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My oversight, sorry. But the support is understandable because 'end times' theology triumphs over right to life dogma.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism
Fewer women are having abortions. Why?
Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAYPublished 3:59 p.m. ET June 13, 2019 | Updated 7:17 a.m. ET June 17, 2019
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/13/abortion-law-fewer-women-having-abortions-why/1424236001/
Pro-life advocates tend to be skeptical about contraception.
"I think we have to be careful trying to assign this as the silver bullet — that this is what's driving the abortion decline," said Melanie Israel, a research associate at the Heritage Foundation's DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society.
Well of course they are skeptical and 'careful'. They can't allow the experience, the data, Re comprehensive sex education and contraception to triumph over the hope of abstinence ONLY education. Because everyone knows that a stern talking to about 'naughty parts' is all that human nature requires.
In the first half of 2019, several states have passed some of the most restrictive abortion bans since Roe v. Wade legalized the procedure in 1973. The new laws are part of a nearly decade-long wave of anti-abortion legislation that pro-life activists see as key to reducing and eventually eliminating abortion in the U.S.
Is it working?
A 2018 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the national abortion rate declined 26% between 2006 and 2015, reaching a historic low. But the CDC did not credit a single driver. Is it the proliferation of restrictive abortion laws? Increased access to contraception? More comprehensive sex education?
Mary Ziegler, a professor at the Florida State University College of Law who specializes in the legal history of reproduction, says it's likely all of it.
"The picture is messy and complicated and cannot be reduced to talking points," she said.
Better birth control and more of it
The vast majority of abortions are a result of unplanned pregnancies, according to the CDC. Its data shows the number of unintended pregnancies decreased from 51% in 2008 to 45% between 2011 and 2013, noting that more women using contraception and more effective forms of contraception like intrauterine devices, might be factors.
Elizabeth Nash, senior state issues manager at the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization that advances sexual and reproductive health and rights, says Obamacare could also be contributing to the decline. The Affordable Care Act's federal contraceptive coverage guarantee applies to most private health plans, requiring coverage for a wide array of contraceptives used by women without any out-of-pocket costs.
The change made it possible, Nash said, for women to choose the method of contraception that best suited them, versus what they could afford.
Ginny Ehrlich, chief executive officer of Power to Decide, a campaign to prevent unplanned pregnancy, says while contraception is more widely available, there are still more than 20 million women in need of publicly funded contraception — which refers to government programs that provide contraception to low-income women. She said 19.5 million of those women currently live in so-called contraceptive deserts, defined as lacking "reasonable access in their county to a health center that offers the full range of contraceptive methods."
Many of these areas are in states passing some of the most restrictive abortion laws.
In Alabama, which passed a near-total abortion ban in May, more than 300,000 women need publicly funded contraception but live in contraceptive deserts, according to Power to Decide. In Missouri, which could become the only state without an abortion facility, that number is nearly 400,000. In Ohio, lack of access affects more than 700,000 women, and in Georgia, nearly 650,000 women are affected.
WHERE IS ABORTION LEGAL?: Everywhere. But ...
The CDC says providing free contraception to women would likely further reduce unwanted pregnancies and in turn abortion rates. It's why Power to Decide and other groups are advocating to make oral contraceptives available over the counter for free.
A 2018 study found nearly one in four adults and teens who aren't using contraception said they would use it if it was available over the counter.
So why hasn't it happened yet? The medical community is largely behind it, and the conversion also appears to have bipartisan support.
A focus on comprehensive sex education
Between 2006 and 2015, the abortion rate for girls between 15 and 19 plummeted 54%. Teen pregnancy rates are also down, reaching a record low in 2017.
The CDC says evidence suggests that more teens are abstaining from sex and that more teens who are sexually active are using birth control.
Some experts point to comprehensive sex education, defined as "age-appropriate, medically-accurate information on a broad set of topics related to sexuality," as one factor that may be changing behaviors that put teens at risk of pregnancy.
'BAD FOR BUSINESS': Major companies sign joint letter against abortion bans
"If you think about those years, that's when we were putting more funding into comprehensive sex ed. There was more funding available for programs that discussed condoms and contraception," said Jennifer Driver, state policy director at the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS). "During that period, we were moving away from abstinence-until-marriage programs."
Research shows teens who receive comprehensive sex education are significantly less likely to become pregnant than those who receive abstinence-only or no sex education.
