Planned Parenthood or Eugenics are Alive and Well

As soon as people who don't own guns want me to give mine up and Pacifists stop offering opinions on war fighting.

Coach - Mercenary - Farmer Podcast Episode 8

Non-aggression is one of the cornerstones of libertarianism/anarchism, so calling for state intervention in any form is something I do my best to avoid. Abortion, the way I see it anyhow, as a form of birth control is simply barbaric. Freedom of choice does not equate to freedom from responsibility. 

The free market solution would involve private organizations offering cash for injectable Norprolac (for instance) birth control, waiting until a certain age to have your first child, and free/reduced cost permanent (vasectomy) options to give folks options other than abortion. The slippery slope is government involvement, and nefarious actors pursuing less than noble goals.

Do I think the state should be involved in any of this? No, I really don’t. We each have to be accountable for our own decisions and the repercussions of those decisions. Be it unprotected sex, or bacon to excess. A law stating slavery is legal, doesn’t it make it just, nor does a law banning segregation erase racism.

I’m not a religious man in my old age, but what little belief I still have guides me to think that we’ll each have to make an account of our actions. I won’t have to answer for anyone else’s actions (that I couldn’t have directly prevented – think duty to help a jumper on a bridge) and it’s not my place to judge/administer justice others for their past actions. It’s a lot lighter load walking around only trying to live my life, instead of trying to make those around me conform to my will as well.

Do I think the father should have input on the right of the mother to abort? Yes, if for no other reason than to act as counterbalance to offset the male automatically being on the hook for child support if she decides to carry the child to birth regardless of the father’s wishes. No one ever talks about this facet.

I find it morally reprehensible that folks who find abortion morally evil are forced, at the barrel of a gun, to support it in the form of Planned Parenthood. (For the record, I find it just as reprehensible as bureaucrats who won’t issue a piece of paper to a gay couple while citing religion.) I also concede the fact that the mother may really know that bringing a child into the world holds only suffering and misery for that child. All that hot mess said, abortion is currently legal, yet the pro-life crowd is so splintered that they can't craft a coherent message that as birth control you're killing a viable person, here are alternatives...

All of that aside, I find eugenics, and eugenicists for that matter, to be evil incarnate, so in the interest of disclosure it taints my perception of Planned Parenthood. To destroy human life based on ethnicity, gender, or lack of perfection is beyond my comprehension.  When you look at the demographics of who Planned Parenthood serves, it’s hard to make the argument that Planned Parenthood isn’t still trying to limit the number of “undesirables” being born.

Trying to be coldly logical about it there is no difference in aborting a viable fetus at some arbitrary week, than there is in committing infanticide (think Spartans here) for finding a post birth defect or inconvenience of another mouth to feed. Regardless of the reason, the resulting death is the same. Putting a pair of scissors through a brain stem in the first trimester or 40^th trimester (shameless South Park reference) is the same action and result regardless of the individual justification.

I love my Catholic and Mormon friends who look at birth control as murder, but in my old age I think that contraceptive education and communicating to our children the wisdom and reward of waiting until marriage for sex should go hand in hand. I also don’t understand why sex is dirty if you’re not married, but suddenly fantastically awesome if you’re married… I’ve had Mormon dude friends that were orges to their wife talk about the bedroom and just been embarrassed for them versus my hippie friends who’re great partners lacking a piece of paper. I’d much rather my kids have the latter than the former.  I also see a failure of people of faith to offer redemption, love, and care of ladies who have an unplanned pregnancy. The shaming of pregnant unwed mothers in most mainstream churches has to contribute to at least a few abortions each year…

The Great Caliber Debate - What I Rock and Why

Hits a little too close to home...

Coach - Mercenary - Farmer Podcast Episode 7 - Thoughts on the Caliber War

Before my first all expenses paid trip to the Middle East, I didn't own a gun. Seeing a solidly second world country descend into a all out civil war changed my views. In hindsight, my only force projection response to violence would have been my little league baseball bat. Not the best choice in hindsight. 

