History for July 20

History for July 20 - On-This-Day.com

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• 1801 - A 1,235 pound cheese ball was pressed at the farm of Elisha Brown, Jr. The ball of cheese was later loaded on a horse-driven wagon and presented to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson at the White House.
• 1917 - The draft lottery in World War I went into operation.
• 1942 - The first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, (WACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
• 1944 - An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.
• 1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.
• 1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan pulled the U.S. out of comprehensive test ban negotiations indefinitely.
• 1998 - Russia won a $11.2 billion loan from the Clinton/International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency.

FBI Director Wray must correct House testimony following 'demonstrably untrue' claims, GOP lawmaker says | Fox News

FBI Director Wray must correct House testimony following 'demonstrably untrue' claims, GOP lawmaker says | Fox News: 

Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., called on FBI Director Christopher Wray to correct his congressional testimony on Sunday, alleging he made a number of "demonstrably untrue" statements during his hearing before the House Judiciary Committee last week. "Chairman Jim Jordan and I are preparing a letter that we'll issue probably Monday or Tuesday to ask the director to correct his testimony," Johnson told "Sunday Night in America." We are going to point out the contradictions and what he said under oath and we'll start with that."

The way we were-----How the Allies won WW2's Longest Battle

Judith Curry: "Relax, there is no climate emergency!"

"Charmed life?!!"-----FBI tipped off Biden team night BEFORE Hunter faced interview in tax and gun probe | Daily Mail Online

FBI tipped off Biden team night BEFORE Hunter faced interview in tax and gun probe | Daily Mail Online

"Whistleblower agent says he was shocked at way he was told to conduct investigation in testimony to Republicans

• The House Oversight Committee said they had spoken to an FBI agent, who confirmed some claims made by an IRS whistleblower 
• The whistleblower, Gary Shapley, said he believed the Justice Department gave Hunter Biden special treatment while investigating tax and gun accusations
• READ MORE: Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort says it's 'obvious' Hunter Biden is the White House cocaine culprit...

The answer is more "scholarships?!!-----Dershowitz: Bad Behavior by Schools Helped Create Student Debt Issue, Harvard Runs, Charges Like a Huge Corporation

Dershowitz: Bad Behavior by Schools Helped Create Student Debt Issue, Harvard Runs, Charges Like a Huge Corporation - IAN HANCHETT

"...He added, “When I started teaching at Harvard in 1964, we had essentially a couple of buildings, a few secretaries and administrators. 

Now, it’s like a mega-corporation and the tuition reflects it. 

And it — and they do have a good scholarship program for kids who can’t afford to go, but…ordinary Americans can’t afford it. 

• People who are poor get aid, 
• but middle-class people who work hard and make even a couple of $100,000 a year, which is a lot of money, can’t afford education today, so something has to be done about that...

Biden called out for 'factual error' in 'Bidenomics' tweet, after boasting about wage levels | Fox News

Biden called out for 'factual error' in 'Bidenomics' tweet, after boasting about wage levels | Fox News: 

President Biden took to Twitter Monday to tout his economic policies and the impact "Bidenomics" was having on workers' wages over the last two years. His self-praise was short-lived, however, as Twitter fact-checkers said it "contains a factual error."

"Right now, real wages for the average American worker is higher than it was before the pandemic, with lower wage workers seeing the largest gains," the president wrote on Twitter. "That's Bidenomics."

Twitter’s Community Notes added context for readers that said: "The tweet’s claim about real wages contains a factual error."

CREEPSHOW

Campus Reform | Profs help push program that claims math is 'racist' because it requires a 'right answer'

Campus Reform | Profs help push program that claims math is 'racist' because it requires a 'right answer'

• Profs help push program that claims math is 'racist' because it requires a 'right answer'
• A new program promoted by the Oregon Department of Education is designed to “dismantle” instances of “white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom.”

"...One example of “white supremacy” highlighted by the course was “the concept of mathematics being purely objective,” an idea which the resource stated is “is unequivocally false."...

Lunch video-----'Nobody Voted For You': Brian Mast Directly Confronts John Kerry Over Hi...

"At a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Thursday, Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) questioned former Sec. John Kerry about the State Department's climate budget. 

