History for October 30

History for October 30 - On-This-Day.com
John Adams (U.S.) 1735, Alfred Sisley 1839, Charles Atlas 1893 


Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane/Starship) 1939, Ed Lauter 1940, Henry Winkler 1945 


1817 - The independent government of Venezuela was established by Simon Bolivar. 


1831 - Escaped slave Nat Turner was apprehended in Southampton County, VA, several weeks after leading the bloodiest slave uprising in American history. 


1938 - Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" aired on CBS radio. The belief that the realistic radio dramatization was a live news event about a Martian invasion caused panic among listeners. 


1945 - The U.S. government announced the end of shoe rationing. 


1961 - The Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb with a force of approximately 58 megatons. 


1975 - The New York Daily News ran the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." The headline came a day after U.S. President Gerald R. Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City. 


1989 - Mitsubishi Estate Company announced it would buy 51 percent of Rockefeller Group Inc. of New York. 


1995 - Federalist prevailed over separatists in Quebec in a referendum concerning secession from the federation of Canada. 

Lucianne.com News Forum - Thread

Lucianne.com News Forum - Thread:
At the Republican debate hosted by CNBC in Boulder, Colorado Wednesday night, presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz lambasted the moderators, particularly John Harwood of The New York Times, and the media for their treatment and characterization of himself and his competitors. 
"The questions asked in this debate illustrate why the American people don´t trust the media," Cruz at Wednesday´s Republican debate. 
"Everyone home tonight knows that the moderators have no intention of voting in a Republican primary." Cruz later went tete-a-tete with Harwood, a CNBC contributor, for cutting him off and wanting to move on.

Military aerostat CRASHES into Pennsylvania woodland after breaking free | Daily Mail Online

Military aerostat CRASHES into Pennsylvania woodland after breaking free | Daily Mail Online:

As the blimp drifted away, two F-16s were scrambled from a National Guard base at Atlantic City, New Jersey, to track it, though NORAD spokesman Navy Capt. Scott Miller said there was never any intention of shooting it down.

The blimp deflated and settled back to Earth on its own, according to Miller. He said there was an auto-deflate device aboard the blimp, but it was not deliberately activated, and it is unclear why the craft went limp.

Witnesses watched it float over a sparsely populated area, its tether snapping power lines.

Tiffany Slusser Hartkorn saw it fly over her neighborhood on the outskirts of Bloomsburg around 2:15pm and soon disappear from sight.

'I honestly was worried that there were people in it that would be injured. A neighbor down the road is thinking it knocked down a tree branch and power pole by his house that could've potentially destroyed his house,' Hartkorn said.

Wendy Schafer's first thought upon seeing the blimp near her job at a spa and salon in Bloomsburg was that a nearby school was conducting an experiment. 

OBAMACARE: Wheels Slowly Falling Off The Socialized Healthcare Train...Billions Wasted » 100percentfedUp.com

OBAMACARE: Wheels Slowly Falling Off The Socialized Healthcare Train...Billions Wasted » 100percentfedUp.com:

"Just ten days ago we described the latest unintended  consequence of the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare, when Colorado’s largest nonprofit co-op health insurer and participant in that state’s insurance exchange, Colorado HealthOP, announcing it was abruptly shutting down ahead of the November 1 start of enrollment for 2016, forcing 80,000 Coloradans to find a new insurer for 2016.

It wasn’t the first: the Colorado co-op was at least the fifth in the nation to collapse. Similar nonprofit insurers have already failed in Louisiana, Iowa/Nebraska, Nevada and New York. A health insurance cooperative in Tennessee announced this week that it would stop offering new policies."

Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math

Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math: 
By Terence P. Jeffrey | October 28, 2015 | 4:15 PM EDT
Flanked by Sen. Ted Kennedy and Rep. John Boehner, President George Bush signs the No Child Left Behind Act in January 2002. (AP Photo)
(CNSNews.com) -In the Detroit public school district, 96 percent of eighth graders are not proficient in mathematics and 93 percent are not proficient in reading.

That is according to the results of the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress tests published by the Department of Education’s National Center for Educational Statistics.

Only 4 percent of Detroit public school eighth graders are proficient or better in math and only 7 percent in reading. This is despite the fact that in the 2011-2012 school year—the latest for which the Department of Education has reported the financial data—the Detroit public schools had “total expenditures” of $18,361 per student and “current expenditures” of $13,330 per student.

According to data published by the Detroit Public Schools, the school district’s operating expenses in the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2014 amounted to approximately $14,743 per student.

Nationwide, only 33 percent of public-school eighth graders scored proficient or better in reading in 2015 and only 32 percent scored proficient or better in mathematics."

