This ad popped up in Oslo, in anticipation of 4000 sailors and shore leave.
Posted on 05/28/2023 5:38:03 AM PDT by devane617
USS Gerald R. Ford arrives in Oslo May 24. 2023 Take a few minutes to watch this video. It will make you proud.
Read the headline too fast… wondered how they got an aircraft carrier onto Lake Erie 😂
This ad popped up in Oslo, in anticipation of 4000 sailors and shore leave.
I see what you did, there .. .
says Willy to Joe
Hmmm, is it on the way to the Ukraine?
The election of 1976 was rigged!
Our Fighter Jets have the sound of Freedom and our AC Carriers have the look of Freedom.
“Brilliant”!
You deserve a 6 pk Guiness.
Thanks, devane617! It did make me feel proud :-)
LT. Commander Ford 1942–1946 was probably the best athlete to ever be president.
CNN) — Chevy Chase didn’t look like Gerald Ford and didn’t sound like Gerald Ford. But in the mid-1970s, when “Saturday Night Live” first went on the air, Chase — then a writer and cast member of the show — made his impression of the president, rife with pratfalls and slapstick, the talk of the country.
He also made the president a butt of jokes, which was intentional, Chase told CNN in an interview.
“[Ford] was a sweet man, a terrific man — [we] became good friends after, but ... he just tripped over things a lot,” he said. “It’s not that I can imitate him so much that I can do a lot of physical comedy and I just made it, I just went after him. And ... obviously my leanings were Democratic and I wanted [Jimmy] Carter in and I wanted [Ford] out, and I figured look, we’re reaching millions of people every weekend, why not do it.”
Over the years, “Saturday Night Live’s” political satires have become a mainstay of the show, sometimes to startling effect.
Al Franken — now the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota — and his then writing partner, Tom Davis, wrote a wicked takeoff of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s book, “The Final Days,” which included Dan Aykroyd as a bitter Richard Nixon and John Belushi as a toadying Henry Kissinger. In the mid-’80s, a sketch starring Phil Hartman as Ronald Reagan showed the president, often lampooned as forgetful, with a razor-sharp command of the Iran-Contra situation, cutting deals in Arabic and barking orders at his staff.
More recently, Dana Carvey’s malaprop-laden impression of George H.W. Bush, Hartman’s puppy-dog Bill Clinton, Will Ferrell’s George W. Bush and Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin have embedded themselves in the culture.
Though Chase believes the show leans left, and Fey’s Palin is an attempt to hurt the Republicans, Marc Liepis, NBC Universal senior director of late night publicity, had no comment.
CNN: You mean to tell me in the back of your mind you were thinking, hey I want Carter ...
Chase: Oh, yeah.
CNN: And I’m going to make him look bad.
Chase: Oh yeah. What do you think they’re doing now, you think they’re just doing this because Sarah’s funny? No, I think that the show is very much more Democratic and liberal-oriented, that they are obviously more for Barack Obama. [In the ‘70s], out of the Nixon era, and it was not unlikely that I might go that direction.
CNN: I talked to one political pundit who said, I think Chevy Chase cost Ford the presidency.
Chase: When you have that kind of a venue and power where you can reach so many millions of people and you’ve become a show that people watch, you know, you can affect a lot of people, and humor does it beautifully, because humor is perspective and has a way of making judgment calls. ... So I think there was no question that it had major effect and in fact, in speaking with his family and then later him, and even reading some of his books ... he felt so, too.
No matter who followed Nixon they were politically doomed. Whip Inflation Now didn't help either.
LOL! I was thinking of that too... thousands of sailors descending upon Oslo with money to spend. Skol!
Magnificent ship! When I lived in Alaska a Nimitz class CVN sailed into Cook Inlet. Those are HUGE boats.
Thank you for your service, Sir.
Thank you for your service, Sir.
Bttt!! ...X 2 !!...
It doesn’t look much different because of the sheer scale of a flattop but the GRF is radically different than carriers that preceded it because they moved the island back 140 feet and three feet closer to the edge of the deck.
This gives enough extra aircraft parking space between the island and the flight deck that the ship needs one fewer elevators.
Add that to the fact that the magnetic catapult “reloads” quicker, is smaller and needs less maintenance than a steam catapult, and the GRF can conduct 25% more launches per day with 25% fewer crewmen.
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