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Who’s In Your Shower?


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Leaving aside any and all moral or social issues regarding the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy and the ban on openly gay people serving in the military…

Leaving aside the can of worms this opens, since people are already sharpening their legal pads to press for “partners” and “families” to be eligible for (and qualify the service person for) benefits, housing, etc…

Admittedly, this is an awful lot to “leave aside”…

But what I want to know is how they are planning to handle things, on a strictly logistical basis.

The current issue of the “Air Force Times” says the recommendations from the big study they did include the following:

Gays will not be restricted from any career fields (including small arms, submarines, etc.)
  • The Pentagon should prohibit separate berthing or shower facilities for gays
  • I cannot even begin to get my head around that.

    Men and women have separate berthing and shower facilities.

    This was a hurdle that the armed forces had to overcome when women were allowed to join and serve in various capacities. But it seems to work out pretty well, since you can have a “women’s dorm” and a “men’s dorm.”

    But what do you do with, for a simple example, a gay man?

    He cannot be quartered with the women, because he is still a man, and that would violate their privacy.

    But he also cannot be quartered with the men, since the whole point of the separation is that persons should not sleep and shower in the same room with persons of the gender to which they are sexually attracted.

    So, by this logic, the gay man must be given private facilities for berthing and showering.

    Naturally, to avoid discrimination, this would mean that all service members would have to be given private quarters.

    I’m not thinking that’s going to work out…

    People have said that the common argument is that that’s not necessary, since a gay man isn’t necessarily going to be sexually interested in any other specific man, and besides that he can control himself, right?

    Which is the silliest argument I’ve ever heard!

    I mean, a heterosexual man isn’t necessarily going to be interested in any particular woman. And besides that he can control himself, right?

    So a straight man should be allowed to be quartered with the women.

    Ummmm, no.

    Unless society is ready to dump everyone into one big room together, regardless of gender or any other consideration, there is no viable way to make this work.

    I think my point about this is actually made most clearly by taking a look at the blogs out there where you can see this scenario painted in a positive light – often with reference to the co-ed shower scene in the movie Starship Troopers.

    Not for the feint of heart, if you want an example you can check out the blog of a Marine – D’s Blog).

    Equality in Mediocrity


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    An article I posted recently on Facebook from the New York Times talked about how Obama’s “Healthcare” bill is primarily about the redistribution of wealth.

    One friend commented that, if nothing else, she was gld that more people would be receiving aid (although she mistakenly assumed that the Federal Poverty Level was being raised).

    I was delighted to find a lengthy reply from my good friend Dr. Ken Green, which spells out the situation – and the problems with it – in straightforward language.

    I’d like to share it with you, with only a few minor edits to remove references to the original Facebook comments.

    * * * * * * * * * *

    “I like to help people, and give to charities regularly, but the problem with what’s happening to our country is the incentives it creates. Ultimately, these new incentives will hurt the [lower-income] people more than it will help them.

    I spent 16 years in college, and racked up major student debt, in the hope that higher wages would let me repay my loans, make up for savings and stuff that I couldn’t afford as a student, and so on. I’ve done okay, and am not complaining, but then, I just paid off my loans a few years ago, we’ve moved five times for my career, we still have mismatched and mediocre quality furniture, we have very modest savings, we pay high rent (DC is way expensive), have no car, we hunt for bargains, and we watch our budget. I don’t know if I’d make that investment in a specialized education today, and the investment gets worse with every new law they pass.

    That’s how this new idea that $250,000 for a family is “rich” will wipe out incentives for people who put off earning money in order to invest in expensive specialized education. In L.A., N.Y., D.C., Silicon Valley… in any city where specialization is valued, living is insanely expensive. In Manhattan, $250,000/yr would barely rent you an over-sized closet.

    And contrary to this new egalitarian ethic that’s taking over the country, society *needs* specialists, as only specialists can do certain things, like teaching, developing new technologies, new pharmaceuticals & medical devices, safer cars, more efficient houses, and yes, analyzing environmental laws and energy legislation to figure out if they’re going to help people, or do more harm than good.

    If you tell people who are facing an investment of say, $100,000 in college bills that they have to pay that back (with interest), while also trying to raise the family they probably put off during school, AND make up for having no savings, hand-me down furniture, no work-clothes, etc., AND you’re going to take more and more of their income if they are successful so you can give it to people who didn’t invest in themselves and delay the rewards of working for profit… well, you’re not going to have people make that investment. The same is true if you confiscate profits from people who take a risk investing in starting a small business, inventing a new gizmo, opening a new restaurant, etc.

