I am vehemently against “transgenders” serving in ANY capacity in the United States Military. Why? You’re looking at it. Bradly Manning.
In recent polls it was once again confirmed that the entity which is most trusted by the American people is not the media, not the politicians, not the judicial system, not the teachers or even the police and fire departments which are so vital to our safety. It wasn’t doctors, nurses or hospitals. It was our military.
In the bizarre world the “Progressives” would have us live in there are no absolutes. Everything is fluid and subject to interpretation. Nothing is black or white, but instead an infinite number of shades of gray. Because we have no absolutes, everything must be viewed from a perception that all things are basically equal. In the perfect Utopian world, everyone has exactly the same amount of worldly goods and opportunities. No one is “better” than anyone else. Work ethic and personal effort are immaterial. We can extrapolate from that that all behaviors and lifestyles are equal as well. We can be persuaded that Muslim men should be allow to view all women who are not covered from head to foot as asking to be raped. That is so in the countries many of them come from, so it should be so in the rest of the world as well. We now can be expected to believe that even in the matter of one’s sex at birth, there are no absolutes. We can change all that below and above the belt. We can become “Transgendered”. Continue reading “Transgenders” In The Military?
In October of 1973 the members of the “Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries” (OAPEC – later shortened to OPEC) announced an oil embargo against the United States and other countries which had supported Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The effects were almost instantaneous. The cost of a barrel of crude oil quadrupled in less than a year, gasoline prices skyrocketed, long lines developed at filling stations and gasoline at any price was unavailable in many parts of the country, particularly the Northeast. Citizens in liberal controlled states like Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts howled in protest.
On July 17, 1996 an event occurred which gradually made me lose faith in many of our government institutions. That event cost the lives of 230 people, many of whom were close personal acquaintances and professional colleagues. It was the crash of TWA 800, a Boeing 747-100, which I had flown, only a few weeks before, from Athens to New York with my wife and daughter aboard. That hot July evening it was bound from Kennedy Airport in New York to Charles De Gaulle in Paris. It was a light load, only just over half full of passengers. Because of that fact, all non-revenue pass riders received seats and boarded the flight. Twelve minutes after the flight became airborne at 8:19 PM, they were all dead. The aircraft had exploded in mid-air off the southern coast of Long Island, NY in the vicinity of East Moriches.
When I was a kid, we had no trouble insulting each other. “You’re ugly, and your mother dresses you funny” brought the quick retort “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me”. A simpler time. Now, it seems, someone will find offense in nearly every human utterance. This is especially true of the members of one religion, Islam. Over the centuries since Muhammad honed his skills at beheading those who didn’t accept his teachings in Medina and Mecca, the Muslims have developed an amazing array of things which insult them or their Prophet, and are generally punishable by death. One must not draw a depiction of the Prophet, or defile the Quran in any way. These acts will bring screams of outrage from the Muslim community and extreme violence on the perpetrator. Other religions are just not tolerated, and must be stamped out. There is but one god, Allah, and Muhammad is his Prophet.
Have you ever heard of Bill Whittle? Neither had I until a few years ago when someone sent me a link to a YouTube video. The show was called “The Firewall”. I don’t remember the topic of that video, but I was instantly hooked. Whittle has a way of making complicated subjects seem simple, and he does it in a frequently humorous way. I harkened back to my days in journalism school at the University of Colorado. I will never forget a comment made by one of my professors. He said: “Good writing is clear thinking made visible”. Ponder that statement for a moment. It is simple but profound.
Today, July 4, 2017, we celebrate as Independence Day, but why? It isn’t when the American Revolution started, that was in July of 1775. It isn’t the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare our independence from Great Britain, that was on July 2, 1776. It is in fact the day that the final draft of the Declaration of Independence was agreed upon. It was the day that copies of the document were printed to be distributed throughout the new nation. It was actually signed, however, on August 2, 1776.
Under the Obama administration some truly extraordinary first time events occurred. Like the doubling of our national debt during his two terms in office. The downgrading of our financial rating on international markets. The tacit support of dictatorial communist regimes in Cuba and Venezuela. A nuclear treaty with Iran, who has stated that their goal is to destroy America and Israel. The takeover of one sixth of our economy (the healthcare system) by the federal government. The list seems endless. However, one area needs to be discussed and debated at length. That subject is the forcing on American citizens of the so-called “rights” of the LGBT (Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender) community. These “rights”, according to then Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, included the “right” to serve openly in the military. Not just serve, but have the military pay for the very expensive hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery of the “transgenders” to allow them to assume their new sexual identity! Carter also ordered that all members of the military be required to attend transgender “sensitivity training”. Lord knows we don’t want the transgenders to feel unwelcome!