Jobs

This came from a letter published in the Tennessean. Sorry but the link has been lost.

Lawrence wrote: “First, trashing NAFTA in retaliation for the loss of jobs over the last two decades since the pact was approved will not bring them back. Most have been lost to automation, not Mexico.  Some jobs that initially went to Mexico have moved from there to other countries or have been replaced by robotics.”

Not very logical. If the jobs had been lost to automation then the factories, with robots, would still be here with installation, maintenance, programming and control done by US workers. Albeit the number of workers would have been smaller the pay would have been higher.

It is sad to say but far too many companies have broken the social contract they had with US citizens and have opted to flee to other countries for one reason only. Higher profits. This has been augmented by tying upper management, especially CEO/Presidents, pay to profits resulting in a ratio of them of 204 to 1

https://www.glassdoor.com/research/ceo-pay-ratio/

And at the same time, those fleeing leave behind companies that use illegal workers with impunity. Construction comes immediately to mind.

Trump’s plan to close the border and stop the outflow of our factories may or may not work. But at least he will try. And those who try and stop him will no longer be in the shadows but will known to all.

His victory sends a message to every politician who wants to keep their “jobs” that the world has changed.

His victory sends a message to every supporter of the status quo, which has flooded the country with illegal aliens, that they will be opposed and their arguments incorrect,

His victory also sends a message to every CEO/President that the days of robber baron like actions are gone. Keep the social contract. Work to keep people employed as well as reasonable profits for the stock holder while graciously accepting a salary that is not outrageously high.

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

From the propaganda outlet, the "Tennessean."

The following comment is based on this piece of propaganda published in the Tennessean.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/02/02/m-daughter-iranian-immigrant/97355434/

Roxanna wrote: “I am the daughter of an Iranian immigrant. My father came to the United States in the 1970s shortly before the Iranian revolution.

He was young, full of ideals and dreams. He believed in America. Had my father been banned from coming to the U.S. in the 1970s, he would never have earned his master’s degree.”

Jim writes: “I am the son of a West Tennessee sharecropper.

He was young and although poor he had ideals and dreams. While your father’s parents were living in safety in Iran my father volunteered for the Marines and went to fight the Imperialist Japanese.

Roxanna wrote: “My father met my mother while he was studying at Middle Tennessee State University. My mother was a small-town, all-American girl who grew up with small-town American values. My parents met while at school and fell in love."

Jim writes: My mother and father met while he was home from CCC camp where he had gone to make some money to send home to his family. He returned to the camp and when he was released they were married.

When WWII was over my father returned to West Tennessee and farming. He was summoned to fight the communists in Korea but was released because of his age. He was a good farmer and managed to purchase a small farm. The country had not yet exported its factories and jobs so both worked and “made a crop” that all three of us worked on to pay off the mortgage and “make a living.”

Roxanna wrote: “I studied German and political science, and had the good fortune to receive a Fulbright Award in 2009. I moved to Vienna, Austria, and was able to teach English and share the Gospel with the people of Austria.

After my Fulbright, I moved to Memphis, where I teach today. Had my father been banned from coming to America, there would be kids in Memphis who were not constantly reminded that they are special, loved, smart, gifted, and able to do anything.”

There were very few programs to help a share cropper’s son go to college so I joined the Navy and proceeded to do my small part in fighting the Cold War.

As part of that, the US supported the Shah coming to power in Iran, keeping the Soviets out. I suspect that your father must have had parents who were well off or else he would not have been able to come here to attend school and travel back and forth. Had the communists been allowed to come to power he most likely would not have came here to school and “there would be kids in Memphis who were not constantly reminded that they are special, loved, smart, gifted, and able to do anything.”

At this point it should be apparent that our experiences regarding the country are not similar. I went through the college of hard knocks and you were educated with the taxpayer’s money.

I think I got the best education.

Roxanna wrote: “The hope that our beloved Lady Liberty offers is a hope for everyone. Men and women like my father come here to make this country a better place. They come because they believe in the golden beacon that welcomes them from the shore.”

I watched the most openly Christian president, Jimmy Carter, fail to support an ally in Iran, and seen Iran become the birthplace of the modern radical islamist terrorist. Since then we have had steadily increasing attacks by Muslim terrorists. Thousands have lost their lives in the US, and hundreds of thousands around the world while Muslim “refugees” rape and riot in Europe and demand special rights and treatment in the US.

So much for Christian love.

You spout utter nonsense. If Muslims had been banned from the US 9/11 would not have happened. Neither would the deadly attacks in Boston, Orlando, San Bernardino, Chattanooga, and Little Rock, happened and tax payer money used to build Muslim prayer facilities in St Paul schools, companies sued for asking Muslim employees to drive trucks with beer inside and a host of other Muslim demands occurred.

