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@athousandyoung said
Inner city LA, it sux
Downtown?

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@jimm619 said
Downtown?
Koreatown/mid-Wilshire, west of downtown

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@athousandyoung said
Koreatown/mid-Wilshire, west of downtown
I never get up there any more........
Mostly for LAX..............Had some times,
as a young man, your neck of the woods.........Loved to cruise Hollywood, back in the day...............70's

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@AThousandYoung
I like Alvera street. I also LOVED Venice Beach but of course you would expect that from a hippy bum musician🙂 except I was actually PAID money to play in my band back in the day. Now all I can do because we can't get music gigs any more, is compose, I have 200 tracks now on Soundcloud, little pat on the back for my 80 year old frame.

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@sonhouse said
@AThousandYoung
I like Alvera street. I also LOVED Venice Beach but of course you would expect that from a hippy bum musician🙂 except I was actually PAID money to play in my band back in the day. Now all I can do because we can't get music gigs any more, is compose, I have 200 tracks now on Soundcloud, little pat on the back for my 80 year old frame.
you really dont have a life do you?

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@mott-the-hoople said
you really dont have a life do you?
That's funny, coming from you.

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@athousandyoung said
The New Jersey has a whole youtube series talking about it:

https://www.youtube.com/c/BattleshipNewJersey
Awesome!

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@jimm619 said
Downtown?
Was it 'The Bismark,' that had 18 inch guns,
or was it a Japanese Gunboat?

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@jimm619 said
Was it 'The Bismark,' that had 18 inch guns,
or was it a Japanese Gunboat?
It was the Yamato, the Japanese flagship.

German battleships actually had fairly weak guns. The Bismarck had 15 inch guns. Their ships were very heavily armored though.

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@jimm619 said
Yup.....paradise......You?
It was said that 'Big Mo,' was kept around
for so long because of a special affection that
Truman had for the battle wagon named after his home state.
It was where the Japanese surrender was signed, ending WW2.

Since 1998, she's served as a museum ship docked not far from the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, HI.

https://www.ussmissouri.org

Near our state capitol building in Phoenix, is a display of two battleship guns, one from the USS Arizona and one from the USS Missouri, representing the beginning and end of WW2. I believe the anchor from the USS Arizona is still there as well.

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@sonhouse said
@AThousandYoung
I like Alvera street. I also LOVED Venice Beach but of course you would expect that from a hippy bum musician🙂 except I was actually PAID money to play in my band back in the day. Now all I can do because we can't get music gigs any more, is compose, I have 200 tracks now on Soundcloud, little pat on the back for my 80 year old frame.
I spent so much time in Venice Beach in the 2000s that my hair lightened by a few shades. It's more brassy now that I am older.

Love your music, man.

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@mott-the-hoople said
you really dont have a life do you?
Give him a break, puts songs on the internet. If he is better than Neil Young, I hope he will link us to his 'works'.

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@averagejoe1 said
Give him a break, puts songs on the internet. If he is better than Neil Young, I hope he will link us to his 'works'.
none there

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@mchill said
Before we decide to further "beef up our military" please consider just a few reasons to stop blindly throwing money at every national security problem we face.

The Navy wants to decommission 9 ships, none of them over 10 years old, that cost 4.5 billion of our tax dollars. The 9 ships in question, part of a total group of 24 ships to be decommissioned, are described by th ...[text shortened]... -of-ships-suck-and-they-need-new-ones/ar-AAW16Hw?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=05a2582aebbd4026ae5f3fe9d4c7c7ef
Defense is not just defense. It's an industry. They spend over $100 million per year just on lobbying the government to keep spending money on things that don't make sense to spend money on.

The other story you missed here is that the Pentagon audited itself and found hundreds of millions per year in excess spending on administrative waste. But they never did anything about it and congress just kept raising their budget. There's no accountability and no interest in fixing it.

EDIT: I previously wrote that there excess administrative spending was hundreds of millions. Nope. Wishful thinking. That number is $125 BILLION. They admittedly waste that much just on administration, but their budget keeps going up? Huh?

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/pentagon-budget-mystery-807276/

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@wildgrass said
Defense is not just defense. It's an industry. They spend over $100 million per year just on lobbying the government to keep spending money on things that don't make sense to spend money on.

The other story you missed here is that the Pentagon audited itself and found hundreds of millions per year in excess spending on administrative waste. But they never did anything ab ...[text shortened]... up? Huh?

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/pentagon-budget-mystery-807276/
Did you say waste spending? You are right,,,,don't you think it should be stopped?Look what Biden is up to with the newly -printed trillions . Lets stop it already. I am with you !!

https://twitter.com/govwaste?lang=en