History for May 2

History for May 2 - On-This-Day.com:
Death anniversary of artist, scientist and inventor Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519).

Birth anniversary of pediatrician and author Benjamin Spock (1903-98).


Happy Birthday! Theodore Bikel, Larry Gatlin, Lesley Gore


1863 - Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was wounded by his own men in the battle of Chancellorsville, VA. He died 8 days later.


1885 - The Congo Free State was established by King Leopold II of Belgium. 


1885 - The magazine "Good Housekeeping" was first published. 


1887 - Hannibal W. Goodwin applied for a patent on celluloid photographic film. This is the film from which movies are shown. 


1933 - Hitler banned trade unions in Germany.
 



1941 - Hostilities broke out between British forces in Iraq and that country’s pro-German faction. 


1970 - Student anti-war protesters at Ohio's Kent State University burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard took control of the campus. 


1982 - The British submarine HMS Conqueror sank Argentina's only cruiser, the General Belgrano during the Falkland Islands War. More than 350 people died. 


1993 - Authorities said that they had recovered the remains of David Koresh from the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, TX. 


1994 - Nelson Mandela claimed victory after South Africa's first democratic elections. 

If You Are Afraid Of Another Bundy Siege, This Congressman Has A Plan To Never Let It Happen Again

If You Are Afraid Of Another Bundy Siege, This Congressman Has A Plan To Never Let It Happen Again: “There are lots of people who are really concerned when the BLM shows up with its own SWAT team,” he said this week.
The Utah representative explained that these federal agencies were established for regulatory purposes only and have systematically been gravitating toward enforcement.
Stewart said his position should not be construed as support of the Bundy family, but as concern regarding how the situation was handled by the BLM."

Senate blocks federal minimum wage bill | Fox News

Senate blocks federal minimum wage bill | Fox News:
"The legislation was opposed by business groups including the National Council of Chain Restaurants and the International Franchise Association. The National Restaurant Association has hundreds of members at the Capitol this week lobbying lawmakers on several issues, including opposition to a higher minimum wage."

Why the Benghazi Email Still Matters

Why the Benghazi Email Still Matters « Commentary Magazine:

Coming as it does a day after the murder of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, the communication appears to be clear proof that the false story that the attack was a case of film criticism run amok can be traced directly to high-ranking officials with clear political motivations.

.........Rhodes’s email seems to confirm the suspicions of many Republicans and other administration critics that the White House was behind the false story that then National Security Council director Susan Rice spouted repeatedly the following weekend on the Sunday news shows.

But as damning as Rhodes’s email seems to be, Democrats don’t seem too worried. The story is being largely ignored or downplayed by most of the same mainstream media that helped foster the narrative that Republicans were nuts to claim the White House was covering something up.

Notre Dame Calls Cops On School-Authorized Table Promoting Traditional Marriage

Notre Dame Calls Cops On School-Authorized Table Promoting Traditional Marriage | The Daily Caller:
"Members of a group that promotes traditional heterosexual marriage say school officials at the University of Notre Dame called the police after group members set up a table on campus — even though “an officially recognized on-campus student group” had received permission for the display.
The cops rushed to the scene after they got the call from school officials at the Roman Catholic school and quickly slapped a “cease and desist” order on the conservative group, Tradition Family Property Student Action, reports Campus Reform.
TFP Student Action members say they were told by the University of Notre Dame Security Police Department — “fully authorized as a police agency by the State of Indiana” — that there is a distinction between having permission to set up a table and having permission to sit at the table. 
 Actually sitting at a table seems to require a totally different and higher level of bureaucratic authorization."

Sharyl Attkisson on the One Thing People Should Be ‘Standing Up on Buildings and Screaming’ About | TheBlaze.com

Sharyl Attkisson on the One Thing People Should Be ‘Standing Up on Buildings and Screaming’ About | TheBlaze.com:
"After she started aggressively pursuing the Fast and Furious and Benghazi scandals, it was revealed that both Attkisson’s work and personal computers were compromised. Though the Department of Justice didn’t admit responsibility, it was around the time the federal government was caught tracking and monitoring the emails of a number of other journalists, including James Rosen of Fox News."

Articles: Rocky Mountain High and Unintended Consequences

Articles: Rocky Mountain High and Unintended Consequences
With legal weed costing three times as much as black-market weed, savvy consumers may go with the cheaper product in the same way they did before legalization. 
Remember the luxury tax on yachts about 15 years ago that actually reduced government revenue by decimating the U.S. boatbuilding industry?

