Posted on 05/14/2012 2:17:32 PM PDT by SmithL
San Francisco wouldn’t be San Francisco if not for robust political debate, even over a seemingly feel-good request to the U.S. Secretary of the Navy to name a ship after gay civil rights leader Harvey Milk, the assassinated city supervisor who served as a Navy officer during the Korean War.
Critics of the idea, led by Supervisor Christina Olague and a contingent from the San Francisco gay Democrat club named in Milk’s honor, don’t think he would have wanted his name associated with a military ship.
Milk was “against the Vietnam War and war in general,” Olague said of Milk, who was gunned down at City Hall in 1978 by disgruntled former colleague Dan White.
A more fitting tribute would be to get a national holiday named in Milk’s honor,
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.sfgate.com ...
What’s next the USS Jim Jones?
Will the”crew”be All guys or All girls???????????????
They are trying to make us ashamed and embarrassed to be Americans.
Needs to be an LST. They load from the rear. . . (diving for cover. . . .grinning like hell)
The Navy needs to stop naming ships after politicians. After an admiral, sure (Nimitz). After battles (Ticonderoga, Iwo Jima...) sure. The Navy should bring back classic ship names like Hornet, Intrepid, etc... But this trend of naming after politicians is just so crass. The USS Gabby Giffords. The USS Cesar Chavez. Please neither one of them deserve the honor the Navy has given them. Not even close.
Young man, there’s no need to feel down
I said young man, pick yourself off the ground
I said young man, ‘cause your in a new town
There’s no need to be unhappy
Young man, there’s a place you can go
I said young man, when you’re short on your dough
You can stay there and I’m sure you will find
Many ways to have a good time
It’s fun to stay at the U.S.N.A.
It’s fun to stay at the U.S.N.A.
They have everything for young men to enjoy
You can hang out with all the boys
It’s fun to stay at the U.S.N.A.
It’s fun to stay at the U.S.N.A.
You can get yourself clean you can have a good meal
You can do whatever you feel
Young man, are you listening to me
I said young man, what do you wanna be
I said young man, you can make real your dreams
But you’ve got to know this one thing
No man does it all by himself
I said young man, put your pride on the shelf
And just go there to the U.S.N.A.
I’m sure they can help you today
It’s fun to stay at the U.S.N.A.
It’s fun to stay at the U.S.N.A.
They have everything for young men to enjoy
You can hang out with all the boys
It’s fun to stay at the U.S.N.A.
It’s fun to stay at the U.S.N.A.
You can get yourself clean you can have a good meal
You can do whatever you feel
Young Man, I was once in your shoes
I said I was, down and out with the blues
I felt no man cared if I were alive
I felt the whole world was so jive
That’s when someone came up to me
And said young man take a walk up the street
There’s a place there called the U.S.N.A.
They can start you back on your way
It’s fun to stay at the U.S.N.A.
It’s fun to stay at the U.S.N.A.
Young man, young man there’s no need to feel down
Young man, young man pick yourself off the ground
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1BGebtVHzM
Milk's greatest claim to fame was being in the exact wrong place at the exact wrong time, kind of like Vic Morrow who deserves a ship more than Milk.
http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/personnel/article-vic-color.html
There was a cult in San Francisco that the authorities wanted to shut down, but thanks to Milk's support of Jim Jones, the People's Temple remained open so our soldiers were able to later visit Guyana and pick up the bodies from the mass suicide. I guess to a leftist that counts as doing something for our military.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1BGebtVHzM
Milk's greatest claim to fame was being in the exact wrong place at the exact wrong time, kind of like Vic Morrow who deserves a ship more than Milk.
http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/personnel/article-vic-color.html
There was a cult in San Francisco that the authorities wanted to shut down, but thanks to Milk's support of Jim Jones, the People's Temple remained open so our soldiers were able to later visit Guyana and pick up the bodies from the mass suicide. I guess to a leftist that counts as doing something for our military.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1BGebtVHzM
Milk's greatest claim to fame was being in the exact wrong place at the exact wrong time, kind of like Vic Morrow who deserves a ship more than Milk.
http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/personnel/article-vic-color.html
There was a cult in San Francisco that the authorities wanted to shut down, but thanks to Milk's support of Jim Jones, the People's Temple remained open so our soldiers were able to later visit Guyana and pick up the bodies from the mass suicide. I guess to a leftist that counts as doing something for our military.
Sorry for the triple post.
..............Do they have toilet tenders? That would be good.....................
Up in the San Juan Islands, Puget Sound, there’s a honeybucket boat named the:
“Fecal Phish”
What a beautiful memory vessel for Harvey Milk and his fellow fudgepackers!
Sure, re-name some old scuzzy degenerate ship they’re ready to scuttle, tow it out to sea, and open fire on it. That’s the only thing the Harvey Milk would be good for, kind of like the namesake.
No, the U.S. Navy Blimp. USS Michael Moore.
Navy still have poop decks? Maybe they could name one of those after Milk.
Now that was funnay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL - that would be like bragging about wild 'debates' within the NRA... yeah, 'robust' that's the term...
his ghost, the goblin seaman will roam the decks.
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