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Aircraft Carrier Enterprise Sets Off On Final Journey - Direction Iran

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Today at noon Eastern, the storied aircraft carrier Enterprise, aka CVN-65, left its home port of Naval Station Norfolk one final time for its final voyage with a heading: Arabian Sea, aka Iran. There in a week it will join CVN 72 Lincoln and CVN 70 Vinson, as well as LHD 8 Makin Island, all of which are supporting any potential escalation of "hostilities" in the Persian Gulf region. As a reminder, back in January we learned that the Enterprise's final voyage will be in proximity to Iran, and in the meantime, the aircraft carrier held extended drills off the Florida coast to attack a "faux theocracy"  consisting of fundamentalist "Shahida" states. Why the Arabian Sea in about 7-10 days will be home to not two but three aircraft carriers and a big deck amphibious warfare ship is very much an open question, although we may have some thoughts. 

More:

Thousands of sailors will deploy today from Norfolk on the USS Enterprise for the last time on Sunday.

 

Nearly 5,500 Sailors aboard the ships of the Enterprise Carrier Strike Group (ENT CSG) are scheduled to deploy from Naval Stations Norfolk and Mayport, Fla., March 9, 11 and 12, to support operations with the U.S. Navys 5th and 6th Fleets.

 

The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65), commanded by Capt. William C. Hamilton Jr., will depart from Naval Station Norfolk for the ships 22nd and final deployment March 11.  

CVN 65 will not be alone:

After the Enterprise leaves Sunday, three Norfolk-based guided-missile destroyers will head out Monday — the USS Porter, USS Nitze and USS James E. Williams.

 

The strike group is commanded by Rear Adm. Ted Carter Jr.

 

Carrier Air Wing 1, based at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, will be embarked aboard the Enterprise.

 

The Enterprise was launched September 24, 1960, by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. and commissioned November 25, 1961.

 

Its record of high-profile service began with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Since then, it has served in countless missions around the world.

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The aircraft squadrons of CVW 1 embarked aboard Enterprise are: Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 11 Red Rippers, VFA 136 Knighthawks, VFA 211 Fighting Checkmates, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 251 Thunderbolts, Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 123 Screwtops, Carrier Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron (VAQ) 137 Rooks, Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 40 Rawhides, and Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron (HSL) 11 Dragon Slayers.

Some pictures released minutes ago from Enterprise's final deployment:

Finally, this is how congested the Arabian Sea looks right about now, where two carriers and one assault ship are currently located, via Stratfor.

 

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Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:20 | 2245607 MsCreant
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You have something there. Just tell the all those countries asking for their gold that it was aboard the Enterprise. All the gold in Fort Knox too!

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:43 | 2245685 Normalcy Bias
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...And, there's no point in trying to salvage it, because now it's all highly radioactive!

 

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:49 | 2245701 MsCreant
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...And we are so sorry, here, take these dollar bills instead. Really. We insist.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:00 | 2245724 Normalcy Bias
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YA! They are, afterall, backed by the "Full Faith and Credit"of the United States of WAR! How could you lose?

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:14 | 2245895 non_anon
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a la "Wake of the Red Witch" starring John Wayne

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:12 | 2245574 blindman
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82byd3bzdLA
USS Enterprise To Be Sunk And Blamed On Iran!
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etc...

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:59 | 2245731 Dixie Frank
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Dude has a nice headset, kinda small though.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:06 | 2245751 blindman
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i didn't notice that? i'll go back and check it..
The Real Iran the US Doesn't Want You to See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Ws0Xy4QjE&feature=related

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 00:11 | 2246380 Ahmeexnal
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iRanian harems?

 

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 21:44 | 2246161 Jendrzejczyk
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You're a sarcastic ass...carry on.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:13 | 2245577 Scalaris
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The reason why America is number 1, you ask?

This, mainly.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:16 | 2245593 BigJim
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If Iran really do have the anti-ship missile capability that some say, all these US carriers within easy reach must be a really, really tempting target. I mean, ultimately they'd lose the war, but think of the dent in the US' mojo if we lost 3 carriers.

Maybe Russia or China will surreptitiously start the ball rolling a with a few well placed torpedoes, then sit back and watch the US go bankrupt in the ensuing fireworks.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:21 | 2245612 AN0NYM0US
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think of the dent in Persian pride when it turns out that they sank three holograms

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 00:14 | 2246382 Ahmeexnal
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You should seriously consider getting help with your vagisil sniffing addiction.  It has really phux0r3d your brain beyond repair.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:28 | 2245627 Missiondweller
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That's why the cruise in the Arabian Sea rather than the Gulf most of the time. The Persion Gulf is a "small area" for a carrier group to operate.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 21:46 | 2246164 Jendrzejczyk
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Go bankrupt? Pretty sure we're there already.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:19 | 2245604 Below Zero
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They are going to put Hillary on the bridge of The Big "E" and let her ram Iran. That should answer any questions about who has the biggest balls in the family.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:21 | 2245610 q99x2
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It is probably on a humanitarian mission.

