[LegalInsurrection] In Latest Blow to Military Effectiveness, U.S. Navy Will No Longer Require Sailors to Pass Physical Fitness Tests.
Old standard forcing sailors out after 2 failed PT tests rescinded; Navy claims new rule has nothing to do with recruiting challenges Uh huh. Pull the other one
Not having a failed PT test noted on a sailor’s annual evaluation is HUGE: This means promotion boards might now be promoting sailors to leadership ranks and positions who are fat and out-of-shape. Who cares, I guess.
And why the big push now to drop the “get in shape or get out” requirement? Does it have anything to do with the Navy’s abysmal recruiting (“U.S. Navy, Faced with Recruiting Nightmare, Begins Accepting High School Dropouts“) and retention numbers? Of course not!
The change, according to the message, is part of the Navy’s push to revamp its culture of leadership and service and is an effort to modernize “our PFA policy to acknowledge our diverse population, increase sailor trust, and enhance quality of service.”
I’m not sure if this new policy enhances the “quality” of a sailor’s service when they suffer no ill-consequences of being fat and out-of-shape to the point of not being required to pass the PT test (twice).
And what does it mean that the new policy “acknowledges” the Navy’s “diverse population”? Are they saying that minority sailors can’t pass the PT test? Sounds pretty racist to me.
And, while the previous policy might seem a bit onerous, it has already been loosened up over the years in a number of significant ways:
It is the latest in a series of changes to the fitness test that has come in recent years.
In February, the sea service announced that it was resetting the counter on PFA failures fleet-wide, enabling up to 1,500 sailors to keep serving.
In November, the Navy decided to ditch a postpartum PFA that new mothers would typically be expected to take less than a year after giving birth.
Ever since emerging from the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Navy has also kept to the pandemic-era change of conducting only one PFA per year instead of two. Tuesday’s message also continues this trend into 2025.
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Thanks - I take my fitness, shooting, and driving seriously. Been fortunate to have some great shooting and driver training. Stuff that money can’t buy. I might lose but it won’t be because I didn’t train n stay fit.
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06/27/2024 3:07 Comments ||
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I could do that
35 years ago....maybe
Posted by: Frank G ||
06/27/2024 4:13 Comments ||
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With retirement date set, I still had do do the required test. So minimum situps, pushps, and used every last second for the run; stopped just short of the line and stepped across w/2seconds to spare. The coordinator was laughing his butt off.
And just why did the Navy mandate a 1.5 mile run; ain’t no carrier with a flight deck that big……
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If you fall into deep water, swimming is also optional.
Because the recruits they want are not in shape or maybe don't even know how to swim, and then there are those who are in the Navy for reasons other than service who now no longer have to be bothered by such a thing.
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/\ Had a buddy that did nearly the same as USN Ret, but built in enough time on the 2 mile run to stop and light up a Lucky Strike before he crossed the line.
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[REGNUM] The founder of the legendary Wikileaks, Julian Assange, signed a deal with the US Department of Justice on a partial plea of guilty to one of the counts of violating the confidentiality of personal data, received 5 years and was officially released based on the time already served. One of the terms of the deal is the destruction of information collected by Wikileaks.
[IsraelTimes] Lawsuit argues that last week’s law violates the First Amendment, and some Jews feel that while rooted in the Bible, the statutes as presented push Christian values on kids.
Three Jewish families are among a group of nine Louisiana families with children in public schools who have filed a suit in federal court challenging a new state law that requires the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public school classrooms.
The lawsuit — filed on the families’ behalf by Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Freedom from Religion Foundation — argues that the law enacted last week violates the First Amendment.
Specifically, the complaint says that the language of the law “Approves and Prescribes One Particular Version of the Ten Commandments, to Which Many People Do Not Subscribe,” violating the Constitution’s prohibitions on establishing an official religion and prohibiting free exercise of religion.
The lawsuit has longstanding precedent on its side: In 1980, the US Supreme Court ruled that a Kentucky state law mandating the Ten Commandments in all classrooms was unconstitutional. But Christian culture warriors, emboldened by the recent arrival of a solidly conservative majority on the court, see an opportunity to have that ruling, Stone v. Graham, overturned.
Now, similar bills have been proposed recently in state houses in Texas, Utah and Oklahoma. None has yet passed, although Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick pledged days ago that he would make it happen. Louisiana’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, is the first to sign such a law, doing so last week as part of a slate of legislation against abortion rights and transgender inclusion that he said reflected his values as a Catholic.
Jewish families have played leading roles in religious liberty lawsuits challenging recent legislation by conservative state legislatures. Rabbis in a number of states have sued to block restrictions on abortion, for example, arguing that they are based in Christianity and violate the separation of church and state.
The Ten Commandments, given by God to Moses at Mount Sinai in the biblical book of Exodus (and repeated with slight variations elsewhere in the Bible), are revered by both Jews and Christians. But like the abortion lawsuits, the Louisiana lawsuit argues that the text of the Ten Commandments mandated by the law is a Christian version and “does not match any version or translation found in the Jewish tradition.”
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Previously courts have allowed 10 Commandment displays if they were privately funded. It also, by inference allows displays of Satan talking to young children if it is privately funded.
This is publicly funded.
Almost certainly the law will be voided by a District court.
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06/27/2024 9:15 Comments ||
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“I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would…most graciously be pleas’d to dispose us all to do Justice, to love mercy and to demean ourselves, with that Charity, humility & pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion & without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.”
