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Well this story will be more thoroughly buried than Jimmy Hoffa. It will take many more snowflakes reacting violently to not being catered to for things to start breaking through the wall of narrative silence.
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Researchers report that since the 2006 introduction of a vaccine against rotavirus -- a common and potentially fatal cause of infant diarrhea -- U.S. cases have fallen dramatically.But go ahead and listen to dumb hollywood blondes and convicted British con-men.
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Such a shame.
You couldn't have chosen a better post, or newsworthy items, to include the Disraeli quote. Wonderful.
ReplyDeleteIt seemed appropriate to the times.
DeleteIts pointlessly stupid to rebuild the Williamsburg. Ships, like everything else, have a defined life span. The rebuild would essentially replace the ship with another that looks like it, costing much more than a purpose built ship from scratch.
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In fact The Williamsburg could be restored as a museum ship, but as Generic said the cost would be astronomical. She is a near 100 year old Iron hull. The port she is setting in tells me she has been stripped of everything with the worth of a turd. All the visible wood and most of the superstructure is rotten. If she is an steam ship, then you can bet that ever oz. of bronze is long gone, both above and below the water. The fact is that generic is incorrect. Building or restoring a ship of that age would cost more than the cost of a new super yacht. Likely in the 100 Million ++ range. That's IF she isn't a floating superfund sight---Ray
ReplyDeleteI was more expressing the shame that things had come to such in the first place.
ReplyDeleteSadly, You see too many of those antique ships (The USS United States comes to mind) that suddenly were "too expensive" to keep about five seconds after the EPA was created in the 1970's. Tons of lead paint. Asbestos, and a laundry list of "banned" pigments (uranium yellow is the best known) wood finishes and "The million things" has made any attempt to restore such ships impossible outside the third world. Most of them (like the USS Texas) can't be touched outside a military dry dock. EXAMPLE: USS Texas is sinking at the pier where she is tied up. She is considered so toxic to work on below decks, that the only local drydock that can take her wants a paltry 11 MILLION dollars to weld a patch on the hull and paint over it. It is a shame we have let the hippies get this far---Ray
ReplyDeleteThe only reason the USS constitution is still afloat is a nearly unlimited naval budget from the richest country on the planet. It's amazing what an unlimited amount of other peoples money can accomplish.
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Ain't that the G_D's truth---Ray
DeleteIf the original plans still exist, it might be cheaper to build a new boat from scratch. That would simplify necessary updates and modern systems.
ReplyDeleteJust remember. They didnt rebuild the star ship enterprise. They just built new ones.
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