My latest in PJ Media:
It was a big day for the U.S. Navy on Saturday: a ship named for gay rights activist Harvey Milk was, according to the Associated Press, “christened” – interesting choice of words, there, AP, traditional but ironic in these circumstances — and “launched in San Diego Bay.” Meanwhile, CNN reported on Tuesday that “China’s military has constructed mockups in the shape of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and U.S. warships, possibly for target practice.” Priorities, priorities: China’s is clearly to win a war against a major power. The U.S. Navy, on the other hand, is concerned with other matters altogether.
The Navy ceremony for the U.S.N.S. Harvey Milk was a veritable orgy of fashionable Leftism. The “christening,” that is, the traditional smashing of a bottle of champagne on the ship’s bow, was performed by Paula M. Neira, the clinical program director for the John Hopkins Center for Transgender Health, who served in the Navy before becoming a woman. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro remarked, speaking about himself in the third person: “The secretary of the Navy needed to be here today, not just to amend the wrongs of the past, but to give inspiration to all of our LGBTQ community leaders who served in the Navy, in uniform today and in the civilian workforce as well too, and to tell them that we’re committed to them in the future.”
That’s wonderful, but should it really be the job of the Navy to “amend the wrongs of the past” and “give inspiration to all of our LGBTQ community leaders”? While the Navy has been working so hard to ensure that gays know they’re welcome in its ranks, satellite images showed what appeared to be full-scale models of a U.S. aircraft carrier and at least two U.S. missile destroyers at a target range in the Taklamakan Desert in China’s Xinjiang region. The models were constructed not for hobby enthusiasts, but for the testing of ballistic missiles. According to the United States Naval Institute (USNI), “This new range shows that China continues to focus on anti-carrier capabilities, with an emphasis on U.S. Navy warships.”
That is, the Chinese military is focusing on sinking U.S. Navy warships. That’s what militaries historically have devoted their time and attention to doing: figuring out ways to destroy the enemy’s military capabilities and compel him to surrender. But Carlos Del Toro, the United States Secretary of the Navy, had other things on his mind on Saturday. When Harvey Milk served in the Navy, he said, he had to “mask that very important part of his life,” that he was homosexual. “For far too long,” Del Toro declared, “sailors like Lt. Milk were forced into the shadows or, worse yet, forced out of our beloved Navy. That injustice is part of our Navy history, but so is the perseverance of all who continue to serve in the face of injustice.”
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Politicallyincorrectistruth says
And the USA is currently waiting for volunteers to man the ship………(sound of crickets)
John says
What, nothing from CAIR condemning the naming …. YET.
revereridesagain says
That’s called being caught between a rock and a hard place. Do we sneer at the enemy for emasculating himself or do we show our own hand by decrying a warship being named after the kind of people we throw from high rooftops because our “holy writ” decrees that we do so?
Keith O says
Hey, give em a break. It takes more than 2 IQ points to come up with a new victimhood complaint.
That’s why “lack of CAIR” are silent on the matter, the Aloha Snackbar mob need time to think things through.
Ade Fegan says
Hello Sailor !
mortimer says
My, oh my!
Village People Lyrics
“In The Navy”
Where can you find pleasure
Search the world for treasure
Learn science technology
Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true
On the land or on the sea
Where can you learn to fly
Play in sports and skin dive
Study oceanography
Sign up for the big band
Or sit in the grandstand
When your team and others meet
In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
Come on now, people, make a stand
In the navy, in the navy
Can’t you see we need a hand
In the navy
Come on, protect the mother land
In the navy
Come on and join your fellow man
In the navy
Come on people, and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy, in the navy (in the navy)
They want you, they want you
They want you as a new recruit
revereridesagain says
You beat me to it!!
mortimer says
Next the Bribed-man administration will name a ship the USS OSAMA BIN LADEN!
(Must fight ‘islamophobia’)
Kagman says
Already, the ship is known as the USS Sodomy by the enlisted ranks… Biden’s pandering to perversion.
somehistory says
““christened” – interesting choice of words, there, AP, traditional but ironic ”
And, to “what” exactly is it **dedicated**?
I object to the “traditional” word being used to describe this disgusting nonsense. They should have to coin something that better fits; if mozlums can coin terms…the fake ‘phobia’… to make their repeated attempts to islamofy everything, the fake government should have to coin a new word to show to what entity they bow.
A7E.Pilgrim says
USNS Milk is not a warship. It is a Naval vessel ‘manned’ by a civilian crew and a small Navy contingent of communications specialists.
PRCS says
Yes,
An Oiler.
CogitoErgoSum says
Oilers used to be named after rivers with Native American names but that’s not the case for this class of oiler. I wonder if the Native Americans feel like they are getting shafted once again or if they understand since, after all, it’s Harvey Milk and he fought for their right to be gay.
CogitoErgoSum says
One more thought: I hope the good ship Harvey Milk will also remind every one of us of the role that oil plays in helping the U.S. maintain free and open intercourse over the high seas and how vital that is to our navy’s mission of furthering good relations with all the other navies of the world. We want them to know that we love them and we want them to love us – but we must never forget about the importance of having access to plenty of oil when it comes to keeping the back and forth of good relations going smoothly.
PRCS says
“shafted”
Heh!
faraway says
What’s an oiler? Does it supply lubricants (asking for a friend)
PRCS says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replenishment_oiler
A7E.Pilgrim says
‘Oiler’ was a term applied to fuel replenishment ships back when naval vessels were fueled by Navy Special Fuel Oil. NSFO was a thick fuel oil that had to be heated to about 150 degrees for it to properly atomize in boiler burner nozzles.
