[American Thinker] Infanticide has always been a serious component of the ugly side of human nature. Archaeologists have done a lot of digging in Ashkelon, an ancient town in what is typically known as the Holy Land. They found the town’s sewer, and, in a bend in the channel, they found a pile of infant skeletons. Forensic analysis could not find any congenital defects in the remains. It has thus been assumed that the local residents were disposing of their unwanted children.
Fast forward to our modern world. We have a judicial edict that no state can outlaw pregnancy termination. Hence, for the last half century, every time a Supreme Court Justice sneezes... the Roe v. Wade partisans, on both sides, line up in full battle regalia.
It used to be that the several states would individually license and thus regulate medical practice. Then, suddenly, a particularly controversial practice was mandated, regardless of local opinion.
Should Roe be overturned, then the states would be free to adopt their own policies. Should Nevadans be denied access to pregnancy termination, then various clinics in California would likely be able to deal with them. The beauty of our federal system -- the composite structure of jurisdictions -- allows for a politically expedient lack of uniformity.
Lurking beneath this persistent controversy is the profound innocence of infants. They have no voice to defend themselves. So, others adopt the cause. And, yet, definitions are constantly being challenged. Another historic note: in the early days of Christianity, babies were not baptized. Then along came a smallpox pandemic and early baptism became the norm.
[This is as far as I wrote before learning of the leak of the SCOTUS draft opinion on the latest challenge to Roe.] The political histrionics attached to abortion underscore the defect in deciding the issue by fiat, rather than the sausage-making of the political process. Roe is certainly not the only example of judges legislating from the bench, it is just the most controversial. Meanwhile, other important issues wind up being pushed aside while abortion sucks up all the oxygen instead of letting the political process run its course.
At the time Roe was first handed down, various states were already working towards accommodating the nascent demand for clinically safe pregnancy termination, New York being one of the most prominent by merely requiring a woman to be psychologically at risk. What Roe did was to forbid states from restricting access within the first trimester. Recently, however, some states have abolished any time limit, thus igniting the latest firestorm.
Pro-choice misinformation encourages the militant assumption that, should Roe be overturned, abortion would thus be forbidden across the land. The reality is that the authority to make rules governing access to the procedure would be returned to the states. Some states may go too far and SCOTUS would, again, become involved. But the temperature of the dispute would be seriously dialed down.
[American Thinker] The reasons for the Left's perverse sexualizing of very young children make sense only if you are sexually neurotic. None of it makes sense if you are a rational, healthy, sexually normal person. For example, what is to be gained by first graders learning about drag queens and transsexuality? How is a child's life improved, how is the culture improved when children whose brains are not physically equipped to process such information get exposed to it? If it is the hope of sexualizers that children will be more accepting of perversity, to what end?
No government-schooled child of any age should be taught matters of sexuality, sexual behavior, or sexual identity beyond the egg-sperm basics. There is no legitimate reason for it. Let's back this truck up and reframe the argument: Instead of settling the debate where conservatives concede "age-appropriateness" ground to the sexualizers, reverse this polluted stream and remove all sexual material from all public and private schools and leave these matters to parents. Conservatives have been far too accommodating on this matter.
Why is the Left so anxious to expose to little kids sexually explicit cartoons of two boys (or one man and one boy) engaging in oral sex, as has been depicted in some schoolbooks? To normalize adult sexuality, normal or perverse, for small children is to tell them that it is normal for them to engage in it at their age. It isn't. This is like putting a boulder on an egg. Kids are eggs, easily molded and more easily scrambled. That makes them perfect victims for pernicious child predators. The same goes for transsexual material. Why groom a child into transsexuality, then try to hide it from parents if it is not wrong? Is this mere prurience or something more deeply malevolent?
We have recently discovered many instances of child grooming in and out of the classroom: Many schools eliminated male/female bathrooms in favor of unisex bathrooms, grooming grounds for perverts. Some men insist on being called women and are entering the locker rooms of women and young girls — starkers — flashing their junk and not batting an eye. Is life so dull for sexualizers that they must create some illicit sizzle? Is sexual bombast the only way for some odious people to feel that their damaged presence in the world has meaning?
Online videos laced with explicit content and profanity have been on the rise. They depict pedophiles luring and fondling small children. A simple search of the internet will pull up many pedophiles (almost always men), caught in the act of trying to engage very young children in sexual encounters on buses, in big box stores and elsewhere. What used to be rare has become commonplace.
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Simple. Destruction of the nuclear family is the goal, has always been the goal, and the promotion of perversion has been the preferred tool since the 70's.
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The OPFOR at the NTC and JRTC play 'host' 6 or more times a year to a visiting 'team' that shows up maybe once every two years. Lesson - train, train, train beats garrison duties and personnel who rotate in/out every couple months from your team.
Hit the loggies - yeah. 507th Maintenance Company. As long as you make the readiness of your line companies priority, those support units work day and night in garrison keeping them in green status. Meanwhile they will never have time for field training in a combat environment.
Don't shoot the leaders at the JRTC and NTC. Of course, its the whole purpose of the expense is to stress the leadership and staff in a semi-real world environment. Unit readiness and team proficiency is the next goal. You kill the leaders there's nothing much more to do for all the cost and expense of sending them there.
BTW, working in two insurgent environments of Iraq and Afghanistan, I don't recall the American forces suffering the destruction of entire columns.
