Saturday, August 24, 2019
Scott Adams, Dilbert's Creator, whose stepson died from an overdose of drugs, including fentanyl from China,
Blog Episode 638: Shut China down because it is using fentanyl to kill us to gain advantage in the trade war
On this day in 1954, in response to continued fears that communists were working to undermine the government,
Eisenhower Signs Communist Control Act of 1954
On this day in 1814,
British Torch White House & Capitol in Response to U.S. Attack on Canada
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| The White House Burns Down |
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| The Capitol after burned by British |
Friday, August 23, 2019
On this day in 1927 (anti-immigrant hysteria?),
Immigrant Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti Executed for Murder
On this day in 1862, in the middle of the Civil War,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR, WRITES HORACE GREELEY SAYING HIS PRIORITY
IS SAVING THE UNION, NOT ABOLISHING SLAVERY
As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing" as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
On this day in 1992,
U.S. Marshalls Attack Compound of
White Supremacist, Randy Weaver
One marshall killed - wife and son of Weaver killed
NYT Video Summary
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Buying Greenland: Trump haters mock the idea, but China is paying attention
One of those issues is the vital importance of Greenland, its horrible mismanagement as the Danish elite virtue signal about their environmentalism, condemning its 55,000 residents to poverty-stricken lives, and the national security risks economic dereliction invite. The incompetence ruining Greenland, in fact, compelled Greenlandic officials to reach out to China as they searched for a Sugar Daddy to fund infrastructure projects.
On this day in 1831, the largest slave revolt in U.S. history:
THE NAT TURNER REBELLION
A Hip Hughes Video History Summary
On this day in 1863,
Quantrill's Confederate Raiders Kill 150+
Abolitionist Jayhawkers in Lawrence, Kansas
Quantrill's Raid Explained (Video)
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Cliff’s Book Notes
Elizabeth Warren, “The Two-Income Trap” (2003)
(Cliff’s subtitle: “Conservative things Pocahontas said 16 years about feminism and the family that she won’t say today.”)
This is an interesting time capsule of Elizabeth Warren’s views on the family, working mothers, and what I think is probably the biggest socio-economic change of my lifetime – two-income families.
How did two-income families get started? Citing her own studies and those of others, Warren says it was not because these families were greedy, big spenders or wanted to live an outlandish lifestyle.
Rather the prime cause of the two-income family was – SURPRISE! - Betty Friedan and feminism, which shamed mothers for staying at home and not going out into the workforce (paperback pp. 67-68).
While it is one thing for unmarried women or women in marriages without children to enter the workforce, Warren says feminism “grossly miscalculated” and wholly failed to understand that two-income families with children are at far more economic and social risk than one-income families because, for example, if the one-income family’s wage earner gets laid off, injured, sick, etc., the one-income family’s non-working spouse can get a job to tide the family over.
To compound the two-income family’s precarious financial situation, the ever-increasing number of two-income families meant more competition for homes in better school districts, rising home prices fueled by easy credit thanks to deregulation, and then huge mortgages that a one-income family could not afford. (Although written before The Great Recession, Warren’s comments about easy credit, deregulation and greedy banks were prescient.)
Hence, “The Two-Income Trap.
Australian Defense Institute Report:
Chinese Missiles Could Wipe Out U.S. and Allied Pacific Bases in ‘Opening Hours of Conflict’
“The combined effect of ongoing wars in the Middle East, budget austerity, underinvestment in advanced military capabilities and the scale of America’s liberal order-building agenda has left the US armed forces ill-prepared for great power competition in the Indo-Pacific,” the authors concluded.
The report warned that too many American politicians and foreign policy officials have an “outdated superpower mindset”.
The Australian report describes the U.S. problem as “strategic insolvency,” meaning America now has more defense commitments than it can realistically meet with current defense spending.
From the paper founded by Alexander Hamilton
Rich Lowry: The left’s vile smear of America’s founding
Rich Lowry: The left’s vile smear of America’s founding
On this day in 1968,
Soviet Union Invades Czechoslovakia with 650,000 Soldiers to Crush Prague Spring
Video
Monday, August 19, 2019
Liberal psychologist Hillary voter, Dr. Robert Epstein:
Google Manipulated 2.6 Million to 10.4 Million Votes for Hillary in 2016
C-Span Video of Epstein Senate Testimony: Answers to Questions from Sen. Ted Cruz
On this day in 1953,
CIA-Assisted Coup Overthrows Nationalist Iranian Premier Mossadeq
Mossadeq refused to share oil with Britain -
CIA deemed Mossadeq a Soviet-sympathizer
Shah returns to power, shares oil fields with U.S., until 1979 revolution
(Video) Investigative journalist Robin Wright summarizes newly-released CIA documents
Sunday, August 18, 2019
John Solomon (video)
(i.e. Papadapoulos was set up)
Mifsud's Lawyer Confirms Mifsud CIA Spy Not Russian Agent
(i.e. Papadapoulos was set up)
On this day in 1795,
Geo Washington Signs Jay Treaty
with Former "Colonial Master" Britain
at Hamilton's Urging to Facilitate Trade
Called traitor by opponents, who include Jefferson and Madison, who later fail to renew the treaty
A Hip Hughes Video History
Female Sacramento Biz Owner Close Biz Because of Homeless People Problems
And is really ticked at Gov. Gavin Newsome (video)
And is really ticked at Gov. Gavin Newsome (video)
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