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Quotes of the Month
In the course of my
official duties, I have received information from multiple US government
officials that the president of the United States is using the power of his
office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 US election.
~The whistleblower
complaint, declassified Sept. 26th
Numbers of the Month
A new survey was conducted 09/27 to 09/29 after the White House released a rough
transcript of President Trump urging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to
launch an investigation into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his
son Hunter. Trump is charged with using the power of his office to solicit
interference from a foreign country in the 2020 election. The interference
includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of
the president's main domestic political rivals. The White House moved to "lock
down" the transcript of the phone call and removed it from a computer system
typically used to store such call records and put it in a more secure system.
The attorney for the intelligence community whistleblower whose complaint fueled
the House inquiry into impeachment says he has serious concerns that Trump's
calls that the whistleblower be publicly identified has put his client in
danger. And, in fact, the Washington Examiner, a conservative political
website, reported last week that two right-wing activists had offered $50,000
for "credible information corroborating" the whistleblower's identity.
As
more information has emerged about the president’s actions regarding Ukraine,
public opinion about impeachment is showing a shift. The percentage of voters
who think the president should be impeached and removed from office has climbed.
While voters overall are split on that question, there’s less hesitancy over the
impeachment inquiry itself as 55% approve of it. At least 226 lawmakers in the
House (218 votes are needed to impeach Trump in the chamber) support moving
forward with impeachment. At least 225 Democrats and independent Representative
Justin Amash have favored the inquiry. If the chamber votes for impeachment, the
Republican-controlled Senate would then decide whether to remove Trump from
office or exonerate him.
Now, the Justice
Department has confirmed that Trump also sought help from Australian Prime
Minister Scott Morrison in investigating the origins of former special counsel
Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 US
presidential campaign.
Then and Now
October is National
Disability Employment Awareness Month.
10/01/1800 -
Spain ceded Louisiana to France in a secret treaty.
10/01/1856 - The
first installment of Gustave Flaubert's scandalous novel Madame Bovary
was published.
10/01/1908 -
Henry Ford introduced the Model-T automobile.
10/01/1968 - The
cult horror movie Night of the Living Dean had its world premiere in
Pittsburgh.
10/02/1835 - The
first battle of the Texas Revolution took place as American settlers defeated
Mexican cavalry near the Guadalupe River.
10/02/1950 -
Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schulz, was first published in nine
newspapers.
10/02/1967 -
Thurgood Marshall became an associate justice of the Supreme Court, making him
the first black appointed to the nation's highest court.
10/03/1863 -
President Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
10/03/1895 -
Steven Crane's The Red Badge of Courage was published. It was the first
novel to highlight an ordinary soldier's experience in the Civil War.
10/03/1929 - The
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom
of Yugoslavia.
10/03/1990 - West
Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the
creation of a new unified country.
10/03/1995 - A
jury found OJ Simpson innocent of the slayings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron
Goldman.
10/04/1957 -
Leave it to Beaver premiered on CBS.
10/04/1957 - The
Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made
satellite, into orbit.
10/04/2019 -
Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi – Christian
10/05/1921 -
Radio broadcast the World Series for the first time.
10/05/1953 - Earl
Warren became the 14th chief justice of the Supreme Court.
10/06/1973 - War
erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom
Kippur holiday.
10/06/1981 -
Extremists shot and killed President Anwar Sadat of Egypt while reviewing a
military parade.
10/06/2019 -
Intergeneration Day
10/07/1777 - The
second Battle of Saratoga began during the American Revolution. British forces
under General John Burgoyne surrendered 10 days later.
10/07/1949 - The
Republic of East Germany was formed.
10/07/2002 - In a
somber address to the nation, President George W. Bush labeled Saddam Hussein a
"homicidal dictator" and said the threat from Iraq was "unique and imminent."
10/07/2019 -
Child Health Day
10/08/1066 -
William the Conqueror invaded England to claim the English throne.
10/08/2019 -
Dussehra (Vijaya Dashami) – Hinduism
10/08/2019 - Yom
Kippur (Atonement) begins at sundown – Judaism
10/09/1635 -
Religious dissident Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay
Colony.
10/09/1888 - The
public was first admitted to the Washington Monument.
10/09/1967 -
Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed while attempting to
incite revolution in Bolivia.
