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Left HS before report cards came out. Enlisted in the Marines for four years. By the time those years were over, I was hooked - they had me for life. Spent nearly ten years as enlisted. Received a Silver Star, Bronze Star w/V, Purple Heart as a Sgt during first RVN tour. Upon returning to the State's received a combat commission to 2Lt. Retired after 36 total years as a Colonel. Book follows my career, but is more about the heroes with whom I served, the great mentors I had, and the leadership principles they instilled in me.

Unbelievable! What will be next?

Someone please tell me what is a non-binary human being, is it even a human being.  Our once great nations sinks further into decay with each passing day. Is there any hope at all for those of us who really care about the country? Maybe, but it all depends on November. What public restroom will this “non-binary” use? Any thoughts? 

Oregon judge allows person to change gender from female to ‘non-binary’

America.An Oregon judge ruled Friday that a transgender individual can legally change their sex to “non-binary” rather than male or female in what is believed to be an unprecedented ruling.

The Oregonian reported that Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Amy Holmes Hehn legally changed Jamie Shupe’s, 52, sex from female to non-binary.

The co-executive director for Basic Rights Oregon Nancy Haque said the ruling was a “momentous day for genderqueer Oregonians.”

“It’s really exciting for the courts to actually recognize what we know to be true: gender is a spectrum,” Haque told the paper. “Some people don’t identify as male or female.”

Shupe is an Army veteran who retired in 2000 a sergeant first class. She began transitioning in 2013 while living in Pittsburg and knew that neither the male or female gender label fit.

Shupe chose the name “Jamie” because it was a gender-neutral name and would rather be called “Jamie” rather than a pronoun.

“I was assigned male at birth due to biology,” Shupe said. “I’m stuck with that for life. My gender identity is definitely feminine. My gender identity has never been male, but I feel like I have to own up to my male biology. Being non-binary allows me to do that. I’m a mixture of both. I consider myself as a third sex.”

In April, Shupe and lawyer Lake Perriguey filed a petition to legally change Shupe’s sex to non-binary.

According to the Oregonian, state law allows a court to change a person’s legal sex if a judge decides the person has undergone the surgical or hormonal treatment related to their gender transition.

Though the law doesn’t require a doctor’s note, Shupe brought letters from the Oregon Health & Science University, as well as the Veterans Hospital.

“The sexual reassignment has been completed,” Hehn wrote in the ruling. “No person has shown cause why the requested General Judgment should not be granted.”

Attorneys at the Sylvia River Law Project in New York told The Daily Dot that some cities have IDs that allow residents to decline to declare a gender. However, Haque said more work has to be done.

Basic Rights Oregon is working with officials across the state to offer people gender designations beyond male or female. Oregon residents still cannot list “non-binary” on a driver’s license or state ID.

“It’s a huge barrier to being able to live your life, to having a driver license, to employment, to having records about your life, transcripts, all of those things,” Haque said. “In all the ways our lives are gendered in ways they frankly don’t have to be, it can be a barrier for people whose identities aren’t easily put in a box.”

However, Shupe said her win felt “liberating.”

“I’m not under pressure anymore to conform to either thing,” Shupe said.

Originally posted 2016-06-13 14:44:34.

Mexico No – US Yes

Amazing, absolutely amazing. Our neighbors to the south have spoken loud and clear they do not want gay marriages. Yet, those living in the U.S. are predominantly in favor of gay marriages. I guess that’s what happens when they cross the border, illegally or not, and become affected by our new society. We are sick, and a horrible influence on people. In our country, the “silent minority” allows the vocal minorities to rule. How sad. Don’t be a member of the silent majority, let’s become the vocal majority instead!  JB

Mexican PresidenteMexico’s ruling party clobbered in elections following push for gay ‘marriage’

June 9, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has just lost its 86-year dominance of Mexico’s state governments in a massive electoral upset following a new initiative by Mexican president and PRI member Enrique Peña Nieto to amend the constitution to create homosexual “marriage.”

For the first time since the PRI was created in 1929, the party no longer holds a majority of state governorships. Out of 17 states holding elections on June 5, the PRI won only five states and lost four states with 19% of the country’s population. The result is that the PRI now holds the governorship in only 15 of the country’s 31 states, with 45% of Mexico’s population. The party is also out of power in the nation’s Federal District.

The president’s initiative, announced on May 17, includes a massive propaganda campaign to convince public school students and the population in general that homosexuality and transgenderism are normal and morally acceptable, as well as membership in the United Nations’ “LGBT Core Group,” a coalition of nations promoting the homosexual agenda worldwide.

Peña Nieto’s new pro-gay offensive was met with condemnation by the leadership of the Catholic Church in Mexico as well as the creation of the National Front for the Family, a coalition of over a thousand organizations united to defeat the initiative and to protect the traditional definition of marriage. The National Front for the Family held protests throughout the country on June 1 and 2, and PRI elected officials began to abandon the president, stating their opposition to the initiative and promising their constituents they would vote against it.

The cause of the PRI’s defeat cited most often in the Mexican media was the president’s homosexual “marriage” initiative. Although it remains to be proved that the PRI’s massive electoral loss was due to the unpopularity of the proposed constitutional amendment, polls indicate that Mexicans are both dissatisfied with Peña Nieto’s presidency and opposed to homosexual “marriage.”

“Peña Nieto and the PRI have paid the price at the ballot box for presenting initiatives against Mexican values,” said Luis Losada Pescador, who leads the activist organization CitizenGO as part of the coalition of the National Front for the Family. “It may be that Peña Nieto is trying to win foreign friends, but he has reaped internal rejection,” he added.

