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In The Mailbox: 07.01.22

Posted on | July 2, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.01.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

First, thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in June.
Secondly, Sarah Hoyt and Bob Zimmerman are both rattling the tip jar this month, and if you enjoy either or both of their blogs, I encourage you to throw some dollars at them while those dollars are still worth something.
Thirdly, this is the 159th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. Let us never forget the courage and foresight of Brigadier General John Buford.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

FFS read another book, you hoes

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: An Interesting Question From The LA Times
EBL: Kristyn Crawford Sexually Harrassed at ABC – George Stephanopoulos, Disney, and Network Retaliate
Twitchy: Brit Hume Goes Scorched Earth On The J6 Committee & Its Defenders, also, Christina Pushaw Gives Advice To Laid-Off Journalists, Whining Ensues
Louder With Crowder: Tim Allen Breaks Silence on Failed ‘Lightyear’ Movie
Vox Popoli: Spiderman is Gay, Close Your Account,  and Intentio Nocendi
According To Hoyt: Wrecking Ball, also, It Is Us At The Gate
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S2 Ep26 – Historical Fantasy
Stoic Observations: Post-Racial Multidimensional Taxonomy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: One Night in Bahrain
American Conservative: Lessons from a Turkish Coup
American Greatness: Trump Is the Greatest Man Alive , also, Buttigieg Launches $1 Billion ‘Anti-Racist Roads’ Project
American Thinker: The United States Has Become Two Countries Within a Nation
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Path to Manhood Friday
Babalu Blog: Population in Cuba sees biggest drop in 60 years, also, Luis Alberto Rodriguez Lopez-Calleja, most powerful man in Cuba behind Raul Castro, is dead
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for July 1, 2022
Behind The Black: FCC approves Starlink for moving vehicles; rejects DISH’s request to use Starlink wavelength, Today’s blacklisted American, and In 2022 freedom continues to fuel the launch industry towards new records
Cafe Hayek: The Typical Politician Is Loathsome
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Anecdotes – The Exotic Airbnb
Da Tech Guy: Here’s a SCOTUS Case Just Waiting to Happen
Don Surber: Justices stood up to the mob. LGBT is next, also, Biden delivers his recession
First Street Journal: It seems that some “men” are really immature little boys, also, For print newspapers, tempus is fugiting
Gates Of Vienna: The Mysterious Death of Lars Vilks, The Gilt-Edged Twilight of the Abendlandes, and Can Swedish Culture-Enrichers Be Racists?
The Geller Report:  Trump Still Winning Big In Polls Despite Jan. 6 ‘Witch Hunt”, also, Bill Gates $13.5 Million Farmland Purchase Triggers Outrage in North Dakota
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, The Supreme Court Term,  and LRO’s Extended Mission
Hollywood In Toto: Make This Franchise Stop (Please!)
The Lid: When Chuck Schumer Fought To Keep Filibuster, also, “Over-The-Horizon Capability” In Afghanistan Was Another Biden Lie
Legal Insurrection: Yale Divinity School Claims There’s No Biblical Basis for Abortion Bans, Researchers Find College is Making Young People Less Patriotic, and “Climate Activists” Slash SUV Tires in NYC, Say Other U.S. Cities Will be Hit Next
Nebraska Energy Observer: And Then There Were None
Outkick: Miles Bridges’ Wife Shares Images Of Alleged Assault From Hornets Forward, Former Baltimore Ravens LB, Jaylon Ferguson, Dead Of Accidental Drug Overdose, and Megan Rapinoe, Who Claimed Girl’s Sporting Careers Aren’t ‘That Important,’ Will Receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Power Line: Green Dreams Dashed, Biden Brigade Misfiring on All Cylinders, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: GOP Campaign Volunteer Assaulted, also, Dem Rep Lois Frankel Threatens Small Business Owner
Shot In The Dark: Long & Winding Road, Layers & Layers Of Gatekeepers, and Think “Walz Checks” Only Gassy
STUMP: Happy Bobby Bonilla Day for 2022!
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – What Do We Owe Our Country?
This Ain’t Hell: Annual Fundraiser, Man Ordered to Stop Falsely Claiming to be Navy SEAL, and Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: Chasing Utopian Energy, Gravitics, and The Market
Victory Girls: Are Democrats Losing Confidence In Biden?
Volokh Conspiracy: “I Was Told There Would Be a Handbasket”, also, Justice Kagan Throws Down the Gauntlet
Watts Up With That: SCOTUS Has Crippled Biden’s EPA – But There’s Only One Way to Stop Them for Good
Weasel Zippers: Americans Should Pay More For Gas To Protect Liberalism, “I Don’t Count Drunk Driving As a Felony”, and This Is America’s New “Nuclear Waste Disposal Chief” – He Has Two Degrees From MIT (If You Can Believe It..) And Likes To Roleplay As A Dog
The Federalist: Representatives Demand Answers From State Department For Funding Atheism Abroad, The J6 Show Trial Is Lying About Election ‘Fraud’, and Biden Regime Admits On Camera – Ushering In ‘Liberal World Order’ Is More Important Than Affordable Gas
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – Dominion Day 2022, also, Dominion Lost

