History for December 10

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

Chet Huntley 1911

• 1898 - A treaty was signed in Paris that officially ended the Spanish-American War. Also, Cuba became independent of Spain.
• 1950 - Dr. Ralph J. Bunche was presented the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the first African-American to receive the award. Bunche was awarded the prize for his efforts in mediation between Israel and neighboring Arab states.
• 1958 - The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the U.S. when 111 passengers flew from New York to Miami on a National Airlines Boeing 707.
• 1964 - In Oslo, Norway, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the youngest person to receive the award.
• 1994 - Advertising executive Thomas Mosser of North Caldwell, NJ, was killed by a mail bomb that was blamed on the Unabomber.
• 1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize. They pledged to pursue their mission of healing the Middle East.

This December, let's recall the spirit of the 1914 Christmas truce | Blaze Media

This December, let's recall the spirit of the 1914 Christmas truce | Blaze Media: 

On Christmas Day, many soldiers will find themselves in combat zones, thousands of miles from home, and many veterans will find themselves just as lost and broken.

Let’s bring back the Christmas Day truce, for the women and men who must fight every other day of the year. Wherever you are, whoever you’re with, may Christmas be a day of peace and compassion. A day guided by hope. A reminder that our shared humanity is stronger than we know.

The way we were-----The Diamonds - Little Darlin'

Defending Freedom Through Film | MRC UnCensored

"Experts" in panic (for their high-pay, low-work jobs!)-----Trump ‘danger to everyone’ UW-Madison LGBT scholars say

‘But I think it’s profoundly concerning and dangerous for trans people — especially young trans people’ - College Fix Staff 

• President Donald Trump is a “danger to everyone” but especially “trans people” and even more so, “young trans people,” according to a University of Wisconsin Madison professor...
• Haberkorn, who uses “she/her/hers” pronouns, made the comments recently to The Badger Herald, a student newspaper. 

In addition to teaching southeastern Asian studies, Haberkorn also leads the LGBTQ+ Committee.

• The University of Wisconsin’s embrace of institutional neutrality makes the situation worse, according to Haberkorn...

Michigan clerks balk at proposed (massive costs!) of voting access expansion | WOODTV.com

This week, the House Elections Committee passed the Michigan Voting Rights Act, a package of bills that would expand voting access for non-English speakers and those with disabilities... - Byron Tollefson

“...A lot of those overnight are going to see the need to require additional language assistance. That cost is going to be exponential.”

Boersma said rural communities with fewer registered voters could be especially affected by the change.

• “Some small farming communities that might barely have 1,000 registered voters might all of a sudden overnight see themselves needing to provide extra language assistance,” Boersma said. 

“That doesn’t just cover a ballot in a different language. 

• Instructions, public notices, audio recordings of ballots would have to be read in a different language.”
• Curbside voting would also be required for voters with disabilities who can’t enter a polling place...

San Diego Democrat says California sanctuary policies are too weak, calls for stronger protections against ICE | Blaze Media

San Diego Democrat says California sanctuary policies are too weak, calls for stronger protections against ICE | Blaze Media: 

Democrats in California are pushing laws to oppose President-elect Donald Trump's agenda.

Aproposal for sanctuary city policies by a Democratic county supervisor would far exceed those already imposed on California by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Nora Vargas, the chairwoman of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, said California protections for illegal aliens were not strong enough and issued a proposal to further frustrate deportation efforts.

State Accuses Car Dealer of Leasing USED Cars as NEW

U.S. math scores drop post-pandemic on international test - Chalkbeat

U.S. math scores drop post-pandemic on international test - Chalkbeat - Erica Meltzer 

• U.S. fourth graders saw their math scores drop steeply between 2019 and 2023 on a key international test even as more than a dozen other countries saw their scores improve. 
• Scores dropped even more steeply for American eighth graders, a grade where only three countries saw increases...
• The extent of the decline seems to be driven by the lowest performing students losing more ground, a worrying trend that predates the pandemic...

Lunch video-----Climate: The Movie

Noon-toon

 

MUST-SEE: Chicago residents TORCH woke mayor for migrant crisis | Blaze Media

MUST-SEE: Chicago residents TORCH woke mayor for migrant crisis | Blaze Media: 

Chicago residents are finally fed up with Democratic leadership and are signaling a shift as frustration over crime and the migrant crisis boils over.

“You are so strong about protecting those aliens, but you won’t do nothing for the U.S. citizens,” a Chicago resident said in a fiery speech at a city council meeting.

“We are the ones who pay your salaries. Let me accentuate on that. But yet, you want to overlook us like we don’t exist. Well, you’re not going to exist for the next election, because there’s a 10-year prison sentence when you want to stand up here for those illegals,” she continued.

This was simply brilliant!

"This interview wasn't about journalism—it was just a personal vendetta disguised as questioning."

Vince Langman

@LangmanVince

This was simply brilliant! President Trump completely turned the tables on Democrat spokesperson Kristen Welker during his interview on Meet The Press this morning. Must Watch!

10:33 AM · Dec 8, 2024

Abolish the Department of Education and Get the Federal Government Out of Schooling

The federal government furnishes a relatively tiny amount of K-12 funding—but the feds need relatively little money to exert power. - Neal McCluskey 

• In 2010, the department brought the country to the brink of a national curriculum, coercing states to adopt the Common Core standards and associated tests. 
• Only when teachers unions opposed tying test scores to teacher evaluations did left and right converge against federal overreach...

#1 Movie this week 1978-----Superman (1978) - West Coast Chaos Scene (8/10) | Movieclips

Remember when one got banned for suggesting we need more nuke and "fossil fuel" plants?-----Facebook Commissions a 2GW Fossil Fuel Powered Data Center/MSFT goes nuke.

