the queen of battle

well, i wanted to put something up sooner and got side tracked, now it appears that i am jumping on the band wagon.  so be it.

i do not want to see women serve in the combat arms branches of the armed forces.  sorry, call me old fashioned, but i just do not believe that women are capable of taking the day to day grind of sustained field operations that occur in the in direct action units which comprise combat arms.

in looking at an old APFT card i refreshed my memory  to the fact that women in the 17 to 21 year age range could do 24 fewer push ups than men of the same age, and receive a score of 100 in that category.
guys who completed the same amount would only receive 76 points.  in the timed 2 mile run, women would get 100 points for a time of 14 minutes and 54 seconds, second class citizens (men) would get a 70 for the same time in the same event.  assuming our male and female test subject did the same 90 sit ups, our male would get a 244 on his APFT, good for 21 promotional points, the female soldier a perfect 300 score, good for a whopping 50 promotion points.  what does that mean?  simple, she does half the work and reaps more than twice the benefits of her male peer.

that won't cut it in combat children.  the average weight of and M240 machine gun is 25 pounds,  average weight of a shell for a 120mm gun on an ABRAMS tank is 49 pounds and the weight of a 155mm shell for a PALADIN howitzer is 96 pounds.   how many girls you know can shuck that shit for hours on end?

now i think a legitimate reason to put women into these units would be if we could not fill the spots determined by the budget with men.  this is not and has never been the case.  have you heard of, or can you recall any stories of the army or marines being incapable of filling their infantry slots?  no, you can not.  and one the reason for this is while you may come into the army to be in the intelligence branch, all it takes to send you to the grunts is failing some test, or being a fuck up or the loss of your security clearance.  it called the needs of the army.  the primary reason this also is not a problem is because young guys WANT to do these things.  it's cool and macho.  how cool are you if they let girls do it?

over at IT DON'T MAKE SENSE, they posted a letter by a female marine officer.  while it may not be indicative all all women in combat experiences, it certainly offers insight.  good buddy SKI, over at GLOBAL DOMINATION, seems to think that the time has arrived to allow women into the field units.
SKI makes a STRONG case for this and while i disagree, i respect his view, as we served together.  he has forgot the things that kept female soldiers limping along on field problem all those years ago.  the new "men" got to carry the 60,  a 26 pound belt fed  MG, it was a right of passage.  go to the field and guess who was on the bleed, unable to "hump the pig" due to cramps.  lets say you are getting ready to deploy to a hot spot as a company commander of an infantry company  made up of 30% women, and half report they are pregnant?  guess who just lost 15% of their combat effectiveness without a shot even being fired?

we need to stop trying to be all things to all people, and remember as leaders we CAN NOT nor should we try to make everyone happy all the time. still respect an honor your service ladies, but unless you WILL be judged by the same tough standards of your male counterparts, you should stick to the combat support units.
and fear not, you will still get many of opportunities to prove your valor and dedication.

more liberal bullshit

below is an opinion piece written by super leftist turd morris dees, which i plucked from the detroit free press, it is entitled, ON MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.'S BIRTHDAY, STILL A DREAM DEFERRED.
i added my own commentary.

Serious but surmountable challenges threaten the well-being and future of children: persistent poverty, proliferation of gun violence and unnecessary arrests of children of color. On Jan. 21, as we gather to mark the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the second inauguration of the country's first African-American president, it seems right to reflect on the implications of Dr. King's vision and teaching for these issues of today.

so the stage has been set by the author, we are going to talk about being lazy and the governments lack of  ability to make the lazy rich, racial profiling, and the soup of the day, gun violence and the rotten bastards who own weapons of war.  let us proceed.


