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Thursday, February 4, 2016 — 3
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Chicken Little Chuckie
Schumer: America’s
disease-fighting phony
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Zika virus found in North Texas
The Zika virus has made its debut in Zika has caused a surge in babies bom ities during dusk and dawn hours when
or rather, won't
or
Drain: Remove all standing water in
have not definitively proven
that
Today in History
Today is Thursday, Feb. 4, the 35th
That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs."
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I know I'm not the only one who sniggered at the specta-
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
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fence.
In 1962, a rare conjunction of the
On this date:
In 1783, Britain's King George III
Today's Highlight in History:
On Feb. 4, 1945, President Franklin
bitten by mosquitoes:
DEET: Whenever you’re outside,
Maliki, said he would return half of his
annual salary to the public treasury in a
symbolic gesture that appeared calcu-
lated to insulate him against anti-gov-
ernment unrest spreading across the
Middle East.
One year ago: As Boston continued
to dig out from more than 3 feet of
snow in the past week, the New
England Patriots were finally honored
with a parade celebrating their fourth
Super Bowl win. Some fans defied
police warnings and watched the
parade from atop giant piles of snow.
Today's Birthdays: Actor William
Phipps is 94. Former Argentinian
President Isabel Peron is 85. Actor
Gary Conway is 80. Movie director
George A. Romero is 76. Actor John
Schuck is 76. Rock musician John
Steel (The Animals) is 75. Singer
Florence LaRue (The Fifth Dimension)
is 74. Former Vice President Dan
Quayle is 69. Rock singer Alice
Cooper is 68. Actor Michael Beck is
67. Actress Lisa Eichhorn is 64.
Football Hall-of-Famer Lawrence
Taylor is 57. Actress Pamelyn Ferdin is
57. Rock singer Tim Booth is 56. Rock
musician Henry Bogdan is 55. Country
singer Clint Black is 54. Rock musi-
cian Noodles (The Offspring) is 53.
Country musician Dave Buchanan
(Yankee Grey) is 50. Actress Gabrielle
Anwar is 46. Actor Rob Corddry is 45.
Singer David (dah-VEED') Garza is
45. Actor Michael Goorjian is 45. TV
personality Nicolle Wallace (TV: for-
merly co-host "The View") is 44.
Olympic gold medal boxer Oscar De
La Hoya is 43. Rock musician Rick
Burch (Jimmy Eat World) is 41. Singer
Natalie Imbruglia (em-BROO'-lee-ah)
is 41. Rapper Cam'ron is 40. Rock
singer Gavin DeGraw is 39. Olympic
gold medal gymnast-turned-singer
Carly Patterson is 28.
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These precautions are also recom-
mended to prevent exposure to West
Nile virus.
Dallas and Denton counties have
but we will say it terrific public health departments that
stay on top of threats to our health and
safety. Out of an abundance of caution,
Hillary Clinton
m i
Palm Springs, California, home at age
67.
In 1997, a civil jury in Santa
Monica, California, found O.J.
Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-
wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her
friend, Ronald Goldman.
In 2004, the Massachusetts high
court declared that gay couples were
entitled to nothing less than marriage,
and that Vermont-style civil unions
would not suffice. The social network-
ing website Facebook had its begin-
nings as Harvard student Mark
Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook."
In 2005, Actor and civil rights
activist Ossie Davis died in Miami
Beach, Florida, at age 87.
In 2010, the first National Tea Party
Convention opened in Nashville.
Ten years ago: Thousands of
Syrians enraged by caricatures of the
prophet Muhammad torched the
Danish and Norwegian embassies in
Damascus. In Gaza, Palestinians
marched through the streets, storming
European buildings and burning
German and Danish flags. A stampede
at a Manila stadium resulted in 74
deaths. Thousands of mourners poured
into the Georgia Capitol rotunda to pay
tribute to civil rights activist Coretta
Scott King. Feminist author Betty
Friedan died on her 85th birthday in
Washington, D.C. Troy Aikman,
Reggie White, Warren Moon, Harry
Carson, John Madden and Rayfield
Wright were elected to the Pro Football
Hall of Fame.
Five years ago: President Barack
Obama appealed to Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak to focus on his legacy
and begin an orderly process to relin-
quish the power he'd held for 30 years;
however, Obama stopped short of call-
ing for Mubarak's immediate resigna-
tion. Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-
“an
extraordinary event” that threatens
large chunks of South America and,
other Environmental Protection possibly, North America.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could go
one day without having to worry about
some new existential threat? In 2016,
that is apparently too much to hope for.
but and around your home. Reprinted from the Denton Record
Dusk & Dawn: Limit outdoor activ- Chronicle
Latin America's Zika virus is the latest undocumented
immigrant to hit our shores, but have no fear. Self-appointed
Zika Warrior Prince Charles Schumer has declared that he is
here to stop it.
The New York Democrat has a "three-point plan" of
attack to build a "firewall" that will prevent an outbreak of the
mosquito-bome illness from spreading across our mainland.
He's armed with big charts and jabby index fingers, too.
Allons!
Five cases of the Zika virus have been identified in the
Empire State alone. The CDC says a total of 31 Americans in
11 states and Washington, D.C., have been identified as car-
riers who brought the miserable disease in from abroad.
The feds' don't worry-be-happy health bureaucrats
emphasize that these are "isolated" incidents that can be con-
tained by simply avoiding travel to hotspots like Brazil,
where the disease has been linked to an explosion of micro-
cephaly among an estimated 4,000 babies.
