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History for August 26

History for August 26 - On-This-Day.com

Tom Ridge 1945 - First Director of the Office of Homeland Security

• 1842 - The first fiscal year was established by the U.S. Congress to start on July 1st.
• 1873 - The school board of St. Louis, MO, authorized the first U.S. public kindergarten.
• 1920 - The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the voting booth.
• 1934 - Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to Germany.
• 1945 - The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II.
• 1957 - The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled of the assembly line.
• 1990 - The 55 Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait left Baghdad by car and headed for the Turkish border.

It's confirmed: COVID-19 pandemic was preventable * WorldNetDaily * by Jeff M. Smith, Real Clear Wire

It's confirmed: COVID-19 pandemic was preventable * WorldNetDaily * by Jeff M. Smith, Real Clear Wire: 

When the Heritage Foundation released its comprehensive report on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, headlines tended to focus on the cost to the U.S. That's not surprising: At an eye-popping $18 trillion, it's almost 10 times the projected 2024 budget deficit. Arguably, however, the Commission's most infuriating conclusion was this: The global pandemic was "totally preventable," in the words of Commissioner Dr. Robert Redfield, an experienced virologist who headed the CDC during the outbreak. Had the Chinese government been more transparent and cooperative at the outset of the pandemic, millions of lives and trillions of dollars could have been spared. The pandemic's "proximal origin," the Commission found, was the Chinese government's "aggressive opposition to honesty, transparency, and accountability" along with its "systemic cover up."

Kamala STEALS policy from Stalin; fear mongers Project 2025 | Blaze Media

Kamala STEALS policy from Stalin; fear mongers Project 2025 | Blaze Media: 

The Democrats' lack of policy ideas is so blatant that Kamala is borrowing policy proposals from Trump instead.

“Kamala Harris has taken the tact of stealing ideas from Donald Trump and JD Vance, and the no tax on tips and an increase in the child tax credit — and unfortunately she’s stolen the idea of capping food prices from Joseph Stalin,” Walker says.

The way we were-----13 DANGEROUS Old Car Features That No Longer Exist!

Greed and the Pharmaceutical Industry-Ron Piana

A Decade of Ignorance | City Journal

Ferguson inaugurated ten years of lies about race in America. - Mike Gonzalez

This month marks the tenth anniversary of events that changed the trajectory of this country, and not for the better. On August 9, 2014, Darren Wilson fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri...

• The catalyzing event was a personal tragedy, but from a journalistic perspective, it should have been pretty ho-hum. Wilson was a cop, and Brown had just robbed a convenience store, violently overpowering the clerk. When Wilson tried to stop him in the street, Brown scuffled with him, reaching inside his police SUV through the driver’s window. Brown then ran off and Wilson gave chase. At some point, Brown turned around and charged Wilson. That was when Wilson killed him.

The entire encounter, the Department of Justice later said in a revealing report, lasted two minutes. And that’s how long the story would have lasted, too, except that Wilson was white and Brown was black, and had just turned 18 less than three months earlier...

• They claimed that Brown had tried to surrender, raising his hands and pleading with Wilson, “Hands up, don’t shoot!” but the policeman still wantonly gunned him down. 
• That fed the narrative that the killing was part of an epidemic of police killing unarmed blacks in America. 
• And this, in turn, reinforced a theme that the country is “systemically racist” and oppressive.

Each of these contentions was false...

3rd-world Amerika!-----Staten Island man, 62, attacked by mob of teens during his nightly walk in Sunnyside, suspects arrested: ‘I no longer want to live here’

The man said the laughing group didn’t try to rob him or make any remarks. - Nicholas McEntyre

• A 62-year-old Staten Island resident declared he wants to move after he was brutally attacked by a mob of teenagers during his daily evening stroll last month, according to reports.
• The man was walking near the intersection of Howard Avenue and Clove Road in the Sunnyside neighborhood just after 7 p.m. July 15 when the group of delinquents began to harass him.
• Streetside surveillance cameras captured the moment when nine juveniles followed the man down the road, according to video obtained by silive.com...

Secret Service agents told not to request extra security for July 13 Trump event, senator says | Blaze Media

Secret Service agents told not to request extra security for July 13 Trump event, senator says | Blaze Media: 

Agents planning the July 13 Donald J. Trump rally in Butler Township, Pennsylvania, were encouraged by U.S. Secret Service headquarters not to ask for extra event security, a whistleblower told Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri. An Aug. 23 letter from Hawley demanded an explanation from acting Secret Service Director Ronald L. Rowe Jr., who earlier suggested before Congress that no security assets had been denied for the Butler event.

