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Would the Cold War have been so divisive if there wasn't such strong Libertarian and Christian Fundamentalist movements in the '50s?

Perhaps with this gesture, in the future, the two nations may become warm friends

FIFY

Cutter=Coast Guard vessel
I believe the term everyone is looking for is "icebreaker"

fsbilly: Cutter=Coast Guard vessel
I believe the term everyone is looking for is "icebreaker"

The Coast Guard also possesses icebreakers.

BitwiseShift: Perhaps with this gesture, in the future, the two nations may become warm friends

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Okay, I give up. What's the reference?

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Got to love all those bootstrappy Alaskans depending on the "close er down!" federal government to save them. They should have closed the weather service first so they didn't know how cold it was, that might have helped. Or maybe they could build their own icebreaker.

Save us Sarah, you're our only hope.

rebelyell2006: fsbilly: Cutter=Coast Guard vessel
I believe the term everyone is looking for is "icebreaker"

The Coast Guard also possesses icebreakers.

Yes but any coast guard ship is a cutter. What makes the story meaniningful is that this is an icebreaker.

halfwaytoheaven: BitwiseShift: Perhaps with this gesture, in the future, the two nations may become warm friends

FIFY

Okay, I give up. What's the reference?

No reference. RTFA: they are bringing fuel to a town that is running out and runs the risk of not being able to heat their homes.

will there be a Discovery Channel show about this, where every creak in the ice breaker is the hull about to rupture and how if the fuel hose breaks in the sub freezing temperatures that there will be dead caribou and moose?

fsbilly: rebelyell2006: fsbilly: Cutter=Coast Guard vessel
I believe the term everyone is looking for is "icebreaker"

The Coast Guard also possesses icebreakers.

Yes but any coast guard ship is a cutter. What makes the story meaniningful is that this is an icebreaker.

Or one beat all to hell 44 footer kept afloat by its monstrous ship balls.

Not impressed.

I thought that Russian icebreakers were supposed to be tops on opening northwest passages, good to see we can help too.

Disapproves.

ElLoco: fsbilly: rebelyell2006: fsbilly: Cutter=Coast Guard vessel
I believe the term everyone is looking for is "icebreaker"

The Coast Guard also possesses icebreakers.

Yes but any coast guard ship is a cutter. What makes the story meaniningful is that this is an icebreaker.

Or one beat all to hell 44 footer kept afloat by its monstrous ship balls.


Picture of cutter in question?

Why TF would people live there? First off, it's about 3000 people. We're going to all this trouble for a town in the middle of nowhere with the population of a small city block.

USS Balto?

Thank you to the Coast Guard and Russian crews, braving severe weather to help people in need.

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Since 'The Lower 48' can't be expected to help Alaska, and Alaska's closer to Russia anyway, how much do you think we could get for it if we sell it back to Russia?

If we keep helping these people how are they supposed to leave that they SHOULDN'T BE LIVING THERE!!

UncleFriendly: Why TF would people live there? First off, it's about 3000 people. We're going to all this trouble for a town in the middle of nowhere with the population of a small city block.

I say, "Let Them Freeze!"

/Counterpoint:

UncleFriendly: Why TF would people live there? First off, it's about 3000 people. We're going to all this trouble for a town in the middle of nowhere with the population of a small city block.

I wondered the same thing - it looks that its useful as a port. And that's about it. There some mention of gold but doesn't look like any serious gold mines are located near it.

Good job, guys!!

Coast Guard cutters? When did the Coast Guard get all emo on us?

UncleFriendly: Why TF would people live there? First off, it's about 3000 people. We're going to all this trouble for a town in the middle of nowhere with the population of a small city block.

And don't forget the vampires who constantly feed on the citizens.

I share the same name as the honored man who the shop was named after. He made a name for himself saving people.
Read about it here: http://www.uscg.mil/history/people/Healy_ODell_Article.asp

Hell roaring indeed...

It sounds to me like this was a business transaction in which fuel was sold and delivered.

Not a humanitarian gesture. Yes?

ruthless_toothless: It sounds to me like this was a business transaction in which fuel was sold and delivered.

Precisely. The only issue was the urgency because they couldn't get their last delivery due to weather. And the Coast Guard to break the ice so the tanker can get close enough.

WOO HOO shirtless Putin thread!

Maybe a friendly Russian sailor will step in to rescue a mistreated manta ray.

Nice large picture they included with the article. It could almost fill up the entire screen of my old iPod Nano.

Want to have Russia as a "friend"?

Then maybe we'd better stop our attack on Iran.

QUOTE: (new window)

Russia would regard any military intervention linked to Iran's nuclear programme as a threat to its own security, Moscow's departing ambassador to NATO warned on Friday.

"Iran is our neighbour," Dmitry Rogozin told reporters in Brussels. "And if Iran is involved in any military action, it's a direct threat to our security."

Rogozin was speaking two days after the killing of a nuclear scientist in Tehran by a hitman on a motorcycle.

Kremlin Security Council head Nikolai Patrushev, who is close to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, said Israel was pushing the United States towards war with Iran, according to the Interfax news agency.

Russia, however, opposes a boycott of Iranian oil.

"We are definitely interested in the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction," Rogozin said on Friday. "But at the same time, we believe that any country has the right to have what it needs to feel comfortable, including Iran."

END QUOTE

We may have to decide whether having Israel as a "friend" is worth the prospect of having Russia as an enemy.

Tough choice?

offmymeds: Disapproves.

Just tell him they're delivering high grain alcohol.

Mad Tea Party: Coast Guard cutters? When did the Coast Guard get all emo on us?

1790

KarmicDisaster: Got to love all those bootstrappy Alaskans depending on the "close er down!" federal government to save them. They should have closed the weather service first so they didn't know how cold it was, that might have helped. Or maybe they could build their own icebreaker.

With the money the feds get from taxes on the oil Alaska produces, Alaska could build its own Navy. Until the feds let them keep that money, yeah they'll take federal services since they've paid handsomely for them.

jaytkay: Good job, guys!!



I see what you did there.

jayphat: offmymeds: Disapproves.

Just tell him they're delivering high grain alcohol.

Pure grain alcohol.....and rain water.

/get over here mandrake.
//the redcoats are coming.

UncleFriendly: Why TF would people live there? First off, it's about 3000 people. We're going to all this trouble for a town in the middle of nowhere with the population of a small city block.

Because there is gold there. And there was a native settlement there before that for the last 12009 years.

Amos Quito: We may have to decide whether having Israel as a "friend" is worth the prospect of having Russia as an enemy.

Tough choice?

Pre-empting IDF babe posts:

rebelyell2006: Would the Cold War have been so divisive if there wasn't such strong Libertarian and Christian Fundamentalist movements in the '50s?

Are you suggesting the problem was with us and not the Soviets killing millions of political dissidents?

Ambitwistor: Maybe a friendly Russian sailor will step in to rescue a mistreated manta ray.

Sorta obscure....

Link (new window)

Mrbogey: rebelyell2006: Would the Cold War have been so divisive if there wasn't such strong Libertarian and Christian Fundamentalist movements in the '50s?

Are you suggesting the problem was with us and not the Soviets killing millions of political dissidents?

Are you suggesting that the John Birch-type movements were aware of state secrets?

cretinbob: Remember who started rescue operations after Katrina, because that was their job, and they did have to wait for Bushtard to tell them what to do? Because the USCG kicks ass, that's why.

It's amazing how people twist themselves so no matter what happened with Katrina, Bush is bad. USCG does good... it's despite Bush. FEMA does poorly... it's because of Bush.