Picture this. You receive a phone call from an individual who tells you that they are going to break into your home. Furthermore, they tell you how they are going to break in, and when. Of course you contact the police to report the call. They tell you that there is nothing they can do to help you. In addition, they inform you that you must do nothing to stop the home invasion, that the home invaders have rights which you must not violate! Crazy, you say? Well maybe, but this is exactly what is happening on our southern border as we speak.
A “caravan” of Central Americans has been allowed by Mexico to transit their country en route to illegally entering the United States. The members of the caravan have been coached by lawyers provided by “immigrant” advocacy groups as to what to say to American authorities in order to be granted asylum in our country. What a travesty. Continue reading Compassion or Stupidity?
The country we know as Great Britain or the “United Kingdom” is composed of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Most of our legal system is loosely based on “English Common Law”. The majority of the original group of Europeans who settled in North America were from those countries.
For years I have tried to come to grips with the basic concepts practiced by self declared “Liberal” or “Progressive” individuals. I have finally come to the conclusion that they live in a world which they wish existed, rather than in the “real” world environment.
Surviving a long flying career requires attention to details and the ability to follow a complex set of “rules” along the way. Most of those rules made sense to me, but one in particular did not.
In January of 1915, the first use of a lethal poison gas as a battlefield weapon occurred when Germany fired shells loaded with xylyl bromide at Russian troops on the Eastern Front. More than 1000 were killed by the substance. Then, on the morning of April 22, 1915 at the French city of Ypres, a German attack was proceed by the normal artillery “softening up” bombardment. After it stopped, the Allied defenders waited in their trenches for the infantry attack to begin. Instead, slowly blown by a gentle breeze from the east, a white cloud of vapor advanced across “No Man’s Land” and into their trenches. Along a four mile front, two divisions of French and Algerian Colonial troops were devastated by the horrific effect of this new weapon of terror, which would soon be used by both sides in various forms during the conflict. The age of gas warfare had begun. 
The Navajo are an extremely interesting and complex people. Formerly fierce warriors who warred with neighboring tribes, the Spaniards, Mexicans and finally newly arrived Americans, they were finally defeated by the U.S. Army commanded by the famous “Mountain Man” Kit Carson in 1863. His scorched earth campaign ended with their surrender and the infamous “Long Walk” from Canyon de chelly to the Bosque Redondo in southern New Mexico, a distance of 300 miles, during which many died of exposure and exhaustion.
As I watch the continuing apparent witch hunt being conducted by Special Council Robert Mueller, I am becoming more and more concerned about the existence of what has been described as the “Deep State” in Washington, DC.
In 1949, British author George Orwell wrote a novel called “1984”. It was a dark view of what could happen to formerly free countries if their citizens allowed their government to achieve excessive control over their lives.
Early in my airline career I tried to be a sponge, soaking up the vast pool of aviation knowledge stored in the brains of the TWA Captains I flew with. I soon realized I had to be more selective, filing away the really good stuff, and discarding what later proved to be faulty or even totally false. One comment has stuck with me over the years because it applies to all facets of life, not just aviation.
Once again the debate rages. To “Wall” or not to “Wall” off our southern border. To the “Globalists” on the left, led by unsavory billionaires like George Soros and company, there should be no borders at all. The concept of national security and integrity is passé, they say, everyone and everything should be able to pass seamlessly and unrestricted from one region on the planet to another. Unemotionally, let’s examine that concept.