The Fascinating Story Behind Why So Many Nail Technicians Are Vietnamese

Celeste Hoang
"Many got their start in the field thanks to Hollywood star Tippi Hedren."

Photos added by TD

"Most Americans recognize Tippi Hedren for her starring role in Alfred Hitchcock’s horror film The Birds—but among the Vietnamese American community, her reputation is for something a little more serious: being a cornerstone of the immigrant community's economy.

"Forty years ago, the Hollywood actor traveled to Hope Village, a Vietnamese refugee camp near Sacramento, California, to meet with a group of women who had recently fled the takeover of South Vietnam by the armed forces of Communist leader Ho Chi Minh. Hedren was aware of the difficulties the refugees had faced and had been trying before her visit to think of a skill or trade she could help the women learn so they could support themselves in their adopted country. When she met with the group, she was surprised to find they were enamored with her manicure.

“We were trying to find vocations for them. I brought in seamstresses and typists—any way for them to learn something,” she told the BBC. “And they loved my fingernails.' ” . . .More. . . 

Tippi Hedren with the first Vietnamese manicure class receiving
 their cosmetology licenses in 1975. (Photo: Thuan Le)

Hat tip to Sue Fulton Robinson; Garibaldi, Oregon

The left is pacifist and gentle until they encounter conservative Americans

Violent attacks against Trump supporters increasing . . . "And as is predictable at these scenes where human beings behave like rabid dogs, protestors burned the American flag.

Michelle Bachmann, who attended the fundraiser, said the mob was running in a wild frenzy, targeting Trump supporters as well as the police, screaming “F*** the police! F*** the police!”

. . . 

It’s a frightening time in America. Threading the needle this November may be our last chance to attempt to resuscitate our nation. I don’t write that to sound dramatic. I just think it’s the truth.

To follow this subject matter closely, in addition to Breitbart, Western Journalism has been providing excellent coverage, here. Additional research for this blog,here, here, here, here, and here.

Donors assaulted at Trump fundraiser in Minneapolis . . . "The press is downplaying the violence, but as you can see from the video it was pretty intense. Perhaps the media realizes that the more they cover the anti-Trump violence against Trump supporters, the candidate's numbers go up. 

"Expect more violence from the anti-Trump thugs the closer we get to the election."

TRUMP SUPPORTERS ATTACKED BY ANGRY LEFTIST MOB IN MINNEAPOLIS

"There was no outrage expressed by the media in another glaring double standard that has been used against Trump since the outset of his campaign."

Trump crowd chants ‘do your job!’ at CNN crew

The American Mirror  "Americans are fed up with the mainstream media.

Prior to the start of Donald Trump’s rally in Frederick, Virginia on Saturday, the crowd chanted “Do you job!” at a crew from CNN."

"But they weren’t done.

"Moments later, they chanted, “tell the truth!” as well.

. . .
"The cameraman’s CNN logo was a dead giveaway.

"Maybe they’ll start trying to go incognito, as Fox News sometimes does when it ventures into hostile territory.

"An April study found just 6% of Americans have trust in the media."

"Petition: Send CNN’s Sally Kohn To A Country That Practices Sharia Law Without Bodyguards…"

Weasel Zippers

 

"As a progressive she should enjoy the ‘progressive Muslims’.

"Via The Daily Caller:

A Change.org petition to send left-wing talking head and CNN political commentator Sally Kohn to a country which practices Sharia law for a week without bodyguards has begun to pick up steam.

Earlier this week, Kohn faced strong backlash after she tweeted, “Hey @realDonaldTrump, many *progressive Muslims* — the ones we should support in ideological fight against extremism — believe in Sharia!!”[…]

A lot of right-wing nazi bigots are saying Sally Kohn is an idiot for showing support for Sharia Law, especially considering that she is a gay woman. As progressives, we know both Sharia Law and Muslims are tolerant and very LGBTQ friendly.

In order to show how LGBTQ friendly the Sharia, and it’s practitioners, are, Sally Kohn should spend a week’s holiday proudly displaying her homosexuality in Raqqa/Riyadh or any other place where Sharia is the law of the land, without guards of course, to show how safe, and how pro LGBTQ these practitioners of Sharia Law are.

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American journalism is collapsing before our eyes

Michael Goodwin  

. . . "The frenzy to bury Trump is not limited to the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House. They are working hand-in-hand with what was considered the cream of the nation’s news organizations.

"The shameful display of naked partisanship by the elite media is unlike anything seen in modern America.

"The largest broadcast networks — CBS, NBC and ABC — and major newspapers like The New York Times and Washington Post have jettisoned all pretense of fair play. Their fierce determination to keep Trump out of the Oval Office has no precedent.

"Indeed, no foreign enemy, no terror group, no native criminal gang, suffers the daily beating that Trump does. The mad mullahs of Iran, who call America the Great Satan and vow to wipe Israel off the map, are treated gently by comparison." . . .

Clinton Aide Huma Abedin Worked for Radical Muslim Publication That Blamed U.S. for 9/11

"If fighting for women’s rights is one of Clinton’s greatest achievements, why has she retained as her closest adviser a woman who gave voice to harsh Islamist critiques of her Beijing platform?"  Paul Sperry, author of  “Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington.”

