USS New York

Today's blip has to be about the USS New York, whose bow was forged utilizing 7.5 tons of steel from the 9/11 rubble. I have to admit even I can't assimilate all the psycho-social implications. Have we become a nation of morbid obsessives, preoccupied with the symbolism of death and destruction? Well, duh. Furthermore, Afghanistan is landlocked. So just how useful is this new, and indeed very ugly, warship going to be as a weapon during the probable, impending escalation over there? Oh, that's right, the so-called "War on Terror" (an oxymoron if ever I heard one!) is endless AND boundless. The USS NEW YORK will come in very handy any time or any place there are "bad guys" lurking out there in the world. Un-Americans who don't venerate our alleged way of life. Jeez, couldn't we do better in the world and at home than always building yet ANOTHER warship!?!