What Do We Want? $15/hr. When Do We Want It? NOW!!!

If you don't watch the Tucker Carlson Show on the FOX network, or didn't happen to catch this particular show, then you'll want to check this out. For those not wishing to read such a large quantity of text because it just hurts their brains, I'm also including the video link here. Take your pick. 

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Tucker Carslon Show – May 29, 2017

Interview w/ Mike Rowe, ie: $15/hr. Minimum wage issue

Carlson – Well, two days ago, protesters amassed outside a McDonald's Shareholders' meeting in Chicago. They demanded the company started paying their roughly 850,000 workers in the U.S. a $15.00 minimum wage. Do the protesters really want to get their wish? What would happen if they did? Working at McDonald's is not that complicated. So would a $15.00 wage drive further automation and lead to mass layoffs?

No one really knows, but that's a concern and we brought it up with “Dirty Jobs” host Mike Rowe. Here was his view.

Mike Rowe, thanks for joining us.

Rowe – I wouldn't miss it.

Carlson – So protesters are gathered outside McDonald's across the country demanding higher wages.

Rowe – Huh!

Carlson – And so, on the one hand, I'm always sympathetic to people who want to get paid more, especially for jobs that are hard and long. On the other hand, at what point does McDonald's decide we're replacing you with automation, with robots?

Rowe – Probably this point... or probably soon. I don't have a crystal ball. I mean, but everybody I've talked to is going back again and again, to the uh, well, they call it the threat of automation. I mean the headlines that I'm seeing are how computers are going to “steal” our jobs. And, I don't know if it really makes sense to anthropomorphize it, like, I don't think computers are going around, like, twirling their mustache and laughing maniacally. It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen as surely as the Internet messed up the TV, and the TV messed up cinema, and cinema disrupted radio, and radio messed up the newspapers, and Kindle screwed up the booksellers. And so it goes. But, I don't think it's anything to panic over. I think it's going to happen, but as it relates to the minimum wage conversation, and as it relates to labor and management, the only thing I can add to it is, with my foundation we try and remind people that learning a skill that's actually in demand, negates the whole conversation. If you can weld, if you can... if you're a plumber, if you're an electrician, if you're willing to learn a skill that has a pre-existing demand, then you don't have to constantly negotiate and talk about a few extra dollars in order to stay in a position. But frankly, I don't know how advance in that kind of thinking. [Just demanding a raise because the cost of living is constantly going up.] So our philosophy is pretty simple. Um... if you have a skill and that skill is in demand you can work where you want, and you can write your own ticket. If you don't, you're gonna have to hope the next negotiation works out and the next minimum wage position falls favorably in your direction; which strikes me as fatalistic.

Carlson – That's such a common sense point, and you...

Rowe – No, I can't help it, I can't...

Carlson – No, but it makes an inherent and unassailable sense. So, why aren't our schools teaching some percentage of our kids to do the same thing?

Rowe – As we've discussed before, I think we've got it in our heads that there's a category of good jobs and bad jobs, that there's a category of good education and bad education – we don't call it that, we call it “higher education” and “alternative education” - but look, it's fun with the language, right? But the minute you categorize an entire vertical of education as alternative, you might as well call it subordinate. So the message starts early on. If you go to a trade school, you're going to have to settle for a “second class” job, or some kind of consolation prize. And so parents don't want that for their kids, guidance counselors don't want that for their schools. So, all of these opportunities that today constitute 5.6 million available jobs – open jobs – that are sitting there – they don't get any press, the don't get any love because somewhere back in the reptilian part of our brain we believe they're sub-standard. That's dumb...

Carlson – But they pay well. What I'm confused by is so many of our young people end up in what they're calling the “sharing economy”, where a few billionaires in Silicon Valley exploit them for nothing, to rent their apartment out of a B&B, drive your car for Uber, these are jobs that pay many times that, right? Or am I missing it?

