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Navy To Remedy Swastika-Shaped Barracks
Associated Press ^ | 9-27-2007 | Associated Press

Posted on 09/27/2007 3:01:18 PM PDT by Westlander

CORONADO, Calif. -- The U.S. Navy will spend as much as $600,000 to modify the appearance of a barracks complex in Coronado that resembles a swastika from the air.

Navy officials said the spending for changes to the four L-shaped buildings were approved after satellite images from Google Earth revealed the swastika-like shape.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: appeasement; architecture; building; godwin; navy; nazi; ss; stormtrooper; swastika; whatever
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To: Westlander

What they going to do, paint the roofs black. LOL


41 posted on 09/27/2007 3:54:46 PM PDT by fish hawk (The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
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To: Timocrat
Gherkin - Latin name Cucumis Anguria. That's enough spouting off for one evening.
42 posted on 09/27/2007 3:54:55 PM PDT by Timocrat (I Emanate on your Auras and Penumbras Mr Blackmun)
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To: Westlander

It’s four separate buildings. Tell folks to go pound sand.

Give the $600,000 dollars to me. At least I won’t burn it.


43 posted on 09/27/2007 4:01:21 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hillary has pay fever. There she goes now... "Ha Hsu, ha hsu, haaaa hsu, ha hsu...")
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To: Westlander

I’ll add this one to my “what the hell were they thinking?” library.


44 posted on 09/27/2007 4:04:16 PM PDT by CalvaryJohn (What is keeping that damned asteroid?)
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To: WayneS
I think this building is offensive also and should be razed ASAP.


45 posted on 09/27/2007 4:04:34 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: Westlander

This is just a stupid waste of $600,000. Who gives a damn what a building looks like from outer space?


46 posted on 09/27/2007 4:11:31 PM PDT by gridlock (C'mon people now / Smile on your Brother / Everybody get together / Try to love one anoth-kaBOOM!)
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To: Timocrat

Thats much better.


47 posted on 09/27/2007 4:15:06 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: cripplecreek
They could lay some concrete and paint the ground to make the building look different from the air. We hid whole factories by painting the roofs during WWII.

Navies have a little experience with camouflage.

48 posted on 09/27/2007 4:19:30 PM PDT by gridlock (C'mon people now / Smile on your Brother / Everybody get together / Try to love one anoth-kaBOOM!)
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To: cyborg
Exactly!

Anyone who saw a plan view of the project diagrams should have spotted this immediately.

It boggle the mind to think somebody approved this being built.

49 posted on 09/27/2007 4:22:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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boggle = boggles


50 posted on 09/27/2007 4:23:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: cripplecreek
We hid whole factories be painting the roofs during WW11.

Exactly!

No need for such expense when a little cosmetic treatment will do.

51 posted on 09/27/2007 4:29:27 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: Westlander

Symptom 9,453,832,518,024,857,541 that America is on the decline and fading fast. Anybody who has a sincere problem with this building is WAY TOO SENSITIVE to PC.

WE
ARE
DOOMED


52 posted on 09/27/2007 4:39:59 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free
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To: Westlander

BFD


53 posted on 09/27/2007 5:44:18 PM PDT by squirt (POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED, FOR THE SAME REASON)
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To: Izzy Dunne

You can’t tell me the architect didn’t know what he was doing!


54 posted on 09/27/2007 5:49:28 PM PDT by SmoothTalker
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To: SmoothTalker

I’m not sure anybody really cared back in the 60s.

THEN:

“Hey, that building looks like a Swastika.”

“It’s just a building. Build the damn thing. Nobody cares. It doesn’t look like a swastika, it looks like 8 buildings.”

NOW:

“Hey, that building looks like a Swastika.”

“Whoa is me. Think of the children. How culturally insensitive. It might remind the Muslims how their nation’s supported Hitler’s regime.”

“How about if we just paint the roofs the rainbow colors of the Gay Pride Flag.”

“Yeah, that would work to.”


55 posted on 09/27/2007 6:13:40 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free
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To: Izzy Dunne
I fixed it.


56 posted on 09/27/2007 6:24:26 PM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0 (Reunite Gondwanaland!)
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To: mgstarr
How do you not notice that shape in basic site drawings?

Is this a new building, or an old one. Is the present design the original, or has it been added on to over the years and has come to looking like this.

Although, I agree. If it is the original design; why someone didn't look at that and go - hey wait a minute.... is beyond me. Course maybe some did, but it was long ago and they didn't figure on google earth, and said: eh, nobody's going to notice anyway.

57 posted on 09/27/2007 6:45:38 PM PDT by AFreeBird (Will NOT vote for Rudy. <--- notice the period)
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To: reagan_fanatic
Don’t we have better things to do?

Precisely the question I would present to our Congress.

58 posted on 09/27/2007 6:48:56 PM PDT by Recovering Hermit ("A liberal feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.")
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To: Westlander
The Swastika is also an American Indian symbol. What the navy should do is name the building after some Indian chief, and the whole problem will go away...
59 posted on 09/27/2007 6:49:31 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Withhold Taxes - Starve a Liberal)
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To: BIGLOOK

Did you see this over Coronado ?


60 posted on 09/27/2007 6:54:52 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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