10/09/2019 - Leif
Erikson Day
10/10/1886 - The
tuxedo dinner jacket made its American debut at the autumn ball in Tuxedo Park
NY.
10/10/1911 -
Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew China's Manchu dynasty.
10/10/1943 -
Chiang Kai-Chek took the oath of office as president of China.
10/10/1973 - Vice
President Spiro T. Agnew pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax
evasion and resigned his office.
10/11/1811 - The
first steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana, commenced operation between
NYC and Hoboken.
10/11/1890 - The
Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington DC.
10/11/1932 - The
1st American political telecast took place as the Democratic National Committee
sponsored a program from a CBS television studio in New York.
10/11/2019 -
National Coming Out Day
10/12/1492 -
Christopher Columbus arrived with his expedition in the present-day Bahamas.
10/12/1870 -
General Robert E. Lee died in Lexington VA at the age of 63.
10/12/1973 -
President Nixon nominated House minority leader Gerald Ford to succeed Spiro
Agnew as vice president.
10/13/54CE -
Roman emperor Claudius I died after his wife, Agrippina, poisoned him.
10/13/1845 -
Texas ratified its first US state constitution.
10/13/1960 -
Richard Nixon and John Kennedy participated in the third televised debate of
their presidential campaign.
10/13/2019 -
Sukkot begins at sunset and ends on the 20th at nightfall – Judaism
10/14/1066 - The
Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of
Hastings.
10/14/1947 -
Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell X1 rocket
plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California.
10/14/1964 -
Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize.
10/14/2019 -
Columbus Day
10/14/2019 -
Pavarana – Buddhism
10/15/1917 - A
French firing squad executed Mata Hari, a Dutch dancer who had spied for the
Germans, outside Paris.
10/15/1976 - In
the first debate of its kind between vice-presidential nominees, Democrat Walter
Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced off in Houston.
10/15/1991 - The
Senate narrowly confirmed (52-48) the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the
Supreme Court.
10/16/1793 -
During the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded.
10/16/1859 -
Abolitionist John Brown led a group of about 20 men in a raid on Harper's Ferry.
10/16/1916 -
Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in NYC.
10/16/1962 - The
Cuban missile crisis began as President Kennedy learned that reconnaissance
photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
10/16/1978 - The
College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church chose Cardinal Karol Wojtyla
to be the new pope. He took the name John Paul II.
10/16/1995 - The
Million Man March took place in Washington DC, led by Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan.
10/16/2019 -
Boss’s Day
10/16/2019 -
Dictionary Day … the birthday of Noah Webster
10/17/1933 -
Albert Einstein arrived in the US as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
10/17/1945 -
Colonel Juan Peron staged a coup, becoming absolute ruler of Argentina.
10/17/1978 -
President Carter signed a bill restoring US citizenship to Confederate President
Jefferson Davis.
10/18/1685 - King
Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had established
legal toleration of France's Protestant population, the Huguenots.
10/18/1767 - The
boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason-Dixon Line, was agreed
upon.
10/18/1867 - The
US took formal possession of Alaska from Russia.
10/19/1765 - The
Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a declaration of rights and
liberties.
10/19/1944 - The
Navy announced that it would allow black women into the WAVES (Women Accepted
for Volunteer Emergency Service).
10/19/1950 - UN
forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
10/19/1960 - The
US imposed an embargo on exports to Cuba covering all commodities except medical
supplies and certain food products.
10/20/1803 - The
US Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
10/20/1947 - The
House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist
influence and infiltration within the American motion picture industry.
10/20/2019 -
Installation of Holy Scriptures as Guru Granth Sahib Ji – Sikhism
10/20/2019 -
Shemini Atzeret begins at sunset – Judaism
10/21/1797 - The
US Navy frigate Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides,
launched in Boston's harbor.
10/21/1945 -
Women in France voted for the first time.
10/21/2019 -
Simchat Torah begins at sunset – Judaism
10/22/1836 - Sam
Houston became the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of
Texas.
10/22/1962 -
President Kennedy announced an air and naval blockade of Cuba following the
discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.
10/23/1983 - In
Lebanon, a suicide truck bombing at Beirut International Airport killed 241 US
Marines and sailors. A nearly simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58
paratroopers.