My first purchase after getting home was a .40 caliber Glock, law enforcement trade in. Solid choice and my thinking at the time was .40 has to be better than 9 mm, it has a heavier bullet and is faster down the pipe (feet per second). After going to a handgun class and shooting from the hip, I realized that the .40 wasn't pleasant to shoot, and started looking at the 9 mm round.

I picked up an 870 shotgun, and a 30-06 Savage rifle. The shotgun was a solid choice, and the Savage was as good a value, but I don't know if I would buy the same rifle again. More on that later.

We'd been loaned to the Army, and sent with battered magazines and shot out range guns, so out of ignorance, I thought all ARs jammed all the time, I had soured on the AR platform. I bought an SKS, and later an AK and they were, and are, fun to shoot.

As I got more into shooting, I learned what worked for me, versus what other folks told me was best. I went to a range and rented a 9mm Springfield XD, a Glock 17, and a Taurus 1911 in .45. I went in thinking the XD would be the gun for me. It just didn't point well for me. The 1911 pointed (think hit where I was pointing) extremely well, but held only 8 rounds if you carry one in the pipe. The Glock was the sweet spot in between for me. Nothing sexy about it, it's a Volkswagen bug, 

I bought a Ruger 10/22 along the way, but have since gone to the Smith & Wesson 15/22. It's about double the cost of a Ruger, but the muscle memory advantages of running a .22 platform set up identical to all of my ARs. When .22 ammo was plentiful I was buying a box of 500 every payday. Not a bad investment. When .22 ammo disappeared I just transitioned to 12 gauge, 5.56, and 9 mm. Someday, it'll be readily available again on the shelves, right? Right?

Here's where I'm at, I've standardized to 12 gauge in the shotgun platform, 9 mm Glock model 17 (soon to add a 23 for concealed carry), a Kel Tec Sub 2000 carbine that uses my existing Glock mags, my AR platforms are all set up with the B.A.D. Lever from Magpul and BCM Gunfighter Charging Handle these two items allow you to take out two steps out of the manual of arms for clearing misfeeds and malfunctions. It took a few hundred rounds to get the muscle memory changed, but I can't imagine going back now.

The Aught Six is still my deer rifle, but a long range precision rifle is probably going to be in my future, in the .260 flavor, along with a suppressor in .30 cal that can be used on multiple platforms.

Thanks again for reading and listening. As always your comments are welcome.  

Thoughts on Islam

Saudi Arabian Bikini Team

Coach - Mercenary - Farmer Podcast Episode 6 - Thoughts on Islam

So this podcast was recorded about a month before the attacks in Paris, but I don't think it would have changed my thoughts much. 

Islam is simply incompatible with Western Civilization. Do most Muslims in the West live Islam as prescribed in the Koran? No, or course not, but we need look no further than our ally in Saudi Arabia, the heart of Islam, to see how "true" Islam is to be lived. The problem with Islam is that there's no "Reforming" as we have with Christianity and Judaism, due to specific guidance left by Muhammad in the Koran. Anyone who tells you different is either ignorant or lying. Here's a great article from The Atlantic magazine for further reading: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/

I love women, and our society, i.e. Western Civilization, is greater when we allow women to compete in and enrich the market. Islam deems all women property, either of their father or their husband. Chasity is great, but worthless if forced through servitude. Education in our country is more and more a female priority, as shown by most college campuses in America are now majority female.

For my friends on the Left, if you want to talk about the "War on Women" or  "Rape Culture" just remember any woman out in public that is raped is the cause of the rape in Islamic culture. Her options for justice are to either marry her rapist, be stoned by the righteous in her community, or suffer an honor killing at the hands of her family. Religion of Peace indeed.

Sharia Law and the Constitution that governs our Republic are incompatible, and one or the other must be recognized as supreme. For Muslims, to choose any form of government over Sharia is blasphemous. The thing we've had going for us for a long time is that most folks want similar things, be they Jewish, Agnostic, Christian, Buddhist, Muslim etc. is that they want to make a living, raise their families, and die a peaceful death in their old age. 