Driver said many states with restrictive abortion laws, including Alabama and Georgia, also heavily stress abstinence-until-marriage in their sex ed programs.
More restrictive laws
Experts say the surge in abortion restrictions is making the procedure more difficult to access for women who live in states that pass them, especially poor women.
The CDC's 2018 report on the declining abortion rate says that in addition to more contraceptive use, the availability of abortion providers and regulations such as mandatory waiting periods and parental consent could also be contributing to fewer women having abortions.
Texas, for example, has passed a number of restrictions on abortion in the last several years and saw a 28% decline in the abortion rate between 2011 and 2014, according to Guttmacher.
If the recent surge of abortion restrictions goes into effect, Nash said "it might make it impossible for a number of patients to get the care they need."
Abortion decline isn't a shared goal
In the 1990s, President Bill Clinton said abortion should be "safe, legal and rare," a slogan that persisted among Democrats for years. It was a position on which pro-choice and pro-life activists could ostensibly agree, since it implied abortion is something to avoid.
Pro-choice advocates have moved from framing abortion as something that should be "rare" to something that should be accessible to any woman who needs it, though they strongly advocate for policies that reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, which in turn reduces the need for abortion. Pro-life advocates say eliminating abortion is a chief goal and they view pro-life legislation as a key way to accomplish it.
"The pro-life movement is ultimately seeking the day that every human being is both protected in law and welcomed in life," Israel said. "There's acknowledgment that there's a public policy piece of this, but there's also a cultural side. If abortion were suddenly illegal tomorrow, that's not going to change hearts and minds. The movement wants to make abortion unthinkable."
Meanwhile, pro-choice activists are focused on making abortion part of healthcare, a reproductive service any woman can access uneventfully if she chooses.
"Conversations about reducing the abortion rate can stigmatize people who have abortions," Nash said. "It's about giving people the access they need when they need it. We need to be able to trust people to make decisions they know are best for them."
There is no clear reason why abortion is declining in the U.S. And there isn't agreement that a decline is even desirable.
"We've changed what was an undeniable consensus — that reducing abortion was the goal," Ziegler said. "Now we're looking at whether the decline in abortion rates is something to be celebrated or worried about."
Hey moron, the Feds don't pay for 'abortion clinics' and without the misnamed 'entitlement programs'....they are buy-in through payroll tax withholding....Red State America would be hurt the worst.
Look it up ignoramus; higher per capita Medicaid, SSDI and Snap benefits in States that get more back than they pay in.
You won't look it up because you know that you won't like what you find.
Ironic that you would someday be policing up the evidence of 'questionable brain waves', chiefly incoherent fact challenged argumentation, on a device that didn't exist on a network that DARPA had yet to create.
http://techland.time.com/2012/07/25/how-government-did-and-didnt-invent-the-internet/
(I’m even prepared to believe that if the Internet hadn’t been invented at DARPA, the private sector would have stepped in and done the job. But we’ll never know for sure, since it was invented at DARPA.)
Sometimes I think they're just a dead give away.
“While it does not appear any of the cadets were able to translate their fake military status into getting laid, the vast majority did attempt to get free apps at the local Chili’s every Veterans’ Day.”
Dblog, Shower Cap and The Rude Pundit are fuckin' catnip to me.
Oh it's memory. My brother took me to see every war movie made in the 50's. He knew he wanted to be a pilot.
Then he wanted to fly jets, the USMC said helicopters for you son.
He did end up as a pilot for UA. I guess flying a copter in Nam satisfied UA that he could probably be trained to pilot fixed wing.
We both got a good laugh out of "before you get to sell what we teach you over at United AIRlines…
I credit this shit. I remember the trailer in the theater. It WAS the time of the 'evil empire' and the military told Reagan when he inquired about going into Central America...'we don't do jungles anymore'....but the Russians were coming nonetheless.
Wolverines!!
Bring it, Wolverine. A couple of companies of paratroopers, Marines, automatic weapons, grenade launchers, air and arty, and we'll be able to *smell the crapped pants of Red State Murica.
If you can't think that much through, I'm not going to sweat your strategy and tactics. In fact, the after battle report, when your weapons will be policed up from the battlefield you either fled or died upon will be succinct, 'many weapons picked up, never fired and only dropped once.' LMAO!
*Same way I used to be able to smell the stockyards on a hot summer night in Chicago.
Singer Eddie Money, best known for his songs "Two Tickets to Paradise," "Take Me Home Tonight” and “Baby Hold On,” died Friday at the age of 70.
