{"id":3869,"date":"2011-01-14T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/01\/liberal-dreams-and-stranger-things-2.html"},"modified":"2011-01-14T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T18:50:00","slug":"liberal-dreams-and-stranger-things-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/01\/liberal-dreams-and-stranger-things-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Liberal dreams and stranger things"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>So a new panel, Military Leadership Diversity Commission, has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110114\/ap_on_re_us\/us_women_in_combat\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">recommended that women be allowed to be in combat units<\/a>.\u00a0 That means it will happen.\u00a0 Is that good for our military?\u00a0 For our country?\u00a0 Could it spell disaster and horrible death for the women?\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 In Liberal-speak, equality of opportunity for minorities and right to do what I want is more important that anything.\u00a0 If we lose wars \u2013 which Americans are doing now better than anyone \u2013 so be it.\u00a0 What matters is this or that special interest group getting what it wants, all other considerations be damned.\u00a0 The fact that the Pentagon will look into it is more or less wasting of time.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a new panel, Military Leadership Diversity Commission, has recommended that women be allowed to be in combat units.\u00a0 That means it will happen.\u00a0 Is that good for our military?\u00a0 For our country?\u00a0 Could it spell disaster and horrible death for the women?\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 In Liberal-speak, equality of opportunity for minorities and right to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Liberal dreams and stranger things<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So a new panel, Military Leadership Diversity Commission, has recommended that women be allowed to be in combat units.&nbsp; 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