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Events

 

1086 - Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III

1153 - Malcolm IV becomes King of Scots

1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.

1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.

1300 - King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured

1370 - Hanzesteden signs peace treaty with Danish king Waldemar IV

1487 - Imposter Lambert Simnel ceremony crowned as King Edward VI of Dublin

1595 - Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.

1621 - The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.

1658 - Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought

1689 - English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants

1738 - John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.

1798 - Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.

1809 - Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war

1818 - Gen Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida

1822 - Battle of Pichincha, Bolívar secures independence of Quito from Spain

1830 - ”Mary Had A Little Lamb,” is published

1830 - 1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland)

1844 - Samuel Morse taps out “What hath God wrought” (1st telegraph message)

1854 - Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in US founded by John Miller Dickey and Sarah Emlen Cresson

 

 

 

1856 - Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas

 

 

 

 

 

 

1861 - Alexandria, VA occupied by Federal troops

1861 - Maj Gen Benjamin Butler declares slaves “contraband of war”

1862 - Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time

1862 - Westminster Bridge across Thames opens

1877 - 5th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:45.5

1878 - CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston

1879 - 7th Preakness: L Hughes aboard Harold wins in 2:40.5

1881 - Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die

1883 - Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Gov Cleveland

1884 - Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party forms People’s Party in US

1890 - Geo Train & Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma

1899 - 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)

1900 - 34th Belmont: Nash Turner aboard Ildrim wins in 2:21¼

1901 - Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.

1902 - Cleve’s Bill Bradley is 1st ALer to hit a HR run in 4 consecutive games, not duplicated until Babe Ruth does it June 25, 1918

1905 - 39th Belmont: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Tanya wins in 2:08

1915 - Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations

1916 - Conscription begins in Britain

1916 - French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured

1916 - US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker

1926 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 m (8:25.4)

1928 - Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yanks beat A’s 9-7

1930 - 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)

1930 - Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week

1931 - 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad

1935 - 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1)

1936 - Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record  reaching 1st 7 times safely, Yanks beat A’s 25-2

 

 

1941 - Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive

 

 

 

 

 

 

1943 - Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean

1943 - U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje

1951 - Racial segregation in Wash DC restaurants ruled illegal

1954 - 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM

1954 - Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit

1954 - German airline Lufthansa forms

1954 - IBM announces vacuum tube “electronic” brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour

1956 - Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha’s Parinibbāna.

1958 - Pres Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro’s rebellion

1958 - UP & International News Service merge into United Press International

1959 - 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills Pa)

1960 - 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed

1961 - 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi

1962 - M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit

1963 - 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely

1964 - Longest HR (471′) in Balt Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minn)

1964 - Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300

1966 - ”Mame” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1508 performances

1967 - AFL grants a franchise to Cincinnati Bengals

1968 - FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.

1969 - Beatles’ “Get Back,” single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks

1970 - Peter Green quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult

1970 - The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.

1971 - A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard

1974 - Dean Martin Show, last airs on NBC-TV

1976 - 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Wash DC)

1976 - In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world’s best wines.

1980 - ”Rock Lobster” by B-52′s hits #56

1980 - Iran rejects a call to World Court to release US hostages

1981 - Bobby Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial Indy 500

1981 - Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain

1982 - Liberation of Khorramshahr, Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran-Iraq War.

1985 - ”View to a Kill” premieres in US

1985 - -25) cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die

1986 - Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel

1987 - Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indy 500

1988 - John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute

1989 - ”Indiana Jones & Last Crusade” premieres

1989 - French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice

1989 - Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, is awarded £600,000 in damages (later reduced to £60,000 on appeal) after winning a libel action against Private Eye.

1990 - Andre Dawson receives a record 5 intentional walks in a game

1990 - A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically injuring both.

1992 - Al Unser Jr wins Indy 500

1993 - Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war

1993 - Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4M settlement

1993 - Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers & 5 citizens in Turkey

1994 - Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash

1996 - ”Spy Hard,” starring Leslie Nielsen is released

2001 - Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.

2001 - The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200 in Israel’s worst-ever civil disaster.

2001 - The Democrats gain control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 when Senator James Jeffords of Vermont abandons the Republican Party and declares himself an independent.

2004 - Communications in North Korea: North Korea bans mobile phones.