And Look CNBC is reporting that Greece will be ok too.

A top European Central Bank official says the 17 countries that use the euro will probably see a "very mild recession" this year and that higher oil prices should not have a lasting impact on inflation.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:07 | 2245756 knukles
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Ha ha ha ha hahah aha ahaha aha ahaha aha ah ah ha haha

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:26 | 2245624 Atomizer
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FYI: Bookmark this site for the next couple days.

Matthew Duss, take yours meds before you go on camera.

Hegemony Re-re-revisited

http://www.informationdissemination.net/

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:28 | 2245625 Zola
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Should hostilities begin without a vote of Congress for war, sailors on each carrier should comandeer the ships and arrest the admirals and high command for treason and disobeying the constitution

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:41 | 2245679 Yardfarmer
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they'll probably be too busy with those Iranian torpedo boats to instigate any legal proceedings.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:17 | 2245785 Totentänzerlied
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Shoulder-fire missiles, truck-launched ballistic missiles, submarines, and magnetic mines too.

If Iran gets its hands on some wave-skimmers, well, good luck with that multi-million dollar Phalanx CIWS.

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 04:17 | 2246635 AnAnonymous
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Should hostilities begin without a vote of Congress for war, sailors on each carrier should comandeer the ships and arrest the admirals and high command for treason and disobeying the constitution
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They will be concerned by getting their benefits, know if they are associated with an actual war process, know if they consider deployed with the attached bonuses coming with.

If so, well, it will be all okay, dont worry.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:29 | 2245629 JamesBond
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it is costly to keep such assets deployed for long periods of time without using them.....

ask the pentagon.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:30 | 2245632 tony bonn
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this boat launch is all about more murder and mayhem - the state controlled press are in a frothy tizzy about killing people for oil.....

the bush crime syndicate neocons are behind this latest example of imperial overstretch....

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:29 | 2245633 monopoly
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Almost 16 Trillion in debt we can never repay, insolvent by any corporate standards anywhere in the world, and we got our own aircraft carrier Yacht club just floating around the world spending money we don't have. Yup, that's us, the tough guy on the block. About to get run over by the "new" kid on the block.

What a country we turned into.

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 05:52 | 2246661 Moe Howard
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"We" aren't doing a God Dammed thing. TARP = American public 90% against.

"We" want our troops home in the vast majority. "They" whom we cannot call by dual nationality and race/religion because "they" made it a crime to do so did it. "We" turned into nothing. A little take over of the reins of power took place. Strings being pulled, not by the American People.

Follow the money. Who Owns the Media? What do they have in Common? Who owns the banks? What do they have in Common? They only branch of power they don't occupy the top of the Pyramid is the Military - but they own it anyway. For being such great Hollywierd warriors, in reality they don't serve - here. The last incursion into Lebanon showed them to be the punks they have always been.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:35 | 2245634 Billy Budd
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My son left the Big E last Thursday after five years and two deployments on her. Don't think for a minute she is still not the first and finest. I did two Tiger Cruises on her and she can still haul ass. Nobody can project power like the good old USA.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:37 | 2245659 Yardfarmer
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you sound more like Starry Vere than Billy.....or better yet, try Ahab ya old salt and i wish you and the Big E good luck with that snow hill in the sea. call me Ismael.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:58 | 2245849 Money 4 Nothing
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"nobody can project power   you mean protect Global interests like the good old USA, their, fixed

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:03 | 2245994 TheFourthStooge-ing
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"Nobody can project terror for the Israeli government like the wicked old Vichy DC."

Fixed.

 

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 22:40 | 2246271 americanspirit
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Sorry Billy - its over.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:31 | 2245637 lolmao500
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And even better :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9088261/MoD-considers-mov...

Up to 6,000 British tanks and other military vehicles could be moved to Germany because of a lack of space to store them in the UK.

Yeah right... because of lack of space... GIVE ME A BREAK.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:48 | 2245697 PY-129-20
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Ja! Send them over! That's a brilliant idea.

I'll look after them. And you can leave the keys on my desk. Hey - do I look like a guy that would do a little Blitzkrieg? Come on. You can trust me.

I would never...never do anything stupid. I promise. And if you hear something - like a crazy German invading Luxembourg with a single British tank - it's probably wrong and part of the Daily Mail propaganda.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:53 | 2245712 MsCreant
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You, my friend, have a tank fetish.

Tanks, for the memories...

We tank you, so much.

 

Maybe a tanking economy is a good thing?

