On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:23:45 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"Don White" wrote in message
.. .
Read something interesting in this morning paper about the USS Wasp visit
here this week.
Seems the sailors have a small 'motorcycle gang' called the 'Wasp Raiders'
aboard and bring their bikes along so they can terrorize foreign ports.
One Petty Officer 1st Class has a Harley Davidson 2000 Electra Glide.
Seems more like a Club Med cruise!
http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=39084&sc=89



I don't see a problem with the motorcycles. But, this is disturbing:

"No offence, but I've never heard of Halifax." But E2 Mike Beck, a young
sailor from Philadelphia, said couldn't wait to get off the deck of the USS
Wasp to explore the city.
"I know you guys probably got some maple syrup," said Beck, who's only foray
into Canada previously was to Niagara Falls."


Maybe it's just me, but don't some people ever open an atlas, even once or
twice in their lives? I wonder what picture he sees in his head when he
finds out his ship's going to the Mediterranean. "Oh boy - Mexico!"


Here are some of his relatives. Watch what happens when the idiots are
sticking pins in the map.
http://www.digitalfog.com/gallery/invasion.html


It's good bet that the undereducated will be electing our leaders soon.
Better be nice to them.

Don White wrote:
"John H." wrote in message
news
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:19:32 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

Read something interesting in this morning paper about the USS Wasp visit
here this week.
Seems the sailors have a small 'motorcycle gang' called the 'Wasp Raiders'
aboard and bring their bikes along so they can terrorize foreign ports.
One
Petty Officer 1st Class has a Harley Davidson 2000 Electra Glide.
Seems more like a Club Med cruise!
http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=39084&sc=89

From where comes the negativity. Not one of the several comments on the
site was negative, but you use the word 'terrorize'. Contrary to the
belief
of a few, most motorcyclists are pretty decent people.

Come on John... you gotta know I'm just funnin' with the 'GI Joes' on this
site.
If I had a suitable bike, I'd volunteer to show them the local scenery.



I have to call Bull **** on this Don. You take every opportunity to jab
the USA but, when the tables are turned you get rabidly defensive of
your beloved Canada.

It appears that you can dish it out but that you can't take it.

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:19:32 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

Read something interesting in this morning paper about the USS Wasp visit
here this week.
Seems the sailors have a small 'motorcycle gang' called the 'Wasp Raiders'
aboard and bring their bikes along so they can terrorize foreign ports. One
Petty Officer 1st Class has a Harley Davidson 2000 Electra Glide.
Seems more like a Club Med cruise!
http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=39084&sc=89


The USN changes like everything else.
When I was in you couldn't have civvies on the ship.
They were civilian locker clubs ashore in the U.S. where you rented a
locker to keep your civvies in. For four years I was always in
uniform on ship, military base or foreign port.
Of course security now demands that U.S. military personnel don't
advertise themselves in foreign ports. Used to be exactly the
opposite, which hits on a previous thread about uniforms.
I was discharged in December of '67, but did a stint in the reserves
in 74-76. I visited my old can in Norfolk, and was surprised when
going aboard that it was listing about 15 degrees to port, and noted
that to the OOD. He didn't take it kindly. Just a question of
keeping the oil/water tanks balanced. Oh well. The boiler rooms
were filthy to my eyes, and I couldn't find a boilerman who knew where
the steam smothering system valve was located.
Anyway, even though I thought I was being as delicate as I could,
they figured me for a hardass. I didn't stay long.
On another 2-weeker on a carrier crew were getting busted for
possession of LSD and that Mary Juana stuff, openly cheating at cards,
etc. I was happy to get out. ****, if I want to do drugs, the last
place I'd toke up is a U.S Navy ship.
Anyway, during my active service in the '60's, for damage control
duties I was trained to pick up pieces of plutonium that may be shed
by our ASROC nukes and put them in a bucket for disposal over the
side. Of course I had rubber gloves for protection. I probably would
have done it too.
So whatever their knowledge of geography, if today's sailors tell
anybody who instructs them to pick up plutonium with rubber gloves
to go get ****ed, I heartily applaud them.

