Comments on: Updated: ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ For Hets and Homos https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99-for-hets-and-homos/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hugo Schmidt https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99-for-hets-and-homos/comment-page-1/#comment-9321 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:54:15 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22524#comment-9321 Can’t fault your comments about what there is to fear in our world, and the endlessly multiplying banalities that seem to dominate it.

I would like to just add

a world where those with the gift of truth and reason are hounded and shunned

This is exactly what is wrong with creationism, as Mencken well noted. His dispatches on the Scopes trial still stand.

[But we’re not taking this conversational thread there, okay?]

]]> By: Van Wijk https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99-for-hets-and-homos/comment-page-1/#comment-9319 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:45:44 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22524#comment-9319 (f) State militia should be limited to their constitutional role and only be in
national service to repel invasion or suppress rebellion

The National Guard system is an excellent example of central government’s innate appetite for power. Although the NG traces its lineage to the original Massachusetts Bay militia, the modern NG, while ostensibly state-run (Guardsmen swear their oaths to the governor), is in reality wholly wedded to the federal apparatus. The National Guard has fought alongside regulars in every foreign war since 1917. When “activated” by the President, the various state Guards morph seamlessly into the National Guard of the United States.

Give the fed the most minuscule amount of authority over a state-run system, and that system will inevitably become federal over time.

Ideally, the NG should be completely disbanded and each state raise it’s own militia with zero federal oversight. Should the country be invaded the militiamen from each state can cast a vote to muster and fight or not.

]]> By: RobertII https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99-for-hets-and-homos/comment-page-1/#comment-9315 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:52:17 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22524#comment-9315 Ilana,
You know I have been a long time reader of your blog and small contributor and as such certainly do ” well know, even though a classical liberal, you are not really a “types” kind of a thinker.” Boy do I ever!!! As Merlin instructed the young King Arthur, “Sometimes we should simply admire.” You know that I do admire you and while it is not necessary to refer to me by my inflated title, let me tell your readers I think you are a gem of a writer and honorable person as well. Keep up the excellent work. You have freshened my stuffy intellectual attics a plenty. I hope I have occassionaly offered some fresh air to your good blog as well.

]]> By: Robert Glisson https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99-for-hets-and-homos/comment-page-1/#comment-9314 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:02:03 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22524#comment-9314 Myron: My copy of Broad-sides provides printing information that it comes from the same publishing source. I bought my copy through Amazon because I knew the shipping price up front and am satisfied.
I’m curious, some other countries have had the openly gay military policy for years but I have never found any reports as to how an open gay soldier policy has worked out. I expect they also have females in their service and wonder how their brass handles it. I mean we aren’t pioneers here, maybe someone else’s army has developed a method of integration that actually works (or not) We could check other military with experience to see what does or doesn’t work. I realize that the US has adopted the ‘Ready-Fire-Aim’ attributed to the French; but if we, our leaders I mean, really tried…

]]> By: Roger Chaillet https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99-for-hets-and-homos/comment-page-1/#comment-9313 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:33:45 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22524#comment-9313 You mentioned the pregnant Latina who was gunned down at Fort Hood.

You forget to mention that women will soon serve on submarines.

What will a “boat” commander do with a pregnant officer when he’s 300 meters below the Arctic ice cap?

Surface at Murmansk when she breaks her water?

The radical egalitarianism that infects every part of our culture must be eliminated.

]]> By: Robert https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99-for-hets-and-homos/comment-page-1/#comment-9312 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:27 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22524#comment-9312 Lot’s of fans named Robert I see.

]]> By: M. O'Neal https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99-for-hets-and-homos/comment-page-1/#comment-9311 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:49:55 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22524#comment-9311 I think the military needs to look at sodomy and oral sex as closely as possible. Neither has a place in an effective military whether it’s male-female, male-male, or any other combination. Same thing for drug use except for moderate enjoyment of alcohol – no Libertine stoners should be tolerated in the military. Let’s honestly go further and say that there is really no rational justification for females (real or otherwise) in the military. It’s “Live Free OR Die” not “Live Free AND Die”

]]> By: robert https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99-for-hets-and-homos/comment-page-1/#comment-9310 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:34:22 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22524#comment-9310 “Maybe reason is courage these days?!”

The Greeks suggested that part of courage is knowing what to fear and what not to fear. You classical liberal types never tell us what it is you fear or don’t fear — G-d ? man? slavery to bad habits? ignorance? ugliness? But we can debate this some other time. There is too much I like about you and I have too many beams in my own eye…Plus it is always hard to have the last word with any woman –especially you!!!!

]]> By: robert https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99-for-hets-and-homos/comment-page-1/#comment-9309 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:17:02 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22524#comment-9309 Ilana,

I blipped your weekly column over at Chronicles in comment #15 under Christopher Check’s column, Personal Moral Values. http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/index.php/2010/03/03/3886/

I will be interested to see if any one comments on your observations which are true, good (and being somewhat partial to you as the writer) quite courageous given the times. Anything else?

]]> By: robert https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99-for-hets-and-homos/comment-page-1/#comment-9308 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:32:24 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22524#comment-9308 Wow, talk about one fearless woman.Nothing quite like the gathering noise of the hets in the hen-house on this one. You are one brave woman, Ilana, which is why I can’t help but take a peak each week on what you are going to say next. The fearless truthfulness of your columns is becoming redundant, which is a great thing for your readers today and a bad thing for writers. No wonder you are ignored by mass media types, you are way too honest for their public. Thanks for the good column.

[I must be a kamikaze writer, b/c it never occurred to me that this was anything but logical. Maybe reason is courage these days?! Thanks for the plug at Chronicles.]

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