Updated: No More Making Whoopy In The Military?

Classical Liberalism, Feminism, Free Speech, Gender, IlanaMercer.com, Iraq, Military, Morality, Private Property, Sex, The State

Oh dear, some industrious Army general in Iraq wants to limit the wages of whoring in the military. Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo III, quite reasonably, reports ABC News, issued a policy on Nov. 4 “forbidding pregnancy among his soldiers.”

His policy statement said violation of the rule could be punishable by court martial, and that it would also apply to the men who get female soldiers pregnant, even if the couple is married.
Pregnant soldiers are immediately redeployed out of combat zones to bases where they can get comprehensive medical care.

“The true purpose behind this is to cause them to pause and think about, ‘Okay wait a minute. It was written in the order and I’m going to leave my team. I’m going to leave an outfit shorthanded,'” Cucolo said.”

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NO MORE MAKING Whoopy In The Military? What next? Leaving Iraq for lack of recreational outlets? We can only hope.

Anyone with a brain cell knows that the military, other than being an arm of the state, subject to all the malignancies that entails, is one of the Biggest Whore Houses around.

The authority on the subject is “Stephanie Gutmann, a Jewish woman out of Manhattan,” as Fred Reed forthrightly fingers her. Reed writes the following about Stephanie’s apolitical “reportorial” effort, which,

[D]escribed perfectly the fraud and double standards used to make women look successful in the army. Much of it would be hard to credit, except that I had seen it from outside … In the course of events I met Steph a couple of times, chatted on the phone, and lost contact with her. The book got few and bad reviews because it was not what the media wanted to hear. It was a fine book.

As is “Steph’s” Other Book. Read about it here. (I too have had a pleasant exchange or two with this lovely lady.)

Update (Dec. 23): To the distracting diversions in the Comments Section, including my responses (by necessity), let me repeat: The Posting Policy of BAB states: “Please note that ‘Barely A Blog’ is private property. Posts are published at the proprietor’s discretion.” Apparently this requires explanation, as participants prefer the fun of expressing themselves without the discipline of acquaintance with the philosophy espoused here.

THE CONFUSION about this statement demonstrates even more the need for participants to become “vaguely familiar with the political philosophy championed on this forum and the Mother Site, ilanamercer.com. Accordingly, there is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. I’m afraid you may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or tangible living room only if I let you so do.

Interminable Time On The Tarmac

Government, Political Economy, Private Property, Regulation, The State

Obama the idiot truly believes that nothing can work without his supervision. He had his stooge order the airlines “to let passengers stuck in stranded airplanes get off the plane after three hours.” How nice.

The AP: “Under the new regulations, airlines operating domestic flights will be able only to keep passengers on board for three hours before they must be allowed to disembark a delayed flight. The regulation provides exceptions only for safety or security or if air traffic control advises the pilot in command that returning to the terminal would disrupt airport operations.”

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What do you imagine will be the unintended consequences of this little exercise? Since Obama’s handmaiden, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, has authorized the act of keeping people on the tarmac for three hours, such delays will become standard.

At least up until now, this conduct resulted in unflattering publicity and law suits.

Look, the way the already heavily-regulated airlines treat customers (and vice versa) is appalling. But the solution is not to be found in Obama’s bag of tricks.

Rather, “Only when an airline can undertake ‘curb-to-curb’ handling of its passengers will it stand both to reap the benefits that arise from providing superior service, as well as incur full liability for forsaking passenger safety. This is possible only in a privatized airport, where freedom of association and freedom of contract aren’t overridden or blurred by government, and where responsibility isn’t collectivized.” [“WHOSE PROPERTY IS IT ANYWAY?”]

Decapitation & Diversity

Crime, Criminal Injustice, IMMIGRATION, Multiculturalism

As was observed in “The Misery Of Diversity,” “the ethnic engineering historic populations have suffered at the hands of soviet-style [immigration] planners dwarfs compared to the long term benefits of mass, Third-World immigration,” namely “the collective gains of cheap Tyson chicken and colorful cuisine.”

And, apparently, so too does decapitation, as a diverse way to die, have a certain je ne sais quoi.

According to CNN, Haiyang Zhu, 26, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder (by decapitation) of Xin, 22, from Beijing. With no warning or argument, Haiyang, a native of Ningbo, China, took out a kinife he had purchased and took off Xin’s head at the Au Bon Pain restaurant in the university’s Graduate Life Center on January 21.

Both were Chinese. The one was in love with the other. She did not return his affections. When persuasion fails, there is always decapitation.

Virginia Tech campus authorities are famous for the “laissez faire and leniency” with which they dealt with mass murderer Seung-Hui Cho, whose case I chronicled in “EVIL, NOT ILL.”

Canada had its own decapitator-cum-cannibal, Vince Weiguang Li. Then, as now, the chronically incurious media neglected to dig up information about the belief system that mediated the perp’s barbarism. (The Canadian criminal injustice system charged Li with second degree murder–unpremeditated murder–rather than First.)

Decapitation & Diversity

Crime, Criminal Injustice, IMMIGRATION, Multiculturalism

And, apparently, so too does decapitation, as a diverse way to die, have a certain je ne sais quoi.

Both were Chinese. The one was in love with the other. She did not return his affections. When persuasion fails, there is always decapitation.

Virginia Tech campus authorities are famous for the “laissez faire and leniency” with which they dealt with mass murderer Seung-Hui Cho, whose case I chronicled in “EVIL, NOT ILL.”