Kamala Harris’s Track Record: Big Spending, Wokeness, Equity and Flip Flops

Imagine the Black Rock investment fund, the most formidable concentrate of wealth and power ever seen on Earth.

Now imagine that you have built a software whose powerful engine with the most advanced artificial intelligence can discover for you certain details about your opponent so that you gain significant objective advantages. - Giorgio Cavicchioli
12 years of trial, the most important and powerful legal firms collide, the most important, and powerful secret services collide.
But the conflict takes place on two levels, one public, the trial and one secret... among the secret services

• You were clever enough, ruthless enough, shameless and unscrupulous and you won...
• You really fucked them and your scam made you several billions of dollars.

Now go back to imagining the triumphs and powerful characters from the beginning of this tweet and tell me:

• do you think the judge's verdict can put an end to their desire for power and victory?
• They are used to always win even when you lose
• And so you find out that the people who fucked you are going on a cruise in Sicily to celebrate together, the people who screwed you, their lawyers, their partners... their services
• All together and all there drinking, eating and fucking telling anecdotes about how they managed, against all odds, to shove a d*ck into your ( ! ) too big even for an elephant
• Then at 4.30 at night you wake up suddenly all wet, with the cabin floor turning into the ceiling
• And you die...

All reactions:

11You and 10 others

Lunch video-----CBS News 1982 : One Fourth Of Florida To Drown

Noon-toon

 

CA Dems want to add GPS tracking to digital license plates | Blaze Media

CA Dems want to add GPS tracking to digital license plates | Blaze Media: 

The plates boasted features predominantly pertaining to the digital renewal of registration as opposed to a traditional license plate sticker system or paper registration. NPR reported at the time that the plates were capable of being equipped with GPS tracking for employers or for the owner themselves. Now, Assemblywoman Wilson is advocating for new legislation, AB 3138, which would have any vehicle that is fitted with one of the digital plates include "vehicle location technology."

Interesting concept!

 

Asleep in the Deep (State) :: SteynOnline

And, given that American elections have degraded to the point where the opposition candidate is now being indicted, convicted and shot at, I find myself more interested in the disturbing abandonment by key US institutions of all remaining norms. - by Mark Steyn

And, given that American elections have degraded to the point where the opposition candidate is now

• being indicted, 
• convicted and 
• shot at,

I find myself more interested in the disturbing abandonment by key US institutions of all remaining norms.

• For example...

As my friend Conrad Black, one of its victims, put it over a decade ago:

Those who do exercise their constitutional right to a defense receive three times as severe a sentence as those who plead guilty; 95 percent of cases are won by prosecutors, 90 percent of those without trial.

Those last two numbers have ticked up even higher in the years since, but that first one is important too: if you insist on your "constitutional" (ha!) right to a defence and it pans out as the ninetysomething stats suggest, you'll be gaoled for thirty years instead of ten. 

They'll punish you for having the temerity to insist on being tried and convicted according to due process...

MUCH MORE, READ ALL!!!

Wait for the media to attack HIM!

 

INSANE: Venezuelan Gangs are taking over multiple apartment complexes with firearms in Aurora, Colorado

This comes after a Venezuelan illegal alien advised on a viral TikTok post all illegal aliens to take advantage of “squatter rights” in America

#1 This day 1962-----Little Eva - Loco-motion(1962)

DNC SPEAKERS QUIET ON RADICAL LGBT POLICIES Bill Donohue

Even taking a fleeting second to explain who the “+” people are appears to have been too much for them.

However, it seems the speakers at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) could not summon “the courage” to speak “authentically and proudly” about their full-throated endorsement of the most radical LGBT policies ever implemented...
While the Democrats might lack the fortitude to highlight their “accomplishments” on these issues, here is just a brief summary of what the Biden-Harris administration has done:

• On the first day of the Biden-Harris administration, it implemented an executive order allowing boys into the girls restrooms and locker rooms and to compete in girls sports.
• The Biden-Harris administration has rolled back religious liberty protections for medical providers compelling them to provide “gender affirming care.”
• The Biden-Harris administration has routinely championed the Equality Act. This act would effectively gut religious liberty protections and eviscerate women’s sports and other legal protections. It would compel Catholic Hospitals to provide “gender affirming care.”
• The Biden-Harris administration adopted a rule that if foster parents refused to support “gender affirming care” they would have their children taken from them...
  

You would not have heard any mention of these policies from the DNC speakers...

The media lies!