Shotguns have 'virtually sold out' in Austria amid migrant fears

Shotguns have 'virtually sold out' in Austria amid migrant fears | Daily Mail Online:
Shotguns have 'virtually sold out' in Austria as citizens rush to buy arms amid fears of a massive influx of migrants, dealers claim

• There are now thought to be estimated 900,000 firearms in Austrian homes
• Police say around 70,000 guns have been sold this year alone in Austria
• Dealers say shotguns have almost sold out because you don't need permit
• Women are driving the sales rush as fears grow amid influx of refugees 

Glenn Beck Describes the Unique and Impressive Skill Ted Cruz Possesses, but Is ‘Not Comfortable Talking About’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Glenn Beck Describes the Unique and Impressive Skill Ted Cruz Possesses, but Is ‘Not Comfortable Talking About’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Cruz is able to remember conversations verbatim, according to Beck. Though the skill has proven helpful in the Senate and on the campaign trail, Beck recalled Cruz telling him that he feels like “everybody is going to think I’m a robot.”

However, Cruz’s memory may have been what gave the senator the ability to call out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) over the Import-Export Bank reauthorization.

“That’s why he could rattle off word-for-word what Mitch McConnell said to him,” Beck co-host Pat Gray said. “And that’s why nobody disputed him. Because they know he’s right.”

“Correct,” Beck replied."

California school district lowers the bar for an 'F' to twenty percent

California school district lowers the bar for an 'F' to twenty percent - The College Fix
Cotati-Rohnert Park School District in Sonoma County, California, is courting controversy over the restructuring of its grading scale.
Called the “equal interval scale,” it “departs from the traditional A to F scale in which students receive F’s for scores below 59 percent.”
“Instead, the scale awards F’s only for scores below 20 percent.”
Twenty through 40 percent would be the range of “D” grades, 40-60 percent would “C’s,” and so on. An “A-” would be between an 80 and 85 percent which, for most of academic history, has been a “B.”
Regarding the drastically lowered “F,” Superintendent Robert Haley says that “They’ve [students] still flunked, but they don’t have as much to do mathematically to climb out of the F range.”
“It doesn’t eliminate the F; it doesn’t lower the bar.”
Doesn’t …??
 Uh huh, right."

Scumbag-----Visiting Gawker writer blasts ArtPrize as 'far-right ... joke'

Visiting Gawker writer blasts ArtPrize as 'far-right ... joke' | MLive.com:
"Not even the existence of ArtPrize's $200,000 Juried Grand Prize, awarded to New York City artist Kate Gilmore this year, mollified Moskowitz, who admits to having had three days of "wining and dining and chauffeuring and schmoozing" including meeting with ArtPrize founder Rick DeVos, grandson of Amway Corp. co-founder Rich DeVos.
"The reason for adding the juried prize was to 'create a tension between populism and professionalism,' according to myriad press materials.
Though that may be the 'Midwestern Nice' way of saying the juried prize is the only way to ensure batshit conservative art doesn't overtake ArtPrize each year."
...Moskowitz was accredited as a journalist working for Al Jazeera and The Guardian of London, Gaines said.
"We feel that his objectives were politically based, and we were misinformed," he said.
..."I consider myself a relatively nice guy," Moskowitz says early in the piece before describing the DeVos family as "pretty backward," calling Amway a pyramid scheme, describing its vitamin supplement Nutrilite as "nutritionally questionable," and reciting a list of organizations and causes funded by the DeVos Family, including American Enterprise Institute and Focus on the Family.
"It's not clear whether Rick harbors similar sentiments. A quick check of his Twitter suggests he does," Moskowitz wrote.
Gaines said DeVos would not comment on Moskowitz' article.
Moskowitz also took to Twitter to recount his visit to ArtPrize."

This is FUNNY!!-----“FIRST DEMOCRATIC DEBATE HIGHLIGHTS: 2015” —- A Bad Lip Reading...

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BOMBSHELL: FBI Director Just Turned On Obama In A HUGE WAY! - The Political Insider

BOMBSHELL: FBI Director Just Turned On Obama In A HUGE WAY! - The Political Insider:

"The FBI Director just said something that has Obama furious. Shockingly, he told the University of Chicago Law School that Obama’s early release of drug traffickers program is wrong. He also slammed the racist “Black Lives Matter” movement.

The speech transcript is posted on the FBI’s website. He gives stories from his time shutting down drug operations in Virginia, and how the differences in policing are more about how dangerous a neighborhood is… instead of “police racism.”

Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math

Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math:

Fiscal data for the 2011-2012 school year in the Detroit public schools as published by U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics. (Screen capture)

The $13,330 for “current expenditures” included $515,473,000 for “instructional expenditures,” $133,282,000 for “student and staff support,” $97,800,000 for “administration,” and $147,411,000 for “operations, food service” and other expenses.

The Detroit Public Schools’ Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2014 says the school district served “an estimated 48,905 students” during that fiscal year. 
“Of the District’s total operating expenditures of approximately $721 million, 48 percent or approximately $346 million, was spent on instruction for the year ended on June 30, 2014,” said the report.

The approximately $721 million in total operating expenditures the school district reported for fiscal 2014 equaled approximately $14,743 for each of the district’s 48,905 students...