—Washington’s Circular Letter to the States, June 8, 1783
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OK, a little shark-jumping to start the morning:
More than half the commandments are not religious in nature, but societal, that is how to co-exist with your fellows. As such, they should be reasonably allowed public support and display. The remainder, deponent knoweth not.
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#2 - this law requires it to be privately funded IIUC
Posted by: Frank G ||
06/27/2024 10:20 Comments ||
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Public schools have become huge soliciters of "private money," selling rights to put up basically billboards all over school property. Here in Florida there is a law being considered to control how much of that crap can be put along the public roafs in front of schools as it's become a distraction to drivers.
So, privately funded TC display, especially if it comes with so baksheesh? No school board will pass it up.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/27/2024 10:34 Comments ||
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Public roads
Some baksheesh
Phone keyb sux
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/27/2024 10:39 Comments ||
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The world would be a better place if people practiced their religions, Christian and Muslim alike, at home and left the rest of alone.
[BEE] WEST PALM BEACH, FL — The Trump campaign announced Monday that the former president had begun preparing for his upcoming debate with Joe Biden by visiting nursing homes and arguing with dementia patients.
"George, you're wrong about lime JELL-O. Nobody likes it," Trump said as he argued with a 94-year-old dementia patient who claims to be constantly observed by Russian spies. "It doesn't taste good! Everyone's telling me all the time how much they hate it and you're telling me they should serve it every day? On DAY ONE I will ban lime JELL-O."
"And Mexico will pay for it!"
Elderly onlookers applauded as Trump slammed the dementia patient after suddenly picking a fight with him during dessert time.
"It's like he's saying what we're all thinking," said Constance Woodrow, a 78-year-old Alzheimer's patient.
In another instance, Trump screamed at a WWII veteran until he started crying.
"Greatest generation? More like lamest generation," Trump quipped, invoking laughs from orderlies. "You complain about loud music when people — good people — are trying to listen to jazz. You make me sick, to tell you the truth."
"But thank you for your service."
In this, and many such cases, a crowd of old folks erupted in cheers for Trump as he blasted one dementia patient after another.
Trump's debate prep is a distinct departure from previous campaign years when he spent time studying government policy and took part in mock debates against former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
"I spent all my time arguing against a fat man about bridges or something," Trump said, reflecting on past debate missteps. "It didn't prepare me at all. Biden is thin and he hates bridges!"
Sources close to the Biden campaign confirm the president is concerned about this new development leading up to Thursday's debate.
"Oh no, my ice cream," Biden reportedly whispered as his wife led him away.
At publishing time, sources confirm that if Trump fails to win the presidency he will be welcome at Shady Oaks Assisted Living.
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CNN is threatening anyone who uses their stream to live debunk the debate. Musk says "try me." There will be live analysis on X. YouTube will of course go along with CNN and punish any accounts that use the stream.
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[HotAir] "Famine is imminent" in northern Gaza, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a network of Western governments, the United Nations, and nonprofit groups, warned in March, prompting unfounded accusations that Israel is using starvation as a war tactic. The IPC’s report was quickly amplified by outlets like the Washington Post, which foretold "imminent famine" in Gaza. Politico, the New York Times, and CNN alleged Israel is guilty of war crimes.
But on Tuesday, the IPC revised its initial assessment, saying that the projected famine in Gaza did not come to fruition in May. "The available evidence does not indicate that Famine is currently occurring," the organization said in its latest report, which notes that Israel has significantly increased aid and that conditions as a whole in Gaza have drastically improved. But it did manage to get some IDF soldiers killed - so, for "International Community", this is a success.
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When the Gazans look like the Biafrans I saw in high school I may start to believe this.
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Project Coast - Early population control research
Component of racial warfare
Research on birth control methods to reduce the black birth rate was one such area. Goosen, the managing director of Roodeplaat Research Laboratories between 1983 and 1986, told Tom Mangold of the BBC that Project Coast had supported a project to develop a contraceptive that would have been applied clandestinely to blacks. Goosen reported that the project had developed a 'vaccine' for males and females and that the researchers were still searching for a means by which it could be delivered to make black people sterile without them being made aware. Shalk Van Rensburg stated that “fertility and fertility control studies comprised 18% of all projects”.[9]
Testimony given at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission suggested that Project Coast researchers were also looking into putting birth control substances in water supplies.[8] The project officer for Project Coast, Basson, was put on trial for 64 charges, all of which were committed while he held that position.[9] Goosen testified that when asked what motivated him, Basson had replied that "although we do not have any doubt that Black people will take over the country one day, when my daughter asks me what I did to prevent this, at least my conscience will be clean".[10]
In May 2002, Daan Goosen, the former head of South Africa's biological weapons program, contacted the FBI and offered to exchange existing bacterial stocks from the program in return for US$5 million, together with immigration permits for him and 19 other associates and their family members. The offer was eventually refused, with the FBI claiming that the strains were obsolete and therefore no longer a threat.[4][5]
FBI? Perhaps the story didn't end there. You decide.
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^News' flash: Unusually for a virus, though, the influenza type A virus genome is not a single piece of RNA; instead, it consists of 8 segments of RNA, each piece containing either one or two genes which code for a gene product (protein).[32] The segmented nature of the genome allows for the exchange of entire genes between different viral strains.
It's like sexual recombination in diploids.
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