Singer Eddie Money performs onstage during the 2018 High Tide Beach Party at Huntington State Beach. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)
He had been battling stage 4 esophageal cancer.
Money's family said in a statement to Fox News: “The Money Family regrets to announce that Eddie passed away peacefully early this morning. It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to our loving husband and father. We cannot imagine our world without him. We are grateful that he will live on forever through his music.”
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/eddie-money-two-tickets-to-paradise-singer-dead-at-70
Money, whose real name was Edward Mahoney, made his stunning cancer announcement just last month in a video from his AXS TV reality series called "Real Money."
In the video, Money said he discovered he had cancer after what he thought was a routine checkup. The rock legend learned that the disease had spread to his liver and lymph nodes.
“What I don’t want to do is I don’t want to keep the fact that I have cancer from everybody,” Money said. “It’s not honest. I want to be honest with everybody. I want people to know that cancer [treatment] has come a long way and not everybody dies from cancer like they did in the '50s and '60s.
"Am I going to live a long time? Who knows? It’s in God’s hands.”
The rocker had numerous health problems recently, including heart valve surgery earlier this year and pneumonia following the procedure, which led to his cancellation of a planned summer tour.
His career spanned more than three decades and 12 studio albums. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., raised in Plainedge, Long Island, and then moved to California, where he signed with Columbia Records.
In 1987, he received a best rock vocal Grammy nomination for "Take Me Home Tonight," which featured a cameo by Ronnie Spector.
Singer Eddie Money, best known for his songs "Two Tickets to Paradise," "Take Me Home Tonight” and “Baby Hold On,” died Friday at the age of 70.
Singer Eddie Money performs onstage during the 2018 High Tide Beach Party at Huntington State Beach. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)
He had been battling stage 4 esophageal cancer.
Money's family said in a statement to Fox News: “The Money Family regrets to announce that Eddie passed away peacefully early this morning. It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to our loving husband and father. We cannot imagine our world without him. We are grateful that he will live on forever through his music.”
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/eddie-money-two-tickets-to-paradise-singer-dead-at-70
Money, whose real name was Edward Mahoney, made his stunning cancer announcement just last month in a video from his AXS TV reality series called "Real Money."
In the video, Money said he discovered he had cancer after what he thought was a routine checkup. The rock legend learned that the disease had spread to his liver and lymph nodes.
“What I don’t want to do is I don’t want to keep the fact that I have cancer from everybody,” Money said. “It’s not honest. I want to be honest with everybody. I want people to know that cancer [treatment] has come a long way and not everybody dies from cancer like they did in the '50s and '60s.
"Am I going to live a long time? Who knows? It’s in God’s hands.”
The rocker had numerous health problems recently, including heart valve surgery earlier this year and pneumonia following the procedure, which led to his cancellation of a planned summer tour.
His career spanned more than three decades and 12 studio albums. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., raised in Plainedge, Long Island, and then moved to California, where he signed with Columbia Records.
In 1987, he received a best rock vocal Grammy nomination for "Take Me Home Tonight," which featured a cameo by Ronnie Spector.
What a man needs to feel like a man is in his head.
An AR-15 is so clearly an overcompensation it's laughable to argue otherwise.
Not the point. It's not what you call it, it's the effect of the rounds on human bodies. Those effects are NOT same as from hunting rifles.
Get the distinction? No sensible hunter wants to 'tear up the meat'.
Additionally, if you care to do some real research, the lightness and the balance of the weapon allows for rapid fire that can be controlled to arrive on target with little dispersion of the rounds.
Those factors also allow for shooting on the run, as in an assault.
AR-15-style rifles can look like military rifles, such as the M-16, but by law they function like other semiautomatic civilian sporting firearms, as they fire only one round with each pull of the trigger.
THIS statement by you is what I was responding to, asshole.
Nope, it's just a rifle, like any other rifle.
DrHarleyboy: Look PunkAssBoy real men don't need and AR to be a man.
You are...………….misinformed.
What I Saw Treating the Victims From Parkland Should Change the Debate on Guns
They weren’t the first mass-shooting victims the Florida radiologist saw—but their wounds were radically different.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/what-i-saw-treating-the-victims-from-parkland-should-change-the-debate-on-guns/553937/
Heather Sher
Feb 22, 2018
AR-15 rifles on display
Lisa Marie Pane / AP
As I opened the CT scan last week to read the next case, I was baffled. The history simply read “gunshot wound.” I have been a radiologist in one of the busiest trauma centers in the United States for 13 years, and have diagnosed thousands of handgun injuries to the brain, lung, liver, spleen, bowel, and other vital organs. I thought that I knew all that I needed to know about gunshot wounds, but the specific pattern of injury on my computer screen was one that I had seen only once before.