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:14 | 2245781 PY-129-20
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A tanking, what? What is that?  I can't hear you. lalalalalaala. Everything is fine. The sky is blue. Germany is fine. Nothing is wrong.

About that tank fetish:

But...but I thought you would like it and I could...impress you? Maybe a little? Why...I mean...why wouldn't a girl be impressed by a...oh, nevermind.

I am just working on my Kraut image here. Remember: I am evil. Pure evil. And I am always in contact with those other Germans on the dark side of the moon. Invasion plans and so forth. The Fourth Reich.

 And I might add that we might have a so much fun with all these British tanks here. Do you think they would be pissed if we would make a pink Hello Kitty camouflage?

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:31 | 2245806 MsCreant
Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:40 | 2245819 Husk-Erzulie
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I want one.  Is that weird?

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 21:50 | 2246173 Jendrzejczyk
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Yes.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:20 | 2245791 sIewie the pi-rat
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my ex had a tank fetish

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:49 | 2245832 slewie the pi-rat
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my clone is back!

did you bend her over the fish tank?

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:51 | 2245839 Money 4 Nothing
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WoW! TMI.. Tanks alot.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:25 | 2245920 alien-IQ
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You dated Ann Coulter?

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:16 | 2246020 slewie the pi-rat
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i'm getting a waterboarding, BiCheZ

extra credit for that one!

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 21:05 | 2246108 sIewie the pi-rat
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For the Fucking limp dicked Record

if viagra had been around in the day I would still be http://www.therealtank.com/

sigh ...

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 00:07 | 2246372 Below Zero
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You sure it wasn't a spank fetish? Maybe that's why she left you. She kept saying "Spank me" and you kept "thanking" her instead?

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 05:54 | 2246662 Moe Howard
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The overnight PMs are all in the red, tanking.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:09 | 2245883 lolmao500
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All a big coincidence this is announced a week after Putin reelection uh??

The banksters are crazy enough that if all their BS scam fail, they gonna attack Russia with an European Army they have been creating for the last few years... shouldn't surprise me if we hear more about that in the coming months.

I bet Putin won't be happy at all... last time they made buddy buddy with warmongers fascists (Hitler and now the banksters and their puppets) they nearly got wiped off the map... NEVER AGAIN...

Cold war about to turn red...

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:35 | 2245941 my puppy for prez
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Putin's not so hot on the NWO Monopoly Game....and if you look at his speeches with that in mind, you can see his veiled messages against bankster-Zionist imperialism.  It's quite fascinating.

Just a suggestion to Americans:  When the propaganda press paints a country or leader  as a "great threat to America", remember that they really mean " a threat to the bankster new world order."

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:34 | 2246060 lolmao500
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I agree. Russia is the only country not in the NWO at all and saying it.

China is half way in it, but I bet the Chinese will backstab the NWO when they feel confident enough.

Anyway, I bet they'll talk about a unified European army real soon... of course the reason will be ``to cut costs`` which will be total BS.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:32 | 2245638 digalert
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Your MSM seem to be ignoring some other news

Impeachment procedures started, Thomas:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.CON.RES.107:

This is that high crimes and misdemeanor stuff

 


Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:35 | 2245660 monopoly
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didgalert, how far do you think that is going to go. Bet it is dead meat by Happy Hour this Friday. 

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 00:23 | 2246397 Ahmeexnal
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Ogolfer's lawyers have it under control. Legal loophole in that impeachment thingie. Can't convict him of high treason to his country.....if you don't even know which country he was born in.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:09 | 2245880 cosmictrainwreck
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yeah, good luck with that.......... just another opportunity fr CONgress to demonstrate their limitless impotence

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:34 | 2245653 Thomas Jefferson
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This is playing out like a script.  I have no doubt in my mind that the USS Enterprise is going to be scuttled and blamed on Iran.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:40 | 2245671 q99x2
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This is the third time in the last 100 years that people have attempted to conquer the world. Third times a charm or 3 strikes and you're out. What's the difference? Everybody always loses during this phase. Wake me when the rebuilding process starts.

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 00:24 | 2246402 Ahmeexnal
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Prussian nights 2012.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:55 | 2245718 mick_richfield
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We think we're gliding down the highway, but in fact we're slip-sliding away.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:56 | 2245720 goldinpenguin
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We have 3 or 4 carriers groups off the coast of Iran because they are threatening us. Well, no, maybe they aren't threatening us but they are threatening Israel with their nukes.Well, no, they really don't have nukes, Israel has nukes but IF Iran ever got nukes they might threaten Israel with nukes the way Israel threatens Iran with nukes. And then if Iran got nukes AND got planes and rockets and submarines and aircraft carriers loaded with nukes, like we have, they might threaten us the way we threaten them.

