{"id":65940,"date":"2016-02-27T10:57:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T15:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=65940"},"modified":"2016-02-27T10:57:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T15:57:22","slug":"a-confederate-yankee-no-war-on-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=65940","title":{"rendered":"A Confederate Yankee: No War on Women?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bill Mayers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So the Pentagon has come out suggesting women should be required to register for the draft, and the media went into a frenzy. Women in the military? Horrors!<\/p>\n

Well, let’s not be hasty, little Hobbits.\u00a0 Just to name a few: Sharon and her sisters Lois and Joyce.\u00a0 Our daughters Allison and Leslie. Carol and our daughter-in-law Angie.\u00a0 That’s seven I know very well.\u00a0 All seven served honorably and well.\u00a0 Three of them put in twenty years<\/span><\/span> or more.\u00a0 So yes, you “nasssty little Hobbitses”\u00a0 in the media – women gots no problem with military service. All seven have told me they’d have no problem with their daughters having to register.<\/p>\n

But of course, on the strange planet Republicans come from, why, that just can’t be! Women in the service, especially in combat? A recipe for disaster, to quote more than one of the creatures vying for the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n

Gosh, y’all, women have been in combat in America’s military for years now. Does the name Tammy Duckworth mean anything to our readers? There has been a female admiral in charge of an American battle fleet conducting combat operations. Women have successfully challenged the Army’s Ranger school. Women routinely fly warplanes off and back onto carriers at sea. Women maneuver our most fearsome armor and manhandle our heaviest artillery pieces in combat.<\/p>\n

In short, ain’t no military tasks women are not up to.\u00a0 So what’s the Republican problem? Oh, that’s right: those wooden heads are trapped in the past: women belong in the home, barefoot and pregnant.And to ensure they don’t have the capacity to resist, they’ll cut funds for health care for women and children, veterans and the disabled.\u00a0 Cut funds for schools while they’re at it.\u00a0 And then stand there and lie<\/p>\n

And to ensure they don’t have the capacity to resist, they’ll cut funds for health care for women and children, veterans and the disabled. Cut funds for schools while they’re at it. And then stand there and lie through their teeth saying “Ain’t no war on women!”\u00a0 Sure, and they do everything they can to put women down, even to the extent of ignoring Constitutional law.<\/p>\n

No war on women?\u00a0 Right, and the sun didn’t rise this morning.<\/p>\n

William D. \u201cBill\u201d Mayers RT, RN, of Sullivan is a retired senior U.S. Army Corpsman. A certified healthcare professional since 1964, he holds two professional licenses, including that of Registered Professional Nurse licensed in New York, Alaska, <\/em>Virginia and Louisiana. He has four children, two stepchildren, three grandchildren and is an avid analyst of current events.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the Pentagon has come out suggesting women should be required to register for the draft, and the media went into a frenzy. Women in the military? Horrors! Well, let’s not be hasty, little Hobbits.\u00a0 Just to name a few: Sharon and her sisters Lois and Joyce.\u00a0 Our daughters Allison and Leslie. Carol and our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}