There's a New Sheriff in Town

Sahir Shah

$6.2 billion ? Should you guys be playing the big spender at a time like this ?

Oakman

Bought and paid for. Ongoing costs already budgeted and I suspect that the CVN 77 will allow the Navy to mothball or remove altogether a couple of older ships. For instance the Navy Carrier USS Oriskany that saw service in Vietnam was sunk of the coast of Pennsacola, Florida a couple of years ago to provide the world's largest man-made reef. Besides, think of all the jobs the ship created in the shipyards - and now in the Navy. I've wondered if we might not consider spending a lot of our economic recovery packages on the armed services. Bring them back up to say, 2/3rds of where they stood in 1965. Should stimulate the economy just fine.

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Oakman

Back when I was designing games, there was a convention in San Diego. One of the Petty Officers on board the Enterprise really liked my game so he invited me and the rest of my staff to have a tour with him - we went lots of places the public never gets to see and I actually got to sit for in the command chair for about two seconds.

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Ilion

Except that GHW Bush doesn't appear to be dead yet. And, even after he is honestly dead, do we *really* want to name a warship after "Read My Lips" Bush?

Mike Gaskey

Ilíon wrote:

after he is honestly dead, do we *really* want to name a warship after "Read My Lips" Bush?

yes, he's an honourable man that served his nation well.

Mike - typical white guy. The USA does have universal healthcare, but you have to pay for it. D'oh. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.

Oakman

Ilíon wrote:

Except that GHW Bush doesn't appear to be dead yet.

True, but he almost died when he was in uniform. Serving his country. Putting his life on the line to protect the USA. Even ended up with the distinguised flying cross. While you, on the other hand, are a yellow-bellied whiner-boy who wants everyone else to do your fighting for you.

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Ilion

Mike Gaskey wrote:

yes, he's an honourable man that served his nation well.

In one time and place ... but did not in another.

Ilion

Oakman wrote:

While you, on the other hand, are a yellow-bellied whiner-boy who wants everyone else to do your fighting for you.

And you are in inveterate liar.

Lost User

It would have made the US half civilised ;P

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Oakman

Trollslayer wrote:

It would have made the US half civilised

Absolutely. Luckily, I ignored the metric system. ;P

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MrPlankton

...and with all that, I pray God is with us...

MrPlankton

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Oakman

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!

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MrPlankton

Can't argue with that, a 5 for you sir.

MrPlankton

Multicultural Diversity Training, the new Socialist Reeducation Camp-light.

Single Step Debugger

I drove two hours just to visit US “New Jersey” battleship couple of months ago. I also had the pleasure to set in the captain chair for a while. They don’t give you to fire from the main caliber though. :sigh:

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