In a typical handgun injury, which I diagnose almost daily, a bullet leaves a laceration through an organ such as the liver. To a radiologist, it appears as a linear, thin, gray bullet track through the organ. There may be bleeding and some bullet fragments.
I was looking at a CT scan of one of the mass-shooting victims from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who had been brought to the trauma center during my call shift. The organ looked like an overripe melon smashed by a sledgehammer, and was bleeding extensively. How could a gunshot wound have caused this much damage?
The reaction in the emergency room was the same. One of the trauma surgeons opened a young victim in the operating room, and found only shreds of the organ that had been hit by a bullet from an AR-15, a semiautomatic rifle that delivers a devastatingly lethal, high-velocity bullet to the victim. Nothing was left to repair—and utterly, devastatingly, nothing could be done to fix the problem. The injury was fatal.
A year ago, when a gunman opened fire at the Fort Lauderdale airport with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun, hitting 11 people in 90 seconds, I was also on call. It was not until I had diagnosed the third of the six victims who were transported to the trauma center that I realized something out of the ordinary must have happened. The gunshot wounds were the same low-velocity handgun injuries that I diagnose every day; only their rapid succession set them apart. And all six of the victims who arrived at the hospital that day survived.
Routine handgun injuries leave entry and exit wounds and linear tracks through the victim’s body that are roughly the size of the bullet. If the bullet does not directly hit something crucial like the heart or the aorta, and the victim does not bleed to death before being transported to our care at the trauma center, chances are that we can save him.
The bullets fired by an AR-15 are different: They travel at a higher velocity and are far more lethal than routine bullets fired from a handgun. The damage they cause is a function of the energy they impart as they pass through the body. A typical AR-15 bullet leaves the barrel traveling almost three times faster than—and imparting more than three times the energy of—a typical 9mm bullet from a handgun. An AR-15 rifle outfitted with a magazine with 50 rounds allows many more lethal bullets to be delivered quickly without reloading.
I have seen a handful of AR-15 injuries in my career. Years ago I saw one from a man shot in the back by a SWAT team. The injury along the path of the bullet from an AR-15 is vastly different from a low-velocity handgun injury. The bullet from an AR-15 passes through the body like a cigarette boat traveling at maximum speed through a tiny canal.
The tissue next to the bullet is elastic—moving away from the bullet like waves of water displaced by the boat—and then returns and settles back. This process is called cavitation; it leaves the displaced tissue damaged or killed. The high-velocity bullet causes a swath of tissue damage that extends several inches from its path. It does not have to actually hit an artery to damage it and cause catastrophic bleeding. Exit wounds can be the size of an orange.
With an AR-15, the shooter does not have to be particularly accurate. The victim does not have to be unlucky. If a victim takes a direct hit to the liver from an AR-15, the damage is far graver than that of a simple handgun-shot injury. Handgun injuries to the liver are generally survivable unless the bullet hits the main blood supply to the liver. An AR-15 bullet wound to the middle of the liver would cause so much bleeding that the patient would likely never make it to the trauma center to receive our care.
One of my ER colleagues was waiting nervously for his own children outside the school. While the shooting was still in progress, the first responders were gathering up victims whenever they could and carrying them outside the building. Even as a physician trained in trauma situations, there was nothing he could do at the scene to help save the victims who had been shot with the AR-15. Most of them died on the spot; they had no fighting chance at life.
As a doctor, I feel I have a duty to inform the public of what I have learned as I have observed these wounds and cared for these patients. It’s clear to me that AR-15 and other high-velocity weapons, especially when outfitted with a high-capacity magazine, have no place in a civilian’s gun cabinet.
I have friends who own AR-15 rifles; they enjoy shooting them at target practice for sport and fervently defend their right to own them. But I cannot accept that their right to enjoy their hobby supersedes my right to send my own children to school, a movie theater, or a concert and to know that they are safe.
Can the answer really be to subject our school children to active-shooter drills—to learn to hide under desks, turn off the lights, lock the door, and be silent—instead of addressing the root cause of the problem and passing legislation to take AR-15-style weapons out of the hands of civilians?
