[American Thinker] I read The Feminization of America a few weeks ago, and that theme has been bouncing around my cranial cavity ever since.
We may be headed for a significant war shortly, one that will require rapid expansion of our forces. The Army can only do that through the draft. Now that women can serve in ground maneuver units, will we draft women?
There needs to be a national discussion on this issue. When then Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, faced with an impending lawsuit concerning women in combat, signed off on opening combat arms to women, it was a bureaucratic action done without congressional approval or national discourse. The Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) has ramrodded this agenda.
The considerations surrounding this are immensely complex. While equality and equity are undoubtedly important, so are biological necessities. The United Kingdom’s "Lost Generation" deeply affected its culture and future. This author is the result of the loss of German men during World War II, as my German mother met my American father when he was stationed there in the early 1950s. Combat and strategic bombings killed most of her male contemporaries.
Can a nation survive if it takes catastrophic losses of women during their vital child-bearing ages? This is a question of biological necessity: who will populate the next war’s boomer generation?
If we now allow women to serve in the maneuver combat arms, equality and equity demand that young women sign up for the draft as do their male counterparts. As the father of a daughter, I am a firm "no" on this issue, yet my daughter is a serving Navy surface warfare officer of whom I am immensely proud. Talk about being conflicted on this issue.
Further compounding this topic is the physiological difference highlighted by current discussions of whether transwomen should participate in women’s sports? Biological male differences give greater strength and speed to transwomen (XY) than their competition, whose genetic makeup is XX.
If biologically, men are stronger and faster than women, wouldn’t placing women on the physically arduous ground gaining combat arms (infantry and armor) units be counterproductive? Further impacting this issue is the quota system that the Army euphemistically clouds as "goals" of requiring at least two female officers or noncommissioned officers into each combat arms company.
Have they finally gotten around to establishing a single physical fitness test for everyone? Didn't 20 years of deployments actually tell you what condition you needed to be in a hostile environment? 4000+ years of war and its still butchery.
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The Army is a reflection of our society, always has been. If you dont like the make up of the Army then our society needs to stop bitching and fix itself. You cant just glorify feminism and the tans culture, then say the military is for men only. America gets what it asks for. Good luck...
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The Army is a reflection of our society, always has been.
Hmm...not quite. It's a nice homily but the jigsaw piece doesn't fit the puzzle.
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Quite frankly you are wrong. Blacks, women, gays, trannies, and now women in combat arms all led or followed within a decade of society changes. Women fought for equal rights, and they are getting it. Along with it comes the cost of being equal to men. The stress, bad health, responsibility outside the home, and yes combat. The women that will serve and possibly drafted into combat can thank their dope smoking free love grand parents for their new position in life. This all falls under the be careful what you ask for rule.
And to no more Euro's comment, you are exactly right. The women's movement, LGBTQXYZ, BLM, and the woke agenda has the same end state of emasculating the American male. We see it in society every day, in our grade schools where they are cutting and drugging our boys into freaks of nature, becoming neither a man or a woman, just an confused and emasculated person that have no future and is suicidal.
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We'll agree to disagree. Prior to WW2, the central government was loath to have any large size army and kept it to a bare minimum to man the frontier and coastal installations. It was only expanded during conflicts and quickly demobilized thereafter. As a small volunteer force it was more self selected than a cross section of society.
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[RIA] Yesterday, two sisters - Vika, she was 17 years old, Melania, who was barely three years old - and their seven-year-old brother Volodya were killed when a residential area of Donetsk was shelled by NATO weapons and the Ukrainian military. A little later, a Belgorod resident died, and two of his fellow countrymen were injured by fire from a Czech-made Vampire MLRS. The dead children were raised by their mother, who remained a widow. Because before this tragedy she lost her husband. He was also killed by the Ukrainian military. And also using NATO arsenals. Continued on Page 49
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Well done Badanov. Great find. This is Russia. Now number one military power in the world. This has truly been a chess game. Never part of the Western crowd. Never allowed. The western powers only tolerated Russia if they cow towed to the western rulers, more specifically the elites. Never again. They realize with pride their place in the world. The west has lost it's way. No longer are they envious of the west. The future is now.
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Chess is a game of threat and maneuver. There is a story about a chess tournament where two guys sit down to play their match, one of them pulls out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter and puts them on the table. The other guy freaks out and calls the referee over and says, "He can't do that. There's no smoking in here." The referee says, "He is not smoking". "No, but he is threatening to!" For Russia, hostile troops in Ukraine are a threat, hence the Special Military Operation.
A common chess tactic is exchanging pieces. Both sides start equal, but if you can somehow get a material advantage, you can exchange pieces one for one until the other side is depleted. At that point, it is game over. This is what we are seeing now. When this mess started, someone snarked it was a big Soviet army fighting a smaller Soviet army. What looks like a stalemate with neither side gaining territory is simply the Russians exchanging pieces until Ukraine is depleted.