Today, Navy fossil fuel powered ships burn instead Navy Distillate Fuel, which burns well in both boilers and gas turbine drive ships.
Infidel says
Shouldn’t the verb in question be ‘personed’ instead of the very male-centric and therefore racist ‘manned’? ?
A7E.Pilgrim says
Probably for the same reason when General Quarters is sounded, the Bosun’s Mate on the 1MC general announcing circuit says, “All hand man your battle stations!”
I just can’t envision, “All persons man your confrontation stations, post haste!”
Infidel says
No, I meant that instead of ‘man’ being the verb, ‘person’ would be the new verb. Granted, it’s not a verb, but then again, neither is ‘they’ singular
gravenimage says
All persons person your stations! 🙂
somehistory says
Who can know today what words will be used and in what ways…
“reveal” is a verb, but has come to be a noun…the same way “ask” has.
I would hate to be in an English class learning to identify parts of a sentence in this crazy time.
gravenimage says
The USNS Harvey Milk is an oiler–they bring fuel and other stores to U.S. Navy ships and aircraft carriers at sea.
Ugly Sid says
Chinese Take Out is an overt business conducted for profits.
Chinese Take In is a covert business conducted for enormous profits.
gravenimage says
Most American Chinese are anti-Communist.
Alex Lund says
In 2012 Matthew Bracken wrote a story: “What I Saw At The Coup”
There the US Navy has a ship named Harvey Milk.
Fantasy has become reality.
gravenimage says
San Francisco’s Airport Terminal 1 (domestic flights) was named for Harvey Milk in 2019.
Walter Sieruk says
The Capitalist nation of China, Taiwan, engages in commerce with the many different countries of the world.
In contrast, the Communist state of mainland China has infected all the different nations of the world with the plague of the coronavirus.
Furthermore, since the subject of Communist China has been brought up, this is thus an appropriate time and likewise important to define the concept of Communism .Otherwise known as Marxism. There the pipe-dream of a pure Marxist society in the philosophical political economic fantasy that no one is ever really in need and everyone “Works according to his abilities and receives according to his needs”
In contrast, there is the reality of Communism which is that Marxism is a philosophy that no intelligent person can actually, truthfully accept is not only unrealistic and unnatural but a joke and a brutal excuse to set up and prop-up tyranny. For evil is always looking for an excuse. Marxism is just the excuse need to set up brutal regimes. Such as that tyrannical and oppressive state of Red China.
Infidel says
Walter
Taiwan no longer pretends to be the ‘real China’. The ruling party there – the Democratic Progressive Party’s main platform is independence of Taiwan from China as Taiwan: it would no longer call itself ‘Republic of China’. In fact, there is a movement called the Taiwan independence movement, which seeks to make Taiwan independent of the Republic of China (not the People’s Republic of China). In other words, the Republic of China would be totally abolished, and the only 2 entities that would remain would be the People’s Republic of China, based in Beijing, and the Republic of Taiwan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_independence_movement
The only reason that hasn’t taken off is Beijing’s threat to declare war if Taiwan went ahead and did that. And right now, they can’t quite count on US support, given both our military withdrawal from Afghanistan and the mess our military is in. But an interesting offshoot of this trend has been that the Kuomintang – the old party of Chiang Kai-Shek – is now pro-Beijing, since they oppose the secession of Taiwan from even the Republic of China
Given that the DPP is the party that supports the independence of Taiwan, I am inclined to support that, and not insist on a future re-unification, even if the mainland ceases to be communist
gravenimage says
But an interesting offshoot of this trend has been that the Kuomintang – the old party of Chiang Kai-Shek – is now pro-Beijing, since they oppose the secession of Taiwan from even the Republic of China
………….
Not exactly, Infidel. Communist China has basically made it clear that they plan to invade and take over Taiwan if the latter makes a public point of their being independent. Given what is happening to Hong Kong right now, I think little Taiwan just wants to survive. I don’t blame them–I’m not sure if in this current global climate anyone would come to their aid–shameful but true.
Walter Sieruk says
Well ,maybe so, Nevertheless when I was overseas on a trip with some Chinese who are also citizen of Taiwan , they did refer to their home nation as “China.”
Infidel says
What? I thought that Enola Gay – the plane used to drop one of the atomic bombs on Japan – was named after a gay activist ?
Kepha says
As an American, I feel utterly disgraced. We have the world’s last, best hope for 20th century totalitarianism clearly itching for a showdown to assuage its jackboot nationalism while we are celebrating a perv who preyed on teenaged runaways. I just hope someone in the Pentagon is honing our cyberwar capabilities and protections against pulse attacks.
gravenimage says
Priorities: As China Builds Mock Versions of U.S. Ships, U.S. Navy Launches Ship Named for Gay Activist
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Very odd. Harvey Milk did serve honorably in the Navy during the Korean War until compelled to take an other than honorable discharge when it was dicovered he was gay–certainly unjust. But he was no war hero.
And yes–re China this is certainly fiddling while Rome burns…
Jerry says
Close to sixty years ago I was gay. Gay as a happy, cheerful and carefree. So was my ladyfriend, later and until now my wife.
But all that was before a bunch of Sodomites buggered our dictionary.
somehistory says
On an episode of “I Love Lucy,” Fred Mertz proclaimed, as he danced a small jig, “I was a gay young blade.”
The dictionary certainly has been changed and not for the better in so many cases.
“Woke” used to mean to come out of a sleep.
Jerry says
English synonym for TG:
Eunoch
Italian:
Castrati
OLD GUY says
As a straight guy I’d hate to be stationed aboard the the Harvey Milk.
VickyK says
America the beautiful? We have become America the profane. America the perverse. Our country is rotting from the inside out.