A Three-Piece Hoot

Two recent issues in the news caught my attention, so I thought I would comment on them.

First is the Clinton-Obama labor day palaver on unionism. The fact is that the Obama-Clinton administration enacted worst-case for U.S. labor unions policy consistently. Supporting illegal immigration and cheap migrant labor harms unions. cutting taxes on the rich as President Obama did hurt unions. The third leg of Obama-Clinton anti-unionism was support for outsourcing more jobs to China with policy that develops the Chinese rather than U.S. economy.

Second is U.S. forest service logging policy in S.E. Alaska where most of the old growth forest is being cut. They are considering letting logging reach within 200 feet of the critical waterfront areas of the forest. Instead of point out the environmental idiocy of that policy, I would merely say that the better solution is to halt all logging in S.E. Alaska and instead hire all the loggers that have worked in that activity five years to Federal jobs that don’t have anything to do with logging, and fire an equivalent number of federal workers someplace else to keep the budget in balance.

Loggers aren’t all a bunch of yippee Neanderthals seeking to bring the environment to ruin-they are capable of learning federal jobs such as supporting home schooling program with training, or building shelters for homeless people around the nation.

Third and last is the Vatican policy to liberalize annulment; its not that annulment is so bad, what interested me is the Catholic doctrine that does not allow divorce, though Jesus Christ said that in cases of adultery (and I suppose having sex with a minor too- that might be called childultery might entail jailery as well), because of the hardness of hearts divorce is permissible.

Why does the Vatican seem to have a policy that is in direct contradiction of instruction of the Lord? Is it a 1302 unam sanctam papal bull kind of thing?

Jesus Christ said ( in the book of Matthew verses 5: 31-32 ); " It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery."

 Bonus Hoot!

The U.S. Government selective service is running implicitly chauvinist radio advertisements proving the point that affirmative action is applied only where it gives an advantage to the majority (women, non-whites and homosexuals).

In the ad, over the sound of a flying aircraft, the man says; "Are you guys ready to jump out of a perfectly good airplane and become men?". Registering for selective service in some way is like a bar mitzvah evidently.

The man does not say; "Are you girls willing to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft and become women?"Neither does he say; "Are you people ready to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft and become queers?" Also absent is the question; "Are you troubled people willing to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft and become transgendered?"

After I had made my first parachute jump from 7000 feet I stood on the ground looking up at a tiny women free falling from 10,000 feet to make a perfectly good low-altitude opening. If women are perfectly good skydivers to, then American manhood must mean something else than a gender monopoly on courage. Perhaps to the U.S. Government it means becoming a dumb animal registered for the military meat grinder in order to defend the women from ISIS and other savage hordes. If that is the position it may be o.k.-yet it is a blatant exception to the chauvinism that is described as virtually bigotry if it is used anywhere else in government that confer more harm than good.