Rowe – Well, look it's hard, it's tempting to take a cookie cutter approach to everything and put... what's a news anchor get? Do you work in Des Moines? Well, same thing with welding. You know, if you've got your certificate to weld and you're in Oklahoma you might start at $45,000 a year. A year later, you might be in say, western North Dakota making $120,000, or in the Gulf Coast doing better than that. The skill goes where you go, and this is another thing schools don't teach. If you have a skill that's in demand, it's innate in you wherever...

Carlson – It's portable.

Rowe – Yeah! I mean, it's inherently mobile. It's not... you don't have to go to the McDonald's – with respect, right? I mean, you don't have to go to the retailer and stand behind the counter and wait for the business to come, you can... No one talks about the path that small businesses that trades represent, there's no talk about it, but, on my old show I can't tell you how many people I ran into who had a small business, who had employees, who had multiple trucks, but started with a skill. So, my thing with the minimum wage and with automation and all of it is that anything we do that knocks the bottom rungs off of the ladder that we all must surely climb is self-defeating. So, if getting to $15.00/hour hastens automation and therefore eliminates thousands of opportunities for kids – who by the way are not just learning how to flip a burger, but to tuck in their shirt and show up at work on time – all this basic stuff, I mean how else do you learn that stuff except by being in your first or second job? We're going to arbitrage logic right out of the equation, and then, R2D2, take a bow.

Carlson – (Laughs)

Rowe – (Smiling says) That's not bad!

Carlson – Good, that's very good. By the way, you're not reading anything, I can assure our viewers. That was... (snapping his fingers).

Rowe – No, I can't read, tragically. (Smiling again.)

Carlson – (Laughing again)

Rowe – I mean, this is something we should talk about in the future.

Carslon – Yes, literacy. Mike Rowe, it's always nice to see you.

Rowe – Likewise.

When the Music Stopped

It's no wonder that leftists hate the military!

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(For those who are unaware: At all military base theaters, the National Anthem is played before the movie begins.)

This is written from a Chaplain in Iraq: 

I recently attended a showing of 'Superman 3' here at LSA Anaconda.  We have a large auditorium that we use for movies as well as memorial services and other large gatherings. 

As is the custom at all military bases, we stood to attention when The National Anthem began before the main feature.

All was going well until three-quarters of the way through The National Anthem, the music stopped.

Now, what would happen if this occurred with 1,000 18-to-22-year-olds back in the States?   I imagine that there would be hoots, catcalls, laughter, a few rude comments, and everyone would sit down and yell for the movie to begin. Of course, that is, only if they had stood for The National Anthem in the first place.

Here in Iraq, 1,000 soldiers continued to stand at attention, eyes fixed forward.  The music started again, and the soldiers continued to quietly stand at attention.  Again, though, at the same point, the music stopped.  What would you expect 1,000 soldiers standing at attention to do?  Frankly, I expected some laughter, and everyone would eventually sit down and wait for the movie to start.

No!  You could have heard a pin drop while every soldier continued to stand at attention.

Suddenly, there was a lone voice from the front of the auditorium, then a dozen voices, and soon the room was filled with the voices of a thousand soldiers, finishing where the recording left off:

"And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.  Oh, say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave."

It was the most inspiring moment I have had in Iraq, and I wanted you to know what kind of U.S. Soldiers are serving you!  Remember them as they fight for us!

Written by Chaplain Jim Higgins...LSA Anaconda is at the Ballad Airport in Iraq, north of Baghdad.

Perpetuating the Myth

The recent budget proposal release by the Trump administration has brought out the typical treatment of perpetuating common myths by the MSM leftists. As usual, they're not telling you all the truth about this budget because it doesn't help their effort to deligitimize the conservative policies Trump's administration is attempting to reinstate for the sake of the nation's health economically.

Read the link here to a Media Resource Center's article which reveals what the MSM refuses to tell the public about the budget proposal. I predict we'll see the usual RINOs in Congress attempt to impede its progress through committees and the floor for a vote in either one, or both, houses of Congress.

