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The Bluenose belongs on a dime and Nova Scotian’s don’t need to spend any more of them to keep number 2 afloat. Sink the Bluenose by putting it in a museum. —Not one more Bluenose dime
This article appears in Feb 5-11, 2015.
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INCOHERENCE BASED UPON AN UNSUPPORTED ASSERTION
“The Bluenose belongs on a dime and Nova Scotian’s (sic) don’t need to spend any more of them to keep the number 2 afloat.” Not one more Bluenose dime
Well, you’ve taken the first step. You’ve asserted that Nova Scotians don’t need to spend any more dimes to keep the Bluenose afloat. But where’s the second step? Where are the reasons to support your claim? In their absence this is just another brain fart. You do realize that, don’t you?
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You mean number three.
It might actually be a Number 4, if I vaguely remember my history….
Shouldn’t have just given the old one a Viking funeral (during Canada Day or something, that would be a real draw) and build a new new one from scratch? Would that have been cheaper. We look like real idiots over this. Should have outsourced the project to china or something. But then there’s this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU7sFMsTEs… (skip to 10:00)
And yes, I’m substituting Chinese for Japanese, the Japanese probably feel the same way nowadays.
^^ I like this idea. It has a certain understood lunacy that appeals to me. Build a new Bluenose. Viking funeral for the old one on Canada Day. The crowds on the waterfront would be incredible for that spectacle. You could have a lottery to see who gets to dress like a Viking and throw a torch onto the old one to set it ablaze. Charge a few bucks a ticket and put the money towards the new one. I see a plan coming together. I vote to put Cranky in charge of the lottery and boat burning ceremony.
And the winner can have his/her choice of costumes: http://www.halloweencostumes.com/viking-co…
I can really see this coming together. I’m willing to spearhead this, for sure. There are probably other money making spinoffs we can get out of this. Ooh! A Halifax Explosion tie-in! Or Titanic?
We may need to bring out a 5 or 10 dollar coin to float that boat now, as a dime has become too puny
No, as I said I mean the second step.
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/origin…
Actually, I believe this is another case of too much Government. Instead of hiring a competent project manager & putting them in charge,
http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/1266…
Which is part of the problem with Too much government, we need less of it & more use of outside expertise. If it had been done correctly, costs would have been less.
It seems it would have been far cheaper just to rebuild this craft. This is one of the downfalls of government managing a project as More alluded to, no real accountability or fiscal responsibility.
The guberment should divide the money wasted on this boat and send it to the people as a tax credit.
But the cocksuckers would never do that! It might help too many people out. Better restore some stupid ship instead.