Navy's ship likely to remain stuck for a couple more weeks

Stars and Stripes ^ | 24 Jan 13 | Matthew M. Burke

[Track9]

Are these the same reefs the locals dynamite when they fish..

[blueunicorn6]

Advertise it as an adventure cruise with a Midnight Chocoholic Buffet and I bet you get 2,000 people to push it off the reef. You could even charge them $2,500 a piece for the trip. Put a zip line on it, and the Australians would pay even more.

[Tucker39]

If memory serves, the lift ship that brought the Cole back to home port was Norwegian. I guess the U.S. Navy prefers to farm out that retrieval work. As the navy inevitably becomes more and more screwed up and *morally corrupt, there will probably be lottsa’ towing jobs for other enterprising navies to cash in on.

*Based upon The Holy Bible’s view of homosexualality.

[Elsie]

stuck on a protected reef

I'd have to FIRE that security company!

[Elsie]

How they gonna SLIDE that thing UNDER the ship?

[Elsie]

*Based upon The Holy Bible’s view of homosexualality.

Some folks do not know exactly where to look: I'll help...

Genesis 13:13

Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.

 

Psalms 12:8      The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.

      More?

Isaiah 3:9   The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.

2 Peter 2:13b  Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

 

 

Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.

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2 Peter 2

 1.  But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
 2.  Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
 3.  In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
 4.  For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell,  putting them into gloomy dungeons  to be held for judgment;
 5.  if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
 6.  if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
 7.  and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
 8.  (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
 9.  if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
 10.  This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature  and despise authority.   Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
 11.  yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
 12.  But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
 13.  They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

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But there IS hope!!!

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

 9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
     Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

 

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If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...

[dforest]

Under Obama, the Navy is turning into the Keystone Cops who are now delivering Pizza for Peace.

[No Truce With Kings]

“How they gonna SLIDE that thing UNDER the ship?”

They almost certainly will not. My bet is that they will lighten the minesweeper until it floats. (Add pumps to ensure water goes out faster than it comes in.) and then tow it off the reef. THEN they put it on the lift ship.

It is also likely they are waiting until there is a lift ship to put it on before refloating it. That bit about pumping water out faster than it flows in is simple, but not easy. Or it might simply take time to lighten the Guardian and make the patches they need to make before attempting to refloat the ship.

Nor it is unusual for the navy to hire lift ship. Having their own lift ship would require a crew that could otherwise be assigned to a warship. A navy lift ship would sit around idle most of the time unless contracted to civilian work. In which case, the ship would be primarily used for commerical, not naval, activities, and we know what it is like when the government attempts to run a commercial business.

Historically, train operations and logistics (both naval and military) were contracted out to civilians. It was only during the age of conscription (call it 1870-1970) that those activities were run by naval and military personnel. In an era of professional naval and military it makes more sense to ship that kind of stuff back to civilians.

[Tucker39]

Thanks. You presented an air-tight case.
There are 2 groups these days who are the darlings of many in positions of power, from Dear Leader on down, and the totally debauched media, movie & TV entertainment crowd.

Those two “darling” groups are homos of both (or is it all 3?) genders, and the abortion crowd. But Judgement Day is not far off!

An Old Testament character, a queen, Jezebel, comes to mind. In Revelation Chapter 2 God says that He gave her time and opportunity to repent, but she refused. The homos, abortionists, and ALL unsaved, for that matter, are right now being given time and opportunity to repent and surrender to Christ. Most of them are refusing. But some day soon this is all going to come to a screeching halt, and it will be FOREVER TOO LATE!