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Yesterday, December 12, was Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday. His voice, his songs, his acting, his personality, his legend - they still shine and give pleasure to millions of people all over the world. A child of humble Italian parents, Sinatra made it big in America and paid back with his immense talent to the country he loved.
I've Got You Under My Skin (Your blogger's favorite song by Frank Sinatra)
This year celebrates another anniversary. November 25th, 2015 was the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity - without which you would be literally lost, says a Daily Mail writer, and will explain why.
These two apparently unrelated events have one thing in common: Sinatra was the child of Italian immigrants, and Albert Einstein migrated into America fleeing from Nazi persecution in Europe. He too became a proud American citizen and did his part by teaching and doing physics research at Princeton University.
There was a time when immigrants felt gratitude to their new country, and were proud to contribute in any way they could.
They were not expected to become Nobel Prize winners. Millions of immigrants did what they could to earn a living while helping in the growth and development of their country - whether as construction workers, shopkeepers, or street cleaners. No job was too humble for them, as long as their children could have an opportunity to receive a proper education and escape poverty.
Nineteenth century immigrant children salute the flag at Mott Street Industrial School, New York City. Today's immigrants find the US flag offensive, and teachers oblige by removing it from school premises.
A poor immigrant Jew observes the Sabbath in a coal cellar in a 19th century New York City slum. His children or grandchildren probably became doctors or academics. Hard work and education were a key to success, in spite of university quotas against Jewish students and widespread anti-Semitic discrimination.
Today non-white students demand and feel entitled to the benefit of affirmative action at universities and the workplace - regardless of personal merit.
A sweatshop. Everyone had to work under all kinds of difficult conditions. There were no welfare payments then. But social injustice did not elicit vengeful hate and violence against society. People worked, took care of their family, and persevered.
These days immigrants from the Middle East come with an attitude of entitlement and animosity against America.
That animosity is too often expressed in angry grievances, demands for accommodation to their religious and cultural beliefs, lawsuits for discrimination, hate speech against Jews and other non-Muslims, a refusal to assimilate (how could they, when their religion forbids it), and every once in while in acts of violence and even mass carnage against innocent people.
That is their contribution: division, hate, a Muslim supremacist world view that contradicts every single positive value on which America was built, and too often violence.
So, as we celebrate Frank Sinatra and Albert Einstein, we look back with sadness and a sense of foreboding. We are not importing people like them anymore. Not only that. Our leaders are engaged in a conspiracy of deceit by proclaiming that Islam is a religion of peace, although Islam's true nature is for all to see in the words of the Koran, the Hadith, and in the chilling speeches of reputable imams all over the Muslim world, including in the West.
Daily Mail: How you'd be lost without Einstein
The basis of general relativity describes how mass and space are related to each other and states that matter can bend and warp the fabric of space and time due to the effects of gravity.
GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS 
- We use them everyday to find our way around cities, to track objects and even to time financial transactions.
- But GPS systems owe a debt of gratitude to Einstein and his thought experiments, without which they would not exist at all.
- The highly precise clocks have oscillators that function not on springs or pendulums, but atoms.
- The level of precision required for satellites is down to this atom clock, whose ticks must be known to an accuracy of 20 to 30 nanoseconds.
- Because the satellites are constantly moving relative to the Earth, effects predicted by Einstein's theory must be taken into account.
- In particular, the pull of gravity is stronger on Earth than in the satellite's orbit, meaning time is passing marginally faster in the latter than it is in the former.
- The precision of atomic clocks makes the desired accuracy achievable and GPS technology corrects this discrepancy to make the location accurate.
