Oops! U.S. Military Recruits Gays

The Skinny: Army, Navy, Air Force Ads That Ran On Gay Networking Web Site Are Pulled

(CBS)  The Skinny is Keach Hagey's take on the top news of the day and the best of the Internet.

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The military was just looking for a few good men.

Until USA Today pointed it out yesterday, the Army, Navy and Air Force were unwittingly advertising for recruits on a Web site for gays, those same gays who are barred from military service if they are open about their sexual orientation.

The minute the paper informed them that they were advertising on GLEE.com, a networking site for gay professionals, recuiters - no doubt turning several shades of mortified purple - yanked the ads.

"We didn't knowingly advertise on that particular Web site," said Maj. Michael Baptista, advertising branch chief for the Army National Guard. He said the site does not "meet the moral standards" of the military.

Most of the military jobs posted were for hard-to-fill position requiring advanced training, such as thousands of Navy openings for doctors, dentists, intelligence analysts and Arabic translators.

The ads were placed through GLEE.com's parent company, New York-based Community Connect, as part of an alliance with Monster.com. Betty Huang of Community Connect says the military services, through private ad agencies, bought Monster's "diversity and inclusion" package. It includes posts on her company's niche websites for minorities and gays.

Oops!

Steve Ralls of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a gay advocacy group, could not supress a snicker. He noted that gays "have been drummed out of the Armed Forces simply for using sites like GLEE."

FCC Chief Proposes Giving Deregulation Another Shot

You can bet Rupert Murdoch's coffee tasted extra-delicious this morning.

The New York Times leads with news that that the Federal Communications Commission's chairman has circulated an "ambitious plan to relax the decades-old media ownership rules, including repealing a rule that forbids a company to own both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city." (Like, say, running the New York Post and a local Fox TV outlet in New York, a longtime dream of Murdoch's).

This would be a major deregulatory move. The last time the FCC tried something similar, under former chief Michael Powell three years ago, it was hit with a tsunami of hate mail from groups on both sides of the political aisle. An appeals court overturned the rule change.

But media times have changed since then. The Internet has been slowly but surely sucking the life out of newspapers, and in so doing turning the companies that own them upside down. This wave of upheaval and consolidation, according to the Times, "has put new pressure on regulators to loosen ownership rules."

It's still up in the air whether Kevin Martin, the F.C.C. chairman, would really dare to push through such a thing with only the narrow majority among commissioners that currently support the plan. But one thing is clear: if he does, there will be a showdown.

"If the chairman intends to do something before the end of the year," said Senator Byron Dorgan, a Democrat from North Dakota, "then there will be a firestorm of protest and I'm going to be carrying the wood."

And how about some newspaper for kindling while your at it, senator? No one seems to be using them for much else these days. Maybe they can help save us from media consolidation after all.

Most Fake Bombs Missed By TSA's Screeners

USA Today provides something to ponder next time you're waiting in that snaking airport security line.

In more than 60 percent of tests last year, security screeners at two of the nation's busiest airports failed to find bombs carried by undercover agents posing as passengers, according to a classified report obtained by the paper.

Screeners at Los Angeles International Airport missed about 75 percent of simulated explosives and bomb parts that Transportation Security Administration testers hid under their clothes or in carry-on bags at checkpoints, a TSA report shows. At Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, screeners missed about 60 percent of hidden bomb materials that were packed in everyday carry-ons.

The failure rates "stunned" experts, the paper reports. Homeland Security Department's former inspector general, Clark Kent Erwin, called it a "huge cause for concern."

Nobody bothered to interview flyers, who might have offered responses ranging from "@#$%" to "@#$%^&*!%#@!."

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[skyk-2009]

This is funny and shows the desperation of a Corrupt Administration to continue a needless war. Sieg Heil Bush

[briannorwood]

SNAFU

[fhagey]

I might be breaking CBS''s "Rules of Engagement" which states "...the plain English: no libel, slander, no lying, no fabricating, no swearing at all, no words that teenagers use a lot that some people think aren''t swearing but we do, no insulting groups or individuals, no ethnic slurs and/or epithets, no religious bigotry, no threats of any kind, no bathroom humor, no comparing anyone to Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot." by posting this link but I just couldn''t let the opportunity go by.

