Blog Heap o'Links for December 2017
Criminally Stupid
Detroit …two men pried open the front door of a Public Lighting substation, and once inside made contact with 24,000 volts of electricity.… caused their bodies to be fused together, and they were pronounced dead at the scene. …
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…On this day in 1759 Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease at 45 pounds per annum and started brewing Guinness beer. …
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…On this day in 1972 the United States halted heavy bombing of North Vietnam. I was there for that one off the coast on Yankee station. We had been bombing heavy all the way through Christmas.
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…On this day in 1835 the Treaty of New Echota was signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States. This treaty was forced on the Cherokee after gold was discovered on Cherokee lands in GA. It ultimately led to what is known as the Trail of Tears.
Governing Ourselves
The idea of lower priced cities for government departments is great. Some suggestions:
Energy-Houston, TX
Education-Fargo, ND
EPA-Fairbanks, AK
Agriculture-Des Moines, IA
HUD-Detroit, MI…
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…On this day in 1973 the all Democrat congress passed one of the most hideous laws ever written and it was signed into law by the most Democrat with an R after his name Richard Millhouse Nixon.
It was the endangered species act, which has been vastly abused since the day it was written.…
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… On this day in 1845 Ether anesthetic was used for the first time by Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
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…On this day in 1966 black thug Maulana Karenga invented fake holiday Kwanzaa. The seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army which is where he lifted those from.
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Good morning kids. Merry Christmas to you all and I hope Santa has left you lots of toys and goodies under the tree. As for this Yidlet from Flatbush, I give you some links to ponder over coffee and a nice gooey danish, and I'll try to keep the commentary light.…
Spiritual Matters
…Matt 6, 13. There is often a theological battle over this particular verse in the Pater Noster. Does God lead us to temptation? The obvious answer is of course not, God isn’t the author of anything evil (cf 1 Cor 14, 33). But we must come to an understanding of the term temptation means in the Bible.…
…"My granddaughter said, 'Pa, why did you do that?' And I said, 'because God spoke to me, and said to give him my shoes…'"
Digital Business
…Since he was three years old, Ryan’s parents have been capturing videos of him opening toys, playing with them and “reviewing” them for videos posted on their YouTube channel, “Ryan ToysReview.” … Ryan has become a multi-millionaire, according to Forbes magazine’s just-out list of highest paid YouTube entrepreneurs. He was ranked number eight, having brought in $11 million in revenue between June 1, 2016, and June 1, 2017, before management fees and taxes, of course.…
Culture
…I go to the same store every week, on different days at different times, and there are usually about the same amount of people in there. But the week before Thanksgiving, and the week before Christmas, it's always packed with people. Where do they all come from? And why do they only eat those two weeks of the year?
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…On this day in 1783 George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland. He had been urged by supporters to seize power and become the national leader (remember this was before the constitution and there was no President). But he refused such an act.
Unclear on the Concept
…she left her 5-year-old son alone with 25-year-old [boyfriend] so she could do a little Christmas shopping on Saturday. When she arrived home, she says she saw bruises on her son’s arms and back, welts on his forehead and a hand print on his cheek.…
[Boyfriend] told her that he punished the boy after the child opened a present that was under the Christmas tree.…
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…On this day in 1937 the Lincoln Tunnel opened to traffic in New York City. Initial toll was 50 cents, it is now $15 on outgoing traffic.…
Spiritual Matters
The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (1811-1896)
Christmas
"There are many things from which I might have derived good by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew, "Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas-time, when it has come round-apart from... the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that-as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!"
American Culture
… "Monopoly Man's" name is Rich Uncle Pennybags.
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…On this day in 1620 William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims landed on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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…On this day in 1946 the Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life premiered in New York City. It has become a staple of Christmas viewing on TV now.…
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Good Morning Morons, damn very early. I like it.
Vic's actual Moor News begins at comment #45.
International Incidents
Russian President Vladimir Putin called President Trump Sunday to thank the U.S. for intelligence that helped to avert an ISIS bombing of targets in St. Petersburg – Putin’s hometown – including the city’s landmark 19th century Kazan Cathedral.…
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…On this day in 1865 Secretary of State William Seward proclaimed the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA. However officially slavery did not end in MD until long after that. I have seen write-ups that said some blacks remained slaves in MD on into the early 1900s.
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…On this day in 1951 the American Civil Rights Congress delivered the document "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations. The Civil Rights Congress was a communist affiliated group in the 50s. The Russians through their allies in the Baltics financed these agitation groups in the 50s and 60s.
Animals can be Dangerous
…“I SMACKED the President hard on the back,” Burns exclaimed via text.