Sadly, until the West comes to understand that Islam is at war with it, we won't be able to adequately face the threat it poses.

We're From the Government and We're Here to Help

Coach - Mercenary - Farmer Podcast Episode 5 - Breaking Bad Part I

Breaking Bad - Podcast Episode II

Since PCSing to Texas I've been driving back and forth to Texas to visit friends and family the drive takes me through New Mexico. It truly is a study in contrasts. One of the most beautifully haunting places I've ever been to. The natural beauty is as pretty as any place in the west, but this podcast is about the poverty on the Bureau of Indian Affairs ran Reservations.

As always, please feel free to leave your thoughts below.

Thanks for listening. 

Warrior Culture

Coach - Mercenary - Farmer Podcast Episode 4 - Embracing a Warrior Culture

A small part of my life involved me being loaned to the US Army. It was an experience that has shaped my world view, gave me an undying respect for the job asked of  Marines and Soldiers, and a healthy distrust of the Military-Industrial complex of which I'm a very small cog, in a very large wheel. 

The most important thing I learned from my time with Big Green was how important, and how hard, it is to instill a Warrior Culture internally and in the whole of the Profession of Arms. It's a mindset that has to be honed, humbled, and embraced in the style of the Warrior Monk. Think Renaissance Man meets Professional Soldier.

Today's episode touches briefly on my thoughts on Warrior Culture.

As always, intelligent comments are desperately wanted.

Thanks.

  

How to Become a College Basketball (or any sport for that matter).

Coach - Mercenary - Farmer Podcast Episode 3 - How to Become a College Coach

A very good portion of my life involved basketball. I remember my friend and Head Coach at The College of Idaho once saying that she didn't understand how her friends divided their year without pre-season, season, post season, recruiting, graduation, summer, then back to pre-season. 

Basketball will always hold a big piece of my heart. I miss the kids, the gym, the weight room, the process. I frequently tell my wife that when I retire, I'll probably go back to coaching.

The episode today should give you a starting point if you've ever thought about how the path goes.

Feel free to ask questions in the comments.

Thanks for stopping by.

Why I Don't Believe in Conspiracies.

Coach - Mercenary - Farmer Podcast Episode 2 - Why I Don't Believe in Conspiracies

After being in military in various capacities from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico along with a couple of all expenses paid trips to sunny beach locales (never could quite find the actual coastline, but that's for another post) I have seen the inner workings of Big Army and Big Air Force. On a large scale neither is capable of pulling off a large picnic without a metric crap ton of mistakes, much less pull of the perfect crime.

Click on the link above. It's kind of temperamental. Sometimes it'll autoplay, other times you'll have to download it first.

Thanks for reading.

Feedback is appreciated.

Mission Statement Blog and Podcast

Coach - Mercenary - Farmer Podcast Episode 1 Mission Statement

Hey thanks for stopping by. This blog is going to be about my thoughts on things that interest me. Permaculture, politics, the national debt, raising Belted Galloway cattle, homesteading, preparedness, American Culture, and guns just to name a few.

I hope to have some intelligent thought provoking conversation. Feel free to comment, tell me where you agree and where you think I'm wrong (and why).

I'm a soon to be 40 year old man, married to the most beautiful girl from the Payette High School class of 1994. Proud parent to her two red headed daughters. We own a little 11 acre homestead in North Central Texas that we're trying to improve using Holistic Management, Permaculture, and common sense. I spent 8 seasons as a college basketball coach, and just shy of 14 years on Uncle Sugar's payroll, and hope the third part of my life after retirement will be that of a content hippie, thus the name of the Podcast. Coach - Mercenary - Hippie.

If you choose to follow this blog/podcast you'll see my opinions on life and the lessons learned here on the homestead. The first 40 to 100 or so episodes will be kind of rough on the audio, since they're recorded in my car. If I ever get enough listeners I'll invest in a better recording set-up.

Thanks for stopping by.