 

 

 

 

Births

 

15 BC - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commander (d. 19)

1522 - John Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)

1544 - William Gilbert, Essex England, physicist (researcher into magnetism)

1605 - Nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church

1650 - John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist

1671 - Gian Gastone de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)

1738 - George III, King of Great Britain (1760-1820)

 

 

 

1743 - Jean-Paul Marat, France , physician ,  revolutionary

 

 

 

 

 

 

1753 - Oliver Cromwell, Burlington NJ, decorated black soldier who served with Washington in US War of Independence

 

 

 

 

 

1794 - William Whewell, British philosopher (History of Inductive Science)

1811 - Charles Clark, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877

 

 

 

1816 - Emanuel Leutze, US, painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1816 - Robert Seaman Granger, (Union Army Bvt Major general, died in 1894)

1819 - Victoria Alexandrine, Queen of Great Britain (1837-1901)

1854 - Louis Mountbatten, admiral (WW I)

1854 - John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy (d. 1918)

1868 - Charles E. Taylor, First aircraft maintenance professional (d. 1956)

1870 - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (d. 1938)

1870 - Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa and proponent of Commonwealth & League of Nations (d. 1950)

1878 - Lillian Moller Gilbreth, engineer (CIOS Gold Medal-1954)

1879 - H. B. Reese, American inventor of Reese’s and founder (d. 1956)

1882 - Creighton Hale, Cork Ireland, actor (Gorilla Man, Way Down East)

1887 - Edward “Mick” Mannock, Irish WWI flying ace (d. 1918)

1891 - Benedictus H Danser, Dutch botanist

1891 - William F Albright, US old testament scholar/archaeologist

1893 - W H Walter Baade, German/US astronomer (Andromeda)

1895 - Samuel I Newhouse, US millionaire publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour)

1903 - Aram Katchaturian, Armenian composer, (Earth)

1904 - Kenneth Buckley, British rear-admiral

1904 - Patrick Johnson, physicist

1905 - Mikhail Sholokhov, USSR, writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965)

1909 - Wilbur Mills, (Rep-D-Ark)/involved with Fanne Foxe

1911 - Barbara West, English survivor of the Titanic sinking (d. 2007)

1913 - Audrey Brown, England, 4 X 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1936)

1914 - Lilli Palmer, [Peiser], Germany, actress (Gentle Sex, Lotte in Weimar)

1918 - Coleman A Young, civil rights leader (Mayor-D-Detroit)

1919 - Sid Couchey, Cleveland, Ohio, comic book artist (Richie Rich), (d. 2012)

1925 - Mai Zetterling, Vaeras Sweden, actress (Witches, Offbeat, Jet Storm)

1927 - John Kelly Jr, US, sculls (Oly-bronze-1956)/brother of Grace Kelly

1927 - Timothy Beven, CEO (Barclays Bank)

1928 - William Trevor, Brit writer (Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune)

1938 - Glen Hall, cricket leg-spinner (South African in one Test v England 1964)

1938 - Tommy Chong, Edmonton, Alberta, comedian/actor (Cheech & Chong)

1940 - Gary Burghoff, Bristol CT, actor (Radar-M*A*S*H)

1941 - Bob Dylan, [Zimmerman], Minn, singer/songwriter (Blowin’ in Wind)

1942 - Derek Quinn, guitarist (Freddie & Dreamers-I’m Telling You Now)

1942 - Sarah Dash, Trenton NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)

1944 - Patti LaBelle, [Holt], Phila Pa, singer (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)

1945 - Priscilla Presley, Bkln NY, actress (Jenna-Dallas, Naked Gun)

1946 - Irina Kirszenstein Szewinska, Lenningrad, long jumper (Oly-bron-1972)

1946 - Steve Upton, rock drummer (Wishbone Ash-There’s the Rub, Locked In)

1949 - John Illsley, rocker (Dire Straits)

1949 - Jim Broadbent, English actor

1951 - Rob Baker, rock drummer (Red Rider)

1955 - Rosanne Cash, Memphis Tn, country singer (Seven Year Ache, I Wonder)

1962 - Dorothy Trapp, equestrian 3-day (Olympics-96)

