I suggest we collect funds and gather volunteers to refurbish the Iowa, sail it into San Francisco Bay, and turn the 16-inchers on the city in an attempt to correct with high explosives what God has been unable to do with earthquakes --- the destruction of this anti-American bastion.
Anyone second the motion?
Since I would be killed, I'd rather you didn't.
And I'd rather you remembered that there at least as many good people in San Francisco as bad...and many more on a typical workday, when a million or more people, including lots of Republicans, commute into the city to work.
Fleet Week in the city is always tremendously popular. This decision isn't going to sit well with the Bay Area, or even a lot of native San Franciscans - the freak show rejects who came here from Texas and Oklahoma after their parents kicked them out of the house may applaud it, but no one else will. Feinstein is right about that - it isn't the old timers who feel this way about the Iowa, it's the weird contingent who moved here from the rest of the country.
That said, I'm not sure Stockton is the best place for the Iowa - it's a bit too far out of the way and a river town, not an ocean port. I'd like to see the Iowa go to San Diego, near the aircraft carrier Midway, where it would be a welcomed and immensely popular attraction.
Should we have done the same to Montgomery Alabama after they removed the Ten Commandments monument from their state building?
Or is this just a California thing?