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SJW Snowflakes Melting Down Again

Posted on | July 1, 2022 | 1 Comment

Before getting to our main topic here, let me call the reader’s attention to one seemingly minor detail about that photo. See the green sign? See the fine print at the bottom? “RiseUp4AbortionRights-dot-org”? That’s a front group for the Revolutionary Communist Party, a Maoist cult founded by Bob Avakian in Berkeley decades ago, the result of a split in the radical Left during the Nixon years. So who is calling for “ABORTION ON DEMAND & WITHOUT APOLOGY”? Commies, that’s who.

Commies want to kill your baby. Commies want to make baby killing a central premise of their political platform. But at least the RCP is honest about being Commies, whereas Democrats . . .

Well, if Democrats couldn’t lie, they’d have nothing to say at all. But because they control the major institutions of education, journalism and entertainment, Democrats are able to create an echo chamber effect where people are bombarded with propaganda from all directions, so that it takes a strong mind to resist believing Democratic myths like the “constitutional right” to abortion as the essence of womanhood.

And so we see headlines like this:

‘It’s Scary’: Students Fear Going
to College in Red States After Roe

I won’t bother excerpting much of this, as readers can click and find their own favorite idiocies in that Vice article. One that I found particularly amusing is the lead anecdote about Sasha Rosenfeld from New Jersey, who is afraid about attending Oberlin College (!!!) because it sits in the red state of Ohio. Oh, the Fear and Loathing:

Committed to attending Oberlin in the fall, Rosenfeld started talking to friends about what she would do if she needed an abortion and couldn’t access care at college. One of her friends who lives 300 miles away in Chicago offered to pick her up and drive her out of the state if she ever needed the procedure.
“If I got pregnant — no question about it — at this point in my life, I would take Plan B [or] get an abortion,” she said.

Permit me to assert that the chances of Sasha Rosenfeld accidentally getting pregnant are very close to zero, but not for the reason you might expect. No, she’s not a fat purple-haired non-binary blob, like some of the pro-abortion militants you’ve seen bemoaning the end of Roe. Miss Rosenfeld is actually quite lovely — a slender brunette with a sunny smile who ran on her high school cross-country team in Maplewood, New Jersey. The reason that Miss Rosenfeld is very unlikely to suffer an unexpected pregnancy is because she is a radical feminist whose mother is the lesbian wife of left-wing radio personality Nancy Solomon.

