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The U.S. Is Giving Away Lighthouses for Free
Smithsonian Magazine ^ | May 30, 2023 | Teresa Nowakowski

Posted on 06/09/2023 9:17:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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The Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Light is one of ten lighthouses the U.S. government is giving away this year.
Erik Drost via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0
Erik Drost via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0

1 posted on 06/09/2023 9:17:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
I'd put a disco ball up in the top, but hey, I sort of grew up in the 1970s.

2 posted on 06/09/2023 9:19:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I want a missile silo.


3 posted on 06/09/2023 9:20:30 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Fixer Upper...................
4 posted on 06/09/2023 9:21:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“I want a missile silo.”

That would be cool!!


5 posted on 06/09/2023 9:23:18 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So do I, armed with every conceivable type of missile!


6 posted on 06/09/2023 9:23:56 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: No name given

Airbnb gold mine.


7 posted on 06/09/2023 9:25:35 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: SunkenCiv

Maintenance of such places can be very expensive.


8 posted on 06/09/2023 9:27:48 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: SunkenCiv

Conservatives need not apply.


9 posted on 06/09/2023 9:27:56 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: SunkenCiv
China would LOVE to "guard" our shores from . . . (ahem) . . . . invasion.

WTF is wrong with our government !

NEVER, EVER, EVER VOTE DEMOCRAT AGAIN !


NEEVDA

10 posted on 06/09/2023 9:30:11 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: SunkenCiv

If someone were looking for a Math formula to estimate how many Illegal Aliens (from Guatemala) could be humanely housed inside the Cleveland Harbor Lighthouse, wonder what that would be? As a hypothetical exercise. Not that such a plan would be any under serious consideration, mind you!
There are likely many interior cubic feet now available for the filling.


11 posted on 06/09/2023 9:31:04 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: SunkenCiv

The perfect bunker should those aliens turn out to be
Triffids.
I want to be “The Lighthouse Keeper”.


12 posted on 06/09/2023 9:31:52 AM PDT by V K Lee (Our CONSTITUTION. Written with DIVINE assistance by very wise men. A document unlike any other.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’ll take one.

Do they deliver?


13 posted on 06/09/2023 9:33:25 AM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: SunkenCiv
I wouldn't mind owning this one in Nauset on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Went there on my honeymoon. A very picturesque spot.


14 posted on 06/09/2023 9:38:17 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should be less concerned with who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Companies should take care of them and use them as kickoff sites.
15 posted on 06/09/2023 9:38:44 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: Red Badger

that’s a tip’er over.


16 posted on 06/09/2023 9:39:33 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: SunkenCiv

The way the management of our country is going we had better be prepared with some redundancy in navigation, basic communications and energy. As one example these fools eliminated nuclear plants and public telephones that provide redundancy and communications when cell technology in urban areas can becomes insufficient due to excess demand as it did during 9-11.


17 posted on 06/09/2023 9:41:01 AM PDT by apoliticalone (We need real justice not fictitious SOCIAL JUSTICE & DEI that is politics & propaganda, not justice.)
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To: marktwain; DIRTYSECRET; farmguy; lee martell; V K Lee; subterfuge; Red Badger; No name given ; ...

Airbnb gold mine is right.

Better have really good broadband though.

I’d get one of these, if it were nowhere near all that global warming business, that sounds really scary. /rimshot


18 posted on 06/09/2023 9:42:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: farmguy

“I’ll take one”.

What are you going to do with it?

Flip it?

;)


19 posted on 06/09/2023 9:43:04 AM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦...................."Who is Ray Epps?" should be overstamped on every piece of currency.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

You can get it, and keep it, as long as you paint the exterior with the LGBTQ+ rainbow fa, er, flag colors.


20 posted on 06/09/2023 9:43:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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