A very special "Missing Man formation" post.

At this hour, word has reached me that Senator John Sidney McCain III has passed away. He was 81.
Captain McCain was one of my State's Senators. I did not know him except by reputation. He was a navy aviator with some 22 sorties "Downtown" in Vietnam. For those who don't know, that means he flew an A4 attack fighter into the most concentrated barrage of anti-aircraft fire ever seen. He did so in an unarmored aircraft, with nothing protecting him but speed and maneuverability. One time, those were not enough, and then-Lieutenant-Commander McCain's fighter was knocked out of the sky. LtCdr McCain bailed out, breaking his arm in the process, coming to rest in a lake. He was almost immediately taken prisoner, and then his second act of Heroism took place. Lieutenant-Commander McCain was the son of Admiral John Sidney McCain II, and the North Vietnamese knew they had captured a valuable prisoner. However, this did not stop them from beating and torturing their prisoner, especially after he refused early release, saying he would stay with the other officers. When he was finally released on March 14, 1973. He came home partially disabled. Unable to raise his arms over his head, he had to have someone else comb his hair. From this, he went on to win a seat in the Congress of the United States, and later he would win the Senate seat formerly occupied by Barry Goldwater. His record of Achievements in the Senate are many, including many bipartisan efforts to enact legislation that would help out the average American. Among his last worthy deeds was his "No" vote on the bill which would have killed the Affordable Care Act, which saved some 13 million Americans from being thrown off health insurance, and a speech in the well of the Senate where he implored his fellow Senators to return to "Regular Order", wherein things got done in a bipartisan fashion, under the normal rules of the Senate.
I did not personally agree with John McCain on political issues. Many of the things he supported I believed were completely wrong. However, I write here today to commend John Sidney McCain III, Captain USN (Rtd). He was a man of courage and convictions, and a real American Hero.
My heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.

Sincerely, DLC

Why "not all men" is not a valid argument :

Why "not all men" is not a valid argument : 

Because some 16% of women will be forcibly raped at some point during their lifetime, and too many men are indifferent or in denial of the facts.  The number I stated above comes out of statistics kept by RAINN https://www.rainn.org/about-rainn  indicate that over their lifetime, one in six (16%) of women will experience an attempted or successful forcible rape.
The FBI uniform crime report says that  some 67345 women were raped in 2012, while only some 12100 men. for those who can't count well, that's some 5.5 women raped for every 1 man.
Consider also that not as many people report being raped out of shame, fear or embarrassment, and you'll see that we have a real problem here. 
There are all too many sexual predators out there, and the overwhelming percentage of them are men.