Miss Rosenfeld calls herself “queerspawn,” which is to say she is what folks of my generation might have called a “turkey baster” baby. Miss Rosenfeld’s existence is a sort of protest against heterosexuality, and I’m sure she would never want to disappoint her mothers by expressing anything except vehement disgust toward males. And yet, despite her lifelong anti-heterosexual indoctrination as “queerspawn,” Miss Rosenfeld is gripped with fear about the (entirely hypothetical) prospect of needing an abortion as a consequence of a (preposterously far-fetched) scenario in which she somehow conceived a child through what some of us still quaintly think of as the normal method of impregnation.

Just suppose — since Miss Rosenfeld seems willing to indulge in wild speculation — that she actually were capable of feeling sexual attraction toward a male. As I say, this is entirely speculative, as nothing in her biography or published writing hints at any heterosexual inclination. Yet if she did harbor such a desire, what are the chances she could find a heterosexual male at Oberlin willing to do the deed with her?

Call me old-fashioned, but I think one proxy for the virility of a college’s male student body is the success of their football team, and by this measure, Oberlin is a pathetic joke. Last season, their football team posted a 1-9 record, getting blown away by such gridiron powerhouses as Ohio Wesleyan (62-6), Denison (59-12) and DePauw (66-13). Oberlin’s football team is the laughingstock of a very weak Division III conference. So if it’s swaggering masculinity you’re looking for, you’re not going to find much of it at Oberlin. Even if Miss Rosenfeld were interested in heterosexual coupling (which, as I say, is mere hypothetical speculation), she probably wouldn’t have much luck at such a testosterone-deficient institution as Oberlin College. Yet the imaginary danger terrifies her.

“It’s misogyny in our world that categorizes
feminism, and feminists, as undesirable.”
— Sasha Rosenfeld

Undesirable to whom, Miss Rosenfeld? But probably no one in the echo chamber where you have been raised as “queerspawn” ever asked such a question, or was prepared to explain why this might be relevant, and certainly your worldview won’t be challenged at Oberlin. The chances of you encountering a Republican at Oberlin are not much higher than your chances of becoming pregnant which, as I say, are very close to zero. Yet how could Democrats maintain their ironclad grip on your mind without filling your pretty little head with absurd fears? So you’ll likely go on protesting on behalf of the “right” to abortion, even though the likelihood of you ever needing to exercise this “right” is infinitesimally small.

When this particular tempest in a teapot dissipates — when all the pro-choice sky-is-falling noise proves to be mistaken, and life in America goes on just fine despite the recent Supreme Court ruling — I wonder if some people will wise up to the scam by which they’ve been hustled? Probably not many. True Believers are seldom disillusioned by mere facts.




 

Category: Abortion

In The Mailbox: 06.30.22 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 1, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.30.22 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: First Martyrs of the Church of Rome
Twitchy: Good Morning America: Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first black Supreme Court justice in history
Louder With Crowder: David Hogg Promises Not to Have Children If…, also, Jordan Peterson: I’d Rather Die Than Delete Elliot Page Tweet
Vox Popoli: Iron Curtain 2.0, The War for the Future of Man, and Post-Western Humanity