Noon-toon

 

DeSantis to unveil plan to 'rip' wokeness 'out of the military' | Fox News

DeSantis to unveil plan to 'rip' wokeness 'out of the military' | Fox News: 

"You look at today’s military, it’s going woke," he says. "You are pursuing a social agenda in the military rather than having your eye on the ball."

DeSantis says in the video that on his first day in the White House, he’ll "rip it all out of the military, all the Obama-Biden nonsense is gone, and we’re restoring it to its glory."

"Since then...no change".

 

Big trouble ahead for MI. Much here, read all!!-----Poor students and Black students are disappearing from Michigan colleges - mlive.com

Poor students and Black students are disappearing from Michigan colleges - mlive.com

...As the number of college students in Michigan has plummeted over the last decade or so, the numbers of low-income students and Black students have fallen much faster.
The number of Michigan college students eligible for federal Pell grants, which go largely to students from low-income families, fell by 52 percent between 2011 and 2021, according to federal data compiled by Michigan Independent Colleges & Universities. 

• It’s the largest drop in the country, both numerically and percentagewise.
• ...The number of Black students fell by 48 percent, second only to Illinois.

...It’s a dismal sign for the state’s economic future - Michigan is already less educated than most other states - and for what income inequality might look down the road....

"...most pathogenic protein in history..."!!??

 

Will Someone Please Wake Me From This Nightmare? - American Thinker

Will Someone Please Wake Me From This Nightmare? - American Thinker - By Jim Hollingsworth

• When Joe Biden became president, America was on a solid footing, inflation was under control, we were energy independent, the price of gasoline was under $2.00, and things in America were great.

"Now most of that has been undone, and nothing is being done about it. 

This is like a nightmare in which you are terrified only to awake and be thankful it was only a dream.
But the present nightmare is no dream, and things are only getting worse in America.
Will someone please wake me from this nightmare?

• While Trump was president, nearly 500 miles of wall were built and immigration was controlled. Biden has opened the border and invited all to come, and they are coming by the millions.

• When Biden became president, America was energy independent and we were even selling energy abroad. Biden stopped construction of oil pipelines, stopped drilling on public lands, and began a campaign against fossil fuels, the very product that has made America great. Will someone please wake me from this nightmare?...

#1 This day 1970------They Long To Be (Close To You) - Carpenters HD_HQ 1970

Fake programs paid with school/government money going directly to pockets of race-scammers----Civil rights complaint filed against NYU for whites-only anti-racism workshops | The College Fix

Civil rights complaint filed against NYU for whites-only anti-racism workshops | The College Fix -JENNIFER KABBANY

"A civil rights complaint has been filed by the Equal Protection Project against New York University for recently hosting a series of workshops only for white parents to teach them how to be anti-racist...
At issue is NYU’s “From Integration to Anti-Racist Workshop Series,” first reported by the Washington Free Beacon:

The all-white seminar, “From Integration to Anti-Racism,” cost $360 to attend and met six times between February and June, according to a description of the program that has since been scrubbed from the university’s website without explanation. Organized by NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education, the workshop was “designed specifically for white public school parents” committed to “becoming anti-racist” and building “multiracial parent communities.”

But to promote solidarity with all races, participants were told, it was necessary that the seminar include only one...

Good question!

 

Climate change extremists protest German airport over pollution - TheBlaze

Climate change extremists protest German airport over pollution - TheBlaze: 

Climate change extremists caused travel turmoil at two German airports after the radicals glued themselves to the runways to protest pollution.

The Last Generation – a self-described "national student-led organization focused on raising awareness for climate change and environmental injustice" – blocked air traffic at airports in Hamburg and Düsseldorf. The so-called protest over environmental issues by "Letzte Generation" caused dozens of flight cancellations and hours of delays in Germany on Thursday.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED

Instapundit  Blog Archive  QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED

Shot: Is Bezos Employee Jennifer Rubin Auditioning For a Job At The Babylon Bee?

—Newsalert, November 3rd, 2021.

Chaser: Wash Post publishes piece with debunked claim about DeSantis’ Florida despite source admitting it was wrong.

