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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
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posted on
09/27/2007 3:54:46 PM PDT
by
fish hawk
(The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
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)
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...")
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?)
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!)
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!)
To: Timocrat
47
posted on
09/27/2007 4:15:06 PM PDT
by
skeeter
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.![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Deutschland_2.jpg)
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!)
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.
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.)
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
To: Westlander
53
posted on
09/27/2007 5:44:18 PM PDT
by
squirt
(POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED, FOR THE SAME REASON)
To: Izzy Dunne
You can’t tell me the architect didn’t know what he was doing!
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.”
To: Izzy Dunne
I fixed it.
56
posted on
09/27/2007 6:24:26 PM PDT
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(Reunite Gondwanaland!)
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)
To: reagan_fanatic
Dont 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.")
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)
To: BIGLOOK
Did you see this over Coronado ?
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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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