Speaking Truth to the Press

Kimberly Strassel (on left).

Last Sunday the Wall Street Journals Kimberly Strassel destroyed the liberal media's Face the Nation panel's argument that back channeling by Trump's campaign staff was evidence of collusion with the Russians; yes, they're still pushing this meme of lies! Use this link to read the MRC article and watch the under 2 minute clip of Ms. Strassel slapping them down.

Suh-weet!

So, What Was the Vietnam War About?

First things first today; I share this link to a very powerful Memorial Day video I urge you to watch. It is fitting for the following post.

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In this Prager U. video Victor Davis Hansen - a war historian - gives us a brief overview of all the issues regarding this war.

It is significant for me because I was a part of it. I never set foot in the country; the closest I ever got to Vietnam was 35,000 feet above the Mekong Delta as a military hop was approaching Thailand. I was an Air Force enlistee who got trained at technical school to conduct maintenance on jet aircraft with multiple engines. When I got assigned to my permanent duty station in east Sacramento in 1972, I became a team member of the 320th Operational Maintenance Squadron in the Strategic Air Command and began my O.J.T. - on the job training - on B-52 G/H bombers.

After one year at Mather A.F.B. my entire squadron received temporary duty (TDY) orders for a six month assignment at Andersen A.F.B. on the island of Guam; a U.S. Trust Territory. There were so many personnel there at once that "tent cities" - the heavy canvas type that get very hot inside unless the side flaps are tied open - as part of Operation Archlight, had to be set up on almost every available grass area where there wasn't a building already.

My duties on the flight line involved conducting pre/post-flight inspections of the bombers who were going in sorties (group missions) of about a dozen 1,500 miles due west over the Philippine Islands to North Vietnam to drop 500 lb. bombs on Hanoi whenever the representatives of N.V. walked away from the Paris peace-talk table during negotiations.

Once the first TDY was expired, we got a 30 day leave - during the Christmas season - to go home state-side before being sent back to Guam for a second TDY. This second time I was assigned to the parachute packing team for the B-52s and later to the refueling team after having a service connected disability incident where I lost one of my fingers from a falling piece of equipment off of a B-1 stand while on the flight line.

The most frustrating thing for me was learning several years later that the North Vietnamese General was reported to have stated that, had the bombing of Hanoi had gone one more week longer than it had, the N.V. government would have totally surrendered to the U.S. due to the devastating effect it had on their city and people of Hanoi.

Trump & The Great Global Warming Swindle

To any open minded, rational, logical, thinking individual, watching this movie will make sense. Those who are merely followers of a globalist agenda for world governance and control, will see this movie as a blasphemy to that ideology, for it exposes their ulterior motive for promoting such a hoax.

But this article points out the disturbing trend unfolding with our new administration. I can only speculate what is involved behind the scene to change the President's mind from both the G7 leaders and his own son-in-law and daughter. Could it be "fake news"?

The Liberal's Obession With Control

To illustrate one example of just how far the democrats in positions of power have gone, I present this scenario which illustrates just how insanely obsessed their ideology has become. This is only one example, mind you. There are a multitude of others currently going on which could be shared, but for the sake of brevity, this post will use this one as its focus.

Question: Which of the two mentioned in this scenario has a higher priority in the overall scheme of living?

A couple in Thurston County - an area at the very south end of the Puget Sound region of Washington State - spend years working and saving to buy their "spot of heaven on earth" in the countryside, miles from any developed community. They spend a part of those years carefully working with a real estate agent to find a section of acreage that fits their criteria for their "spot of heaven" and conduct the transaction to purchase it once it's found. Although the property prices are reasonable compared to areas closer to more developed communities, they pay their hard earned funds gladly; knowing it will be a good investment.

