[CNSNEWS] In line with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's order for troops to have their workplaces searched for "degrading or offensive" materials -- part of an attempt to curb sexual assault in the military -- the Navy will inspect even its bathrooms.
While what's degrading or offensive is open to interpretation, the material can include song lyrics and "inappropriate cartoons."
In a memo sent on June 13, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus ordered that all sailors, Marines, cadets and civilian employees have their workplaces searched by June 28.
The "comprehensive visual inspections" of the workspaces conducted by commanding officers will "ensure they are free from materials that create a degrading, hostile, or offensive work environment."
Such items are "contraband," the memo says.
According to the order, "Workplaces include but are not limited to: Office buildings, facilities, naval vessels, aircraft, government vehicles, hangars, ready rooms, conference rooms, individual offices, cubicles, storage rooms, tool and equipment rooms, workshops, break rooms, galleys, recreation areas, Navy and Marine Corps Exchanges, and heads."
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Also, anyone accused of inapproriatley touching themself will be court martialed and shall be presumed guilty until proven innocent.
Posted by: Sum Dum Guy ||
06/19/2013 10:27 Comments ||
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Hormones will be outlawed
Posted by: European Conservative ||
06/19/2013 10:39 Comments ||
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What's next? Searching lockers, hard drives, wallets? And who decides what is inappropriate? How about a picture of your wife in a bikini? After all, that would offend some people, since it promotes traditional marriage.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
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I actually agree with this to a point. It isn't the Army of 70 years ago. If we're going to have men and women working together then we shouldn't have offensive posters, etc plastered everywhere.
It's the same idea here at the hospital -- people have to work together, so don't do schtupid stuff to offend them.
Since it's the military, of course, the order has to be spelled out in great detail. Since we're dealing with politicians, we can't rely on common sense.
Posted by: Steve White ||
06/19/2013 12:25 Comments ||
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Disagree, Steve.
Presence of women in all aspects of life does not justify feminizing all aspects of life. This isn't about respecting women. It's about emasculating men. That's bad for men, women and for society.
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I was NAVY, there's NOTHING in the bathrooms, You MUST keeep them spit-shined clean, NO posters Pin ups or any such shit allowed.
No shit it's sterile.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
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Just remember the KIA ratio of men vs women. If the latter are going to be used to dictate the 'terms of service' they'd better get that ratio in line.
Extend the UCMJ to Congresscritters and suddenly you'll see a remarkable change in attitude and behavior expected of others.
If you were wondering how the NSA and FBI felt about the very friendly hearing the House Intelligence Committee invited them to today, a hot mic has your answer. "Tell your boss," NSA Director Keith Alexander told the FBI deputy director, "I owe him another friggin' beer." Top signals sleuth overlooks hot mic ???
Ben Doernberg caught the exchange, which we've clipped below. Alexander, being photographed at bottom center, is speaking with FBI deputy director Sean Joyce, to his left.
Throughout the hearing the two worked together, with Alexander frequently setting up topics upon which Joyce expounded. When Alexander said that the government's surveillance tools had stopped over 50 terror attacks, Joyce described four of them. And so on. Over the course of three hours, the two faced little in the way of critique.
Nonetheless, they were ready for a brew. Their more informal exchange came after Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan banged the gavel. Scandal over! Jobs for life and "industry partners" secure....it's friggin' Miller time. Tomorrow we'll work on the extradition of that stinking IT contractor.
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I got the impression the hearing was scripted and everyone knew their part. No fireworks--All an attempt to assuage the distrust Americans have for big government and snooping on citizens. This was brought on by all the scandals and cover-ups. As someone said, "it has been a bad decade for the Bill of Rights"
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I got the impression the hearing was scripted and everyone knew their part. JohnQC
Well then, appears I wasn't the only one who detected a stage performance.
As I watch what is taking place, I have this sinking feeling in my stomach about our great country. It's the same feeling, the same aching I got when I received the news of my father's passing many years ago. I knew it had happened, it wasn't a bad dream. I knew it was coming, his departure. His illness had taken an all too familiar pattern. It was reality and there was nothing I could do change it.
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Obama wouldn't understand if you put him there.
(Cover your eyes and whistle, That's Obamas way)
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
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I've seen the vaunted photos of the situation room. I make the same face in my situation room, except I know what I'm doing and it gets done. Even file the paperwork.
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Just to explain to you in what kind of bubble Obama lives (and acts).
You might see him speaking in front of the Brandenburg Gate, and you'll see about 4000 people cheering.
Ordinary Berliners? Nope. Everyone was personally invited and scrutinized. Regular citizens of Berlin had zero chance to get anywhere near the Brandenburg Gate on this day.
And those "personally invited" weren't even allowed to carry a water bottle (temperature was 35°C in the shade but there was no shade).
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h/t Istapundit
Lt. Gen. Susan Helms is a pioneering woman who finds her career stalled because of a war on mena political campaign against sexual assault in the military that shows signs of becoming an effort to criminalize male sexuality.
Gen. Helms is a 1980 graduate of the Air Force Academy who became an astronaut in 1990. She was a crewman on four space-shuttle missions and a passenger on two, traveling to the International Space Station and back 5½ months later. Two days after arriving at the station in 2001, she, along with fellow astronaut Jim Voss, conducted history's longest spacewalk8 hours, 56 minutesto work on a docking device.
In March, President Obama nominated Gen. Helms to serve as vice commander of the Air Force Space Command. But Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat who sits on the Armed Services Committee, has placed a "permanent hold" on the nomination.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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The integration of the separate women's service corps begun in the 1970's. along with the advancement of the LGBT agenda continues to enjoy great success.
[sarc off]
Soon we may have female Special Operators who [due to size and muscle mass] will be physically incapable of surviving hand-to-hand combat with enemy combatants. Not to mention a number of other, less life threatening tasks.
[DAILYCALLER] Domestic spying capabilities used by the National Security Agency to collect massive amounts of data on American citizens could soon be available to the Department of Homeland Security -- a bureaucracy with the power to arrest citizens that is not subject to limitations imposed on the NSA.
Unlike the DHS, the NSA is an intelligence agency, not a domestic law enforcement agency. It cannot arrest those suspected of wrongdoing. That power of the federal government lies with agencies under the jurisdiction of the Justice Department, the Treasury, Homeland Security and other law enforcement agencies.
The NSA and DHS have waged a long Capitol Hill pie fight over cybersecurity. Bills such as the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act and the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 have sought to clearly define the relationship between the two agencies, but struggled to get off the ground.
Until recently, the NSA's military access to domestic private sector records -- including personally identifiable consumer information -- fueled opposition to CISPA's passage from civil liberties advocates, the White House and Senate Democrats.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung... Republican critics of the DHS believed the department was too incompetent and inexperienced to conduct meaningful cybersecurity oversight for the nation's critical infrastructure. Both CISPA and the Cybersecurity Act died in session last year.
The drive for an expanded DHS role in domestic spying, however, has been picking up steam. CISPA was reintroduced in the House of Representatives in February and passed in April. Although the bill stalled in the Senate, one of its most troubling portions remains intact: a provision granting private companies immunity from "any provision of the law" if they break privacy agreements between themselves and their customers to share private information with the federal government.
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I thought the FBI handled the domestic stuff; why the DHS wants to play is getting scarier by the day.
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