Today our media is abuzz with so many stories and articles attempting to make President Trump appear illegitimate and completely ignorant on how to deal with the politics of a federal government bureaucracy. Yet, very little, if any, is said in the mainstream press about a very real and potentially devastating blow which an enemy of the U.S. could possibly carry out that would change everything in the blink of an eye.
I'll admit I am not "up to speed" on just what our own military has done, if anything during the last administration to prepare for such a possible event, but as we watch Iran and North Korea continue to gear up with more frequent missile launches, the potential for an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) is rapidly becoming more possible with every passing day. I pray that, if Pres. Trump is doing anything to strengthen our military and national defenses, it is hardening our defenses against such a possibility.
As this article points out, currently our missile defense system doesn't look to the south for an approaching missile; only north to the Arctic pole because of our cold war fears of the '50s. So, it would seem logical that a newer south looking missile defense system would be in short order here.
Just what would an EMP hit over the North American continent do to us? Well, a lot more than you think. Check here, and here, for some starters on what we're dealing with; it's not pretty!
Monday, May 8, 2017
Sunday, May 7, 2017
"Us" by Paul Genova
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(Mr.
Paul Genova has been President and Chief Operating Officer
of Wireless Telecom Group Inc. since June 30, 2016.
I haven't said
too much about this election since the start...but this is
how I feel....
I'm
noticing that a lot of people aren't graciously accepting
the fact that their candidate lost.
In fact you seem
to be posting even more hateful things about those who voted
for Trump.
Some
are apparently "triggered" because they are posting how
"sick" you feel about the results.
How
did this happen you ask? Well here is how it
happened!
You created "us" when you
attacked our freedom of speech.
You
created "us" when you attacked our right to bear
arms.
You
created "us" when you attacked our Christian
beliefs.
You
created "us" when you constantly referred to us as
racists.
You
created "us" when you constantly called us
xenophobic.
You created "us"
when you told us to get on board or get out of the
way.
You created "us" when you attacked our
flag.
You
created "us" when you took God out of our
schools.
You
created "us" when you confused women's rights with
feminism.
You
created "us" when you began to emasculate
men.
You
created "us" when you decided to make our children
soft.
You created "us" when you decided to vote for
progressive ideals.
You
created "us" when you attacked our way of life.
You
created "us" when you decided to let our government get out
of control.
You
created "us" the silent majority.
You
created "us" when you began murdering innocent law
enforcement officers.
You
created "us" when you lied and said we could keep our
insurance plans and our doctors.
You
created "us" when you allowed our jobs to continue to leave
our country.
You created "us" when you took a knee,
or stayed seated or didn't remove your hat during our
National Anthem.
You created "us" when you forced us
to buy health care and then financially penalized us for not
participating.
And we became fed up and we pushed back and spoke
up.
And we did
it with ballots, not bullets.
With
ballots, not riots.With ballots, not
looting.
With ballots, not blocking
traffic.
With ballots, not fires, except
the one you started inside of "us".
"YOU"
created "US".
It
really is just that simple.
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Seven Interesting Questions About Slavery
Why do white people get the blame for slavery when virtually every race in human history engaged in the slave trade?
Why
do white people get the blame for slavery, when it was black Africans
that went into the bush to capture Africans who they then sold?.
Why do white people get the blame for slavery when white people were enslaved by Arabs?
Why do white people get the blame for slavery when they were the first in the world to legally end slavery?
Why
do white people get the blame for slavery when white people risked
their lives to help free black slaves from their Arab captors?
Why do white people get the blame for slavery when hundreds of thousands of white Americans died in a civil war to end slavery?
Why
do white people get the blame for slavery when there are still
millions of people enslaved today – not generally in white countries?
Saturday, May 6, 2017
F.B.I. Director James Comey - Questions & Views
Anyone who's been paying attention to the news regarding Hillary Clinton's recent coming out and her narrative about how everyone else - except herself and her policies - is to blame for her losing the election to Donald Trump, knows that the F.B.I. Director - James Comey - has played a key role in the whole scenario.
Here are a couple of interesting interviews - one by Tucker Carlson on FOX, and another on Breibart News - which shed some interesting views and perspective on the situation.
News Flash to Hillary!!! In YOUR mind, you believe you would have won the election had it been held on October 27th based on the understanding that you had the entire mainstream media, pollsters and Hollyweird, backing you. In other words, the truth about your policies and past record as a First Lady, Senator and Sec. of State, were almost overcome and the voting public was almost brainwashed that you would not be a continuation - nay, an acceleration - of the past administration's agenda of dividing the country further along the lines of identity politics and political correctness.