    This is what happens in social democracies like Europe, people stop investing, they stop taking risks, and the successful leave the country. Over time, the country loses its economic power, it’s technological power, its intellectual power (the term is “brain drain”) and runs low on specialists of all sorts. You wind up with permanently higher unemployment, decaying streets and buildings, public union strikes, and less of the technologies that make everyone’s life (including the people you want to help) healthier and more pleasant.

    And the massive growth in social spending means you can’t spend on a strong military. People may think they like that idea now, but when there’s some Islamist take over of a major European ally, or some lunatic in the middle east nukes someone, or shut off oil supplies, or China takes Japan, or Russia re-conquers Poland, and we have to say, “Sorry, can’t do anything, we pared back our military to pay for health care,” it won’t seem so wonderful.”

    Dirty Secrets of ObamaCare


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    I was very distressed by Chuck Norris’ recent column, Dirty Secret No.1 in Obamacare.

    First of all, let me put any question to rest by providing you a link to the actual text of the bill. I looked, and it’s there, just as reported by Mr. Norris. This is not some fantastic claim someone made up just to make ObamaCare look bad – it does that all by itself!

    Now, what is this big Health Care issue?

    Sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (on about page 838, depending on formatting when you vew it), provide for:

    Home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children.

    The bill says that the government agents (“well-trained and competent staff”) would “provide parents with knowledge of age-appropriate child development in cognitive, language, social, emotional, and motor domains … modeling, consulting, and coaching on parenting practices,” and “skills to interact with their child to enhance age-appropriate development.”

    Chuck Norris says it so well, I’m just going to let him say it:

    Are you kidding me?! With whose parental principles and values? Their own? Certain experts’? From what field and theory of childhood development? As if there are one-size-fits-all parenting techniques! Do we really believe they would contextualize and personalize every form of parenting in their education, or would they merely universally indoctrinate with their own?

    Are we to assume the state’s mediators would understand every parent’s social or religious core values on parenting? Or would they teach some secular-progressive and religiously neutered version of parental values and wisdom?

    When did Government Health Care turn into Government Parenting?

    Okay, one more witty tidbit from Chuck:

    One government rebuttal is that this program would be “voluntary.” Is that right? Does that imply that this agency would just sit back passively until some parent needing parenting skills said, “I don’t think I’ll call my parents, priest or friends or read a plethora of books, but I’ll go down to the local government offices”? To the contrary, the bill points to specific targeted groups and problems, on Page 840: The state “shall identify and prioritize serving communities that are in high need of such services…”

    Seems pretty clear to me what this is about.

    Same thing as the Hitler Youth program.

    Same thing as the Bible teaches us about our responsibilities as parents.

    To raise and train the next generation is to shape the future.

    Ronald Reagan on Socialized Medicine


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    Here’s Ronald Reagan, circa 1961, speaking on the “probems of the day” – including socialized medicine.

    This is the full speech, posted by the Reagan Foundation. It’s some 11 minutes, but time well spent. It has a “fluffy, speech-y” introduction, but hag in there.

    It has some really solid points throughout, and a great wrap-up about holding your representatives accountable. There are things in here that many people probably never thought of, in relation to socialized medicine – check it out!

    Obama Budget Cuts Visual Aid


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    Wondering just how much of a difference those proposed cuts are going to make? Having trouble visualizing those huge amounts?

    Watch this:

    Big Brother Has a GPS


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    So, here’s a thought for anyone out there with paranoid leanings:

    THE GOVERNMENT now owns/controls Chevy and GM.

    Chevy and GM created and install OnStar in their vehicles.

    With OnStar, “they” can not only track where you are and catalog your driving habits, but they can also lock you out of your car (or let anyone else in), stop your car at any time (or start it), listen to what’s being said or going on in your car (or talk to you, naturally), and who knows how much more.

    Big Brother is not only watching, but now he has a GPS and remote control…

    ObamaCare: Just One Question


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    Here is the single most important question you can ask your Representative and Senators concerning ObamaCare.

    Will you vote to require members of Congress to be included on any bill dealing with health care? Please give me a yes or no answer.

    If the ObamaCare health care bill isn’t good for the members of Congress, then it is not good for the general public. Members of Congress should live under the same laws as the general public.

    Is Obama Invalid?


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    That sounds intersting in a lot of ways..  But what I acually have been thinking about (and getting more and more upset about) is the fact that we have no reason to believe that the man meets the basic Constitutional requirements for being President!

