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Trump Picks WWII Battleship in L.A. for Defense Speech [LIVE THREAD]
Times of San Diego ^
| September 15, 2015
| Chris Jennewein
Posted on 09/15/2015 1:05:58 PM PDT by Red Steel
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump picked a World War II-era battleship in San Pedro as a backdrop to share his views Tuesday about national security.
Trumps appearance, organized by Veterans for a Strong America, is expected to draw more than 1,000 attendees to the top deck of the USS Iowa, which has been docked in Los Angeles as a nonprofit tourist attraction, community gathering space and educational museum since 2012.
The Iowa was launched in 1942 and recommissioned in 1984 during the military build up at the end of the Cold War. In April 1989, an explosion of undetermined origin wrecked her No. 2 gun turret, killing 47 sailors.
ome critics contend Trumps visit on the eve of the CNN Republican candidate debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is not an appropriate use of the battleship. An online petition, Tell the USS Iowa: We Dont Want Trump in San Pedro, had garnered more than 3,500 signatures as of late last week from area residents calling for the event to be canceled.
This battleship is part of American history and should not allow a man who has injured and insulted a significant portion of the Los Angeles community, wrote Gabriela Lopez of San Pedro, who started the petition on Change.org. We are for freedom of speech, however this ship represents freedom, equality and justice; terms that do not align with Mr. Trumps political views.
We are not taking sides this is neutral ground, Williams said. Our number one goal is to be a community platform, and freedom of speech is a great thing, whether thats from Trump or from protestors. We are happy people are talking.
This is the first time Veterans for a Strong America has used the battleship, which rents out and hosts a variety of events throughout the year, from free community movie nights and a veterans job fair to corporate events that can be much larger in scale than Trumps appearance, Williams said.
Registration and advance payment is required for those interested in attending the event. For details, visit www.veteransforamerica.org.
TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016issues; battleship; election2016; iowaclassbattleship; newyork; trump; trumprally; usnavy; ussiowa; veterans
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To: TomGuy
You live stream link is sharper than the PHX Fox10 stream. Also, Fox10 is raising and lowering the volume so as not to play music - they are worried about receiving copyright violation notices.
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posted on
09/15/2015 5:15:57 PM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Hillary for incarceration not inauguration)
To: TomGuy
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posted on
09/15/2015 5:18:40 PM PDT
by
Red Steel
(Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
To: Red Steel
That chick singing is gosh-awful. Sick calf dying in a thunder shower. Gotta go to mute for a while.
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posted on
09/15/2015 5:20:46 PM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(Beware the tyranny of the easily offended. (Stossel))
To: rdl6989
The Navy determined a gay suicidal sailor caused the explosion, but even back then there was pressure find another cause.
Other way around.
The initial investigation pointed to an alleged homosexual revenge/suicide plot. Partly because the Navy believed the 1930s mechanical technology related to the guns was fool-proof, but also because they didn't want to admit that the Turret Captain (I think) was something of a loose cannon who was playing around with, and being allowed to play around with, weird loadouts ... like seeing what would happen using five powder bags instead of the specified six.
A second investigation pointed to the real problem: there wasn't any sort of mechanical governor on the shell/bag ramming mechanism. The powder bags were overrammed at a much higher speed than ever intended, detonating the powder.
The truth is that the Navy should have looked to overramming right from the start. Problems with the old powder bags plagued the Iowas at the beginning of their 1980's recommissioning. The New Jersey's bombardment of the Syrian positions in the hills above Beirut ended up with the shells landing all over the place ... but fortuitously hitting (by shear happenstance) a Syrian command center. Testing later determined that the combustible pellets in the bags had become jumbled over decades of being moved around. Producing a very uneven burn rate. When the bags were cut open and the pellets repacked (stacked neatly) accuracy greatly improved.
To: Red Steel
Fox Business channel with Lou Dodds will have the speech.
To: Red Steel
It hasn’t started that’s an earlier speech. DC. I think
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posted on
09/15/2015 5:21:55 PM PDT
by
hoosiermama
( Read my lips: no more Bushes)
To: MayflowerMadam
7 to 10 minutes until stage time.
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posted on
09/15/2015 5:22:41 PM PDT
by
Red Steel
(Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
To: hoosiermama
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posted on
09/15/2015 5:23:13 PM PDT
by
Red Steel
(Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
To: SnuffaBolshevik; Paladin2
"Plus the targeting computer appears to have been analog with a zillion inputs."Been there, done that! I was an FT on a WW2 era Tin can (USS Perkings DD-877, '66-68, 3 WesPac cruises!)!
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posted on
09/15/2015 5:29:55 PM PDT
by
WVKayaker
(On Scale of 1 to 5 Palins, How Likely Is Media Assault on Each GOP Candidate?)
To: SnuffaBolshevik; Paladin2
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posted on
09/15/2015 5:31:58 PM PDT
by
WVKayaker
(On Scale of 1 to 5 Palins, How Likely Is Media Assault on Each GOP Candidate?)
To: WVKayaker
How many were assigned to operate the inputs at a given time?
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posted on
09/15/2015 5:38:57 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current devices...one uses Brit spel now.)
To: GraceG
Ask yourself how does Trump get to use full songs from Rolling Stones (Satisfaction), Beatles (Hey Jude), Twisted Sister (we’re not going to take it) and countless others in his campaigns? I haven’t heard a peep from one of those artists complaining.
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posted on
09/15/2015 5:46:10 PM PDT
by
Fhios
(Racial balkanization is just the)
To: All
I thought that was Wink Martindale!
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posted on
09/15/2015 5:47:43 PM PDT
by
zzeeman
("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
To: Red Steel
Wink Martindae!
Haven’t seen him in years. Used to like ‘Name That Tune’.
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posted on
09/15/2015 5:48:34 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Red Steel
Marines are not supposed to laugh at that (joke).
The one to Wink’s immediate right had a definite smile.
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posted on
09/15/2015 5:50:44 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Paladin2
Yeah, the Iowa class were “fast battleships”. The ships were about 900 ft but they could run and gun.
To: TomGuy
Nice singing the Star Spangled Banner. :-)
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posted on
09/15/2015 5:54:13 PM PDT
by
Red Steel
(Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
To: TomGuy
Sounds like a noisy bunch of protesters on the dock.
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posted on
09/15/2015 5:54:36 PM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Hillary for incarceration not inauguration)
To: TomGuy
Just got home is anyone still streaming the speech?
To: CedarDave
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