1963 - Ivan Capelli, Italian racing driver

1963 - Michael Chabon, American author

1965 - Shinichiro Watanabe, Japanese anime director

1966 - Ricky Craven, American NASCAR driver

1967 - Heavy D, rapper

1967 - Margaret Crowley, Australian 800m/1500m runner (Olympics-96)

1970 - Thomas Alden Page, Glenridge NJ, rocker (New Kids-Hangin’ Tough)

1973 - Ruslana, Ukrainian singer

1974 - Will Sasso, Canadian actor and comedian

1977 - Kym Valentine. Australian actress

1981 - Marketa Janska, Czech model and Playboy Playmate

1983 - Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, Anglo-Australian videogame creator and critic

1985 - Tim Bridgman, British racing driver

1990 - Joey Logano, American racecar driver

1996 - Matthew Eappen, Boston Mass, baby killed by nanny Louise Woodward

 

 

 

 

Deaths

 

1144 - Petronella, wife of earl Floris II the Vette of Holland/regent, dies

1153 - David I, King of Scots (1124-53), dies at about 68

1351 - Abu al-Hasan ‘Ali, Sultan of Morocco (b. circa 1297)

1408 - Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335)

1425 - Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362)

1456 - Ambroise de Loré, French military commander (b. 1396)

 

 

 

1543 - Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland

 

 

 

 

 

 

1612 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/PM (1598-1612), dies at 48

1734 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)

1806 - John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, British field marshal (b. 1723)

1843 - Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1765)

1861 - Elmer Ellsworth, US warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at 23

1861 - James T Jackson, US landlord (doodde EE Ellsworth), shot dead)

1876 - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1843)

1879 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73

1908 - Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1821)

1941 - Lancelot Holland, British vice-admiral ((WW II/Hood), dies in battle

1949 - Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (b. 1873)

1950 - Archibald Wavell, British general (b. 1883)

1959 - John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59), dies at 71

 

 

 

1963 - Elmore James, blues guitarist, dies at 45 of a heart attack

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

1974 - Duke Ellington, Jazz musician ,band leader, dies of cancer at 75

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

1984 - Vincent J. McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter (b. 1914)

1986 - Stephen D Thorne, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at 33

1986 - Yakima Canutt, actor/director (Diary of a Young Comic), dies at 91

1987 - Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold, actress (Gigi, Music Man), dies at 89

1991 - Gene Clark, folk-rocker (Byrds-Tambourine Man), dies at 49

1993 - Milton O Thompson, astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15), dies at 66

1994 - Yehuda Mor-Mirkovsky, Israeli kibbutz-founder, dies at 96

1995 - Mike Pyne, jazz Pianist, dies at 54

1996 - Alexander Langsdorf, physicist, dies at 83

1996 - Jack McCarthy, kiddie show host (Popeye), dies of cancer at 81

1997 - Edward Mulhare, actor (Ghost & Mrs Muir), dies of lung cancer at 74

2004 - Henry Ries, American photographer (b. 1917)

 

 

 

2008 - Dick MartinAmerican comedian (b. 1922)

 

VIDEOS

 

 

 

 

2009 - Jay Bennett, American guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, engineer, producer, and singer-songwriter (b. 1963)

2010 - Paul Gray, American bassist (Slipknot) (b. 1972)

2011 - Huguette Clark, Heiress of the Clark Copper fortune, life-long reclusion from society. (b. 1906)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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10 Things You May Not Know About The Brooklyn Bridge

 

 

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” The Brooklyn Bridge opened to the public on May 24, 1883, thereby connecting Manhattan with Brooklyn for the first time. Dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World,” early visitors gawked at its immense granite towers and thick steel cables, not to mention its birds-eye views. The bridge, which took 14 years and around $15 million to complete, remains among New York City’s top tourist attractions and a busy thoroughfare for commuters. On its 130th birthday, here are 10 things you may not know about the frequently photographed landmark.”

 

 

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Reblogged from David's Commonplace Book:

I hope that it will not be the case, but I would suspect that there are some liberals out there who would support the idea of the IRS auditing the Tea Party. If you are reading this and agree with that sentiment then consider if the situation were reversed. What if a Republican administration were targeting liberal advocacy groups for extra attention?

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The IRS as pertains to the coming Obamacare ordeal and the individual's forfeiture of privacy .

