The Last A6M3 Zero - Her Soul-Crushing Story Will Leave You Speechless - World War Wings
"...An estimated 11,000 A6M Zeros were produced during WWII, a number far beyond any other Japanese fighters yet this plane remains an absolute rarity with only a handful of non-replica models still in existence.
A6M Zero designs nearing the end of WWII were different from other previous models because they had no bulletproof glass, no self-sealing fuel tanks and a very fragile frame.
By 1944 the A6M Zeros weren’t meant for dogfights, they were meant for suicide missions.
The video that follows shows the last existing A6M3 model on earth and the painful story of the men who piloted the plane that once ruled the skies over the Pacific."
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Thursday, June 07, 2018
3 Million People Have Found Jobs Since Trump Took Office
3 Million People Have Found Jobs Since Trump Took Office:"The good economic news just keeps rolling in.
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a positive May jobs report, announcing the U.S. economy added 223,000 jobs and the unemployment rate reached its lowest level since 2000, dipping to 3.8 percent."
U.S. Student Loan Debt Hits Staggering $1.5 Trillion | Trending
U.S. Student Loan Debt Hits Staggering $1.5 Trillion | Trending:
"The amount of outstanding student loan debt just hit a staggering number: $1.5 trillion.
An important statistic associated with this number?
Women hold nearly two-thirds of all U.S. student debt, according to a report recently published by the American Association of University Women.
CNN Money notes that one reason women hold more debt than men is because more women go to college than their male counterparts.
In fact, 56 percent of students who enrolled in higher education in fall of 2016 were women.
But that's not all. "More women take out loans, and when they do, they borrow more money.
The average woman owes $2,740 more than a man upon finishing a bachelor's degree...
Women are also repaying their debt more slowly, which can mean they're paying more in interest over time."
Student loan debt seems to be a bigger source of strain on Americans than other common forms of debt, such as auto loan debt (which is currently at $1.1 trillion) and credit card debt (which currently stands at $977 billion)..."
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"The amount of outstanding student loan debt just hit a staggering number: $1.5 trillion.
An important statistic associated with this number?
Women hold nearly two-thirds of all U.S. student debt, according to a report recently published by the American Association of University Women.CNN Money notes that one reason women hold more debt than men is because more women go to college than their male counterparts.
In fact, 56 percent of students who enrolled in higher education in fall of 2016 were women.
But that's not all. "More women take out loans, and when they do, they borrow more money.
The average woman owes $2,740 more than a man upon finishing a bachelor's degree...
Women are also repaying their debt more slowly, which can mean they're paying more in interest over time."
Student loan debt seems to be a bigger source of strain on Americans than other common forms of debt, such as auto loan debt (which is currently at $1.1 trillion) and credit card debt (which currently stands at $977 billion)..."
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Another Federal Appeals Court Delivers Victory for Our National Motto – In God We Trust – This Time Against a Satanist | American Center for Law and Justice
Another Federal Appeals Court Delivers Victory for Our National Motto – In God We Trust – This Time Against a Satanist | American Center for Law and Justice:
"Within just days of one victory in a National Motto case, another federal appellate court dismissed a similar lawsuit brought by a Satanist. The self-proclaimed “Satanist,” Kenneth Mayle, had sued the United States government, claiming that the National Motto – “In God We Trust” – on currency violates his constitutional rights under the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses. Specifically, Mayle claimed that, in holding and using currency, he is compelled to proclaim the “existence of” and “trust in” God, which contradicts his Satanist beliefs."
How they "think"-----Star-Spangled Bigotry: The Hidden Racist History of the National Anthem
Star-Spangled Bigotry: The Hidden Racist History of the National Anthem"Americans generally get a failing grade when it comes to knowing our “patriotic songs.”
know more people who can recite “America, F—k Yeah” from Team America than “America the Beautiful.”
“Yankee Doodle”?
No one older than a fifth-grader in chorus class remembers the full song. “God Bless America”?
More people know the Rev. Jeremiah Wright remix than the actual full lyrics of the song.
...In the case of our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” perhaps not knowing the full lyrics is a good thing.
It is one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon, and you would be wise to cut it from your Fourth of July playlist..."
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California Conservatives Remember Reagan, Await His Successor | National Review
California Conservatives Remember Reagan, Await His Successor | National Review
"...Of course, it is common to have a nostalgic view of Ronald Reagan, as model of genial, principled conservatism that might return to accelerate California’s salvation.
But a review of the 1966 gubernatorial campaign reveals one of the nastiest races in California memory.
Reagan gave back everything that Edmund Brown Sr. dished out to him, and won by rivaling a later Trump in his often cruel invective.
Reagan castigated “welfare bums,” and promised to clean up the “mess” at Berkeley.
And when governor, after failed popular demands that he be recalled, Reagan kept at it with rhetoric that again rivals Trump’s worst.
