October 29

312 – Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge and stages a grand adventus in the city.

1792 – Mount Hood, Oregon is named after Samuel, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton on sighting the mountain.

1863 – 18 countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross, reversing the Swiss Colors as the logo of the organization in honor of the nation.

1888 – The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.

1901 – Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley, is executed by electrocution.

1914 – The Ottoman Empire enters World War I on the side of Germany by staging naval raids in the Black Sea against Russian ports, with ships bought and crewed by Germans.

1922 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.

1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes again, dropping an additional 30.57 points (11.73%) , for a total drop of 23% in 2 days.

1942 – Leading clergymen and political figures in the United Kingdom hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews.

1953 – British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines Flight 304, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near San Francisco killing all 19 passengers and crew aboard.

1960 – An Arctic-Pacific Company, Curtiss C-46 Commando, chartered to  carry the California Polytechnic university Mustangs football team, crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio, killing 26 of the 48 passengers and crew aboard.

1969 – The first ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

1972 – The 3 surviving perpetrators of the Munich Olympic massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.

1980 – The secret demonstration flight of a C-130 aircraft, specially modified for extremely short landing and takeoff, to be used in a second Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt, ends in a crash landing, with no casualties, at Eglin Air Force Base’s Duke Field, Florida, leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.

1994 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House, and is later convicted of trying to kill U.S. President Bill Clinton.

1998 – Space Shuttle mission STS-95 blasts off with 77-year-old John Glenn on board Shuttle Discovery, making him the oldest person to go into space, at the time, and the only Mission Mercury astronaut to fly on a Shuttle.

2004 – The news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video in which the terrorist Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.

2012 – Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States at category 3 power, killing 148 people and causing $70 billion in damage.

Biden’s Cheat Sheets Attain Comic Book Status, But It’s Not Funny

As a young man, I can remember getting caught reading a Playboy magazine and using the excuse that I was reading an article. Obviously, I was trying to imply that all of those pictures of naked voluptuous women didn’t interest me. Nobody bought my excuse then, and we shouldn’t buy Biden’s now.

Of course, there are major differences in our stories. I was a young guy with raging hormones trying to convince people that it was the written word that interested me and not the pictures. Biden is going in the opposite direction. He can no longer correctly interpret the written word and is now relying on the pictures of reporters he is “allowed” to call on. Another difference worth mentioning is that Biden is the President of the United States, and the supposed leader of the free world.

The fact that the President of the United States has been reduced to looking at pictures is a sad state of affairs. He’s like a child looking at a comic book. What’s even more concerning is that not only do they have to supply him with pictures; they are supplying him with the questions ahead of time.

Calling this a press conference is an insult to the intelligence of every American. These are not press conferences, these are staged events, orchestrated “plays” designed to make what’s left of an incompetent con-artist still appear to be relevant. The main two ingredients of any presidential press conference are never present when Biden wanders onto the stage. The setting is supposed to contain “The Commander in Chief,” something he certainly is not. The leader of the free world is not supposed to do a “Thorazine” shuffle up to a podium, clutching a picture book. It’s also supposed to have an audience of journalists, but those are never present at Biden’s skits either.

Agreeing to have your picture on one of Biden’s placards is the equivalent of turning in your press pass. You are forfeiting your journalistic integrity, if you ever had any, and joining a long line of lemmings walking off the ledge of truth.

This past Wednesday was Biden’s latest embarrassment. At a “skit” with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, an image of Biden holding a card with the names and faces of the reporters who asked questions has been circulating on social media. The list included PBS correspondent Laura Barrón-López, USA Today White House correspondent Joey Garrison, Australia’s Channel 10 Network Political Editor Ashleigh Raper and The Australian’s Jeff Chambers, all of whom were allowed to ask questions during the conference.

In April, at another staged event, Biden was caught with a placard containing the name of Los Angeles Times journalist Courtney Subramanian. Under her name was written “Question #1,” along with a pre-written question. Right on cue, Subramanian was called on first and asked a very similar question to the one on the sheet.

These charades are dangerously being ignored. What is taking place right now before our eyes a very short time ago would have been unthinkable. The only thing that has changed is the manner in which the media ignores them. It’s frightening to consider that the tone of the American public can be swayed by the talking heads that appear on our television sets.

We all know that this is unacceptable for any leader. Yet, like sheep, we just shake our heads and move on with our lives. There is a sense in the country right now that things are so out of control, nothing any individual can do will make a difference. It’s that sense of social hopelessness that allows these things that are so ridiculous to continue.

