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San Fran Shuns Aged U.S.S. Iowa

From Breitbart-

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.

Heres a couple of quotes that stuck with me:

"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.-[emph. added]

What kind of drivel is this? What does the War in Iraq have to do with whether or not to retire the U.S.S. Iowa in your city?

"This isn't the San Francisco that I've known and loved and grew up in and was born in," Feinstein said.

Barbie, baby, this is the kind of stupid BS that the rest of the country expects from San Fran and good ol' CA!

CAIR Launches War On WMAL

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on a Washington, D.C., radio station to address the incitement of anti-Muslim hatred caused by its talk show hosts. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued that call after a replacement for a talk show host suspended for anti-Islam remarks made similarly Islamophobic comments.

One host is a protest, two is a war.

Peter Jennings Is Dead

No link yet, but an ABC News Special Report just came on that said that he has died of lung cancer.

***Update: Link via LittleGreenFootballs

Army Sargent Earns Title of Sheik

But he is the only sheik with blonde streaks in his mustache - and the only one who attended country music star Toby Keith's recent concert in Baghdad with fellow U.S. soldiers.

Officially, he is Army Staff Sgt. Dale L. Horn, but to residents of the 37 villages and towns that he patrols he is known as the American sheik.

Sheiks, or village elders, are known as the real power in rural Iraq. And the 5-foot-6-inch Floridian's ascension to the esteemed position came through humor and the military's need to clamp down on rocket attacks.

Because, you know, Iraq is a cesspool of religous violence...