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Band of Others: Born-Male Trans Must Register for Draft, Why Not Their Born-Female ‘Brothers’?

Band of Others: Born-Male Trans Must Register for Draft, Why Not Their Born-Female 'Brothers'?

Steve Green’s Lightning Round ambushes unsuspecting colleagues with top (and bottom) stories of the week to get their hottest takes. We want to hear yours in the comments below.

Topics this time include…

00:30 Transgender people born male must register for the Selective Service, and those born female do not. Is this a hypocritical double-standard?

03:32 Sen. Ralph Warnock’s church pays for his home ($7,400/month housing allowance) and also owns a low-income apartment building from which it tried to evict several renters during the pandemic, according to a report in the Washington Free Beacon based on public records.

05:40 New York University (NYU) fires an organic chemistry professor because students said his class was too difficult. The students are preparing to be medical doctors.

08:17 Data show that Americans don’t want to move to New Jersey, California, Illinois, New York and Connecticut. What do these states have in common?

10:36 U.S. Space Force’s Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) will hunt foreign spacecraft, debris, and astronomical objects of interest. When you combine DART with SST, you have the baby steps toward a real planetary defense. 

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47 replies on “Band of Others: Born-Male Trans Must Register for Draft, Why Not Their Born-Female ‘Brothers’?”

The “housing allowance” for Wornack is even a bigger benefit than it appears. If “qualified”, which I am sure Warnack is, this allowance is exempt from both federal and state taxes. In other words, Wornack is making 88.8k/yr tax free. I expect he is probably using his senate salary to help the poor parishioners in his church. Right.

Scott, God took, rested on the Sabbath, the seventh day, Saturday not Sunday. Read the Bible. It may have changed when God Incarnate passed, however that would be another discussion.

Scott, I felt that freedom in the air when I moved to the Bay Area in the 1960s….. And I was very pained to know it was all gone by the time I moved out in 2003. In fact, it had been drained out decades before…gradually so we didn’t really know it. Pray it doesn’t happen to Texas.

During the Nam era the generous, equality driven, equality desiring left established “Project 100,000” policy because “People of Class 4 intelligence level deserved to serve, also.” Class 4 intelligence level is one step above having to be bathed, dressed and fed by an attendant. Tom Hanks portrayed Class 4 in Forrest Gump.
The big selling point of Project 100,000 was that they’d be trained by military to take care of themselves after service, get jobs and be citizens capable of earning a living and contributing to society (paying taxes).
The only thing we know for sure of post-service lives of Class 4 is that they, as a group, had the lowest overall casualty rates. This probably because the did as they were told when they. were told, no questions, no argument. Perfect bots.
The left being what the left was, once the damage was done both to military and society in general, they quit following Class 4 veterans when the US ran out on the Vietnamese people, so we never learned anything about post-service abilities, successes and failures of Class 4 guinea pigs.
I strongly suspect a vast majority of them ended up homeless.

Steve, as always. Great Lightning Round. Should always be released on a. SATURDAY – SATURDAY – SATURDAY! To coincide with any local Monster Truck Rally appearing in any of our towns!
Hey, since direct messaging was disabled at BW, and no messaging allowed at Townhall owned PJ Media, this might be the only way to get a message to you.
Today’s Post Millenial headline says this:

AMERICAN NEWS Oct 14, 2022
Two men shoot each others’ daughters during Florida road rage incident
Both men were arrested and charged with attempted murder, but were released just hours later on $150,000 bond.

Noted your PJ Florida Man Friday just might love this story.

We always hear about bad guys with guns.
We rarely hear enough about good guys with guns.
But here’s a rare bird about 2 IDIOTS WITH GUNS shooting each other’s daughters in a stupid road rage incident, where else but…… Jacksonville, Florida! The 1 daughter was hit in her leg, the other in the back with a possible collapsed lung. Both expected to recover.

I’ll forward this to Steve. You can always use the Contact link in the menu above to send a message to the team. Thanks.

I think that the Trans draftees should form a unit. “The Berserkers” would be a good nickname, and we should have them running naked and screaming at the enemy. It might solve two issues.
Warnock is silky smooth, a classic “used car salesman” black preacher who can lie like no other (except Stacy Abrams, a liar without peer.). Herschel “run Herschel, run” Walker is a Paul Bunyon character to me. His biography published years ago brought out a major psychiatric problem that he dealt with for years. It was shocking to me as a physician. He is apparently past this and he is doing well. I finally saw a good rebuttal ad but his ad buys have been few and far between.
Getting rid of the “weed-out courses” because of feelings will have awesome consequences. What’s next? Engineers who can’t add. Writers who have no literary foundation. Lawyers without ethics (who are we kidding). My college had 710 freshman and 600 were pre-med, me not one of them (I was considering it, but my math brain was better.). People dropped out rather than have their first Chemistry test result become a permanent record flag. And Emory was an expensive school. I became a Chemistry major and a doctor/surgeon because medicine was in it’s glory days at the time.

Interesting and pointed but I have to take exception on one thing. I know you didn’t say Stacy Abrams was a good liar but you did say she’s without peer.

