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USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow
wessman writes "Being an employee at Northrop Grumman's Newport News shipyard, I cannot help but be proud to see one of our products commissioned by the U.S. Navy, especially considering how long it takes to build a $5 billion Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. And I'm sure the other 18,000 workers here feel the same way. The ship is being commissioned Saturday, July 12 at the Norfolk naval base. It is obviously the most technically advanced carrier in the fleet, taking the term "hardware" to new levels. Pick a local story. From the Hampton Roads Daily Press: Anchors Aweigh, Changes Abound Aboard Carrier, Some Wanted CVN-76 Named after Daredevil Flier, 20,000 Expected for Reagan's Rite, USS Constellation Retiring Too Soon?. From the Virginia Pilot: The Carrier Reagan - Ahead of Its Class, Carrier Construction is All in the Family, Former President's Son Michael Reagan Excited about Commissioning."
Ah yes .... in the time you read this posting, a thousand children died from not having clean water. Think about where we are spending our money!
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This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. - Dorothy Parker
They're naming an aircraft carrier after a guy who oversaw one of the largest peacetime military expansions in history. At least that's better than naming an airport after a guy who fired half the nation's air traffic controllers.
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bears the name of the man who invented modern deficit spending in America.
That would be JFK, not Reagan. We can thank JFK for the mess that was the Vietnam conflict, as well as the mess that is NASA. Neither of those endeavors were cheap. What a great leader he was...
Reagan was pro-defense (USSR hadn't fallen yet) but not really pro-big-goverment. His anti-labor policies must have been why he had more Democrats voting for him than any Republican ever.
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4. Profit!!!
That "shit" president turned the US economy around and bankrupted the Soviets into submission.
Not a bad 8 years.
Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Charo, twice...
"I love you people who have nothing but contempt for this country. Where but you to live anywhere else."
That's the part that shows how little YOU know about the rest of the world.
To paraphrase Kipling "They that know only America do not know America."
That was classic intercourse!
Kids go to school hungry...but now there's a lovely new $5Bn aircraft carrier named after a President who'd forget his on name on occassion!
Never mind, all that free oil that the US just "liberated" in Iraq can help offset the costs.
-psy