And while you emote words of tenderness and tolerance the Pew group has polls that show 21% of US Muslims supporting extremism.

http://www.people-press.org/2011/08/30/muslim-americans-no-signs-of-growth-in-alienation-or-support-for-extremism/?src=prc-headline

And then

“51% of U.S. Muslims want Sharia; 60% of young Muslims more loyal to Islam than to U.S.”

And  “CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper: “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.”

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/10/51-of-u-s-muslims-want-sharia-60-of-young-muslims-more-loyal-to-islam-than-to-u-s

Uh, don’t worry Ibrahim, the only people not knowing what you are up to are members of Roxanna’s ilk. Sadly, their awakening will be vicious, bloody and life ending for many of their fellow citizens. It is already happening in Europe, especially France.

So please go away and actually educate yourself, Roxanna. We’re in a religious war and the other side doesn’t care that we’re too dumb to know.

And if you work in tall buildings learn how to fly.

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

Keep your enemies close. Your friends closer.

An enemy is an enemy and can be combated. Someone who would be your friend but is just so dead wrong on three important things is far worse than enemy.

http://pamelageller.com/2017/01/britains-theresa-may-u-s-islam-peaceful-globalism-good-climate-change-priority.html/

“BRITAIN’S THERESA MAY IN U.S.: ISLAM IS PEACEFUL, GLOBALISM GOOD, CLIMATE CHANGE A PRIORITY

by Raheem Kassam, Breitbart, January 26, 2017:British Prime Minister Theresa May used her speech in Philadelphia to needle the new Trump administration on a number of issues ranging from globalism to climate change, Islam, and even to defending the European Union.

Theresa May isn’t fooling anyone. She doesn’t just talk out of two sides of her mouth, she talks out of twenty. Her conflicting position would flummox Gumby.

According to May, Islam is peaceful. Jihad imam get legal aid to fight to remain in the UK, but Theresa May banned me from the UK. Robert Spencer is banned. Why? Because we oppose jihad terror and sharia.”

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

Dumb and dumber

For the life of me I cannot understand why those we actually call “educators” are so out of touch with reality. Is there any living and breathing person with an IQ above room temperature who doesn’t  know how bad Sharia Law is for females?

Yet here we have a middle school actually assigning this.

“The worksheet, assigned to seventh-graders at Highland Hills Middle School, presents a passage written by a fictional 20-year-old Saudi woman named Ahlima, who feels “very fortunate” to live under Sharia law in Saudi Arabia. She writes about how she will soon become a man’s second wife and explains her modest dress: “I understand that some foreigners see our dress as a way of keeping women from being equal, but … I find Western women’s clothing to be horribly immodest.”

And when challenged, what is the response?

“Bill Briscoe, a spokesman for the district, said the curriculum is being reviewed in light of the complaints, per district policy.”

Uh, Bill, what’s there to review? It’s propaganda. Pure and simple. Why are you pouring it into the  middle school students’ unfinished brains?

And what does the woman who created this insipid fake piece of drivel think?

“The same worksheet, created by InspirEd Educators Inc., caused a controversy when it was used at a middle school in Smyrna, Ga., in 2011. Sharon Coletti, the creator of the worksheet and president of InspirEd Educators, said she received death threats and was accused of “indoctrinating” children at the time.

"Coletti, who is a Christian and longtime educator, said in an interview with the Courier-Journal that she wasn’t trying to indoctrinate anyone. She said she was just trying to create a lesson that was more engaging than dry, expository text pulled from a textbook.

“If I can shape something so that kids have to decide for themselves, once I get them involved in the situation, they never forget it,” she said…..”

http://pamelageller.com/2017/01/indiana-public-school-worksheet-praises-sharia-cloth-coffin-women.html/

Yes, Coletti. We understand. The problem is you don’t.

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

Karma strikes!

Every now and then someone acting like an asshole get what they deserve.

“I told you I would like him to change seats with somebody…” the woman said, before the flight attendant cut her off, “Well, you don’t have that right.”

The woman then began to berate the Trump supporter.

“You pretend you have the moral high ground but you put that man’s finger on the nuclear button. That man doesn’t believe in climate change,” she said, using air quotes for dramatic effect.

As a gate attendant attempted to intervene, she was unrelenting………….

“Will you grab your belongings and come with me?” the attendant asked her.

She then attempted to use her recently-deceased mother-in-law for why she should remain on the plane and be unaccountable for her behavior.

Refusing to leave the plane, she said, “I paid for this seat and I’m sitting here. He’s in my space.”

(Note the word “space.”)