Five Stunning Facts About America's Prison System You Haven't Heard

Five Stunning Facts About America's Prison System You Haven't Heard | Zero Hedge:

1) Because of its prison system, the US is the only country in the world where more men are raped than women.

Chicago Teachers Union Prez: Inject Politics Into Math to Promote Social Justice

Chicago Teachers Union Prez: Inject Politics Into Math to Promote Social Justice | Truth Revolt
Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, spoke at the Network for Public Education conference in Austin, Texas, recently and implored her audience of public educators to promote social justice by politicizing math.
Giving a nod to her fellow Milwaukee Teachers Union president and liberal activist pal Bob Peterson, Lewis explained how to promote social justice in math word problems, such as changing "Johnny" to "José" and instead of writing "Johnny buys some pencils," change it to, "José works in a factory."

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:
http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2014/04/bait-and-switch-by-tammy-derouin-we.html

We live in a transformed country.  Our values and way of life are under attack.  If a disease invades an individual, that person goes into overdrive to save himself.  You don’t feed the invader and make it stronger.  That would be insane.  You weaken it and put it in the crosshairs.  You destroy it. 

Read it all------Freshman Shames Ivy League College with His Personal Story About ‘White Privilege’

Freshman Shames Ivy League College with His Personal Story About ‘White Privilege’

"...Perhaps it’s the privilege my grandfather and his brother had to flee their home as teenagers when the Nazis invaded Poland, leaving their mother and five younger siblings behind, running and running until they reached a Displaced Persons camp in Siberia, where they would do years of hard labor in the bitter cold until World War II ended. Maybe it was the privilege my grandfather had of taking on the local Rabbi’s work in that DP camp, telling him that the spiritual leader shouldn’t do hard work, but should save his energy to pass Jewish tradition along to those who might survive. Perhaps it was the privilege my great-grandmother and those five great-aunts and uncles I never knew had of being shot into an open grave outside their hometown. Maybe that’s my privilege.

Or maybe it’s the privilege my grandmother had of spending weeks upon weeks on a death march through Polish forests in subzero temperatures, one of just a handful to survive, only to be put in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she would have died but for the Allied forces who liberated her and helped her regain her health when her weight dwindled to barely 80 pounds.

Perhaps my privilege is that those two resilient individuals came to America with no money and no English, obtained citizenship, learned the language and met each other; that my grandfather started a humble wicker basket business with nothing but long hours, an idea, and an iron will—to paraphrase the man I never met: “I escaped Hitler. Some business troubles are going to ruin me?” Maybe my privilege is that they worked hard enough to raise four children, and to send them to Jewish day school and eventually City College."

Is Putin’s Plan to Bring Back the USSR Working? | Wall Street Daily | the TRUTH behind the WORLD'S GREATEST MONEYMAKING MACHINE

Is Putin’s Plan to Bring Back the USSR Working? | Wall Street Daily | the TRUTH behind the WORLD'S GREATEST MONEYMAKING MACHINE:
"Events in Ukraine are coming to a head…
Running down the tale of woe, we’ve got the kidnapping of UN observers… shootings of city mayors… Ukrainian Special Forces moving against pro-Russian “gangs” that have taken over government buildings… and the gathering of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border.

At this point, there’s no denying that the situation will end badly… for Ukraine, that is."

Stressing the Grid: From Interventionism to Blackouts

Stressing the Grid: From Interventionism to Blackouts — MasterResource
Supply-Side Destruction
Environmental policies established by Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are moving us toward electrical grid failure.
The capacity reserve margin for hot or cold weather events is shrinking in many regions.
According to Philip Moeller, Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, “the experience of this past winter indicates that the power grid is now already at the limit.” 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policies, such as the Mercury and Air Toxics rule and the Section 316 Cooling Water Rule, are forcing the closure of many coal-fired plants, which provided 39 percent of U.S. electricity last year.
American Electric Power, a provider of about ten percent of the electricity to eastern states, will close almost one-quarter of the firm’s coal-fired generating plants in the next fourteen months.
Eighty-nine percent of the power scheduled for closure was needed to meet electricity demand in January. Not all of this capacity has replacement plans

Why Liberals Don’t Care About Consequences

Spengler » Why Liberals Don’t Care About Consequences:
No amount of evidence will convince liberals that they were wrong. 
Evidence abounds, to be sure: 
Appeasement invites aggression. 
Handouts increase dependency. 
Coddling terror-states like Iran elicits megalomania. 
Big government stifles the economy. 
They don’t care. 
Really.

.....Why don’t liberals seem to notice the catastrophic consequences of their policies, and why to they imagine imminent horrors where none exist? 