There is this lady, Key Griggs, that says that homosexual activity is a method of grooming weak boys for positions of power. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-T9vKdjGXM

[scarletphd]

SNAFU
Posted by briannorwood


LOL! One of the best acronyms ever coined! The whole DADT is so tired and useless. Who even gives a rats anymore?? So, recruit the gay dudes, they can adhere to the "rule" if they want to serve, and then they can serve with pride and honor the way THOUSANDS and thousands of other *** have.

[scarletphd]

...the way THOUSANDS and thousands of other g a y s have.

How fu(king ridiculous to block the word G A Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is this article not ABOUT g a y s??????? CBS is fu(ked up.

[simonsez40]

This one made me laugh - after years of trying to get G@ys out of the military and witch hunts to oust them - now they are ONLY recruiting because their recruitment numbers are low...........whats next reinstating the draft?

What happened to Bush stance on G@ys - he is such a hypocrit..........I hope the ad campaigns are a flop. Why fight for an administration that doesn''t mind discriminating against them?

Bush IDIOT

[mitywhity]

Why can''t they serve? They are in the police force and I don''t think there are issues with that. I think it wrong that only straight people are allowed to serve, fight, kill and be killed. What does being a h0m0 have to do with that? If the twit can''t control himself during boot camp or at a later date, kick his bu+ out of the service with a dishonorable discharge. What''s the issue here? If they are courageous enough to serve then I''ll give them kudos for it.

[texas468]

Hey, Simonsez40....care to read the ARTICLE?????

"We didn''t knowingly advertise on that particular Web site," said Maj. Michael Baptista, advertising branch chief for the Army National Guard. He said the site does not "meet the moral standards" of the military.

Their "stance" hasn''t changed. It was a blanket add and they weren''t aware that it had been posted there. Try reading the article, numbnutz. As for me? I don''t see a problem with homosexuals being in the military. Period.

[antoniof123]

Too funny the moral majority should be up in arms. Wait thats gods people sorry about that. lololololololol......

[brianbwb-2009]

They can abuse young boys in the halls of government, but others who might want to cannot enlist?

At any rate, it means fewer soldiers available to carry out the agendas of war worshiping death dealers, so that is OK by me.

Now if they would only exclude women, "minorities" and "the poor", we would be making some real progress toward ending war as a tool of foreign economic policy...

[bareemperor]

""We didn''t knowingly advertise on that particular Web site," said Maj. Michael Baptista, advertising branch chief for the Army National Guard. He said the site does not "meet the moral standards" of the military."

''Moral Standards''?

So if you are sensitive, artistic and loving - don''t try to join up to rape and kill people...

[tankersmash]

Fgts go elsewhere if you are looking for work. We don''t want your queerisms in our foxholes.

I''m sure there is some fgt queer porn show you can audition for in San Fransisco where bull queers are lining up to spread their AIDS and whatever other thousand diseases they are walking around with.

[neoconrcrazy]

could be our best weapon against al-qaeda....
ok, you radical muslim extremists - up against the wall - and drop your bathrobes!

[wadyaknow]

Thank you rushman71 and tankersmash! Whenever i question my sense of worth in the universe I find "people" like you who make me realize that I am so superior to trailer trash. Okay Rushman you can go back to listening to Mr. Limbaugh - that is if he isn''t high, commiting adultery again or engaging in that favorite Republican pasttime of picking up boys/men in restrooms.

[kevboom]

"He said the site does not ''meet the moral standards'' of the military."

Love it. The same moral standards no doubt that send every military town like Columbus, Georgia, and Jacksonville, North Carolina, into a downward spiral of massage parlors, roadhouse bars, and liquor stores.

[hypnotoad72]

I couldn''t care less about homosexuals, and if a person prefers dating a toaster that''s their problem just as long nobody gets a communicable disease; but aren''t all the people in the military there for a common, shared cause that supersedes ALL others? Sounds like common sense to me...

I understand the fear that believing one of your fellow soldiers may ''have the hots'' for you, but as with all soldiers, it''s up to each one to keep their goolies tucked away. Keep it in the closet and do what you''re supposed to do, regardless of whom you bonk with. It''s not appropriate for anybody to put sexual proclivities over anything else. Period.