10/23/1987 - The
US Senate rejected (58-42) the Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork.
10/24/1901 - Anna
Edson Taylor, a 43-year-old widow, became the first person to survive going over
Niagara Falls in a barrel.
10/24/1939 -
Nylon stockings were sold publicly for the first time in Wilmington DE.
10/24/1940 - The
40-hour workweek went into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
10/24/1945 - The
United Nations officially came into existence as its charter took effect.
10/24/1962 - The
US blockade of Cuba during the missile crisis officially began under a
proclamation signed by President Kennedy.
10/24/2019 -
United Nations Day
10/25/1400 -
Author Geoffrey Chaucer died in London of unknown causes.
10/25/1854 - The
Charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War.
10/25/1962 -
Author John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in literature.
10/26/1825 - The
Erie Canal opened in upstate New York, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson
River.
10/26/1881 - The
Gunfight at the OK Corral took place in Tombstone AZ as Wyatt Earp, his two
brothers and Doc Holliday confronted and killed three members of Ike Clanton's
gang. Earp's brothers were wounded.
10/26/1967 - The
Shah of Iran crowned himself and his queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne.
10/27/1787 - The
first of the Federalist Papers was published in a New York paper.
10/27/1947 -
You Bet Your Life, starring Groucho Marx, premiered on ABC Radio.
10/27/2019 -
Marine Corps Marathon (Washington DC)
10/27/2019 -
Diwali begins – Hinduism
10/28/1636 -
Harvard College opened in Massachusetts.
10/28/1886 -
President Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of
France, in New York Harbor.
10/28/1962 -
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the US that he had ordered the
dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
10/29/1929 -
Black Tuesday descended on the New York Stock Exchange as prices
collapsed amid panic selling and thousands of investors lost everything.
10/29/1966 - The
National Organization for Women was founded.
10/29/2019 -
Birth of the Bab – Baha’i
10/30/1938 - The
radio play, War of the Worlds, starring Orson Welles, aired on CBS.
10/30/1945 - The
US government announced the end of shoe rationing.
10/30/1995 - By a
vote of 50.6% to 49.4%, federalists prevailed over separatists in Quebec in a
secession referendum.
10/30/2019 -
Chanté-messes (through tomorrow) – Voudon
10/30/2019 -
Birthday of Baha'u'llah – Baha’i
10/31/1517 -
Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace
church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
10/31/1892 - Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was published.
10/31/1984 - Two
Sikh security guards assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
10/31/2019 -
Reformation Day
10/31/2019 -
Samhain – Wicca, Celtic
10/31/2019 -
Hallowe’en
Online Resource Links
What ISIS Really Wants: The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths.
It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is
a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy
and for how to stop it |
ISIS
Claims Responsibility, Calling Paris Attacks First of the Storm |
Syria Iraq: The Islamic State Militant Group
| Isis:
The Inside Story |
Frontline: The Rise of ISIS |
Council on Foreign Relations: A Primer on ISIS Iraq
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Cracks in ISIS Are Becoming More Clear
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How ISIS’ Attacks Harm the Middle East
What it’s like to live on $2 a day in the United States (PDF)
Check out
Today's Front Pages. Each day, you can see the front pages of more than 800
newspapers from around the world in their original, unedited form.
Whether or not you noticed, the earth's population passed 7 billion a while back.
You might enjoy NPR's wonderful video,
Visualizing How a Population Grows to 7 Billion.
Check out the St. Louis Fed's presentation
The Financial Crisis: What Happened?. The original video is no longer available
but you can view the power point presentation.
Want to take a survey but not sure how many responses to collect? This
Survey Calculator gives you the number for any given population size and desired
confidence level. A reverse calculator lets you enter characteristics of an existing
survey and gives the confidence interval (±X%) to apply to the results. The Survey
System site, sponsored by a survey software company, also gives clear explanations
of statistical significance, survey design and related concepts. Also check out
20 Questions a Journalist (and You, too!) Should Ask About Poll Results.
PBS's
30 Second Candidate allows you to view more political ads than you ever knew
existed. Choose the Historical Timeline link to see how political ads have changed
over the years. Start with the infamous
Daisy Ad that Lyndon Johnson used against Barry Goldwater. Click on Watch
Johnson ads. Then click on either the QuickTime link or the Real Video link
next to Daisy.