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: It’s Show Time
American Conservative: London’s First Organ Trafficking Trial, also, Does Lithuania Want to Start a War with Russia?
American Greatness: Cornell University Removes Lincoln bust and Gettysburg Address from Display, also, A Win Over Green Tyranny
American Power: Markets Suffer Worst First Half of a Year in Decades, also, The Left Killed the Pro-Choice Coalition
American Thinker: Michelle Obama Is Running for President in 2024, also, A New Generation Discovers Thomas Sowell
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Special Election News
Babalu Blog: 51 reasons for Mayorkas to resign , State Security begins massive deployment throughout Cuba as July 11 protest anniversary approaches, and Democrats pressure FCC to approve sale of Hispanic radio stations to Soros-funded leftist group
BattleSwarm: Did Joe Rogan Endorse Ron DeSantis For President?
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, Amazon Asks FCC To Consider limiting SpaceX’s Starlink constellation for their benefit, and India’s PSLV rocket completes launch, putting nine satellites into orbit
Cafe Hayek: Don’t Worry: It’s Okay; The Money We’re Spending Isn’t Ours
CDR Salamander: The Netherlands is Game for the Black Sea Grain Escort Mission
Chicago Boyz: Technologies Old and New
Da Tech Guy: How the NeverTrump Left See Themselves, also, Never be afraid to give voice to your political views
Don Surber: West Virginia saved America. You’re welcome, also, 360 newspapers died
First Street Journal: Some people just can’t tell the difference between comic books and reality, also, Killadelphia
Gates Of Vienna: The Great Birth Dearth, The EU’s Natural Gas Conundrum, and The Coming Bleak Midwinter in Germany
The Geller Report: Google Intercepted 100% of RNC Donation Emails on Biggest Donation Days of Month, also, Skyrocketing Chicago crime has small businesses, corporations pack their bags: ‘Enough is enough’
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Don’t Know Much About History, and A Civil Rights Victory
Hollywood In Toto: Late Night Pounces, Seizes on Jan. 6 Fake News Story, also, Crack Kamala Harris Impressionist Faces TikTok’s Wrath
The Lid: Occasional Cortex’ Latest Stupid Demand: Dissolve SCOTUS ‘For The Sake Of The Planet’, also, White House Urging Girls Under 15 to Get Abortions Without Telling Parents
Legal Insurrection: Parents File Lawsuit Against Loudoun County Schools Over Violations of Rights, Supreme Court Aborts The Green New Deal, and Majority of Americans Polled Believe Country is on Wrong Track, Including 78% of Democrats
Nebraska Energy Observer: Beware
Outkick: USC, UCLA Officially Approved to Join the Big 10 in 2024, ESPN’s Title IX Documentary Ratings Were Abysmal, and LaVar Arrington Backs Warren Sapp Amid Kaepernick Workout Claim
Power Line: The New BP Statistical Review Is Here!, Woke Food? Seriously?, and Supreme Court Slaps Down the EPA, Punts on Immigration
Shark Tank: Mills Receives Rare Volusia GOP Endorsement
Shot In The Dark: The Most Berg’s 7th Law Op-Ed In History, Resistance Is Futile, and Euphemisms
STUMP: The Recent Millennial Massacre (Part 1)
The Political Hat: Euthanasia in Europe: Spain Harvests Organs; Italy’s First Legal Assisted Suicide; Legalized In Austria
This Ain’t Hell: Military abortions are safe, legal, and rare, Last WWII MOH Awardee Passes, also, Air Force leaders discourage use of gender specific pronouns in award citations
Transterrestrial Musings: EPA Reined In, Snake Island, and Top Gun: Maverick
Victory Girls: EPA Slapped By SCOTUS, Bureaucratic State Loses
Volokh Conspiracy: A Broader Perspective on “My Body, My Choice”, also, Supreme Court Rejects Broad EPA Authority to Regulate Greenhouse Gases from Power Plants (Updated)
Watts Up With That: Is The Wind Turbine Industry Running Out of Money?, also, SCOTUS Rules EPA doesn’t have power to regulate carbon dioxide
Weasel Zippers: MSNBC Compares Jan 6 Riots To Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion, FiveThirtyEight Says Republicans WILL Win House, Possibly Senate, and Biden Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy Brags About How “Fossil Fuels” Are “Losing Jobs”
The Federalist: Scholars Launch Social Studies Standards To Counter Wokification Of K-12, The Jan. 6 Committee Is Causing Never Trumpers To Lose Their Minds, and Downton Abbey: A New Era Is A Mellow Family Reunion For Downton Lovers
Mark Steyn: The Omicroak Variant, Keeping the Faith & Holding the Line, and Fifty Bucks and a Gift That Lasts a Lifetime

