WTF?....The George HW Bush aircraft carrier is being built.

[yourout]

Talk about an insult. This was just on the Discovery Channel.

Maybe the George HW Bush garbage scow.

[RB TexLa]

1. There is some ship for every President just about n/t

[yourout]

9. Then we should build the William Jefferson Clinton.

Although the main gun will probably curve to one side.

[RB TexLa]

18. I think they are building an assault ship with WJC on it. could be wrong

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

32. The joke in the Navy for a long time

was Clinton would get a Submarine...

It is long, full of Seamen and goes down for a long time.

[northzax]

33. And Carter has a sub, right?

I know they normally name subs after cities, but I think Carter, a nuclear submarine engineer, has a sub named after him.

ahh yes, SSN-23 a Seawolf.

[NYdemocrat089]

47. lol

:spray:

[oasis]

11. Not carrier class, except for the Kennedy. (correction on post#14)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

14. Say what?

Eisenhower, Roosevelt, Lincoln, Washington,Truman, Reagan are all CVNs.

[oasis]

15. Okay I was slightly off, but Bush doesn't deserve to be a carrier.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

30. Oh, I agree with the sentiment completely

The Navy has lost their minds with naming. The convention means nothing now. There is no really good way to know with certainty what a ship is anymore by name alone.

[PSPS]

13. I don't think there's a USS Nixon

[RB TexLa]

16. I said "just about"

I wish they would give one to President Fillmore, the man helped me alot. Anytime I needed a qoute from a president on anything for a paper, he was there for me. Funny, his qoutes always fit what I needed he said things from the right and from the left. :)

[Drewskie]

40. .

[DesertRat]

2. that makes me sick

:puke:

[beam me up scottie]

3. Get his son to drive the thing.

It'll sink for sure.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

4. You got that right. n/t

[Lasher]

5. Jimmy Carter got a submarine

They're building one for George W also. It's called the USS Clusterfuck.

[Jara sang]

19. Yeah because he was a submariner.

[Lasher]

25. So how did Saint Ronnie of Reagan get a carrier?

Shouldn't he have had an old movie theater named after him instead of an aircraft carrier?

BTW, Carter is also a nuclear physicist. Dubya, in contrast, couldn't even get accepted into law school.

[driver8]

28. One small correction -- Carter is not a "nuclear physicist."

I went through the same US Navy nuclear program that Carter went through. We learned a lot about nuclear power and how to operate plants safely, but I would never in a million years call myself a nuclear physicist.

[Lasher]

29. Thank you for the correction.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

31. But he did win a Nobel Prize

for Peace... which is why he should have stopped the "honor"

[Kingshakabobo]

39. Compared to Bush, I'm a brain surgeon....

:hi:

[ladjf]

6. The master crook will be honored. There is something wrong

with this.

[Rude Horner]

7. For Christ sake,

Don't let Cheney near the missle launchers!!

[Initech]

8. The only thing that should be named after that criminal fascist scum is...

A sewage treatment plant. :evilgrin:

[FightingIrish]

10. That would be turd abuse.

[NanceGreggs]

20. Guess who owes ME a new keyboard?

Yup, that would be YOU, FightingIrish!

If the USS Bush is anything like his administration, it will steal a slip in the harbour, sink small working vessels and give the insurance proceeds to neighbouring yacht owners, under-fund schools for sailors, replace maritime research projects with search-and-destroy missions for the whale that swallowed Jonah, dump oil within fifty-feet of land and then charge the local beach community with the clean-up expenses, declare pre-emptive pirateering on other boats legal, declare itself 'above' existing international maritime law, throw anchors to those blown overboard by hurricane-force winds, fly a 'Mission Accomplished' banner at all times ...

... and, oh yes, eventually run itself aground.

ON EDIT: OOOOPS! This is what happens when you don't read the original post carefully! Thought this was a discussion about a ship named after the Chimp.

Please disregard the above - hopefully it WON'T be relevant for future use, because an impeached president driven from office in disgrace will not be getting a ship named after him.

[oasis]

12. Bush will appoint Akmed Chalabi to be the captain.

[mmonk]

17. USS Read My Lips?

[HawkerHurricane]

21. It was named shortly after Bush the Lesser took office...

Part of the Republican Congress brownnosing the new president.