 

CNBC anchor obliterates Elizabeth Warren in debate over Harris' price control plan: 'Those are fallacious and misleading' | Blaze Media

CNBC anchor obliterates Elizabeth Warren in debate over Harris' price control plan: 'Those are fallacious and misleading' | Blaze Media: 

Joe Kernen of CNBC schooled Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts on the history of price controls in a debate about the economic policies of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Kernen explained the free market argument against price controls to Warren on "Squawk Box" Friday a day after Harris accepted the nomination for the presidency at the Democratic National Convention. "I can paint you a picture of how that would work and how it's worked in the past where we've artificially tried to hold prices down, competition doesn't come in," said Kernen.

Africans Fight Back Against Green Energy Poverty Policy of the West | Africa and the World

The African Energy Chamber (AEC) is preparing to take Western financiers to court over what the energy advocacy group’s chairman, NJ Ayuk, has described as their discrimination against financing African oil and gas investments.

• Chairperson of the African Energy Chamber (AEC), NJ Ayuk denounced the discriminatory withholding of investment in fossil fuels by Western financial institutions as very unjust, hypocritical, and colonial.
• Natural gas is treated as a fossil fuel in Africa, but it’s seen as green energy in Europe…It’s clear discrimination, it’s outrageous and it should not be happening. You can’t have one set of standards for the European and American energy industries and another for the African energy industry...

• Energy Poverty Kills

Without doubt, the single biggest cause of death in Africa, is the pathetic paucity of available energy. This is not hyperbole! It is absolutely true...

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History for August 25

History for August 25 - On-This-Day.com 

Allen Pinkerton 1819

• 1718 - Hundreds of colonists from France arrived in Louisiana. Some settled in present-day New Orleans.
• 1875 - Captain Matthew Webb swam from Dover, England, to Calais, France making him the first person to swim the English Channel. The feat took about 22 hours.
• 1939 - The movie "Wizard of Oz" opened around the United States.
• 1949 - NBC Radio debuted "Father Knows Best." The show went to TV in 1954.
• 1998 - A survey released said that 1/3 of Americans use the Internet.

Nolte: Tim Walz Isn't Mocking JD Vance and Yale; He's Trashing the American Dream

Nolte: Tim Walz Isn't Mocking JD Vance and Yale; He's Trashing the American Dream: 

But, of course, this is what Democrats have always done: keep people down. Keep them ignorant and poor and dependent. This is the message Democrats send to black kids by refusing them private school vouchers and telling them they can’t succeed in a white supremacist country. This is what they do to welfare recipients through the creation of a system that discourages marriage and work. And now, A-Walz is telling the rural poor that striving is selling out your own.

Walz sold out his men in the Minnesota National Guard just as they were headed into a war zone, and now he’s selling out every poor, rural kid hoping for a way out.

The way we were-----Walter Cronkite, "The 20th Century," 1962, "The Airport Jam."

Oprah Is An Idiot

Harris wins? These fools get medals!-----Secret Service Never Picked Up Radios Set Aside For Them by Local Law Enforcement at Trump's Butler Rally | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

Another ‘coincidental’ Secret Service failure that led to the attempted assassination of President Trump.

Credit: AP
Bodycam footage shows a Butler Township police officer flipping out after his warnings about Crooks on the roof over the radio went ignored. That’s because Secret Service agents never picked up their radios.

“Before you motherf*ckers came up here, I popped my head up there like an idiot by myself, dude,” the police officer who was hoisted onto the roof said. “Then he turned around and I f*cking dropped, and I started f*cking, I was calling out, ‘Bro, f*cking on top of the roof.’ F*cking, we’re not on the same frequency?”

...CNN reported:

The day before the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, a tactical team of local police officers set aside radios for their Secret Service partners so the two agencies could communicate during the former president’s July 13 campaign rally.

But those radios were never picked up...

Of course they'd do this!-----TAPS Attack: Biden Administration vs. Alaska - Robert Bradley Jr.

“It is now time for DOI and BLM to prove their worth, and whether they are truly working in the public interest, or merely pandering to the Lower-48 radical environmental elite … trying to shut down the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) … [and] Alaska.” ( – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan) — August 20, 2024

• Termite aspirations. That term from Ayn Rand toward the enemies of modern living and human betterment is applicable to many energy issues today.

One of the most recent examples regards the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, which since 1977 has been transporting crude oil from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez (800 miles) for tanker shipment to markets...
This June, these environmental groups filed a legal petition to the U.S. Department of Interior to phase-out and decommission TAPS...