History for December 2

History for December 2 - On-This-Day.com:
George Seurat 1859, Charles Ringling 1862, Leo Gordon 1922


Alexander M. Haig 1924, Lucy Liu 1968 - Actress, Britney Spears 1981 - Singer, TV judge ("The X Factor")


1823 - U.S. President James Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.


1901 - Gillette patented the KC Gillette Razor. It was first razor to feature a permanent handle and disposable double-edge razor blades.


1927 - The Ford Motor Company unveiled the Model A automobile. It was the successor to the Model T.


1939 - New York's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago landed at 12:01 a.m.


1942 - A self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated by Dr. Enrico Fermi and his staff at the University of Chicago.


1961 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared in a nationally broadcast speech that he was a Marxist-Leninist and that he was going to lead Cuba to communism.


1970 - The Environmental Protection Agency began operations.






1990 - The Midwest section of the U.S. prepared for a massive earthquake predicted by Iben Browning. The earthquakes did not occur.

Illegals sue Oregon over denial of driver’s licenses

Illegals sue Oregon over denial of driver’s licenses:

"But Cynthia Kendoll, who heads up Oregonians for Immigration Reform, said state residents shouldn’t have to compromise rule of law just to make illegals feel more comfortable, or find employment they don’t have the legal right to obtain in the first place."

A DRIVER'S LICENSE IS NOT A RIGHT, IT'S A PRIVILEGE!

AN ILLEGAL ALIEN IS A LAW BREAKER!  

WOULDN'T IT BE NICE IF OUR GOVERNMENT ENFORCED OUR LAWS? 

Obama Exceeds 3-Minute Speaking Limit at Climate Change Gathering — Watch What Happens When He Gets Signal to Wrap It Up | Video | TheBlaze.com

Obama Exceeds 3-Minute Speaking Limit at Climate Change Gathering — Watch What Happens When He Gets Signal to Wrap It Up | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"President Barack Obama was one of three speakers invited to give a brief, 3-minute address to world leaders, delegates and a global television audience watching the opening day ceremonies of the United Nations climate change conference in Paris on Monday.

Despite being given a series of warning beeps, indicating he had exceeded his time and needed to finish his remarks,"


His arrogance knows no bounds.

Russia bans George Soros charities as ‘security threat’

Russia bans George Soros charities as ‘security threat’:

"A press release translated from Russia to English reads: “It was found that the activity of the Open Society Foundations and the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation represents a threat to the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation and the security of the state.”

10 Provocative Quotes from Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society"

10 Provocative Quotes from Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society" | Intellectual Takeout
2) “The paradox of the schools is evident: increased expenditure escalates their destructiveness at home and abroad.”
4) “Skill teachers are made scarce by the belief in the value of licenses… Most teachers of arts and trades are less skillful, less inventive and less communicative than the best craftsmen and tradesmen. Most high-school teachers of Spanish or French do not speak the language as correctly as their pupils might after half a year of competent drills.”
9) “The public is indoctrinated to believe that skills are valuable and reliable only if they are the result of formal schooling.”
10) “School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.”

House Calls for Jihadists

House Calls for Jihadists :: SteynOnline:

"...My eye was caught by this headline from Agence France-Presse: "Belgian Scheme Tries To Nip Radicalisation In The Bud."
Put aside the fact that "radicalization" is itself a weaselly equivocation, and that in Molenbeek it's way past being "in the bud", given that the suburb's residents have played a role in the Paris slaughter, the Jewish Museum murders, the Madrid train bombings, etc, etc.
But, as I say, put all that aside and take the "Belgian scheme" at face value:
Molenbeek (Belgium) (AFP) - In the troubled Brussels district of Molenbeek, politician Sarah Turine is on the frontline of her own war to stop the sons of Belgian families going off to Syria to join Islamic State fighters.
The first step is often to send a sociologist and psychologist to try to re-establish the link between the troubled young man and his family. The next is to flag up the dire consequences of the choice they seem to be about to make.
"We must try to defuse this anger among the young," Turine, who oversees a radicalisation prevention programme in Molenbeek, told AFP over tea at an upscale Arab cafe.
"We have to assure them they have a place here, that they are not second-class citizens, and to undermine the recruiters' arguments," said Turine, a member of the leftist Ecolo party."
Doesn't all this sound awfully time-consuming and manpower-intensive and expensive?
The "first step" is to send round "a sociologist and psychologist"? 
Two trained, credentialed professionals?
In the 21st century, you can't get a doctor to make a house call - unless you're a "troubled young man" of jihadist bent in need of mental-health counseling.
Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper not to keep importing and expanding the particular community which produces all these "troubled young men"?...

