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The Stupidity of Sophisticates

The Stupidity of Sophisticates.

Mark Steyn penned a piece July 7, 2015, which begins:

“Last week, I swung by the Bill Bennett show to chew over the news of the hour. A few minutes before my grand entrance, one of Bill’s listeners had taken issue with the idea that these Supreme Court decisions weren’t the end and, if you just got on with your life and tended to your garden, things wouldn’t be so bad:

Claudine came on and said that’s what Germans reckoned in the 1930s: just keep your head down and the storm will pass. How’d that work out?

David Kelsey writes from the University of South Carolina to scoff at that:

In one corner, we have government recognition of marriage contracts between gays. In the other corner, we have Jews, Catholics, gays, their sympathizes [sic] and other undesirables being put in Nazi concentration camps.

One of these things is nothing like the other, unless you’re a lunatic. Maybe the reason conservatives keep “losing everything that matters” is because they really can’t tell the difference. Which causes increasing numbers of people to recognize them as lunatics.”

Please read the rest of  Steyn’s brilliantly argued piece to figure out who really is the lunatic.

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Dem judge orders psych counseling for D’Souza

Dem judge orders psych counseling for D’Souza.

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More on transgenders in the military

Here’s a calm, better-argued piece than mine on the transgender issue in the military by Brandon Brown at the American Thinker:

“Equality over Effectiveness in the Military”

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Taxpayers Have Now Spent $3.5 Million to Find Out Why Lesbians Are Obese

Taxpayers Have Now Spent $3.5 Million to Find Out Why Lesbians Are Obese.

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Let’s keep pretending

The social fabric of America continues to stretch further each day lately.  Today the Boy Scouts of America announced their executive committee voted unanimously to lift their ban on gay adult leaders.  Also today there’s  news that Ash Carter, the US Secretary of Defense, announced a plan to study ” “readiness implications of welcoming transgender persons to serve openly.”, according to a CNN report.

Without wasting a lot of words, as an American citizen, who is sick to death of the obssession with this social engineering that consumes so much time at the highest levels of the Pentagon, how about these idiots actually do their jobs and make sure our military is able to defend our nation!  In March 2015, Army combat readiness reached an historic low-level.  Army Chief of Staff, General Ray Odierno, testified in Congress:

“The Army also has cut 18,000 soldiers from the Army National Guard and Army Reserve, and it is reducing its total aviation force by 800 aircraft, with almost 700 of them coming from the active force, Odierno said.

“Today, only 33 percent of our brigades are ready, when our sustained readiness levels should be closer to 70 percent,” he said. “We have fewer soldiers, the majority of whom are in units that are not ready, and they are manning aging equipment at a time when the demand for Army forces is much higher than anticipated.””

It’s way past time for the US Armed Forces to get back to focusing on the entire team being able to defend our nation, instead of all these fringe social issues that have NOTHING to do with combat readiness and EVERYTHING to do with creating chaos within the ranks.

I keep reading one story after another about the ongoing efforts to propel some female soldiers into elite special forces units and frankly, the end result will be,they will have to lower the standards to allow for female upper-body strength issues, which everyone who has ever observed females training knows full well.  A lot of political pressure will be expended to get a few women into these units and from there, the push will be to reevaluate the standards and lower them to accommodate more females.

A smart military would play to strengths, but nothing in the politically-fueled, feminist mind-set cares about having a military prepared to defend our nation – they care about their political agenda. Why don’t they recruit some of the most highly-motivated, fittest, smartest women into special forces training that is geared toward specific training for missions designed for male/female teams, where females could add something to, rather than detract from, the team?  In the Muslim world where females are hard for our military to reach, special forces male/female teams might be able to gather more intel and operate in a wider part of Muslim society.  They could expand the missions of female engagement teams and our creativeness would be the limiting factor, not innate biological differences.