In the aftermath of this shooting, in the face of specific questioning, our government leaders did not want to discuss gun control even when asked directly about the issue. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida warned not to “jump to conclusions that there’s some law we could have passed that could have prevented it.” A reporter asked House Speaker Paul Ryan about gun control, and he replied, “As you know, mental health is often a big problem underlying these tragedies.” And on Tuesday, Florida’s state legislature voted against considering a ban on AR-15-type rifles, 71 to 36.
If politicians want to back comprehensive mental-health reform, I am all for it. As a medical doctor, I’ve witnessed firsthand the toll that mental-health issues take on families and on individuals themselves who have no access to satisfactory long-term mental-health care. But the president and Congress should not use this issue as an excuse to deliberately overlook the fact that the use of AR-15 rifles is the common denominator in many mass shootings.
A medical professor taught me about the dangers of drawing incorrect conclusions from data, using the example of gum chewing, smokers, and lung cancer. He said smokers may be more likely to chew gum to cover bad breath, but one cannot look at the data and decide that gum chewing causes lung cancer. It is the same type of erroneous logic that focuses on mental health after mass shootings, when banning the sale of semiautomatic rifles would be a far more effective means of preventing them.
Banning the AR-15 should not be a partisan issue. No consensus may exist on many questions of gun control, but there seems to be broad support for removing high-velocity, lethal weaponry and high-capacity magazines from the market, which would drastically reduce the incidence of mass murders. Every constitutionally guaranteed right that we are blessed to enjoy comes with responsibilities. Even our right to free speech is not limitless. Second Amendment gun rights must respect the same boundaries.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the appropriate agency to review the potential impact of banning AR-15-style rifles and high-capacity magazines on the incidence of mass shootings. The agency was effectively barred from studying gun violence as a public-health issue in 1996, by a statutory provision known as the Dickey Amendment. This provision needs to be repealed so that the CDC can study this issue and make sensible gun-policy recommendations to Congress.
The Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) of 1994 included language that prohibited semiautomatic rifles such the AR-15, and also large-capacity magazines with the ability to hold more than 10 rounds. The ban was allowed to expire on September 13, 2004, after 10 years. The mass murders that have followed the ban’s lapse make clear that it must be reinstated.
On Wednesday night, Rubio said at a town-hall event hosted by CNN that it is impossible to create effective gun regulations because there are too many “loopholes,” and that a “plastic grip” can make the difference between a gun that is legal and one that is illegal. But if we can see the different impacts of high- and low-velocity rounds clinically, then the government can also draw such distinctions.
As a radiologist, I have now seen high-velocity AR-15 gunshot wounds firsthand, an experience that most radiologists in our country will never have. I pray that these are the last such wounds I have to see, and that AR-15-style weapons and high-capacity magazines are banned for use by civilians in the United States, once and for all.
Why the AR-15 Is So Lethal
“The little bullet pays off in wound ballistics.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/why-the-ar-15-is-so-lethal/545162/
James Fallows
Nov 7, 2017
AR-15 rifles are displayed for sale at the Guntoberfest gun show in Oaks, Pennsylvania. (Joshua Roberts / Reuters)
Americans who know nothing else about firearms are all too familiar with the name AR-15. It’s the semi-automatic weapon that murderers have used in many of the most notorious and highest-casualty gun killings of recent years: Aurora, Colorado. Newtown, Connecticut. Orlando, Florida. San Bernardino, California. Now, with modified versions, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Sutherland Springs, Texas.
What is this gun? Why is it the weapon that people who want to kill a lot of other people, in a hurry, mainly choose? Tim Dickinson offered a useful history of the AR-15’s emergence as the main implement of mass murder last year in Rolling Stone (“All-American Killer: How the AR-15 Became Mass Shooters’ Weapon of Choice”), and Meghan O’Dea in Fortune and Aaron Smith for CNN also had valuable reports.
But there’s another angle of the AR-15 saga that has slightly slipped from view. It is why this particular weapon is so unusually effective in killing things—even when compared with other firearms.
As it happens, I did an Atlantic article on exactly this subject, back in a very different era of American politics. In 1981, I published a book called National Defense, which was popular at the time and was excerpted in three installments in the magazine. One of the installments was called “The M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story,” and it included the origin story of the AR-15. That article was not previously available online, but my colleague Annika Neklason has just digitized it from the archives, and it’s now available.