Editor’s Note : This story first appeared a year ago but we missed it . However , in light of recent revelations regarding what seems to be normal procedure for various agencies of the federal government we thought it would be of interest to our readers .

 

 

Dept. of Homeland Security Forced To Release List Of Keywords Used To Monitor Social Networking Sites

 

 

 

 

” In a story appearing earlier today on the U.K’s Daily Mail website, it was reported that the DHS has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor various social networking sites. The list provides a glimpse into what DHS describes as “signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.”

The list was posted by the Electronic Privacy Information Center who filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act, before suing to obtain the release of the documents. The documents were part of the department’s 2011 ’Analyst’s Desktop Binder‘ used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify ‘media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities’.”

 

 

” (Update 1: Reading through the Desktop Binder, I discovered the DHS Twitter account is @dhsnocmmc1 and DHS appears to be using tweetdeck to monitor the various keywords. See Page 38 – Also interesting to note they seem to be using a Mac Mini as a server, and no password vaults. All Passwords appear to be shared in a plain text word document.)

(Update 2: On page 37, DHS instructs analysts to accept invalid SSL certificates forever without verification. Although invalid SSL warnings often appear in benign situations, they can also signal a man-in-the-middle attack.Not a good practice for the security conscience. Thanks to @obra on twitter for the tip.)”

 

 

    Here are some of the keywords DHS is monitoring . Go here to see the whole list and read the DHS Desktop Binder.

 

 

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Read up on how your government is reading your stuff 

                You can read the original article at the DailyMail.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Issa Looks To Call Back IRS Official Who Refused To Testify, Says She Voided 5th Amendment Right

 

 

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” Republican Rep. Darrell Issa declared Thursday that the embattled IRS official who refused to testify Wednesday had no right to do so, and is now looking to haul her back before his committee. 

The chairman of the House oversight committee made the call after consulting with attorneys about IRS official Lois Lerner’s bizarre appearance before the panel on Wednesday. Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division which oversaw the controversial targeting of conservative groups, caused confusion Wednesday morning when she pleaded the Fifth and refused to answer questions — but also delivered an opening statement in which she asserted her innocence. 

“After consulting with counsel, Chairman Issa has concluded that Ms. Lerner’s 5th amendment assertion is no longer valid,” spokesman Ali Ahmad said. “She remains under subpoena, the Committee is looking at recalling her for testimony.” 

 

See also : IRS Official Who Refused To Testify Facing More Scrutiny Over Scandal, Past

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MI5 Admit They KNEW About Fanatics Who ‘Slaughtered Soldier’

 

A map of events in Woolwich death

 

” Two men who allegedly slaughtered a soldier in a Woolwich street were known to security services, it emerged today.

David Cameron revealed that authorities were looking into what was already known about  Drummer Lee Rigby’s alleged killers,  but it is not thought they were considered to be an immediate threat.

One of the men, believed to be Michael Adebolajo, is believed to have been arrested after he went to Somalia to join banned Islamist group al Ahabaab.

Eyewitness Jamie France, 29, said that his mother had seen Adebolajo preaching as recently as last week.

He said: ‘She said she’d seen him last week preaching in Woolwich town centre. She said she remembers him because he’d been really angry and was saying all this political stuff.’

In an extraordinary day of events, Scotland Yard announced that another 1,200 police officers were being put onto the streets and several houses were raided as part of the investigation.”

 

 

DHS Secretary Would Have The Power To Waive Most Requirements For Border Security

 

 

 

” About those strict new rules and requirements for border security set forth in the Gang of Eight’s immigration proposal: They’re not so tough after all. In fact, the 867-page mega-bill gives the secretary of homeland security pretty much carte blanche to waive the vast majority of the requirements detailed in the bill. And that’s not sitting very well with the folks charged with enforcing immigration law.

What the bill really says, then, is that people living in the country illegally can receive amnesty not when the border is actually secured but when the secretary tells Congress that she is starting to try to secure the border.

It is highly likely that if this immigration bill is passed, the administration will take advantage of many, if not all, of the bill’s provisions that give it authority to waive legal restrictions and rules that would require our borders to be secured and amnesty to be denied to many illegal immigrants for cause. As the Customs Enforcement Council concludes, “This legislation fails to meet the needs of the law enforcement community and would, in fact, be a significant barrier to the creation of a safe and lawful system of immigration.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Move Over, Eddie: Teen Girl Shreds Van Halen Cover

 

 

 

 

” A 14-year-old girl named Tina S. may be the next Eddie Van Halen.

