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From the Desk of John Rourke – August 7th, 2017

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It’s interesting the number of people who have expressed their “dissatisfaction” with my stance on transgenders in the military. I am being told that they have lost transgender friends in combat. Well – it is what it is. I’m offended by a great many things and the disallowance of transgenders in the military – or a Tweet – is not on the list. I should be asking them if they were offended all the years Obama didn’t allow them to serve either.

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Watched the movie The Circle starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson. It was very good. The movie provides a realistic glimpse into the not too distant future where technology – offering safety and security – invades peoples lives to the point that NOTHING is private.

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I think people are getting a little carried away with attaching too much crap to there guns……

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The garden is almost over. Okra continues to produce as well as a single dying cucumber plant and one zucchini plant. Will pull almost everything up this week and throw in the compost bin.

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Hope everyone has a great week….

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14 Comments

    1. JR says:

      Hey – I agree with you Capt. Michaels. I’m just surprised by how decisive some of these folks are over one issue. I don’t agree with everyone on everything but generally, I respect their opinion.

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  4. secondrecon says:

    JR how do you really feel about it??????? It gets crazy enough in combat let alone worrying about who got your six all the time. I am Shure there were gays there when I was in but you never seen or talked about them.

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  5. 3rdMan says:

    The whole problem with transgenders in the military is the fact they require medications, such has hormones. Just like someone who is diabetic, the military can’t insure these individuals have access to their medications during combat. Can you image a soldier going into diabetic shock during combat. The military has these rules in place for a reason. Stop the social experiments using our troops!!!!

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  7. Lightning says:

    Transgendered humans are very complex people ….I have a friend who is a therapist for many TG people and wow…..problems galore. I agree that the military must limit certain people from serving due to medical and mental health issues.There is a difference between critical medical issues ( combat injuries etc.) from elective medical issues.
    Well said 3rd man. Lightning

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  8. goingray58 says:

    Well people will disagree on everything under the sun.I do remember the Let it be culture of the 60’s .. Free love, if it feels good do it .. that didn’t turn out so well, and is a huge part of what plagues us now .. today .. I don’t see how anyone can claim to have a moral code and not accept themselves for who they were born as .. I am not asking to have it “EXPLAINED”, I don’t care .. so don’t.
    An elective decision that weakens a soldier weakens that team (small and large). Imagine expecting someone undergoing that mush confusion watching your back. Nope. Maybe they will be solid, and maybe they won’t. It isn’t worth the risk to the teams or the effectiveness of the unit. Even some of the baldest ass girls on the planet haev trouble keeping up with the top guys. The top 1% of female athletes.. if the make it can hang about 4-5 year before the body submits to the repetitive stresses. That’s not from me but from the top SpecOps Woman in the Army. I head her say it myself. And the majority these gals have no confusion whatsoever about who or what they are.
    I’m sorry it is a physical and mental weakness in the field. period. What happens if anyone gets shot and evaced .. same as anyone one .. your injured or you die. What happens if captured ? How mentally strong does one need to be ? Think all those medical niceties will be there ? Nope.
    Their job is when authorized to make war on and kill th enemy, and do it better than the enemy does. Anything that reduces that effectiveness costs our troops live. That I will never agree with in any form, and especially something totally avoidable like this. Ever.
    GG58

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  9. john wilkerson says:

    Evertyime we allow this crap to grow expand and be excepted into our society we become more like Sodom and Gammorah.And we know what happened to them.
    I think our country is so messed up and perverted today that there is no v coming back or restoring it. Look at our society today and the Greeks and Romans they fell and the US is headed the same way.

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  10. PB says:

    Romans 1
    18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

    21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

    24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

    26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

    28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

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  11. PB says:

    If you had anorexia and thought you were fat while you starved yourself to death, should I tell you the truth or agree and affirm you?

    TG is no different. You can take hormones and whack a few body parts off but…
    You cannot change your DNA. You are what God created you to be and shaking your fist at God in protest and actions is never going to change that.

    The truth doesn’t have to feel good or be unoffensive.

    It just has to be true.

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