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In The Mailbox: 06.30.22 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | June 30, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.30.22 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Skeletor will be back next week with more public service tips.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1763
EBL: We Own This City
Twitchy: “Another One Bites The Dust”, also, J6 Committee Member Jamie Raskin Falls Apart Under Jake Tapper’s Questioning
Louder With Crowder: West Point Grads Blast Woke Education At USMA, also, West Hollywood Defunds Sheriff’s Office During Massive Crime Surge
Vox Popoli: Denazification, Change the World by Being Yourself, and The War Spreads to Asia
Gab News: Christian Business Under Assault For Its Public Faith

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: America’s Hungary-Bashing Has Consequences
American Greatness: Fauci Gets COVID Again After Taking Paxlovid, also, Dobbs May Force Young Women to Confront Sexual Reality
American Thinker: False Values Proliferate in Higher Ed, also, Progressives/Leftists Target Black Women
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: At least 68 women remain in Castro gulags for July 11 protests, also, Between tourist blackouts and electrical ones
BattleSwarm: Hershel “Woody” Williams, Last Living World War II Medal of Honor Winner, Dead At 98
Behind The Black: Today’s blacklisted American, SpaceX preps for final engine tests before first orbital Starship/Superheavy flight, and SpaceX launches SES communications satellite
Cafe Hayek: Free Markets, also, Let’s Keep Our Own Trade Free
CDR Salamander: 1937, NATO, and the Need for Follow-Through
Da Tech Guy: The Left’s “I So Want it to be True” Caucus
Don Surber: Free abortion is a trap, libs, also, AP ignores evidence J6 witness lied
First Street Journal: Follow the science!, also, Los Angeles Times “diversity” columnist thinks white people won’t accept blacks legally carrying firearms
Gates Of Vienna: The Islamic Terror Attack in Oslo – Swedish and Flemish Perspectives, Culture-Enrichers Acting as Trusties, and Ascendant Islam Means Jihad Is Coming
The Geller Report: ‘Absolutely Destroyed Him’, also, CDC Caught Using False Data To Recommend Kids’ COVID Vaccine
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Gravity Assist From Mercury, and Important Accomplishments of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: These Gutfeld! Ratings Stats Should Scare Liberal Late Night Silly, also, Have Our Worst James Bond Fears Just Been Confirmed
The Lid: Occasional Cortex And Fauxcahontas Suggest Using Federal Lands For Abortion, also, DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid) And The Coming Diesel Crisis
Legal Insurrection: The Radicals in Green Hats at the Dobbs Protests, Chemical Shortages Affecting U.S. Farms Described as ‘Off the Charts”, and Woke Military Struggling to Reach Recruitment Goals
Nebraska Energy Observer: SCOTUS and Freedom
Outkick: Rob Manfred Says He Would Make The ‘Same Decision’ to Move All-Star Game Out of Atlanta, Tom Brady Contract Ripped By Former Host Michelle Beadle, and Freddie Freeman’s Agent Hid Braves’ Final Offer, Leading Him To The Dodgers
Power Line: Hot Enough For You?, also, Biden’s China syndrome
Shark Tank: Sabatini Lands Big Gun Rights Lobby Endorsement
Shot In The Dark: A Less Imperfect Union, Look What You Made Us Do, and More Of This
This Ain’t Hell: Women’s Draft Registration is Back, Four Vietnam Veterans to receive Medals of Honor, and Another Seven Are Known
Transterrestrial Musings: Miscarriages And Ectopic Pregnancies, also, The Ukraine War
Victory Girls: George Washington University Won’t Cancel Clarence Thomas
Volokh Conspiracy: Justice Breyer’s Final(?) Majority Opinion Is A Win For Federal Power
Watts Up With That: Electricity Rationing: The Shameful Hallmark of Britain’s Green Energy Failure
Weasel Zippers: Watch Bret Baier Make An Asshole Out Of Himself On Live TV, Biden Stares Blankly Ahead As He AGAIN Refuses To Answer Questions, and Former Clinton Strategist Tells Hillary To Pack It In…America Still Hates Her
The Federalist: Thanks To Leftist Corruption, U.S. Military Recruiting Is In Total Freefall, No, Dobbs Doesn’t Stop Doctors From Treating Ectopic Pregnancies Or Miscarriages, and Democrats Are Fooling Themselves On The Popularity Of Abortion
Mark Steyn: Jab That Baby!, Whatever’s Your Bag, and Green Dazed

