and that all higher education can be done online.
If you’re so inclined . . .
Please join us in sending Fred Arsenault a birthday card!
Rule, Britannia!
Today we congratulate and celebrate with our many friends & family in the United Kingdom. Kudos on a job well done!
Feel free to share in the joy via these webcams.
Concerned citizens of China are asking questions
Update: A close friend in Singapore, who shared the video with me, just shared this article. You can get Google to translate it for you. She got it from a fellow Singaporean who is currently trapped in Wuhan and not allowed to leave.
China signs Trade Deal with America
In what was described by many as impossible, early in this new year, China has signed a major trade deal with the U.S.:
The U.S. and China signed a trade deal that officials say will lead to a sharp increase in sales of U.S. goods and services to China, further open Chinese markets to foreign firms—especially in financial services—and provide strong new protections for trade secrets and intellectual property.
The eight-part agreement acts as a cease-fire in a two-year trade war that has roiled markets world-wide and cut into global growth. But it leaves in place U.S. tariffs on about $370 billion in Chinese goods, or about three-quarters of Chinese imports to the U.S.
A Tale of Two Tweets
The Islamic Republic of Iran deeply regrets this disastrous mistake.
My thoughts and prayers go to all the mourning families. I offer my sincerest condolences. https://t.co/4dkePxupzm
— Hassan Rouhani (@HassanRouhani) January 11, 2020
Is the new standard really that a president of the United States can’t defend against attacks on U.S. personnel by a terror regime because the regime might accidentally shoot down an airliner taking off from one of its own airports?
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) January 9, 2020
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
April 18, 1943: Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s airplane was shot down by US Army Air Forces fighters as part of Operation Vengeance. Yamato’s body was found the next day on Bougainville Island. “It raised morale in the United States and shocked the Japanese, who were officially told about the incident only on May 21, 1943.”
January 3, 2020: Iranian General Qasem Soleimani was killed at Baghdad International Airport by multiple missiles launched from a US MQ-9 Reaper drone after he left his plane and entered a vehicle. Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of US service personnel, and countless other people around the Arab world. In the aftermath of his death, endless Democrats and media pundits have condemned US President Trump for authorizing this drone strike.
1. No man in the world was directly involved in more conflicts, in more countries, over a longer period than Qassem Soleimani. His death is a HUGE loss for an Iranian regime that's actively fighting 3 cold/proxy wars-with America, Israel, and Saudi Arabia-that could all turn hot
— Karim Sadjadpour (@ksadjadpour) January 3, 2020
Related and very interesting Twitter account: @KimGhattas
Lest We Forget
Visit The Washington Monument While You Still Can
BREAKING: Senator Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill that would revoke Medals of Honor from U.S. soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) November 27, 2019
Related: Warren CRATERS in New Quinnipiac Poll, Drops 14 Points
Soldier
Lest We Forget
Further to Kate’s earlier post, I wanted to share two photos captured on my camera on June 6, 2019 at Juno Beach, Normandy, France.
The real culprits behind the lack of poppy wearing are the ungrateful zealots on the Far Left. They’ve spun a narrative that wearing a poppy is pro-war and, as these photos show, would force them to admit that white men actually have made positive contributions in the world. That’s a leap they’re unwilling to make.
Related: A Former Hungarian Refugee Asks: Have Canadians Lost The Will To Fight For Their Freedoms?
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
30 years ago today, something rather amazing happened.
Remembering 2001-09-11
Here are three first person 9/11 stories youve likely never heard before.
WW2: 80 Years Ago Today
History books generally denote September 1, 1939 as the start of World War Two but a whole lot happened in the decades before this, resulting in what we think of as WW2. This documentary provides a comprehensive view of the war and the events before the war.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Mystery Of The Black Death (h/t Oz)
July 20, 2019: Reader Tips
Thread’s open for tips and reminiscences.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
I’m mildly surprised they didn’t get Glenn confused with McCain.
The Vindication of Joseph McCarthy
It is time to examine the new evidence objectively and to reassess McCarthy, his activities, and Soviet espionage penetration of the U.S. government. (from 2016)
Reparations for slavery
Saturday, March 4, 1865: “Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
The Union armies had from 2,500,000 to 2,750,000 men. Their losses, by the best estimates:
Battle deaths: 110,070
Disease, etc.: 250,152
Total 360,222
The Confederate strength, known less accurately because of missing records, was from 750,000 to 1,250,000. Its estimated losses:
Battle deaths: 94,000
Disease, etc.: 164,000
Total 258,000
Four years of civil war changed all that forever. In 1865 the national debt stood at $2.7 billion. Just the annual interest on that debt was more than twice our entire national budget in 1860. In fact, that Civil War debt is almost twice what the federal government spent before 1860.
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Thursday, June 13, 2019: “WASHINGTON (AP) — The topic of reparations for slavery is headed to Capitol Hill for its first hearing in more than a decade with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover set to testify before a House panel.”
The Lost D-Day Documentary
Rediscovered in 2014, the film reels that make up this documentary often have remarkably clear film footage for the time. It provides a fascinating account of what occurred on D-Day and a few days following: