Posted on 01/03/2011 5:49:42 PM PST by americanophile
The U.S. Navy will temporarily relieve Capt. Owen Honors of his post pending investigation of the series of explicit videos he is said to have produced when he was second in command of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, sources tell ABC News.
Capt. Honors is under investigation for a series of raunchy videos in which he appeared from 2006 to 2007. The videos featured a series of skits that aimed to provide some humor during the long deployment at sea. At the time the videos were produced, the Enterprise was operating in support of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But the skits were clearly offensive to many people. A leaked version of one video, first reported by the Virginian-Pilot newspaper on Saturday, contained derogatory references to homosexuals and was filled with profanity. At one point in the video, Honors introduces a scene in which two female sailors pretend to wash each other in the shower by saying that "chicks in the shower" were his "favorite topic."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Amen. It’s one thing to play monday morning quarterback and a totally different thing to mess with our boys while they are serving.
True. My take is that this is not the way a Captain should act. I do not like the PC angle but a Carrier Captain or XO should not be doing this kind of thing. He is not supposed to be a “Cruise Director” and a Warship is not a Liner.
it seems the Repeal of DADT is retroactive to the Pleistocene in zer0's new action (faggot)military
Sailors? And Profanity? Say it ain’t so!
Good question. I understand that, in order to get a promotion in the Navy these days you must prove your ‘politically correct stripes’ - somehow, someway.
I therefore think it's quite possible someone who has known of this all along used this to get that promotion that he/she otherwise would not have gotten.
Let me disagree with you on this. Some 34 years ago, a homosexual explained to me that the term "faggot" had a different source. During the Inquisition, when heretics were being burned at the stake, homosexuals were laid on the ground around the heretic and used as sticks for kindling. It is this use of homosexuals' bodies as fuel that inspired the word "faggot".
And you actually believed this poof?
I think the use of the word is related but only indirectly to the burning of heretics. In the 14th century the word was used to refer to a bundle of sticks used as firewood. By the 16th century the word was used in reference first to wood used in the burning of heretics. In the 17th century reformed heretics wore the emblem of a faggot on their sleeves to symbolize their recantation, and eventually the word came to be used in reference to the heretics themselves. An 1868 use of the word illusrates this: “Wolsey caused them to carry a faggot to the fire. Henry placed them in the midst of actual faggots.” In the 19th century the word was used in England as a term of contempt for a woman, and in the early 20th century it began to be used in the US as a term of contempt for homosexuals.
My understanding is that the connection between burning heretics and homosexual reference is separated by several generations of development. I think the most reasonable interpretation is that folks in the US borrowed a deragatory British term for a woman and used it to refer to homosexuals. The immediate connection is femininity, not heresy or fire. It is the same sense that the term sissy derives from sister.
From now on, Obama and the Virginia Pilot editors get to decide what is “humorous” and what isn’t.
We’ll all be safer that way.
You couldn’t pay me enough to be CO of ANYTHING in today’s Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama “Military”.
Maybe, but is this the conduct of an officer?
Sad, but he violated the unspoken rule.
Never leave evidence.
Well sir, it's apparent you think you know what you're talking about.
It's also apparent that you don't.
To refudiate that: The useage actually dates from the 16th Century and in his 1847 Dictionary of Archaic Words, James Orchard Halliwell lists "fagot" as a word that had fallen out of use in reference to a disreputable woman.
It is possible that after it had fallen out of favour, it was still used in the American Colonies.
>> Putin, Pelosi , and Chavez know how to keep the enemedia
>> in check, pity the retards that currently pass for GOP
>> “leadership” don’t.
Its a pity that faux “conservatives” aspire to be like Putin or Chavez. If that’s the sentiment of the “conservatives” to emulate authoritarian Russia or Venezuela, why bother? The Republic is lost.
You have the point :)
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