I have two problems with this...

1. Naming ships after living people... It's not right. They need to have a 10 year dead rule like the U.S. Post Office. Helps keep things in perspective.

2. A one term wonder gets a a carrier? What are they thinking?

[Octafish]

22. Poppy the Traitor Man

George Herbert Walker Bush had something to do with the assassination of President Kennedy.

Take a look what Poppy told the FBI he was doing in Dallas on 22 November 1963.



Why didn't Poppy warn the government BEFORE the assassination, instead of an hour afterward?

SOURCE plus another crucial Bush document:

http://www.internetpirate.com/bush.htm

[savemefromdumbya]

23. it will probably sink!

[NV Whino]

24. What ever happened to

the Kindasleezy Rice tanker? Oh, did I get the name wrong?

[lpbk2713]

26. Didn't Bush 41 let his crewman drown when his plane went down?

During WW II? Seems like I remember the story went something like Bush saved his own ass and basically told his buddy the hell with you. It was a whole lot different from the JFK PT-109 story anyhow.

If this is true it would be a hell of a reason to name a carrier after a Navy man who let his buddy drown.

[Octafish]

27. TWO crewmen.

George HWB was pilot of a TBM Avenger torpedo bomber.

The "Barbara II" was hit by ack-ack while softening up a Japanese held island.

Bush said the cockpit was engulfed in flame. He said he gave the command to abandon ship and he bailed out.

The radioman and gunner never had a chance to bail out. They died when the plane crashed into the sea.

Years later, the gunner in the plane ahead of Poppy's said the guy bailed out before he had to.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

34. Yes, and there were people killed in the rescue attempt

IIRC.

[mitchum]

46. Yes, he did

[hatrack]

35. Shouldn't they call it the HMS Bush?

Just asking . . .

[jmowreader]

36. This is actually fitting

Poppy Bush was our first president who served as a carrier aviator. So what other kind of a ship would you name after him?

I don't like the SOB either, but the USS Poppy Bush will be like the USS Jimmy Carter--a vessel in a type the namesake served on.

When they lay down the USS William Jefferson Clinton, I would like it to be some kind of support ship--a vessel that can carry out its mission in either peace or war, like its namesake.

[AngryOldDem]

37. Is Fisher-Price or Playskool building it? n/t

[phusion]

38. Condi Rice used to have an oil tanker named after her

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/05/MN222557.DTL

The White House, already criticized for its connections to Big Oil, now is facing renewed questions over Chevron's decision to name an oil tanker for national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.

The double-hulled giant, Condoleezza Rice, is part of the international tanker fleet of the San Francisco-based multinational oil firm, named several years ago in honor of Rice when she was a Chevron board member and stockholder.

[DanCa]

41. The carrier shouldn't be used in haulling garbarge

It should be haulled away as garbage. Just like this laughable "administration." And I use the term administration usely.

[Sparkman]

42. LasVegas Fed. Courthouse was 1st called the William Clinton court, then

during it's construction, the big sign was removed and the thing was named...I'll get it.
edit:
There is a federal judge, Lloyd D. George, overturned dozens of times for over-sentencing hispanics for immigragion violations, by the 9th district court. Judge George is a Nevada district Fed. judge, and HE stole the courthouse's name away from Pres. Clinton.

I drove by the sign many times, "William Jefferson Clinton Court House", as the courthouse was being built.
http://home.earthlink.net/~dlaw70/george.htm

[porphyrian]

43. It remains invisible until near an important Japanese ship,...

...then it spews its fuel all over it. It is also armed with granny-seeking golf balls.

[Kingshakabobo]

44. Another piece of the rethuglican P.R. campaign....

Name everything you can after YOUR people to keep the "republicans are great leaders lie" going. It's all about the marketing.

Look at Raygun. They are naming everything the can after him. If the rethugs had their way, this country would be similar to communist China where the current regime dictates whose names are celebrated and whose names are purged from public record.

[Lisa]

45. He's already had the "Center for Intelligence" named after him!

What more does he need?

[sutz12]

48. What ever happened to...

not naming shit after them until after they die? That should be the law. Everywhere.