These are dangerous times, much of which Biden’s incompetence has initiated. He has never been in charge and he’s not in charge of anything now, including his faculties. Still, he remains the front man for a criminal syndicate that is manipulating domestic affairs, foreign policy, and the economy.

This is without a doubt the most vulnerable time in recent American history. A time where politics are drowning individual rights and the President who should be stopping it is an accomplice by being non-existent.

There is much to be accomplished if the United States is ever going to recover from the road that Biden has placed us on. One thing is for certain: we can’t do it by only looking at the pictures; someone has to read the fine print.

Another citizen who always voted for demoncraps asks the Question O’ The Day
“If silence is the answer, why should I ever vote for a Democrat again?”

Thanks, to a Politician Who Did His Job

When the IRS visited my home, Jim Jordan actually did something about it. Why couldn’t I call a Democrat?

A new report about IRS home visits has just been released by the House Weaponization of Government Committee, chaired by Ohio congressman Jim Jordan. It outlines disturbing issues, including confirmation that IRS agents making home visits may come without warning, using aliases, and without informing local enforcement agencies of their presence.

One of the cases outlined is my own. My home was visited by the IRS while I was testifying before Jordan’s Committee about the Twitter Files on March 9th. Sincere thanks are due to Chairman Jordan, whose staff not only demanded and got answers in my case, but achieved a concrete policy change, as IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel announced in July new procedures that would “end most” home visits.

Anticipating criticism for expressing public thanks to a Republican congressman, I’d like to ask Democratic Party partisans: to which elected Democrat should I have appealed for help in this matter? The one who called me a “so-called journalist” on the House floor? The one who told me to take off my “tinfoil hat” and put greater trust in intelligence services? The ones in leadership who threatened me with jail time? I gave votes to the party for thirty years. Which elected Democrat would have performed basic constituent services in my case? Feel free to raise a hand.

If silence is the answer, why should I ever vote for a Democrat again?

Senate passes Kennedy amendment protecting veterans’ Second Amendment rights

The Senate passed an amendment introduced by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., that protects veterans’ Second Amendment rights if the Department of Veterans Affairs steps in to manage their financial benefits.

The Senate voted 53 to 45 Wednesday in approval of the amendment.

“Veterans who sacrificed to defend our Constitution shouldn’t see their own rights rest on the judgment of unelected bureaucrats—but right now, they do,” Kennedy told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.

“My amendment would prevent government workers from unduly stripping veterans of their right to bear arms. Every veteran who bravely serves our country has earned VA benefits, and it’s wrong for the government to punish veterans who get a helping hand to manage those resources.”

Under current law, the Department of Veterans Affairs reports a veteran’s name to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System when they seek help managing their finances in a conservatorship.

“If a veteran who defended this country has to go to the VA and ask for help managing his or her financial affairs, the VA automatically reports that veteran to the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System . . . and that veteran loses his firearm,” Kennedy said on the floor of the Senate Wednesday. “Automatically. No due process.”

The amendment was spearheaded by Kennedy and fellow Republican Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas, who championed the measure in June as one that would “would prevent government workers from unduly stripping veterans of their right to bear arms.”

“All our amendment would do, would be able would be to say: The VA, just because you’ve asked for help with your money, can not automatically take away your firearm or report you to [the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System] unless a judge has ruled that that veteran is a danger to himself or to others,” Kennedy said on the Senate floor Wednesday.

The executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, the gun rights group’s lobbying arm, applauded the amendment’s passage and Sens. Kennedy and Moran for leading the charge on the bill.

“The men and women who volunteer to defend the Constitution deserve to be protected by the same Constitution for which they risk life and limb,” NRA-ILA Executive Director Randy Kozuch exclusively told Fox News Digital Wednesday.

“It is a national embarrassment that anti-gun bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., have gotten away with unilaterally stripping veterans of their rights for decades. On behalf of millions of NRA members, many of whom are veterans, we applaud Senators Kennedy and Moran for leading on this important issue,” Kozuch continued.

Democratic Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy argued against the amendment Wednesday, claiming it would arm “mentally incompetent” veterans and lead to “a death sentence for scores of deeply mentally ill veterans.”

The passage comes after Kennedy said last week that he had struck a deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on the amendment after holding up the bill funding the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and military construction, the Hill previously reported.

“The original position was they wanted me to pull my amendment down, and I said ‘No,’” he told the Hill.

The Biden Administration Reaches New Heights of Reprehensibility
Our national security interests are proving to be too much of a hard sell, so Biden goes with the “war is good for business” route to raise money for war.

