In Mitt Romney’s breathtakingly edited version of the recent past, Republicans secretly rejoiced at Obama’s election, while only reluctantly coming to the conclusion that his policies had wrecked the economy. Yet history tells us that four years ago the American financial system was hanging over the abyss by the thread of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) that a Republican administration and secretary of the Treasury had put in place—and for which the hypocritical deficit chickenhawk Paul Ryan had voted, even as he strained every muscle to get his district’s share of the stimulus package that he now denounces Obama for perpetrating. And recall also that the whole near-terminal calamity was caused by the unregulated derivative market whose freedom to destroy what’s left of the American economy the likes of Ryan and Romney cannot wait to reinstate.
Actually I thought it pretty funny, especially since on some rare down time, some could be see back on the failtail hitting golf balls. LJ you are not far from the comment about doors(hatches actually) down close to the water line. Can launch a few different things.
I thought I remembered that they had hatches down on the water line... I remember when I was very little, my Dad was stationed out of San Diego/Coronado Island with his seaplane squadron, and for a time they were ferrying planes out to Honolulu; (and my mom and I were living on the island in some kind of metal buildings. One night he got invited to have dinner on a ship with the senior officers, and I vaguely remember riding on a launch with him and my mom out to an enormous ship...(I'm pretty sure it was a carrier...) And we entered through a hatch at the water-line...
Thank You, navycpo7, for you're SERVICE.
My dad was on a mine-sweeper, out of Long Beach, CA. The U.S.S. Impeccable.
Battle Group, (Last one on the left), he told me that the ones on the right after the tug, were wooden hulled so they would be lighter and the torpedoes would pass under the vessel. I didn't know that we still had commissioned in WWII.