The AR-15 was newsworthy in those days mainly as the original civilian version of what became the U.S. military’s standard M-16 combat rifle. The problem with the M-16, from the perspective of many of the Americans who had been using it during the 1960s and 1970s in Vietnam, is that it too often failed at the fundamental task of combat weaponry: killing troops on the other side.
The M-16 jammed. It was touchy if it got wet or dirty—which, in jungle warfare, weapons generally did. Veterans’ stories about the M-16, which became newspaper exposés, which became congressional hearings, concerned the battles in which an American soldier or Marine was found shot to death by an enemy AK-47, a jammed M-16 clutched in the American’s hands.
The point of my story was to explain how the Army’s procurement bureaucracy had systematically, and knowingly if not intentionally, converted the early-model AR-15 into the fully “militarized” but vastly less reliable M-16. Those were the comparisons that mattered most in the aftermath of Vietnam: the M-16 versus its AR-15 predecessor, and the M-16 against the adversary’s practically indestructible AK-47.
Along the way, I examined the other side of the comparison: why the AR-15 was such a revolution in killing power. That’s the part of the story that is most relevant now.
* * *
The AR-15, created by the celebrated armaments designer Eugene Stoner, had many advantages, but a crucial one was that it used smaller, lighter bullets than some predecessors, which traveled at higher speed. My story said:
Nearly a century before American troops were ordered into Vietnam, weapons designers had made a discovery in the science of “wound ballistics.” The discovery was that a small, fast-traveling bullet often did a great deal more damage than a larger round when fired into human or (for the experiments) animal flesh.
A large artillery round might pass straight through a human body, but a small bullet could act like a gouge. During the early stages of the congressional hearing, [Representative Richard] Ichord asked Eugene Stoner, the designer of the original version of the M-16, to explain the apparent paradox of a small bullet’s destructive power. The answer emerged in the following grisly exchange.
“ICHORD: One army boy told me that he had shot a Vietcong near the eye with an M-14 [which uses a substantially heavier bullet] and the bullet did not make too large a hole on exit, but he shot a Vietcong under similar circumstances in the same place with an M-16 and his whole head was reduced to pulp. This would not appear to make sense. You have greater velocity but the bullet is lighter.”
“STONER: There is the advantage that a small or light bullet has over a heavy one when it comes to wound ballistics. … What it amounts to is the fact that bullets are stabilized to fly through the air, and not through water, or a body, which is approximately the same density as the water.
And they are stable as long as they are in the air. When they hit something, they immediately go unstable. … If you are talking about .30-caliber [like a bullet used in the Army’s previous M-14], this might remain stable through a human body. … While a little bullet, being it has a low mass, it senses an instability situation faster and reacts much faster. … this is what makes a little bullet pay off so much in wound ballistics.”
A little bullet pays off so much in wound ballistics. That is what people who choose these weapons know.
I remember one other thing about that story. Everyone I interviewed about these weapons at the time—the AR-15, its bastard offspring M-16, the opposing AK-47—assumed as a first premise that they were talking about battlefield equipment. None of them seemed to imagine such killing power in civilian hands.
Texas A&M Corps of Cadets found guilty of 143 years of stolen valor
Published 2 hours ago on September 13, 2019
By BYOBooyah
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The student body of Texas A&M University was rocked today by news that their Corps of Cadets is guilty of stolen valor and has been for 143 years. Authorities reached a guilty verdict after discovering that despite wearing uniforms in public, displaying military medals, and being big time hardos, less than half of cadets go on to serve in the military.
“The fact that these kids and this institution have let this go on for over a century is unconscionable,” says lead investigator Winston Hughes. “While it does not appear any of the cadets were able to translate their fake military status into getting laid, the vast majority did attempt to get free apps at the local Chili’s every Veterans’ Day.”
Stolen Valor is typically defined as an individual wearing a military uniform and impersonating a member of the armed forces despite never having served. Texas A&M released a statement clarifying that, while the majority of their Cadets don’t commission into the armed forces, some do and all of them take their “dress up and march around stuff” very seriously.
The school also stressed the importance of imagination in developing young minds. “Whether that involves imagining you go to Hogwarts or imagining you attend a military academy, the principle remains the same,” Booster Club President Jimbob Joe Houston notes.
Houston was also quick to point out the school’s status as a Senior Military College, a special designation granted to several institutions after the Civil War authorizing their students to wear fancy boots and get high and tight haircuts unironically. However, detractors point out, that authorization is for individuals who are actually going to join the military and does not cover those who are live-action role-playing as soldiers from the Spanish-American War.
