Human Sacrifice

Why would a woman want to serve in the military; why would a woman want to be in a front line combat role?

"The fact is that American women are already serving in harm's way today all over the world and in every branch of our armed forces," he said in a statement. "Many have made the ultimate sacrifice, and our nation owes them a deep debt of gratitude."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/23/panetta-opens-combat-roles-to-women/#ixzz2IquzIWyx

As to the question, fill in whatever answer you like here:

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Now, the next question is, clearly nothing in that answer is as challenging, interesting, valuable, appreciated or needed as the role of wife and mother, something only a woman could do.

So why would a woman settle for less?

If the role of wife and mother is so denigrated, and the security of wives and mothers so attenuated that being a soldier is preferable, then it can make sense a woman would prefer to be a soldier than a wife and mother.

In centuries to come we'll be thought of as having so abandoned women and children in law and culture that women volunteered to fight on the front lines.

This is madness.

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Detroit Up 2200%

The city of Detroit can no longer collect taxes, because it no longer provides police and fire services.  So do we have chaos in Detroit?  No, we have anarchy.

Justifiable homicide in the city shot up 79 percent in 2011 from the previous year, as citizens in the long-suffering city armed themselves and took matters into their own hands. The local rate of self-defense killings now stands 2,200 percent above the national average. Residents, unable to rely on a dwindling police force to keep them safe, are fighting back against the criminal scourge on their own. And they’re offering no apologies.

Read how Karen de Costner, a Detroitois, is noting how her fellow Detroitoisie are simply killing malefactors since the cops only exist to make chalk outlines around those who wait for the police.  Tax preparers, high school coaches, utility workers are a simply offing those who rob and murder freelance, since the Detroit Police department does not have the funds to hire them as police officers, such as we have in Seattle.

Up to about 150 years ago, defendants in English courts we either led out the back door to be hanged or called not guilty and sent out the front door to freedom.  There was no such thing as "jail."  There was the Tower for political prisoners, but otherwise, you were either guilty or not guilty, and the King's justice was swift (right or wrong).

To have jails full of largely innocent people is a progressive innovation, and Detroit is just ahead of the curve in anarchy.  Detroit is the USA of tomorrow.  I've said good thing about Detroit before, for years, just check out my biz blog.  We have a system now that keeps the worst safe until they can be re-released on society to rape, murder, maim and rob again.

What is a conscientious objector doing accepting that citizens bump off malefactors?  I am doing what the economists call free-riding.  In a free market, if shunning does not work, the extremely few tax preparers, high school coaches and utility workers who through what the Catholic Church calls "invincible ignorance" simply whack any threat to themselves, keep the rest of us safe and the community at large in peace.  I didn't write the rules, c'est la vie.

What Orwell said, and no doubt regretted, about hard men standing watch at night is sheer nonsense.  It is the grinning utility pole climber who levels two punks that keeps us safe, by the grace of God.  And I see a pattern, cops spray dozens of rounds and maybe hit the "perp" twice, whereas it seems citizens make a kill in a shot or two.  Someone ought to study this.  Do citizens make better cops since they pay for their own bullets?

I never feel as uncomfortable as when I enter a coffee shop and see armed cops.  And never as relaxed as when I see (for I can spot) concealed carry citizens in other places.  In time Detroit will show the errant nonsense of this recent, failed experiment in having police departments, and we return to some semblance of civilization.

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Rolling

This is the best video on rolling I've seen...


To which I added my comment...
I've been practicing since 1971, and got my training with the very best students of O Sensei.  This has got to be the best video I have seen of "how to" on rolling.  I've never seen the side roll taught.  My only problem is "who are you?"  There is enough information to suggest this is from the Philippines, but there are a lot of dojos there.  I want to put this on my short list of dojos to visit in my life.  Fess up, who are you?

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How America Works

When the disgraced Admiral Poindexter was resurrected to announce the ill-fated TIA, the idea was shot down.  Shortly thereafter, the CIA set up shop in the Silicon Valley.  It has been backing social network sites ever since.