--Vic

BAR wrote:
Don White wrote:
"John H." wrote in message
news
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:19:32 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

Read something interesting in this morning paper about the USS Wasp
visit
here this week.
Seems the sailors have a small 'motorcycle gang' called the 'Wasp
Raiders'
aboard and bring their bikes along so they can terrorize foreign
ports. One
Petty Officer 1st Class has a Harley Davidson 2000 Electra Glide.
Seems more like a Club Med cruise!
http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=39084&sc=89

From where comes the negativity. Not one of the several comments on the
site was negative, but you use the word 'terrorize'. Contrary to the
belief
of a few, most motorcyclists are pretty decent people.

Come on John... you gotta know I'm just funnin' with the 'GI Joes' on
this site.
If I had a suitable bike, I'd volunteer to show them the local scenery.


I have to call Bull **** on this Don. You take every opportunity to jab
the USA but, when the tables are turned you get rabidly defensive of
your beloved Canada.

It appears that you can dish it out but that you can't take it.

Don suffers from a bad case of inferiority complex, seeing how his son
treats him like his "bitch", I can understand why.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:23:45 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

Maybe it's just me, but don't some people ever open an atlas, even once or
twice in their lives? I wonder what picture he sees in his head when he
finds out his ship's going to the Mediterranean. "Oh boy - Mexico!

Absolutely true story.

I'm in the Post Office and talking Red Sox with the Post Master. In
walks this well dressed guy and asks where Woodstock, CT is.

Now on his way into town (and I know this because I saw him drive into
the parking lot) there are twelve signs saying something about
Woodstock. For instance, right at the Putnam/Woodstock town line
there is a HUGE sign waying welcome to Woodstock. He had to pass
Woodstock Plaza - another big sign. He had to drive past the
Woodstock Fair Grounds which you can't miss. The huge Woodstock
Community Bulletin Board which posts things like retirements,
homecomings for troops, town events, etc., named oddly enough, the
Woodstock Community BB, Woodstock Commons. And as he pulls into the
PO parking lot, there is a huge sign that says USPS Woodstock, CT, S.
Woodstock annex.

Now get this. He's looking for NEPS (a local handicapped/rehab place
that does work with the more challenged of lifes's inhabitants) in
which the S. Woodstock PO is located - another big sign right next to
the car.

Here's the funny part. The Post Master looks at me, I looked at him
with this "WTF?" look and the Post Master says "I have no idea". So
the guy thanks him, turns and walks out, gets in his car and leaves!!

Abut two minutes later, he pulls back in, gets out, slams the car door
shut and stomps into NEPS. :)


Canadian?

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message
ups.com...

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:

I take this to mean that if you met your kid's teachers and they said "Is
our children learning", you would have no reservations at all about those
teachers.

True?

Well, seeing that our combined high and grade schools have an
enrolement of less than 600 and I know every teacher by name and have
for years, and have attended about every PTA meeting for the last 15
years, and my wife served on the school board for 12 years in which
she was president for four of those years, I would have to answer:


TRUE!


You'd have NO reservations about a teacher talking like an idiot?

You're implying that teachers are idiots?

"Tim" wrote in message
ups.com...

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message
ups.com...

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:

I take this to mean that if you met your kid's teachers and they said
"Is
our children learning", you would have no reservations at all about
those
teachers.

True?

Well, seeing that our combined high and grade schools have an
enrolement of less than 600 and I know every teacher by name and have
for years, and have attended about every PTA meeting for the last 15
years, and my wife served on the school board for 12 years in which
she was president for four of those years, I would have to answer:


TRUE!


You'd have NO reservations about a teacher talking like an idiot?

You're implying that teachers are idiots?


If a teacher says "Is our children learning?", and other things equally
stupid, then yes, ****THAT**** specific teacher is an idiot.

You did not read anything where I implied that all teachers were idiots.

