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USS Enterprise Capt. Owen Honors Temporarily Relieved of Duty
ABC News ^ | Jan. 3, 2011 | KIRIT RADIA

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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: commies; dadt; enterprise; homosexualagenda; owenhonors; pc; ussenterprise; videos
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To: buccaneer81

Amen. It’s one thing to play monday morning quarterback and a totally different thing to mess with our boys while they are serving.


161 posted on 01/04/2011 1:22:42 AM PST by Eyes Unclouded ("The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -George Carlin)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

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.


162 posted on 01/04/2011 2:08:57 AM PST by screaminsunshine (Beware the Big Government Media Complex)
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To: OldGoatCPO
Repeal of DADT

it seems the Repeal of DADT is retroactive to the Pleistocene in zer0's new action (faggot)military

163 posted on 01/04/2011 4:23:39 AM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: americanophile
Unfortunate? How about completely and utterly BS what they're doing to him? These videos are from 3-4 years ago, and they just NOW come out? Someone went to the IG right before a scheduled deployment?

Something ain't passing the smell test.
164 posted on 01/04/2011 5:14:09 AM PST by OCCASparky (Obama--Playing a West Wing fantasy in a '24' world.)
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To: YankeeReb
My question is obvious, why now?

They're scheduled to leave on a deployment in a few weeks. Ask the clowns that jumped the chain-of-command if that might have something to do with it.
165 posted on 01/04/2011 5:15:40 AM PST by OCCASparky (Obama--Playing a West Wing fantasy in a '24' world.)
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To: americanophile

Sailors? And Profanity? Say it ain’t so!


166 posted on 01/04/2011 5:30:53 AM PST by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: YankeeReb
“My question is obvious, why now? “

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.

167 posted on 01/04/2011 7:10:28 AM PST by MichaelCorleone
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To: Publius
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?


168 posted on 01/04/2011 7:12:34 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce - Karl Marx)
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To: xzins

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.


169 posted on 01/04/2011 7:12:42 AM PST by Burkean (.)
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To: americanophile; All

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.


170 posted on 01/04/2011 7:18:45 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: americanophile

You couldn’t pay me enough to be CO of ANYTHING in today’s Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama “Military”.


171 posted on 01/04/2011 7:32:03 AM PST by US Navy Vet
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To: dfwgator

172 posted on 01/04/2011 7:32:27 AM PST by montyspython
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To: gaijin
"avoid immured in a cubicle, and strangled with paper-shuffling, process oriented, PC bureaucrats."

Sounds like you mean life as an employee of a large multi-national corporation.
173 posted on 01/04/2011 7:37:17 AM PST by indthkr
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To: americanophile

Maybe, but is this the conduct of an officer?


174 posted on 01/04/2011 7:39:55 AM PST by misterrob (Thug Life....now showing at a White House near you....)
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To: americanophile

Sad, but he violated the unspoken rule.

Never leave evidence.


175 posted on 01/04/2011 7:51:13 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: buccaneer81
"What an F'ing assumption to make.You are an A-One slime ball. "

Well sir, it's apparent you think you know what you're talking about.

It's also apparent that you don't.

176 posted on 01/04/2011 7:52:15 AM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: Burkean
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.

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.

177 posted on 01/04/2011 7:55:22 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce - Karl Marx)
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To: Oztrich Boy
These are the uses given by the OED for "a term of abuse or contempt applied to a woman": 1840 R. H. Barham ‘What's that you say, you old faggot?’ 1862 Mrs. H. Wood "She‥struck at me, she did, the good-for-nothing faggot!" 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. 690 "That old faggot Mrs Riordan." 1925 D. H. Lawrence "To me she [sc. a cow] is fractious, tiresome, and a faggot. Yet the subtle desirableness is in her, for me." 1969 Sunday Mirror 9 Feb. 35 "'Urry up wi' that glass o' beer, you lazy faggot!"
178 posted on 01/04/2011 8:19:17 AM PST by Burkean (.)
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To: Rome2000

>> 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.


179 posted on 01/04/2011 8:51:05 AM PST by JadeEmperor
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To: Burkean

You have the point :)


180 posted on 01/04/2011 8:51:23 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce - Karl Marx)
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