Global warming gets twice as much money as border security | The Daily Caller

Global warming gets twice as much money as border security | The Daily Caller:

"New estimates show the federal government will spend nearly twice as much fighting global warming this year than on U.S. border security."

Imagine if ANY republican had said this.....NEA prez under fire for calling disabled kids ‘chronically tarded, medically annoying’

NEA prez under fire for calling disabled kids ‘chronically tarded, medically annoying’ - EAGnews.org:
"WASHINGTON, D.C. – National Education Association president Lily Eskelsen Garcia is being harshly criticized for a hurtful description of disabled children.
During an awards ceremony for the leftist group Campaign for America’s Future, Garcia said, “We diversify our curriculum instruction to meet the personal individual needs of all of our students the blind, the hearing impaired, the physically challenged, the gifted and talented, the chronically tarded and the medically annoying.”
When a video of Garcia’s remarks began circulating, advocacy groups denounced them..."

After 33 years, ‘Christmas in Washington’ has been canceled

After 33 years, ‘Christmas in Washington’ has been canceled - The Washington Post:
"After more than three decades and five administrations, “Christmas in Washington,” the celebrity-packed holiday special attended by the first family, won’t be returning for its 34th holiday season.
No, the Grinch didn’t have anything to do with it — at least we don’t think he did..."

Why else do democrat leaders want felons to vote?-----Ted Cruz: "Overwhelming Majority of Violent Criminals are Democrats..."

Ted Cruz: "Overwhelming Majority of Violent Criminals are Democrats..." » Louder With Crowder:

“You know, every time you have some sort of violent crime or mass killing, you can almost see the media salivating, hoping, hoping, desperately that the murderer happens to be a Republican so they can use it to try to paint their political enemies.

“Now listen, here’s the simple and undeniable fact.The overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats. The media doesn’t report that. What they report, and there’s a reason why the Democrats for years have been viewed as soft on crime because they go in and they appoint to the bench judges who release violent criminals, they go in and they do what Barack Obama tried to do, which is appoint a lawyer who voluntarily represented for free, a cop killer to a senior Justice Department position. They go in and fight to give the right to vote to convicted felons. Why? Because the Democrats know convicted felons tend to vote Democrat.”

Noon-toon

When Pressed on the Bigger Threat, Terrorism or Climate Change, Here’s How the White House Responds | TheBlaze.com

When Pressed on the Bigger Threat, Terrorism or Climate Change, Here’s How the White House Responds | TheBlaze.com:

"A White House national security official was unable to give a definitive answer to reporters Monday when pressed on whether climate change or terrorism poses a larger risk to the United States.

Deputy National Security Adviser Ben would say only that both threats are serious but different.

“I’m not going to rank them, because they are different."

Must read of the day!-----The Usual Suspect

The Usual Suspect | PJ Media:
"...Conventional wisdom held they should be dying. 
 For years the numbers of phytoplankton were thought to be in decline due to Global Warming. 
"A 2010 study published in Nature reported that marine phytoplankton have declined substantially in the world's oceans over the past century." 
But the Johns Hopkins study contradicted this claim. Something -- perhaps C02 -- was revving up the plankton.
"Scientists have long thought that the number of plankton species would decline due to increased acidity in the oceans. 
However, over the last four decades or so they have grown to be much more in abundance, a new study indicates. ...
"Something strange is happening here, and it's happening much more quickly than we thought it should," Anand Gnanadesikan, associate professor in the Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins."
Just as nuclear power and radiation explained everything in the 1950s, in 2015 the usual suspect in all modern mysteries is Global Warming. 
"In Britain last week, Sky News aired an interview with Prince Charles in which he declared that a clear link existed between climate change and the emergence of Islamic State." 
It was therefore understandable that Global Warming is the presumed cause for the phytoplankton boom just as it was the culprit in its former assumed decline. 
The way the narrative works is the Usual Suspect is guilty in every case. 
Things are simpler that way..."
Read it all!

Ah yes, the "they disagree with us so they must be stupid" syndrome. And this moron "teaches" at a tax subsidized university?!!-----Professor blames Colbert's ratings sag on Republicans 'who can’t understand complex satire'

Professor blames Colbert's ratings sag on Republicans 'who can’t understand complex satire' - The College Fix:
Sophia McClennen, a professor of international affairs and comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University, recently sounded off on why she believes Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” ratings are sagging – Republicans won’t watch it because they’re too thickheaded to get his clever jokes!

“It is the socially conservative, less educated, Tea Party version of the GOP that is least likely to want to watch smart comedy like Colbert’s,” McClennen stated in her Salon piece, titled “Republicans just don’t get Stephen Colbert: Why the Fox News-watching, climate-change denying crowd can’t understand complex satire.”

