Tuesday Looney Tunes – pot, draft, vocab, racism

There is just too much to process – Heinlein’s “Crazy Years” are in full force.

In the “If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em” category a supposed conservative, Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is proposing ending testing recruits for pot.

While 23 states allow marijuana for recreational use and 38 allow it for medical use, the drug remains illegal at the federal level, and past use is still technically disqualifying for military service.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., has filed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, that would bar the military services from making someone take a test for cannabis as a condition of enlisting or commissioning.

Between 2018 and 2022, the Army granted waivers to more than 3,300 recruits who failed a drug test or admitted past drug use, while the Navy has given out 1,375 waivers over the last three years, according to data obtained by The New York Times.

Military.com I

Says it’s to help recruiting. Hell, why not just propose making pot legal nationwide? Honestly, its ill effects are on a par with booze, right?  Note this is just a proposed amendment to the NDAA, so may not and probably will never escape committee.

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And moving to the “Equal Pay for Equal Work” category,  Tim Burchett (R, TN) is proposing that trans men, meaning those folks born with uteri and “labia, inner and outer” (another movie quote) be required to register for the draft.

“If they want to be treated like men, then they need to do what other men do and register for the Selective Service and get called up like everybody else,” Burchett said in a statement to Military.com.

Military.com II

Oh, what the heck – just register them ALL. Men, women, confused – registration is a paper shuffle. Yeah, I know a lot of you guys are thinking “Starship Troopers” shower scene – as we learned in Germany when summer hit and the nudists and sun-worshipers were out in the woods – you expect and hope for the local biergarten waitress, but what you’re gonna get is the fat burgomeister and his ugly wife.

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And into the “Too Woke For Words” group – the city of Portland (the Left Coast one) is telling city staff to avoid polarizing terms like “women” “Caucasian” or “citizen”.

The guide suggested removing femininity from terms commonly used for women, including replacing “pregnant women” with “pregnant people” to be inclusive of those “who have this experience [pregnancy] but do not identify as women.”

Pregnant but identify as a man? Think they already handled eliminating the femininity there. “Chest feeding” instead of  breast feeding? Lemme know how latching on elsewhere from a breast works.

And “Caucasian”? I for one agree with that one – let’s just go back to “white”. For example, I’m a British Isles/German mix – no family anywhere NEAR the Caucasus.  Lotta heavy drinkers in my countries, but Caucasians? Hell, no. All the time spent learning to call me a Caucasian reminds me of the Harry Truman story in which a society dame, horrified by Harry’s use of the word “manure”, asked Bess Truman if he couldn’t use something else? to which Bess replied “It took me thirty years to GET him to use that word.”

But the general principle of dehumanizing the language – just to throw in another movie, all this reminds me of the pablum spoken by the citizens of Greater San Angeles.

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Closing with the “it’s Only Racist If You Do It” group –  Reggie Jones-Sawyer, the Democratic chair of the California Assembly’s Public Safety Committee, has proposed a bill to mandate racism in sentencing.

“It is the intent of the Legislature to rectify the racial bias that has historically permeated our criminal justice system as documented by the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans,” the proposed new section to the Penal Code reads. “Whenever the court has discretion to determine the appropriate sentence according to relevant statutes and the sentencing rules of the Judicial Council, the court presiding over a criminal matter shall consider the disparate impact on historically disenfranchised and system-impacted populations.”

Fox via Yahoo

So if you are from a ‘challenged’ group you can get a lighter sentence. Unconstitutional? Who cares – we’re making things RIGHT, right? I’m sure when someone’s kid is mowed down by yet another Cali gangbanger who gets a suspended sentence “since he is black/Mexican/gay/etc.” the victim’s parents will be proud to be part of the reparations process.

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