In a clip recently posted to YouTube, Tina shows off her otherworldly guitar chops with a cover of the solo from Van Halen’s “Eruption.”

The clip lasts just a minute and a half, but that’s more than enough time for her to make believers out of anyone.

With a lackadaisical look that suggests her performance is no big deal (such a rock star), Tina shreds the strings with such expertise you might find yourself looking for signs of CGI manipulation. Don’t bother—she’s the real deal. And commenters on YouTube seem to feel that they’re not worthy.

A commenter named Samuel Preston imagined the fun Tina could have with unsuspecting sales clerks. “wow! It must be so much fun for her parents to bring her to a music store (that doesn’t know her) and ask one of the tools behind the counter if their little girl can ‘try out one of them nice guitars up there.’”

Tina has been posting clips of herself on guitar for several years now, including one from 2008:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lee Rigby: Top 10 Facts You Need To Know

 

 

” Lee “Riggers” Rigby has been identified as the soldier slain yesterday in the gruesome machete terror attack in London.

Here’s what we know about him so far. Stay tuned for details.

1. Rigby, known to his friends as “Riggers,” is a 25-year-old soldier of the 2nd Batallion of the Royal Regiment of Fusilliers. Born in 1987 in Crumpsall, Manchester, he joined the British Army in 2006.

2. He’s a drummer in the band and is officially referred to as Drummer Lee Rigby.

3. He served in Afghanistan. According to the Ministry of Defence:”

 

 

More here 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michelle Obama Vacation Maven

 

 

 

“ Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia are looking at an extended vacation on Martha’s Vineyard this summer, according to a report in The Boston Globe. The Globe might have something here – it’s almost a local Vineyard paper, after all.

According to The Globe the First Couple is looking at a house near Farm Neck, in Oak Bluffs, which they’ve visited in the past.  The particular house they’ve stayed in previously, Blue Heron Farm, “Up Island” in Chilmark, has since been sold. So that piece of real estate is probably out.

If Michelle and the kids do opt for a lengthy Vineyard stay it could become fodder for critics. First Family vacations are a fraught issue, as it’s easy to portray them as insensitive in some manner. The Vineyard is an expensive and exclusive area (as well as kind of Democratic – didn’t the Clintons go there?) so it’s likely that at some point some talk radio host will go after this plan as demeaning to US workers still suffering in a slowly recovering economy.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

COULTER: WHEN DID WE VOTE TO BECOME MEXICO?

 

 

 

 

 

” Before I had resolved which scandal was distracting from which, we found out the Department of Justice was spying on The Associated Press — not to protect national security, but to prevent the AP from scooping the White House. Then, this week, it broke that the Department of Justice was also spying on Fox News for reasons that remain unexplained.

Meanwhile, Sens. Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and John McCain are working feverishly to turn the country into Mexico.

So now I think all the scandals are intended to distract from Rubio’s amnesty bill.

The 50-1 Latin American-to-European ratio isn’t a natural phenomenon that might result from, say, Europeans losing interest in coming here and poor Latin Americans providing some unique skill desperately needed in our modern, technology-based economy.

To the contrary, it’s result of an insane government policy. Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 Immigration Act was designed to artificially inflate the number of immigrants from the Third World, while making it virtually impossible for anyone from the nations that historically provided our immigrants to come here.

Pre-1965 immigrants were what made this country what it was for a reason: They were the pre-welfare state immigrants. From around 1630 to 1966, immigrants sank or swam. About a third of them couldn’t make it in America and went home — and those are the ones who weren’t rejected right off the boat for being sick, crippled or idiots.
A majority of Americans still do love this country — including, one hopes, legal immigrants who thought they were leaving Mexico. But a policy that will change America forever is about to slip through under the cloak of endless scandals from the corrupt Obama administration.”

TROPICAL DUMP CAKE

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients

1 20 ounce can cubed or crushed pineapple

1 15 ounce can tropical fruit

1 package of orange cake mix

1 1/2 sticks of butter

1/2 cup instant oatmeal

             1 cup coconut flakes

 

 

 

Directions

             Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Dump both of the fruits & their juices into a 9 x 12 Pyrex baking dish.