 

You see Iran can't be allowed to have nukes because they're too militaristic, they'd be starting wars all the time and threatening others with their nukes. No, wait, that sounds like Israel and us.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:26 | 2245796 my puppy for prez
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spot on

the power of the hypothetical...

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:49 | 2245972 JohnnyBriefcase
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Bravo good sir!!

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:11 | 2246012 Blue Horshoe Lo...
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U will be getting a visit from the Department of Homeland Stupidity & the IRS soon.

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 05:59 | 2246665 Moe Howard
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Sadly, you are correct.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 17:58 | 2245726 eddiebe
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Show of force= Strong dollar.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:00 | 2245732 HD
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The undiscovered country

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:08 | 2245759 CrockettAlmanac.com
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A land without people for a people without oil, or something like that.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:11 | 2245772 slewie the pi-rat
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hey, tyler!  bottoms up!

chrisPowell [GATA] belongs on zH today! (paste):

"The churn continues at the most ferocious pace, making a mockery of our capital markets," Newman writes. "The theme of investing for the future is now meaningless as high-frequency trading distorts price discovery, resulting in gross pricing inefficiencies."

This echoes what GATA board member Adrian Douglas, publisher of the Market Force Analysis letter (www.MarketForceAnalysis.com), often has written about the gold and silver markets particularly -- that paper trading is scores of times greater the actual metal traded and, perhaps more important, scores of times greater than actual metal available for delivery.(endPaste)

Link>>>Gold now defends not just liberty but simple reality

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:15 | 2245783 robertocarlos
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Wow! Those poor bastards don't stand a chance. Do they know they are going to the bottom of the sea?

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:21 | 2245792 Hedgetard55
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Lots of posters that never spent a day of their life in the military talking shit about our troops. Cowards who would not say shit to these people in person. You can all go fuck yourselves.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:32 | 2245800 Vic Vinegar
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Agreed.  But appreciate the ambivalence one one might feel as they try and figure their way out on the spectrum between "spitting on the troops post-Vietnam" and putting up a "Support the Troops" car magnet on their SUV for Operation Enduring Freedom.

Your blast on Conrad Murray seemed appropriate.  Not so much for the knukles joke.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:35 | 2245811 MsCreant
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Strongly agree.

Plus some folks have a wonderful, healthy, protective instinct that gets twisted by these corporate/pol fuckers. This is not black and white, your point.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:31 | 2245805 sIewie the pi-rat
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in the 60's man in the 60's but in today's soccer mom fucked up society you are right

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:53 | 2245842 slewie the pi-rat
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ever stood at parade rest while some new admiral being groomed for spookery tries out the new electronics after the shakedown cruise? 

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:31 | 2245934 MsCreant
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery!!

Fucking funny.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:55 | 2246087 sIewie the pi-rat
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some of slewie's best posts were, shall we say some of slewie's best posts

 

speakikng of soccer moms

how has everything worked out with the house and all?

 

M Y    N A M E  IS   LEGION

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 00:45 | 2246424 Calmyourself
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Into the sea with you then...

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 00:54 | 2246439 MsCreant
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Legion,

Hope to move in at the end of the month, thanks for asking.

Not a soccer mom tho. Mom yes. More of a nerd mom really. Gotta get the kid to German club, robot club, science club, computer club, stuff like that. 

Keep having fun. 

My favorite identity spin off for this site is still "Robot Trader's Mom." Comedy gold. 

I have not seen you before this thread. We need a sense of your motivation, your drive, your passion. Can you out  pi the pi rat (I cannot get this thing to do the pi symbol)? I think this is a fair question.

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 04:50 | 2246642 PY-129-20
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Wait a minute - there is a German club in town? And you would bring your kid to those monsters? Oh you...don't play with my feelings here. I would've never expected someone would still try to...learn German? (Or with "German club" you are refering to a group of people that dress like Germans, eat and drink like Germans, have a tank fetish like true Germans, and try to conquer the next district? Oh, hard working people that like their daily portion of SM and read Wittgenstein and listen to Mahler's Kindertotenlieder daily?)  I mean - what is it good for? Right? People try to learn Chinese (as my friend Manni (who lived in East Germany) always used this Soviet joke - an optimist learns English, and that a pessimist learns Chinese.)

But never show him Heidegger or Wittgenstein. Dangerous stuff. Very, very, very dangerous. Don't get your kid involved with this.Don't!

Or ...oh my god... Hegel. Never. He is allowed to read his daily Schopenhauer if he is not 15 anymore (otherwise he is turning into dark-mooded, cynical, human-hating, women-hating 19th Century German and wants to name his poodle after a Hinduist principle ("Atman")) (You don't want this - just trust me. I know people like that).

