THIRD GRADE STRATEGY
Miss Smith enjoyed her job as a Third Grade teacher. The enthusiasm of the 8 year old’s made her work meaningful and exciting.
The one problem that she had though is that she was in a minority.
Her brother was a Marine on duty in Afghanistan. Her father had been a Marine in Vietnam and her grandfather had survived the winters and the bullets of Korea while in the Army.
Miss Smith, because of family history, was a “Conservative”.
One morning on her way to school she heard something on the radio that disturbed her very much. She decided to try an experiment with her class.
“Who would like to pretend to be a General…..” but before she could finish her sentence little Willy Simpson was running to her desk waving both arms yelling, “Me. Me”
“You didn’t let me finish. We are going to play a little geography game today and the General will be the most important General today.
He will have to make a serious decision because he will be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Do you know what that means, Willy?”
“No Miss Smith.”
Willy was far from being the brightest kid in the class but she always appreciated his enthusiasm so she said, “OK Willy. You will be the General.”
She handed Willy a piece of string with a lot of knots in it.
“Willy, each one of those knots represents a thousand miles on the globe on the table over there.
Everyone who has watched TV must know where Iran is so Willy, put one end of the string in the center of Iran and hold it there. Move the string over to the Capitol of the United States, Washington, DC.
How far is it from Iran to our Capitol?”
Willy stretched out the string and said, “About six and a half knots.”
“Very good”, Miss Smith said, “That’s about six and a half thousand miles.”
“Now Willy, holding the string look at the globe and tell me what country is about two and a half knots from Iran.”
Willy looked and said, “Poland.”
“Very good Willy. Can you see the city that the string passes over?”
“Warsaw.”
“And what’s just past Poland?”
“The Baltic Sea.”
“Now General, suppose that someone in Iran wanted to shoot an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, an ICBM, at our Capitol and you wanted to shoot it down before it hit Washington would you want to shoot it down over the United States or somewhere else?”
“Probably somewhere else,” Willy answered.
“Willy, an ICBM travels very fast, about 15,000 miles per hour, and in ten minutes after it was fired it would pass over Poland. What would you do?”
General Willy answered, “I would ask the Polish people to shoot it down.”
Let’s get back to reality. If an ICBM fired from Iran fell short of it’s projected distance to Washington it would land in either New England or a bit further on, New York.
Do we have an anti-ballistic missile defense system in the US? According to the media we do not and will not until near the end of this decade.
Did we have an anti-ballistic missile system that could have been deployed in Poland?
Even a third-grader could figure that one out.
Copyright: John W. Malenda April 2010
Arizona lawmakers have approved changes to the state’s controversial law cracking down on illegal immigrants. The changes were designed to answer charges made by protesters that it will lead to racial profiling by police. The original law stated police can conduct an immigration status check during any quote “lawful contact,” if they have reasonable suspicion a person is an illegal immigrant. It replaces “lawful contact” with “lawful stop, detention or arrest,” clarifying police may not stop people without cause. The revised law also removes the word “solely” from the phrase “The attorney general or county attorney shall not investigate complaints that are based solely on race, color or national origin.” Read the new Arizona Immigration Law
I’m not certain that the New Arizona immigration law has anything to do with my posting of an anti-ballistic system but I will respond to it anyway.
I’m an old white guy who stops at all traffic lights and stop signs, who drives a conservative Subaru Outback and who drives within the speed limit.
I live in CT and periodically get stopped at a “routine check” to show my driver’s license, registration and insurance card.
I have yet to go screaming to the ACLU that it is against my Constitutional Rights.
I can’t check into a hotel in a foreign country without showing my Passport and Customs Card which shows how long I intend to stay.
Wise up people. It’s for your own good.
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