Doing something a lot and doing something well are not the same thing. So if you meant Stacy Abrams was a peerless liar in quantity disregarding quality that would be true. She does lie a lot, she’s not at all good at it. She would be better served to give up the lying and go back to her day job.

Or not, that might be what got her the role of President of Earth but one thing is certain. We’d all be better served if she’d just learn to code.

There are people I don’t like. There are women I don’t like. There are only two women who are public figures that I detest to the point where it makes my guts churn. Stacy Abrams and Moosie Obama.

They both happen to be black so before someone calls me a racist there are lots of black women I think highly of. Candace Owens and Winsome Sears are two I simply adore. Contrast those two to Stacy Abrams and Moosie and you see my problem is with personalities not race.

Point taken regarding the “without peer” qualification. Personally, no woman repulses me as much as Mrs. Clinton.

Crap, forgot about her. I might have gone all day without thinking about Hildebeast the Foul and Malevolent if you hadn’t brought her up.

Beast, Moosie and Spacy makeup the Terrible Trinity, the most toxic females in America. Closely followed by AOC and her squad of sabulous saprophytes.

LOL, upvoted because of a demonstrated appreciation for super syntax and selection of speech.

😉

Most colleges have what they call a “weeder” course. They are trying to weed out the students that aren’t up for the rigors and effort needed to earn a degree in their chosen field of study. Too hard? It is supposed to be hard.

About 5 years ago, a fellow USN retiree and his wife (also a Navy vet) were discussing the draft. I mentioned that I never had a draft card, nor was I ever registered with the draft. His wife said, “Yes, they just called you Minutemen back then.” LOL (I posted that story on my now deleted FascistBook feed, and a Navy vet I’d drilled with for 20 years (2 years my senior) chimed in with, “I think you were still supposed to register.” I responded, “Either they changed the requirements during those 2 years, OR,….. I’m in REALLY BIG TROUBLE!” LOL)

Maybe Zo’s too young to remember, but Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger used to wear dresses and high heels in the M.A.S.H tv series. No one thought anything of it since they knew he was only trying to get out of the army.

That was one of my thoughts. And neither the decidely non-military Col Blake nor the old army Col Potter gave him an inch.

The sad part is that all of those Blue State S*** Holes were once amazing places. I get the Jersey hate, but anyone who’s actually spent any time there knows it’s a great place to live (or was). New York was the crown jewel city of America, and I’ll never forget years ago driving all the way up US1 in California. It’s a damned shame that Democrats have that anti-Midas touch and everything they touch turns to s***

Once you get 20 miles or so west of NYC, it really is The Garden State, all North to South of it. The Garden State Parkway still a pretty drive.

We called them “weeder” courses. In Engineering, it was Calculus. My first term I had one of those “old” guys who took his job very seriously. If you couldn’t understand how to do calculus, he would point out where the business school was.
All these decades later, I still remember his name. Dr Pace was probably close to 70 when I had him and he forced a bunch of know it all 17 and 18 year olds to learn how to study and actually think, especially under the pressure of an exam.
I can honestly say that having that as a first class (it was 8am everyday my first term in college) got me off to a good start and was one of the reasons that I was able to adequately perform in a 2 1/2 hour Oral Exam in front of a panel of 3 professors, including the department chair, to earn my Master’s Degree.
If you have never read Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather”, there are a bunch of great nuggets that don’t make the movies. One is when Michael is hiding in Sicily and realizes that the local Don giving people jobs as favors is actually detrimental to the organization and society. This came to him in part because the local doctor was well-connected, and a terrible doctor. I always took this as a statement against socialism, which is probably why it didn’t make it into the movie.

It’s been tears since I’ve read the Godfather, and the one point that stuck out with me was what a weak job the movie did of fleshing out Luca Brasi’s character. He didn’t get a lot of mention in the book, but what there was made him far more formidable than the generic scary thug he was in the movie

BB – that backstory in the form of a story told by an old lady in Sicily to Michael is truly one of the bast parts of the book.
I also like the backstory with the maid of honor from the wedding and the Dr and how it weaves in with Johnny.
I always thought someone should have done a full workup, 70s/80s mini-series style. 12 hours of film and done the whole thing fleshed out really well.

I forgot about the doctor – another great one that didn’t make the movie! A minseries would be great, but not with today’s Hollywood.
And was it just me or after reading the book did you think that James Caan look nothing like Puzo’s Sonny? I still loved Caan’s performance but reading the book afterward took a little bit away for me

As a retired surgeon I agree organic chemistry was considered a “weeder”. Part of the problem is what Zo said about handling stress and part what you said about learning. Some challenge the importance of these courses a all as more medicine is canned treatments rather than thoughtful. Policies drive treatment, hidden under the guise of “best practices”. The heavy emphasis on science is at the expense of a broad basis in the Humanities. Many students I taught had no knowledge of the arts or literature, a deficit which affects their ability to read people. Everything is numbers. Yet many found little long-term value from the research done to pad the resume or the specialized science courses, once in medical school. Now the Hippocratic oath is a political as much a moral statement. Without the humanities, lives are hollow, no matter how good your technique.

