Doth boggle…
Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is not-racist humor racist?
We already know the answer: When it suits the progressive agenda for it to be racist.
Full article, HERE.
The inmates are truly running the asylum.
On a sadder note, USS Bonhomme Richard (Bonnie Dick) is done…
The party line from the Navy is “it’s too soon to tell” but the forward mast has melted down due to fire in the island, at least three major holes were burned through the flight deck (that is where the helos were dropping water). The word is a lot of her internal structure is gutted, etc. Reality is she is probably beyond economic repair. If that is true, she will be written off as a BCM9 code. The CNO went aboard yesterday, link HERE. 
Rumors are circulating that both USS Peleliu (decommissioned March 2015) and USS Nassau (March 2011) are being looked at to be brought out of the White Fleet and put back in service as a stopgap measure.
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There is no worse time — none — for a ship to experience a fire than when maintenance or upgrades are in progress. Everything is disrupted, and most of the crew — who know exactly what to do — are ashore. I’m old enough to remember Normandie — perhaps the greatest of the great liners — and her fate.
Yes, she’s finished. And we could have used her in the coming war with China. USS Tripoli was commissioned last week, so there is that. But they’re all long builds.
USS Peleliu could be brought back on line and refitted for F-35’s as you pointed out, but at the peacetime pace, it would be two years at least.
According to our thought-police, it’s only okay to make fun of whites if they are anywhere right of complete leftism, people who act white (according to the Smithsonian) and flyover country (which, curiously, contains white people or people who act white… hmmmm…)
Still waiting for heads to roll from that ‘White Privilege’ poster put out by said Smithsonian.
As to the Bonnie Dick, any fire lasting longer than 24 hours, ship is lost. The hull may be recoverable, and would be during WWII, but basically you’d have to cut her top off, gut her, and then hand-rebuild her, which no peacetime navy can afford to do.
Still waiting to see if it was just stupidity or whether there were evil minds behind it, either on the left side or of more foreign origin.
And, of course, Congress will want to name her replacement something completely stupid.
The USS Obama?
One more reason to make sure the GOP retains the Senate and regains the House.
Ian- Exactly…
LL- Good point. One wonders if that can be ‘accelerated’…
Beans- Concur.
Hey Old NFO;
Dang Beans Stole my Thunder;
I was wondering if this was an accident of if this was foul play especially in California and how hostile the state is overall to the Feds and the fleet, I keep wondering if this was someone being helpful to China, or is my tinfoil hat showing….And I hope Congress names her replacement proud.
I do feel that the razor blade industry will be well stocked and in full speed very soon.
So, a ship can go to war and function with massive damage but a fire while it’s tied up totals it? Uh… Sidenote: IIRC, the Constellation CV-64 was gonna be the Kitty Hawk CV-63 until it caught on fire during construction. There was a commemorative plaque by the warped deck plates one deck below my work space.
Sad to see a ship end up like that.
Bob- Way too early to tell anything.
CP- Yep
Robert- Yep, 160 total onboard (duty section plus contractors), fire suppression systems disconnected, no DC parties available= toasted ship.
Yeah… it’s not like ships and fire have been a problem going back to prehistory, and the US Navy has only been around since 1775 and probably hasn’t had time to develop any fire procedures for dock service, and the dockyard didn’t have fire prevention regulations, and none of the
contractors had any concerns, and it wasn’t worth making it a bunch of peoples’ *jobs* to see nothing happened, and jeez, “a room full of cardboard” sure burned real good…
Every time something like this happens, it’s the end of a chain of screwups, failures, and indifference. But this isn’t some swabbie flipping a butt into a room full of combustibles; waaay too many officers and contractors dropped the ball. That smells of institutional failure, not one or two people not doing their jobs.
“Oops, sorry. Well, it’s only tax money, which is the same as ‘free’.”
And the yardbirds weren’t gettin’ paid to fight a fire, I suspect. But, four days to knock it down with shore resources available? Wow.
Robert- Considering the ‘lack’ of resources, I’m surprised they got it out before she burned to the waterline.
Rosie O’Donnell wants to know…
How did that steel mast melt?
I was crew on the USS Constellation CV-64 when we had an arsonist onboard; a few small fires, and then… The asshole lit a storeroom of stuff like rubber boots and raincoats, according to the scuttlebutt. We were underway, IIRC. It took a few days to overhaul it. Good times. 🙁