If you corner a liberal and point to a disaster that followed upon his policy, at very most he will say–with a tear in the eye and a quivering upper lip–”We did the right thing.”

It’s all about having done the right thing according to the dogma of the ersatz liberal religion. Liberalism has nothing whatsoever to do with policy and its real-world consequences. 

Instead of finding one’s salvation on the path of traditional religions, liberals look for salvation in a set of right opinions–on race, the environment, income distribution, gender, or whatever. 

Proposal Would Empower Feds to Scour Internet, TV for Hate Speech

Proposal Would Empower Feds to Scour Internet, TV for Hate Speech | Fox News Insider:
"A new proposal would empower the feds to scour the Internet, TV and more for so-called hate speech.
Democratic Sen. Ed Markey is pushing a bill to have a federal agency monitor anything that it suspects may encourage hate crimes. 
He wants the agency to work in connection with the Department of Justice and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, then file a report to Congress on what’s hateful and could lead to hate crimes.
So, who gets to decide what’s hateful and what will they then do about it?"

Berkeley. Pelosi. Lib students. Heh.....UC Berkeley students told to pay up for cost of graduation ceremony featuring Nancy Pelosi - Washington Times

UC Berkeley students told to pay up for cost of graduation ceremony featuring Nancy Pelosi - Washington Times:
"Students who graduate from the University of California-Berkeley can expect to spend roughly $120,000 for a four-year degree.
This year, they still must pay an extra $10 to attend their own graduation ceremony, where they will also listen to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
Students who do not cough up the cash before Wednesday, April 30 for the campus-wide commencement ceremony have been told they will not be able to attend on May 17 at California Memorial Stadium."

Obama Responsible for the Year of the Lie | Wall Street Daily | the TRUTH behind the WORLD'S GREATEST MONEYMAKING MACHINE

Obama Responsible for the Year of the Lie | Wall Street Daily | the TRUTH behind the WORLD'S GREATEST MONEYMAKING MACHINE:
“The debate over repealing this law is over. The Affordable Care Act is here to stay.”
That’s what Barack Obama has declared, so I guess we’re supposed to agree.
The problem is that the president is either a liar or he’s completely out of touch with reality. In actuality, the Obamacare program is more unpopular with the public than ever, and rather than being finished, the debate is just beginning."

Here's A Chart You Won't See On CNBC

Here's A Chart You Won't See On CNBC | Zero Hedge:
""Record corporate cash"..."Record corporate cash"... "Record corporate cash"
That pretty much covers most of the conversation on prime time financial media and TV stations when discussing corporate balance sheets.
There is, however, one big problem with that mantra. 
As Zero Hedge first showed in January with "Corporations Have Record Cash:
They Also Have Record-er Debt, As Net Leverage Soars 15% Above Its 2008 Peak" companies indeed have tons of cash.
What isn't discussed is where that cash came from. 
The answer: debt. 
Because while companies have record cash, they have recorder-er debt."

History for May 1

History for May 1 - On-This-Day.com:

Happy Birthday! Judy Collins, Rita Coolidge, Tim McGraw

1707 - England, Wales and Scotland were united to form Great Britain. 

1863 - In Virginia, the Battle of Chancellorsville began. General Robert E. Lee's forces began fighting with Union troops under General Joseph Hooker. Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded by his own soldiers in this battle. (May 1-4) 


1867 - Reconstruction in the South began with black voter registration. 


1877 - U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew all Federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction. 


1883 - William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) had his first Wild West Show. 


1898 - The U.S. Navy under Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay in the Philippines. 


1927 - Adolf Hitler held his first Nazi meeting in Berlin. 





1931 - The Empire State Building in New York was dedicated and opened. It was 102 stories tall and was the tallest building in the world at the time. 


1937 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II. 





1944 - The Messerschmitt Me 262, the first combat jet, made its first flight. 


1948 - The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was proclaimed. 

1960 - Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Powers was taken prisoner. 


1961 - Fidel Castro announced there would be no more elections in Cuba. 






1971 - The National Railroad Passenger Corp. (Amtrak) went into service. It was established by the U.S. Congress to run the nation's intercity railroads.
 

1992 - On the third day of the Los Angeles riots resulting from the Rodney King beating trial. King appeared in public to appeal for calm, he asked, "Can we all get along?" 


2001 - Chandra Levy was last seen in Washington, DC. Her remains were found in Rock Creek Park on May 22, 2002. Democrat California Congressman Gary Condit was questioned in the case due to his relationship with Levy. 


2011 - U.S. President Barack Obama announced that U.S. soldiers had killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.