When the Defense Department surveyed troops in 2021 on their experiences in the workplace regarding gender, the findings revealed significant room for improvement ― particularly in the Marine Corps.
Now, the Corps is bringing on new staff members in the latest effort to address this cultural trend. The service revealed its plans in a briefing presented to the Pentagon’s Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services in March.
Because nothing says “America’s Strike Force” like spending resources and time on ensuring that equal numbers of men and women fight in war.
Honestly, the cancer has gone so deep at this point I highly doubt it can be excised, even by the best surgeon.
In an interview with the Real America’s Voice program earlier in the year “The Water Cooler,” Trump was asked about his thoughts on why evangelical leaders expressed hesitance to support him in his bid to seek re-election.
“I don’t really care,” the former president replied during his interview with David Brody of the Trump-aligned right-wing news and opinion channel. “It’s a sign of disloyalty.”
This is all referring to Trump’s having recommended to “religious leaders” (whomever that is) that they jettison the high importance on right to life because Trump sees it as a losing issue.
We are not therefore to be governed by our parochial loyalties, nor by group dynamics, nor by peer pressure. All our churches, institutions, groups, races, nationalities, and allegiances must be subject to the prior government of the triune God and His law-word. Anything short of that is idolatry. R. J. Rushdoony, Chalcedon Position Paper No. 62.
Men who have been redeemed by Jesus Christ should have no other loyalties than to Him, and Him alone.
I’m recently back from a business trip and professional conference in Idaho Falls. At the end of the conference I decided to do a bit of hiking. I headed up to the Tetons. Here is one picture of a less snow covered area.
At least the path is worn well enough that it can be seen. Everyone else turned around a short time after this photo was taken. I kept going, and seemed to be the only one up there. On up the trail I passed a really nice Asian dude who talked to me and recommended that I not move forward unless I had AllTrails on my phone. We happened to have connectivity where we were at the time, and he assisted me in loading it up, downloading maps and getting the right trail (there were some trails with similar names). Soon I lost connectivity. It’s a good thing (and providential) that I ran into him. This was the next scene a few miles further. The trail had utterly disappeared. Were it not for AllTrails, I would still be wandering in the Tetons.
The snow was five or six feet deep in places, and while I could make decent progress at times staying on top of the pack, I was “post holing” a lot. A few times I fell into tree wells and had to claw my way out. That’s an awful lot of work. The Asian dude had not only trekking poles, but snow shoes as well.
Also, I’ll comment that with more unenlightened among us sometimes I often have wondered why a man doesn’t just “swim” out of snow (e.g., during an avalanche). Yea, that’s impossible. Put your leg into snow hip deep and it’s like cement.
The trail was the Taggart and Bradley Lake trail in the Tetons. I wasn’t properly prepared for the hike. I did make it, but not without a slog. I didn’t pack my trekking poles because I didn’t want the additional space and weight in my luggage. That was a profoundly stupid decision but I didn’t know at the time that the trails would be in this condition. Going up there without snow shoes made it very difficult.
The second day I decided to do something a bit tamer and stay closer to Idaho Falls (within about an hour of the city).
The Idaho and Wyoming area is beautiful country for sure. But the Northwest had a very deep snow pack this year. Be prepared when you go into the bush. I wasn’t. I could have gotten into trouble in the Tetons.
This is an extremely easy to use rock climbing harness that easily carries and supports hunters in a seated position after an arrested fall. The Black Diamond Zone is designed with the idea that users (climbers) are expected to fall in this harness. It is also designed for self-rescue, since rock climbers are often not easily accessible to rescuers. One of the reasons that full-body safety harnesses are recommended often for hunters is that it would be impossible for a hunter to fall out of a full-body harness if all the straps are fastened properly. Properly worn, the rock climbing harness provides almost as much security. Remember that rock climbers, unlike deer hunters, plan to fall and may be in unusual postures when they do so and count on these harnesses for survival.
Although the front attachment of the tether for rock harnesses could get in the way, the big advantage of this attachment point is that self-rescue becomes far easier after an arrested fall. Since this is a “sit” harness, hanging in these harnesses is much more comfortable than the full-body harness. Because you sit in this harness while suspended, unlike hanging in a full-body harness, the risk of suspension trauma is low.
