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Topics => Military News/Veterans => Topic started by: LadyVirginia on May 11, 2011, 09:18:34 AM
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http://www.wowo.com/ArticleDisplay/tabid/74/ArticleId/4813/Navy-Nixes-Same-Sex-Unions-Plan.aspx (http://www.wowo.com/ArticleDisplay/tabid/74/ArticleId/4813/Navy-Nixes-Same-Sex-Unions-Plan.aspx)
Under pressure from more than five dozen House lawmakers, the Navy late Tuesday abruptly reversed its decision that would have allowed chaplains to perform same-sex unions if the Pentagon decides to recognize openly gay military service later this year.
In a one-sentence memo obtained by The Associated Press, Rear Adm. Mark Tidd, chief of Navy chaplains, said his earlier decision has been "suspended until further notice pending additional legal and policy review and interdepartmental coordination."
The Navy said its lawyers wanted to do a more thorough review of the legal decision that allowed Navy chaplains to receive training to perform civil unions on military bases, but only in states where gay marriage is legal.
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Is there any way to fit "walking the plank" into the ceremony ?
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Heh.
Seriously though, I saw this idea floated the other day and did not post it as I knew there would be a quick and loud reaction...
I'm glad this got nixed, but the proponents of deviancy will keep trying.
We need to keep knocking 'em back.
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Duh! ::exitstageleft::
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While the next wave of violence was being birthed in caverns and huts, the American military establishment was busy debating how to comply with the political objective of integrating gays into the military. No satirist could have come up with a more absurd scenario in wartime. But life always outdoes the satirist, if he waits around long enough. One day those solemn discussions may go down with Caligula's horse in the Senate as moments of blinding insanity by the leaders of a great power come completely untethered from reality. They are damning because they represent a terrible disassociation from the military as a means of defending the society, to the military as a representative of the ideals of society's political representatives.
To the politicians, the military must represent their ideals. And so the military has become the peace corps, the tolerance corps and eventually nothing but a series of defense contracts for Green energy and Global Warming defense. Give this bunch in charge another few years and the key national security objective will be defined as fighting Global Warming and the army will be recruiting environmentalists to promote sustainable living in Afghanistan. The left has never understood why we needed to fight terrorism at all, instead of its root causes, such as globalism, global warming and other things that begin with 'G'. It is lunacy, but so was the Bush Administration's deeply held belief that the only thing wrong with the Muslim world was a lack of voting booths.
These are two middle paragraphs; what's written before and after (http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011/03/plot-to-destroy-us-military.html) is worth reading. (Site takes a minute to load the columns.)
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To avoid casualties, we have become cleverer weaponsmiths, devising ways to avoid facing that bullet. But that cleverness often seems like cowardice. To avoid suicide bombers, Israel built up walls and border defenses. And then the terrorists began to shoot rockets over the fences. So Israel built and deployed, 'Iron Dome' a counter-rocket system. And after all this effort, Israel is still under siege because the enemy is still there. An enemy that Israel could easily defeat, if its leaders had the political will. All the clever technologies create a space age ghetto, surrounded by enemies who were once enclosed, but with each retreat, are the ones doing the enclosing.
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Now they need to NIX naming ships after socialists.
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Now they need to NIX naming ships after socialists.
I saw that; they're naming one after Caesar Chavez! ::rockets::
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Now they need to NIX naming ships after socialists.
I saw that; they're naming one after Caesar Chavez! ::rockets::
What? WTF? You gotta be frakkin kidding me.
ETA: They should name one after Juan Valdez (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Valdez) next. I never could keep those two straight in my head anyhoo.
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(sigh)
I'd rather honor the Exxon Valdez!
::facepalm::
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Now they need to NIX naming ships after socialists.
I saw that; they're naming one after Caesar Chavez! ::rockets::
What? WTF? You gotta be frakkin kidding me.
ETA: They should name one after Juan Valdez (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Valdez) next. I never could keep those two straight in my head anyhoo.
Nope, not kidding.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/USS-Cesar-E-Chavez-121888364.html (http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/USS-Cesar-E-Chavez-121888364.html)
H/T RTLM
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At least it is a support vessel and not a man-of-war!
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