Instead, millions upon millions of dollars will be spent and more studies will be undertaken, until the political pressure succeeds in forcing the services to lower standards.  The reality is well-known, after all, the US military has been studying female physical abilities for decades now and they already possess encyclopedic knowledge about how the female anatomy reacts under every sort of training condition imaginable.

So, instead of accepting innate, immovable biological reality, we’ve got a whole country obsessed with pretending – pretending that male and female soldiers are interchangeable parts in jobs requiring a great deal of physical stamina and endurance, pretending that young men and women serving alongside each other, for months upon months, in hostile conditions will not form romantic and/or sexual attachments, and now we’re supposed to pretend that those who want to pretend their gender identity is not their biological sex need to be cossetted and given top billing, where their situation will be reviewed at the highest level, according to Ash Carter.  Well, how about he, and all these other “leaders” in the Department of Defense, worry about combat readiness first!

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Jade Helm 15 Update

“Jade Helm 15, heavily scrutinized military exercise, to open without media access”

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That omnipresent vast, right-wing conspiracy (yawn)

Last night Megyn Kelly had Robert Zimmerman, a seasoned Democratic strategist, on to discuss Hillary’s first sit-down interview with a reporter at CNN, since announcing her 2016 run for President months ago.  Zimmerman masterfully spun Kelly into a stuttering blob and once again used the old Clinton tactic of citing polls as a defense and tossing out the canard of the vast, right-wing conspiracy out to get her.  This worked brilliantly throughout the Clinton impeachment debacle, because the press, politicians and the American people accept polls as some sacred number, where majority opinion decides what’s right and wrong, not the law or the truth.  So, it doesn’t matter that she’s a pathological liar who tramples on the law, what matters is that she is ahead in the polls.  The lemming mentality run amok in America.

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A food adventure to skip

At HotAir, a food review of Pizza Hut’s new hot dog pizza will save you from the temptation of trying it……if you were ever so inclined.  The title says it all:

“I tried the hot-dog pizza slop from Pizza Hut and it was everything I dreamed it would be”

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Trans-reality in America

Large swaths of the American press corps regularly abdicate their responsibility to be seekers of the truth, while piously pontificating their pure motives, free of agendas and political advocacy.  Our free press fails so often and in such egregious ways that you can flip the channel or click on various “hard news” websites and find alternate universes – reporting on the very same news event.

The phenomenon, certainly not new to reporting, seems to have escalated in recent years, to the point we have American citizens with polar opposite understandings of the TRUTH.  A house divided can not stand, the age-old metaphor used to warn of the dangers of divisiveness within society, comes to my mind living in this new American climate of trans-reality.  The TRUTH apparently is as flexible and ephemeral as everything else in America these days.  Maybe, President Clinton was a sage of our time when he stated, “It depends on what the meaning of  ‘is’, is.”

As the saying goes, “numbers don’t lie”, so I recommend Colin Flaherty’s article at the American Thinker, “The War on Black People in South Carolina: the First Casualty is Truth”, where he chases down the truth and exposes the lies:

“Mass murder was not enough.  Not for the army of reporters who soon after the South Carolina killings surrounded this truth with a bodyguard of lies.

The shooting was part of a pattern of white on black violence wildly out of proportion, journalists told us over and over. The tragedy also reminded many scribes of the so-called epidemic of arson against black churches in the 1990s.

Neither of which are true.”

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The Hillary refresher course

For a Hillary Clinton refresher course on who she really is, Michael Walsh at PJ Media posted a video: “Hillary Clinton Exposed!”, the full hour and half, Citizens United version, along with a 2-page piece he wrote.  Despite having almost universal name recognition,  her political handlers keep doing these Svengali propaganda campaigns to reinvent her image, her bio and her character.  During her boring relaunch on Saturday, Hillary mentioned Citizens United by name, because she will certainly try to bury all the Clinton scandals, past and present, from marring her new image as the “kickass grandmother”.  Just beware this new image masks a ruthless megalomaniac, who will stop at nothing to become the “first” female President.

http://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/2015/06/14/hillary-rodham-clinton-there-is-only-the-fight/

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