The big infusion of cash that sent Mark Zuckerberg and his fledgling college enterprise on their way came from Accel Partners, in 2004.
Jim Breyer, head of Accel, attached a $13 million rocket to Facebook, and nothing has ever been the same.
Earlier that same year, a man named Gilman Louie joined the board of the National Venture Capital Association of America (NVCA). The chairman of NVCA? Jim Breyer. Gilman Louie happened to be the first CEO of the important CIA start-up, In-Q-Tel.
In-Q-Tel was founded in 1999, with the express purpose of funding companies that could develop technology the CIA would use to “gather data.”


Now, I really could care less one way or another, except that it is a stunning waste of taxpayers money. In the name of national security, we are all constantly informing on ourselves.  Not that any of this will be used to curb terrorism or prevent crime, only that when the powers that be want to take someone out, they can simply go to their database and pull out enough to destroy him.

Before that, they had to build a false case against you, or assassinate you.  Now, big improvement, they can build an accurate against you.  Against everyone.  It is so much more liberal now.

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Sophie's False Choice & Permission

William Styron had a best seller which turned into a movie called Sophie's Choice, about a Polish woman whose ill-fortne it was to be on the arriving platform at a concentration camp with her 3 yo daughter and 5 yo boy.  A drunk SS captain, desiring to test God, found in Sophie the chance.  The captain told Sophie to choose which child should live and which should die.  Styron makes the whole scene believable, with the terrible argument back and forth, if she did not choose one, both would die, Sophie makes her choice and the doomed child shrieks as it is dragged away.

It was so well written it took me a while to figure out what the problem was.  Sophie did not have permission to make that choice.  She was never given the right to decide who lives and who dies when she was given lives to care for.  When the nazi captain said choose, her answer should have been "I do  not have permission to make such a choice."

The captain would have reminded her both would die.  To which her reply ought to be "If one, both, or neither dies, that is your choice not mine.  I have no power here, only you have the power to decide."

The captain may say he is giving her the power to save one, but her reply should be the ground-shifting "i do not have permission to make such a choice."

Whence permission?  Only from God, He who the captain as testing.  No doubt the drunken captain would have packed both off to die at her conscientious objection, but perhaps he would have reflected on his actions and permission and the God he was wondering about.  And since life went rather downhill from that point for Sophie et fil, the early death of both kids would have been better.

We are all given false choices to consider, but we must be ready to consider whether the power that is given to us is legitimate.  Usually not.  If not, you do not have permission to exercise it.


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Selecting Illegal Immigrants for the Draft

I though this was interesting...

If you are a man ages 18 through 25 and living in the U.S., then you must register with Selective Service.

So if just visiting, you might get snatched for the military?  I guess if you have a visa "document" then no problem...  but working here, a migrant farm labor, you must register.  Yikes!  We used to carry our draft cards lest we be stopped and whisked away until further proof of our status.

ATTENTION, UNDOCUMENTED MALES
& IMMIGRANT SERVICING GROUPS!

Selective Service does not collect any information which would indicate whether or not you are undocumented. You want to protect yourself for future U.S. citizenship and other government benefits and programs by registering with Selective Service. Do it today.

If you are a man ages 18 through 25 and living in the U.S., then you must register with Selective Service. It’s the law. According to law, a man must register with Selective Service within 30 days of his 18th birthday. Selective Service will accept late registrations but not after a man has reached age 26. You may be denied benefits or a job if you have not registered. You can register at any U.S. Post Office and do not need a social security number.When you do obtain a social security number, let Selective Service know. Provide a copy of your new social security number card; being sure to include your complete name, date of birth, Selective Service registration number, and current mailing address; and mail to the Selective Service System, P.O. Box 94636, Palatine, IL 60094-4636.

That word "man" is black in the original...  I guess be eligible for the draft makes you a man.

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Child Sacrifice, USA 2013

Panarchist Micahel Rosen has a nice list of things to which to conscientiously object:

America systematically mistreats its young, a partial list:

1. Burdening them with a monstrous debt

2. Raising them in an environment of perpetual war

3. Inflicting the public school system on them

4. Over-prescribing them with drugs

5. Suppressing masculinity

6. Shifting the fruits of their labor to retirees

7. Raising increasing numbers in single-parent families

8. Forcing mothers out of homes and into the workforce

9. Discouraging work and encouraging profiting from drugs

10. Discouraging saving and a long-term horizon

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