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Gun users battle Ottawa’s firearms ban at Supreme Court
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Democrat strategist Alencia Johnson was spinning wildly on CNN, accusing President Trump of taking away the voting rights of black Americans.
Scott Jennings didn’t interrupt her. Instead, he waited for her to finish.
When he entered the fray, he asked the one question that unraveled her entire narrative: “How?”
JOHNSON: “He is actually championing a bill that actually would take voting rights away from a lot of black people in this country, all during black history month, and then call the president the first black president and the first lady monkeys and apes in this during this month.”
“So this doesn’t absolve Donald Trump of his racism. We all know exactly who he is. The reality is the conversation, and the question should be, why do people continue to support him if they don’t want us to believe they are okay with racism?”
JENNINGS: “Wait, what voting rights is he taking away from black voters?”
JOHNSON: “The SAVE Act! That’s exactly what we’re talking about.”
JENNINGS: “How?”
JOHNSON: “That is actually going to disenfranchise overwhelmingly a lot of people of color.”
JENNINGS: “How? How?”
JOHNSON: “There are so many civil rights organizations that have run the data. If you look at the way it is going to disenfranchise black voters—”
JENNINGS: “How?”
JOHNSON: “It’s the same reason Chuck Schumer called it Jim Crow 2.0.”
JENNINGS: “How? You haven’t said how yet!”
JOHNSON: “I am talking about it. It’s the way that you’re putting new poll taxes on us.”
JENNINGS: “Poll taxes?!”
JOHNSON: “If you want to say that people have to prove that they are citizens, that they have to prove with a voter ID, the reality is you’re layering what is a constitutional right for the American people and making it harder for people to vote in this country, and it’s going to disenfranchise black voters.”
That’s when @ScottJenningsKY landed his knockout blow.
JENNINGS: “Does it concern you that you’re making all these claims you’ve yet to lay out how it’s hurting anyone.”
“But 76% of black voters think we should show an ID to vote. 80% of hispanic voters, 83% of the American people.”
“Are you saying that black voters are too dumb to know what’s good for them?”
“I mean, it sounds pretty condescending to me.”
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Erin, Ontario:
New residents of this new subdivision in small town Erin have created a community garbage pile. Just like we recently saw in Innisfil.
These people have no morals or shame, they dump their garbage in broad daylight.
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Erin, Ontario:
A fatigued mother yells at a group of men for setting off Diwali fireworks outside of her home at 1:40am.
She moved to small town Erin from Brampton to get away from these people. But they and the many problems associated with them followed her. This is the same neighbourhood that recently got attention for having a community garbage pile.
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Canadians relocated from urban centres to smaller towns to create distance from Somalis, Eritreans, and similar SA groups. My parents in their 80's moved because of people like this . At age ~ 95, now they are in a small community of white Christians away from primal types.
Erin, Ontario:
A fatigued mother yells at a group of men for setting off Diwali fireworks outside of her home at 1:40am.
She moved to small town Erin from Brampton to get away from these people. But they and the many problems associated with them followed her. This is the same neighbourhood that recently got attention for having a community garbage pile.
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In December 1950, nearly a thousand starving Korean war orphans stood shivering on the freezing docks at Inchon, waiting for Navy ships that never showed up.
Chinese and North Korean divisions were closing in fast on Seoul. Toddlers were crying in the snow. Older children carried babies on their backs because their parents were dead.
Two U.S. Air Force officers looked at those children and refused to leave them behind.
One was Chaplain Lieutenant Colonel Russell Blaisdell, who had been gathering abandoned infants off the streets of Seoul for months with Staff Sergeant Merle Strang. The other was Lieutenant Colonel Dean Hess, a former Ohio preacher turned Mustang fighter pilot who had painted the words "By Faith I Fly" on the side of his plane.
When the promised ships failed to arrive, Blaisdell made a desperate call to Air Force Combat Cargo Command. If they could get the children to Kimpo Airfield by morning, generals promised them transport planes.
There was just one problem: they had no way to move a thousand children twenty miles through bitter cold.
So Blaisdell and Strang went down to the harbor and commandeered a convoy of U.S. Marine trucks.
On the morning of December 20, 1950, fifteen four-engine Douglas C-54 Skymasters roared down onto Kimpo Airfield. American airmen stripped out seats and gear, wrapped shivering toddlers in oversized GI flight jackets, and carried them up the boarding ladders two at a time.
Planes meant for a few dozen troops lifted off packed with sixty-five children apiece.
