Buy a super carrier for a penny

[Wayout]

USS Forrestal, the Navy's first supercarrier, sold for 1 cent.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/24/forrestal-navy-first-supercarrier-sold-for-1-penny/

[uptown]

That boat provided my family with income for a few decades. My grandpa helped build her, my dad helped refit her and my uncle served aboard her. She was a sight to see when she came into Norfolk.

[mthrockmor]

Sad, but time moves on.

I remember when Reagan used her sister ship, USS Ranger for some gunboat diplomacy with a couple banana republics in Central America. The Sandanistas.

Boo

[Slate]

   You can't Forestall the future. 

[jeffdn]

I remember when Reagan used her sister ship, USS Ranger for some gunboat diplomacy with a couple banana republics in Central America. The Sandanistas.

You mean when he threatened with military force and supported an extremist right-wing insurgency against a legitimate and democratically elected government in Nicaragua simply because their political views and economic policies were preventing the exploitation of their environment and workforce by American corporations?

[rogwar]

Here we go!

[Volron]

Wow.  Didn't take long for someone to post something that will likely end up with this being locked.

So, yeah...





As for the CV, it would be like getting a "free" car...until the maintenance kicks in.   Surprised they were not able to turn it into a museum like they did with the Lex, and sad.

[Nathan60]

Shame too coulda been a worthwhile thread

[jeffdn]

Wow.  Didn't take long for someone to post something that will likely end up with this being locked.

Shame too coulda been a worthwhile thread

Why? I was merely clarifying the historical context in which U.S.S. Ranger was used.

[BreakingBad]

Pretty sure it's against my HOA rules to store that in my yard.

[captain1ma]

You mean when he threatened with military force and supported an extremist right-wing insurgency against a legitimate and democratically elected government in Nicaragua simply because their political views and economic policies were preventing the exploitation of their environment and workforce by American corporations?

shenanigans!!! i call shenanigans!!!

[Arlo]

I heard the U.S.S. Lego (only Lego class) was being broken up.

[gyrene81]

I heard the U.S.S. Lego (only Lego class) was being broken up.

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   dammit Arlo, again!!! had to choke down a mouth full of water.           

*note to self: do not drink or eat anything while reading posts by Arlo*

[Ack-Ack]

You mean when he threatened with military force and supported an extremist right-wing insurgency against a legitimate and democratically elected government in Nicaragua simply because their political views and economic policies were preventing the exploitation of their environment and workforce by American corporations?

Why? I was merely clarifying the historical context in which U.S.S. Ranger was used.

The SNLF (Sandinista National Liberation Front) were not democratically elected, the Sandinistas seized power in 1979 after a short and violent revolution. 

ack-ack

[jeffdn]

The SNLF (Sandinista National Liberation Front) were not democratically elected, the Sandinistas seized power in 1979 after a short and violent revolution. 

Not initially, no, there was a revolution that overthrew the murderous Somoza regime. There was, in 1984, an internationally recognized as free and fair election that returned them to power.