Has a single member of the White House staff ever held a dying American soldier in his arms as he bled out, calling for his mother?  Have any of them ever loaded the blood-soaked bodies of his wounded and killed onto a medivac helicopter and then endured sleepless nights thinking about the visits that their families are about to get and the ensuing destruction of their lives and dreams?

These were the first questions that popped into my mind today when I saw the report from Politico that the Biden administration is promoting the war in Ukraine because it is good for American business.

I think that the members of the administration could not have experienced these things because if they had, and if they had one ounce of humanity in them, they could not possibly have promoted war on the “it’s good for business” rationale.

Apparently multiple White House aides have been involved in this abomination because Politico is quite specific: “The White House has been quietly urging lawmakers in both parties to sell the war efforts abroad as a potential economic boom at home.

“Aides have been distributing talking points to Democrats and Republicans who have been supportive of continued efforts to fund Ukraine’s resistance to make the case that doing so is good for American jobs, according to five White House aides and lawmakers familiar with the effort and granted anonymity to speak freely.”

The Biden administration is fearful that it cannot sell the additional aid package on the merits and on national security grounds, because “The talking points are an implicit recognition that the administration has work to do in selling its $106 billion foreign aid supplemental request — and that talking about it squarely under the umbrella of national security interests hasn’t done the trick.

The reprehensibility of these comments cannot be overstated.  Biden’s administration is peopled with a number of “elites” who probably are familiar, at least in a theoretical, intellectual sense, with John Stuart Mill’s dictum, “War is an ugly thing,” ‘but, hey, if it’s good for business, particularly in electoral swing states, let’s go for it.’

I am old enough to remember how the left tarred George Bush, Dick Cheney, and others in the GOP with the argument that they wanted war because it was good for their supporters in big business. I never put any stock in these arguments because I thought that no American could be so evil as to support war as a sop to big business. The Biden administration has changed my mind.

My contempt and revulsion for these people knows no bounds.

Philly store worker shoots, kills robber stuffing pockets with cash,

A worker in a corner store shot and killed an armed robber late Wednesday night, Philadelphia police said.

The robber had cash stuffed in one of his pockets when police officers arrived to the Happy Day Food Market at South 58th Street and Whitby Avenue in the Kingsessing neighborhood just after 10:30 p.m., Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.

The man — believed to be in his late 20s — was found on the floor behind the counter bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds to his chest and torso, Small said.

Medics pronounced the man dead on the scene minutes later.

The man had entered the store partially masked and holding a gun.

“He pointed it at one of the employees, then went behind the counter and point-of-gun started taking money from the cash register,” Small said.

“That’s when the store employee who was also behind the counter pulled his weapon and fired several shots.”

You could “clearly see that at least one of the 28-year-old’s pockets is stuffed with money,” Small said. Investigators believe that cash and other money seen on the ground was stolen from the cash register by the gunshot victim.

“Preliminary information it appears to be self-defense,” since the robber was armed with a gun, Small said.

Investigators recovered the guns of both the dead robber and store worker, Small said.

The store worker remained on the scene and cooperated with investigators, police said. Others also cooperated with the investigation.

Police looked over interior store surveillance cameras to corroborate witness testimonies, investigators said.

The store had been robbed in the past, Small said.

US Halts Exports Of Most Civilian Firearms And Ammunition For 90 Days

Now the US has halted the exports of a lot of civilian firearms and ammunition for a total of 90 days citing national security. It has been claimed that the halts are going to cover most of the guns and ammunition that can be purchased in the United States gun store. This news has been officially claimed by Johanna Reeves who is a lawyer who specializes in export controls and firearms with the law firm Reeves and Dola in Washington, D.C. This is a very shocking announcement which has been made by a lawyer. Now to know everything that the lawyer has shared with us, read this entire article without missing anything.

According to the Commerce Department, the United States has officially stopped issuing export licenses for most civilian firearms and ammunition for a total of 90 days for all non-government users. Commerce Department officially claimed this statement on 27th October 2023, Friday, citing national security and foreign policy interests. The Commerce Department (CD) has not given more details regarding the pause as it also includes shotguns and optical sights. However, the CD has claimed that the review is going to assess the risk of the firearms that are being diverted to the activities and entities that have promoted regional instability, fueled criminal activities, and violated human rights.

On Friday, The Commerce Department declined to give any statement on the posting on its website. A famous lawyer who specializes in export control and firearms with the law firm Reeves and Dola in Washington, D.C., Johanna Reeves has officially given a statement in which she has claimed that the halt covers most of the ammunition and funds that can be purchased from the United States gun stores. She has also claimed that she has never seen the Commerce Department taking a sweeping action like this. They might have some individual country policies but there is nothing like this.

