if this video does not make your eye water, you’re either a scum-sucking left-wing liberal or you’re brain-dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzMSzLkOkJA
Originally posted 2017-06-17 16:37:07.
if this video does not make your eye water, you’re either a scum-sucking left-wing liberal or you’re brain-dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzMSzLkOkJA
Originally posted 2017-06-17 16:37:07.
A very humbling review by a friend and fellow Marine for which I always held in high regard. Alastair and I served in the 7th Marines together at Camp Pendleton, CA in the tumultuous early 70’s. Both of us were company commanders fighting the Camp San Mateo wars. Thank you very much kind sir!
Jim,
Upon receipt I immediately read your book, but have now had time to re-read at my leisure, and it’s a wonderful tribute to a great career, written by a most erudite and talented author. What memories it has brought back…and on almost every page a friend or past comrade pops up..names upon names, locations all well remembered. I hadn’t realized for example, that both Wayne Rollins and John McGinty had been on the Drill Field with you. And, it’s funny how Boot Camp is so much clearer in my mind than TBS.
Your dedication is all the more dear and meaningful to me now. You do me great honour, as it should be you in whom I stand in awe !
Do keep in touch. All the best.
S/F,
Alastair
Originally posted 2017-06-12 16:25:46.
I’m literally lost for words, someone please fill in the blanks here. What are we doing to ourselves?
Tell me again, leftists, about your abounding concern for women. Please tell me about the need to empower young girls and provide them with opportunities. Please tell me all about your “pro-woman” stances and policies. Then, if you could, kindly explain how this story fits into all of that.
A mustachioed boy who “identifies as a girl” heroically won gold in the 100 meter dash and 200 meter dash for the Connecticut high school girl’s state championships last week. His times would have placed him a full second behind last place in the boy’s competition, but against the girls he easily came in first. Aside from the general insanity of the situation, there are two particularly disturbing aspects of this story, and I’m hoping you can help us all see the positive in these:
First, the boy and his parents have demonstrated total disregard for the girls he disenfranchised in order to win. The boy, “Andraya,” gloated that he’s happy to have won but he “kind of expected it.” Gee, I wonder why?
His dad graciously conceded that fairness is irrelevant and all that matters is whether his son is happy. “In terms of the fairness aspect, I don’t think about that as a father. I only think about, is my [son] happy, healthy and able to participate in what [he] wants to do… [He] got to compete as a girl where [he] feels [he] should compete.” This is what you call terrible parenting.
His mother also waved her hand dismissively at the girls who were robbed of an opportunity to win a fair race. “I know they’ll say it is unfair and not right, but my counter to that is: Why not… [He] is competing and practicing and giving [his] all and performing and excelling based on [his] skills. Let that be enough. Let [him] do that, and be proud of that.” It should be “enough,” she says, that her son is happy and proud. That’s all that should matter to anyone. Please explain, leftists, how the parents and the boy have the right attitude here.
Second, the actual girls in the race have been so beaten into silence and submission that they were afraid to even voice their displeasure over the competition being blatantly rigged against them. Kate Hall, the student who came in second but really came in first, cried and confessed to being “frustrated,” but then added, “that’s just the way it is now.” “I can’t really say what I want to say, but there’s not much I can do about it,” she muttered dejectedly.
So, leftists, tell me how these girls have benefited from this fantasy that biological males can also be girls. Better yet, tell them. Go up to Kate Hall and explain to her that she has no right to be disappointed. Explain that, although Andraya has insurmountable biological advantages, it’s still fair that he compete against her because that’s what he wants. Explain that his desires and his feelings must always come before her own. Explain how the happiness of one biological male outweighs the happiness of every girl he raced against. Please, explain.
And then perhaps you should have a sit down with all of the girls across the country and let them know that the extinction of women’s sports is on the horizon. Please explain how this is all for their own good. After all, women cannot compete in women’s leagues if men are competing in women’s leagues. So, there will be no more women’s leagues. There will be men’s leagues and then cross dressing men’s leagues. I’m really hoping you can explain to my daughter and to all of our daughters how empowering it will be to witness the end of female athletic competition.
And, while you’re having this discussion, make sure you also explain how their silence and submission is, in this case, right and healthy. These girls are scared of speaking out and letting their feelings be known. They’re scared of saying they want their own leagues, and their own bathrooms, and their own identity. They’re scared of asserting their right to safety and privacy. But this is good, yes? Those bigots ought to be intimidated, right? They ought to just shut up and go along. Please tell them that. Please explain it. I don’t think they quite understand yet. Please, you pro-women folks, you women’s rights defenders, you protectors of female autonomy. Please come forward and lay it out clearly so everyone comprehends it. Say it just as it is, like this:
“No, girls, you don’t get your own bathrooms anymore. You don’t get your own leagues. You don’t get your own identity. Not if men want in. Shut up and let the man beat you. Let him take your gold medal. Let him disrobe in front of you. Let him do what he wants. You have no choice. The proclivities and fetishes of men must come first. The desire that you may have to retain and defend your own unique identity is transphobic. Shame on you. Your feelings are not legitimate.”
Put that on the banners at your women’s marches.
Make it your rallying cry.
Go ahead.
Please.
Originally posted 2017-06-08 09:52:20.
Originally posted 2017-06-07 11:12:24.
From my best friend, fellow “Swinger of Birches, (which I doubt anyone knows what that term means today), brother, and life-long editor, a piece of prose for the day. Thanks you Dennis, God bless you sir!
Memorial Day Celebrations, 2017, at Cemeteries Across the Land
A million American flags, and more, will be unfurled,
And invited dignitaries will righteously attest,
In our many scattered consecrated parks
Where our true American heroes rest.
Some will issue a lofty proclamation
To confirm our most robust determination,
And voice why this day is deemed solemn,
Why we today remember our many, many fallen.
When their spirited dialogs fade,
The forlorn bugles sound,
As the eerie strain of Taps
Echoes o’er those hallowed grounds.
All across our indebted nation, wherever stone statues stand—
From Arlington National, in all directions—proudly, American flags, way upon way.
Will we then take one moment to stroll these sacred lands,
Noting names etched in granite whose uncommon valor won the day.
Will we express our gratitude to those who gave their all,
Honoring their selflessness while fulfilling duty’s call,
And pay full measure to their sacrifice so gallant, so brave,
As we silently nod our head towards each and every grave?
When the sun is setting, and we all are roving home,
Will we pause with pride and honor, and marvel at that we have seen?
And promise to ourselves, and those who silently repose,
To return more often conferring on all who rest there our utmost esteem?
Amen
Originally posted 2017-05-28 17:30:41.