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US Navy Christening Ship to Honor Gun Control Proponent Gabby Giffords
breitbart.com ^ | 6/11/2015 | AWR Hawkins

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: disgraceful; giffords; taps; theusstarget; usstarget
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To: rktman

I hope there are no guns onboard. Can’t wait for the USS Caitlyn Jenner.


21 posted on 06/12/2015 4:06:51 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: rktman

We are circling the drain.


22 posted on 06/12/2015 4:08:22 PM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: rktman

Cue the picture of the donkey on a boat...


23 posted on 06/12/2015 4:08:59 PM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: rktman

I just spit up in my mouth a bit.


24 posted on 06/12/2015 4:10:05 PM PDT by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
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To: dinodino

Wouldn’t work. Jenner still has his “gun.”


25 posted on 06/12/2015 4:11:30 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: rktman

My feelings too. Why in the world did anyone chose her? Just what has she done that was good for this country?


26 posted on 06/12/2015 4:13:07 PM PDT by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: CrazyIvan

He named a ship Cesar Chavez??? hells bells!!


27 posted on 06/12/2015 4:13:13 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: GeronL

“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”.


28 posted on 06/12/2015 4:14:59 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: rktman
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29 posted on 06/12/2015 4:16:24 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: Vaquero

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Cesar_Chavez_(T-AKE-14)


30 posted on 06/12/2015 4:16:47 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: rktman

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?


31 posted on 06/12/2015 4:21:44 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Remember, Age and Maturity are not automatically in synch")
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To: rktman
Is this the boat?


32 posted on 06/12/2015 4:22:53 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (If Hillary was running against Satan, I'd probably abstain.)
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To: nickcarraway

The powers that be don’t care about the murdered judge because he was a conservative.


33 posted on 06/12/2015 4:23:08 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The so-called Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group.)
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To: GeronL

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.


34 posted on 06/12/2015 4:23:32 PM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: rktman

It has a design flaw. There’s a hole in the officers head...


35 posted on 06/12/2015 4:28:14 PM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: BigCinBigD

YOu can only use half the ship at a time.


36 posted on 06/12/2015 4:29:35 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: GMMC0987

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.


37 posted on 06/12/2015 4:31:02 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: rktman

They must have a hole in their head....


38 posted on 06/12/2015 4:35:22 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: rktman

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”?


39 posted on 06/12/2015 4:35:36 PM PDT by adorno (a)
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To: rktman
For catching a bullet with her forehead, and then trashing the rights of free Americans, she gets a ship named after her?

When does the revolution start?

40 posted on 06/12/2015 4:37:41 PM PDT by semaj (.People get ready, Jesus is coming!)
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