“This is the portion of the population that thinks climate science is a liberal plot, Obama is not a citizen, and the separation of church and state is a myth,” added the Duke and Harvard-educated scholar..."

This is great!!-----Recut - Honest Propaganda: ISIS

Show us the PROOF!!-----The Burden of Proof on Climate Change

Articles: The Burden of Proof on Climate Change:
"The burden of proof for Anthropogenic Climate Change falls on alarmists.
Climate Change (CC) has been ongoing for millions of years – long before humans existed on this planet.
Obviously, the causes were all of natural origin, and not anthropogenic.
There is no reason to believe that these natural causes have suddenly stopped; for example, volcanic eruptions, various types of solar influences, and (internal) atmosphere-ocean oscillations all continue today.  (Note that these natural factors cannot be modeled precisely.)
Let’s call this the “Null Hypothesis.”
Logically therefore, the burden of proof is on alarmists to demonstrate that the Null Hypothesis is not adequate to account for empirical climate data; alarmists must provide convincing observational evidence for Anthropogenic CC (ACC)
 – by detailed comparison of empirical data with GH models.
I am not aware of such proofs, only of anecdotal info – although I admit that ACC is plausible; after all, CO2 is a GH gas, and its level has been rising, mainly because of burning of fossil fuels.
However, ACC appears to be much smaller than predicted by GH models; there is even believed to be a period of no warming [“hiatus”] during the past 19 years – in spite of rapidly rising atmospheric CO2 levels [1]."

Will Congress declare war on ISIS?

Will Congress declare war on ISIS?:

"Seemingly arguing against simply a reauthorization of military force by Congress, many, like Long, are making it clear they are calling for a constitutional declaration of war – an action not invoked by Congress for 75 years.

“A formal declaration of war will give unequivocal direction to our elected government – to tell them we must stand and fight, to not cower,” Long wrote. “War is horrible. Appeasement, surrender and moral cowardice are acts worse than war. We must stand together and steel ourselves for what lies ahead.”

Real refugees sentenced to death by Obama-----The slow death of hope for America’s loyal friends in Iraq

The slow death of hope for America’s loyal friends in Iraq - FT.com:
The phone calls in the past week were tearful.
I spoke to two Iraqis, former colleagues who had risked their lives for Americans, to tell them I doubted they would ever be welcomed in my country.
As France mourned murders by Islamist terrorists, and US politicians thousands of miles away spewed anti-refugee rhetoric, I realised my friends probably had no friends in Washington.
For years after the 2003 invasion, Americans relied on Iraqis to navigate a country whose terrain we barely knew and whose sectarian loyalties it was vital to understand.
Journalists could not have survived without them.
Neither could the troops, aid workers or diplomats.
The goodwill of those caught in the middle of these war zones — whether in Iraq or now perhaps in Syria — allowed us to stay safe and do our jobs.
...In the weeks that followed, though, I found few people in my government willing to help. 
No single bureaucrat wanted to accept responsibility.
... “To be honest, I lost hope,” Nadeem said. “After this week — and what I saw in Washington — I can’t have hope.”
Sinan, so often the peacemaker during turbulent times in Iraq, told me he does not feel especially alone in his despair; many people in Iraq feel abandoned. 
Before I called, he had been working on a security brief for the UN and he shared what he knew: 10 bodies, riddled with bullets, had been found dumped in various places around Baghdad.
Yes, he said, he wished for a better life. “But it is not your fault, my dear. Don’t be angry.
I think the whole world has gone crazy.”

History for December 1

History for December 1 - On-This-Day.com:
Mary Martin 1913, Stansfield Turner 1923, Woody Allen 1935 


Lou Rawls 1935, Richard Pryor 1940, Bette Midler 1945 


1835 - Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales.


1913 - Ford Motor Co. began using a new movable assembly line that ushered in the era of mass production.


1913 - The first drive-in automobile service station opened, in Pittsburgh, PA.


1943 - In Teheran, leaders of the United States, the USSR and the United Kingdom met to reaffirm the goal set on October 30, 1943. The previous meeting called for an early establishment of an international organization to maintain peace and security.






1952 - In Denmark, it was announced that the first successful sex-change operation had been performed.


1955 - Rosa Parks, a black seamstress in Montgomery, AL, refused to give up her seat to a white man. Mrs. Parks was arrested marking a milestone in the civil rights movement in the U.S.


1959 - 12 countries, including the U.S. and USSR, signed a treaty that set aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve, which would be free from military activity.


1991 - Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.