This one was on my agenda before The Cheney heart transplant issue arose.
Thomas Malthus proposed that humanity will reach a point where the human population reaches an unsustainable number.
So here is the question: Who gets to decide what the population should be? AND who gets to live!
Toss in folks like ELF and others with a rather vague, but similar, position and you have one view?
Not gonna offer my opinion… Yet.
May make a series of these… I suspect that many of you folks have these sort of questions as well?
I’ve been having some WTF moments (surprise?) . Maybe it because I’m just simple minded, and nuance is lost on me?
You get to decide!
I’m gonna try to phrase MY questions as simply as possible.
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In a time when the imposition of Sharia Law seems imminent in many places why isn’t the LGBT community doing everything in their power to combat that fact? Even basic women’s rights are under threat.
Imagine Ms. Fluke in Iran?
I consider such as willful ignorance, what say YOU?
Aside: This series, if continued, will be based on your response. It doesn’t exactly fit at TAH, but it seems suitable for a Sunday.
Hard to explore the depths here. It IS just a commercial.
Thank Frankie Cee. Sorta?
I think cars are mundane stuff. This, however, had me fighting back tears.
Still out there and driving the liberal anti-war loons nuts.
Act of Valor STILL in the top five!
Jonn’s review is here.
I’ve seen it and certainly recommend it too.
More than anything it serves as a valuable counterpoint to other recent events.
Sure gonna try to catch it again.
Jonn has exposed and enumerated this… And it is NOT news or new, but:
The “Dangerous” Veteran: An Inaccurate Media Narrative Takes Hold
In a San Diego, California neighborhood, debate is raging: The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to establish a residential treatment program for Veterans with PTSD and mild traumatic brain injuries.
On its face, the idea doesn’t seem controversial. After all, given two wars in the past decade, the U.S. government is doing what it can to provide Vets with the best care possible. But that’s not how some San Diegans view the situation. They say the facility will be too close to a school. They say it’s “just the wrong place.”
Without saying as much, this is an example where some in a community are simply not comfortable with what they view as damaged and potentially unstable Veterans being near a school. Of course, this attitude doesn’t take place in a vacuum, and it wasn’t formed recently. There is a reason people have such views of those who once protected them.
You young guys… BOHICA. I’m so tired of this crap.
Unfortunately, this rehashed portrayal of PTSD, reminiscent of the Vietnam era, has the power to deter Veterans from openly speaking about their service—especially in today’s economic climate—when unemployment among younger Vets hovers between 20 and 30 percent. That concerns Iraq Veteran Ryan Gallucci, now with the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
“Vietnam Veterans were stereotyped as the crazy Veteran, but over the years we’ve proven that isn’t the case,” said Gallucci, the VFW’s National Legislative Service Deputy Director. “What concerns us are today’s Veterans sitting down for a job interview and once they mention their military service, the tone of the conversation changes.”
The point… this article does a masterful job of bringing it all together. Thank The Donovan!
Jonn Added: The author is our little buddy Kate Hoit who starred in yesterday’s “$#!# civilians say to veterans” video.
By the way, we discussed the San Diego thing back in December.
150 years ago…
When the turret of the Civil War ironclad Monitor was raised from the ocean bottom, two skeletons and the tattered remnants of their uniforms were discovered in the rusted hulk of the Union Civil War ironclad, mute and nameless witnesses to the cost of war. A rubber comb was found by one of the remains, a ring was on a finger of the other.
Now, thanks to forensic reconstruction, the two have faces.
In a longshot bid that combines science and educated guesswork, researchers hope those reconstructed faces will help someone identify the unknown Union sailors who went down with the Monitor 150 years ago.
The article is here.
“After 10 years in the lab, maybe it’s time for these guys to get out of archival boxes and into a final resting place,” he said. Fundraising has also begun to erect a monument in Arlington to the 16 men on aboard Monitor, which he called an “iconic warship that changed naval history.”
“Like all who served and all who do pay the price, that in and by itself makes them important and worthy of remembrance and recognition,”
Fair winds and following seas shipmates.
Gonna abuse my posting privilege just a bit… This is a cause for Doc Bailey as I’ve noted.
I was NOT there, neither was WOTN.
However he puts it together well.
On 12 July 2007, an Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment embarked on a mission to clear Al-Amin District of New Baghdad of Anti-Iraqi Forces, aka Mehdi Militia, aka Jayish al-Mahdi in order to provide freedom of maneuver to Coalition Forces. By 10:20 AM, Baghdad time, they had taken significant amounts of SAF (small arms fire) and RPG (rocket propelled grenade) fire, sporadically. Two AH-64D’s were in the area and responded. What would happen next would inspire a movie, that would be nominated for an Oscar, but not win one.
“Now the war is over and in a lot of ways we’re still fighting it. It is my accretion that despite what many leaders of this very government said publicly or otherwise, we won. We won through the blood sweat and tears of the troops on the ground, that refused to give up.” Doc Bailey
As an added bonus this bit has some liberals in a snit.
‘Act Of Valor’ #1 With $25M Weekend
Relativity’s R-rated Act Of Valor has stayed No. 1 all weekend. It’s the the Bandito Brothers’ independently financed low-budget U.S. Navy fighting force tale using actual SEALs from an original screenplay by Kurt Johnstad (300).
Jonn’s review is here.