Here are a couple of interesting interviews - one by Tucker Carlson on FOX, and another on Breibart News - which shed some interesting views and perspective on the situation.
News Flash to Hillary!!! In YOUR mind, you believe you would have won the election had it been held on October 27th based on the understanding that you had the entire mainstream media, pollsters and Hollyweird, backing you. In other words, the truth about your policies and past record as a First Lady, Senator and Sec. of State, were almost overcome and the voting public was almost brainwashed that you would not be a continuation - nay, an acceleration - of the past administration's agenda of dividing the country further along the lines of identity politics and political correctness.
Bullying Those You Disagree With Does Not Help Public Schools
This recent article from the Washington Policy Center is an example of how public education in our country has successfully become so lopsided to the left in its ideology. There is a link in the first sentence to the presentation which contains the evidence cited in this article. Here are a few points from it:
"It is not possible to have an informed conversation about education reform when WASA implies that people who hold alternate views are fascists and communists. This mean-spirited tactic comes across as a transparent effort to bully others into silence.
Reasonable people can disagree. Engaging in name-calling while citing the most reprehensible figures from history does not make progress in improving public education. Instead, all of us who care about children should work together in a peaceful and collaborative way to make sure schools are well funded and use public money effectively, so that every child learns."
I am convinced - after 30 years in public education - that the whole education infrastructure from the Dept. of Education, to the NEA, its state unions, on down to the local level districts' unions, has been thoroughly indoctrinated with the leftist/socialist mentality.. It's evident in the curriculum, policy emphasis, and treatment of those in the profession who don't go along with their agenda. Those teachers who voice any alternative view or opposition to whatever is being proposed from the leadership at local or state conventions for the union is subtly and effectively ostracized and marginalized (sounds like Saul Alynski tactics to me).
Wasn't there a prominent communist leader who said something about controlling the education of the youth is the key to controlling a country's direction & future? In observing leftists' reactions to the new administration, they've confirmed without a doubt to me that they will say things about their opposition which is actually a truism about themselves; using Goebbels & Lenin.
Yes, liberalism is a mental disorder!
"It is not possible to have an informed conversation about education reform when WASA implies that people who hold alternate views are fascists and communists. This mean-spirited tactic comes across as a transparent effort to bully others into silence.
Reasonable people can disagree. Engaging in name-calling while citing the most reprehensible figures from history does not make progress in improving public education. Instead, all of us who care about children should work together in a peaceful and collaborative way to make sure schools are well funded and use public money effectively, so that every child learns."
I am convinced - after 30 years in public education - that the whole education infrastructure from the Dept. of Education, to the NEA, its state unions, on down to the local level districts' unions, has been thoroughly indoctrinated with the leftist/socialist mentality.. It's evident in the curriculum, policy emphasis, and treatment of those in the profession who don't go along with their agenda. Those teachers who voice any alternative view or opposition to whatever is being proposed from the leadership at local or state conventions for the union is subtly and effectively ostracized and marginalized (sounds like Saul Alynski tactics to me).
Wasn't there a prominent communist leader who said something about controlling the education of the youth is the key to controlling a country's direction & future? In observing leftists' reactions to the new administration, they've confirmed without a doubt to me that they will say things about their opposition which is actually a truism about themselves; using Goebbels & Lenin.
Yes, liberalism is a mental disorder!
Thursday, May 4, 2017
WA State Taxation - The Politician's Ping Pong Ball
No need to raise taxes for McCleary
By Liv Finne, Washington Policy Center
The public outcry against Sound Transit’s unfair and excessive car tab taxes has painfully illustrated how public officials make life hard for working families when they impose high taxes. The one message the public has successfully delivered to lawmakers this session, big time, is that high taxes are deeply unpopular.
Fortunately, lawmakers from both parties are listening. There seems to be little or no appetite among state lawmakers to go on record supporting a tax increase. Senate leaders say a tax increase is not needed (state revenues are due to increase by $2.6 billion under current tax law). And so far, House leaders have not even scheduled a vote on their budget plan to impose $4.8 billion in new taxes.
Still, House leaders are insisting the McCleary school funding case requires Washington families to accept even higher business tax rates, higher sales taxes, and even an income tax on investments. The House budget would also repeal the popular 1 percent limit on annual property tax collections, a policy approved by voters in 2001 and confirmed by a bill passed by both parties and signed by Gov. Gregoire in 2007.
State budget figures show that new taxes are not needed to comply with McCleary.