The Bishop of Veracruz, Felipe Gallardo Martín del Campo, noted of the electoral results that “normal Mexicans, who are 99 percent [of the population], don’t accept marriage between people of the same sex and the proof of this are the protests that have been held throughout the country.” He added that other parties “should work harder and not commit the same errors because they know that in the next election the people are not going to vote for their party.”

Recent polls show that Mexicans continue to oppose the creation of homosexual “marriage,” with percentages against it ranging from 44% to 62% over the last three years, and percentages from 36% to 52% in favor. A majority of Mexicans continue to oppose the legalized killing of the unborn in most cases as well.

Originally posted 2016-06-10 16:08:52.

Why Are You a Conservative?

Has a Liberal ever asked you that question? If so, what was your answer? I have been asked that question numerous times, and I always thought I gave an honest, thought-provoking reply, albeit did no good, as the Liberal just laughed it off. However, it did not bother me as he/she was not a friend; as I have always said I do not have any Liberal friends, and I do not want any.. But now, having watched this short video, I have a new reply. I am so excited, I can’t wait for the next liberal to ask me the question.

https://www.prageru.com/courses/political-science/why-right-right

 

Originally posted 2016-06-10 14:13:36.

Our Bloated Govt is Dysfunctional

If you ever had any doubt that our Federal Government has become a bloated bureaucracy with so many agencies that have their own “protocols,” many of which differ from each other, than you have been living under a rock. I learned a basic principle during my time in the Corps: “A leader is responsible for everything his/her command does or fails to do.” Go to the top and question the Director of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, they all belong to him,  As the director he leads the third largest Department of the U.S. government, with a workforce of 229,000 employees and 22 components including TSA, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, FEMA, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service — just to name a few. He needs a “sit down” with the heads of all his agencies and DEMAND they get their stuff together. But, you know what? That will never happen until some heads swing. Come on Trump, we need you to clean house!

Federal immigration boss at center of turf war over terror suspect transferred on heels of damning report

 

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services supervisor who an Inspector General’s report did not name but blasted for keeping Department of Homeland Security agents from Enrique Marquez is Irene Martin, who, according to her Linkedin.com account, has been with the agency for at least 16 years, 13 years as a field supervisor.

Homeland Security Investigations is part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which, like U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, is part of DHS. Martin refused to allow the agents access to Marquez.

It is not clear what disciplinary action Martin could face, but the report last week faulted her for making agents wait more than 90 minutes before she gave them access to related files on the suspected terrorist, and then she dismissively ordered them to hand copy files, according to the federal report. Agents told building security they intended to arrest Marquez to prevent him from killing anyone, but Martin had them wait 30 minutes just to see her. When questioned by IG investigators later, Martin repeatedly changed her story and also contradicted what other witnesses said.

“We concluded that the USCIS Field Office Director at the San Bernardino office improperly delayed HSI agents from conducting a lawful and routine law enforcement action…” the report said. “We have also concluded that the Field Office Director was not candid with OIG investigators during her interview.”

Jeff Carter, chief of media relations for USCIS, told FoxNews.com late Monday that “to his knowledge there is no further investigation into Martin,” and her transfer become acting deputy district director was planned before the audit was released.

Martin, who formally oversaw San Bernardino and Riverside as well as Los Angeles counties, did not return emails to FoxNews.com. USCIS in California referred calls to its Washington headquarters, where officials refused to comment. However, experts and former law enforcement agents told FoxNews.com Martin’s actions amounted to obstruction of justice.

“The USCIS field director’s behavior was not only outrageous and reprehensible, but in violation of federal law and policy that ensure any law enforcement agency the ability to make arrests or conduct interviews in government facilities,” said Jessica Vaughan, of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington-based research institute. “I cannot imagine any possible excuse for her actions, and it is doubly concerning that she apparently lied to the investigators about what she did. She needs to be fired, not to mention prosecuted.”

Although Marquez was only a “person of interest” a day after the attack, authorities were frantically trying to track down anyone associated with Farook and Malik. Both Farook and Malik were killed by law enforcement after their morning attack.

“When agents show up to CIS for a criminal investigation, they should never be impeded. That is obstruction of justice,” said Claude Arnold, retired special agent in charge for ICE’s Los Angeles bureau of Homeland Security Investigations.

Martin is not named in the Inspector General report released June 1, but large portions of the 9-page report to Congress are dedicated to documenting the field supervisor’s actions. Internal sources confirmed Martin’s identity and the USCIS web site still lists her as the field supervisor.

“When interviewed by OIG, the field office director denied telling the agents they were not allowed to arrest, detain, or interview anyone in the building,” the report states. “However, her account is contradicted by that of the other HSI agents present.

“She also gave inconsistent answers about when she discovered that the HSI agents were investigating the shootings from the day prior….Either version is contradicted by the building security officer….”

Arnold said the allegations in the Inspector General’s report indicate criminality.

“It is pretty standard across the federal government that if someone engages in criminal misconduct related to their professional duties, it is also a removable offense,” he said.

The report notes Martin had no authority to hold up the agents who were justifiably concerned that Marquez and Chernykh may pose a threat to the occupants and visitors of the USCIS facility. Marquez, who is now in jail and awaiting trial on charges related to supplying the guns as well as marriage fraud, has pleaded not guilty.

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., requested the IG investigation.

“The DHS was created to unify and improve coordinated efforts to defend our homeland. Refusing to allow armed ICE agents into a USCIS facility to detain a suspected terrorist just a day after a deadly terrorist attack is disturbing,” Johnson told FoxNews.com. “It is my hope that the DHS takes this incident seriously and improves its coordination so that something like this never happens again. The safety of all Americans depends on it.”

sgtmajorThe sad thing is no one cares about this “stuff” because it doesn’t personally affect them, especially the Millennials. We need a Marine Sergeant Major to run this incompetent organization.

Originally posted 2016-06-07 12:06:32.

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