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Navy names USS Gabrielle Giffords
The Hill ^ | 2/10/12 | Daniel Strauss and Jeremy Herb

Posted on 02/10/2012 12:18:59 PM PST by ColdOne

The Secretary of the Navy announced on Friday that a new littoral combat ship will be named after former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.).

The announcement comes the same day that President Obama signed the last piece of legislation sponsored by Giffords, a bill aimed at reducing drug trafficking along the American borders with Canada and Mexico.

Giffords, who recently stepped down from office, was the target of a shooting rampage in early January 2011.

“The name this ship bears and the story represented by that name will inspire all those who come in contact with her,” said Navy Secretary Ray Mabus at a naming ceremony at the Pentagon Friday.

Giffords appeared at the ceremony with her husband, former Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) and Roxanna Green, the mother of Christina Taylor-Green, the 9-year-old girl who was killed at the Giffords shooting last year.

Mabus said that Green would be the sponsor of the USS Gabrielle Giffords.

The ship named after Giffords is a littoral combat ship, a smaller ship designed for operations close to the shore. The USS Gabrielle Giffords is the Navy’s 10th LCS ship.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; gabbygiffords; gabriellegiffords; giffords; inappropriate; mexico; navy; obamunism; politics; raymabus; usnavy
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To: Jim Noble

I complained about the other as well. I also complain regularly to my hubby about our beloved university putting up statues of coaches, especially living ones.


41 posted on 02/10/2012 12:43:43 PM PST by petitfour
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To: Toespi

Just wait until they name the USS Obama.

 
Been there. Done that.
 


42 posted on 02/10/2012 12:43:56 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This mean Liberals and/or Libertarians (Same Thing) NO LIBS.))
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To: Selene

I’m sure her husband is all for this.


43 posted on 02/10/2012 12:45:38 PM PST by petitfour
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To: ColdOne
You forgot the barf alert.

What is it with the deification of this woman?!!? She experienced a tragedy. She's a victim. She did nothing heroic. We should be raising to hero status and celebrating the guy who stopped the shooter, not the victim!

44 posted on 02/10/2012 12:45:52 PM PST by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: Toespi

45 posted on 02/10/2012 12:46:19 PM PST by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Doogle

shuuuusssssh...there is talk about the USS Ted Kennedy


 
Been there. Done that.
 
 


46 posted on 02/10/2012 12:46:27 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This mean Liberals and/or Libertarians (Same Thing) NO LIBS.))
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To: ColdOne; a fool in paradise

Well, if you axe me, it make perfect sense if the ship’s homeport is in Arizona.


47 posted on 02/10/2012 12:46:52 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: chopperman
They should just rename the USS Cole.

No kidding, it already has a huge hole in it's side. This makes me sick.

48 posted on 02/10/2012 12:47:32 PM PST by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: Doogle
shuuuusssssh...there is talk about the USS Ted Kennedy

I heard it's already been launched.


49 posted on 02/10/2012 12:48:13 PM PST by RetroSexual
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To: Toespi

50 posted on 02/10/2012 12:49:24 PM PST by South40 (Mitt is full of Shtt)
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To: mancini

Well, she did serve on the House Armed Services Committee, but I don’t think that serving two-and-a-half terms in the House warrants the naming an LCS.

Nor does getting shot warrant it.


51 posted on 02/10/2012 12:50:07 PM PST by bagman
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To: vetvetdoug

You are so right. Mabus is the idiot that wants/recommended a cruiser named after that other crook John Murtha


52 posted on 02/10/2012 12:51:08 PM PST by Afterguard
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To: ColdOne

It should have been named after somebody heroic who died for this country. I presume it was the idea of the Secretary of Navy.


53 posted on 02/10/2012 12:51:38 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: ColdOne

Agreed, Good Grief! However, there is one bright spot; i.e. this action is illustrative of the values of the members of this administration; i.e. An obscure congresswoman is shot by a psychotic, is severely brain damaged and as a result of that damage is forced to resign; therefore, we name a United States Naval vessel after her.


54 posted on 02/10/2012 12:52:09 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: ColdOne

Maybe they oughta name the ship “it’s” in an(other futile) effort to teach the native speakers the difference between “it’s” and “its”?


55 posted on 02/10/2012 12:52:38 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: ColdOne

This should give Diane Sawyer another dozen or two potential opportunities for more Giffords worship stories.


56 posted on 02/10/2012 12:52:54 PM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: Responsibility2nd

57 posted on 02/10/2012 12:53:06 PM PST by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Toespi

Anyone who did not realize that the Ford, Reagan, and HW Bush made the Clinton and the Obama inevitable is an idiot.

Naming ships after politicians was always a very bad idea.


58 posted on 02/10/2012 12:53:16 PM PST by Jim Noble ("The Germans: At your feet, or at your throat" - Winston Churchill)
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To: KC_Lion
“I notice Leo J. Ryan doesn't get a ship named after him, he was a Dem and Got KIA’ed by the Peoples temple maybe because he was investigating a Communists Commune...”

I well remember “Jonestown” and the brutal reality of where the phrase, “drinking the Kool-Aid” originated. As I recall they had to deploy a GRREG Unit from the post where I worked to help process all the bodies. Ugly work ...especially in the tropics.

The current crop of Marxists running the Dem Party would be more likely to name a ship after Jim Jones.

59 posted on 02/10/2012 12:54:23 PM PST by Ozymandias Ghost
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To: Toespi
That's Nobel Prize winner Obama don't ya know. Makes one want to “spew”. But this mighty ship will only shoot rubber bullets at non muzzy homos. Hopefully it will hit a reef and break like his record of promises.
60 posted on 02/10/2012 12:54:28 PM PST by mcshot (Voter fraud will be the doom of the Republic as desired by the Lib Dems.)
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