The nail in the coffin for A&M’s stolen valor case was the fact that unlike other Senior Military Colleges—such as the Citadel or the Virginia Military Institute—it’s possible to be a student at the school without being a fake ROTC weirdo.
“Over 69,000 students will attend class this year in College Station while only about 2,500 will dress up and ask people to thank them for their service” Hughes notes.
When reached for comment, member of the Corps Josh Taylor was unapologetic.
“How am I stealing valor by just wearing a uniform? Like I owe some kind of service to the country?” Taylor says. “I bought these boots with my parents’ own money, and donated my time to appearing on ESPN football broadcasts all fall. The nation has been compensated.”
“If anything, you could say I’m overcompensating”
You can't reason someone out of what they weren't reasoned into.
That applies to every righty who posts his fact challenged nonsense, bigotries and bat shit conspiracy theories.
An abundance of AR caves assures a plentiful supply of bat-shit per capita. And aren't they in good company? Mostly the Old Confederacy and one gambling mecca.
https://www.arkansas.com/articles/caves-caverns-spelunking
How very unkind of you...…………...to airline vomit bags.
At least they serve a purpose.
You Know Things’re Bad When John Bolton Gets Fired, and You Don’t Even Have Time to Celebrate
http://showercapblog.com/you-know-thingsre-bad-when-john-bolton-gets-fired-and-you-dont-even-have-time-to-celebrate/
Of course the Veryfine Valor Thief marked 9/11 with his trademark blend of undignified griping and self-aggrandizing lies. You sort of wish Dante were still around, so you could get a nice, detailed, description of the afterlife torments awaiting the kind of loathsome shitsack who would lie about helping out at Ground Zero.
That's because there is no 'come and get' in any gun buyback program anywhere in the U.S. You constitutional illiterate.
Nah, I just want to shut down the generators and give 'em a taste of Hatfield's and McCoy's 'Murica.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority
In the 1920s, a major battle erupted over building an electric power system in the Tennessee Valley, based on the World War I federal dam at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. It would generate electricity and produce fertilizer.[6] Senator George Norris of Nebraska blocked a proposal from Henry Ford in 1920 to use the dam to modernize the valley.
Norris deeply distrusted privately owned utility companies. He did get Congress to pass the Muscle Shoals Bill, but it was vetoed as socialistic by President Herbert Hoover in 1931. The idea behind the Muscle Shoals Bill in 1933 became a core part of the New Deal's TVA.[7]
Even by Depression standards, the Tennessee Valley was economically dismal in 1933. Thirty percent of the population was affected by malaria, and the average income was only $639 per year, with some families surviving on as little as $100 per year.
Much of the land had been farmed too hard for too long, eroding and depleting the soil. Crop yields had fallen along with farm incomes. The best timber had been cut, with another 10% of forests being burnt each year.[6]
During World War II, the U.S. needed greater aluminum supplies to build airplanes. Aluminum plants required large amounts of electricity. To provide the power, TVA engaged in one of the largest hydropower construction programs ever undertaken in the U.S.
By early 1942, when the effort reached its peak, 12 hydroelectric plants and one steam plant were under construction at the same time, and design and construction employment reached a total of 28,000. In its first eleven years, TVA constructed a total of 16 hydroelectric dams.[10]
The largest project of this period was the Fontana Dam. After negotiations led by Vice-President Harry Truman, TVA purchased the land from Nantahala Power and Light, a wholly owned subsidiary of Alcoa, and built Fontana Dam. Also in 1942, TVA's first coal-fired plant, the 267 megawatt Watts Bar Steam Plant began operation.[12]
The government originally intended the electricity generated from Fontana to be used by Alcoa factories.[citation needed] By the time the dam generated power in early 1945, the electricity was directed to another purpose in addition to aluminum manufacturing, as TVA also provided much of the electricity needed for uranium enrichment at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as required for the Manhattan Project and the making of the atomic bomb.
A Russian launch vehicle should be available for his trip.
Whatever it is it would go disproportionately to Red State America.
After all, you don't want to lose all that Medicaid, SSDI, SNAP and Opioid treatment, do you?
Maybe we should take your TVA generated 'lectricty away just to remind you where it came from.
Yep, look it up.
You refuted neither and you ignored every verifiable historical fact in the article I posted.
The example of the IDF alone blows away the fearmongering nonsense in the article you posted.
