Posted on 04/12/2016 10:08:42 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
PORTLAND - The city of Pascagoula in Mississippi has a world-famous shipyard, building vessels for the U.S. military and private companies alike. When the ships are launched, dignitaries of all kinds normally flock for the commissioning ceremonies, but the state's harsh new anti-gay laws may change that.
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Big Media lies all the time about everything. It's amazing just how deeply and thoroughly dishonest they are.
Ok bye
282 days and we can finally cease and desist with all of this PC BS non-sense...give me back America please.
You don’t think this is all going to screech to a halt when Obama leaves office, do you?
I see the link you referred to. Why, in your opinion, do I need to concern myself with? Do you have anything to say about it? Obviously, you felt we needed to see it. Why?
Will the FBI stop investigating cases in Mississippi and North Carolina?
How about the Navy’s anti-LGBT bathroom and shower policies? Why can’t the men and women shower together and share barracks at training and in the field/on a ship?
Bush didn’t undo Clinton’s don’t ask don’t tell policy.
“It’s dead, Jim.”
I was thinking about a trip to Mississippi for my vacation this spring, the liberals with their idiotic boycotts have helped me make up my mind. I was there one time in the late 80s.
Move along citizens, no police state to see here.
“harsh new anti-gay”
Sounds like a bit of editorializing.
How can the Navy take sides in a political dispute?
That makes no sense at all. If they just launched it then does it even have its motors and crew yet?
“How can the Navy take sides in a political dispute?”
Yeah, weird isn’t it? Good thing the DOJ and IRS aren’t political like that.
Agreed. Exactky how are these laws harsh and anti homosexual???? They never explain these details.
It seemed news worthy. Moreover, it reflects that even institutions as fundemental, traditionally conservative and directly representative of the United States around the world have have succomb to the demands of the gay agenda. And while it is frustrating that musical artists and corporations would boycott states like Mississippi and North Carolina, it is revolting that the US Navy would do the same.
I do...It is the Service Secretary that sets the tone and the tenor, in this case we all know that Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter are all in on the leftie dream fest of completely F’n up the military.
My hope, is that we get a Cruz or Trump as President and an Allen West like person as the SECDEF...that will cure a lot of this BS, long before it even gets to secretary level.
Replace all the obamalamadingdong Generals and Admirals with experienced, fierce warfighters and a lot of this goes away. IMO of course. Lived it, so I understand it.
The only way it doesn’t happen is if the house and the senate flip lefty and we get Clinton or Sanders...eeegggggghhhhh, then we are totally F’ed. The vast majority of senior NCO’s can’t stand this BS social engineering and are just counting the days until we get some real leaders back in charge. Say what you will about Don Rumsfeld, but he was a GD good SECDEF and kept all that tired a$$ lefty BS away from the services, he knew what the damage would be if we replaced the warrior ethos with the wimpy, limp wristed everybody belongs BS...His philosophy was “if it doesn’t make a America a more fierce and feared fighting force then it is a stupid idea.”
I was last in Mississippi, stranded on the highway near Meridian in the middle of the night, with my wife and infant son. Terrified. This was in 1971. A black guy in a Ford station wagon pulled up and offered to drive me to a gas station for enough gas to get me started up again. Only he had to go by his house first and tell his wife.
I said, ok, and reluctantly left my wife and son in the car beside the road. After a bit, the guy turned off the road and drove to a one room log house in the boonies, where his wife was already in bed. He told her where we were going and we left.
We eventually got to the gas station, and after getting five gallons in a tanker for myself, I offered to fill up his car for him as a way of saying thanks. My god. That damned Ford must have held a hundred gallons. He drove me back to my car and wife, who thought I had been killed by now.
I wouldn’t want to go through that these days...
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