And what about the heterosexuals who harass one another?

[middleman8]

Sure some moral standards.
Kill helpless people from five miles above them,
Throw gernades into sleeping family rooms.
Rape and burn the innocent girls.
Ya, these are great moral standards.
Something write home about, and get rewarded with f---ing medals.

[ioweign]

You don''t have to be straight to shoot straight !

Just look at Cheney - his ''hunting'' experience - "The Few, The Bald, The Inane"

Semper Stolidus !

[jn122736]

While I don%u2019t like having too many laws enacted, especially constitutional amendments, one law that I believe would prevent needless wars would be one that required a mandatory draft for any declared war or any conflict having the (voted) approval of congress.
Such a lay would not affect the current military rules concerning g ay%u2018s.

[drivelphobe]

This business of allowing queers in the service has got to stop. These people are fornicators of same gender indivduals and that''s all they think about. They average hundreds of encounters per year. How nice. The service is just like picnic grounds for them, sneaking around lusting and coveting, making every normal soldier ineasy and furious. What a morale builder. I think volunteers should rethink their applications until the military stops signing up ***.

[jn122736]

Aside from strictly moral issue(g ays)s, when two people of opposite sexual-orientation share the same foxhole sexual harassment will abound, be they h eterosexual man and woman, or two people of the same ***. And BTW, it will not always be the man harassing the woman.

[wfbdem]

This business of allowing queers in the service has got to stop. These people are fornicators of same gender indivduals and that''''s all they think about. They average hundreds of encounters per year. How nice. The service is just like picnic grounds for them, sneaking around lusting and coveting, making every normal soldier ineasy and furious. What a morale builder. I think volunteers should rethink their applications until the military stops signing up ***.

Posted by drivelphobe

You are right. They should be restricted to men''s bathrooms in airports, so the republican senators can get their "Craig" on. Or maybe the Whitehouse, with Talon "News". Do you think Rove was giving or taking?

[mitch0927]

From the posts I have been reading on here, all I see are people finding some reason to bash one thing or another, with all sorts of "I know more than you" attitudes. It''s sad to read these, because most of you have never been in a situation where you depended on a person to "Watch your Back" in combat. There is someone on here that has written "I couldn%u2019t care less about homosexuals" and " regardless of whom you bonk with"....if you''re going to spout off with you ideals, I would recommend taking a writing course, you know, like an eighth grade level, because you just look stupid. If you want to get your point across, then I suggest you proof read before you post.

[j-whitman]

drivelphobe,,,,, FYI -- ****''s have been fighting in wars since the beginning of time, including in our own armed forces.

[wfbdem]

drivelphobe,,,,, FYI -- ****''''s have been fighting in wars since the beginning of time, including in our own armed forces.


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Posted by j-whitman


Please excuse drivelphobe, his boyfriend broke up with him last night. And only 4 days before he was planning to enlist to fight in the next round of "Bush Wars 2008" (tm).

[alphaa10-2009]

Department of Homeland Security-- 2
Unwilling to confront their monumental failures across the entire national security front, Bush and Cheney instead have tried to distract the public with a battle with congress. Bush and Cheney have made constitutionally unwarranted claims about the powers of the presidency not seen since the days of Richard Nixon. When Bush first made these claims, he barely avoided a mass exodus in protest by DOJ officials, and a crisis over executive misbehavior surely will mark his final year in office.

A basic requirement of presidential power is the oath to "execute faithfully the laws of the United States". Instead of carrying out the will of the people in congress, however, Bush and Cheney say they have the power to defy congress. Bush and his hundreds of signing statements leave a paper trial which is superb grounds for impeachment.

Bush once confided he understands the advantage of a dictatorship, but the urgent question is whether he understands the rule of constitutional law. Bush is the individual who, in November, 2005, facing an assembly of party members critical of his NSA spying program, bristled like a teenager caught drinking after curfew-- "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face! It''s just a GD)((#@*! piece of paper!"

Is this figure, who claims to be president of the United States, the same who pledged an oath to "protect, preserve and defend" the document he calls a "GD)((#@*! piece of paper"?

