Fight Club____for Sailors

[TrueBlue]

There are no miracle ideas for ending violence against the western nations - we cannot simply hide in bomb shelters, or react defensively, we need to continue with offensive measures for total elimination of this evil.

Achieving victory through eradication of Muslim extremists requires the support of most other world powering countries. In time, as more and more violence spreads to these countries, they will realize that military force is the only means of suppressing jihad. If the world does nothing, as most liberals suggest, this cancer will just spread.

[southerncross31]

TB: You have a beautiful boat.

[TrueBlue]

Thank you for that kind compliment SC31. We think so too, although that opinion "is in the eyes of the beholder".

[southerncross31]

Who built it, model name etc...I did an interesting wetlands study of N-bay. I took areial photos from the 50's and compared them to photos from the 90's under a stereoscope to determine the loss of natural shorline to docks, bulkheads, piers, etc.... There are many more places to dock boats now!

[TrueBlue]

It's a Nauticat 33 "traditional pilothouse" motorsailer with a ketch rig. Nauticats have been built in Finland since the 1960's and are going stronger today than ever before. If you want to learn more, check out their website - http://www.nauticat.com/

I get involved with RI DEM, wetlands division, quite often since I custom design waterfront estates for my clients. You are correct in that RI's natural shoreline is getting reduced through coastal development. Narragansett Bay's coastline sets the gold standard of New England. As long as the rich want waterfront homes, marinas and resorts, the natural shore will be in jeopody.

Unfortunately, all of this country's coastal areas are experiencing the same epidemic.

[cardiacpaul]

"Our own actions created much of the animosity towards our country. Now we are just pissing them off even more."

I don't care if they're pissed.

I think, if they're really that pissed, then they should stop sending us their goods, and cut a check for the 15+billion in public funds we send every year (thats almost 600.00 each for every man woman and child in the US) and I'm including Israel in that figure as well, they can defend themselves quite well thank you.

That figure doesn't include any of the private pesos that individuals send.

Wanna buy an F-16 ? sorry, we're using them. It wouldn't take us long to build our own tv sets again. or decent cars.

Tell that crackpot in Venezuela that we don't need Citgo. Take Shell with ya. Sell it to China. I hear their money is good.

Medicine? sucks to be you, buy it. I have to. Don't have the funds? oh well, thems the breaks. Good luck with that aids/polio/flu/cancer thing.

Pharmacutical research lab here but you're "not from here?" awww, that sucks, its ours now. Get your own monkeys and dogs, we have pills to make.

Don't like it? too flippin' bad, turn on your TV, See those protesters telling the world just what a "devil" the U.S. is? Perhaps we should be. Heres your sign Machmoud, praise be to Allah... How come he's wearin' a Nike shirt anyway?

Yea I know you "can't buy me love" but I don't have to answer the phone with the next "help me I've fallen and I can't get up call " either. Tsunami comin'? break out the Gortons fishermans hat and hang on. Landslide? That sucks, Dad taught me not to live on the side of a mud hill.

Starving in Africa? Move out of the flippin desert pal... not much grows there. (Sam Kinison)

I think we should call in the loans, tell the world bank they get no more lincolns from us, and divide up the tab for the UN by the total number of seats and given them 2% 10 day-net 30 invoices. If they don't pay, do what any landlord here does, post a notice, give 'em three days, then put their office on the street. See-yuh, buh-bye now.

Give notice to that small man syndrome sufferin' twit in N.Korea that if he lights off one more firecracker, that he'd better put on his asbestos suit, cuz the next thing he'll hear is one of his sex slaves saying "what the fu** is that" followed by a mushroom cloud... you want nukes, heres a nuke for ya.

Close the borders? naw, just do what other countries do, if found to be illegal, be thrown in jail, asked questions in oh, whenever they get 'round to it.

told ya, don't get me started. btw almost all of this is tongue in cheek.

[southerncross31]

What's more worrisome is how far the water has moved inland. I found photos of some areas in the 40's that had huge expanses of dunes, marshland that have been completely filled in. In most cases it was not due to longshore transport of the sand, but higher water levels. Within our lifetime most of the beach houses will be under water!

[TrueBlue]

Environmentalists blame this of course, on global warming - polution depleting earth's ozone layer, intensifying the sun's warmth - eventually melting centuries old ice from the polar caps. Couple this with low lying coastal areas, such as marshes and swamps, being filled in for coastal development, rising land levels in flood zones displacing rising water, and we have an increasing problem.

I am very sensitive to the impact development plans have on our coasts and strictly follow CRMC & DEM guidelines in my designs to ensure minimal impact. Unfortunately, greedy land developers and their skillful lawyers, find ways to circumvent these policies.

[TrueBlue]

I have GOT to get back to my projects . . . check in later this aft.

[knothead]

I am really impressed by the level of intelligence exibited by so many of the members whose posts I've read on this site. In truth I feel somewhat intimidated. I know a little about rigging, a little about sailing, less about politics. But I wouldn't dare to get into a debate on any subject with most of you.
I do like to add a thought to the mix now and then though.
I am concerned about the state of affairs in the world today regarding war, the envirornment etc., but I guess the biggest worry I have right now is how such a large contigent of the population seem to be blind to the fact that we have been targeted by a group of people who have stated and proven that they feel we need to be eradicated. These people aren't willing to live and let live. They aren't willing to talk about our differences. They want to kill us and destroy our way of life. I know that that sounds simplistic but then I've already told you that I'm not that smart. I look at these people like I would a rabid animal. I love animals and if I were to encounter a rabid dog I would feel real bad that he had the misfortune to get sick, then I would shoot him in the head. I wouldn't feel good about it but I wouldn't lose any sleep either. The people who have declared war on us, (long before Bush was elected), have contracted a disease. The disease is the same one that afflicts that christian preacher who stages protests at the funerals of our service men. The same disease that convinces some people that it's OK to shoot abortion doctors. It's not about what religion one chooses to adhere to, it's about fanatics and madmen who are not able to cure themselves and about their brothers who choose not to regulate their own.
That preacher has gotten very little press and a whole lot of **** from some of the rest of us. Thats cause while we may believe in ones right to speak his mind, we also believe that we have a right and a responsibility to tell them what assholes they are and to keep them from going too far.
Anyway, I'm glad there is this forum available where we can exchange ideas and thoughts on so many subjects. Lets not limit it. Sometimes I just am too tired to think about deep subjects, so I just don't go there. Other times I feel like it's a good exercise and I grow from reading and considering the thoughts of others.