Posted on 08/21/2006 4:38:32 AM PDT by IrishMike
ROZ-lynn was the original Heinous Harridan -- BH (Before Hillary). She also sat in on cabinet meetings. Couldn't let Jimmah have too long a lead on that leash!
Carter.. Now that brings back memories..
I was a young navy enlisted man working with an F-14 fighter squadron on the flight deck aboard the USS Conatellation (CV-64) in the late 70's. With the budget cuts the Carter admin. had hit the DOD with few of our ships and planes were actually seaworthy or airworthy. I still recall one incident vividly over 25 years later. The non-skid decking on the flight deck was so old that it was non-exsistant. It was like ice skating and we were taxiing aircraft around on this thing while it was doing 30 knots. In a rain shower one day an A-7 that was taxiing up to the waist cats slid right over the deck and into the catwalk. It had one maingear in the catwalk and the other on deck. I must have just been the closest man to it at the time because I dove under the main that was on deck and tied it down with a tiedown chain. I am still not certain whether it actually would have gone all the way overboard or not. When the pilot shut down the engine and finally climbed out of the thing he looked like he had seen a ghost.
All this happened during a 47 day deployment off Iran and Yemen in the spring of '79. This was while the radicals were throwing the Shah out. Our orders were to sit off the coast.. and do nothing! When we finally got back to Subic Bay in the Philippines guess how they "fixed" the flight deck? A PHILIPPINO contractor was hired to renew a six foot strip of non-skid arourd the edge of the flight deck. The center of thing where we worked was left bare. There was no budget to fix it.
Even with the extra bit of money we recieved as "flight deck pay", the pay was so low that the married guys in the squadron had to apply for food stamps in order to feed their families. This is while they are on active duty, serving their country!
When my four years were up in the summer of '80 I got out as fast as I could. If I had only known that help was on the way. In November Ronald Reagan was elected and starting in '81 things got much, much better for all the troops. If I had known this at the time I would have stayed in as was my original plan. But not with the way Carter ran the military. AND HE WAS EX-NAVY!!
And this guy is still out there badmouthing his country! He's the one that should be tried for treason!
Given that then...what are your top five worst Presidents then???
Perhaps someone can start a mission to take Carter's Nobel away. His view of peace if for America to scrape and bow to the UN and the Islamofascists.
I'm related to Wilson, my Mother's greataunt married Wilson's brother. I think that is how it was.
The mother of that clan wasn't much better.Can anyone find a pic of "Lilian" at that 70's snakepit,Sudio 54?
AMEN to that headline.
Was he even any good at the house-building thing?
You decide.
Merely another Wackjob-idiot or a bona fide meance?
You decide.
Hello Doc,
I'll go with menace, he was elected president.
Bttt
Other people did the work, he lent his name and took the credit. I used to THINK he deserved credit for it, because he certainly made sure it was noised abroad, but I found out differently when I actually got involved in the program through my church. I should have known that he would run true to type.
I heard the same thing from a lot of guys who got out under Carter. A bunch of them went to law school with me as an alternative career . . . anything was better than serving under Jimmuh I guess < g > .
Neither am I a rat. I have never voted for a rat in my life and I am 66. I am proud to be on the opposite side from the idiots who claim to be loyal Americans but obviously hate America.
Maybe it is here: www.headbobble.com
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