AAAAARRRRGGGGG!!!!!!!
I can't take the stupidity. Whiskey tango foxtrot is wrong with our country? This story epitomizes the absolutely asinine, ridiculous climate of political correctness that abounds.
The US Navy has earmarked $600,000 for building renovations to one of its buildings in Coronado, CA. What wrong with the buildings you ask? Well, thats just it- the Navy is going to spend $600,000 to change the way the building looks.................
FROM THE SKY!!!!!!!
People have complained that the complex bears a striking resemblance to a swastika- the ancient symbol that the Nazi party hijacked in the 1920's. Obviously the people walking by would be offended right? Not exactly. The building's "controversial" design is not apparent from the ground. OK then I suppose people flying overhead in a plane would surely be offended, right? Wrong again. There are NO air traffic patterns, either commercial or military, that pass over the building complex. So why are people up in arms about it? Google Earth!
Yup, apparently people have looked at the satellite photographs of the area via Google Earth and got their panties all in a twist. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!!!!! It's a building, people. GROW UP!
Reality Check Time: The building was built in the 1960's and has managed to offend exactly no one in all the time up until some idiot looked on Google Earth. The only way to see it is to actually, and purposefully locate and zoom in on the area from within the program. Offended by the "evil" swastika? I got an idea- DON'T LOOK AT IT!
Should our tax dollars be spent modifying a building that was innocently erected 40 years ago and up until this point has offended no one? I imagine that our military has more pressing uses for this money- say, for instance body armor for our soldiers, or prostheses for the several thousand amputees the war has created.
No longer an intern (The Salt Lake Tribune, 7/6/13)
10 years ago
7 Comments:
haha! wow. that's a huge waste.
DAMN GOOGLE EARTH!
Dude, you stole my joke in your last paragraph (not that this is the least bit funny...it's actually a very sad statement of where we are in this country today).
I stole your joke?
While we're at it, I want the Washington Monument torn down too. Reminds me too much of Grand Kleagle Robert Byrd in his KKK hat. I'm offended.
John
I didn't bother posting it because, upon further contemplation - I decided it wasn't all that funny!
Why don't they just say it was built based on the ancient Hindu sign since that's where the swastika originally came from (damn nazi's ruining everything good!). Then they won't need to rebuild it!
There are many aspects of our military that 'offend' certain special interest groups. The default response to any such remark is a polite version of F!*$# Off. If the military elects to acquiesce to a particular 'demand' rest assured that their actions are engineered to provide cover for a covert project.
LD
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