Posted on 06/12/2015 3:45:01 PM PDT by rktman
On June 13 the US Navy will christen a combat ship after gun control proponent and former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
The ship will be called the USS Gabrielle Giffords and will be christened at the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, where “Vice President Biden’s wife, Jill, the ship’s sponsor, will break a bottle of sparkling wine across the bow.”
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I hope there are no guns onboard. Can’t wait for the USS Caitlyn Jenner.
We are circling the drain.
Cue the picture of the donkey on a boat...
I just spit up in my mouth a bit.
Wouldn’t work. Jenner still has his “gun.”
My feelings too. Why in the world did anyone chose her? Just what has she done that was good for this country?
He named a ship Cesar Chavez??? hells bells!!
“I thought this class was to be named after cities.”
I liked it a lot better when they stuck with traditions like that. I remember when Rickover departed from the norm of naming subs for fish. He was currying favor from strategic states. When asked about it he replied “fish don’t vote”.
Anyone who doesn’t think that WE would pay dearly for the Reagan, GHW Bush and ESPECIALLY Gerald Ford, must be ‘living’ the dream.
Bush was ‘bad’ inasmuch as he was still alive - Likewise J Carter having a Submarine named after him.
But Murtha, Ford and even Chavez is/was downright insulting to the Naval Services.
Figure when given the opportunity the Libs will be naming Clinton, Barney Frank, BO (we will call the Obama smelly) and a cluster f of ‘Lib heroes’....
Fact the libs just don’t give up, didn’t they spend 8 yrs trying to impeach ‘W’ as retaliation for Wee Willies’ impeachment?
The powers that be don’t care about the murdered judge because he was a conservative.
The Navy has a long history of violating naming conventions. For the first six frigtes President Washington was responsible for selecting five of the names: Constitution, United States, President, Constellation, and Congress, each of which represented a principle of the United States Constitution. The sixth frigate, Chesapeake, remained nameless until 1799, when Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin Stoddert, designated her a namesake of the Chesapeake Bay, ignoring the previous Constitutional naming protocol.
It has a design flaw. There’s a hole in the officers head...
YOu can only use half the ship at a time.
I think that was at the behest of Joshua Humphreys, the designer of the original frigates.
His onetime apprentice and later rival, Josiah Fox, got a hold of Chesapeake’s design and made major revisions. Really messed it up, to the point where Humphreys disavowed her.
She ended up being a very unlucky ship with a bad rep. The RN probably did us a favor by involuntarilly taking her off our hands.
They must have a hole in their head....
Okay...
If the intent is to name things after people who stand for the opposite of what the thing is about...
then...
why not change ‘fracking’ to “baracking”, or “bracking”?
When does the revolution start?
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