Check out
Political Compass. The site does a good job of explaining political ideologies
(although with definitions different from those I use) and gives you a chance to
discover your own political philosophy.
Law Library of Congress: North Korea: Collection of links to websites on North
Korean government, politics and law. Includes legal guides, country studies and
links to constitutions and branches of government (where available).
Council on Foreign Relations: North Korea: Background, articles and opinion
pieces about North Korea government and politics. Many of the articles focus on
North Korea's nuclear program. From the Council on Foreign Relations, "an independent
membership organization and a nonpartisan think tank and publisher."
State of the Union (SOTU): The site uses an interactive timeline to provide
a visual representation of prominent words in presidential State of the Union addresses
by displaying significant words as "determined by comparing how frequently the word
occurs in the document to how frequently it appears throughout the entire body of
SOTU addresses." The Appendices section describes the statistical methods
used. Also includes the full text of addresses.
Small Town Papers: This site provides access
to scanned images of recent issues of dozens of small town newspapers from throughout
the United States. Newspapers are updated periodically, 2-3 weeks after publication.
The site also includes a searchable archive (of articles, photos and advertisements),
which covers different periods for each paper, some as far back as the 1890s. Access
to the archives requires free registration.
This website serves as a centralized location to learn about the
Congressional Research Service and search for CRS
reports that have been released to the public by members of Congress. (CRS Reports
do not become public until a member of Congress releases the report.) Features a
searchable database with more than 8,000 reports, a list of recently released reports,
other collections of CRS reports and a FAQ about CRS.
Stem Cell Research: See the official NIH resource for
Stem Cell Research. In 2005, NOVA aired an overview of
The Stem Cell Issue.
Instances of the Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798 - 2004: This report lists hundreds of instances in which the United States has used its
armed forces abroad in situations of military conflict or potential conflict or
for other than normal peacetime purposes. It was compiled in part from various older
lists and is intended primarily to provide a rough survey of past US military ventures
abroad, without reference to the magnitude of the given instance noted.
Government
Product Recalls
Homeland Security Knowledge
Base
If you're worried about retirement, try some of the following sites.
IRS Tax Information for Retirement Plans
Social Security Retirement Planner
Retirement Planning Resources from Smart Money
Keeping the Shi'ites Straight Based on the opinion
that no story has been more confusing for the Western news media to cover in postwar
Iraq than the politics of the country's Shi'ite majority, this article provides
a basic outline of Shi'ite religious history. Discusses the Sadr family (Muhammad
Baqir as-Sadr, Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, and Muqtada as-Sadr), Muhammad
Baqir al-Hakim and other figures.
This commercial site presents brief information about dozens of
Black Inventors from the United States. Some entries
include portraits and images. Also includes a searchable timeline covering 1721-1988.
Does not include bibliographic information.
Annenberg Political Fact Check: This site describes
itself as a nonpartisan, nonprofit, consumer advocate for voters that aims to reduce
the level of deception and confusion in US politics. The site provides original
articles, with summaries and sources, analyzing factual accuracy in TV ads, debates,
speeches, interviews and news releases. Searchable. From the Annenberg Public Policy
Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
White House Tapes: The President Calling: Three
of America's most compelling presidents -- Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon -- bugged
their White House offices and tapped their telephones. In this documentary project,
American Radio Works eavesdrops on presidential telephone calls to hear how each
man used one-on-one politics to shape history. Includes audio, a transcript of the
documentary and background information on each president and the tapes.
The State of State and Local Finances: New studies afford a state-by-state
or city-by-city analysis of fiscal well being.
The Year of Living Dangerously: While leaders in a growing number of states
appear to believe they're serving the public good by squeezing government dry, there's
little question that minimizing management carries a host of dangers that directly
affect the lives of citizens.
Government Debt by Country Map: Shows countries' general government gross
debt as a percentage of GDP in 2012.
First Amendment Library: Provides info on Supreme
Court First Amendment jurisprudence, including rulings, arguments, briefs,
historical material, commentary and press coverage.
Community Service
If you need a presentation or workshop for your group,
use this
Community link
or the link at the top of the page.
The link will take you to a list of the topics I currently have available.
To schedule a date or for more information, feel free to contact me at
dramyglenn@gmail.com
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