WHEN PENGUINS FLEW AND WATER BURNED This is the true memoir of one US Air Force navigator’s journey from the schoolhouses of Air Training Command to the nuclear alerts of the Cold War to combat in a 35-year-old anachronism called the B-52. It is a first-hand account of life during the last days of Strategic Air Command, the early days of Air Combat Command and the ensuing military drawdown of the 1990s. From peacetime training exercises across the globe to combat operations in Desert Storm, Jim Clonts takes the reader inside the cockpit where life and death are seconds apart. Often comical, sometimes heart-pounding, other times tragic, WHEN PENGUINS FLEW AND WATER BURNED takes you into the world of military aviation, a crucible where warriors learn the true nature of character, conscience and mortality.

Friends of Liberty VOL 51
by Jim Clonts, 2010

05/02/2010

Benjamin Franklin played a unique role in the founding of this country. Franklin was not a congressman, senator, cabinet secretary or even a president. He was considerably older than our other Founding Fathers and did not live very long beyond the birth of this nation. He was an inventor, a patriot, a journalist, an author and a diplomat. Franklin was also a persuader, an important voice for freedom. His method of persuasion was very different from most of our Founding Fathers. While most men sought to persuade through argument and vigorous debate, Franklin developed a very effective, almost passive means of persuasion. He did not directly attack his opposition's ideas. He felt public attack ensured continued disagreement, as egos were bruised. Instead, he asked logical, leading questions, he listened to the answer, and asked more questions. He was extremely artful, over the course of the debate, in getting his opponent to unwittingly dismantle the opposing argument, revealing to everyone the breakdown in logic.

This is the tact we might invoke when using Dry Powder. Modern Progressives love to extol the virtues of Liberalism, but when questioned, their logic breaks down, since most of their policies are based on emotion, rather than logic. If questioned properly, they will dismantle their own arguments. Most likely you will not convince ardent Liberals of their error. They may not even recognize the breakdown in their logic, but hopefully their answers will illuminate the illogic of their position to the casual bystander.

Since Immigration is in the news here is some Dry Powder for that topic:

Question #1:

How can anyone say opposing illegal immigration is racist? When the Federal Government turns a blind eye to Hispanics illegally entering the US, isn't that demonstrating racism against all the other ethnic groups in the world? Why should Hispanics get preferential treatment over Africans, Asians or Eastern Europeans? If it is all about wanting a better life for their families, don't the Somalis, the Ugandans, the Rwandans, the Bosnians, the Kurds, the Afghanis, the Indians or the Chinese count? Four billion people on this planet live in greater poverty than the average Mexican villager. Why do Liberals hate these people?

Question #2:

How is fostering a permissive environment for illegal immigrants not modern day slavery? Our Liberal policies have created a permanent underclass in this country that works for peanuts, has no vote in representative government, cannot rely on law enforcement for protection of their lives or assets and has no path to reach the American Dream. Is this about compassion for the illegal immigrant or holding down the price of our groceries? Legal immigrants receive all the rights named above.

Question #3:

Recently a supermarket chain in Arizona fired 300 illegal immigrants. They hired 300 American citizens the same day to replace them. I thought illegals only do jobs Americans won't do? By the way, immigrants have worked those same low paying, entry-level, types of jobs throughout our history. In the past they were Irish, Italian, Russian, German, Chinese and, yes, even Mexican. They also came through Ellis Island and were legal immigrants.

Questions #4:

We immigrate about 1.5 million people a year into the US legally. If we didn't get 1 million illegals a year, couldn't we legally immigrate more?

Questions #5:

Do you think the politicians wanting to grant amnesty to illegals have a great love for these people or just want their vote after they become citizens?

Question #6:

To keep up with illegal immigration into California, the state must build and open a new elementary school every day of the year. That's the equivalent of 500 new children entering the state every day. So how does California pay for this?

Question #7:

With the new Arizona law in place to duplicate Federal immigration laws and finally enforce them, some believe the police will simply use racial profiling and harass Hispanic-Americans. With the huge legal Hispanic population in Arizona, how can anyone believe they can racially profile? That's like Minnesota telling their State Troopers to pull over every white guy they come across. Really?

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