The West is trying to make up the difference, but Ukraine is running out of equipment, ammo, and soldiers. The West can supply stuff, but unless it puts boots on the ground, Ukraine will run out of troops before the Russians do. Big army vs little army.
BLUF:
[Daily Caller] Judge Scott McAfee ruled on Friday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must step down from the election interference case against former President Donald Trump unless she removes her former romantic partner and special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, from it over an "appearance of impropriety." Whitaker told Fox News host Martha MacCallum that the judge’s "blistering" opinion showed that Willis has "no credibility."
"Well, obviously the result was not what I think some people hoped for, but this opinion is blistering as it relates to DA Willis and Wade and others," Whitaker said. "I mean, it, you know, said she was unprofessional, said she lacked judgment."
"But the line that just struck me was that he said, ’An odor of mendacity remains,’" he continued. "I mean, that essentially says, your office and you as a DA have no credibility with me as a judge. And I just think that is, uh, you know, essentially says that you are lying, we know you’re lying, and we’re not gonna trust anything you say in this case from now on. That’s a big deal."
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Judge McAfee tells us because the culture in the Fulton County legal system is so corrupt it’s ok to lie under oath and skim the government of thousands of dollars.
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Is this case being tried in front of a jury or just in front of Judge McAfee? Because if in front of a jury, bow will this impact their thinking about the prosecution’s case, going forward?
[TheConservativeWoman] ONE of the most bizarre aspects of the Israel-Hamas conflict has been the way the entire mainstream media accepts without question the casualty figures from Hamas (who, of course, run the ‘Palestinian Health Ministry’ in Gaza that provide the figures). This is despite the fact that it is known that Hamas massively fabricated casualty figures in previous conflicts (for example, by classifying most Hamas fighters killed as civilians and including all naturally occurring deaths during the period of the conflict).
The only justification I have seen for using figures provided by a proscribed terrorist organisation is that UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) have ‘largely corroborated’ them. Yet, as has now been proven conclusively, not only is UNRWA in Gaza essentially controlled by Hamas, but many of its members are Hamas operatives, including several who took part in the October 7 massacre.
A few days ago Hamas assured the world that exactly 30,960 Gazans have been killed since October 7. The mainstream media duly accepted this figure. Yet the same Hamas people who know this precise number of Gazans killed say they have no idea how many of the 134 Israeli hostages whom they have been holding in extremely secure locations for over five months are dead or alive. And not a single mainstream media voice questions the inconsistency in this knowledge about deaths in Gaza.
The Washington Institute produced a comprehensive overview of how the Hamas statistics systematically overestimated the number of children killed, while grossly underestimating the number of male combatants killed. Now the statistician Abraham Wyner (who interestingly was a key expert witness for Rand Simberg explaining the ‘hockey stick’ fraud in the recent case brought against Simberg and Mark Steyn by Michael Mann) has gone further.
Wyner’s statistical analysis demonstrates how the claimed daily fatality numbers provided by Hamas between October 26 and November 10 were clearly faked. Wyner shows that, in addition to blatant contradictions in the numbers, there were a number of statistically implausible relationships.
Wyner’s analysis is excellent but failed to note a further glaring issue with the Hamas data:
They do not provide a breakdown of ‘children’ by age or gender.
In fact, many Hamas armed combatants are teenage males aged between 14 and 19 (see also this).
Moreover, whereas it is standard to classify those under 18 as ‘children’, Hamas routinely counts combatants under the age of 20 as ‘children’. The only breakdown of casualty figures by age and gender from the ‘Palestinian Health Ministry’ that I could find is this from October 7-23 2023:
First of all note that, whereas it is normal to classify those under 18 as ’children’, Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... has the ambiguous 15-19 category, indicating that they classify all those under 20 as children. Also, there are obviously fake numbers of deaths for ages 0-4, 5-9 and 10-14. But note that even they state a disproportionate number of male deaths in the categories 10-14 and 15-19 — all of whom Hamas classify as ’children’.
In summary: a significant number of fatalities who Hamas claims are ’children’ are in fact combatants.
Documenting how Main Stream Media and their Official Science got it wrong too many times.
Scientific America March 2020 article:
Eight Persistent COVID-19 Myths and Why People Believe Them
Headline links to this article.
From a human-made virus to vaccine conspiracy theories, we rounded up the most insidious false claims about the pandemic
It discusses what they considered Falsehoods, Myths and Lies. Some might even spot some Trump Derangement Symptom signs. I wonder if those that got it wrong will own up, or just have the articles pulled.
BTW: If you’re digging, check out the "Wayback Machine" initiative of the Internet Archive. It has more than 866 BILLION web pages saved.
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This aged like a order of onion rings on tarmac.
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03/17/2024 14:28 Comments ||
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Didn't take long to find an obvious distortion - Masks have long been known to be an effective means of what epidemiologists call source control (preventing a sick patient from spreading a disease to others).
So masks help prevent sick people from spreading the disease. Why was everyone supposed to wear a mask, Scientific American?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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