Navy to Name Ship After Gay Rights Activist Harvey Milk

USNI ^ | 7/27/16

[Timpanagos1]

The Navy is set to name a ship after the gay rights icon and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, according to a Congressional notification obtained by USNI News.

[dennisw]

Name a garbage scow after him

[Boogieman]

Ah, the Navy is trying to prove all those jokes about sailors are true, eh?

[dfwgator]

Captain Ned: Thank you, Mr. Spunk. Gentlemen, we have on board a young man whose name is Miles Cowperthwaite! And I have promised his guardian to teach him the man's life at sea! To show him man's ports, such as Key West and San Fransisco! I expect him to be treated manfully! Well, Miles, have you anything to say?

Miles Cowperthwaite: [ stsnds, cheerful ] Well.. I'm very grateful for this opportunity, Captain Ned! Up 'til now, my life has been the most degrading, pathetic, soul-destroying, humiliating, awful grovel..

Captain Ned: [ interrupting ] That's enough, Miles.. [ Miles sits ] Now, men, I run a mans' ship. I will run it in a manful and masculine way! I will tolerate no men under my command who act in such a way so as to discredit their manhood and manliness! Do I make myself clear?

[CivilWarBrewing]

'Wowed' by 0dunga's speech last night? This story is the REAL 0dunga! Don't mistake FANTASY FOR REALITY!!!

America you have a choice. You can either have 4-8 more years of this MADNESS or you can STOP IT in 6 months. The choice is yours. WAKE UP, FEMALES especially.

[Boogieman]

On the USS Harvey Milk, there’s always a Rear Admiral on the poop deck!

[dfwgator]

Stay away from the Poop Deck.

[Petrosius]

Of course entrance is through the stern.

[CivilWarBrewing]

This ship will be full of Navy semen (did I spell that right? lol)

[yuleeyahoo]

He was also a rapist.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/17/harvey-milk-stamp-matt-barber-_n_4117311.html

[Lower Deck]

USS.Milk?

USNS Milk. An auxiliary ship with the Military Sealift Command. Not a commissioned naval ship.

[dfwgator]

So, we glorify pedophiles now by naming a ship after them?

He was also a supporter of Jim Jones' Peoples' Temple.

[Boogieman]

Reminds me.. when I was in high school we had Naval ROTC. One of the cadets had the unfortunate luck to be called “Seaman Cummer”!

[CaptainAmiigaf]

I can see it now. There is the crew of one ship on Liberty. They meet a couple of guys from a squadron of Destroyers. They swap the usual question, “what ship?”
One group os sailors answer, “USS (Mumble Mumble)”
The other guys reply ,”Oh, THAT one. See ya.”

[Amendment10]

The Founding States had drafted the following constitutional clause to prohibit the feds from establishing privileged / protected classes.

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States [emphasis added]: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Note that regardless that this ship-naming issue is a subtle example of the feds arguably exercising powers prohibited by the above clause, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson had warned about the corrupt feds unconstitutionally expanding their powers little by little.

• ”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)

• ”To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791

• ”The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all.” —Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.

[jjotto]

It’s a spoof on his over-the-top role in ‘How I Met Your Mother’.

[ridesthemiles]

Who’s going to swing the champaigne bottle? Bruce Jenner or Barney Frank????

[SoCal Pubbie]

Yes I know. How can anyone take the guy seriously in that role? About like Jonah Hill playing James Bond, and no I don’t see it as satire like an Austin Powers movie.

[CondorFlight]

I thought Harvey Milk was a pedophile.

Is that someone we should name a ship after?

[Starboard]

Its nickname of the ship will be the Marvelous Milk. Haha

[minnesota_bound]

It will be that pink submarine.