Several days after Business Insider admitted they had published inaccurate numbers of state residents that moved to Florida during the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin cited them and used them in an attack piece about Gov. Ron DeSantis’, R-Fla., leadership of the state....

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Despite Business Insider admitting its original claim was contrary to the actual numbers, Rubin published the debunked fact in her piece three days later.

On Saturday afternoon, the Post offered a correction to Rubin’s column, admitting to “mischaracterizing” the numbers: “A previous version of this article mischaracterized Floridians’ state-to-state migration in 2021. According to the Census Bureau, more people moved into Florida than any other state that year. This version has been corrected.”

—Fox News, yesterday.

Much of what Rubin writes these days is unintentionally satiric, but to be honest, I trust the reporting at America’s Newspaper of Record much more than the vast majority of the WaPo’s output. -  Ed Driscoll

AM Fruitcake----Makes sense to me!

 

History for July 19

History for July 19 - On-This-Day.com 

Charles Horace Mayo 1865

• 1799 - The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was found in Egypt.
• 1971 - In New York, the topping out ceremony for Two World Trade Center (South Tower) took place. The ceremony for One World Trade Center had taken place on December 23, 1970.
• 1975 - The Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts separated after being linked in orbit for two days.
• 1982 - The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 14% of the population had an income below the official poverty level in 1981.
• 1984 - Geraldine Ferraro was nominated by the Democratic Party to become the first woman from a major political party to run for the office of U.S. Vice-President.
• 1985 - Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. She died with six others when the Challenger exploded the following year.

Trudeau blames Muslim parents' growing resistance to LGBT propaganda in schools on the 'American right wing' - TheBlaze

Trudeau blames Muslim parents' growing resistance to LGBT propaganda in schools on the 'American right wing' - TheBlaze: 

Muslim parents are increasingly joining the revolt against the indoctrination of children in schools by LGBT propagandists. This is now especially true in Canada. With the left's stranglehold on the education system showing signs of weakness in the face of this multifaith resistance, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, long a proponent of the "diversity is our strength" mantra, is looking for someone to blame.

The way we were-----The Guns of August

The Truth About Canadian Wildfires - Climate Change Not to Blame

Endless tales of woe-----Student loans ‘not going anywhere,’ frustrating recent Michigan college grads

Student loans ‘not going anywhere,’ frustrating recent Michigan college grads - ANN ARBOR

• ANN ARBOR, MI - Student loan forgiveness was never going to last forever, said Nicholas Finn, a 2017 University of Michigan graduate. He knew he needed to plan for its eventual end. Coming to Ann Arbor from Shelby Township a decade ago, the communications and marketing major took out $40,000 in loans...“Groceries are more expensive than they were three years ago, as well as other stuff,” he said. “Our savings will definitely slow down.”...
• Zackariah Farah, a 2022 University of Michigan graduate currently employed as a cancer research assistant, has $15,000 combined in loans through the federal government and university. The Rochester Hills native acknowledged this is less than many of his peers, many of whom spend more than half their monthly income on rent and student loans...

Outrage as woke school board axes advanced math classes for being too white and Asian | Daily Mail Online

Outrage as woke school board axes advanced math classes for being too white and Asian | Daily Mail Online

"Parents slam woke Massachusetts school district for axing advanced math classes to boost 'equity', after they attracted too many white and Asian students - with families now forced to hire private tutors instead

• Parents in Cambridge are speaking out after algebra was cut from middle school
• Decision was made years ago due to racial disparities in advanced placement
• But parents say it boosts inequality by forcing the use of private tutors 

Why you should never carry these things in your wallet | Fox News

Why you should never carry these things in your wallet | Fox News: 

If you've ever lost your wallet, you know the disruption and inconvenience that it causes. However, you may not even realize how dangerous losing your wallet can be when it comes to protecting your personal privacy. There could be major consequences way worse than having to call and cancel a credit card, so be sure you take any of the following items out of your wallet today.

A huge scam from Africa which is growing bigger every day; free electric...

"Claims of perpetual motion machines go back centuries. 

The latest version involves the supposed generation of electricity by means of piezoelectric crystals and is now heading this way.