He goes on to discuss traditional fall-arrest harnesses with a lanyard on the back of the system. Don’t do that.
You’re incapable of self-rescue, and the system will cut the flow of blood to your legs, potentially causing loss of limbs. Don’t be tethered to your back side.
Do it the right way. Use rock climbing gear. Dump the old, traditional ways of doing things. All you need to purchase is the harness from Black Diamond, a legitimate carabiner, and a tree tether. Replace the tree tether if it gets worn.
If the Church is to make a faithful difference in the evil scourge of unholy and deadly violence against humanity in America, it is vital that the Church turn to a different understanding of Jesus Christ, the Bible, and our faithful role as ambassadors of Christ in the world.
A starting point is a heart-felt and prayerful acknowledgement of the fact that people on all sides of the gun debate share an essential common ground. We all want peace, security, safety, and solidarity. The difference lies in the fundamental disagreement on the role guns play in this shared desire. To some, guns are the guarantee of this goal and to others, guns are the force that makes the goals unobtainable. Tragically, when differences of belief regarding the role guns play in our desire for peace, security, safety, and solidarity dominate the argument, the true goal is lost in our collective defense of passionate belief systems over guns. Ultimately, nothing is resolved because we refuse to speak from the perspective of our shared common ground as we, instead, angry and defiantly defend our own arrogantly passionate presumption of righteousness.
Now, here is R. J. Rushdoony on common ground.
Whether recognized or not, every argument, and every theological, philosophical, political, or any other exposition is based on a presupposition about man, God and society — about reality. This presupposition rules and determines the conclusion; the effect is the result of the cause. “The One and the Many: Studies in the Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy.”
The proper role of the church is to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with a dying world, not to attempt solutions to social ills based on non-existent common ground.
There is no common ground because in the Christian world and life view, everything has a purpose and reason, God is providential over all, everything must redound to His glory, and must be under the umbrella of His law-word. Finding common ground with the thinking of evil men is a fool’s errand.
See this depressing video in full. This idiot gets annoyed with people walking through the airport, yanks the dog around on its collar, and teaches the dog nothing in the process.
Let’s go over that again. The collar is around the dog’s neck. You can do neck damage by slinging the dog around by the collar. It’s a stupid and doltish thing to do. This agent is completely untrained and inexperienced in how to handle animals.
Next, there is no instruction going on with the dog. The dog doesn’t know what the handler wants him to do. He (or she) has no idea how to make the handler happy with his performance because there is no teaching going on. This is frustrating for the dog because dogs are bred to make us happy. That’s all he wants in life, in addition to basic sustenance.
There is no instruction going on because the handler doesn’t know how to instruct the dog. He is a dolt. Not only is he untrained, he hasn’t self trained either. He has read no books (perhaps he doesn’t know how to read), he has spent no time in obedience training with his own dog (if he has one), or else he abuses his own dog, and he has never spent time around farm animals.
Punitive punishment for dogs must be very quick, very short, and basically used only once so the dog knows what’s not acceptable. Everything after that must be positive reinforcement. Everything. That’s why I congratulate my dog every time he let’s me know he needs to go outside to defecate. Every …single … time. And I will do this until he passes away.
If you do not know how to give positive reinforcement to a dog, find a good, loving home for the dog and go back to washing cars, bagging groceries and being alone in the world. You’re no good for man nor beast.
The complaint, embedded below is a treasure trove of examples from even before the Second Amendment was written, presenting photographic examples including:
1720 Flintlock Pistol with Stock
1750 Flintlock Pistols with Stocks
1760 Flintlock Grenade Launcher
1780 Flintlock Pistol w Stock
1760-1820 Flintlock Pistol Carbine with detachable stock
1790 Flintlock Blunderbuss Pistols – w detachable stocks (and bayonets)
1795 Flintlock Blunderbuss – 15” barrel
“Such weapons continued after the ratification era, through the incorporation of the Fourteenth Amendment,” the complaint continues, presenting further examples from 1820 through to the 1940s …
So if the Heller test is the law of the land, according to the Supreme Court, then “in common use” should completely disqualify SBRs from the NFA list, and the Bruen test for laws in place at the founding would certainly exclude SBRs (and pistol braces) from the NFA.
