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[Irish#1]

I'm guessing that there will be quite a few who later in life will regret going through the change. Particularly those in their teens or early twenties.

 

[Legacy]

I work with academy grads(men and women), I'll ask about it.

My guess is that behavior is fairly consistent across colleges around the country(world?) regardless of if the school happens to be a service academy or not.

Kudos for making the effort, though it may not be something they want to talk about. Rape is ultimately about exercising power over someone else, which could be amplified in a hierarchical power structure like the military. It may or may not be the same on campuses overall. We discussed campus rapes and "The Hunting Ground". It may be more comparable to business when a subordinate employee is raped. McSally says her rape was by a senior officer, feels powerless, and has to make decisions about a career they have been pursuing. The board may be interested in that discussion evidenced by the recent comments about Clinton-Lewinsky and R. Kelly, etc.

McSally's responses, when she disclosed she was a victim in March, might be revealing and specific to women in uniform.
Sen. Martha McSally says she was raped by a senior officer while in Air Force

"I also am a military sexual assault survivor, but unlike so many brave survivors, I didn’t report being sexually assaulted," McSally said. "Like so many women and men, I didn’t trust the system at the time. I blamed myself. I was ashamed and confused. I thought I was strong but felt powerless. The perpetrators abused their position of power in profound ways."

McSally served in the Air Force for 26 years and mostly flew the A-10.

"I stayed silent for many years, but later in my career, as the military grappled with the scandals, and their wholly inadequate responses, I felt the need to let some people know I too was a survivor," she continued. "I was horrified at how my attempt to share generally my experiences was handled. I almost separated from the Air Force at 18 years of service over my despair. Like many victims, I felt like the system was raping me all over again."

"But I didn’t quit," said Mcsally. "I decided to stay and continue to serve and fight and lead. To be a voice from within the ranks for women--and then in the House and now the Senate."

But, frankly, if she was not a Senator, this would not have gathered much attention and fallen into the he said/she said pile.

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

For those in the "America is racist" tent:

Thousands of white people at Augusta were rooting for a black guy to beat a bunch of other white guys. They roared for him.

 

[NDRock]

For those in the "America is racist" tent:

Thousands of white people at Augusta were rooting for a black guy to beat a bunch of other white guys. They roared for him.

It also took a black guy (Zion) to get people to root for Duke. A team hated by many for their long line of unlikeable white guys. Part of the beauty of sports.

 

[Irish#1]

It also took a black guy (Zion) to get people to root for Duke. A team hated by many for their long line of unlikeable white guys. Part of the beauty of sports.

They weren't rooting for Duke, just Zion. lol

 

[Irish#1]

Would allow a baby born alive during an abortion to be terminated.

North Carolina governor vetoes 'born alive' abortion bill

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/us/north-carolina-abortion-born-alive-bill/index.html

 

[Legacy]

MARCH 2017
Healing A Divided Country
Seven members of the Notre Dame family weigh in on how average Americans can help the country come together (echoes.nd.edu)

 

[Irish YJ]

MARCH 2017
Healing A Divided Country
Seven members of the Notre Dame family weigh in on how average Americans can help the country come together (echoes.nd.edu)

It would be nice had this collection of essays included a conservative author. It was however very well represented by the left...

 

[connor_in]

It would be nice had this collection of essays included a conservative author. It was however very well represented by the left...

Ah c'mon man you know that all conservatives are deplorable racist facist sexist misogynistic capitalistic transphobic homophobic islamophobic...etc and there for their opinions do not matter and are counter to the norms of public good.

 

[Irish YJ]

Ah c'mon man you know that all conservatives are deplorable racist facist sexist misogynistic capitalistic transphobic homophobic islamophobic...etc and there for their opinions do not matter and are counter to the norms of public good.

yes, but but but, it was a collection of stories describing how we should heal the divide.


never mind. i get it. it's has to be on their terms if we heal. got it.

