INTERESTING: Women in Combat Debate

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

http://www.charmaineyoest.com/2007/07/should_women_fight.php

Women in Combat Debate: Should Women Fight?
July 25, 2007 | By Jack Yoest
My good friend Bob Miller has a compelling article on women in combat that deserves a wide audience.

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Man’s unloving use of women in war signals an underlying enormity, a far richer and permeating disintegration of Man as male and female, along with the cultural institutions he inhabits.

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A paradigm challenge that will really twist your shorts or panties!

In Israel, where there is no “front line”, women have no choice when your survival is on the line.

In the USA, where we have the pond to create a protected rear area.

The article challenges our thinking about the proper role of women and the family in a civilized society.

Yesterday, I blogged about how in Iran, they have “fashion police”. I remember seeing Nazi propaganda from pre-WW2 Germany where women had the role model of the Mother of the Reich.

There has to be some way to align the liberty of humanity and a recognition of the essential roles of men and women. The Judeo Christian religious emphasis on the family has shown us the basic building block of human society.

Our challenge is to figure it all out. Just because something CAN be done, does not mean that it is a good idea.

We know that gooferment, and it’s use of force, has bad results and unintended consequences. Having it dictate, or decide, the memes of society, or worse legislate something, is a really really terrible idea.

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RANT: we owe them

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/us/25funeral.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

July 25, 2007
On Base, a Plea to Give Each Death Its Due
By WILLIAM YARDLEY

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“We owe them the highest gratitude a nation can give,” Lt. Col. John Pettit, a chaplain, said at a memorial service in July for two soldiers. Sgt. Joel A. Dahl and Cpl. Victor A. Garcia were killed by small-arms fire in Iraq.

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No, we owe them a giant apology. We have the duty of getting their mates out of the danger zone asap. The politicians led us down another rat hole and we ought not take another casualty in a political blunder of mammouth proportions. We allowed them to not follow the Constitution and they died as a result.

Bring the boys and girls home. Now!

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RANT: Hey Governor Corzine … … still wanna hear about state cars? … (continued) …

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 25 July at 0700 edst on 295 milepost 52 … …

… … a blue marquis jft 96r … …

… … at leisurely 85 (Your serf speed limit is 65!)

… … in lots of traffic

… … tailgating the poor peon in his way

… … never left the left lane (Do you teach them to do that, or is that a qualification for working for the state of nujerzee!?)

Now it didn’t have state plates but it did have blue and red lights on the back window. So it had to be one of your state centurions.

Arghhhhhhh!

P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.

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LIBERTY: Our “wealth” comes from everyone’s liberty

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070724144415.2esww75r&show_article=1

On patrol with Iran’s fashion police
Jul 24 10:44 AM US/Eastern

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Many conservatives have applauded the drive, but moderates have publicly questioned whether Iran would be better off tackling poverty and crime rather than slack dressing.

Just before the new crackdown started, popular television host Farzad Hasani grilled Tehran’s police chief Ahmad Reza Radan about the drive on his talk show, accusing the police of “not differentiating between people and thugs.”

An old woman in a black chador in Vanak Qquare echoed the sentiment.

“Our youth have no peace of mind. They are afraid to go out, they are afraid that if they go out they will be taken to the police. Aren’t they saying that there is freedom?”

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Ahh, you just have to laff. When a society is more worried about the length of a headscarf, that’s good for us. They impoverish themselves when they bar more than half their population from productive pursuits and spend some fraction of the rest worrying about trivial matters. That’s great. We should take a lesson. We want every person being productive. The easiest way is to give everyone the freedom to do as they see fit bounded only by their relationship with their neighbors. My rights and your rights constitute the boundary of our respective freedoms. Live and let live. The golden rule. And, in doing this, people will drive themselves to THEIR goals harder than anyone else could possibly herd them. The secret of the American prosperity is liberty. One only becomes rich by satisfying the needs and wants of your fellow man. What a great paradigm!

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