They spend a few years determining the building plans for the type of home to build on the area where they've had a heavy equipment grader has been paid to cut an access road into that spot and get it surfaced with the proper rock materials for the vehicles which will need to come in to begin building their home on the site. Every step has been painfully processed through their county planning office for permits and approval.

A letter received from the E.P.A. in the mail a few weeks before the construction is to begin informs them that an inspector has visited the site and discovered a small mound of dirt within the area of the building site and that no construction should begin until further communication provides them information about what they will be allowed to do regarding their project.

The couple is not only confused, but begin to worry and wonder whether their plans to build and raise their children in their new "paradise". Some evenings, when he arrives home in their temporary residence, he finds his wife in emotional distress and frustration that their family plans and dreams may be in jeopardy. He's not been emotionless either. There were a few times when he called the E.P.A. contact number, only to be treated in the typical bureaucratic style of "menu hell" and conflicting statements from an assortment of bureaucrats he finally manages to consult regarding their circumstance. It's becoming obvious that their relationship is becoming strained and loosing sleep much more than before.

Another letter from the E.P.A. arrives and it informs them that the inspector and team of bioligists have determined that a particular species of gopher which lives in the Pacific Northwest region resides in the dirt of their property and they are an endangered species - just like the American Bald Eagle had been for decades - and can not be disturbed. After some time consulting legal counsel, a counter letter from their lawyer - who is charging them $150/hour to represent them in this situation - informs the E.P.A. that the couple is willing to re-locate their home site to another area of their eight acre portion of land where there are no gophers to be found.

While waiting for a response from the E.P.A. their marriage, under stress from their situation, deteriorates under that strain. Desperate to keep it from leading to divorce, they seek marriage counseling with a therapist for another exorbitant fee; further draining their financial resources. They now find themselves in a living hell brought about by a bureaucracy that is more concerned about a rodent's well being.

While the above scenario is not an actual story of any one particular family, many parts shared have some basis in truth and fact regarding what's currently going on in this county.

Answer: Clearly, the gopher, in the agency's view, has a higher priority than the younger couple attempting to take advantage of the opportunities afforded them in our modern world of ever imposing government. Does this situation sound like a modern government that was originally intended to look out for the working people? Perhaps this scenario is one example of many, why Trump won the last election and Hillary Clinton lost.

Freedom of, NOT from, Religion

I watched this interview the other day - watch it here - and realized this man, Dan Barker, who's leading this atheist group (FFRF) is not aware of how ignorant he is about this issue based on what he said regarding separation of church & state; as though it's in the Constitution, from what he says.

Then, later that evening, as I was reading Bill O'Reilly's latest book, "Killing the Rising Sun", I read this passage about how F.D.R. exhorts the nation to keep their soldiers fighting in the Pacific in their prayers:

Chapter 5 - Pg. 42

"As Colonel Kunio Nakagawa commits ritual suicide in a dark Pelilin cave, the man to whom he prays for courage sits down for lunch of dumpling soup and vegetables. In America, it is Thanksgiving, and President Franklin Roosevelt issues a special exhortation. He encourages citizens not just to give thanks but to read their own version of Scripture every day between now and Christmas to ensure 'a renewed and strengthening contact with those eternal truths and majestic principles which inspired such measure of true greatness as this nation has achieved.'."

How does this act by a president - obviously asking the Christian nation to read their Bible - square with this man's remark that a public school teacher is a "government employee" and thereby should not be making a religion the nation's preferential one? Oops!!!

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words!

Here's a comparison of greetings by the Saudis of the former and current Presidents of the United States:

Enough said!

Global Warming Is A Hoax - Here's Why!

The data is in and the Greenies are not pleased; their agenda is on the rocks!

Watch this brief video by Dick Morris to hear what he has to say.

This Is Entitlement In Action!

I thought I was reading from George Orwell's book 1984 for a minute. But then, I realized that, having dealt with such an attitude when teaching 8th grade Science classes eight years ago, I shouldn't be surprised; especially with the recent rash of incidences at various college campuses around our nation.

