Posted on 04/21/2017 9:52:34 AM PDT by blam
Must be that “Chinese Privilege.” Or maybe China hasn’t flooded itself with below-average IQ immigrants since 1965. Hmm...I wonder.
Your right pictures remind me of a snap I once looked at years ago. It was a snap of the runways at RAF Upper Heyford where I was once detached-assigned out of Croughton England to.
That former US F-111 base became an import parking lot for import cars.
Depressing to me personally even if I did used to call those jockey’s ‘fighter pukes.’
You’ll never get through the ignorance of some here. They are building crap SSBN subs, 4 at a time, inside a giant purpose built building. All of our computers and phones come from there. They can currently put men in space and we cant. All that means nothing to some here. It echoes the pre WWII view of the Japanese. Crappy vision, and they would suck as soldiers and pilots.
“A commonly held view was that the Japanese were subhuman or evolutionarily inferior. It was an all too common idea among not only the Americans but among the other Allies as well. British Under-Secretary of the Foreign Office Sir Alexander Cadogan referred to the Japanese as “little yellow dwarf slaves” referring to the average height difference between Anglos and Japanese. Chiefs of Staff felt “no reason to believe that Japanese standards are even comparable with those of the Italians.” In one of the most famous, and perhaps most fantastic and blatant misconceptions of the Japanese, historian Arthur Marder thought the Japanese to be inherently inferior, especially in the art of war, for several reasons, one being “because of their eye slits… the Japanese fighter pilots could not shoot straight, and Japanese naval officers could not see in the dark”. Captain Vivian from Tokyo said that Japanese were incapable of springing surprise in battle because they have “peculiarly slow brains”. The West was still convinced during the early part of the war that Japan was of Japan’s inherently inferior. John Dower offers his explanation:
“Because the Pearl Harbor attack came so unexpectedly—so literally out of the
blue, as the saying goes—most Westerners also regarded Japan’s imitation of war as high folly… The attack thus managed to reinforce existing impressions of the Japanese as unpredictable and fundamentally irrational—even though, upon calmer appraisal, it might as easily have been interpreted as evidence of the relentless logic of Japanese war planning.”
It is hard to believe that amidst all this anti-Japanese rhetoric, President Roosevelt was totally immune to the circulating sentiment. He, in fact, was not. Sir Ronald Campbell, a British delegate in the United States, wrote to Sir Alexander Cadogan about his observations of President Roosevelt.
“He had set one Professor Krdlicka of the Smithsonian Institute, to work on a private study of the effect of racial crossing… The President has asked the Professor why the Japanese were as bad as they were. The Professor had said the skulls of these people were some 2,000 years less developed than ours (this sounds very little, doesn’t it?). The President asked whether this might account for the nefariousness of the Japanese and had been told it might, as the might well be the basic stock of the Japanese”
Assembly line shipbuilding.
Pioneered by Henry Kaiser in WWII.
When America was at the top of her game.
His Kaiser shipyards built a total of 2,710 Liberty Ships between 1941 and 1945.
They built ships displacing 10,000 tons to 15,000 tons in 4 to 7 days.
Try that in America today with all the government restrictions and regulations and labor union demands.
A big part of the work force was female as most of the men were in uniform off fighting the war.
The thing everyone is missing is that our sub force had a story yesterday that we are working hard to make sure our subs are designed for women to more easily function in.
They are building an SSBN force. And just ONE sub getting in range could destroy the nation. 140= nukes going off across the US could change our way of life noticeably.
I think you really do understand they aren’t the stereotypical idiots like so many like to portray them as.
This is a real problem with which we don’t have the collective determination or resources to combat. That’s gone. We have to be better while we still can and hope to compete on the same field. To chalk them up as a hopeless threat is foolish indeed.
So.....I’m presuming that day of final retribution - that one-strike that gets within whatever boundaries will be at some time other than those noise, making natural cycles that could tend to some kind of clamor that could be heard?
Did you peek into my brain? That is exactly what was floating in my brain.
Very good post. Americans have invented a lot of things. But the profits are made by the Japanese, Koreans and Chinese in actually manufacturing American inventions.
If you do not believe me, you have not been shopping much.
Shouldn’t be hard to find their subs since they will be the glow-in-the-dark variant.
If you do not do your part to ensure that upcoming generations apply themselves, we will surely sink into the same abyss into which Rome and all of the other ancient empires descended.
Young people today, as a whole, do NOT focus on educational pursuits. They are very much self-absorbed.
Enjoy smoking redneck pole.
I coached a debate team at a local high school in a mostly lower-middle income communnity last year. Now, the class was an elective, so these were probably some of the smarter more motivated kids in the school. That said, I was constantly impressed by how smart and hard working almost all of them were. Did have a few outliers on the lower end. But also had three truly brilliant kids, one of which was far harder working and smarter than all the rest. He got a full ride to a major university. Good thing, too — his family was definitely on the lower end of the income scale.
Then again, I saw a lot of the other students while walking through the school to coach the class. An awful lot were constantly on their phones even in class.
IOW, agree 100% with your assessment.
Probably ours. After all, I would not be surprised if plans were part of the tech Clinton let them get their hands on.
Wow!
Can someone now post the pic showing how Detroit has changed over those two times?
Yep, we should always underestimate the possible capabilities of a potential adversity.
It will make things more exciting if heaven forbid we ever have to face off.
On the other hand, parents need to help their children focus on education. They need to moderate their use of social media. It is alarming to witness children in technology classes being incapable of working simple algebra problems or understanding technical material. The young ones I observe are very slow working, quite incapable of getting lab assignments finished in a reasonable time. I am allegedly teaching advanced students.
Now all moaning aside, I have four tip-top performers in my class. Those students are heartwarming weapons-grade technocrats. For the record, one Chinese and three Caucasian. The remaining 21 taper off rather abruptly.
They must put down the damn phones.
Could not agree more! (I used to be an engineer, too.)
The Chinese are in the process of taking over as the worlds leading power.
The only things that may hold them back is the complexity of their written language, lack of educational opportunity for their back country peasants, and the lack of a political opposition in their one-party state.
To not see this is to not be paying attention.
I guess their’s a difference in mental ability based upon where you are born. Perhaps America is better suited to bring the best in the Asian brain. It seems to do that for every other race.
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