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Buy Your Own Aircraft Carrier
Vodalian writes "Distinction as the last surviving Aircraft Carrier built in England for WW II and commissioned as the HMS Vengeance in late 1944, this unique vessel served the British then the Australian Navy as HMAS Vengeance prior to her sale to Brazil In 1956. Undergoing reconstruction and overhaul in Rotterdam from 1957 to 1960 she was commissioned as the Minas Gerais in December of that year. During her service with the Brazilian Navy she was overhauled from 1976 to 1980 completing a 5-year refit in 1981. She was decommissioned on the 16th of October 2001 and is currently for sale."
It probably costs more than $4.5 million to paint the fucking thing.
A free Europe.
With cameras on every corner.
With ID cards for every serf^H^H^H^Hcitizen.
With manditory key escrow.
Hmmmm. This must be some new, European definition of "free" that hasn't yet spread to the US.
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a) I'm not sure how non-socialized health care makes us 'not free'. .com startup...
b) 70 hour work week? Maybe in a
c) We should let the prisoners free?
d) I don't think the poster meant we were perfect over here. He's just sick and tired (as am I) of the U.S. bashing that goes on quite liberally here...
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
Shhhh! You're supposed to pretend that it's the United States which has been trying for centuries to become a fascist, totalitarian empire, and Europe which is trying desperately to preserve Western civilization. It's the new fad, you see.
Sadly, you completely misunderstand why Europeans don't like US policies. Europeans don't argue about whether it is the US or Europe that should "preserve Western civilization", they believe that any such undertaking is intrinsically flawed. That was a lesson painfully learned over several centuries by Europeans, but America seems intent on repeating the same mistakes.
As for fascism and totalitarianism, no nation is immune, not even the US. But maybe that, too, is a lesson Americans may have to discover for themselves.
d) I don't think the poster meant we were perfect over here. He's just sick and tired (as am I) of the U.S. bashing that goes on quite liberally here...
So then why don't you Americans remove this mad cowboy from Whitehouse and let the man be president who was elected by the Americans to be it?
Why do so many of you support a regime that breaks public international law for reasons of oil and personal hate so openly?
Kosi
As in "that is what we would do if we were still able to be that powerful."
Europe is still able to do that (its total GDP is bigger than that of the US, and it has the technology), it just chooses not to. What would be the point? Spend half a trillion dollars a year to be able to invade countries like Grenada and Iraq?
The residue of the COMINTERN effort to destroy the West; preparing it for conquest by spreading defeatist memes.
Hello? Were you frozen in the 1960's and have just woken up? There is no "COMINTERN effort" anymore.