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History for April 13

History for April 13 - On-This-Day.com

Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 3rd U.S. President

• 1808 - William "Juda" Henry Lane perfected the tap dance.
• 1861 - After 34 hours of bombardment, the Union-held Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates.
• 1916 - The first hybrid, seed corn was purchased for 15-cents a bushel by Samuel Ramsay.
• 1959 - A Vatican edict prohibited Roman Catholics from voting for Communists.
• 1960 - The first navigational satellite was launched into Earth's orbit.
• 1970 - An oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13, preventing a planned moon landing.
• 1981 - Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke received a Pulitzer Prize for her feature about an 8-year-old heroin addict named "Jimmy." Cooke relinquished the prize two days later after admitting she had fabricated the story.
• 1999 - Jack Kervorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, MI, to 10 to 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder of Thomas Youk. Youk's assisted suicide was videotaped and shown on "60 Minutes" in 1998.

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Massie, Judiciary Committee Launch Probe Into Reports Biden Admin Pressured FDA Over COVID Booster Approval | The Daily Caller

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Massie, Judiciary Committee Launch Probe Into Reports Biden Admin Pressured FDA Over COVID Booster Approval | The Daily Caller: 

Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie sent letters Monday to senior Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine officials, letting them know the House Judiciary Committee will be investigating allegations the Biden administration interfered in the FDA’s authorization and licensure of the COVID-19 vaccines.

The Daily Caller first obtained the letters to Dr. Marion Gruber and Dr. Philip Krause, both of whom resigned following President Joe Biden’s announcement in August 2021 calling for adults to receive a COVID-19 booster shot, which Massie says “put undue pressure on FDA health officials to quickly authorize the vaccinations.”

The way we were-----Good Morning, Captain

Money Vs. Science - Follow the money!

"Science can't operate without money, which makes it easy for people with money to corrupt science.

Child abuse!-----Day of Silence Spurs Controversy

Day of Silence Spurs Controversy

• Middle Schoolers Allegedly ‘Bullied’ Peers Into Participating In LGBT ‘Day Of Silence’

"...Students at Felix Festa Middle School in New York felt they were “bullied” into participating in an LGBTQ “Day of Silence,” according to an anonymous parent report received by the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR).

• Students at schools across the nation participate in the “Day of Silence” on April 22, wearing black, changing their Google classroom picture and background, signing a Google form and remaining silent.
• “Children who are not LGBTQ feel compelled to remain silent because they fear being bullied by their peers. The participants of the SGA (student gay alliance) go around with a sign up board asking their straight peers to sign and agree to being silent on that specific day,” according to the report. 
• “Children often sign because of fear or looking bad or being called homophobic. Many children stay home from school that day so they aren’t frowned upon for participating in the classroom.”

Toolkit provides guidance for including biological males in research about women | The College Fix

Toolkit provides guidance for including biological males in research about women | The College Fix - 
DANIEL NUCCIO - NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

"Spurred in part by a supposed insufficient amount of published data on monkeypox in people other than men who have sex with men during the 2022 monkeypox outbreak, a group of researchers sought to fill this gap with a report they published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet.

• However, according to the demographic data presented, nearly half of their participants were trans women, most of whom had recently had sex with men and many of whom, the authors implied, still had penises.

As nonsensical as this may seem, if a group of scholars and community members associated with the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity get their way, studies such as this may become the norm...

Federal judge backs firing of Indiana teacher who refused to use transgender students' names, pronouns | Fox News

Federal judge backs firing of Indiana teacher who refused to use transgender students' names, pronouns | Fox News: 

Former Brownsburg High School teacher John Kluge sued the school district alleging religious discrimination after he cited his personal religious convictions for refusing to abide by the name and pronoun policy, opting to address transgender students by their last names instead. The school district, after enacting the policy in 2017, initially agreed to let Kluge use last names to address the students instead, according to The Associated Press.

ChatGPT Makers Threatened With Defamation Suit

Gender Insanity Ends Only When Women Decide to Stop Tolerating It - Kurt Schlichter

Gender Insanity Ends Only When Women Decide to Stop Tolerating It - Kurt Schlichter 

"I get a lot of grief from some quarters because of my assessment that radical transsexuals are tolerated and allow to move into women’s spaces and allowed the ability to abuse women only because women as a whole put up with this crap. 

Yeah, women.
...Let’s be clear. 

There are two kinds of transsexuals. 

• There are real transsexuals, who are people suffering real gender dysmorphia and who actually believe they are women and want to be treated as women. It’s weird, but as long as they don’t impose their bizarre pathology on us, and as long as they stay out of my face, I’m not going to bother with them. 