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Like an Old REO Speedwagon Song

Posted on | June 29, 2022 | Comments Off on Like an Old REO Speedwagon Song

Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from a friend who
Heard it from another . . .

The “bombshell” surprise witness for Tuesday’s J6 show trial turned out to be a girl who was just barely out of college and working as an aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows at the time of the events about which she testified. Cassidy Hutchinson claimed to have “heard it from a friend,” etc., that President Trump was so completely out of control during the Capitol riot that he attacked a Secret Service agent and attempted to grab the steering wheel from the driver of the limousine, insisting that they drive him to the Capitol instead of the White House.

Nobody on the J6 Committee asked Secret Service to corroborate Hutchinson’s account. In fact, there is zero corroboration of her tale. Which is not to say that it has been proven false, exactly, and I suppose it is within the realm of possibility that (a) Hutchinson’s testimony will eventually be corroborated and (b) monkeys will fly out of my butt.

But I know the neighborhood
And talk is cheaper when the story is good
And the tales grow taller on down the line.

Like the song said.




 

Category: Congress

Sgt. McCain: Behind Enemy Lines

Posted on | June 29, 2022 | Comments Off on Sgt. McCain: Behind Enemy Lines

My Army son just survived a mission in hostile territory. He has been assigned to the newly revived 11th Airborne Division, based in Alaska, which will specialize in arctic combat. Just in case there is some country in a northern area (perhaps on the other side of the Bering Strait) that wants trouble, if you get my drift. So what Bob and his family did was, they sold their house in Georgia, bought a big camper trailer, and drove 5,000 miles to Alaska which, if you look at a map, means they had to cross over that most dangerous of all our enemies, Canada.

I don’t want to argue with anyone foolish enough to think that Canada is our “ally.” Our failure to conquer Canada when we had the chance, during the War of 1812, is a stain of dishonor on our national history. And now, as might have been expected, Canada has come under the control of a totalitarian madman named Justin Trudeau who, like all totalitarians everywhere, is seeking to disarm the civilian population.

The civilian population of Canada is very nice, my son said, and I warned him not to be lulled into a false sense of safety while he and his family (and their cat) traversed the wilderness of British Columbia and the Yukon. Everybody knows (or should know) that behind that mask of Canadian “niceness” lurks a dangerous ideology of anti-American hatred that supports the Trudeau regime. What is the national purpose of Canada, after all? Why does it even exist, except to be Not America?

Canada is basically like Iran. They hate us for our freedom.

Anyway, I’m sure all my readers share my Fear and Loathing of the Northern Menace, but Bob courageously endured several days traveling across Canada with his wife, his daughter and their cat, so he probably deserves some kind of medal. You could call it a “reconnaissance mission,” I suppose, and basically write it up like a Tom Clancy novel, except with lots of moose and elk and buffalo instead of terrorists.

Staff Sergeant McCain will soon become Sergeant First Class McCain, and will lead a platoon in the 11th Airborne. Speaking of which . . .