But on Tuesday, Dallas County, Texas, reported the first
case in a resident based here in the continental U.S. who con-
tracted the condition "through sexual contact with someone
who had visited a Zika-endemic country," according to health North Texas. with brain defects and abnormally mosquitoes are most active,
officials. Dallas County Health and Human small heads. Most of the evidence
When people in Washington tell you not to worry, be Services issued a news release Tuesday comes from outbreaks in Brazil and
announcing the first confirmed case of French Polynesia in 2013 and 2014.
Zika, a mosquito-bome virus that we Pregnant women should be especial-
cle of the Senate's leading Gang of Eight immigration expan- now learn can be transmitted through ly cautious,
sionists now playing Chicken Little about global communi- sexual contact. Needless to say — 1
cable diseases. The health department does not anyway — no one should have unpro-
short-term humanitarian program. As usual, "temporary"
means permanent. Example? In 2014, the White House
extended TPS status and employment permits for an estimat- D. Roosevelt opened the Winter
ed 90,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans here illegally "for an Olympic Games at Lake Placid.
additional 18 months, effective Jan. 6, 2015, through July 5, In 1941, the United Service
2016." Who are these TPS winners? They've been here since Organizations (USO) came into exis-
1998 — when Hurricane Mitch hit their homeland. That was
18 years ago. Their "temporary" status has been renewed
more than a dozen times since the Clinton administration first sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth,
bestowed it. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn occurred.
One of the biggest champions of the fraud-riddled, illegal In 1974, newspaper heiress Patricia
immigration-incentivizing TPS program? Chicken Little Hearst, 19, was kidnapped in Berkeley,
Chuckie Schumer. California, by the radical Symbionese
The Beltway posturing of open-borders engineers is Liberation Army.
enough to make you sick. In 1976, more than 23,000 people
Michelle Malkin is author of the new book "Who Built died when a severe earthquake struck
Guatemala with a magnitude of 7.5,
according to the U.S. Geological
Survey.
In 1983, pop singer-musician Karen
Carpenter died in Downey, California,
at age 32.
In 1987, pianist Liberace died at his
sexual contact.
The health department does not anyway
Newsflash: The sky has already fallen. The bam door can't specify exactly where the patient works tected sex with anyone who has trav-
be closed by those scrambling in front or lives. We hope it’s nowhere near eled in Brazil or French Polynesia. And
of the cameras to grab headlines about the latest panic du Denton County. We are not aware of it’s time to refresh our memory of “the the World Health Organization this
jour. The fundamental policy dissonance is lost on tin-eared any cases that have been reported to the 4 D’s” to reduce the chance of being week called the spread of Zika
Schumer: While he makes theatrical grand gestures to stop Denton County Health Department.
foreign viruses from entering through the front porch, he and There are currently no licensed
his amnesty-promoting pals in both parties have left the side treatments or vaccine for Zika. Unlike use insect repellents that contain DEET
and back entries swinging wide open for illegal immigration. West Nile virus, which can be fatal and
People from Central and South America, ground zero for is also spread by mosquitoes, Zika does Agency-approved repellents and follow
Zika and other infectious diseases including tuberculosis, not make people very sick. In some cas- instructions,
dengue, Chagas, Chikungunya and schistosomiasis, make up
nearly 15 percent of the illegal immigrant population in the
U.S.
es, no symptoms are reported. Dress: Wear long, loose and light-
The problem is that medical colored clothing outside.
researchers with the World Health
They flooded the border in record numbers in 2013 as Organization strongly suspect
Schumer and company were pushing mass amnesty on
Capitol Hill — and as President Obama was implementing
blanket deportation freezes in advance of his executive ille-
gal immigrant waiver policies.
The Democrat-manufactured border surge ushered in a
resurgence of tropical diseases across the Southwest.
Meanwhile, laborers here illegally and amnestied migrants
who have never been screened for disease obtained Obama day of 2016. There are 331 days left in
work permits to hold low-wage jobs in places like Chipotle, the year,
which shut down scores of its restaurants over the past three
months after two separate E. coli outbreaks.
Now comes news from Texas governor Greg Abbott and D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister
Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, that the Obama Department of Winston Churchill and Soviet leader
Homeland Security plans to cut back aerial monitoring of the Josef Stalin began a wartime confer-
southem border by 50 percent. The Texas Tribune reports that ence at Yalta,
the cutback coincides with a new surge in illegal crossings of
the Rio Grande.
"From October to December of 2015," the paper reported, proclaimed a formal cessation of hos-
"about 10,560 unaccompanied minors entered Texas illegal- tilities in the American Revolutionary
ly through the Rio Grande Valley sector of the U.S. Border War.
Patrol. That marks a 115 percent increase over the same time In 1789, electors chose George
frame in 2014." With spring just around the comer, those Washington to be the first president of
numbers will swell again. the United States.
And the illegal immigrant border surge will only be In 1861, delegates from six southern
strengthened (and public health risks increased) if Obama states that had recently seceded from
gives in to left-wing immigrant groups lobbying the White the Union met in Montgomery,
House to extend "Temporary Protected Status" en masse to Alabama, to form the Confederate
upwards of 750,000 Central Americans purportedly fleeing States of America.
violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. In 1919, Congress established the
TPS is a special amnesty program originally intended as a U.S. Navy Distinguished Service
Medal and the Navy Cross.
In 1932, New York Gov. Franklin
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