• But the other kind are freaking perverts. Some are just pedophiles who want to get close to kids. Those are the ones that go read at transsexual story hour. Here is an unarguable fact: No normal adult male wants to do anything even remotely sexual around a child. The only people who do want to have sex with children. And if you want to have sex with children, you should be hunted for sport.
• The other kind of bad trans people are heterosexual weirdos who want to go into the women’s spaces and watch women (or expose themselves to women) in an intimate setting. Sometimes they want to be in a position where they can use their physical strength to force women into sex. We have seen that again and again. But sometimes it merely means onanism in front of women to horrify them, which gets these freaks off. I’m not picky. I say hunt them for sport too.

Lunch video-----Japan pathology - A case of fatal multi-organ inflammation following COVID-19 vaccination

" A case of fatal multi-organ inflammation following COVID-19 vaccination.

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Barr: Manhattan Case Against Trump 'Abuse of Prosecutorial Power to Accomplish Political End'

Barr: Manhattan Case Against Trump 'Abuse of Prosecutorial Power to Accomplish Political End': 

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the Manhattan criminal case in which former President Donald Trump has been indicted was an “abuse of prosecutorial power to accomplish political end.”

Anchor Jonathan Karl asked, “You a chance to see the actual indictment and statement of fact that went along with it. Do think there still no merit to this case?”

Barr said, “Yeah, I don’t think it has any merit. I think it is transparently an abuse of prosecutorial power to accomplish political end. I think it is an unjust case. Not to say that every legal challenge that the president faces is unjustified. But this one especially is.”

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Putin and Xi smile-----The six biggest revelations from leaked US intel documents

The six biggest revelations from leaked US intel documents - Josh Christenson

"...what may be the largest national security breach in at least a decade...almost certainly exposed American intelligence sources...

Here are the biggest revelations from the leaked documents:

• ...Other documents leaked from the Pentagon predicted that, without reinforcement, Ukraine’s air defense forces would be exhausted by May 23...
• South Korean officials were wary of sending ammunition to the US out of concern that the arms would be sent on to Ukraine...
• US officials have explored how to persuade Israel to provide “lethal aid” to Ukraine while remaining officially neutral in the conflict between Kyiv and Moscow...

Who produces emissions?

Murder city awaits!-----Chicago to host 2024 Democratic National Convention

Chicago to host 2024 Democratic National Convention

"...The convention will take place Aug. 19 through 22 at the United Center and the McCormick Place Convention Center, with between 5,000 and 7,000 delegates and alternates expected to attend, a source familiar said in confirmation of what was first reported in the Chicago Sun-Times.
...President Joe Biden on Tuesday attempted to reaffirm his commitment to the Midwest.

"Chicago is a great choice to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention," said Biden. "Democrats will gather to showcase our historic progress including building an economy from the middle out and bottom up, not from the top down. From repairing our roads and bridges, to unleashing a manufacturing boom, and creating over 12.5 million new good-paying jobs, we've already delivered so much for hard working Americans – now it's time to finish the job."..

#1 This day 1960-----Percy Faith Theme From A Summer Place 1960

China has dumped $150 billion of U.S. treasuries since Jan. 2022. Is it a prelude to war?

China has dumped $150 billion of U.S. treasuries since Jan. 2022. Is it a prelude to war? - By Robert Romano

• Since Jan. 2022, China has reduced its U.S. treasuries held outright, from $1.03 trillion to $859 billion in Jan. 2023, a 16.8 percent decrease, according to the latest data compiled by the U.S. Treasury of foreign holders of U.S. securities.
• This comes atop a further decrease from its peak in Nov. 2013 at more than $1.3 trillion, bringing the total decrease to 34.7 percent the past decade. 

But does it matter?
..With $859 billion of treasuries, China owns just 3.5 percent of the $24.6 trillion of the publicly traded national debt (with the overall debt now north of $31.4 trillion)...

• ...a complete divestiture of treasuries by China after sanctions were levied on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in 2022 could indeed be a prelude to war, indicating Beijing wanted to get back as much of its money as possible to fuel a move, say, on Taiwan — the Chinese navy is currently encircling Taiwan — since one of the first things the U.S. would do is simply end all payments to Chinese holders of the debt...

Criminalizing YOUR speech!

 

Republicans Announce Hearing on 'Victims of Violent Crime' in Manhattan

Republicans Announce Hearing on 'Victims of Violent Crime' in Manhattan: 

House Judiciary Republicans on Monday announced an upcoming hearing shining a spotlight on the victims of “violent crime” in the anti-Trump district attorney Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan.

