Monday, November 11, 2024
The wedding ring and the election
The wedding ring and the election: The projected Roe wave, a pro-abortion tsunami of angry women, did not happen. Yes, there are angry liberal women among us but they did not change the election one way or another.
In the end, it was the battle of married vs unmarried women….
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The wedding ring and the election - American Thinker https://t.co/95qrPjpG8w
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) November 11, 2024
The projected Roe wave, a pro-abortion tsunami of angry women, did not happen. Yes, there are angry liberal women among us but they did not change the election one way or another.
In the end, it was the battle of married vs unmarried women. Let’s check it out:
But while the gap between men and women actually shrank this year, another gap widened. In 2020, married voters narrowly chose President Donald Trump by a 7-point, 53% to 46% margin. This year that margin grew to 13 points at 56% to 43%.
For all the talk of Trump’s problem with women, Trump actually won married women by three points, 51 to 48. To repeat, Trump won a majority of not just married white women, but a majority of all married women.
Trump also handily won married men 60-38 and he even eked out a victory among unmarried men 49-47. Where Trump got crushed was among unmarried women, who chose Harris (who didn’t get married until age 50, by the way) by a 60-38 margin.
Well cue Dean Martin’s “Chapel in the Moonlight.”
This marriage gap is going to be a bigger issue as we learn that more and more women will be single and childless in the future. Don’t get me wrong, because I respect women’s choices. Nevertheless, married and unmarried women will make different decisions, from paying taxes to building schools to being concerned about their sons going to war.
Last, but not least, we saw another “miss” from the talking heads. They told us that everything was abortion for women. Well, it wasn’t, and it was a wedding ring that drove the vote.
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We remember George Patton (1885-1945)
Am I the only one who finds this historical fact interesting? There is something very interesting about this story.
We remember George Patton, one of the great military men in US history. He was born in San Gabriel, California on this day in 1885. Coincidentally, we remember this day as Veterans Day, or the day to recall those who served.
During WWII, Patton led the Allies to victory in the invasion of Sicily, and was instrumental to the liberation of Germany from the Nazis.
He died on December 21, 1945 in Heidelberg, Germany.
In 1970, a great movie came out about ‘Patton”. Just recently, Bill O’Reilly wrote about “Killing Patton“.
During WWII, Patton led the Allies to victory in the invasion of Sicily, and was instrumental to the liberation of Germany from the Nazis.
He died on December 21, 1945 in Heidelberg, Germany.
In 1970, a great movie came out about ‘Patton”. Just recently, Bill O’Reilly wrote about “Killing Patton“.
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Baseball and Veterans Day!
The Gods of baseball rekindled my love for baseball. I got a bit soured a few months ago when a weak commissioner couldn’t stand up to the wokes. He should have told the wokes to go to an “expletive deleted” place or he’d have Bob Feller threw a fastball at their neck. Trust me. A Bob Feller inside pitch is probably scarier than to hear that there is a drone with a missile looking for you.
In the end, the Gods of Baseball put the commissioner in his place and we can enjoy the game we love. As a kid, I grew up playing baseball in Cuba. My love affair got stronger when we came here and go to play ball in the US. A few weeks ago, we all became Braves fans just to see Atlanta get the trophy and stick it in the eyes of the wokish commissioner.
Baseball is back and so is its rich history to recall on this day that we remember the men and women who wore the uniform of the US.
Bob Feller, the Hall of Fame pitcher, died in 2010. He was one of many professional athletes who served in World War II. We remember Feller, what he accomplished on the field, and his sense of patriotism:
Just days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Feller put aside his 3-C draft deferment status and enlisted in the US Navy. With this selfless act, he gave up nearly four seasons of baseball in the prime of his career. But Feller had no regrets.
“I'm proud of that decision to enlist,” Feller said. “It was important to serve your country. I didn't worry about losing my baseball career. We needed to win the war. I wanted to do my part.”
At the conclusion of the war, Feller returned to the game and picked up right where he left off, averaging more than 19 wins a season over the next six years. Bobby Doerr recalled: “Bob was just a regular, solid person. He was the same guy, all the time. He gave his opinions and he said what he thought. He didn’t hedge around anything. He was one of the top pitchers I saw in my time. He was timed at 100 miles per hour and he had a real good curve ball. You had to always be alert with him. He was a real competitor.”