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/\ BTW, working in two insurgent environments of Iraq and Afghanistan, I don't recall the American forces suffering the destruction of entire columns.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited By Oleg Airapetov
[REGNUM] After the withdrawal of the Entente troops from the Crimea and Novorossia, the Soviet troops operating in Ukraine could not be afraid for their left flank. In the spring of 1919, this was of particular importance. Revolutions on the model of Russia began to emerge in the space of the former German and Austro-Hungarian empires. The first was Hungary.
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Fascinating stuff. It's hard to imagine the chaos in eastern Europe in the wake of WW1. But these article are very enlightening and informative. Thank you!
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[BBC] "Ukraine and its allies, including London, are threatening Russia for the last 1,000 years, to move Nato to our borders, to cancel our culture - they have bullied us for many, many years."
That is what Yevgeny Popov, a member of the Russian Duma (parliament) and an influential TV host in Russia, told the BBC's Ukrainecast on 19 April. "Of course Nato plans for Ukraine are a direct threat to Russian citizens."
His views were both surprising and enlightening as to the very different narrative put out by the Kremlin, compared to the way it's viewed in the West. To European and Western ears, these pronouncements sound almost unfathomable, even amounting to a blatant disregard for carefully documented evidence. Yet these are just some of the beliefs held not only by Kremlin supporters in Russia and across the wider population there but also in several other parts of the world.
After Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, the UN held an emergency vote - 141 nations out of 193 UN member states voted a week later to condemn it. But a number of major countries chose to abstain, including China, India and South Africa. So it would be delusional for Western leaders to believe that the entire world shares Nato's view - that Russia is entirely to blame for this catastrophic war - because it doesn't.
So why are so many countries on the fence about Russia's invasion?
There are many reasons, ranging from straightforward economic or military self-interest, to accusations of Western hypocrisy to Europe's colonial past. There is no one-size-fits-all. Every country may have its own particular reasons for not wanting to publicly condemn Russia or alienate President Putin.
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Evil people rise because the public can be extremely dumb. I see this every day. They cling to their beliefs and will attack any who challenge their views. Stalin, Hitler and many others came to power because of public stupidity. People like AOC, Pelosi, Schumer and Biden currently are good examples. Reelected year after year goes by. Why, because the dumb and stupid and very intelligent all vote as they do because they are all simply stupid. No use trying to educate. They do not listen. They only listen to those who already say what they believe.
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"Ukraine and its allies, including London, are threatening Russia for the last 1,000 years, to move Nato to our borders..."
I wonder what the next 1000 years of NATO will bring.
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Yep, we've all been threatening Russia for 1000 years. Russia is innocent.
Just look at any film or photo of civilian deaths in Ukraine, it's so obvious.
Or, check out Sweden and Finland who have been neutrals for ages appearing to be prepared to join the evil NATO.
It's all the west's fault, Russia is a god's nation. But, not the God of the bible, another one with less virtue that teaches thievery, rape and mass murder is good.
Quick, Omaing Stalag1261 — it’s time for you and all your cousins to have half a dozen children each. No more of this one child per marriage stuff, not when war and exile are depleting Ukraine of the people who are its soul.
[Zero] Baltimore native Mike Rowe became famous as the Dirty Jobs jobs guy on the Discovery Channel. Now he's filming the second season of "How America Works" on Fox Bussiness, showcasing the many individuals that work around the clock to keep the US economy humming.
During Monday's "Fox and Friends" show, Rowe sat down with Steve Doocy to discuss out-of-control inflation. He said the tuckers he knows aren't buying the "Putin Price Hike" narrative.
As the national average for diesel prices at the pump jump to a record high of $5.32 a gallon, Rowe said truckers are sending him pictures and videos of them filling up, spending more than a thousand dollars at a time.
"I get video almost every day now from people who we featured on 'Dirty Jobs" and 'How America Works.'
"They're just sending me videos of them at the gas pump and some of them are filling up 18-wheelers. And, I’m not kidding you, $1,100, $1,200.
"Most people, all we can think about is the price for us at a relative terms know it's awful.
"When you put $1,200 in your gas tank and just six months ago it was costing you $600 or 700, the exponential reality of it is starting to sink in. You just can't walk that back. It touches every single thing that matters in this country. From food production to transportation ... all of it," Rowe explained.
Doocy then asked: "Are truckers buying the 'Putin Price Hike'?"
Rowe responded by saying, "The ones I know aren't... A guy said to me the other day, it's like ... falling down the stairs in slow motion. We're watching it happen. It's happening in real-time, and it's not just diesel. It's not just gasoline ..."
He then explains that the rising cost of energy and fertilizer has resulted in higher food prices.
We are seeing $5.69+ a gallon for Diesel at most pumps.
It has even caused a new oddity.
We have been seeing more Semi-rigs dropping their trailers in parking lots and lining up at SAM's Club pumps to get refueled at $4.59 a gallon.
Or purchasing tax-exempt Farm Diesel which is about $0.50 to $0.75 cents cheaper a gallon and illegal to use.
Given many long-haul semi-Rigs have fuel tanks holding as much as 300 gallons, that's a BIG savings.
SIMPLE LOGIC
Higher Diesel prices mean higher delivery costs, higher food and anything else costs.
The Liberals, Socialists and Democrats Own this problem when they went Anti-Oil day . "WE DID THAT" memec
[BBC] Billions of dollars of Chinese money are boosting some European economies - but some of the deals being struck have a catch. Critics say they are "debt traps", where China gets to choose what happens if loans aren't repaid.
China insists it is a reliable investment partner - but it is also facing allegations of worker exploitation and environmental damage.
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.
