So What Can't A Woman Do?

Women have made great strides in the world and in America over the past 50 years.

We now have women as U S Army Rangers!

We now have women as in Naval Special Warfare Combat Craft SWCC crew.

We now have women in the U S Army Special Forces!

We now have women that are fighter and bomber pilots in the Air Force, Navy, and Marines!

We now have women in the pipeline to become Navy Seals, and Air Force Combat Controllers!

We have women doctors, lawyers, dentists, politicians, airline pilots, cruise ship captains, and every other civilian and military job that there is.

SO WHAT CAN'T A WOMAN DO?  She's not in control of her own body.  She can't decide if she wants to end an unwanted pregnancy.  A MAN has to do that, and he's not qualified.  

In fact, no MAN, politician or judge, should be allowed to control a woman's choice of what she wants to do with her own body.

Does anyone else think this has gone too far?  

Until the government passes laws that control what a man can do with his reproductive organs, they have no right to control a woman's right to choose what happens to hers.

Men, in a majority vote on the Supreme Court, decided that settled law of more than 50 years could be overturned.  Men placed on the court by a man with no moral compass.  Now we have two sets of standards regarding women's right to choose, depending on what party controls your state government.  The red right states that wants to ban all abortion regardless, and the blue left states that wants to allow the woman the right to choose and believe that decision is between the woman, her physician and her god.  

I subscribe to the latter and find the attitudes of the right highly offensive. 

Now is the time to vote for candidates who support women's rights, equal rights for all.  Send a message to Richmond and Washington in 2024.

  

Requiem for a Little Newspaper Giant!

 It is impossible to state what a devastation loss the closing of the News & Record will be to Halifax County.   To have two newspapers in such a small market is almost unheard of and with the rise of digital media, it saddens but does not shock me to see one close.

While my desire would have been to see the right-wing, poorly written, always bad news, Gazette-Virginian be the one to go, I guess it only stands to reason that the red paper would survive in a red county.

There has never been two small community papers so different in their content and style.  The News & Record always featured the positive news and the facts, while the G-V peddled bad news, often outright lies in it editorial and letters sections, and published arrest columns, and real estate transfer as if it was news.  

Tom McLaughlin is a editorial genius and could have made a mark in journalism anywhere in the country, but chose to come home after college.  He is one of only two professional journalist in Halifax County, the other being Mike Doan.  The G-V has no relevant editorial commentary at all unless you count the personal story telling of Ms. Elliott as editorials.

I subscribed to both papers always.  I read the News & Record for the facts, good news, and editorial quality.  I read the G-V to keep up with the conspiracy theorist crazies like Dan Shaw and Jeff Oaks, letters that most paper wouldn't publish.  

I'm glad that Tom will have a break to recharge and move on to bigger things while continuing the sister paper.  The loss of his powerful voice for the Democrats and liberal thinkers in Halifax County will hurt our cause, but will not stop us from pushing for better representation in Halifax, Richmond, and Washington.

Going To Heaven!

Just recently there was a statement made that only through Jesus Christ can you go to heaven.

While this may be a belief of the Christian faith, what about all the others religions out there?  Certainly many of the roughly 4,000 religions throughout the world don't believe there is a heaven.

In reality, many religions believe in heaven.

• To the Abrahamic faiths, heaven is the afterlife realm where good actions are rewarded for eternity. These faiths include Christianity, Islam, and some schools of Judaism, as well as Zoroastrianism.
• Buddhism: Buddhists believe in reincarnation with heaven the wait point until reincarnation occurs..
• Shinto: Ame (heaven) is a lofty, sacred world, the home of the amatsukami or Heavenly Gods.
• Hinduism: Svarga is the plane between mortals and heaven.
• Jainism: Jainism offers an elaborate cosmology, including heavenly beings/devas.

In some religions, heaven is the final destination for those who have lived a good life. In others, it is a temporary home between rebirths. In still others, heaven is a state of being that people can aspire to experience during this life.

I believe that every person is allowed to believe in their God, whoever it may be, and follow the teaching of their God to their place of sanctuary at the end of their life.  None of them are wrong, just different.  

In the words of the great British comedian Dave Allen, "My your God go with You".

Events in Halifax County, VA Facebook Page!

Apparently this page is someone's idea of a joke.  This Facebook page has nothing to do with Events in Halifax County, VA.  It does have a lot of junk posted on it that borders on the absurd.

There are also scams and lies within it posts, and lots of crazy and stupid stuff from everywhere except Halifax County, VA.  

According to the page, it has 10,400 members and the admin person, Nitty Wilson, works at Q & N Imports in Union City, NJ, and has never posted anything to this page.

Not sure I'd respond to or post anything to the page in case I'm being used for some nefarious purpose.