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USS Enterprise
Weekly Standard, by Barrett Tillman
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Posted By:StormCnter, 12/14/2012 5:16:01 AM
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| For the Big E, it was the beginning of the end. On March 11, 2012, USS Enterprise (CVN-65)—the world’s first nuclear aircraft carrier and the oldest active combat ship in the U.S. Navy—left Norfolk on her final deployment. She was embarking upon the end of a 51-year career, a seagoing record unmatched by any warship in American history and seldom approached elsewhere. The Big E’s skipper is Captain William C. “Boomer” Hamilton Jr., a tall, well-spoken Alabaman who acquired his call sign after a “sonic event” when he flew F/A-18 Hornets. Hamilton assumed command in August 2011,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
varkdriver, 12/14/2012 6:21:11 AM (No. 9064766)
Fair winds and following seas to all who served aboard the Big ´E´. I will miss seeing her when I drive past the NOB here in Norfolk.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
SourKraut, 12/14/2012 6:32:27 AM (No. 9064772)
We´re Sorry,You are not authorized to access this page.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
StormCnter, 12/14/2012 6:53:50 AM (No. 9064785)
#2, you can´t get the article? It comes right up. The link is a good one. Maybe copy and paste?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/uss-enterprise_665185.html
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Bevan, 12/14/2012 7:53:00 AM (No. 9064870)
Served two cruises and 187 carrier landings on the Big E. Great boat.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Judith, 12/14/2012 7:53:02 AM (No. 9064871)
Too bad they can´t initiate a collection of pennies (or more)in the schools to preserve this historical ship. Although given what is taught in our schools today, I doubt the children would know or care about the ship´s history. They certainly aren´t taught about the impressive history of the USA.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
RayLRiv, 12/14/2012 8:02:23 AM (No. 9064890)
Fair Thee Well, Big E.
I wish there was a way to preserve the Enterprise - like my favorite, USS Lexington (CV-16). The Blue Ghost is moored in Corpus Christi and is a great museum.
Good to know there will be a replacement Enterprise. Long Live the Big E.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stencil, 12/14/2012 9:13:44 AM (No. 9064991)
Alabamian
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pindarjr, 12/14/2012 9:14:10 AM (No. 9064992)
Thank you, Mr. Tillman, for this informative and well written article.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
kanphil, 12/14/2012 10:05:30 AM (No. 9065117)
I spent a visitor´s weekend on CVN-65 once when a friend of mine was a Weapons Officer and the ship was in port in Norfolk. It was an absolutely unforgettable experience..
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
enemyofthestate, 12/14/2012 11:26:44 AM (No. 9065275)
Remembering walking the flight deck as a kid when the Enterprise was being built at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., and later seeing her on Yankee Station and in port at Subic Bay, Philippines, during the Vietnam War. Long time ago.
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Seven hundred Military Special Operations professionals. And one insistent and very angry Mom. This is becoming a deadly combination for the political game players in the Obama Administration. Sean Smith, the young State Department computer wizard who was brutally murdered that September night in Benghazi, was Pat Smith’s only child. Let’s say that again. Sean Smith was Mrs. Smith’s only child. To listen to her recent radio interview with another Sean… Sean Hannity… is to have the heart break.
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The real gun control
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Politico, by John Bresnahan
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President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats are going to win the first round in the fight over gun control Thursday. As many as a dozen Republicans are expected to join 50 or so Democrats to shut down a Republican filibuster blocking debate on a Democrat-authored gun bill thanks, in part, to a bipartisan deal between Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) that would expand background checks on all commercial gun sales and end the so-called gun show loophole. And then the real drama will begin. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other GOP senators
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Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff
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New York Observer, by Jane Gayduk
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 5:40:48 AM
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Washington Free Beacon, by Bill Gertz
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Daily Caller, by Mickey Kaus
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National Review Online, by Yuval Levin
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 5:24:14 AM
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Looking at the overall outline of the budget President Obama proposed on Wednesday makes it easy enough to see why the White House chose to leak in advance the fact that the president would propose to adopt chained CPI, one of the few non-counterproductive entitlement-reform ideas he has been willing to accept. The leak meant that Washington spent the weekend talking about entitlement reform and whether the president would anger his liberal base so that by the time the budget came out some reporters might have felt like it was old news and not actually spent much time on it.
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End this bizarre fantasy
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In the message he issued along with his budget proposal on Wednesday morning, President Barack Obama said he wants to see 4-year-old children in the United States enrolled in public schools. Obama said America needs to start enrolling 4-year-olds to make sure the children are “better prepared for the demands of the global economy” and to help parents save on "child-care costs." After saying the United States needs to “equip our citizens with the skills and training” to fill jobs in manufacturing, energy and infrastructure, Obama said, “And that has to start at the earliest possible age.”
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American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 6:13:54 AM
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Seven hundred Military Special Operations professionals. And one insistent and very angry Mom. This is becoming a deadly combination for the political game players in the Obama Administration. Sean Smith, the young State Department computer wizard who was brutally murdered that September night in Benghazi, was Pat Smith’s only child. Let’s say that again. Sean Smith was Mrs. Smith’s only child. To listen to her recent radio interview with another Sean… Sean Hannity… is to have the heart break.
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End this bizarre fantasy
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New York Post, by Andrea Peyser
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 5:10:54 AM
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Is Anthony Weiner completely delusional? Or is he out of his flipping, sex-crazed gourd? Whatever big-busted fantasies crawl around the ex-congressman’s delirious noggin, la Weiner made his next goal as clear as the skin of the wholesome college students he craved: He relishes being Mayor Weiner. Please, shut up this clown. These days, the genitally obsessed Weiner has nothing much to do, except sit in his lavish Manhattan apartment and — the inhumanity! — change the poopy diapers of his 16-month-old son, Jordan. Worse, Weiner is living under a kind of house arrest, sentenced to take extreme grief
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Senate votes 68-31 to move
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Jonathan Easley & Ramsey Cox
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/11/2013 12:23:49 PM
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The Senate voted to move forward on gun control Thursday, clearing the first of what is expected to be many 60-vote hurdles for the legislation. (Snip) Sixteen Republicans voted in favor of the motion, while two Democrats — both from states President Obama lost in the 2012 election — voted against it. The two Democrats were Sens. Mark Begich (Alaska) and Mark Pryor (Ark.), both of whom face reelection next year.The 16 Republicans who voted to proceed were
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AG sues florist who refused
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer [WA], by Joel Connelly
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/10/2013 2:28:46 PM
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State Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Tuesday filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Arlene’s Flowers & Gifts, a Richland florist that refused to supply flowers to the same-sex marriage of a longtime customer. Ferguson said he sent a March 28 letter to owner Barronelle Stutzman asking her to reconsider and supply flowers to customer Robert Ingersoll. Through an attorney, Stutzman declined to change her position.“As Attorney General, it is my job to enforce the laws of the state of Washington,” said Ferguson. “Under the Consumer Protection Act, it is unlawful to discriminate
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