And now back to our main topic. We were discussing a tank invasion of Iran - which is a nightmare. Have you seen that Iranian terrain? Are you fucking nuts? It's like Afghanistan on steroids.

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 09:22 | 2246891 prole
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Get back in your bunker Adolf.

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 19:31 | 2248955 MsCreant
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There is indeed a German club. My son is learning German (has two years of it already). I guess you could say they do try to conquer the "next district" come to think of it. He was joking with me how all the language clubs at school got together for an assembly, and the German club was the only club that was able to get all their members there in their German club jerseys and uniform pants (pressed to the nines). The rest of the language club students were not that organized!! They were seriously trippin', they even filed in and out orderly! Total German Geeks.

They bring in German food and have a party twice a year. They want to go to a good German restaurant, we will see if they can pull it together, or not. They have a facebook page, the circulate German rock music and literature. They LOOOVE their German teacher (this guy is a trip, he looks and feels like Jesus Christ with a nice trim haircut and beard, soooo calm). I'm very glad my son chose German. He thinks the language sounds wonderful, can't stand French. 

My son likes tanks. :-)

I suggested Spanish might be more practical, he really wanted to learn German. As I mentioned, we do have German heritage...

It is quite alive, very bright kids in that club.

Oh yeah, he already knows some phenomenolgy. Too late.

 

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:47 | 2245830 Money 4 Nothing
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I signed my name on the dotted line expecting the Government to fill in the blank to the amount of my life.  I was lucky.

For those who do not understand what selfless service or duty to your Country is, go sign up and your remarks change quickly.

Our prayers are for the servicemen just doing their job on the Enterprise.

 

God Speed.

-JP.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:00 | 2245856 Conrad Murray
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Is it easier for you to reflect on your years as an expendable tool of the MIC, a promoter of geo-political instability and death, by wrapping yourself in a flag and singing country songs?

The people on the Enterprise deserve far better from their country. They should expect more of their life than 50K for college and a stipend for their family if they're killed in some far off land.

They are not serving their country one bit by being on that ship: They are doing the exact opposite. They are enabling the traitors and criminals of the DC/NY Axis of Evil, promoting their policies, and causing the financial and ideological destruction of the nation.

Is that their intention? I doubt it. But it is what they are doing nonetheless.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:07 | 2245875 Money 4 Nothing
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In financial speak, "When your in the bubble, you don"t see it"

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 06:04 | 2246667 Moe Howard
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But of course, your job, oh so noble posting on interweb site, will save the planet.

 

What a pussy.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:22 | 2245911 alien-IQ
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You weren't defending your country you were defending the right of Multinational corporations to rob sovereign nations of their natural resources and right of self determination.

You weren't a soldier, you were a pawn. You were just too stupid to know the difference.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 21:47 | 2246165 toxic8
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"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy."
Henry Kissinger

 

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 22:06 | 2246207 TradingJoe
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Yeah, HK, dangerous man! Many dumb, stupid politician-animals listened to him, unfortunately!

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 06:07 | 2246668 Moe Howard
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And your noble calling, where you are not a tool of someone or something? Really wondering.

Sex worker?

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:59 | 2245984 Blue Horshoe Lo...
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We do not wish harm on the troops.  We do wish harm on congress & presidents that treat the military like some private security mercenaries.

The military is only supposed to be used when the nation is attacked.  Those defending pre-emptive strikes should just call themselves Nazis or fascists & stop pretending it's about freedom.

The troops are being used to defend corporations, not the people.  Any servicemen stupid enough to fall for it, well if U get killed fighting for bullshit, that's not our fault.  The people didn't send U off to die for phony reasons.  U should be thanking people for NOT backing these phony wars.

Wake the fuck up & honor your code.  If U did, U'd refuse to fight this war or Iraq or Afghanistan...Capiche?

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:58 | 2245848 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Members of the military at all levels are government employees and the government supposedly works for me. Do you often suggest that an employer has no right to determine how his business should be run?

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:26 | 2245922 Hannibal
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That feeling is mutual fuck tard. Fuck the military!

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:05 | 2245976 Blue Horshoe Lo...
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That's called freedom.  & have U noticed that the politicians treat soldiers like idiots & could care less how many get killed?  Your duty as a soldier is to the Constitution & the people 1st, government 2nd.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:05 | 2245998 Blue Horshoe Lo...
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U should look up the great President Eisenhower's farewell speech on what would happen to the country if the military industrial complex got out of the shackles of the Constitution.

The politicians will use the military like a toy. 

If U do not know who real your enemies are... The troops will be needed, to overthrow the fascist US government as it continually turns on the citizens, who U have taken an oath to defend.

Ron Paul is the last hope for the country & the troops.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:23 | 2246033 Bansters-in-my-...
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Fuck you hedgetard and your faggot USKillers.

