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Feb 16, 2005 08:48 AM U.S. Navy names attack sheep after Jimmy Carter
Oops . . . that was an attack submarine , not an attack sheep, that’s named after " lust-in-my-heart" Mr. Malaise, Jimmy Carter, thirty- ninth President of the United States, the man who gave Ronald Reagan the idea for the phrase "misery index" (unemployment plus inflation: it was over 20 percent under Carter), the fellow who read Christopher Lasch and went on national TV to berate the American public for being lazy and self-indulgent, the Commander-in-Chief who dithered while the Ayatollah Khomeni turned Iran into the stately pleasure ground it is today and then, having overseen the planned obsolescence of the U.S. military, authorized that brilliant maneuver in Persian desert to rescue the hostages that Khomeni’s ravening Islamic fruitcakes had taken from the American embassy. Mr. Carter is also available for publicity shots in poor urban neighborhoods wielding a hammer to help the folks that the government has tired and failed to help. It’s nice to know that someone in the Navy has a sense of humor. "As the most advanced submarine in the class, Tinkerbell will have built-in flexibility and an array of new warfighting features that will enable it to prevail in any scenario, against any threat." Actually, the official announcement had "Jimmy Carter," not "Tinkerbell," but I wouldn’t care to say which was the funnier.
Hat tip, Little Green Footballs. [Update: Chris Muir shows again that a pictures is worth a thousand words.]
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