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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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Your tax dollars at work.
To: Westlander
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:02:04 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
(Hillary's Milkshake is better than Your's, She could teach you, but you would rather go blind.......)
To: Westlander
Why not just paint the roof of one of the buildings? That can’t cost $600,000.
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:02:40 PM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: Westlander
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:02:41 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Westlander
We sure would not want space aliens to think we’re anti-semites. Money well spent... ;-)
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:03:30 PM PDT
by
The Iceman Cometh
(Democrats In Control! (Where's my friggin' free stuff?))
To: Westlander
Very strange. Could have all been avoiding had someone taken time to look at a blueprint and go hmmmmmm....
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:04:07 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(Long Island Half Marathon finisher!)
To: Izzy Dunne
How do you not notice that shape in basic site drawings?
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:04:50 PM PDT
by
mgstarr
("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
To: Westlander
PC fascism on the march...
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:05:07 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(Government is a necessary evil, but as with all evils, the less of it the better.)
To: Izzy Dunne
The whole picture...
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:07:01 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(Government is a necessary evil, but as with all evils, the less of it the better.)
To: Westlander; Duncan Hunter Ambassador; pissant; Ultra Sonic 007
Good grief! What a waste of taxpayers' money! Someone please forward this to Duncan Hunter so that the appropriation doesn't get past him in the Armed Services committee.
Jeez!
To: mgstarr
I’m guessing that some probably did, and had a good chuckle over it . . . government contract and all that. In any case, I’ll say this is $600K well spent (put up some awnings, or something).
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:07:20 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Westlander
The original architect knew what they were doing. Setup guaranteed.
12
posted on
09/27/2007 3:08:05 PM PDT
by
steveo
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
To: Westlander
The slide into PC madness continues.
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:08:30 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: The Iceman Cometh
Yep !
With all due sensitivity with regards to the offensivness of the swastika, will we now have to jump through hoop$ everytime something offensive turns up on google-earth etc ?? CRIKEY !
To: Izzy Dunne
Use it for advertising and recoup the 600 grand............
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:09:11 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back!)
To: Westlander
Don’t we have better things to do?
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:09:47 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
To: Brilliant
No kidding. 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.
Personally I’m not too worried about offending space nazis but it’s not great PR.
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:11:17 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
To: biscuit jane
What about the stuff created to intentionally offend
certain groups ?? The tax-supported “art” mocking
Christ etc etc ...
To: rottndog
Oooh - they must rebuild the two complexes to the swastika’s left, too. They MAY resemble Chinese characters that could be offensive to someone...[/s]
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:11:59 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore...)
To: Westlander
Oh, for chrissake. Don't liberals have something better to do, like saving the snail darter or some toad?
Who gives a damn what it "might" look like to the perpetually outraged.....
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