Do White Americans Have White Privilege?

The leftists have recently introduced - the furthest back I can recall ever hearing about this issue was during the previous administration under Pres. Obama - the concept that the reason people of "color" can never get ahead in our society is because white people posses a "privilege" which oppresses them. It's rapidly becoming a "bad" thing by liberals to perpetuate their meme. For anyone who's paying attention to the news stories on a regular basis, this concept has grown and evolved in order to make them feel guilty, shut them up and tear down their sense of belonging in the "new society" of fascism and totalitarianism the leftists are upholding.

Ami Horowitz has produced a new video on this topic for Prager U. Here it is for you to view and consider what is shown. 

I my view the leftists are now pulling out all the "hold-backs" on their propaganda war to use the media and the dominant adolescent mind-set of the country today to push for an Open Society (George Soros promoted) America in order to work within the system of our government to overthrow it from within. Didn't Abraham Lincoln say something about this being the only way this nation would ever cease to be?

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.

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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"?