[alphaa10-2009]

Six long years after 911, Bush still flounders with the mission he was assigned by the American people, in congress assembled. Rather than find bin Laden, and prosecute the so-called "War on Terror", Bush and Cheney have squandered both opportunity and a huge public funding, with little but a disastrous war to show for it.

A GAO investigation now reveals Bush has pulled a Katrina-scale failure of due diligence at the Department of Homeland Security. As its report says "... there is as yet no overall strategy to coordinate the various activities across federal agencies and the private sector. Further, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lacks processes needed to address specific weaknesses in sharing information on control system vulnerabilities."

AP/CBS adds, "Screeners at Los Angeles International Airport missed about 75 percent of simulated explosives and bomb parts that Transportation Security Administration testers hid under their clothes or in carry-on bags at checkpoints, a TSA report shows. At Chicago''s O''Hare International Airport, screeners missed about 60 percent of hidden bomb materials that were packed in everyday carry-ons."

What has the DHS been doing? While we still should worry about an attack on a prominent public landmark like the World Trade Center of New York City, the newer mode of attack is far more damaging. Characteristically, however, Bush has been out to lunch.
(see next Department of Homeland Security--2)

[jn122736]

if you''''re going to spout off with you ideals, I would recommend taking a writing course, you know, like an eighth grade level, because you just look stupid. If you want to get your point across, then I suggest you proof read before you post.
Posted by mitch0927 at 01:16 PM : Oct 18, 2007
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"if you''''re going to spout off with "YOU IDEALS"

It can be embarrassing to criticize others over things you do yourself.

Besides, when most people proofread their work, they often read/see what they intended to write in the first place.
I generally use Microsoft word (which helps point out errors) to write my comments and I still miss some errors

[photogeezer]

G**** have always served in our military, always have, always will. In our lifetimes, excluding them from military service will seems as stupid as excluding black people and women. I served with some; their behavior off the job was none of my business, any more than mine was any of theirs. This country has to learn to leave other people the hell alone.

[terrapin78]

Mr. Conservative, Barry Goldwater said, "You don''t have to be straight to die for your country, just shoot straight".

If it is good enough for Barry, it is good enough for me.

[alphaa10-2009]

To Mitch0927-- Most who post comments understand there will be misspellings and various artifacts of a computer keyboard, including repeated lettersssssss and mising letters or even non-registered l tters. Not to mention various grammatical signatures which serve as a measure of the poster''s literacy.

Fluency rarely substitutes for content, however, and some rudely-written posts contain gems of wisdom.

Granted, a little pre-submission editing will help and is always encouraged, but errors are often helpful for context-- they reveal more about the general education and viewpoint of the poster than he or she might otherwise reveal.

All to the good, of course...

[drivelphobe]

Hi j-whitman and wfbdem...

j-whitman..you are correct about their prior service in our military. I just don''t think it''s right.

wfbdem..You only wish you were in the service. Name calling is the first line of defense for queers. Your colors are fully displayed. Everyone is laughing at you now.

[drivelphobe]

Hi j-whitman and wfbdem...

j-whitman..you are correct about their prior service in our military. I just don''t think it''s right.

wfbdem.. (white ******* boy democrat) You only wish you were in the service. Name calling is the first line of defense for queers. Your colors are fully displayed. Everyone is laughing at you now.

[jn122736]

alphaa10,
Your posts, as usual, are thoughtful and accurate.

The sad fact however, is that too many of us cannot admit/accept the fact that we have (through the failed, and often illegal, Bush administration policies/actions the last 7 years) been so wrong.
No mistake or error can ever be corrected without first admitting to the mistake or error.

[Krazcarl]

THere was a group of knights in the middle ages that were primarily gueers {don''t you love how CBS will let us say gueer but not g*y} they were the most feared and victorious fighter of that period. The spartans and greeks encouraged it for dedication on the battlefield.I see nothing wrong with it no I''m not gay I belive it deviant behavior but that''s just my opinion and one thing I learned in this life is not to tell others how to live unless they start knocking at my door and values.

[signof4]

At least they caught the mistake and pulled the ad. I''m all for g*ays in the military. We need expendable people to clear mine fields and detonate unexploded ordinence.

