Lost and Found – July 31st Edition

What to remember about July 31st…

• 1777  Continental Congress commissions Marquis de Lafayette as an unpaid Major General in the Continental Army
• 1875  Former 17th President of the United States Andrew Johnson dies in Tennessee of a suspected stroke (b. 1808)
• 1912  American economist and Nobel laureate Milton Friedman is born in Brooklyn, New York
• 1941  Herman Goering sends order to Heydrich to create a plan for the “final solution of the Jewish situation”; Holocaust planning begins
• 1965  English author J.K. Rowling is born; creator of the Harry Potter books series
• 1971  Astronauts from Apollo 15 take first ride aboard the Lunar Rover on the surface of the Moon
• 2007  Operation Banner, the British occupation of Northern Ireland, ends after 38 years

Chick-fil-a For Lunch Today

You gotta love how “tolerant” and “open-minded” the left is when it comes to choice.  They have no problem accepting and even celebrating the most prurient activities.  In the name of freedom of expression and artistic license they spout offensive, obscene, and hateful ideas.  But, let someone express an opinion that disagrees with them, they find that censorship and oppression suit them just fine.

I have held off on commenting on the non-story that is Chick-fil-a’s stance in opposition to gay marriage.  Who cares?  They have the freedom to hold whatever opinion they want.  If you don’t like it, you have the freedom to eat somewhere else.  You don’t have the right to use the power of government to silence their ideas or deny them legal access to the marketplace.

Liberals say that they are all about the freedom to be anything you want… as long as what you aspire to be is not based upon a traditional lifestyle or guided by conservative Judeo-Christian values.  Get over your hateful, bigoted selves.  If you oppose an idea, stand in opposition to it.  Don’t try to deny the freedoms of those whose ideas you disagree with.

They have the right to their beliefs.  You have the right to shop elsewhere.  They have the right to run their business in accordance with the values they espouse.  You have the right to be offended if you wish.  You do not have the right to deny them their rights.

The left should also take a moment to examine those whom they raise up as examples to others.  They should examine the values in their own ranks.  There is plenty there to be outraged by.

For myself, I think that for lunch today, I will “eat mor chikin” .

(Pics are just a few amongst the many floating around on Facebook.)

Lost and Found – July 30th Edition

What to remember about July 30th…

• 1619  The first elected legislative assembly in the New World is held in Jamestown, Virginia
• 1780  600 Colonials led by Colonel Isaac Shelby capture Ft. Thicketty in South Carolina
• 1864  Union forces fail to break Confederate lines at Battle of the Crater in after setting off massive bomb in tunnel
• 1866  Constitutional Convention of blacks and whites in New Orleans is attacked by armed Democrats and anti-abolitionists; 40 killed and over 150 injured
• 1945 USS Indianapolis is sunk by a Japanese submarine after having delivered the components the for atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima
• 1947  Actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger born
• 1956  President Eisenhower signs law making “In God We Trust” the official motto of the United States
• 1975  Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappears from suburban Detroit; never seen again

Lost and Found – July 29th Edition

What to remember about July 29th…

• 1805  French historian Alexis de Tocqueville is born; author of the famous Democracy in America
• 1833  English abolitionist William Wilberforce dies
• 1862  Confederate spy Marie Isabella “Belle” Boyd is arrested by Union troops; detained in Washington, D.C.
• 1907  Sir Robert Baden Powell establishes Brownsea Island Scout Camp
• 1921  Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NAZI Party)
• 1958  President Eisenhower signs legislation creating National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• 1965  Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division begin arriving in Vietnam
• 1976  Serial killer David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz begins his killing spree in New York City

Lost and Found – July 28th Edition

What to remember about July 28th…

• 1746  Thomas Heyward, Jr is born in South Carolina; signer of the Declaration of Independence
• 1776  Colonial forces from Massachusetts arrive to fortify Horn’s Hook, New York
• 1864  Battle of Ezra Church in Georgia; General Sherman’s hold on Atlanta remains unbroken
• 1868  Ratification of the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution is certified by Secretary of State Seward; due process and citizenship affirmed
• 1914  Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia; World War I begins
• 1929  Jacqueline Lee Bouvier is born in Southampton, New York; marries John F. Kennedy in 1953
• 1932  President Herbert Hoover orders the army to forcibly remove demonstrating veterans from Washington, D.C.
• 1935  1st flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
• 1945  U.S. Senate approves the charter of the United Nations
• 1945  B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building
• 1978  National Lampoon’s Animal House is released
• 1998  Monica Lewinsky granted blanket immunity by Special Prosecutor about her relationship with President Bill Clinton