Every branch of the military is struggling to make its 2022 recruiting goals, officials say
Every branch of the U.S. military is struggling to meet its fiscal year 2022 recruiting goals, say multiple U.S. military and defense officials, and numbers obtained by NBC News show both a record low percentage of young Americans eligible to serve and an even tinier fraction willing to consider it.
The officials said the Pentagon’s top leaders are now scrambling for ways to find new recruits to fill out the ranks of the all-volunteer force. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks consider the shortfall a serious issue, said the officials, and have been meeting on it frequently with other leaders.
“This is the start of a long drought for military recruiting,” said Ret. Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr of the Heritage Foundation, a think tank. He said the military has not had such a hard time signing recruits since 1973, the year the U.S. left Vietnam and the draft officially ended. Spoehr said he does not believe a revival of the draft is imminent, but “2022 is the year we question the sustainability of the all-volunteer force.”
The pool of those eligible to join the military continues to shrink, with more young men and women than ever disqualified for obesity, drug use or criminal records. Last month, Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville testified before Congress that only 23% of Americans ages 17-24 are qualified to serve without a waiver to join, down from 29% in recent years.
An internal Defense Department survey obtained by NBC News found that only 9% of those young Americans eligible to serve in the military had any inclination to do so, the lowest number since 2007.
The survey sheds light on how both Americans’ view of the military and the growing civilian-military divide may also be factors in slumping recruitment, and how public attitudes could cause recruiting struggles for years to come.

Is anyone really surprised by this? Fifteen years ago, when today’s recruits were toddlers, Democrats had enthusiastically embraced an anti-military, anti-patriotic agenda to encourage (and exploit for political gain) public backlash against the Iraq War. When our kids were little, the boys always got G.I. Joe for Christmas, but after about 2006, stores stopped stocking G.I. Joe. Why do you think that happened? Why did military toys disappear from stores? Isn’t it because of the anti-military agenda that the Democratic Party encouraged? And if boys don’t grow up playing soldier . . . Well, we know what happens to boys like that.

Having raised a soldier — who completed Best Ranger competition twice, and even survived a week in Canada — I should be credited with knowing a thing or two about what it takes to produce top military personnel.

First, and most obviously, boys ought to be encouraged to go outside and play. You might think this would be a no-brainer, but apparently not all parents understand the vital importance of playing outdoors. Recruiters will tell you that they have the best success in small towns in more rural parts of the country, simply because those are the kinds of places where parents let their boys run around out in the woods. The future soldier is likely to be fond of camping, hiking, hunting and fishing — the hearty outdoor life — and you’re not going to find many boys like that in the city.

Second, athletic participation should be encouraged. Except for a year or two of soccer, Bob wasn’t an extraordinary athlete as a kid, but he was raised up as a football fan — Roll, Tide! — and there was at least the usual amount of our boys running around throwing the ball, etc. As a teenager, he went through a bit of pumping iron and at one point, he and a buddy had a big punching bag in the basement that they worked out on. Physical fitness counts for a lot in being a soldier, and athletic participation helps encourage that. None of my kids are part of the “obesity epidemic.”

Third, a family military tradition matters. My own family has produced soldiers going back at least as far as the American Revolution. My dad was an Army staff sergeant in World War II and my brother was in the 101st Airborne. Two of my wife’s brothers were in the military, including one who did tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, and her youngest sister’s husband was an Army tanker. So my sons had four uncles with military backgrounds, and Bob joining the Army was thus part of a family tradition. Recruiters know this, too, which is why so many of our troops come from families with similar traditions.

Finally, a future soldier should be exposed to a patriotic culture that teaches heroic values. Kids who are taught to love their country are more likely to become soldiers, especially if they are exposed to movies and TV shows that venerate military heroism. When Bob and his twin brother Jim were nine years old, I took them to see Black Hawk Down. Bob now says no nine-year-old should see that movie and, yeah, maybe it’s a bit intense for young children, but that movie and others like it — The Patriot, for example — express patriotic and heroic values.

Notice that I speak of raising boys when I speak of raising soldiers. That’s because the fantasy of a “gender neutral” military is an anti-American political project backed by the worst people in the world. They promoted the idea of women in combat as a way of making our military completely ineffective. They don’t want America to win wars, so they encourage every bit of “woke” nonsense as a means of destroying combat effectiveness.