Of the People’s Park demonstrations, he declared, “If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with.
No more appeasement.”
And he joked that he hoped the free food for poor communities leveraged by the terrorist SLA might be infected by botulism.
Quite simply, Reagan did not call for a thousand points of light or a kinder, gentler state.
Reagan was an effective governor, but the idea that he was a uniter is also simply not true, at least not until his second presidential term.
He turned a blue state red by damning the Democrats’ expansion of welfare dependency and promised to crack down hard on criminals and cheats (e.g., putting “the welfare bums back to work”).
...He won the governorship in part through his prior renegade stance at the boisterous 1964 San Francisco Republican convention, when he joined the right-wing populist Goldwater, who snatched the nomination from the old-guard low-energy Rockefeller Republicans.
He further infuriated the Republican status quo by running a last-minute insurgent campaign for president against the establishmentarian Nixon in 1968, and in 1976 by challenging Republican incumbent President Jerry Ford — an acrimonious, insurrectionary, and divisive primary for which Reagan was later blamed for the Carter victory.
Indeed, the Republican establishment, despite its current nostalgia, never much liked Reagan until he won the presidency, blasting him as a yahoo who wanted to keep the Panama Canal or a voodoo economist who thought that cutting taxes and spending more on defense would lead to balanced budgets..."
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And this!
Ronald Reagan Would Hate What Trump Is Doing To America, Daughter Says
“...He (Reagan) would plead with Americans to recognize that the caustic, destructive language emanating from our current president is sullying the dream that America once was,” she added.
“And in a time of increased tensions in the world, playing verbal Russian roulette is not leadership, it’s madness.”
Davis also scolded Trump for his “verbal violence” when he was a nominee..."
Heh!
"...Of course, it is common to have a nostalgic view of Ronald Reagan, as model of genial, principled conservatism that might return to accelerate California’s salvation.
But a review of the 1966 gubernatorial campaign reveals one of the nastiest races in California memory.
Reagan gave back everything that Edmund Brown Sr. dished out to him, and won by rivaling a later Trump in his often cruel invective.
Reagan castigated “welfare bums,” and promised to clean up the “mess” at Berkeley.
Of the People’s Park demonstrations, he declared, “If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with.
No more appeasement.”
And he joked that he hoped the free food for poor communities leveraged by the terrorist SLA might be infected by botulism.
Quite simply, Reagan did not call for a thousand points of light or a kinder, gentler state.
Reagan was an effective governor, but the idea that he was a uniter is also simply not true, at least not until his second presidential term.
He turned a blue state red by damning the Democrats’ expansion of welfare dependency and promised to crack down hard on criminals and cheats (e.g., putting “the welfare bums back to work”).
...He won the governorship in part through his prior renegade stance at the boisterous 1964 San Francisco Republican convention, when he joined the right-wing populist Goldwater, who snatched the nomination from the old-guard low-energy Rockefeller Republicans.
He further infuriated the Republican status quo by running a last-minute insurgent campaign for president against the establishmentarian Nixon in 1968, and in 1976 by challenging Republican incumbent President Jerry Ford — an acrimonious, insurrectionary, and divisive primary for which Reagan was later blamed for the Carter victory.
Indeed, the Republican establishment, despite its current nostalgia, never much liked Reagan until he won the presidency, blasting him as a yahoo who wanted to keep the Panama Canal or a voodoo economist who thought that cutting taxes and spending more on defense would lead to balanced budgets..."
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Ronald Reagan Would Hate What Trump Is Doing To America, Daughter Says
“...He (Reagan) would plead with Americans to recognize that the caustic, destructive language emanating from our current president is sullying the dream that America once was,” she added.
“And in a time of increased tensions in the world, playing verbal Russian roulette is not leadership, it’s madness.”
Davis also scolded Trump for his “verbal violence” when he was a nominee..."
Heh!
Social Security now running a deficit; Medicare to hit insolvency three years earlier than projected - Washington Times
Social Security now running a deficit; Medicare to hit insolvency three years earlier than projected - Washington Times:
"Social Security will spend more than it collects this year, the program’s trustees said Tuesday, marking the first time in more than 35 years that it will run an annual deficit as it slides toward insolvency by 2034.
Medicare’s main trust fund is in even worse shape, scheduled to hit insolvency in 2026 — three years earlier than last year’s estimate, the trustees said.
The twin warnings add even more pressure to a budget already strained by last year’s tax cuts and this year’s deal to boost spending on defense and basic domestic needs, leaving few bright spots in the federal fiscal picture..."
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Medicare’s main trust fund is in even worse shape, scheduled to hit insolvency in 2026 — three years earlier than last year’s estimate, the trustees said.
The twin warnings add even more pressure to a budget already strained by last year’s tax cuts and this year’s deal to boost spending on defense and basic domestic needs, leaving few bright spots in the federal fiscal picture..."
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