    This bumper sticker from The Patriot Depot say it all!

    This bumper sticker from The Patriot Depot say it all!

    We are a little media-sheltered, so I assumed that this was long since resolved.

    Until I got an email today from the Western Center for Journalism, asking for tax-deductible donations to pursue this story by pressing the major media to take it up. 

    Yeah, the same media that got lock-jaw latching on to the notion that there might be an issue with Bush’s service record.  The same folks who left no stone unturned investigating the possibility that John McCain might not be qualified for the office because he was born overseas.  Very interesting…

    I’m going to edit and editorialize (of course), but this handy summary of issues is theirs.

    Barack Hussein Obama could put the issue to rest right now by simply releasing his ACTUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE!

    But instead he has teams of lawyers fighting efforts to get him to release his ACTUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE, while his underlings look down their noses at the American people and call these legitimate requests “garbage.”

    And the one pivotal question that those who attempt to dismiss the controversy cannot answer is:

    If Barack Hussein Obama has nothing to hide, what’s the problem?

    The more he resists, the more you have to wonder.

    Here are some of the disturbing facts surrounding Barack Hussein Obama’s ACTUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE – not rumors, not wild theories – just the FACTS.

    FACT #1: Article 2, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States, SPECIFICALLY states, “No person except a natural born citizen of the United States, at the time of adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President…”  It’s NOT a technicality, or lunacy on the part of our Founding Fathers.  It is  a specific statement within a document that forms the basis for ALL of our laws and not open to interpretation (unless the entire Constitution should be now open to interpretation).

    FACT #2: In order to be a “natural born citizen,” you must be born in the United States or, if you are born abroad, you CAN (if specific circumstances are met) inherit citizenship status from your parents.  If he was born abroad, then that’s a problem for Barack Hussein Obama because his father was NOT a citizen of the United States and his mother had not lived in the United States the required amount of time after attaining the age of majority when Obama was born – meaning SHE COULD NOT pass her citizenship on to Obama.

    FACT #3: If Barack Hussein Obama WAS NOT born in the United States, he IS NOT a “natural born citizen” and if that is the case, Obama is guilty of perpetuating the most massive fraud in the history of the United States!

    FACT #4: Barack Hussein Obama has ACTIVELY REFUSED to show his ACTUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE to the people who elected him. Under Hawaiian law, only Obama can legally release the document but HE JUST WON’T DO IT! Why not?

    FACT #5: Obama has multiple teams of lawyers helping him shield the document from the prying eyes of the American people. Why?

    FACT #6: Instead of producing an ACTUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE, Team Obama produced another document – a “Certification of Live Birth” – and said, in effect, “Here’s his Birth Certificate! Now shut up!”

    And when it comes to FACT #6, Team Obama engaged in a sleight-of-hand that is going unnoticed by the American people, because the liberal media refuses to scrutinize the actions of Barack Hussein Obama.

    A CERTIFICATION of Live Birth and a Birth Certificate (A CERTIFICATE of Live Birth)… [notice the difference in the words "certification" and "certificate"] ARE TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT DOCUMENTS.

    A CERTIFICATION of Live Birth – the document that Team Obama produced – is a document that essentially proves that you exist and Barack Hussein Obama most certainly EXISTS – that point is not in dispute.

    A CERTIFICATE of Live Birth (an ACTUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE) – on the other hand contains more information. It gives the specific location of your birth, the hospital, the time of birth, the attending physician etc.

    So what is the big deal? 

    Simply put: a CERTIFICATION of Live Birth CAN contain ERRORS.

    The State of Hawaii provide an concrete example of this point!  Hawaii maintains programs to encourage property ownership for native Hawaiians.  And pursuant to those programs, the Hawaii Department of Home Lands (DHHL) states the following on its website:

    “In order to process your application, DHHL utilizes information that is found only on the original Certificate of Live Birth, which is either black or green. This is a more complete record of your birth than the Certification of Live Birth (a computer-generated printout). Submitting the original Certificate of Live Birth will save you time and money since the computer-generated Certification requires additional verification by DHHL.”

    If the State of Hawaii DOES NOT accept its own CERTIFICATION of Live Birth as proof that an individual was actually born in Hawaii, why should we?

    If Hawaii REQUIRES an ACTUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE , WHY SHOULDN’T WE?

    Another interesting tidbit:

    Obama’s paternal grandmother said she was present at Obama’s birth, which took place in Mombasa in what is now Kenya.