Today, education spending is at an all-time high, having increased by 34 percent over the last four years. Current state spending on public education is $18.2 billion, or about $12,000 per student from all sources, the most money ever.
These spending levels are due to increase. Both the House and Senate budgets provide large increases for education, so we know school spending is going to go up. The Senate budget would increase education spending by $3.7 billion, an enormous increase, by providing levy equity across the state, and adding in law a guaranteed per-student funding level of $12,500.
This level of spending increase clearly meets the McCleary standard, coming as it does on top of huge spending increases in recent years, and can be enacted without increasing the tax burden state officials impose on the people of Washington.
The House plan seeks to impose more taxes, but it also doubles down on the current system, providing no meaningful reforms. The Senate plan not only has the virtue of boosting education spending again, it would also provide progressive, forward-looking reforms, like guaranteeing a set per-student spending level for every student in the state, so every child learns.
The budget numbers amply demonstrate that state lawmakers can increase spending, comply with McCleary and enact meaningful education reforms — all without raising taxes.
Liv Finne is the director of the Washington Policy Center
Update: Income Tax Off Table... for now.
By Liv Finne, Washington Policy Center
The public outcry against Sound Transit’s unfair and excessive car tab taxes has painfully illustrated how public officials make life hard for working families when they impose high taxes. The one message the public has successfully delivered to lawmakers this session, big time, is that high taxes are deeply unpopular.
Fortunately, lawmakers from both parties are listening. There seems to be little or no appetite among state lawmakers to go on record supporting a tax increase. Senate leaders say a tax increase is not needed (state revenues are due to increase by $2.6 billion under current tax law). And so far, House leaders have not even scheduled a vote on their budget plan to impose $4.8 billion in new taxes.
Still, House leaders are insisting the McCleary school funding case requires Washington families to accept even higher business tax rates, higher sales taxes, and even an income tax on investments. The House budget would also repeal the popular 1 percent limit on annual property tax collections, a policy approved by voters in 2001 and confirmed by a bill passed by both parties and signed by Gov. Gregoire in 2007.
State budget figures show that new taxes are not needed to comply with McCleary.
Today, education spending is at an all-time high, having increased by 34 percent over the last four years. Current state spending on public education is $18.2 billion, or about $12,000 per student from all sources, the most money ever.
These spending levels are due to increase. Both the House and Senate budgets provide large increases for education, so we know school spending is going to go up. The Senate budget would increase education spending by $3.7 billion, an enormous increase, by providing levy equity across the state, and adding in law a guaranteed per-student funding level of $12,500.
This level of spending increase clearly meets the McCleary standard, coming as it does on top of huge spending increases in recent years, and can be enacted without increasing the tax burden state officials impose on the people of Washington.
The House plan seeks to impose more taxes, but it also doubles down on the current system, providing no meaningful reforms. The Senate plan not only has the virtue of boosting education spending again, it would also provide progressive, forward-looking reforms, like guaranteeing a set per-student spending level for every student in the state, so every child learns.
The budget numbers amply demonstrate that state lawmakers can increase spending, comply with McCleary and enact meaningful education reforms — all without raising taxes.
Liv Finne is the director of the Washington Policy Center
Update: Income Tax Off Table... for now.
Next time!
According to Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, this is the new motto of the Republicans in the Swamp. Now their promise - after telling the country that all they needed was a majority in the House, then a majority in the Senate, and finally the White House - is that they'll take care of really making changes in the next session of Congress. Really?
On top of that, the mantra of the Republicans (a.k.a. government workers in the Swamp) success is now claiming they got more money for their pet projects than what the Democrats got! That's funny, I thought whole point of getting Trump elected because of his promises on the campaign trail that he would reverse the Democrat's programs and spending to save this country from becoming full-blown socialist!
So, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are both saying, "What's the point of voting Republican anymore?" I'm beginning to wonder, when what I feared may happen, actually does. That's not funding the wall, keeping a modified version of Obamacare, funding Planned Parenthood, etc.
On top of that, the mantra of the Republicans (a.k.a. government workers in the Swamp) success is now claiming they got more money for their pet projects than what the Democrats got! That's funny, I thought whole point of getting Trump elected because of his promises on the campaign trail that he would reverse the Democrat's programs and spending to save this country from becoming full-blown socialist!
So, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are both saying, "What's the point of voting Republican anymore?" I'm beginning to wonder, when what I feared may happen, actually does. That's not funding the wall, keeping a modified version of Obamacare, funding Planned Parenthood, etc.
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