At the time of his passing on Dec. 15, 2010, Feller had been a Hall of Famer for more years than anyone in history – having earned election in 1962.
Dennis Eckersley summed it up best when he said: “Bob was truly a great American and a great ambassador for the game of baseball.”
Like so many of you, I say “thanks” to all of the veterans on Veterans Day. It is the day that we salute the millions of fellow citizens who serve or served in the US Armed Forces.
It is a day to salute and say thanks. It is also a good day to remember who has fought and continues to fight, to defend our way of life.
Happy Veterans Day!
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Happy Veterans' Day and remembering the vets from World War I
Today, we remember every man and woman who has worn the military uniform, from the Revolutionary War to Iraq.
We should pay special attention this year to the few remaining members who served in World War I.
There are very few left, as you can see in this post today:
"Photographer David DeJonge plans to capture a vanishing bit of history Tuesday on a trip to Arlington National Cemetery near Washington.
There he hopes to photograph 107-year-old Frank Buckles -- one of the few men still alive who fought in World War I. Buckles will lay a wreath at the grave of Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, who led U.S. forces in Europe in World War I." (A Race to Honor World War I Vets)
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Remembering a veteran who just passed away
We've done our share of political posts and criticism of today's political class.
Let's remember the passing of a hero on Veterans Day. We are losing too many of these WW2 veterans. Let's not forget their heroism.
We learned that John Hawk, an Army sergeant in World War II who was awarded the Medal of Honor died. He was 89.
This is his from The NY Times obituary:
"Two months after the Allies landed in Normandy in the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, they trapped thousands of retreating Germans near the town of Falaise, some 20 miles south of Caen, in what became known as the Falaise Pocket.
Sergeant Hawk, a 20-year-old squad leader in a 90th Infantry Division rifle company, was dug in with his men at the edge of an apple orchard outside Chambois, near Falaise, when German infantrymen, supported by tanks, staged a dawn attack on Aug. 20.
"My God, the sky was falling down, the earth was blowing up, and if ever there was a hell on earth, this was it," he told The Boston Globe in 1995. "I thought, honest to God, I won't survive. My philosophy was, they may get me, but I ain't gonna make it easy. It was absolute carnage: animals, people, equipment, an incomprehensible slaughterhouse."
Sergeant Hawk rallied his men to keep the Germans from escaping the Falaise Pocket. His squad's machine-gun fire sent several German tanks retreating while two American tank destroyers -- armored vehicles with big guns designed specifically to wipe out enemy tanks -- were called in.
But the tank destroyers could not spot the German tanks, which were in a wooded area. So Sergeant Hawk, though wounded in the thigh, climbed alone to an elevated spot in the orchard where he could see them.
He pinpointed the German tank positions for the American tank destroyers, first shouting firing directions to their crews and then, when the roar of battle made it impossible for him to be heard, resorting to hand signals, becoming a "human aiming stake," in the words of the Medal of Honor citation.
The tank destroyers, whistling gunfire over Sergeant Hawk's head while the German armor fired from the opposite direction, wiped out two German tanks and sent others fleeing, leading to a mass surrender.
Sergeant Hawk, darting from one spot to another in that orchard, escaped being hit a second time that day, but he was wounded three more times during the war. On June 21, 1945, he received the Medal of Honor from President Harry S. Truman for, as the citation put it, his role in "crushing two desperate attempts of the enemy to escape from the Falaise Pocket and for taking more than 500 prisoners."
It's amazing to me how men of humble origins rose to the occasion and served the country with distinction.This is why their stories must be repeated for the new generations to hear and apprecaite.
RIP Sergeant Hawk. Thanks for your service.
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Happy Veterans Day
We take a minute and salute the veterans Veterans' Day.
The history of Veterans Day is as follows:
"Veterans Day, formerly known as Armistice Day, was originally set as a U.S. legal holiday to honor the end of World War I, which officially took place on November 11, 1918. In legislation that was passed in 1938, November 11 was "dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be hereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day.'"
As such, this new legal holiday honored World War I veterans.
In 1954, after having been through both World War II and the Korean War, the 83rd U.S. Congress -- at the urging of the veterans service organizations -- amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word "Armistice" and inserting the word "Veterans."
With the approval of this legislation on June 1, 1954, Nov. 11 became a day to honor American veterans of all wars."It's a special day to salute a veterans and say "thanks"! And we remember the "citizen soldiers":
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