 

[connor_in]

yes, but but but, it was a collection of stories describing how we should heal the divide.


never mind. i get it. it's has to be on their terms if we heal. got it.

 

[Irish YJ]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/24/us/houston-high-school-dress-code-trnd/index.html

good for them.
sad that a school has to tell parents how to dress though.

 

[wizards8507]

"Women can't wear a satin cap, hair curlers, shower cap or bonnet on their heads."

Wtf? Where the hell is this school? Is this a Texas thing I'm not aware of?

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Chad Pecknold just published an article in The Catholic Herald titled "The West can learn a lot from Hungary's pro-family policies":

Many liberal democracies are facing a social crisis today because their governments pursued policies which undermined the family.

But since 2010, one country has seen marriage rates increase by a whopping 43 per cent with their divorce rate dropping by 22.5 per cent. Unsurprisingly, with the increase in marriage, 33 per cent fewer women are having abortions today than they were eight years ago. Likewise the national birth rate is currently at its highest in 20 years.

The country is Hungary. And earlier this month their parliament just passed a second round of sweeping pro-family policies. While other countries fret about how immigration trends will shape their destiny, Hungarians are actually solving their demographic crisis by a different path.

Hungary’s Minister for the Family, Katalin Novak, explains how their pro-family strategy faced profound opposition which they had to overcome if they wanted to save their country from social decline:

“After we won the election in 2010 with a two-thirds majority, we decided to build a family-friendly country and to strengthen families raising children. We thought the opposition would be a partner in this, but since then there have been very few decisions in the field of family policy that they’ve supported. So if we had always taken the opposition’s opinion into account, Hungary would now be on the brink of collapse. There wouldn’t be such a comprehensive family-support system, a family-friendly tax system, a housing program, 800,000 new jobs, and many opportunities to create a balance between life and work. The socialists have driven our country into deep crisis before, and they would do it again. They’re only interested in grabbing power again; to achieve this goal, they’ve even joined forces with the Hungarian far right.”

The new law which comes into effect July 1 has a new set of pro-family incentives such as a 3,000 euro mortgage reduction for a second child, and a 12,000 euro reduction for a third. Effective in 2020, mothers with 4 or more children will enjoy a lifetime personal tax exemption. Katalin Novak says that socialist opposition to pro-family policies remains entrenched but since they are more interested in power than in proposals that make for stronger families, she believes such opposition will grow weaker.

The family is one of the “necessary societies” in Catholic teaching. As Pope St John Paul II once put it, “as the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.” Hungary is proving that pro-family policies are better for nations than those policies which deracinate and diminish the family by the whims of ideological dictate.

 

[Irish YJ]

Chad Pecknold just published an article in The Catholic Herald titled "The West can learn a lot from Hungary's pro-family policies":

Hungary is way ahead of the times. First to kick Soros out too.

 

[Irish YJ]

A little surprised they're not rallying around him.

From metacritic

Recent updates
4/30: Empire (Fox) renewed for a 6th season. Jussie Smollett’s character will not return, at least to start the season.

 

[wizards8507]

 

[NorthDakota]

That appears to be a mental disorder.

 

[Ndaccountant]

That appears to be a mental disorder.

or she is a fat chick

 

[Irishize]

Someone should hire her wedding planner as a sales rep. “You want to marry yourself, huh?”
“Hell yeah, I can make that happen...what’s your budget?”

 

[Irish#1]

A little surprised they're not rallying around him.

From metacritic

Probably because they know he made this crap up.

 

[Irish#1]

This is so stupid I'm not sure where to begin. Going through a ceremony to announce your still single? Soon we'll see them introduce an amendment to Hate Crime legislation to include singles.

 

[ACamp1900]

This is so stupid I'm not sure where to begin. Going through a ceremony to announce your still single? Soon we'll see them introduce an amendment to Hate Crime legislation to include singles.

The worst part isn't her wanting to do this...... it's all the family and friends that went through with it without intervening on it all.