Pour the dry cake mix on top of the fruit & spread out evenly.

Mix oatmeal & coconut & sprinkle over cake mixture with fingers.

Melt butter & pour on top evenly. It should cover the entire cake mix.

Bake for one hour & serve with ice cream.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Armed Teachers Bill Passes Without Governor’s Signature

 

 

 

” Alabama lawmakers stayed up late into the night to consider last-minute bills before the last day of the 2013 legislative session on Monday.
 
Both chambers in the state house voted to override Gov.. Robert Bentley’s veto on a local bill that would allow armed teachers in Franklin County schools.
 
The bill will now become law without the governor’s signature. 
 
It will allow teachers and other school employees to carry a gun at school – so long as they are properly trained as police officers or sheriff’s deputies.

 

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 Nanny Gets Nasty: “Taxi King” Says Bloomberg Threatened To Destroy Him After Leaves Office

 

 

” Via The NY Post, Mike unleashes a ‘hail’ storm:

Mayor Bloomberg went on a spitting-mad rant against a city cab-fleet boss who won a court victory over Hizzoner’s planned “Taxi of Tomorrow” — vowing to “destroy your f–king industry” when he leaves office, The Post has learned.

A fuming Bloomberg made the threat against Taxi Club Management CEO Gene Freidman at Madison Square Garden’s private 1879 Club during last Thursday’s Knick playoff game, a witness said yesterday.

“It was like Gene had kidnapped his child. He used the f-word twice,” the witness said.

Freidman confirmed the blow-up to The Post, and said Bloomberg’s tirade included the warning that, “After January, I am going to destroy all you f–king guys.”

That’s bad news for Bloomberg’s political enemies, who could all become targets once the revenge-minded billionaire has nothing but time on his hands. “

 

 

 

 

 

Gay Rights and Gun Rights Linked In Seattle Posters, Causing Control Freaks’ Heads To Explode

 

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”  Across Seattle, reports alt-weekly The Stranger, posters are appearing linking gay rights and gun rights in ways that are just freaking out the usual control-freaky suspects. Some of the posters suggest that disliking guns is just like disliking homosexuality: a personal foible that ought not be turned into legislation. Other posters suggest that armed gays “aren’t going to take shit from homophobes.” It’s clearly inconceivable that anybody could actually hold in his or her mind, simultaneously, a regard for the right of people to love who they want and respect for the right of self-defense, so it must be some horrible, trollish plot. At least, that’s what The Stranger‘s Cienna Madrid suspects.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alabama Homeowner Shoots Registered Sex Offender (Just Released from Prison) During Home Invasion

 

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” Jimmy Lee Garrett, 48, of Alabama is a registered sex offender who has been arrested twice in 1985 for first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse of a 69-year-old woman.Garrett, apparently not content with the freedom the state so graciously lets him enjoy, decided to break into the home of a neighbor at 4am for unknown reasons.

When the woman who lives at the home saw Garrett in her kitchen, she yelled for her husband, who grabbed a gun. During a confrontation Garrett was shot once in the foot by the homeowner.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

”  This administration is purposely schizophrenic on terrorism. It’ll drone select terrorists lurking overseas, but so far isn’t lifting a finger to apprehend the terrorists who attacked the US facility at Benghazi last September. Obama wants to avoid the optics of capturing them and then sticking them at Gitmo, and seems to prefer local proceedings to be done against transnational terrorists (some were from Yemen) who attacked and killed four Americans in a quasi-state.”

 

 

 

 

DOJ: We Don’t Need Warrants For E-Mail, Facebook Chats

 

 

 

 

” The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI believe they don’t need a search warrant to review Americans’ e-mails, Facebook chats, Twitter direct messages, and other private files, internal documents reveal.

Government documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and provided to CNET show a split over electronic privacy rights within the Obama administration, with Justice Department prosecutors and investigators privately insisting they’re not legally required to obtain search warrants for e-mail. The IRS, on the other hand, publicly said last month that it would abandon a controversial policy that claimed it could get warrantless access to e-mail correspondence.”

 

 

 

 

 

Daily Comedy 5.23.13

 

 

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