History for August 11

History for August 11 - On-This-Day.com 

Robert Ingersoll 1833

• 1877 - The two moons of Mars were discovered by Asaph Hall, an American astronomer. He named them Phobos and Deimos.
• 1896 - Harvey Hubbell received a patent for the electric light bulb socket with a pull-chain.
• 1909 - The American ship Arapahoe became the first to ever use the SOS distress signal off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC.
• 1954 - Seven years of fighting came to an end in Indochina. A formal peace was in place for the French and the Communist Vietminh.
• 1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan was preparing for his weekly radio broadcast when, during testing of the microphone, the President said of the Soviet Union, "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you that I just signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
• 1995 - All U.S. nuclear tests were banned by President Clinton.

California State Senator Switches from Democrat to Republican: 'Not the Party that I Signed Up For'

California State Senator Switches from Democrat to Republican: 'Not the Party that I Signed Up For': 

“I can’t, in good conscience, with the values that I have and my commitment to represent the voters of California, continue to call myself a Democrat,” Alvarado-Gil continued. 

Lamenting fighting an “uphill battle” to make positive changes with her fellow Democrats, she stated that her Republican colleagues “have a plan to fix California, and I want to be part of that.”

The way we were-----Battle of Midway Dive-bomber Dispels Myths of Sinking Japanese Carriers

"HE ASKED FOR IT" Victor Davis Hanson on Tim Walz' Meltdown

Goebbels would be jealous!-----UK police commissioner threatens to extradite, jail US citizens over online posts: 'We'll come after you' | Fox News

'Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law' the police commissioner warned By Alexander Hall 

• London's Metropolitan Police chief warned that officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commentary on the riots in the U.K., but on American citizens as well.
• "We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you," Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News...

It's NOT CO2!-----Media Scapegoat Fossil Fuels For Heat Waves, But Experts Say Asphalt, Cityscapes Real Culprit - Climate Change Dispatch

Media Scapegoat Fossil Fuels For Heat Waves, But Experts Say Asphalt, Cityscapes Real Culprit - Climate Change Dispatch

Heat waves bring a barrage of dramatic media reports.

• This summer’s heat wave solicited a headline in the San Francisco Chronicle that claimed that 120 degrees is comparable to a pizza oven. Commercial pizza ovens are closer to 1,000 degrees, and home-baked pizzas are cooked between 425 and 500 degrees. 
• With the heat wave bearing down on the West Coast, the Los Angeles Times editorial board argued that life would be better if we just got rid of fossil fuels...

When it comes to mitigating warming, even if we eliminated all carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels today, it would be over a century before concentrations in the atmosphere would decline to preindustrial levels....
“Heat flux is just a fancy scientific word for heat,” he said. 

• It includes the heat that comes off of pavement, as well as the heat from air conditioning. 
• Air conditioners cool spaces by removing heat, which is then ejected out of a building, raising temperatures within cities...

The big win against Google must be only the beginning | Blaze Media

The big win against Google must be only the beginning | Blaze Media: 

On Monday, Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia agreed, finding in a nearly 300-page ruling that "Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act."

Kamala Harris’ record as a prosecutor exposed

How to Spot a Deepfake: Tips, Tools and More

The stakes for deepfake technology and its ability to fool people are high — especially in an election year. - Scott A. Leadingham

• Discover how to spot a deepfake with these tips, tools and games

1. Stop. Then think. Then act.
When seeing information and content online, you can:

• Stop sharing before you know more.
• Collaborate with verification tools and online educational resources.
• Listen to your gut and the advice of researchers and fact-checkers...

2. Use deepfake and AI detection tools...

Lunch video-----Seniors: How I Improved my BALANCE with HEEL-TOE Walking

Noon-toon

 

Controversial Algerian boxer who failed gender tests wins gold medal in women's boxing at Olympics | Blaze Media

Controversial Algerian boxer who failed gender tests wins gold medal in women's boxing at Olympics | Blaze Media: 

Aboxer with male sex chromosomes took the gold medal in women's middleweight boxing at the Paris Olympics despite public uproar denouncing the rules that allowed the unfair competition.

Imane Khelif of Algeria won a decisive victory 5-0 on Friday over China’s Yang Liu.

"... telling media he just returned from fighting the war on terror....

Command Sergeant Major speaks!

 

Michigan, land of government snitches?-----Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson urges Michiganders To Report Election ‘Misinformation’ to her office

misinformation as "the most potentially damaging threat to our democracy," - Dave

LANSING, Mich - ...In a statement released by her office, Benson described misinformation as "a serious threat to election security." 

She has asked Michigan residents to report misleading or inaccurate information regarding voting or elections via email at misinformation@michigan.gov, including images when possible. 

However, a separate document from her office described misinformation as "the most potentially damaging threat to our democracy," blaming "partisans, grifters, and other opportunists" for spreading falsehoods and urging citizens to hold those accountable for disseminating false information...

What's missing?

 

The "moderates" who want you to be kind.-----What unites Trump and Hitler: "Fierce determination and self-imposed blindness" | Salon.com

What unites Trump and Hitler: "Fierce determination and self-imposed blindness" | Salon.com

Why the lies and bluster keep working: 

For both Hitler and Trump, says Timothy Ryback, "the medium is the message" By Chauncey DeVega-Senior Writer
In various ways, Trump continues to channel the dark history of Adolf Hitler's rise. 