Michael – can’t say what the requirements are now, but I was darn near an English minor when I graduated. Took many english classes in order to polish my skills as a writer and just for broader knowledge.
Also took a year of basic pysch classes.
But I was probably one of the few who took electives as an opportunity to take advantage of the university having a broad array of classes to offer. MOst just wanted easy As from their electives.

When I applied to medical school, there was an emphasis on well-rounded people being given preference. Just as you (kinda) alluded to, nerds don’t relate well to others. We still need pathologists, radiologists, anesthesiologists, etc. who don’t need people skills. And crazy people make the best psychiatrists. But most of my colleagues had a good humanities or religious background (I schooled in the South.). I would be strongly opposed to allowing people to skate through chemistry.
Oh, and what they teach today in humanities would curl your toes. My last read, Andrew Klavan’s The Truth and Beauty” discussed the romantic poets and their struggle finding God. Great book.

Harry – I could have placed out of the first year of Calc based on taking it in HS and my score on the AP exam. I foolishly thought that taking one term would jump start my GPA by getting an A in a 5 credit hour class. Oops.
I did place out of the Chemistry class which was also a weeder and taught in sections of 400-500 students. Always grateful for that.
My largest class ever in college was about 80 for a physics class which I enjoyed as it was my last class on Friday and was near the golf course. I started taking my clubs to class which was good for a chuckle, but by the end of the third week there were 4 or 5 doing the same.

I never understood the reasoning behind giving insanely hard exams where an A gets most of the questions wrong. How much are your students actually learning if they can’t demonstrate knowledge of so much of the material?
The only explanation I can think of is that there are requirements for how much material has to be covered and the profs accomodate by grading on a curve realistic to how much a student can absorb. That’s just my guess; I’m sure there’s a better explanation

BB – with the type A personalities involved, getting a question wrong always resulted in going back and figuring out why you got it wrong. So, then you learned it.

Yea, Harry. There is something not quite right about people like us. But we know what we know, and what we don’t know.
Way back when, I managed a group of about 30 engineers, mostly EE and ME. It took me a long time to convince them not to try and BS me if I asked them a question they were not quite sure of the answer. One of the signs on my door was “I don’t know is an acceptable answer.”
They came to finally understand that there was a second part of that. The full sentence should read. “I don’t know, but I will find out is an acceptable answer”

A good semantic distinction, Harry.
But now I feel compelled to include this image.

Biochem was a medical school weed-out for us. So much so that most took it after they got admitted to medical school. 5/130 got an “A”, maybe 30 a “B”. Physical Chem was avoided by most but was easy for me. German gave me a “C-” and almost ruined my application.

Romance languages – should have taken a Romance language. German just sounds hard to learn. Italian, on the other hand, sounds wonderful on the ears.

Walker had those allegations back when he was still playing ball. These are not new. Fairly sure they were debunked back then as a money grab. He should have been more prepared for these attacks.
However, Walker’s campaign has not been good, which is I think the point Scott was making. He should be up by 10 points, if not more. He is no Oz level bad, but it’s close. I was very excited about his running, but he doesn’t appear to have had a good team with him getting him to do retail politics.
Rather than just endorsing him, Trump should have helped him find a better campaign staff. This one is too close especially when having to consider the people who count the votes in GA.

Good points all around, although the one I’d disagree with is “Trump should have helped him find a better campaign staff.”
Trump might have been a highly effective President, but staffing was probably his biggest failure as a leader

Herschel’s biographer details the real, major mental illness he had for years. It’s there for anyone to read. He is doing better and he is a good man with demons. A better choice than many who have lived life without those struggles. He has great, crystal clear stands on all of the major issues I care about. You don’t have to be a Mensa member to be worthy. His acceptance of Christ is real. A vote for Warnock is a vote for Biden and a disaster.

I always had the impression by looking at the GA senate race that first, the race box had to be checked. Wifebeater Warnock slimed his way into the gig to begin with and now that his term is ending, the GOP in GA felt it prudent to keep checking that race box. I’m not convinced that either candidate is the best that GA can offer — Warnock is a self-serving, glib, polished thug (fits in well in D.C.) and Walker is just…Walker living off the coattails of his football career. Thank God I don’t live in GA to have to deal with this conundrum, but I think that between the two, Walker is much more willing to go to school to be effective for Georgians while Warnock will continue to find ways to line his already-substantial pockets.

Allen – the cynical part of me thinks that relative to Walker the GOP started with black and ended with name recoginition. Once they had someone who checked both, they figured they were done and didn’t need to invest anymore time/money/effort.

We’ve reached the point where it’s a simple binary choice – do you vote for the candidate whose party is openly stating that their goal is to destroy the country, or the other candidate, regardless of how flawed? I used that logic in 2016 and until the Democtartic Party sees some major reform that won’t be changing any time soon

Amen. Walker’s nonsense is LONG past. Warlock’s despicability is “a clear and PRESENT danger” to America.

Excellent point. The vagaries of youth. Warnock (why does that name remind me of the noun “warlock?”) knows better.

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