 In 1967, when the Poor People's Campaign was launched, Dr. King labeled it the second phase of the civil rights struggle. In 1968, 25 million people -- nearly 13% of the population -- were living in poverty. That year, the year he was assassinated, Dr. King called upon the government to prioritize helping the poor with an anti-poverty package that included housing and a guaranteed income for all Americans.  Despite much progress, the issues are in too many ways unchanged, as structural inequality and racial discord continue to erode the foundation of liberty.  The number of people living in poverty today has doubled to almost 50 million. Disappointingly, Michigan's poverty rate of 17% stands higher than the national rate of 15%, according to 2011 figures released last year.


so in 45 years time, and at the cost of 16.7 trillion dollars, adjusted for inflation as of 2008, what have we the taxpayer got for our money?  2 times the number of folks to share it with, that's what. the numbers prove that we can not give our way to prosperity.


Across the country, more than one in five children live in poverty. For children of color, it is even worse: One in four African-American children and almost one in three Hispanic children will grow up in deprivation.  Although I am encouraged that the inspiration generated by the civil rights movement and Poor People's Campaign remains alive today, I know that we cannot rest. 


dees mandates that we continue down the dead end road we are lost upon.


According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which I started in Montgomery in 1971, there are more than 1,000 hate groups active in America. 


what does the amount of hate groups have to do with this article?  read on.   


 States like Alabama and Arizona have enacted draconian anti-immigrant laws that would make Abraham Lincoln weep.


if you oppose illegal immigration, you are apparently a member of a hate group.  additionally, how are we helping our own "poor", by letting in every other country's poor?  


Today there are more African Americans locked up than the number of enslaved blacks in 1850, and our country leads the world in the incarceration of children, with nearly 2 million arrested each year.


according to the 2010 census,  whites make up 72.4 percent of the population, with blacks making up 12.6 percent of the population.  now according to fbi numbers from 2009, whites account for 69.1 percent of all arrest, while blacks account for 28.3 percent of all arrest, more than double their share of the population.  you are free to draw your own conclusions on this fact, but morris would have us believe that cops are possibly ignoring whites who commit crime targeting blacks.  and while i am no lawyer,  i know that incarcerated means locked up, and not arrested or detained, and returned to their parents in short order.
note how morrie jumps on the gun control band wagon immediately, but never gets back around to fleshing out that idea.  it's cuz he HAS to advance the liberal agenda at all times or get thrown out of the club.


morrie was speaking at an MLK rally today in ann arbor, and you can go here to read his full rant.

obama's wendesday gun grab

the gipper and i both.


my predictions on what you may to hear tomorrow;

magazine bans=if you currently have mags capable of holding 10 rounds or more, you will have to give them up.  the argument will be the 2nd amendment covers your right to arms, not the box magazines that feed them.

ammunition rationing and identity check=you will only be allowed X amount of ammo and you will have to show ID to purchase it.  these transactions will be tracked, currently gun purchases are not.

very strict enforcement of gun free/drug free school zones=clinton tried this way back in the 90's and it got scuttled.  look for it to resurface and be applied to all who live within 1000 feet of a church or school, and have government insured home loans (vha, fha, va).

registry=what type of and how many firearms do you own?  this will include magazines and ammunition and will be sliding fee based.  the more dangerous looking your gun is,  the greater the cost of your permit.  this will be on a national level.

mandatory security measures=got to have a safe.  "excessive" amounts of ammo=gotta have a HAZMAT placard on the casa.  you will be required to have an alarm system.  look for your home owner insurance to be null and void if you fail to do as you are told.

right of federal government inspection=you failed to register guns, that you may or may not still own. we have the right to inspect, based on the public safety threat they pose to the community.

mandatory insurance=thanks for letting us know what you have, based on this information, we feel you are a significant threat to society, soooo you must maintain X amount of insurance, to mitigate any harm that arises from your peaceful, lawful activity.

hazard tax=libs have been floating this for years.  tax the shit out of ammo to the point you can not afford it any longer.

closing of range facilities due to the environmental hazards they create. 

these are just the things i can think of, and based on that and what we see tomorrow, i can not imagine why people distrust the current administration.  everything i mentioned has previously been tried by libtards, and will almost certainly rear it's ugly head in some form again, soon.

i also think obama will ask citizens to report "suspicious" activities to the feds.  "hello, is this big brother?  yes,  i called because my neighbor, he hunts and shoots.  yes, he taught his kids as well, they told us about it.  the kids appeared to enjoy it, which i find troubling.  i've been on the interactive map, and he failed to register, i am very frightened."