This is not simply an interpretation of his metaphors or vague dog-whistle statements...

Trump has also reportedly praised Hitler at times, and certainly continues to admire modern-day tyrants such as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping...

#1 This day 1961-----Tossin'and Turnin'-Bobby Lewis-original song-1961

The Harris Flop Would Be Scarier Than Her Flip - By Victor Davis Hanson

The Harris-Walz message is clear: “In order to run your country for the next four years, we must lie and deceive you for the next three months.”

By selecting the hard-left Walz, Harris reminds the nation who runs the Democratic Party. 

It is preparing for a hard-left neo-socialist administration—while it seeks to deceive the public for the next 90 days that Harris-Walz are temporary moderates...
But if the current initial Harris-Walz flipping is embarrassing, their eventual post-November flopping back to the left will be shameless—and dangerous for the nation.

• In 2025, under a Harris-Walz presidency, borders would again magically evaporate. Millions more illegal aliens would regroup and flood into the U.S.
• Printing more trillions of dollars would spike more hyperinflation. 
• Cutting defense would further encourage even more wars in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
• More woke and DEI mandates would ensure more tribal disunity.
• Harris-Walz would try fulfilling earlier promises to ban fracking and horizontal drilling, render the U.S. vulnerable to hostile foreign oil producers, 
• distance the U.S. from Israel, 
• and out-appease Biden’s coddling of Iran.
• They would continue the crazy left-wing war on the Supreme Court and implement Joe Biden’s plan to neuter it.

But for now?
The Harris-Walz message is clear: “In order to run your country for the next four years, we must lie and deceive you for the next three months.”

They run on ghosts!

 

Holy Crap!! I had not seen this old Kamala Harris clip

may be the scariest thing I have ever heard a presidential nominee say at any point in their professional career!

I had not seen this old Kamala Harris clip, but it legitimately may be the scariest thing I have ever heard a presidential nominee say at any point in their professional career! 

WTH???!!!!
John Ziegler @Zigmanfreud 

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 10

History for August 10 - On-This-Day.com 

Herbert Clark Hoover (U.S.) 1874

• 1921 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio.
• 1927 - Mount Rushmore was formally dedicated. The individual faces of the presidents were dedicated later.
• 1945 - The day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced they would surrender. The only condition was that the status of Emperor Hirohito would remain unchanged.
• 1954 - Construction began on the St. Lawrence Seaway.
• 1988 - U.S. President Reagan signed a measure that provided $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were interned by the U.S. government during World War II.
• 1994 - U.S. President Clinton claimed presidential immunity when he asked a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones.
• 1995 - Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced that she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.

Walz advanced radical LGBTQ agenda as governor, signed bill that doesn't expressly prohibit pedophilia as sexual orientation | Blaze Media

Walz advanced radical LGBTQ agenda as governor, signed bill that doesn't expressly prohibit pedophilia as sexual orientation | Blaze Media: 

Tim Walz, the far-left governor of Minnesota who was recently tapped to be border czar Kamala Harris' running mate in the 2024 election, has advanced a radical LGBTQ agenda since assuming the governorship 2019. Not only does he enjoy unwavering support from the state's first openly "transgender" lawmaker, but he even signed a bill that does not specifically prohibit pedophilia as a recognized sexual orientation.

The way we were-----A Palace of Corn

Universal Human Rights - Police state WARNING!!!

"Secretive Covid-era ‘spy’ agency brought in to monitor social media during riots!!!

We gotta ask. Which democrats got rich doing these deals?-----Taliban Gets $239 Mil in U.S. Afghanistan Aid after State Dept. Fails to Vet Awardees | Judicial Watch

Less than a year after Judicial Watch reported that the Taliban has established fake nonprofits to steal millions of dollars in U.S. aid to Afghanistan

• At least $239 million have likely filled the coffers of the extremists running the Islamic republic since the 2021 U.S. military withdraw, according to a report published this month by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). 
• The money was disbursed by State Department divisions known as Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) and International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) to implement development projects intended to help achieve American foreign policy and national security goals in Afghanistan.
• Investigators found that the State Department failed to comply with its own counterterrorism partner vetting requirements in Afghanistan before awarding at least 29 grants to various local entities...

My son, 19, was killed in Iraq serving in the military unit Tim Walz 'abandoned': I'll never trust Kamala Harris' VP pick who took the 'coward's way out' | Daily Mail Online

When soldier Kyle Miller was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq on June 29, 2006, the man expected to lead them into combat was not there. 

Tim Walz, who would go on to be Kamala Harris' running mate, left his Minnesota National Guard unit two months before it deployed - and some will never trust him again.

• That includes Miller's mother who delivered a damning verdict on Walz's character, accusing him of taking the 'coward's way out' and 'running away' by opting to campaign for Congress instead of going to Iraq to face danger with her son...
• 'Walz claims a rank he never earned. 
• When he was called to serve, and protect our country he didn’t...

WATCH: Walz takes just 8 seconds to show he doesn't know the Constitution * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

WATCH: Walz takes just 8 seconds to show he doesn't know the Constitution * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

In a resurfaced video clip, since he was picked by Harris this week, he states, "There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech and especially around our democracy"

Town Reverses Itself and Removes Ban on ‘For Sale’ Signs in Parked Cars