Intellectual Consistency, Lefties!
In North-Central Florida radio stations blare with the general inconsistency and intellectual bankruptcy of right-wing ideologs. There's a show on Sunday morning that plays for one hour, that presents a counter to the typical rhetoric espoused by conservative hosts.
Last weekend there was a local mom infuriated about Section 9528 of the No Child Left Behind Act. Apparently Rep. David Vitter of Louisiana installed a relatively hidden provision that allows military recruiters to bypass the normally strict school privacy policies and access children for recruitment into the armed services. The details are presented on "leavemychildalone.org".
Apparently many parents, mostly left leaning from my observation, are outraged that the military can access their children without parental consent. They say that kids under 18 don't have the ability to make a sound decision, they don't have the capacity to make up their own minds about a life-altering choice.
Across the nation the same people are lobbying against parental notification for abortion. Research has shown me that this is good because pregnant girls that seek pregnancy termination frequently fear parental retaliation for their sexual peccadilloes, fearing punishment, abandonment and oftentimes violence. Parents down here don't like the girls puttin' out the goods, and " 'specially bearin' childrens out of Christian wedlock".
In the later we trust a child with a choice, and an important one with potential psychological and medical implications. However, we are considering the same children incapable of saying no to a smiling jarhead? In my mind exposure to military options is a critical function of No Child Left Behind. Heck, college, vocational training and/or menial labor aren't for everyone and the military is a reasonable option. Plus, I don't want to do it!
I make a lot of noise about the intellectual inconsistencies of the right and its only reasonable to point this out as well. Of course, they have the opposite problem, they think kids don't have the ability to make a pregnancy decision but they certainly can sign up to get their ass shot off in a place they can't find on a map. However, I expect that from them.
Let's use our heads. The minute we stop analyzing our own rhetoric we establish dangerous precedents and poor examples.
posted by Schmootzie @ 3:59 AM
4 Comments:
The lefties also have to get their heads out of their collective ass with regard to;
Gun control- they don’t understand guns, but Rosie ODonnell says they are bad, so they have adopted the same policy towards them as the GOP has towards a women’s right to choose; amerikkkans are too stupid to understand these things, we must protect them from themselves with prohibition.
Animal rights- I am all for putting an end to jamming mascara into Curious George’s eyes, but hunting and fishing provide an environmentally sound method of harvesting protein from our lands, while tying participants to it. Without anglers and hunters, most of the species the antis would like to coddle and pet would not have been brought back from the brink of extinction (how much revenue is generated by petting the bunny?). Many of these species; (whitetails, turkeys, waterfowl) were forced to the brink by farming. Vegetables come from farms, you dirty hippies.
GMO’s- Scmootzie, you have capably addressed this before; but Mr. twirling Phish fan thinks that the third world countries that produced his hacky sack, wool socks and flip flops need to be protected from corn which can grow in saline soils.
Freedom OF choice people, not freedom FROM choice
Excellent fodder for futher extrapolation.
I disagree in that I would like to jam mascara into Curious George's eyes. That bastard and Paddington the bear were catalysts of my distain for talking animals as a child.
Rock over London, rock on Wisconsin.
Arby's different is good.
You know, if you and I are the only people who are going to comment, then perhaps it would be easier just to talk on the phone.
... but then the message couldn't be read by 100,000 blog-surfing, Indonesian-dance-club teens.
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