Without doubt you would have been voicing the same lame, bigoted, contra-factual arguments against blacks and women serving in our armed forces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces
LGBT people
Further information: Sexual orientation and military service § Israel
Israel is one of 24 nations that allow openly gay individuals to serve in the military. Since the early 1990s, sexual identity presents no formal barrier in terms of soldiers' military specialization or eligibility for promotion.[60][61]
Until the 1980s the IDF tended to discharge soldiers who were openly gay. In 1983 the IDF permitted homosexuals to serve, but banned them from intelligence and top-secret positions. A decade later, Professor Uzi Even,[62] an IDF reserves officer and chairman of Tel Aviv University's Chemistry Department, revealed that his rank had been revoked and that he had been barred from researching sensitive topics in military intelligence, solely because of his sexual orientation. His testimony to the Knesset in 1993 raised a political storm, forcing the IDF to remove such restrictions against gays.[60]
The chief of staff's policy states that it is strictly forbidden to harm or hurt anyone's dignity or feeling based on their gender or sexual orientation in any way, including signs, slogans, pictures, poems, lectures, any means of guidance, propaganda, publishing, voicing, and utterance. Moreover, gays in the IDF have additional rights, such as the right to take a shower alone if they want to.
According to a University of California, Santa Barbara study,[62] a brigadier general stated that Israelis show a "great tolerance" for gay soldiers. Consul David Saranga at the Israeli Consulate in New York, who was interviewed by the St. Petersburg Times, said, "It's a non-issue. You can be a very good officer, a creative one, a brave one, and be gay at the same time."[60]
Know what the contributions are to the Trump Foundation?
Zero point shit.
You've got your wet dream induced conspiracy theories.
Trump?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation
Admission of self-dealing
In filing its 2015 IRS Form 990 (filed in 2016 while under investigation by the New York State attorney general's office), the foundation appeared to[clarification needed] admit that it had, in previous years, engaged in self-dealing and illegal transfers of funds to "disqualified persons".[132]
Dissolution of foundation
On December 18, 2018, Underwood announced that the foundation had agreed to shut down under court supervision and distribute its remaining assets to court-approved charities, although the attorney general's office would continue its investigations of and legal actions against the foundation and its directors.[15]
Link?
So you were fine when it was going to the Clintons cofferes by the MILLIONS?
It is his beliefs, his obvious preference for such over readily available facts and evidence in the political, scientific and social spheres, that confirm the accuracy of his self assessment.
When a dummy says he's a dummy, walks, talks and posts like a dummy? That's a dummy.
Disagree to your heart's content, but refute the article or my opinion you cannot.
But despite conservatives’ ostensible emphasis on history and tradition, their refrain is deeply inaccurate: The armed forces have, by necessity, always served as a petri dish for broader cultural change in America — even before the country’s inception.
I didn't know Rooster was sharing family photos with you.
'Real men' like meth-heads?
No, he wasn't. Like you he is an easily misinformed alarmist with the same poor education that you expose here with your every post.
He hasn't become a laughing stock because people believe he is right, but rather because he is seen to be a ridiculous ass-hat and a fit target for contempt, just like you.
Nah, we need to red flag morons of all colors with assault weapons and IQ numbers under room temperature.
No wonder you're displaying your Don Knotts level of nervousness in your lame posts.
Keep on exposing yourself as an undereducated moron. You're doing a great job at that.
The models were obsolete before the moron in chief tried to alarm Alabamans.
The weather is not the same as climate, you uneducated fool.
Learn how to read, asshole. Can't indict a sitting president.
THAT'S why no charges, Seriously, WTF is wrong with you?
Impeachment is another matter, as you're about to learn.
Mueller has plenty of material that can be use for articles of impeachment. NO exoneration, shithead.
What you believe is not of interest to anyone, credulous fool that you are.
He flat out blew it and then made an even bigger ass of himself with the Sharpie.
Only dumb-ass Trumpanzees like you believe him.
He's broken all kinds of laws. settled out of court on the U. and had to fold his bullshit charity.
Also he's obstructed justice and only that DOJ guideline has get him from indictment.
Hey asshole, when Trump said it AL was NOT in the path. And what kind of moron uses a sharpie on a gov doc?
And insecure, science illiterate, just like you.
Check Trump's bankruptcies, the stiffing of his suppliers, his scam U. and charities, and get back to me.
He's grifting the shit out of this country, just as he did everyone in his business life.