It's refreshing to read a story about splatting on a boat that doesn't involve the Minnesota Vikings.

There's a house a few miles away from mine like this. The owner put a unicorn sculpture in his yard, and his neighbor's complained. At which point he was like "you don't like my unicorn? Fine, I'll add ten medieval knights around it!" and then kept going until his yard was full of awesome/weird spite statues. I…

Marinette is one of the biggest shipbuilders in the US and has quite a good reputation, the ship was built there because they won the bidding for it and that's where the company is located. Ships by definition move - doesn't matter where they're built. That's like going to a car dealership in California and…

i'm sure it was no consideration whatsoever. you're very likely asking that question for the very first time.

NOAA covers the Great Lakes, too. Perhaps they had a project up there first.

Another commenter responded to me with some insight about the capabilities of this specific builder — suggesting that they went where the expertise is. That made sense. My lone recommendation isn't enough to ungray it, apparently, but this is a smarter conversation with that person's voice in it.

My complete and utter lack of specific knowledge provides me with two possibilities:

1 lowest bidder type deal
2 maybe they need some great lakes work done too. itl do it on the way, 2 birds one stone

your retarded

Yeah It's not like there isn't Ship yards in Washington Oregon or California. They practically litter the west coast not to mention the ones in the Gulf lol.

Thank you, I thought there might be a legitimate reason, I just didn't know what it was. The resource I found referenced a unique type of keel design used in this ship, I wondered if it might be a proprietary design of that builder.

MMC builds LCS ships for the Navy so they can be deployed out in the mid-east and Pacific, and its one of the oldest and few shipyards in the U.S...so its actually pretty lucky to be built in the U.S. Its like saying "why would you build a car in Japan if I'm going to be driving it in the backwoods of no where USA?"…

Most likely some senator had got a nice bit of "campaign money" to get it made there.

Because that's where the lowest bidder builds ships.

I don't know who That Call is, but it has to be embarrassing for him.

Such was my fear. So go many thoughtful teachers, and who can blame them for finding employment that encourages and rewards their thinking.

Please keep teaching forever. I know it can be miserable and thankless, but please know that there are parents who cherish thoughtful teachers, wish there were more of them, and are trying to find better ways to recognize, reward, and compensate the ones who deserve it.

Well, my most popular class was a course on applied ethics and Stargate SG-1. I've taught stories by Vonnegut (I love Harrison Bergeron), Gibson, a lot of Dick,... I dip pretty heavily into comics, as well (mostly 90s-era Vertigo stuff), and scifi standards like Star Trek (TOS & TNG), GATTACA, Metropolis, etc.

*laugh*

"Users' Manual" might have been a better label.

I can't speak for Violet, but I could not get over how an abusive relationship was being peddled to girls and women as perfectly healthy and romantic. If Twilight was being sold as light fluff that people shouldn't take seriously it would be one thing, but they weren't and as a result a bunch of girls and teens now…