 


 far fetched?  every dictator in modern times has used informants, some family and school based, to trample dissent.  it CAN happen here too.  there will be a call for kids to tell on mommy and daddy. the only reason to surround yourself with kids at the presser tomorrow,  is to get the message out about how concerned you are, and how you need children's help to combat gun violence, which the kids will be told most often occurs at home.

join the NRA,  they are one of your last and best hopes for maintaining YOUR 2nd amendment rights.
 

in defense of the 2nd amendment

this has taken sometime to write, so while it may seem i'm behind the curve, it is an ongoing and still highly relevant story.

the news media is awash with the story of sandy hook elementary school tragedy, and with good cause.  anyone who can not see the horror in the homicides of 20 young children and 7 adults, at the hands of a depraved individual, needs to have their head examined, and probably be removed from society.

notice how i did not refer to that connecticut piece of shit as either a young man, troubled young man or alleged shooting suspect?  did you also catch how i did not refer to the weapon he used to commit these killings?  in doing those two things i squarely fixed the blame to the offender for those outrageous acts he perpetrated on innocent children, school staff, their families and the community as a whole.  i also did not attack the manufacturer of the device the guilty used  to carry out his attack.

i can clearly see who was responsible for the massacre in newtown, but many among us can not.   the brass had not even finished hitting the floor, and the usual democrats were sprinting to the nearest camera and microphone, to renew the call for a reinstated and stricter assault weapons ban. to wit, dianne feinstein's plan for gun restriction and registration which she would have banned include;

120 specifically-named firearms, certain other semiautomatic rifles, handguns, shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and have one military characteristic, semiautomatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds.

feinstein's proposed legislation does include a "grandfather clause", but there is a catch, in that weapons must be legally possessed on the date of enactment, (GOOD IDEA), a background check be conducted on the current lawful owner and any transferee, that the type and serial number of the weapon be recorded, that the current lawful owner have positive identification, including photographs and fingerprints, and that a certification from local law enforcement of identity and that possession would not violate state or local law. feinstein also wants any of these legally owned and currently privately held firearms treated, as NFA regulated firearms.

here are some questions to ask yourself, and anyone you meet, who wants to regulate/steal your freedom.

*why is it that gun owners have to have current identification, while persons who would vote do not?

*what purpose is served by photographing and fingerprinting lawful gun owners?  do liberals really believe that if ATF had Nancy Lanza's pic and prints on file, that none of this would have occurred?

how about this OP-ED piece written by current sitting federal judge larry burns, for the l.a. times, in which he states, in part, "There is just no reason civilians need to own assault weapons and high-capacity magazines", and called for a renewal of the assault weapons ban, "with some teeth this time", by the,  "Ban (upon) the manufacture, importation, sale, transfer and possession of both assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.... I don't care whether it's called gun control or a gun ban. I'm for it."

now i did not go to law school like old larry here, but i'm going to guess that what he is advocating   is a violation of our civil rights, namely the IV amendment.  i also know that larry is seated for life to rule from that bench, but if his vision was to come to fruition, i hope he has the guts to go and confiscate these "assault weapons" and their evil magazines, in stead of just sending common cops to what will probably be a blood bath.

time for a bit of honesty here.  is there anyone out there who truly thinks that if that asshole had broke out the window at sandy hook, and walked in with a hatchet and machete, that he could not have completed this atrocity?   the answer is yes, there really are folks who think it might not have been so bad.  but i'm here to tell you those folks are wrong.

i say this because i know there was NO ONE in position to stop the killer.  i say this while having a great deal of respect for a true hero, DAWN HOCHSPRUNG, who attacked the killer upon his entry to her school, with her bare hands.  now think about the courage and resolve that act took, knowing she probably had ZERO chance of success, but trying anyway.  now think about what she could have done if she had been armed and reasonably trained.

