The Navy's 10th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock will be named for Rep. John Murtha, the long-serving Pennsylvania Democrat who chaired the powerful House appropriations defense subcommittee before he died in February.
According to a Navy memorandum obtained by Navy Times, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus notified Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead that he had selected John P. Murtha' for the previously unnamed LPD 26. It's the latest example of the Navy breaking a convention for naming its warships; the previous ships in the San Antonio class have been named for American cities. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
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I view it another way. The proposed naming of LPD-26 is simply a long awaited and visible reminder of Murtha's departure. In twenty or thirty years, it will be gone as well. I hope this helps others.
one vote from 1st Battalion, 7th, Alpha Company. 1st MARDIV
We had an Officer who drove a Cadillac. We stripped it and put it up on bricks. You cant lead if the men wont follow you. And we wouldnt have followed that pogue across the street and into a whorehouse. I still remember his name...we called him Capt. Mutha.
How many of you know where "Skid Row" is at Quantico? Its the place even the Ice Cream truck didnt go. How would you like to be the Captain of Skid Row? What would you have to do to become Captain there? We had four murders there that year. They teach you to kill and then get upset when you do. And if you want killers sometimes you get them. And in wartime they come home and then where do you put them?
Murtha called ALL Marines "cold blooded killers"...and we Americans resented that, even some Marines resented that. Its was unfair to Marines and unfair to America. And , quite rightly, Murtha was a piece of sh*t.
That being said: What do you think Basilone really was, a choirboy? And after you begin killing there ARE a percentage of men who develope a taste for it. Impossible, right?
And something unique about killing...you get in and then you cant get out. Try it sometime and see if its easy to wash it off..and eventually you just have to live with the taste of it when you lick your lips. The sweet iron taste, salty and you move your tongue around inside your mouth and then pick some up with your hand and taste that too. Human blood. Never happens, right? Impossible, yeah?
What if you were a bigger perve than Murtha? And he was what he was. And some are worse. A smart sleazy politician who wouldnt stop at anything and was cunning enough to succeed at it and climb as high as he did.
Not a smiling smart deceptive old thug who hides it well...and sits in the park eating a peanut butter&jelly sandwich and apple slices. Human blood, you never forget the taste.
Ever cut your finger and immediately ( without thinking) put your finger into your mouth and suck at the blood? WHY do you do that?
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There's a big difference between being trained to kill -- and doing so when ordered -- and being a murderer. Choirboy or not choirboy doesn't enter into it. Any soldier who becomes a murderer, killing innocents for fun or impulse instead of killing enemy bad guys in order to win the engagement/battle/war, needs to be locked up, same as we would a civilian with like drives. It doesn't matter whether the soldier likes killing or has simply become hardened to the work, it's only when he/she deliberately kills innocent civilians that it is a concern. Surely you don't think all Marines are rabid killers barely leashed by their officers, BlackBart, unfit for the company of humans... or even just a significant number of them? If so, how did you dare go to sleep, knowing that any one of your mates might decide the annoyance of your snores merited a garrote in the middle of the night -- the actuality, not the mere impulse that even I have felt?
As for why we put a cut finger in our mouth, that is instinct left over from before soap and antiseptics were invented... the same reason whelping dogs lick their newborn pups clean: to reduce the chance of infection.
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As to Basilone being anything but a Marine, I recommend reading "Hero of the Pacific - The Life of Marine Legend John Basilone" written by Jim Brady. FYI Jim Brady died, suddenly and unexpectedly, the day after completing that book
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Cold, cold, cold ...
Accurate, but cold ...
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Gonzo must be crushed.
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You guys are ruthless. Camilla may not be the most winsome of maidens, but she hasn't gained the same reputation for asshattery her husband Bonnie Prince CheeseBrain has. So I say "Neigh!" to this slander. Or is it libel? I can't ever remember.
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So I say "Neigh!" to this slander. Or is it libel? I can't ever remember.
One of them requires the ability to read and write. While there were horses like Clever Hans who could do math, more or less, they haven't the natural equipment to put legible pen to paper... nor to dictate. So it must be the other one.
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Ah yes ... 'ruth' as in 'mercy, compassion, remorse'. Not used much over the last century or two but a perfectly good word nonetheless ... and a good sentiment from time to time. ;-)
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Ruth the Moabitess -- one of my favourite bible stories. The grandmother of King David was a convert, a Jew by choice as they say nowadays, giving her loving heart and the strength of her body to support herself and her mother-in-law to the best of her ability, rather than return to her own family after her husband died.
Not to worry, like a scorned puppy they'll come back to lick the master's hand ...
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Just part of his stupid, socialist "progressive" migration. Anyting not completely operating from within the confines of the Regime, is to be ignored.
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Nope. It's the left dealing with their own certified victim class entity they've anointed, so they're simply in the classical lefty guilt loop of 'what have we done to receive this'.
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In the middle of it all was Obama -- occupant of an office once informally known as "leader of the free world" -- putting on a clinic for some of the world's greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press.
Is the honeymoon about over with the MSM or are they too vested in his agenda? I guess the MSM likes fawning, adulation, bootlicking and providing cover for BO.
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Harper knows how to play hockey. Hang back right now and wait. When the time is right he'll be taking BO into the corner and his elbows will be well and truly up.
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Would have been interesting if the members of the press that were present did not leave when Bambi held up the proceedings while 'the press exited the room...'
so it appears that The One isn't the only One that is testicularly challenged.
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