According to a release from the GOP, the field hearing, dubbed “Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan,” will take place Monday, April 17, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern in the Big Apple.

'Severe' banking crisis threatens worldwide recession, IMF warns

'Severe' banking crisis threatens worldwide recession, IMF warns:

• The global economy is in a "perilous phase" where the threat of a global recession is rising, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.
• Rising interest rates could spark a severe banking crisis that triggers recession, the IMF warned in its latest World Economic Outlook.
• Financial stability risks have "increased rapidly" over the last six months, the Washington-based organisation said...

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History for April 12

History for April 12 - On-This-Day.com

Henry Clay 1777 - "The Great Pacificator", U.S. Secretary of State under John Quincy Adams, three time unsuccessful candidate for president of United States. Quote: "I would rather be right than president."

• 1861 - Fort Sumter was shelled by Confederacy, starting America's Civil War.
• 1877 - A catcher's mask was used in a baseball game for the first time by James Alexander Tyng.
• 1892 - Voters in Lockport, New York, became the first in the U.S. to use voting machines.
• 1945 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, GA. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Harry S Truman became president.
• 1955 - The University of Michigan Polio Vaccine Evaluation Center announced that the polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was "safe, effective and potent."
• 1961 - Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became first man to orbit the Earth.

Despite Iranian attack killing American abroad, Biden pursues nuclear deal with ayatollah's regime | Fox News

Despite Iranian attack killing American abroad, Biden pursues nuclear deal with ayatollah's regime | Fox News: 

The Iranian regime’s recent drone attack on an American base in Syria, which resulted in the murder of a U.S. contractor, has not deterred the Biden administration from pursuing the controversial nuclear pact with Tehran that would dramatically enrich the coffers of the Islamic Republic.

The White House remains wedded to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – the formal name for the Iran nuclear deal – that "would allow Tehran to access up to $275 billion in financial benefits during its first year in effect and $1 trillion by 2030."

The way we were-----Marooned & Forgotten German Garrison 1945

Portland's Crisis: Unmasking the DA's Soft Stance on Soaring Crime Rates!

"In the wake of recent attacks in Portland, the question of whether or not to intervene in violent situations has become increasingly relevant. 

With the city experiencing record levels of violence, murder, and car theft, many attribute this rise in crime to the soft-on-crime approach of the district attorney's office and the defunding of the police.

This has led to a surge in demand for bystander intervention training, as many citizens find themselves in situations where they must choose between fight or flight...

'Plus-Size' TikTok Butterball's Self-Indulgent 'Travel Tips' for Obese Airline Passengers

'Plus-Size' TikTok Butterball's Self-Indulgent 'Travel Tips' for Obese Airline Passengers

"A TikTok butterball played the world’s smallest violin for herself with a “series of videos that featured advice for plus-sized travelers.”
Via Insider:

Jae’lynn Chaney, a 26-year-old TikToker from Vancouver, Washington, with over 127,000 followers started making videos about her experience as a plus-size traveler in 2021, when she noticed there was very little advice for larger people who wanted to see the world...

Not only was this manatee marginalized by normal person-sized airline seats, Insider explains, she was double-victimized by the pushback she received for her digital pity party:

In early 2022, Chaney uploaded many more videos about airline travel from the perspective of a plus-size person, including a post she shared in February about the most plus-size friendly aircraft, which blew up with over 1.7 million views, bringing with it a broader audience...

The best bet to make would probably be “within the decade.” The lady has an oxygen tube, apparently, and she’s only 26.

• This person is now demanding something like an FAA “Bill of Rights” for the fats...

Fans of Best of the Web Today | Last January, a BYU professor predicted the Great Salt Lake would disappear within five years because of drought brought on by manmade global warming | Facebook

Fans of Best of the Web Today | Last January, a BYU professor predicted the Great Salt Lake would disappear within five years because of drought brought on by manmade global warming | Facebook - 
Sylvia Lustig Bennion 
"Last January, a BYU professor predicted the Great Salt Lake would disappear within five years because of drought brought on by manmade global warming...

• Warmists never apologize for getting their predictions wrong. Why?

KSL.COM - Great Salt Lake water now 3 feet above historic low after recent storms
Conservation efforts are still needed and necessary to get the Great Salt Lake healthy again. However, this past winter has been a great start.

School district caught censoring Christian 'signature'

School district caught censoring Christian 'signature': 

The Loudon County School District in Virginia, already well-known for its leftist agenda and ideology, is being warned by a legal team that it needs to cut out the censorship of a Christian "signature" on its school emails. At issue is a statement one teacher had attached to her emails when responding, a reference from the Bible.