Nimitz-class aircraft carrier? Landlocked, in China?
It’s already there.
They aren’t in the current fleet of aircraft carriers though. The lasy USS Ulysses S. Grant was scrapped years ago. I think it’s crazy to name a flagship after Gerald “The Accident” Ford while the greatest military leader in the history of America, who not incidentally was also President, doesn’t even have a ship.
Personally, I think it’s a bad idea to name anything after anyone still alive, and probably for another decade or so after their death.
Ford was one of the, if not the greatest athletes in Presidential history. The phenomenal success of early Saturday Night Live, with their running gag of a fall, ingrained the “habitually stumbling.”
On Obama’s first day, he walked into a window in the White House thinking it was a door. That could be a fine, stupid running gag.
I’m aware of Ford’s athletic prowess. By “the accident” I meant his Presidency.
That, and the news clips of the actual president stumbling and being caught be secret service agents.
No, the one in Kansas was built by a plain run-of-the-mill psycho. The one in Iowa was real.
I think I have something in my eye.
Of course he does: USS George Washington (CVN-73) - Wikipedia
I don’t think Ford deserves having a supercarrier named him, either, but he did serve honorably in the Navy in WWII: Gerald Ford - Wikipedia
There was indeed a carrier named after FDR: USS Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia. And the current USS Roosevelt is named after both Franklin and Eleanor: USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) - Wikipedia
There have been several ships named after Grant, the biggest of which (and the one to which you referred) was a Poseidon missile nuclear sub: USS Grant - Wikipedia
There has never been a commissioned U.S. Navy vessel named after Coolidge that I’ve been able to find, although there was a passenger liner converted into a WWII troopship: SS President Coolidge - Wikipedia
The “Silent Cal” Coolidge would be appropriate for a submarine, the silent service.
A hybrid presidential-named carrier: The Calvin Roosevelt with the motto “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Have you ever talked to someone from Kansas before? Strategically, that carrier needs to stay right where it is. This is nothing but a godsend. Plus, all that corn, go ahead and start converting it to 90% nuclear, 10% ethanol.
It’s a godsend because . . . there’s not much else protecting Kansas from foreign invasion?
If Kansas gets a carrier next thing we know Nebraska and the Dakotas will each want their own. Oklahoma will have to be happy with a WWII sub for a bit.
That is so bizarre I don’t even know how to react to it.
Especially since they took away our missiles.
I can’t believe that after four days and 93 posts, no one has come up with the obvious solution: put it on a treadmill and fly it out. Problem solved.
It’s been tried in post #49. Didn’t work though 
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Easy solution to reduce the number of Hindenburgs: wrap carrier in plastic wrap and fill it with hydrogen… :smack:
What is the airspeed of a Nimitz-laden swallow?
It’s Corn, if you are Symbolically Republican.
oohhhh, the humanity !
It’s Kansas. It’s all flat.