    And more on the liberal media’s startling role in this:

    Some people are asking: Is This Whole Controversy Such A Big Deal Or Much Ado About Nothing?

    IT WAS “such a big deal” for John McCain!

    You may still remember that the liberal media made a HUGE DEAL out of the fact that McCain was born in the Canal Zone, while his father, a Naval officer, was stationed there. The liberal media relentlessly questioned  whether or not McCain met the constitutional test.

    But John McCain – unlike Obama – released all relevant records!

    While the Canal Zone was not American soil, McCain’s parents were both American citizens who had resided in the United States for the required number of years after having reached the age of majority! McCain was good to go.

    Can we say the same for Obama? And why isn’t the liberal media asking that question?

    Strangely, it may have been the liberal media’s willingness to savage McCain over the issue that eventually brought this whole controversy to light.

    When Obama’s grandmother claimed Obama was born in Kenya, the McCain controversy was still fresh in the minds of people who wondered – and are still wondering – why the same standard was NOT being applied to Obama.

    But, as the American people are coming to know, you are simply not allowed to criticize, scrutinize, or hold him up to any standard.  Now, just raising what was a legitimate question in regards to John McCain makes you a conspiracy theorist or nut when it comes to Obama.

    Please understand, no one is saying that Obama is NOT a “natural born citizen.”  What we’re saying is we  just don’t KNOW, BECAUSE BARACK “MR. TRANSPARENCY” OBAMA WILL NOT RELEASE HIS ACTUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE.

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    The Western Center for Journalism is running a campaign to try and force the media to investigate this, by sending faxes to all the majors news networks and newspapers, as well as the White House.

    Whether or not you want to get involved in their campaign, I would urge you to simply ask the question.

    Ask your friends and neighbors.

    Ask the Editor of your local newspaper.

    Ask your Senators and Representatives.

    Keep asking, until we get an answer…

    Letter from the CEO


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    Dear Employees:

    As the CEO of this organization, I have resigned  myself to the fact that Barrack Obama is our President and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.

    To compensate for these increases, our prices would have to increase by about 10%.

    But since we cannot increase our prices right now due to the dismal state of the economy, we will have to lay off six of our employees instead.

    This has really been bothering me, since I believe we are family here and I didn’t know how to  choose who would have to go. So, this is what I did:

    I walked through our parking lot and found six ‘Obama’ bumper stickers on our employees’ cars and I have decided these folks will be the ones to let go.

    I can’t think of a more fair way to approach this problem. They voted for change, I gave it to them.

    I will see the rest of you at the annual company picnic. 

     

    I can’t claim credit… Igot this as an email with no credit citation. 

    It’s sure a good one, though!

    Red Envelope Day


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    I think this is a really amazing campaign, and we will definately be participating!

    (These are snippets from various sources, so please excuse any overlap or jumping around).

    Visit the website for more info:  http://www.RedEnvelopeDay.com

    When:  March 31st, 2009

    What:  Get a red envelope.

    You can buy them at Kinkos, office supply stores, or party supply stores.  You can even make your own – there are some easy-to-follow tutorials at Instructables (very easy!) and Expert Village (oragami!).

    On the front, address it to:

    President Barack Obama
    The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
    Washington , D.C. 20500

    NOTE: Make sure you include a return address, or it will be sent to the Dead Letter Office!

    On the back, write the following message:

    This envelope represents one child who died because of an abortion. It is empty because the life that was taken is now unable to be a part of our world.

    Responsibility begins with conception.

    Please tell every one of your friends who you think would send one, too. I wish we could send 50 million red envelopes, one for every child who died [in the U.S.] before having a chance to live.

    Barack Obama spoke at a Planned Parenthood Action Fund event, uttering the now infamous line, “Well, the first thing I’d do as president is, is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. [Applause.] That’s the first thing that I’d do.”

    An empty red envelope will send a message to President Barack Obama that there is moral outrage in this country over this issue [The Freedom of Choice Act, which will essentially "undo" every law currently in place to limit abortion in the U.S. (i.e., parental consent laws, parental notification, waiting periods, prohibition of transporting a minor girl across state lines to obtain an abortion, etc.)]. It will be quiet, but clear.

    You can read more about The Freedom of Choice Act here:

    http://www.lifenews.com/nat4359.html
    http://www.barackobama.com/2008/01/22/obama_statement_on_35th_annive.php
    http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2008/07/one_year_annive.html

    There is also an option on the Red Envelope Day website to purchase pre-printed envelopes online, to be mailed directly to the White House on the 31st.  It doesn’t get any easier than that!


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