Ps...love to bitch slap ya.

Cheers.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:26 | 2246043 alien-IQ
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The real coward is the man that subjects himself to the will of another man.

You don't join the military because you think it's a good idea. You join the military because you are incapable of thought and must be told what to do.

You're not a man, you're a bitch.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:44 | 2246071 Vic Vinegar
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So we are to assume that at 17 and 1/2 you were fully self-realized, and had cast off all the lies your were told from the age of 5 until 17?

I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and believe in you

So what do you suggest the future generations, oh so much less intelligent than you, do to combat that? 

Comment on the internet?  LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRFOjLIl7G0

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:51 | 2246081 Vic Vinegar
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PS - I'm replying to myself to let you know that your internet tough guy routine is growing old.

And not unlike Jesus of Nazareth, RobotTrader of Newport Beach's message only grows louder.  History always repeats, huh?

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 21:55 | 2246180 Moe Howard
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You really are an alien, a keyboard pounding pussy. You became gay because you like having men push you down.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 23:10 | 2246297 Vic Vinegar
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Perhaps.  But since I never felt compelled to write these words on the internet

who's fantasy is this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJpB_AEZf6U&ob=av2n

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 23:44 | 2246336 Moe Howard
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I was responding to alienIQ, but thanks for the link that's a great song. Old memories.

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 02:39 | 2246516 mkkby
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Cowards take orders.  Much more brave to question them and say no.  Fight for the constitution -- not bankers, oil men, NWO or some false power grab.  Get your head out and grow up.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:26 | 2245797 blindman
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No War for Israel in Iran - USS Enterprise False Flag!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnp0TGGXzUA&feature=related

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:31 | 2245807 mendolover
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I'll bet they're sending the wrath of the ENT CSG to go give Kony's 500 a dose of their own medicine!  And if they find any oil or diamonds, etc. then thats OK.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:00 | 2245860 jonjon831983
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I remember someone commenting on ZH that action is coming around when troop ships are moving into position.

 

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/lhd-8.htm

 

"LHD 8 will be a multi-purpose amphibious assault ship designed to transport and land a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), a force of almost 2,000 Marines, ashore by helicopter, landing craft and amphibious assault vehicle. LHD 8 will also have secondary missions of sea controland power projection by helicopter and fixed-wing vertical short take-off and landing (VSTOL) aircraft; command and control, and mission support, including a hospital with six operating rooms."

 

I guess 2K ish Marines won't be much for an assault, but if history within the last 10 years has been any guide, it's all about special forces riding on horseback with indigenous rebel groups to lase targets.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:06 | 2245869 oldman
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Hey Sailors,

Is it such a good idea to put so much of the nation's military force in such a small space?

I don't know a thing about naval tactics.

The military must be very certain of what it is doing                  om

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:11 | 2245956 slewie the pi-rat
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but, but, but...

what is someone didn't believe them about the 'final destination' b/c it just doesn't make much sense?

perhaps they're gonna check out china's new mega-base/port in sriLanka? 

or relieve the carrier force that will go toward india, here, or deploy to africa or australia;  who really knows?

Paste: ...aircraft carrier held extended drills off the Florida coast to attack a "faux theocracy"  consisting of fundamentalist "Shahida" states (endPaste) 

see?  everybody knows this story must be true!  even "conrad_M" doesn't doubt it, and he's really smart, too!  and all that talk outa DC around bibi's visit?  almost too moronic for public consumption, imo, but grrreat for the zH wrestling fans!  

anybody know what the status might be of that ship which is taking the shipwreck gold from fla>spain? 

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:28 | 2246051 oldman
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slewie,

I love the 'but, but, but..."

Maybe no one is in control----just one silly muscle spasm after another of the dead machine; all the nerves are disconnected and the body is just twitching in its death throes.

Your 'but, but, but...' brought this thought front and center again

Thanks for the inspiration           om

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 21:00 | 2246098 sIewie the pi-rat
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geeser or is that geezer

you are most welcome

the wisdom of our elders (and I think I predate you) is so many pearls

 

oink

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 01:36 | 2246480 oldman
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pi-rat,

You sound older that is why I am always respectful

trained that way

and glad I was

saved me a lot of trouble

nice chatting with you                om

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 00:23 | 2246398 Doofer
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I was on the carrier USS Independence in the late 90's. We were in the Gulf with 2 other carriers with 2 more in the North Arabian Sea.

We were sure the shit was about to hit the fan and guess what?

All that happened was that 2 of the carriers rotated out of the Gulf and the 2 in the North Arabian Sea rotated in.