Another video, taken from across the aisle, showed the woman sneering at the Trump supporter, then at passengers behind her before police ordered her off the plane.

http://pamelageller.com/2017/01/video-woman-freaks-trump-supporter-train.html/

Needless to say the plane was flying to Seattle.

I lived in Seattle, actually the ‘burb of Redmond, for right at 5 years back in the early 80’s. Loved it! Lousy climate but great people. Not especially conservative but not all that Leftie and mostly laid back. The local sports anchor on the NBC affiliate use to opine “Remember folks, it’s just a game!” when the Seahawks took a drubbing. And going to a Mariners game was mindful of going to a Little League game. People chatting, visiting, waving at friends and occasionally cheering when one of the players actually made a great play.

So what happened?  Why did a nice place to live turn into this?

There was a newspaper guy, an old guy, who wrote a column for the Seattle Times. Seems like he drove around with his dog and wrote stories about this and that.  Seems like he had a RV… And he was dead set against letting foreigners from California in.

I’m sure he’s dead now and I left long ago. I’m glad he didn’t live to see what the place has turned into. 

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper “

I hear you knocking...but you can't come in

Do foreign nationals have the right to enter our country with the intent to demonstrate and try and change our laws, customs and elections?

“The plan was simple. Montrealer Sasha Dyck and some friends would drive to Washington to join the Women's March. But when the six Canadians and two French nationals reached the border at Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, in Quebec, they ran into trouble.

U.S. border agents asked what they planned to do in the United States. “We said we were going to the Women’s March on Saturday and they said, ‘Well, you’re going to have to pull over,’ ” Dyck told the Guardian. Agents then searched their car and examined their cellphones, according to Dyck. Each member of the group was fingerprinted and had their pictures taken.

Finally, after two hours, the agents told Dyck and his friends to turn around. “They said, ‘You’re headed home today,’ ” Dyck told the Guardian. Officials warned that they’d be arrested if they tried to cross at a different spot this weekend, Dyck said. “And that was it, they didn’t give a lot of justification.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/21/u-s-border-agents-turned-away-canadians-hoping-to-come-to-the-womens-march/?utm_term=.b79b20e336a6

Uh, Dyck. They didn’t have to give you justification. You don’t have the right to come into our country for any reason. 

I mean, the Left is having kittens over Russia, supposedly, hacking a political organization’ s email system and passing it on to WikiLeaks for distribution to the Wide Wide World via the WWW. Why? Because it is an attempt to influence.  Now that being true…..what is demonstrating in the streets?

Now I know that foreigners within the US have the same rights for due process within our legal system. But those rights are limited.  For example….They don’t have the right to vote.  They don’t have the right to drive a car without an acceptable license….Or

But there is the First Amendment that says.....”…..  or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The crux of this is the words “..right of the people.” Who are the “people?”  Well, the Second  Amendment says, “…..the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

That makes it plain. “The people are citizens.” Various laws/regulations make it plain what the words mean.

“In general, non-immigrant aliens are forbidden to possess any firearms or ammunition. But there is a big exception for a legal alien who:
...is in possession of a hunting license or permit lawfully issued in the United States
(See Title 18, USC Chapter 44, Section 922, part (y)(2) for details.)

Green-card holders and immigrant aliens who do not yet have their green card are both okay under federal law, although many people (including gun dealers, law enforcement officers, etc.) are not aware of the distinction or the hunting license exception, and erroneously think that either you have a green card, or you can't have guns.

Also, non-citizen cannot purchase a firearm from a federally licensed firerams dealer unless they have been a resident of their state for 90 days. So, no, tourists on short visits cannot walk into guns stores to get "protection" during their trip. Sorry. (I've been asked that multiple times.)”

http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/education/all_amendments_usconst.htm

So you can’t come into this country with the intent of demonstrating and trying to influence us in the relationship with our government anymore than you hack the DNC legally.

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper “It’s the presumption that Obama knows how all these industries ought to be operating better than people who have spent their lives in those industries, and a general cockiness going back to before he was president, and the fact that he has no experience whatever in managing anything. Only someone who has never had the responsibility for managing anything could believe he could manage just about everything.” - Thomas Sowell in Reason Magazine

Been ice knowing you

It was 6 degrees at 6 AM...18 degrees at 9 AM

If this keeps up it will be 54 at noon, 108 at 3 PM and 216 at 6...

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

 “It’s the presumption that Obama knows how all these industries ought to be operating better than people who have spent their lives in those industries, and a general cockiness going back to before he was president, and the fact that he has no experience whatever in managing anything. Only someone who has never had the responsibility for managing anything could believe he could manage just about everything.” - Thomas Sowell in Reason Magazine