"Vic Smith" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:19:32 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

Read something interesting in this morning paper about the USS Wasp visit
here this week.
Seems the sailors have a small 'motorcycle gang' called the 'Wasp Raiders'
aboard and bring their bikes along so they can terrorize foreign ports.
One
Petty Officer 1st Class has a Harley Davidson 2000 Electra Glide.
Seems more like a Club Med cruise!
http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=39084&sc=89


The USN changes like everything else.
When I was in you couldn't have civvies on the ship.
They were civilian locker clubs ashore in the U.S. where you rented a
locker to keep your civvies in. For four years I was always in
uniform on ship, military base or foreign port.
Of course security now demands that U.S. military personnel don't
advertise themselves in foreign ports. Used to be exactly the
opposite, which hits on a previous thread about uniforms.
I was discharged in December of '67, but did a stint in the reserves
in 74-76. I visited my old can in Norfolk, and was surprised when
going aboard that it was listing about 15 degrees to port, and noted
that to the OOD. He didn't take it kindly. Just a question of
keeping the oil/water tanks balanced. Oh well. The boiler rooms
were filthy to my eyes, and I couldn't find a boilerman who knew where
the steam smothering system valve was located.
Anyway, even though I thought I was being as delicate as I could,
they figured me for a hardass. I didn't stay long.
On another 2-weeker on a carrier crew were getting busted for
possession of LSD and that Mary Juana stuff, openly cheating at cards,
etc. I was happy to get out. ****, if I want to do drugs, the last
place I'd toke up is a U.S Navy ship.
Anyway, during my active service in the '60's, for damage control
duties I was trained to pick up pieces of plutonium that may be shed
by our ASROC nukes and put them in a bucket for disposal over the
side. Of course I had rubber gloves for protection. I probably would
have done it too.
So whatever their knowledge of geography, if today's sailors tell
anybody who instructs them to pick up plutonium with rubber gloves
to go get ****ed, I heartily applaud them.

--Vic

Plutonium is safe to pick up with gloves. Low energy particles, just the
low energy particles come off a substance with a 1/2 life of 25,000 years.
Most likely a plutonium particle will not pass through a sheet of paper.
Still a bad thing to throw it overboard. We might get Godzilla.

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message
ups.com...

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message
ups.com...

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:

I take this to mean that if you met your kid's teachers and they said
"Is
our children learning", you would have no reservations at all about
those
teachers.

True?

Well, seeing that our combined high and grade schools have an
enrolement of less than 600 and I know every teacher by name and have
for years, and have attended about every PTA meeting for the last 15
years, and my wife served on the school board for 12 years in which
she was president for four of those years, I would have to answer:


TRUE!


You'd have NO reservations about a teacher talking like an idiot?

You're implying that teachers are idiots?


If a teacher says "Is our children learning?", and other things equally
stupid, then yes, ****THAT**** specific teacher is an idiot.

You did not read anything where I implied that all teachers were idiots.

I misunderstood your statement, and I apologize.

The teachers in our local school, arn't idiots.

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:34:34 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


"John H." wrote in message
news
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:19:32 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

Read something interesting in this morning paper about the USS Wasp visit
here this week.
Seems the sailors have a small 'motorcycle gang' called the 'Wasp Raiders'
aboard and bring their bikes along so they can terrorize foreign ports.
One
Petty Officer 1st Class has a Harley Davidson 2000 Electra Glide.
Seems more like a Club Med cruise!
http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=39084&sc=89


From where comes the negativity. Not one of the several comments on the
site was negative, but you use the word 'terrorize'. Contrary to the
belief
of a few, most motorcyclists are pretty decent people.

Come on John... you gotta know I'm just funnin' with the 'GI Joes' on this
site.
If I had a suitable bike, I'd volunteer to show them the local scenery.


Oh, I didn't realize you were 'funnin'. Usually you're not. Some of us are
pretty sensitive to the word 'terrorize' down here!

Sorry for the wrong assumption on my part.