In a single day, Operation Kiddy Car flew 964 Korean orphans and 80 orphanage staff to safety on Jeju Island, where Hess and Blaisdell helped establish an orphanage and kept flying in food and medicine out of their own pockets and unit donations.
Hollywood later turned their story into a movie, and Hess donated his royalties right back to the orphans of Korea.
Armies are built to break things. Yet time and again in American history, a handful of stubborn men in uniform stop a war for one morning just to carry somebody else's children out of the snow.
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Or maybe he knew the SoW would expect him to do exactly what he did. In fact, the DoD already made a statement praising the soldier’s actions. 🤪
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Preparations are underway for our Remembrance Day service and local flyovers.
Can’t make it out to the museum? Watch/stream live on @CHCHTV TV or stream on their YouTube channel at 10:30 am.
Lest we forget.
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Ed Heinemann was a great engineer. Among his many designs were the SBD Dauntless, A-20 Havoc, A-26 Invader, A-1 Skyraider (AKA Spad), A-3 Skywarrior, A-4 of many names, & F4D Skyray. He also oversaw development of the F-16 when he worked at General Dynamics.
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Lieutenant Weller’s A-4F Skyhawk lands aboard USS Hancock using emergency barricade, Sept 1972. The barricade was deployed when standard arresting gear could not be used. The Skyhawk, nicknamed “Heinemann’s Hot Rod,” was one of smallest carrier-capable jet aircraft ever built.
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There are 58,281 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and for decades thousands of those American dead were only letters cut in black granite.
Even the man who founded the Wall doubted a photograph could be found for every one. On August 9, 2022, the last face was found.
It began small. Janna Hoehn, a floral designer on Maui with no personal tie to the war, visited the Wall, picked a name at random and made a rubbing of it.
She wanted a photo of that man and could not find one. A cousin who knew genealogy finally did.
She sent it to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, and the Fund asked her to find the 42 fallen from Maui County. She went through old high school yearbooks and had all 42 in six months.
Then she kept going, state by state.
In 2014 more than 24,000 faces were still missing.
That year a Wisconsin newspaper publisher named Andrew Johnson joined the hunt. His son, 1st Lt. David Johnson, had been killed in Afghanistan in January 2012 at age 24.
Johnson said many Vietnam veterans "embraced me and let me know how much they loved my son." He rallied newspapers across his state, and in 2016 his own paper printed a section showing every Wisconsin face.
In western New York the final man had no picture anywhere. No school and no library had a copy of his high school yearbook.
A researcher found one for sale on eBay and bought it.
Puerto Rico was harder still. Hoehn said Hurricane Maria had destroyed libraries and high schools there, and New York libraries had no old yearbooks. Sometimes volunteers found the family and the family had no photo to share.
So for the last names the team got each man's basic training location from the national records center, and a volunteer searched old basic training books.
Hoehn's team posted about 8,000 photos. She found about 5,000 of them herself.
Hundreds of volunteers did the rest: cold calls, obituaries, library visits, small-town newspapers.
This Veterans Day, type any name from the Wall into the Wall of Faces online. A face looks back at you.
All 58,281 of them.
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People in the Netherlands are sick of seeing Palestine flags everywhere and are now ripping them down and throwing them in the trash.
“This flag symbolizes Islamic terrorism and conquest. It belongs in the garbage!”
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In America, strangers shake a soldier's hand at the airport.
In Japan, our troops hide their uniforms in backpacks on the morning train. No parades. No Veterans Day. Zero applause.
I live in Yokosuka, where US warships and Japan's fleet share the exact same water.
Loud 19 year old Americans, 6,000 miles from home, bowing way too low to the clerk at Lawson.
Stoic Japanese sailors who never ask for a single thank you.
Total opposites. Until the earth splits open.
In March 2011, when freezing black tsunami water and radiation turned our coast into hell, the world backed away.
Only two forces charged straight into the dark.
Japan's silent troops, whose own families were still missing in the mud.
And thousands of loud American kids who could not even read the names of the towns they were saving.
America honors warriors out loud with handshakes and standing ovations.
Japan honors warriors in dead silence, carrying the debt in our blood for a hundred years.
We may look quiet when we pass you outside the base gate.
Never mistake Japanese silence for forgetting.
To every American veteran who ever walked the streets of Yokosuka, Yokota, Okinawa, Iwakuni, Misawa, or Sasebo:
Stand tall today. You will always have brothers across the Pacific.