Why Did America Fight the Korean War?

 Makes one wonder about the consequence of America's lack of intervention in Russia's invasion of Ukraine 😦😟😳 😮

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Letter to LeBron James on his Birthday

pc: wikipedia

Happy Birthday (12.30.2018), 

Lebron James!

My bday gift to you is a wish that you not only be wealthy, but smart. Read the article below.

To:  Mr. Lebron James

The Los Angeles Lakers
2275 E. Mariposa Ave.
El Segundo, CA 90245

Dear Mr. James,

No one in my circles discusses French Modernist artists. That comforts me. Such a conversation would expose me as an illiterate on French Modernism, just as I am an illiterate on how to cook.

When I know nothing of subjects, my mouth stays closed. That's at least one difference in us. You are an economics illiterate. You prove it often. The dishonest "reporters" who cover you want to be your buddy. They won't embarrass you by being honest journalists and treating your words as economics illiteracy.

When you call Trump "a bum," none of them will tell you that statistics rank him as one of our best presidents for black Americans. His tax cuts and freeing us from absurd regulations have resulted in -- after only 18 months -- the lowest unemployment numbers ever for Hispanic and black Americans, and one of the lowest numbers for women.

DURING THOSE 18 MONTHS, TRUMP'S POLICIES CREATED ABOUT FOUR TIMES THE NUMBER OF MANUFACTURING JOBS CREATED DURING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S LAST 18 MONTHS. Remember when Obama mistakenly told us "Our lost manufacturing jobs are not coming back." Maybe manufacturing job growth depends on a president who knows what he's doing.

As a professional journalist, I cringe at some of Trump's buffoonery, like repeating sentences and wearing us out with "great," "fantastic" and other empty adjectives. He is often coarse. He was not my candidate. But there's no question his policies have helped many more minority Americans than Obama. It's not even close. Today, he's working to free many black and Hispanic prisoners who, in his opinion, have been in prison too long for relatively minor offenses. Are you aware of that effort?

You need to look up Gross Domestic Product, adjusted for inflation, and learn what it means to everyday Americans. Learn what one GDP point means to employment, and see how Trump has kept the number climbing.

Your buddy Obama? In addition to being our worst foreign affairs president and worst military commander-in-chief, his economic numbers all deserved an "F." He is our ONLY eight-year president who failed to give us at least one 3% or higher year of adjusted GDP growth. EVERY other president achieved at least one year of 4.28% or higher growth. Aided by Vietnam spending, Johnson had an 8.48 year. The best peacetime year -- 7.83 -- belonged to Reagan. And Obama couldn't even score a 3!!! Look it up.

You say you would speak to Obama but not Trump? How tragically uninformed you are. Obama had BY FAR the worst debt accumulation record of all our presidents. His economic blunders added about $9 trillion to our debt. NO OTHER PRESIDENT EVEN CAME CLOSE. That indebtedness will fall to you and your children.

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Poor families suffered most. Obama's awful job numbers forced a record number of people to take food stamps. Black household income under Obama fell steeply as black unemployment rose. Look that up, too.

But the worst part of what Trump inherited is that Obama, like Bush and Clinton before him, thought bribes and sweet talk were the best ways to deal with North Korea. As the North Koreans neared being able to wipe out Los Angeles with a nuclear-tipped missile, Trump became the first president to stand up boldly to the rogue nation. Notice North Korea, because of Trump, has stopped launching missiles over Japan? Notice North Korea has released political prisoners? Notice North Korea has begun to return remains of U.S. Service members? Absent sturdy spines, Clinton, Bush and Obama could not approach those major achievements.

Obama naively bribed the planet’s worst terrorist nation, Iran, with what was supposed to become a $150 billion handout. Did Obama not know many of those U.S. Tax dollars would help fund Hamas and Hezbollah terrorism? Of course he did. He just didn't care.

Remember the $800 billion of your and everyone else's tax dollars in his early stimulus for "shovel-ready jobs." Most of those tax dollars went to political cronies. He handed $500 million to Solyndra, a solar company run by boosters. The company soon went bankrupt. Our half-billion in tax money vanished with it.

Trump is often obnoxious, but people with courage can have that hangup. Obama always talked big, then feebly stood by when Putin infringed on Ukraine and annexed Crimea. But Obama's most cowardly move came when he warned Assad not to cross "the red line" in Syria. When Obama's warning was ignored, which Assad knew would happen, Obama did nothing. Does that make him a "bum?"

It makes me sad that you, as someone with a national voice would be so ignorant of economics, and also presidential decisions. I encourage you to do more reading and thinking as you watch the nation's GDP numbers rise and minority employment rise.

* Read about "Right To Try," which frees terminally ill people to sign a lawsuit waiver and take an experimental drug that might not be approved for many years. Democrats fought this sensible plan for years because it would cost them donations.

* Read about a Navy Obama left to Trump that struggled with about half its carrier aircraft unsafe to fly.

* Read about Trump's giving the VA the right to fire any employee who neglects or abuses a patient.

* Read about Trump's courage in challenging, actually demanding that, NATO partners to pay their fair share rather than keep mooching off the U.S.

You might also read the wisdom of two of the world’s brightest people, black intellectuals  Dr. Thomas Sowell and Dr. Walter Williams. They have written many books. Sowell and Williams’ integrity, remarkable insights and clarity of expression cause their common sense to soar off the page to readers.

Or, you could ignore vital Trump decisions and remain an illiterate on both presidential achievement and economics. If you disdain knowledge and keep calling Trump or any other U.S. president a bum, people will begin to wonder who's the real bum.