That must have given the Secret Service in the room a jolt. But when he explained to the president that he just instinctively smashed the arachnid without thinking, everybody laughed, and the photo shoot went on…
…a yellow sac spider – one of a handful of poisonous spiders that live in the Washington, D.C., area.… can cause symptoms similar to that from a brown recluse…
Spiritual Matters
J.K. Rowling, recently expressed her belief that God is a black woman…
Check for yourself in this clip.
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…On this day in 1773 members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dumped hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
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…On this day in 1933 the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially became effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol. An interesting note on this amendment is that it is the only amendment that has been ratified by state conventions and not the legislatures. The State legislatures were still packed with prohibitionists who would not have ratified it so they sent it directly to conventions nominated by the people.
United States of America
At 10:00 p.m. on December 14, 1799, George Washington died at his Mt. Vernon home after five decades of service to his country.
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…On this day in 1964 in the Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States the activist Warren Court ruled that Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight discrimination. What forcing a private business to serve some customers they do not want has to do with interstate commerce I have no idea. But bad cases make bad rulings. Yes, discrimination based solely on race is bad, but if they want kill their own business that's their problem.
Animals can be Dangerous
(Dec 10) …three people… injured… 10… left homeless after a woman accidentally started a fire while trying to kill bed bugs with rubbing alcohol at a multi-family home in Cincinnati. …damage is estimated at $250,000.…
(Nov 28) Eight people were left homeless …when a 13-year-old boy set fire to an apartment building after dousing a bed bug with alcohol.…
Related Story: Man sets himself, apartment ablaze trying to kill bedbugs
People Die
…They want us to believe this surgeon not only committed suicide by stabbing himself in the chest-but was also too incompetent to know where his heart was thus causing a slow agonizing death. Another Clinton body count number…
Animals
…southeast Oklahoma… Josh Hughes and Drake Fletcher found a rare buck dead and hanging in the fence near their hunting property. … “This unique specimen of a whitetail carries an impressive 47 points, with a spread of over 20 inches, and a green gross score of 269 3/8 inches,” read a post on the Oklahoma Game Wardens Facebook page. …aged at approximately 6.5 years of age.…
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… On this day in 1928 George Gershwin's An American in Paris opened in NYC at Carnegie Hall.
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…On this day in 1917 Father Flanagan founded Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys in Nebraska. There are now 12 regional Boys Towns located around the country.
Wars and Rumors
…The suspect in a terror-related attack in New York City has been identified as Akayed Ullah, a 27-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant who lives in Brooklyn and was allegedly inspired by ISIS. …former taxi driver… had the pipe bomb attached to his body by Velcro and zip ties… taken to Bellevue Hospital. … Monday morning incident in a subway passageway near the Port Authority Bus Terminal. … "He did make statements but we're not going to talk about that right now…"
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…On this day in 1884 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published. …
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…On this day in 1979 the eradication of the smallpox virus was certified by the WHO, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
Raising Ourselves
The Justice Department has launched a federal investigation into Planned Parenthood’s practices and the sale of fetal tissue. … Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd formally requested unredacted documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee, the same panel that led the congressional probe into the women’s health organization.…
Spiritual Matters
Pope Francis has suggested he wants to make a change to The Lord's Prayer… he would prefer to adjust the phrase “lead us not into temptation,” saying that it too strongly suggested that God leads people to sin.…
One of several reasons I appreciate the "original" version as allegedly revealed in the Urantia papers.
Our Father who is in heaven,
Hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come; your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our bread for tomorrow;
Refresh our souls with the water of life.
And forgive us every one our debts
As we also have forgiven our debtors.
Save us in temptation, deliver us from evil,
And increasingly make us perfect like yourself.
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…On this day in 1980 John Lennon was murdered in front of The Dakota in New York City. He was murdered by Mark David Chapman who got a plea bargain for 2nd degree murder. He shot Lennon with an illegal (in NYC) .38 special revolver.…
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…On this day in 1869 Jesse James committed his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
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…On this day in 1932 German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein was granted an American visa. He was still in the US when Hitler came to power in 1933 and he decided it was not a good idea to go back to Germany. … He became a US citizen in 1940.…
Animal Companions
…the Peterson family noticed a diamondback rattlesnake in their Leesburg backyard last weekend. As they were going inside, their cat, Oreo, took matters into his own hands, fighting off the venomous reptile.
"He's a little protector," said 10-year-old Jaiden Peterson, who adopted the feline just over a year ago.
Oreo got bitten by the snake during the fight but survived.…
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…On this day in 1991 Pan American ceased its operations after 64 years. It had declared bankruptcy earlier in January.
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…On this day in 1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became the first Supreme Leader of Iran. You can thank Jimmy Peanut for that. Worst foreign policy President in history before Obama.
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…On this day in 1862 in the State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirmed the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation, which only included the Southern States which he had no control over.