plastic bag restrictions. - mlive.com

Un-ban a ban on bans? Michigan may reverse course on plastic bag restrictions. - mlive.com
  • Less than a decade after Michigan made headlines for barring communities from banning plastic shopping bags, it’s already looking to reverse course on the decision.
  • Senate Bill 228, sponsored by Sen. Sue Shink, D-Northfield Township, is a single page and repeals a 2016 law that bars local governments from creating any ordinance that either taxed shoppers for purchasing “auxiliary containers,” or banned the sale of them altogether...

"Disobeying the state!"


 

You're not allowed to make legitimate points or ask legit questions anymore...

Facebook Debbie Schlussel 
"You're not allowed to make legitimate points or ask legit questions anymore lest you be demanded to give an apology or be canceled (or both in many cases). 
Guy Pearce, who is a great actor and played trans in a movie, made the mistake of making the same point I've made several times: if only trans--and not straight/normal--actors can play trans roles then why are trans allowed to play straight roles? 
  • But he made the mistake of assuming you're allowed to be reasonable and ask reasonable questions. 
  • Here's a tip: only straight whites can be racist and trans can play whatever role they want, etc. 
  • There is no two-way street or sanity in this world. So now, of course and predictably, Pearce is doing mega back flips on the apology treadmill. 
So sad. 

#1 This day 1975-----Minnie Riperton - Lovin' You (Official Video)

While he demonizes GOPers!-----Joe Biden Moves to Cut Medicare Advantage

Joe Biden Moves to Cut Medicare Advantage - SEAN MORAN
  • President Joe Biden’s administration announced that it would cut Medicare Advantage, after the president has frequently claimed that Republicans want to slash Medicare and Social Security.
  • The agency will also phase in controversial changes that determine payments based on the severity of patients’ health problems...

Get THEM out of our classrooms!


Disney World ducks DeSantis' board takeover with legal maneuver invoking King Charles III - TheBlaze

Disney World ducks DeSantis' board takeover with legal maneuver invoking King Charles III - TheBlaze

Disney invoked the name of King Charles III in an unusual bid to quietly upend Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R-Fla.) plan to reign in the "corporate kingdom's," continued self-governance, multiple outlets reported. "I cannot tell you the level of my disappointment in Disney. I thought so much better of them," Central Florida Tourism Oversight Board member Ron Peri said, as reported by WKMG Wednesday.

Population decline hits hard in Michigan's Wayne County | Michigan | thecentersquare.com

Population decline hits hard in Michigan's Wayne County | Michigan | thecentersquare.com - By Bruce Walker | The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Michigan’s population fell by more than 43,000 residents between 2020 and 2022, according to U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2022 estimates released Thursday.
That population numeric decline includes the loss over two years of 36,506 Wayne County residents. 
...Those declines rank the county seventh overall in the nation for resident population loss...

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History for April 4

History for April 4 - On-This-Day.com
Kitty Kelley 1942 - Author
  • 1818 - A plan was passed by the U.S. Congress that the U.S. flag would have 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars and that a new star would be added for the each new state.
  • 1841 - U.S. President William Henry Harrison, at the age of 68, became the first president to die in office. He had been sworn in only a month before he died of pneumonia.
  • 1932 - After five years of research, professor C.G. King, of the University of Pittsburgh, isolated vitamin C.
  • 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of 39.
  • 1973 - In New York, the original World Trade Center twin towers opened. At the time they were the tallest building in the world.

Monday, April 03, 2023

Report: Manhattan Judge to Put 'Gag Order' on Donald Trump

Report: Manhattan Judge to Put 'Gag Order' on Donald Trump

The legal team representing former President Donald Trump reportedly expects that the Manhattan judge will put a gag order on him as the case awaits trial.

A source close to the legal team told the Daily Mail the judge will take an “unprecedented step” to silence the 2024 presidential candidate. The gag order could potentially undercut his ability to campaign on the issue of legal corruption during the primary.

Alex Stein assaulted at Transgender Day of Visibility event - TheBlaze

Alex Stein assaulted at Transgender Day of Visibility event - TheBlaze

"NYPD you see the coffee, you see them throwing it on me. You don't do a damn thing about it cause you protect groomers, these NYPD, they care about groomers," Stein declared. "You got the cops here, they don't do anything about it."

The way we were-----TRUTH about the Irish - First slaves brought to the Americas

Biden Announces The Second Pandemic

""We need more money to plan for the second pandemic.  
There is going to be another pandemic."

OK, long. But one of the most important articles ever!-----A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century - Tablet Magazine

A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century - Tablet Magazine - BY JACOB SIEGEL 
  • Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation
PROLOGUE: THE INFORMATION WAR
...In his last days in office, President Barack Obama made the decision to set the country on a new course. On Dec. 23, 2016, he signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which used the language of defending the homeland to launch an open-ended, offensive information war.
...Disinformation, a half-forgotten relic of the Cold War, was newly spoken of as an urgent, existential threat. 
Russia was said to have exploited the vulnerabilities of the open internet to bypass U.S. strategic defenses by infiltrating private citizens’ phones and laptops...
The point was echoed by Michael Lumpkin, who headed the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), the agency Obama designated to run the U.S. counter-disinformation campaign. 
Lumpkin singled out the Privacy Act of 1974, a post-Watergate law protecting U.S. citizens from having their data collected by the government, as antiquated.
“The 1974 act was created to make sure that we aren’t collecting data on U.S. citizens. Well, … by definition the World Wide Web is worldwide. There is no passport that goes with it. If it’s a Tunisian citizen in the United States or a U.S. citizen in Tunisia, I don’t have the ability to discern that … If I had more ability to work with that [personally identifiable information] and had access … I could do more targeting, more definitively, to make sure I could hit the right message to the right audience at the right time.”
The message from the U.S. defense establishment was clear: To win the information war—an existential conflict taking place in the borderless dimensions of cyberspace—the government needed to dispense with outdated legal distinctions between foreign terrorists and American citizens...

Explains Why Fauci Had Such a Problem With Early Treatment

Facebook  Clarice Feldman 
The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox
@RobertKennedyJr
Explains Why Fauci Had Such a Problem With Early Treatment
"Tony Fauci's problem is this: there's a little-known Federal law that says, 'You cannot give an emergency use authorization to a vaccine if there is any medication approved for any purpose that is shown effective against the target disease.'
So if Tony Fauci or anybody had admitted that hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin are effective against COVID, it would have been illegal for them to give the emergency use authorization to the vaccines, and they could have never gotten them approved.
And a 200 billion dollar enterprise would have collapsed."