Sincerely,

Hal Lundgren 
(unverified, but not denied)

Year 2018

LeBron Raymone James Sr

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Thomas Sowell

List: POTUS Trump's Recent Accomplishments Including a First Win from Russian Summit

President Donald J. Trump Has Restored American Leadership 

On The World Stage

MOMENTUM FOR POSITIVE CHANGE WITH NORTH KOREA: President Donald J. Trump has taken a bold first step to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

-President Trump held a historic summit with Chairman Kim Jong Un.
-The summit marked a bold first step to achieving the complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
-During the summit, North Korea reaffirmed its commitment to complete denuclearization, agreed to help the United States recover POW/MIA remains, and committed to destroying a missile engine testing site.

1. -The summit built on the progress President Trump had already achieved, including: The return of three Americans detained in North Korea;
2. The March pledge by North Korea to refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests; and
3. The apparent closure of North Korea’s nuclear test site.

WITHDRAWING FROM THE UNACCEPTABLE IRAN DEAL: President Trump has ended United States participation in the disastrous Iran deal.

-President Trump terminated United States participation in the Iran deal, as it failed to protect America’s national security interests.

1. The one-sided “deal” gave Iran a windfall of cash, enabling its malign behavior.
2. The President directed his Administration to immediately begin the process of re-imposing sanctions on Iran.

-The Trump Administration has issued serious sanctions targeting Iranian entities and activities, including:

1. Financial and procurement networks supporting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force.
2. Iranian entities engaging in human rights abuses and censorship on behalf of the Iranian regime.
3. Iranian individuals providing ballistic missiles and technical expertise to Yemen’s Houthis.

DESTROYING ISIS: The Trump Administration has worked with allies to destroy ISIS and liberate territory previously occupied by the self-declared caliphate. 

-President Trump has empowered United States commanders with broad authority to defeat ISIS.
-ISIS has lost nearly all of its territory, more than half of which has been liberated under the Trump Administration.
-In December 2017, the Iraqi government announced all Iraqi territory had been liberated from ISIS control.
-ISIS’ self-proclaimed capital city Raqqah was recaptured in October 2017.

RESPONDING TO SYRIA’S USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS: President Trump has forcefully responded to the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons.

-The President authorized military strikes, responding to the Syrian regime’s savage chemical weapons attacks.

1. In April 2018, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France launched strikes against targets associated with the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons capabilities.
2. In April 2017, President Trump directed United States military forces to strike a Syrian airfield used in the regime’s chemical weapons attack earlier that month.

-President Trump has joined with allies to call on Syria to fully declare and dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal and to deter chemical weapons use worldwide.

-Since February 2017, the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has rolled out sanctions targeting 284 individuals and entities responsible for supporting the Syrian regime’s use of military force and chemical weapons against civilians.

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RECOGNIZING JERUSALEM AS ISRAEL’S CAPITAL: President Trump followed through on his promise to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and open the United States Embassy there.

-President Trump acted on his pledge to recognize the reality that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital and open the United States Embassy there.

1. In December 2017, President Trump announced the United States would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
2. In May 2018, the United States officially opened its Embassy in Jerusalem.

ETA:

Important --->  @ Helsinki: Putin Granted Israel's Request 

President Trump: The Big Picture

A First Win at Helsinki Summit

In Case You Haven't Figured Out What Dems Have Chosen

POTUS Accomplishments Up to Year 2017

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POTUS & Nobel Peace Prize 2018

A YEAR AGO, THE PROSPECT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP 

BEING CONSIDERED FOR A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 

WOULD HAVE SENT HIS CRITICS’ HEADS SPINNING. 

NOW, IF ALL GOES WELL IN U.S. NEGOTIATIONS WITH 

NORTH KOREA, TRUMP SHOULD BE THE ODDS-ON 

FAVORITE FOR AN AWARD HE WILL HAVE

 TRULY EARNED. - Jeffrey Grinder, Now The End Begins

~The Nobel Peace Prize

 is awarded each year

 on December 10th ~

President Trump: Odds on Favorite

Nobel Peace Prize

Alfred Nobel

8.6.13.18

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I Nominate UN Ambassador Nikki Haley for female POTUS

Whether it's N. Korea or the Middle-East, what an absolutely awesome UN  Ambassador! 

 You go, Ms Haley!  Great veto vote.  How dare the UN tell our country where to locate our American Embassy?!!! The absolute gall of these Israeli-hating bunch of inept, do-nothings, grrrr. 

  "Teddy Roosevelt once said that the key to foreign policy is to "walk softly and carry a big stick." In the past year,  Nikki Haley, the American Ambassador to the United Nations has been doing just that. This week, she's ever-so-gently been nudging anti-Semites at the U.N. with that stick."  -- Trey Bennett

Read the rest of the story below:

She's an Absolute BOSS!

Nikki Haley's speech to the UN

speech before UN Assembly

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Liberals are not Funny

Shut up! You’re gonna get us all killed!

Liberals are having serious palpitations with President Trump's rhetoric while dealing with North Korea. Their comedians respond with fear-inducing, nervous words which they mask in comedic timing; beginning with The Late Show's Stephen Colbert above (words in yellow, as in cowardly).
Mr Colbert: you realize that CNN just let go of its polling company, right? Click on link --> We are weary of Fake News, CNN   

my fave Koreans

My advice to these Liberal late-nighters: 

Get.A.Grip. You inspire weakness. Go home. Run to mommy. Move to Canada, if you insist. Seriously. 

And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.  Deuteronomy 20:8


Link to Fear-inducing  Late-Night FREAKouts

ETA:  N. Korea BLINKS first.
(an answer to prayer, for sure)