According to the experts, the license exports for Israel Ukraine, and some other close allies are going to be exempted from the temporary halt in the exports. The US companies that sell the firearms are Strum Ruger & Co., Vista Outdoor, and Smith & Wesson Brands they might face a big impact because of the ban on exports. The exporters can submit, the license requests at the time of the pause but the requests are going to be held without the action till the pause is lifted.

So the guy merely went to a place no one had thought to search yet. It’s like a recital by different performers of the same piece to see the variations on the theme.

To paraphrase Thufir Hawat;
The shooter legally buys a gun or two, then later, enters someplace familiar, randomly kills people, then usually either commits suicide at his discretion of place and time or engages law enforcement to commit ‘Suicide by Cop’.
It follows the familiar mass murderer pattern.

Maine mass killing suspect found dead, ending search that put entire state on edge

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — The Army reservist who opened fire in a bowling alley and then at a bar in Lewiston, Maine, killing 18 people, was found dead Friday from a self-inflicted gunshot, ending an intensive two-day search that had the state on edge.

Robert Card, a firearms instructor who grew up in the area, was found dead in nearby Lisbon Falls, Gov. Janet Mills said at a Friday night news conference.

“Like many people I’m breathing a sigh of relief tonight knowing that Robert Card is no longer a threat to anyone,” Mills said.

April Stevens, a Lewiston resident who knew one of the victims, said she was relieved to learn that the “monster and coward” who inflicted so much pain was no longer a danger.

“I’m relieved but not happy,” she said. “There was too much death. Too many people were hurt. Relieved, yes, happy, no.”

Maine Department of Public Safety Commissioner Mike Sauschuck said Card was found at 7:45 p.m. near the Androscoggin River, about 8 miles (13 kilometers) southeast of where the second shooting occurred Wednesday evening. He declined to divulge the location but an official told The Associated Press the body was at a recycling center from which Card had been fired.

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October 28

306 – Maxentius is proclaimed Roman co-emperor, with Constantine, Severus, and Maximian in the West, and Galerius in the East.

312 – Constantine defeats Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge over the river Tiber to become the sole emperor of the Western Roman empire.

969 – The Byzantine Empire retakes the city of Antioch from Hamdanid Arabs

1344 – The army of the first Smyrniote crusade retakes the lower town of Smyrna from Aydınid Turks.

1492 – Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.

1520 – Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet finishes transiting the straight, later named after him, and reaches the Pacific Ocean.

1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, later called Harvard University.

1726 – Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels is published.

1776 – Following General Washington’s retreat from New York, British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill at White Plains, New York from the Continental Army.

1793 – Eliphalet Remington is born in Suffield, Connecticut.

1886 – President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

1919 – Under authority of the 18th amendment, Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Wilson’s veto with Prohibition to begin the following January.

1922 – Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.

1929 – The New York Stock Exchange drops another 38.33 points (12.82%) continuing the economic crisis that started on the 24th.

1942 – The Alaska Highway reaches and connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.

1948 – Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.

1962 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis.

2007 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina.

2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X test flight mission for its manned Constellation program.

2014 – A rocket carrying NASA’s Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia.

2018 – Jair Messias Bolsonaro is elected President of Brazil

2022 – Musician Jerry Lee Lewis dies at his home in Nesbit, Mississippi, age 87.

Georgia Lieutenant Gov Wants To Pay Teachers $10,000 Annually To Carry Guns On Campuses

Georgia Republican Lieutenant Gov. Burt Jones unveiled legislation on Wednesday that would annually pay school teachers $10,000 to carry a gun at school in an effort to increase safety on campuses.

“One of the most critical duties we have as public servants is to protect those who are most vulnerable – including all of Georgia’s children,” Jones said in a news release.

Jones said the legislation would use state funding to ensure Georgia’s school systems and teachers have the option to receive proper firearms training and certification. The plan also calls for stricter guidelines for existing school safety plans and to distribute more money to schools that hire school resource officers with police certification, The Associated Press reported.

“We feel like this is the best way to prepare faculty, but also prepare law enforcement and the system however we can,” Jones reportedly said at Austin Road Elementary School in Winder on Wednesday, adding the state should take more “proactive” measures to prevent school shootings.

Republican State Sens Max Burns and Clint Dixon joined the Lt. Gov. in crafting the 2024 legislative priority to increase school safety, contending that protecting children and their classrooms is their first responsibility.

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