And month later we left and headed back to Japan.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:09 | 2245881 StephanStrack
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Am I the only one but where are the airplanes on the Enterprise deck? It seems to me that if a carrier would start the journey all the aircraft planes used for the operation + material would loaded on the ship. I only saw one chopper and looking to the photo's it's a big crew and no planes? Or are all the jetfighters below deck or was this already planned as preparation for the sinking, no precious jetfighters lost... Seems Fishy 

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:12 | 2245891 lolmao500
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Below deck...

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:20 | 2245908 jonjon831983
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It's a huge ship.  Elevator brings equipment up and down.

 

Wouldn't wanna lose your stuff to some rocky seas or high winds now would ya?

 

Not that knowledgable, but the helo probably stay constant in the air for scouting and transport between supporting ships.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:44 | 2245964 TradingJoe
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Jets need a certain angle to land safely on a carrier, they will get to the ship once it's in safe distance and has room for then birds to land! They'll be there don't worry!!! Same thing when they "fly off" once the cruise is over, one day before "port" they all return to their home bases!

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:06 | 2245996 holdingontomypants
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The aircraft join the ship later that day and the following day once they are safely out to sea. Then they get 24 point tiedowns and then the order given to go 'flank speed" which is pretty fN fast. Last time I headed out over their with my fighter squadron Vf-143 Pukin Dogs F-14 outfit we were in the persion gulf in about 12 days. We were hauling ass so fast we were shooting rooster tails above the fantail. What a thrill ride that was and oh yeah, forget what they say in the books as it fastest speed of 33 plus knots..I guarantee you we were doing twice that speed or very close to it. Did a short stint on the Big E. Nice boat but I like the bigger flight deck of CVN-73 George Washington which was what I was on.

By the way, Conrad and all you other wimps who woudn't last a day at sea without crying for your mommies because you are homesick for their aprons and breastmilk...kiss my ass!!!

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 21:30 | 2246140 Vic Vinegar
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By the way, Conrad and all you other wimps who woudn't last a day at sea without crying for your mommies because you are homesick for their aprons and breastmilk...kiss my ass!!!

Wow, buddy.  Not sure what you are trying to accomplish with that one.

Kinda hard to argue with this chart I think. 

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=XRT+Interactive#symbol=xrt;range=5y;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:11 | 2245884 non_anon
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no thanks, I did my duty in the persian gulf in the 80's, I wouldn't want to go back

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:15 | 2245900 Lore
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You Merkins better watch your backs. With all that hardware floating over in the Persian bathtub, we Canadians just might get a hankering for some Florida real estate.

Maybe another purpose is being served. All that displacement of seawater might flood the Arabian desert. Reclamation, bitches!

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:25 | 2246039 New_Meat
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"... we Canadians just might get a hankering for some Florida real estate."

Then ya gotta' learn to say "Cracka' eh?"

;-)

- Ned

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 21:21 | 2246133 sIewie the pi-rat
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Lore

we have some properites that seem to have flown under the radar and are available at prices far below current market values - great locations near to all of the attactions such as the Evergaldes - will build to suit with just a 20% deposit -  Loonys welcome

 

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:16 | 2245901 rsnoble
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Wouldn't it be something with all the rumors about the Enterprise false flag attack if the bastards end up doing it anyways?

Is it just me? This certainly doesn't look like an "after the election" campaign to me.  You can't believe anything they say.  This clown show has progressed so far there's just no turning back for the elites.  In fact, im pretty sure they've turned up the global takeover clock by way more than one hour and we're going to get screwed when all this insane crap starts flying apart.  I hate this fucking planet.

 

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:32 | 2245935 Hannibal
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Ditto!

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:27 | 2246042 New_Meat
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"Is it just me?"

yes

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 22:45 | 2246279 FeralSerf
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I kinda like the planet.  It's some of the occupants that think they own it that are troublesome.

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 08:58 | 2246846 rsnoble
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Well truthfully that's how I kinda feel.  But there seems no getting rid of them and they're hellbent on taking us down if they go. Gona get interesting. To say the least.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 22:51 | 2246281 UP Forester
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What better way to incite a military coup  than sending several thousand pawns out on a retarded gambit?

I guess the current administration really doesn't want to leave D.C. on their own.

The NDAA can be used on their asses, and they can go to the FEMA camps until the day they swing for high crimes and misdemeanors....

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:24 | 2245915 Hannibal
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The perfect false flag target!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufdw21ltc-8

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:29 | 2245929 Bastiat
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 Remember the Liberty!!

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:28 | 2245926 alien-IQ
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it's amazing to see how many people here have a Military hardware fetish.

it's fuckin creepy.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 21:36 | 2246152 weyes1
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Its the american way.

Way too fucking creepy, really.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:43 | 2245930 Blue Horshoe Lo...
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Here comes $10 per gallon gas.  Just what a shitty US economy needs.  The world will also thank Barack Obomber too.

