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What's this mayor smoking. People in Sherwood have to buy their expensive electricity from NLR after they tack on a a bunch of fees. And this is how he uses that money. Ridiculous!!!!!

You know he could get Jennings Osborne to buy it and then sink it every year on the 4th of July. Maybe even have a reenactment of Pearl Harbor.

This is the mayor we changed our form of gov't in order to emulate?

Step 1. Install city owned floating casino

Step 2. profit

Any citizenry who allows its mayor to buy and import a sinking toxic waste site deserves outrageous electricity rates.

Perhaps we can get the most famous of the Navy boats involved in the Pacific Theater, the PT 73 out of mothballs and have continuous loop of McHale's Navy. I think Ernest Borgnine could still be with us. He could come out and call ole Patrick Hayes ole Leadbottom.

Gee. I'm in the minority here. I'll buy a ticket to take a tour.

Hopefully we are working our way up to a bona fide battle ship. It could be anchored so that the bow and stern are beached on opposite sides of the river. Then open up a tunnel through it at the waterline and you will have a magnificent llandmark that will put that piddly Big Dam Bridge to shame. Maybe convert a midsection to a drawbridge to allow the occasional barge through. . .

We have joked and joked about the Inland Maritime Junk boat collection of the Mayor's down by the river a LOOOOng time. Whats next? An Aircraft carrier turned sideways and some ramps on each end and call it a bridge. Maybe I shouldn't Joke about it. It might put more Ideas in the Mayor's head. If this Destroyer thing comes to town I Promise we will be the laughing stock of the south. We all suffer from High electric rates, crime rates, Police Running away for more pay and more respect by the higher ranks. Fire Dept Stretched so thin. We're Going to Hell in a.....Well in a Boat I guess. It seems to be the most likely thing around with enough funding to carry us there anyway.
I have to ask this question, Ive been wondering for some time now. WHY? Why is NLR so blessed to have such a museum anyway? Is there something in the history of NLR that calls for it? I'm sure we have enough Navy vets to have a monument of thanks somewhere. But really do we have a Naval base here I don't know about? Is our economy so dependant on a shipyard I've never seen? Is our elderly population Made up of mostly retired ship builders?
I do know we have a few Bass and Flat bottom fishing boat manufacturers around the state and they produce fine products, but really should we be the place to have such a museum of Naturally rusty crap not even really floating like a turd in the punch bowl of the River?

I do know in our history we have a long line of Railroad men, from MoPac and what ever it was before that and whatever it is now. Almost Every other retired person I meet has worked for the railroad at one time or the other. A museum for that I could understand.

Also in our history is Military, Mostly training. Camp Pike, and Camp Robinson have been around since the dawning of time. Well my time anyway. A Large Part of Burns park was even federal land used to train recruits for World Wars. Camp Robinson is still a booming training center for a number of different things, Military and Police wise. Can Anyone give me directions to even a monument of any size that indicates this part of our history?

Instead we get some rusting out crap hole infested boats that look like things my mom would tell me to stay away from down in the river. Mom was never afraid of the river, just what was in it, as we should be too. Mom would never aprove of this.

We have joked and joked about the Inland Maritime Junk boat collection of the Mayor's down by the river a LOOOOng time. Whats next? An Aircraft carrier turned sideways and some ramps on each end and call it a bridge. Maybe I shouldn't Joke about it. It might put more Ideas in the Mayor's head. If this Destroyer thing comes to town I Promise we will be the laughing stock of the south. We all suffer from High electric rates, crime rates, Police Running away for more pay and more respect by the higher ranks. Fire Dept Stretched so thin. We're Going to Hell in a.....Well in a Boat I guess. It seems to be the most likely thing around with enough funding to carry us there anyway.
I have to ask this question, Ive been wondering for some time now. WHY? Why is NLR so blessed to have such a museum anyway? Is there something in the history of NLR that calls for it? I'm sure we have enough Navy vets to have a monument of thanks somewhere. But really do we have a Naval base here I don't know about? Is our economy so dependant on a shipyard I've never seen? Is our elderly population Made up of mostly retired ship builders?
I do know we have a few Bass and Flat bottom fishing boat manufacturers around the state and they produce fine products, but really should we be the place to have such a museum of Naturally rusty crap not even really floating like a turd in the punch bowl of the River?

I do know in our history we have a long line of Railroad men, from MoPac and what ever it was before that and whatever it is now. Almost Every other retired person I meet has worked for the railroad at one time or the other. A museum for that I could understand.

Also in our history is Military, Mostly training. Camp Pike, and Camp Robinson have been around since the dawning of time. Well my time anyway. A Large Part of Burns park was even federal land used to train recruits for World Wars. Camp Robinson is still a booming training center for a number of different things, Military and Police wise. Can Anyone give me directions to even a monument of any size that indicates this part of our history?

Instead we get some rusting out crap hole infested boats that look like things my mom would tell me to stay away from down in the river. Mom was never afraid of the river, just what was in it, as we should be too. Mom would never aprove of this.

There's a railroad museum every 100 miles across the US. Been to the one in Pine Bluff? I thought so. Navy vets and their families and descendants are spread across the US. The sub already brought a large convention to town its first year. Having real-live ocean going navy vessels here in Arkansas for us and our offspring to go look at is pretty cool. Hell, tourists in San Damfrancisco , with all there is to see there, flock to the sub and other boats on display in the bay area. If one refugee from Orange Texas environs (our Blog Dude Max) thrived here, why not another?

Ever since I read that a full-fledged battleship slipped it's moorings one night and smacked the Arkansas-Oklahoma bridge here in Fort Baptist once night in 1917 or 18, I've been dreaming of bringing a Naval vessel to Fort Baptist.

8 or 10 years ago it was announced that the John Paul Hammerschmidt Museum of Transportation would be built on the edge of the Arkansas River here. So far the announcement is as far as they've got. I'm told Congress has no desire to fund it. Of course it would go perfect with the new US Marshals Museum, and the National Historic Site with Judge Parker's Courthouse and the Fort Smith Museum of History and Miss Laura's whorehouse.

Though I may not look or act so manly any more, I was all boy growing up and anything with a motor grooved my hoover. 2 or 3 days a week I have the opportunity to cast my eyes lovingly on the old Frisco steam locomotive 4003 that sits at the end of South 3rd street and I feel lucky. So to make a long story short....I'm jealous of the mayor's rusty fleet in NLR.