Lost and Found – July 27th Edition

What to remember about July 27th…

• 1775  Benjamin Rush begins his term as the 1st Surgeon General of the Continental Army
• 1929  Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War is signed by 53 countries; known as Geneva Convention
• 1938  American author and game designer Ernest Gary Gygax is born in Chicago (d. 2008); co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons
• 1940  The first Bugs Bunny cartoon “A Wild Hare” is released
• 1953 Armistice is signed ending the Korean War, memorial in Washington D.C. dedicated on same day in 1995
• 1974  U.S. House of Representatives begins impeachment proceedings against President Nixon
• 1981  6-year-old Adam Walsh is abducted and killed; his father John Walsh becomes victims rights advocate and later hosts America’s Most Wanted television show
• 1996  Eric Robert Rudolph sets off a bomb at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia
• 2003  American actor and comedian Bob Hope dies at 100 (b. 1903)
• 2004  Barack Hussein Obama give keynote address at Democratic National Convention; launches national political career

Lost and Found – July 26th Edition

What to remember about July 26th…

• 1775  Congress establishes department to operate a postal system; Benjamin Franklin is the 1st Postmaster General
• 1788  New York becomes 11th state with vote to ratify the Constitution
• 1797  John Quincy Adams marries Louisa Johnson; she will become the 1st and only foreign-born first-lady
• 1861  Major General George B. McClellan appointed new commander of Army of the Potomac after disastrous First Battle of Bull Run
• 1908  Office of the Chief Examiner hires a group of investigators; in 1935 this group becomes the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• 1941  In response to invasion of French Indo-China, President Franklin Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in U.S.
• 1945  Cruiser USS Indianapolis departs carrying critical pieces for Little Boy atomic bomb that will be dropped on Hiroshima
• 1947  President Truman signs National Security Act creating Department of Defense, National Security Council, and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• 1971  Apollo 15 launches carrying the Lunar Rover
• 1990  President George H. W. Bush signs into law the Americans with Disabilities Act
• 2008 Islamic militants set off 21 bombs in 70 minutes in Ahmedabad, India; 56 killed and over 200 injured

Benjamin Franklin appears on the first postage stamp issued in the United States

Lost and Found – July 25th Edition

What to remember about July 25th…

• 1780  General Horatio Gates takes command of southern Continental forces
• 1861  Congress passes Crittendon-Johnson Resolution stating that the war is for reunion not to end slavery
• 1866  Future president Ulysses S. Grant promoted to the rank of General of the Army; 1st to hold that rank
• 1868  Wyoming becomes a U.S. territory
• 1897  American author Jack London takes sail for Klondike gold rush
• 1898  U.S. forces begin invasion of Puerto Rico during that Spanish-American War
• 1943  Benito Mussolini voted out of power and arrested
• 1985  American actor Rock Hudson is 1st celebrity to announce that he has AIDS
• 1994   Israel and Jordan sign Washington Declaration formally ending the state of war begun in 1948
• 2000  1st and only crash of a supersonic Concorde Jet

Forget The Bridge To Nowhere: How About A Bridge To Anywhere

Where is the bridge to anywhere?

A week ago Obama’s uttered his disastrous statement to small business owners that you “didn’t get there on your own” .  Nice to hear again what you really feel about entrepreneurship and capitalism.  The President went on to tell us that “When we invested in the Hoover Dam or the Golden Gate Bridge, or the Internet, sending a man to the moon – all those things benefited everybody. And so that’s the vision that I want to carry forward.”

Mark Steyn takes him to task on what President Obama has actually built.  With trillions in new debt, there should be some great signature public work that the Spender-in-Chief could point to.  Where is it?

“the Golden Gate cost at the time $35 million – or about $530 million today. So, for the cost of Obama’s 2009 stimulus bill alone, we could have had 1,567 Golden Gate Bridges…”

And what of the President’s talk of the great Hoover Dam?  He seems a little confused policy-wise when you look back only a month to comments from his own Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Deanna Archuleta said in a speech to Democratic environmentalists in Nevada that “you will never see another federal dam.”

Steyn succinctly points out in his article that “Instead of roads and bridges, Obama-sized government funds stasis and sclerosis: The Hoover Dam of regulatory obstruction, the Golden Gateway to dependency.”  Take a moment and read the whole thing.

(Hat tip to the Ace of Spades HQ.

Lost and Found – July 24th Edition

What to remember about July 24th…

• 1832  Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains
• 1847  Mormon pioneers led by Brigham Young arrive in Salt Lake Valley; celebrated as Pioneer Day in Utah
• 1862  8th President Martin Van Buren dies in New York (b. 1782)
• 1866  Tennessee becomes the first state to be re-admitted to the Union after the Civil War
• 1897  American aviator Amelia Earhart is born (d. 1897)
• 1901  American author William “O Henry” Porter is released from prison; begins writing career
• 1911  Expedition led by American archeologist Hiram Bingham discovers ruins of Machu Pichu in Peru
• 1943  Allied air forces begin Operation Gomorrah; at least 40,000 killed in strikes city of Hamburg, Germany, 1 million civilians flee
• 1969  Apollo 11 astronauts splash-down safely in Pacific; returns to Earth the 1st men to Walk on the Moon
• 1974  SCOTUS rules unanimously in United States v. Nixon that White House claims of executive privilege over Watergate tapes were void
• 1998  WWII film Saving Private Ryan opens in theaters
• 2002  Democrat James Traficant is expelled from U.S. House of Representatives after convictions for taking bribes, tax fraud, racketeering