All this from a president with a fake birth certficate, who somehow won a noble peace prize before he took office, & who promised change from the Bush administration.

What he meant was, after he was done, all U'd have left is "change" in your pockets!  Suckers.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:30 | 2245932 Gyro Gearloose
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As Dylan said:  "It ain't dark yet,....... but it's gettin there"

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 21:35 | 2246148 WmMcK
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"Sometimes my burden is more than I can bear ..."

Or also apropos:
(H)ow many times must we bear our children
Before we respect their right to be free?

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:37 | 2245947 Fix It Again Timmy
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Make all aircraft carriers obsolete - just stay home on the east and west coast and wait for the barbarian hordes to COME TO US.  In such a situation, our soldiers can make love, not war.  They may die of bordem but at least they'll have 2 legs and 2 arms while lying in the coffin...

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:38 | 2245950 tim73
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Americans are going through so much trouble, nicely putting many juicy big targets for Iran to fire at and sink but what those bastard Iranians do....NOTHING! FUCK THIS! :)

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:40 | 2245959 CoolBeans
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We're near an AF base in FL.  We're used to practice flights and enjoy them (sons enjoy the jets).  There have been more planes in the sky than usual recently - especially the night flights.  Guess this explains it a bit.  A Radio report mentioned it -too - said not to worry, just more practice for those Raptor pilots (the base had previously received a bunch more o' those jets).  Well, things could get interesting.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:49 | 2245970 Thomas Jefferson
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Same thing out of Maguire AFB.  KC 135 refuelers and the globe masters.  I even saw a Navy P3C Orion which is rare.  The last time I saw this much airforce traffic was when the surge was announced.  War is coming.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 22:27 | 2245987 Money 4 Nothing
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There going to do WTF they want regaurdless.   

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:47 | 2245968 gnomon
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What a bunch of drivel, (for the most part).  You America Haters, (who are mostly Obummer/Ron Paul Retreads), better love the bastard who brung you or you are going to end up somebodyelse's BITCH.  

But most of you would probably like that, being that you are terminally MASOCHISTIC.  

Go suck your thumbs in some dark corner of your basement and let some real MEN deal with the REAL world.

 

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:02 | 2245991 alien-IQ
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Yeah...real men do what they are told. Even if it means killing women and children.

You are so fucking tough.

You twat.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 23:50 | 2246343 Moe Howard
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Actually, you are a twat. butt sniffer. internet tough guy. what happened, some sailor beat you up in a bar?

 

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 06:44 | 2246680 Moe Howard
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6 homosexuals resemble that remark? Red arrow away, beetchez.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 21:33 | 2246145 weyes1
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The beauty of military life.

No questions.

Only orders.

And flight.

Flight.

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 04:06 | 2246632 AnAnonymous
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You America Haters, (who are mostly Obummer/Ron Paul Retreads),

__________________________________________

What to make from that? That Paul if elected would act the same as Obama?

Obama illegitimacy perception consequences: no matter how hard he tries (and does), it is not enough.

Going to be good for the next US citizen president.

Wait for much more. He will have to prove he is more legitimate than Obama and show it.

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:57 | 2245983 GoinFawr
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"It's been a long road, gettin' from there to here. It's been a long time, but my time is finally here. I will see my dream come alive at last, I will touch the sky. And they're not gonna hold me down no more, no they're not gonna change my mind..."

Mon, 03/12/2012 - 01:36 | 2246479 CrockettAlmanac.com
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"Fish don't fry in the kitchen. Beans don't burn on the grill. Took a whole lot of tryin' just to get up that hill."

Tue, 03/13/2012 - 15:26 | 2251429 Money 4 Nothing
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Exactly! The only thing that hasen't changed also is that he is still in Public Housing.. The White House, Go figure?

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:00 | 2245988 TradingJoe
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I am long enough on this blog/site to know most of you have a brain, based on what some of you wrote about our serving men and women tonight makes me think you are either drunk or have no clue whatsoever about "GOING TO WAR"!!!

The day ANY of you sits in a fully loaded jet on a pitch dark deck, waiting for the shooter to kick your ass into the dark and unknown enemy skies, and live to come back and tell others, THEN AND ONLY THEN, you fucking idiots can talk about it, have an educated opinion about it or even bitch about it, otherwise...back to your "all hat no cattle" pitiful lives!

As a former service man I can't believe this crapola!

Sun, 03/11/2012 - 20:06 | 2246003 jomama
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don't take some of the comments too seriously.  some are trolling, and some are just so fed up with the kleptocrats calling the shots while the little guys like us repeatedly get all the shit dumped on us.  something's got to give.  i believe the tone of the original article expresses the exacerbation of our current reality.  i sure has hell am ready for something to go our way (the people) for once in a bloody goddamn time.

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