My Army son, of course, cannot be blamed for his father’s blunt expressions of fact. The sergeant has no opinions whatsoever. He is a soldier who follows orders, and if the Army had wanted him to have opinions, they would have issued them to him. So if his commanding officer were to say, “Gee, McCain, your old man sure hates Canadians,” Bob’s reply would probably be, “That is a fact, sir.”

A good soldier is a smart soldier, you see. HOOAH!




 

Category: Family, Military

In The Mailbox: 06.28.22

Posted on | June 29, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.28.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Blogroll has been pruned, thanks largely to Loyal Reader Randy Heath, who put together a really neat spreadsheet identifying dead sites, sites that had moved, and sites that are still blogging away. Thanks again for the help, Randy.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Seattle Wanted Fewer Police
EBL: 46 Migrants Found Dead in a Truck Trailer in San Antonio, also, Oh No, Now We Have Mormon Crickets To Deal With! 
Twitchy: Beavis & Butthead Find Out They Have White Privilege, also, Jeffrey Toobin Weighs In On Alleged Attempted Choking [No chickens were harmed]
Louder With Crowder: 14-Year-Old Starts Landscaping Business to Raise Money for Heartwarming Reason, also, Gay Man on Twitter Destroys Leftist Culture in Viral Open Letter
Vox Popoli: They Have No Idea, Canada is at War with Russia, and Another Convenient Death

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Some points for Living
American Conservative: The Contempt of the World, also, How Will the US Rearm After Ukraine?
American Greatness: Trump Dismisses ‘Bombshell’ Testimony of Former White House Aide, also, Fauxcahontas Demands Abortion Centers be Placed in National Parks
American Power: Biden Lied to Country About Business Dealings With Hunter, also, Ace Has Questions
American Thinker: The Left-wing Insurrection Intensifies, also, The Rapid Onset Ruling-Class Disorder Crisis
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Continuing Exodus News
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Netflix Cancels LGBTQ-Themed Cartoon

Posted on | June 28, 2022 | Comments Off on Netflix Cancels LGBTQ-Themed Cartoon

Why is Netflix such a cesspool of homophobia?

Just when you thought Netflix’s latest cancelation spree was over, another original show won’t be getting a second season. Although, in this case, it’s not a huge surprise that this particular show has received the axe after a fairly underwhelming debut run.
The canceled show in question is called Q-Force, an adult animated comedy that hit Netflix back in September 2021. The show’s first 10 episodes dropped concurrently, and What’s On Netflix discovered that these episodes will comprise the show’s complete run.
Q-Force’s fate has actually been known for a while now. Matt Rogers, one of the show’s writers and voice actors, revealed that “it did not get a second season” on the Attitudes! podcast back in May.
Q-Force is an adult animated comedy that focuses on a group of LGBTQ+ superspies, known as Queer Force, who are looking to prove themselves to the American Intelligence Agency (AIA) that undervalues them.
The group is led by Steve Maryweather, nicknamed Agent Mary (voiced by Sean Hayes), who was once one of the AIA’s hottest young prospects before he came out as gay and was subsequently ostracized by his colleagues. Now he leads Q-Force alongside Twink (Rogers), a French Canadian and “Master of Drag”, Deb (Wanda Sykes), a lesbian mechanic, and Stat (Patti Harrison), a transgender hacker.
The show sees the team not only fight against national security threats but also workplace discrimination and the fact AIA Director Dirk Chunley (Gary Cole) has taken a disliking to the plucky underdogs.

“Plucky underdogs”! Also “stunning” and “brave,” I’m sure.

Netflix is losing subscribers, and recently announced it was laying off 300 employees after laying off 150 in May. Guess the “LGBTQ+ superspies” weren’t very popular with the customers who pay the bills.

Gosh, if only there were a simple catchy phrase to summarize this.




 

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