oh, the scorn and derision heaped upon wayne lapierre of the NRA, for just suggesting that idea.  but he is right.  when seconds count, the cops are minutes away.  no disrespect intended toward those on the thin blue line, but it is the truth.

it is time to arm our teachers, not all of them, but certainly those who are willing.  as  LTC. Dave Grossman  points out repeatedly, we have spent lots of money to insure no children die in school fires in the UNITED (divided) STATES, but refuse to harden our schools to these type of attacks.  this is all that lapierre was telling us to do.  have you ever wondered why nuts rarely attack police stations or gun stores, but enjoy shooting  up schools, churches, movie theaters, malls, office complexes and the like?  it's because politicians have not (yet) made it illegal for those who frequent cop and gun shops to carry guns.  that and the fact that those with guns in those places are highly likely to shoot back.

bob costas opined on this while talking out his ass about the aurora theater shooting.  in addition to falsely claiming that that nut job took military grade artillery into the theater, he stated that he felt that the presence of an armed citizen in the theater, would have only added to the carnage.  here i strongly disagree with the little  sports caster from commack, new york.  as any good combat veteran could tell mr. costas, had he bothered to ask, no OPLAN survives initial contact.  that means that when the "joker" entered the century theater and started shooting unarmed people, if a CCW holder had been present, and could have put rounds on target, things would changed for that piece of shit.  now instead of  being the hunter, the "joker" would have become the hunted.  he would have had to deal with whoever was trying to kill him or have had to unass the area of operations. and that means others may have lived.

so what does all this equal.  well the obvious, that the liberals want to control every part of your life, including your potential death.  they proclaim, outsource your personal safety to the government, and the government will, well they will probably fuck it up.  look no further than operation FAST & FURIOUS, and the 2 known U.S. deaths associated with that debacle.  how about the botched F.B.I. "investigation" into ft. hood shooter nidal hussein, before he started killing people?  the Christmas day airliner bombing attempt?  that guy was stopped by a dutch film maker, and not the U.S. counter terrorism center, who had received a tip from british intelligence prior to that attack.

here is an often repeated refrain familiar to regular readers of this blog.   prepare yourself and do not rely on anyone else for your safety.  madison and mason knew this when they included the 2nd amendment to the Constitution in 1789.  we should endeavor to remember that, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, in order to form a well regulated militia, which is necessary for the security of a free state, shall not be infringed.  while i have changed the syntax of the statement, i did not change its meaning, just re-worded it for modern speech patterns.  nowhere in either of those statements can you find any prohibition on the type of arms that citizens may possess.  do your duty as prescribed by the founding fathers or at least support the citizens and organizations who defend that right for you. 

 

Merry Christmas

the greatest story ever told,  Merry Christmas.

this veterans day

at the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month of  the year 1918, the "war to end all wars" was concluded with an armistice, in a rail car near Compiegne, France.  this agreement ended hostilities between the allies and germany, but it was the treaty of Versailles that actually ended WWI.

the first armistice day was commemorated on  November 11, 1919, by presidential proclamation of  commander and chief  woodrow wilson who stated, "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations."  this was a way to memorialize those who died during the great war.  a similar resolution was passed at congresses request by calvin coolidge on 4 june 1926.  armistice day became a legal holiday by act of congress on 13 may 1938.

the name of this holiday remained in effect until 1 june 1954, when congress official changed the name from armistice day to veterans day.  this was due to 9 years of work by WWII veteran raymond weeks, and honors all veterans, memorial day being the day we honor our fallen service members.

yesterday our town dedicated it's new veterans memorial, it took only 11 months to be constructed,  from ideas first being floated to the dedication ceremony.  on the black granite panels are the names of over 400 local residents who have died in military service to our country.

there has been a lot of talk this week about how "i'm fed up" and "i'm finished, my vote doesn't count for shit anyway."  really?  we lose an election and you are ready to curl up in a ball in some corner and die?