Source. To secure the Southern border from invasion? No such thing.
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (WNCN) — Two North Carolina battalion-sized units are deploying to the U.S. southwest border in the coming days, the U.S. Northern Command said.
On Friday, the command announced that 1,500 active duty military service members under their command and control will deploy to the border at the request of the Department of Homeland Security with approval from the Secretary of Defense.
The mission includes the following battalion-sized units:
93rd Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade, Fort Bliss, Texas
The U.S. Northern Command said the majority of active duty personnel will come from the U.S. Army and U.S. Marines, along with a small number from U.S. Air Force.
While there, the command said the units will provide support to the DHS with duties including data entry, warehousing support and additional detection and monitoring support efforts.
“This military support increases the availability of Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) law enforcement personnel to conduct law enforcement specific duties,” the U.S. Northern Command explained in a news release.
U.S. troops are heading to the border — again. So they can be clerks, maids, janitors, and in-processing specialists filling out paperwork.
That’s how much your betters care about you, your food and medical bills, and the invasion of the Southern border.
And they wonder why they can’t meet recruiting goals!
North Carolina lawmakers pulled back Wednesday from a bill that would let people carry concealed guns without a permit.
The measure faces an uphill battle now, with the top Senate Republican saying Wednesday that he doesn’t think it’s time to take up the issue. In the House of Representatives, lawmakers punted on a scheduled vote, indicating the bill didn’t have enough support to pass the chamber.
House Bill 189 would let any legal gun owner conceal that gun. Right now gun owners need a concealed carry permit to do that, which is typically issued by their local sheriff. That process requires a background check, proficiency test and a test on the rules for self defense and where guns are allowed.
Those tests, and the permits themselves, would be optional under the bill.
The bill moved through a pair of committees Tuesday and seemed primed to pass the House. But enough Republican lawmakers had misgivings to at least delay the measure, and leadership dropped it from Wednesday’s House floor calendar. Tomorrow brings a legislative deadline that there are ways around but which generally requires bills to pass at least one chamber to stay alive.
Also Wednesday, Senate Republican Leader Phil Berger indicated the bill would not move through his chamber this session. Berger, R-Rockingham, said Senate Republicans hadn’t discussed the bill, but that the General Assembly already passed a substantial gun bill this year, ending the state’s pistol permit system.
That system required people to get a permit from their sheriff to purchase a handgun, and Republicans lawmakers scrapped (editorial comment – passed?) it over Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto.
This is the good part – listen to his excuse.
“We’ve done away with the pistol purchase permit, which was the No. 1 goal of many of the gun rights groups for a long period of time,” Berger said Wednesday. “I just don’t know if there’s a need for us to delve into additional issues dealing with guns and people’s 2nd Amendment rights.”
“People have a right to protect themselves utilizing weapons, and law abiding citizens can be trusted to handle those rights responsibly,” Berger said. “I just don’t know that the timing is right for us, at this time, to move forward with additional gun legislation.”
We’ve let rights dribble out to the people this year, so what’s the problem with ignoring the rest of it?
The N.C. Sheriffs Association opposed the bill which I’m certain didn’t help. But here is the rest of the story you weren’t told above.
Isn’t that sweet. “The NRA will never apologize for refusing to compromise on an issue as critical as constitutional carry.”
Okay, how about the NFA, the GCA, the Hughes Amendment, the Bump Stock Ban, Red Flag Laws, the initial AWB, and I could go on. Do you apologize for those abominations?
Honestly, I see the virtue of waiting to get this right, but I would have preferred that we go ahead and get some of this done now and correct it later after lawmakers saw that blood doesn’t really run in the streets.
But the most telling thing here are the two responses, first Berger’s, and then the NRA’s. And Paul is right that the NRA will then swoop in to take credit for it all if it does finally pass after having ignored it the whole time.
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