[jn122736]

Hi j-whitman and wfbdem...

j-whitman..you are correct about their prior service in our military. I just don''''t think it''''s right.

wfbdem.. (white ******* boy democrat) You only wish you were in the service. Name calling is the first line of defense for queers. Your colors are fully displayed. Everyone is laughing at you now.
Posted by drivelphobe at 02:00 PM : Oct 18, 2007
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drivelphobe, I believe I have read every comment on this article so far and I fail to see where wfbdem used specific name-calling, insults yes.

BTW isn%u2019t your interpretation of wfbdem%u2019s ID (white ******* boy democrat)actually name-calling?

[jn122736]

Posted by alphaa10 at 01:54 PM : Oct 18, 2007
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While I wouldn%u2019t argue with your accuracy, I would add that there are those who are very articulate, yet couldn%u2019t get a thought or meaning across with wheelbarrow.

[sonotso]

'' ...

imagine shoving trillions of dollars

of drugs

down kids throats,

imagine waving trillions of dollars

of guns

in kids faces,

imagine all the people

sharing all the world,

i hope some day you''ll join us

and the world will live as one,

... ''

[missingamerica]

A good day will be the day people start boycotting any product that is advertised on a Murdoch-owned media outlet of any sort.

[maedean]

They should have the right to die just like straight people. That will be less of them we have to look at in public.

[wfbdem]

wfbdem.. (white ******* boy democrat) You only wish you were in the service. Name calling is the first line of defense for queers. Your colors are fully displayed. Everyone is laughing at you now.


Posted by drivelphobe

Well...considering I am married to a vet of the first Gulf war, and have 2 children, one who is in the service (she is stationed in Washington) while you sit a home as a proud member of the 101st fighting keyboardist, allowing others to die for you while you risk capal tunnel daily, I''ll just assume you were caught in a fishing net when youwere young.
Do you often have problems telling male and females apart? Or is this done on purpose.

[wfbdem]

wfbdem.. (white ******* boy democrat) You only wish you were in the service. Name calling is the first line of defense for queers. Your colors are fully displayed. Everyone is laughing at you now.


Posted by drivelphobe

And if I did not make it clear enough in the last post (and I did try to type slowly for you) I...am...a...female. A non-man. I do not have a p@nis. I am able to give birth. I bleed for a few days every month (ask your mom about that one)
ie: Woman.

Any of this getting through? Or did you injure yourself on the last message?

[agnim]

SEND ALL F@GOTS TO IRAQ,

AT THE ''FRONT LINE'' FIRST THING!

AND UNARMED!

Here''s a creative way to use f@gots in the army: Strap f@gots on bombs to guide them.

The f@gots will be heroes because

BETTER DEAD THAN G.AY!

[drivelphobe]

wfbdem...

You sure are an angry soul aren''t you. Just can''t make a point other than to toss out childish insults. I bet your husband signs up; for another tour just to steer clear of you.

I don''t believe queers should be in the armed forces. So why the name calling and irrational posting? Oh, I forgot, you bleed for a few days a month. Wow, what a woman.

[michellem99-2009]

If they want to fight over there sent them

[michellem99-2009]

i meant send then...Fort Lewis is in WA..Thank you Vets.

[scarletphd]

ATTENTION: Proof that maggots fu(k apes and procreate below:


Fgts go elsewhere if you are looking for work. We don''''t want your queerisms in our foxholes.
I''''m sure there is some fgt queer porn show you can audition for in San Fransisco where bull queers are lining up to spread their AIDS and whatever other thousand diseases they are walking around with.
Posted by tankersmash

[ivandrago]

This is truly a impressive grouping of hate mongers. You people seem to hate for hate sake. How do gay people in anyway effect your lives? Is anybody actively trying to recruit any of you join the gay team. Homosexuality has been shown to occur within nature in many higher life forms species. How can something that occurs in nature be against nature? I guess religion puts human beings above nature and immune to it complexities and variations.

Take a deep breath and consider the roots of raw your hatred. Social, religious, or both?

I''d hate to be gay if only for the fact that people would hate and reject me for existing.

I''m leaving the posting so rabid replies will not be read by me.

[Krazcarl]

SIGHNOFF4...Good one that will get ya a 10 lol