Two Cents For Tuesday

I am Tahoe bound tomorrow to finish some custom work in a prominent Sactown citizen's ski chalet, life is good. I like the rich, they pay us well and I/we return in service. The trades in america are hurting for young folks willing to learn to be a craftsman in a trade that will provide for them and a family always. I started at minimum wage some twenty odd years ago and now I am a master tradesman/journeyman currently doing work for some of the wealthiest people in California. My point is our youth need to understand the value of a trade as opposed to sales/retail, white collar or warehouse. The trades pay far better but you have to start at the bottom, with some break for experience. You get to sweat, get dirty, and play with power tools all day, you know, Tim the Toolman, LOL.
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Tonight's must read comes from the OPJ, actually they have two , here and here. The following is from the second link.
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"It is certainly true that learning about evils perpetrated in other times in other countries can too easily lead to a comfortable sense of moral superiority. That can, in its own way, undo what might otherwise be a teaching moment. All the same, however, things are not all the same. If the Gulag is interesting only as a means of turning a mirror on the injustices of our own penal system, it is arguably not interesting at all. The Gulag was, and is, a reductio ad absurdum of sorts of the Soviet system itself. It was where "counterrevolutionary" elements were sent to learn the virtues of work and of collectivism, but the lesson was predominantly that of man's inhumanity to man. All prisoners were slowly starved to death, and those too weak to work were starved faster than the strongest. Thus the weak grew weaker and the strong stronger. The overwhelming impression at the heart of the Gulag exhibit is just this--that cruel and arbitrary power lay at the heart of a system that purported to redress inequalities but instead etched them in stone."
Brian Carney

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Read them both.
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The New York Times and any other MSM agent that prints or otherwise damages our war effort should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, that is my opinion of the latest "disclosure" by the Time, dispicable. I knew this program existed, why broadcast it to the enemy?