What am I talking about? Here's an excerpt from this article "University of Chicago student post list of 50 demands, included segregated housing Islamic courses":

"The students also demanded a revitalization of the University of Chicago’s Bias Response Team, which is a campus advisory group that provides assistance in determining how to handle an alleged “bias incident” or any action against a student that is motivated by bias, regardless of whether or not the incident is a hate crime.

Currently, the Bias Response Team does not have any disciplinary capabilities. However, UChicago United wants the capacity of the team extended and seeks “infrastructure for transparent disciplinary processes against faculty and staff who are reported” to the team."

This is what you get when you coddle and cave to every demand youth make; it causes them to think they deserve whatever they think is needed. They have no understanding of how our justice system is set up to protect everyone's rights and receive due process, replacing it with their "Lord of the Flies" style kangaroo courts.

But wait, there's more! Here's what occurred recently at a college in my state regarding segregation.

And to think that they're going to be going out there into the work force soon to run the businesses and government. Makes me shudder!

The Corruption Is Deeper Than We Thought!

A friend of mine has shared a blog which purports to have a source that explains what supposedly has really gone on with this whole F.B.I. Director James Comey, the Clintons, and Pres. Trump "breaking news" meme we've been seeing unfold over the past several months.

Although what is explained regarding the background of the "players" and their connections in this whole scenario tends to make sense in that it fills in many holes that our mainstream media will never even think about revealing to the public - if even half of what's disclosed is true - it illustrates how incredibly corrupt these high powered people are and how compromised they are because of their connections. However, because I understand how such information can cause some to be swept up in accepting such information as "gospel", I am cautiously dubious as to its overall credibility until and unless some level of verification is forthcoming.

Yet, a part of me is not surprised by the level of corruption revealed. Even if half of it is true, we plebeians have no idea just how bad the "Swamp" of Washington, D.C. really is. Reading this piece will provide a clearer understanding of, and insight to, just how bad it is.

Let's also not forget that Alan Dershowitz has already come onto Tucker Carlson's show and pointed out that there is no crime committed here. (I believe Dershowitz was actually meaning "the DNC", and not "the DNA".) This is exactly what Rush Limbaugh has been pointing out for weeks now!

If the A.G., Sessions, actually has dirt on Comey and a future investigation reveals provable evidence which has the clear possibility of putting one, or more, of these players in jeopardy of being convicted by Pres. Trump's administration ... well, we ain't seen NOTHIN' yet compared to how off the hinges the media is currently about the Russians' involvement narrative.

This is possibly going to truly sink the Democrats for a long time to come!

Caution... You Might Get Abdominal Pains Reading These!

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
     
Here are the winners:

 

1.  Cashtration (n.):  The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time. 

2.  Ignoranus:  A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

3.  Intaxication:  Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your  money to start with.

4.  Reintarnation:  Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5.  Bozone (n.):  The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6.  Foreploy:  Any misrepresentation about

yourself  for the purpose of getting laid.

7. Giraffiti:  Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

8.  Sarchasm:  The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it

9.  Inoculatte:  To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10.  Osteopornosis:  A degenerate disease.(This one got extra credit.)

11.  Karmageddon:  It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right?  And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12.  Decafalon (n):  The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13.  Glibido:  All talk and no action. 

14.  Dopeler Effect:  The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. 

15.  Arachnoleptic Fit (n.):  The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16.  Beelzebug (n.):  Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17.  Caterpallor (n.):  The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

The  Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate  meanings for common words.

And the winners  are:

1.  Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.

2.  Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained. 

3.  Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4.  Esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.

5.  Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.  

6.  Negligent, adj. Absent mindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.

7.  Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.

8.  Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavoredmouthwash

9.  Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.

10.  Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.

11.  Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam.

12.  Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

13. Pokemon, n.  A Rastafarian proctologist.

14. Oyster, n.  A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.