The Ugly Face of Sedition
Whether they anticipate the gloirous socialist revolution, and thus find it necessary to form a reluctant alliance with radical Islam, or actually embrace our enemies in the belief that the greater evil is American capitalism, these seditious insects have no sense of shame.
Therefore, it is only fitting that America's most debauched and shameless city should produce this moment of profound anti-American imbecility:
San Francisco Shuns Retired USS Iowa:
Aug 20, 4:54 PM (ET)
By BRIAN SKOLOFF
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The USS Iowa joined in battles from World War II to Korea to the Persian Gulf. It carried President Franklin Roosevelt home from the Teheran conference of allied leaders, and four decades later, suffered one of the nation's most deadly military accidents.
Veterans groups and history buffs had hoped that tourists in San Francisco could walk the same teak decks where sailors dodged Japanese machine-gun fire and fired 16-inch guns that helped win battles across the South Pacific.
Instead, it appears that the retired battleship is headed about 80 miles inland, to Stockton, a gritty agricultural port town on the San Joaquin River and home of California's annual asparagus festival.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., a former San Francisco mayor, helped secure $3 million to tow the Iowa from Rhode Island to the Bay Area in 2001 in hopes of making touristy Fisherman's Wharf its new home.
But city supervisors voted 8-3 last month to oppose taking in the ship, citing local opposition to the Iraq war and the military's stance on gays, among other things.
"If I was going to commit any kind of money in recognition of war, then it should be toward peace, given what our war is in Iraq right now," Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi said. ..."