                            HARDEN THE FUCK UP AMERICA

there are men in the ground and wheel chairs and mental hospitals who willingly gave their best efforts and in many cases their lives, so that you could have a say in how you are governed.  read the stories from the revolution about the continental army, marching over frozen ground with rags on their feet, to fight the best army in the world at that point, so that they could establish our republic. go find a veteran and listen to him tell stories of friends made and lost in far off places.  then come tell me about lines at polling places being too long or your vote being worthless.

the freedoms we enjoy are not due to the "hard" work of journalists, politicians, lobbyists, lawyers or protesters, but rather the lowly grunt, who has been putting his feet in the mud and ass on the line for people he  largely does not even know, since 1775.

if you can read this thank a teacher, if you are reading it in english, thank a vet.

vote for change november 6th

i've been quiet for some time now.  wishing for something better and preparing for something worse.  i have a bit of time, so now that i've gathered my thoughts, i'll share them.

4 years ago barrack obama made history as the first black man to become the president of the UNITED STATES.  at the time i posted on a blog i previously wrote, that i wished him luck, as a rising tide floats all boats.

as i sit and write this tonight, i look around the harbor and see many vessels that have had their hulls holed, and are sitting in the muck of a low tide.  i see a president who has asked AMERICANS to do without and to dig a little deeper, as he golfs and vacations like a trust fund millionaire.  rising food and fuel prices have not kept him from flying a chef from st. louis to the white house to make him pizza.  how many of you have had to decide over pizza OR gas these last 4 years?

the wife and i consider ourselves lucky that we got to see Toby Keith and Brantley Gilbert in concert in CANADA of all places, while on vacation this summer.  over the last 4 years mr. obama has enjoyed performances by; paul mccartney, smokey robinson, joan baez, the marsalis family, (wynton came to town last year, and i'd have liked to gone, but not for $140 a ticket), bob dylan, earth, wind and fire, shelia e., stevie wonder, b.b king, the list is endless, and they all came to him.  how many concerts have you had to pass up since january 2009?

the man that came into office as a uniter and healer wasted no time in accenting the divide between blacks and whites in the country, by telling us how his white grandma, who loved and raised him, was afraid of black men on elevators.  who played up blacks distrust of police with  his 'the cambridge police acted stupidly' blast.  by inserting himself into the george zimmerman case asserting, 'if i had a son he'd look like treyvon.'

a man that swore to'....the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA.'  that would be all of the articles of the Constitution, not just the ones he likes.  allowing ATF to smuggle guns into mexico and then attempt to prosecute the gun shop owners who sold those firearms at the ATF's request,  is not preserving, protecting or defending the 2nd amendment. .invoking executive privilege after some of those same guns killed Jaime Zapata and Brian Terry, is not upholding the 5th and 14th amendments.  it is unconstitutional to require citizens to participate in commerce, and to tax or penalize them if they fail to do so. 

is he the commander in chief, campaigner in chief or chief apologist?  taking the bow for green lighting bin ladens death, an order my 6 year old would have given, is simply craven.  and this is  perhaps his strongest  character trait.  this man has blamed a shrinking workforce on everything from ATM machines to the japanese tsunami.  the massacre in libya?  that was caused by a crap movie tied to a coptic christian.  and after those 4 AMERICANS were killed, he went on letterman, again.  and he still does not apparently know the national debt.  if reelected, who's left for him to curtsy to?  we can surmise that he intends to further gut or military based on his conversation with medvedev, and the message he asked medvedev to relay to putin.

nothing matters more to this man than power.  not the death of the grandmother who raised him.  not a supposed financial meltdown as bad as the great depression.  those things barely got him off the campaign trail in 08.  not bengazi and not sandy these last couple of months.  and sure as shit not you, or the difficulties you and your families have had to stare down since january 08.

mr. obama is right about 2 things however.  that we should drive FORWARD to the polls and AVENGE the insults and injuries of the last 4 years.