Wasn’t there this issue, climate something, which used to be important to these people? - Eric Worrall

Day after nuclear power vow, Meta announces largest-ever datacenter powered by fossil fuels

Brandon Vigliarolo - ...But instead of being powered by one of the on-site nuclear power plants Zuckercorp has previously advocated for, the facility is opting to drive its AI computing workload by burning more fossil fuels...

#1 This day 1962-----Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Big Girls Don't Cry - 1962

'This Picture Says It All'

As for President Biden, yesterday Karine Jean-Pierre said that he had a "scheduling conflict" and wouldn't be attending the cathedral reopening in France, and apparently the White House doesn't care how that looks 

Imagine the howls of outrage and demands of shunning from media hypocrites if a MAGA-hatted man had said same.

 

Now what? A GOP government agenda * WorldNetDaily * by Guy Giarrocchi, Real Clear Wire

Now what? A GOP government agenda * WorldNetDaily * by Guy Giarrocchi, Real Clear Wire: 

Trump returns to the White House. The GOP has majorities in the Senate and House. Now what?

It's time to make America great again. To fix what "they" broke. To flip the narrative, so that government works for us – not the other way around. Yet, where to begin?

No, Vox, Measuring Burps and Farts Will Not Save the Planet

A recent article at Vox, titled “Scientists are measuring burps and farts. It could help save the planet,” claims that methane produced by farm animals is causing dangerous global warming, and thus that reducing agriculture-related methane is critical to limiting warming to the 1.5°C target established for political ends in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. - ClimateREALISM - Linnea Lueken
This is false.

• Animal related methane is not a threat to the environment, contributing little if anything to global warming.
• With that in mind, it is more useful to look at greenhouse gas emissions in general. 

Data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) focusing on the United States (since the nation has the best and most easily available data) clearly show that livestock emissions are a small part of human emissions overall...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for December 9

History for December 9 - On-This-Day.com 

Redd Foxx 1922

• 1803 - The 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. With the amendment Electors were directed to vote for a President and for a Vice-President rather than for two choices for President.
• 1854 - Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," was published in England.
• 1926 - The United States Golf Association legalized the use of steel-shafted golf clubs.
• 1958 - In Indianapolis, IN, Robert H.W. Welch Jr. and 11 other men met to form the anti-Communist John Birch Society.
• 1960 - Sperry Rand Corporation unveiled a new computer known as "Univac 1107."
• 1975 - U.S. President Gerald R. Ford signed a $2.3 billion seasonal loan authorization to prevent New York City from having to default.
• 1987 - West Bank Palestinians launched an intifada (uprising) against Israeli occupation.

Last Biden pardon of student loans could cost $600,000,000,000 | The College Fix

...this act would “specify the Secretary’s authority to waive all or part of any student loan debts owed to the Department based on the Secretary’s determination that a borrower has experienced or is experiencing hardship related to such a loan.” - Andrew Gondy - Grove City College 

• Proposal uses ‘hardship’ as the rubric for granting student loan forgiveness.
• President Joe Biden’s Department of Education has proposed a student loan forgiveness plan to take effect after President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January...

Police Find Chilling Messages Written on Bullets Used to Kill UnitedHealthcare CEO

Police Find Chilling Messages Written on Bullets Used to Kill UnitedHealthcare CEO: 

The mystery surrounding the seeming targeted assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson continues to deepen. While the suspect is still at large and his motives are still unknown, a message found on the bullet shell casings left behind by the shooter have provided at least a glimpse into the possible thought behind the murder.

The way we were-----16th November 1793: Mass drownings begin in Nantes during the French Rev...

Fauci preemptive pardon

Nina Turner's Post Trying to Make Jordan Neely Look Like a Sweet-Faced VICTIM Absolutely NUKED from Orbit - Sam J.

And now they're trying to make Jordan Neely look like this happy, innocent man who was just trying to entertain people in the subway.

• After Michael Brown died, the media was front and center sharing wholesome pictures of him to somehow make Darren Wilson look like a racist, master VILLAIN...It fueled riots ... 
• ...then there was George Floyd...

Note, this post from Nina Turner (Educator. Activist. Senior Fellow at @RacePowerPolicy. Former Ohio State Senator & Professor. National surrogate Bernie Sanders 2016, National Co-Chair 2020.) is from last year but it seems very relevant with what we're seeing from the media RIGHT NOW.

Teaching hate and ignorance to children!-----Oregon’s DOE ‘acted to obscure’ radical ideologies ‘woven’ into policies, lessons

Oregon Department of Education promoting “ethnomathematics” (which instructs educators to “identify and challenge the ways that math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views”) - Dave Huber - Associate Editor 

• There’s also the fact that Governor Kate Brown signed into law a bill which did away with “all [Oregon high school graduation] essential skills requirements” in the name of “equity” and “anti-racism.”

(In 2021, The Fix reported that Oregon’s “Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction” toolkit claims “the concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false,” and notes a way “to improve equitable outcomes for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students” 

is to 

• “visibiliz[e] the toxic characteristics of white supremacy culture with respect to math.” 

Some of these “toxic characteristics” include a “focus on getting the 

• ‘right’ answer,” 
• “independent practice is valued over teamwork,” and 
• “requiring students to show their work.”)

7 takeaways from final hearing of task force investigating Trump assassination attempt * WorldNetDaily * by Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal

7 takeaways from final hearing of task force investigating Trump assassination attempt * WorldNetDaily * by Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal: 

After the hearing, the panel voted unanimously to make its final report available to the full House. It wasn't expected to be made public immediately, however. Here are key highlights from the task force's final hearing.