Must see!!-----Former news anchor joins 'The O'Reilly Factor' to discuss his new book 'Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath'

'Clock Boy' Ahmed Named One of TIME'S 30 Most Influential Teens of 2015

'Clock Boy' Ahmed Named One of TIME'S 30 Most Influential Teens of 2015:
"“Clock Boy” Ahmed Mohamed landed on TIME Magazine’s 30 Most Influential Teens of 2015. The publication announced this year’s crop of teen wonders with the 14-year-old among sports dynamos, up-and-coming Hollywood stars, kids of the rich and famous, young entrepreneurs, and a Nobel prize winning girls’ education activist who survived being shot by the Taliban.
Mohamed is the Irving, Texas student arrested and suspended from high school on Sept. 14 after bringing a homemade suitcase clock initially seen as a possible hoax bomb.
TIME says they determine their annual lists by considering accolades across numerous fields, global impact through social media and overall ability to drive news.
It appears he made the list for the international noise created by the family claiming Islamophobia and bigotry as behind his highly publicized woes despite “safe school” zero tolerance policies in public schools.
The publication describes Mohamed as making national news by bringing a homemade clock to school that “teachers and authorities mistook said clock for a bomb.”
They write: “But the ninth grader’s arrest, after teachers and authorities mistook said clock for a bomb, kicked off a national debate over racial profiling—and an outpouring of support for Mohamed, who was personally invited to the White House by President Obama (who called his clock “cool”).
In October, he accepted a full scholarship to a prestigious school in Qatar.”
The Texas teen turned Qatari clock kid did, in fact, turn down the esteemed MIT for the Muslim Brotherhood affiliated Qatar Foundation and their Education City.
Although not mentioned in TIME, Mohamed is also known for his Saudi funded Mecca pilgrimage, a visit with genocidal Sudanese Islamic autocrat Bashir, a promo video appearance with Hamas supporter Nihad Awad, also the co-founder of the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization charged as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism-financing case in U.S history, the Holy Land Foundation trial..."

Founder Fathers Thoughts on Islam, In Their Own Words: You'd Think They Were Here Today

Founder Fathers Thoughts on Islam, In Their Own Words: You'd Think They Were Here Today:

"Barack Obama keeps insisting that Islam was “woven into the fabric” of the founding of the United States of America.

That would be news to the Founders.

Obama’s claim that Muslims have made significant contributions to the nation is laughable to anyone with even a passing knowledge of American history. In his defense, Obama has proven repeatedly that he is ignorant of history in general and American history in particular."

Agency won’t give GOP internal docs on climate research

Agency won’t give GOP internal docs on climate research | TheHill:
"The federal government’s chief climate research agency is refusing to give House Republicans the detailed information they want on a controversial study on climate change.
...At the center of the controversy is a study that concluded there has not been a 15-year “pause” in global warming. Some NOAA scientists contributed to the report.
Skeptics of climate change, including Smith, have cited the pause to insist that increased greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from burning fossil fuels, are not heating up the globe.
...“It was inconvenient for this administration that climate data has clearly showed no warming for the past two decades,” he said in a statement. “The American people have every right to be suspicious when NOAA alters data to get the politically correct results they want and then refuses to reveal how those decisions were made.”...

History for October 29

History for October 29 - On-This-Day.com
Bill Mauldin 1921, Jon Vickers 1926, Melba Moore 1945 


Richard Dreyfuss 1947, Kate Jackson 1948, Winona Ryder 1971 


1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was electrocuted. 


1923 - Turkey formally became a republic after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The first president was Mustafa Kemal, later known as Kemal Ataturk. 


1929 - America's Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market. 


1945 - The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each. 


1956 - Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal Crisis. 


1966 - The National Organization for Women was founded. 


1974 - U.S. President Gerald Ford signed a new law forbidding discrimination in credit applications on the basis of sex or marital status 

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-socialist-halloween-by-tammy-derouin.html

A Socialist Halloween

By Tammy Derouin

I so enjoy watching a civics lesson take place.  The true and honest questions and answers of children are only topped by the realization that someone is trying to con them.  The first reaction is a combination look.  You have to watch closely because as soon as you see the proverbial light bulb look of understanding hit their face, it is quickly replaced by the deer in the headlight look of surprise and confusion. As the wheels of logic and common sense grind together, the Yosemite Sam reaction takes over; my personal favorite.    

It’s an uphill battle, trying to counter this backward thinking government of ours.  They push their agenda by manufacturing opposite logic to transform our nation. The unions, the school system, entitlement pushers and the low information crowd are the minions who distribute the propaganda of opposite world. 

Even their name, Progressive, is quite the opposite.  Under this administration, forward means backwards.  Insured means uninsured.  A tax means a fine or a fine is a tax depending which way the wind is blowing.  Security means unprotected.  Enemy means friend.  Scandal means fairy tale.  Strong economy means verge of collapse.  Truth means false and false means truth.  Legislature means Executive.  Judicial means Executive.  President means dictator; any questions? 

So begins the tale of A Socialist Halloween...