 

[GowerND11]

The worst part isn't her wanting to do this...... it's all the family and friends that went through with it without intervening on it all.

This is the problem I have with a lot of these cultural dumbfucks... Why are friends and family not stepping in, with wine in soda cans, screaming INTERVENTION and telling them how utterly dumb and pointless this type of shit is.

 

[wizards8507]

The worst part isn't her wanting to do this...... it's all the family and friends that went through with it without intervening on it all.

Or a major publication deciding it was newsworthy. I'm friends with some fairly left wing folks, and when they see things like this they immediately call it out as fucking insane.

 

[IrishLax]

https://forward.com/opinion/423573/...ifying-but-being-jewish-was-easy-now-its-the/

Thought provoking passage below:

I feared coming out could mean the end of a normal life, or at worst, a death sentence -— either by taunts from classmates or by self-inflicted harm of my own doing; LGBT youth suicide rates are disproportionately higher than average.

On the other hand, I never had to fear that being openly Jewish could be a threat in 21st century America.

But now these fears have reversed, and today my Jewish identity makes me more physically vulnerable than my LGBT identity. I find there is much more acceptance for being gay in major cities like New York, whereas being Jewish still comes prescribed with certain questions about my worldview.

And then of course, there’s the skyrocketing levels of anti-Semitism that accompanied the rise of President Trump. It wasn’t just that Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric validated the most fringe voices in America. Far right vitriol has fueled an equally toxic radical left which we’ve seen come to life at Chicago’s Dyke March which forced Jewish lesbians to leave the parade in 2017 for the crime of carrying rainbow flags with a star of David on it.

That was the moment I first realized my identity could be vulnerable. Shouldn’t the LGBTQ community in theory be the most diverse and accepting group? They claimed to be intersectional, but they weren’t pluralistic. How could they force Jews out with such conviction? Their justification was that the flag too closely resembled the Israeli flag, but even so, shouldn’t all national flags be welcomed? Isn’t curbing inclusion based on nationality a very definition of racism? Somehow to the organizers of the parade, intersectional values of social justice deemed the flag as a threat to marginalized voices.

It was this bizarre incident that awakened me to the reality that there may be fewer safe spaces for Jews than I imagined.

Then came the swastikas. Then the shootings.

Insightful stuff on the toxicity of both extremes. The "mainstreaming" of these extremes is because of things like Twitter, 4chan, etc. that have given these groups echo chambers. That's how antisemitism exists for both darlings of the Left like Linda Sarsour and Ihan Omar, and their polar opposite (young white males with crackpot conspiracy theories).

 

[gkIrish]

The worst part isn't her wanting to do this...... it's all the family and friends that went through with it without intervening on it all.

TBH if one of my family members invited me to something like this I wouldn't bother trying to intervene. You can't help some people.

 

[ACamp1900]

TBH if one of my family members invited me to something like this I wouldn't bother trying to intervene. You can't help some people.

Prob true though I suppose who it is would change things... my reaction to some random cousin would be different than my reaction to my sister or daughter. Not sure that's a good thing but I'm being honest.

 

[Ndaccountant]

TBH if one of my family members invited me to something like this I wouldn't bother trying to intervene. You can't help some people.

I would go for the open bar. If there was no open bar, I would be having two conversations with said person.


Joking aside, I am with you. If someone feels self-absorbed enough to stage a mock wedding to declare self love, they are beyond a point where rationalization would be of use.

 

[Wild Bill]

https://forward.com/opinion/423573/...ifying-but-being-jewish-was-easy-now-its-the/

Thought provoking passage below:

Insightful stuff on the toxicity of both extremes. The "mainstreaming" of these extremes is because of things like Twitter, 4chan, etc. that have given these groups echo chambers. That's how antisemitism exists for both darlings of the Left like Linda Sarsour and Ihan Omar, and their polar opposite (young white males with crackpot conspiracy theories).

If Jews had access to media outlets or they were politically organized with financing available to lobby congress they'd have a real chance to fight back against the fringes.