Jammie Wearing Fools   "Call us crazy, but this seems more newsworthy than goofball swimmers acting like goofballs. Yet with the sorry state of journalism these days, don’t expect this to get any attention at all.

Hillary Clinton’s top campaign aide, and the woman who might be the future White House chief of staff to the first female US president, for a decade edited a radical Muslim publication that opposed women’s rights and blamed the US for 9/11.

One of Clinton’s biggest accomplishments listed on her campaign Web site is her support for the UN women’s conference in Bejing in 1995, when she famously declared, “Women’s rights are human rights.” Her speech has emerged as a focal point of her campaign, featured prominently in last month’s Morgan Freeman-narrated convention video introducing her as the Democratic nominee.

However, soon after that “historic and transformational” 1995 event, as Clinton recently described it, her top aide Huma Abedin published articles in a Saudi journal taking Clinton’s feminist platform apart, piece by piece. At the time, Abedin was assistant editor of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs working under her mother, who remains editor-in-chief. She was also working in the White House as an intern for then-First Lady Clinton.

"Either they failed to vet her at all or they did and found nothing wrong with her extremist radical beliefs. Which is it?". . . 

Believe the women?

The Old Jarhead

CAIR whining about Trump while ignoring allah's standing order to behead and mutilate 'unbelievers' - Sura 8:12]

Iron Burka  "[8.12] When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them. (allah - not Trump who so irks the allah-friendly CAIR)"

Obama chills while nation simmers

Boston Herald

. . . "Meanwhile, Obama played his eighth round of golf in 12 days at the Vineyard Golf Club. It’s the nation’s first “organic” golf course — the initiation fee is $350,000 and annual dues are $12,000.

. . . 

"Obama travels for dinner to Alchemy in Edgartown, where one ounce of Royal Siberian Osetra Caviar with buckwheat blinis, creme frache and traditional accoutrements will run you $125.

"In Eastman, Georgia, a cop, a father of three, is murdered in cold blood by a gunman identified as Royheem Delshawn Deeds, who is later arrested in Florida while hiding in the trunk of a car owned by his sister, Franshawn Deeds.

"Obama golfs at the Farm Neck Golf Club.

"A Baton Rouge newspaper calls on Obama to break off his vacation to journey to flood-ravaged Louisiana, where 13 people have drowned and at one point 11,000 had fled to shelters — some of the worst flooding since 2005, when George Bush flew over but didn’t touch down and was subsequently flailed by the mainstream media that now says absolutely nothing about Obama’s disinterest.

"Obama dines at L’etoile Restaurant in Edgartown, where a “grilled, spiced-rubbed 13 oz Del Terrullo Grass-Fed Rib Eye steak” goes for $46."

What happens when you sing opera to penguins

Wimp.com  "Opera is a style of singing that people either love or hate. It doesn't sound like most other musical performances, and can be pretty jarring if you've never heard it before. Let's see how these penguins react when they hear opera for the first time."

Black Man Calls Out Black Lives Matter For Not Helping Louisiana Flood Victims…

Weasel Zippers

"Helping would require work.

"Via Fox News:

A man is going viral for questioning where Black Lives Matter activists are during the flooding in Louisiana.

Jerry L. Washington, a Baton Rouge native, posted a video to Facebook, asking why activists haven’t done anything to help the majority African-American city.

“Where are the Black Lives Matter and the Black Panthers?” Washington says in the video. “Because I ain’t seen one Black Panther boat or one Black Lives Matter boat. All I see is our own people from our own city saving us.”

“All the drama that was going on with the Alton Sterling killing, they came out with guns ready to go to war. But here we go, all these people flooded out and truly in need of help and we can’t find not one of them,” Washington says.

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The tolerance of the left

A day in the life of Democrats

Protesters Block Trump Motorcade, JUMP ON VEHICLE!  "As Trump’s motorcade left the convention center, protesters swarmed his car, shouting “Hey, hey, ho, ho. Donald Trump has got to go.” Several police officers, some holding their bikes in front of them, ordered the protesters back to let the SUV leave.”

"Former Minnesota Congressman Michele Bachmann, who attended the fundraiser, told Breitbart News that Trump’s vehicle was attacked.

…Bachmann said the protesters were using profanity to verbally harass Trump supporters, spitting on them, and were so much a threat to the community that police officers advised people that they needed to leave through alternative exits….

Unicorn Riot. No link. Ever

The ‘protestors’ morphed into rent-a-mobs, and then they became ‘rent-a-thugs’ looking for a beat-down. It was nothing more than Obama/Hillary’s lawlessness and disrespect for decency playing out on the streets of Minneapolis. The only idea the left seems to understand is physical violence used to 

intimidate political opposition. These brute thugs who attacked Donald Trump’s vehicle demonstrate exactly why we need to elect Donald Trump as our next President of the United States, so we can see respect for the rule of law return again in this country.”

 VIDEO: Agitators bang on doors at Trump fundraiser, punch attendees in ‘gauntlet’  "When the event concluded, Trump supporters were forced to run a “gauntlet,” with many, including elderly women, being punched and pelted with garbage.

"Here’s video posted by Renee Jones Schneider, a photographer for the Star Tribune:"

Protesters push, spit on Trump donors at Minn. fundraiser