The Twat below is the editor of 'Mother Jones' magazine....
Mother Jones Editor-in-Chief Frets Tomahawk Missile Might Offend Native Americans
by: Alex Griswold
April 10, 2017 3:48 pm
The editor-in-chief of liberal magazine Mother Jones voiced concern Saturday that the name of the Tomahawk missile might offend Native Americans.
"That the missiles are callled [sic] tomahawks must enrage a lot of Native Americans," tweeted Clara Jeffery, days after the United States launched said missiles at a Syrian airfield used to launch chemical weapons attacks.
Jeffery's tweet earned her some grief from others on Twitter, who accused her of looking for something to be offended by.
The tomahawk was created by Algonquian Indians and widely used by Native Americans and European colonialists alike. The iconic "pipe tomahawk" design of the colonial era was made using metal heads provided to tribes as gifts and goods from the British Navy.
Naming weapons and vehicles after Native American tribes and icons are a common practice in the U.S. military, including the Apache, Black Hawk, Iroquois, and Chinook helicopters and the Seminole and Mohawk airplanes.
Actual tomahawks still see some limited use in the U.S. military. "Members of Air Force security groups, Army Rangers and special forces are some of the U.S. troops who have chosen to add tomahawks to their basic gear," reported ABC News at the onset of the Iraq War.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
The AH-64D Apache is fitted with the Longbow millimetre wave fire control radar and the Longbow Hellfire missile. The Apache's 30mm automatic Boeing M230 chain gun fires 625 rounds a minute.
Serious piece of business, the Apache...
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The AH-64D Apache is fitted with the Longbow millimetre wave fire control radar and the Longbow Hellfire missile. The Apache's 30mm automatic Boeing M230 chain gun fires 625 rounds a minute.
Serious piece of business, the Apache...
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My dad was on the team that built these for Hughes Helicopters/McDonnell Douglas in the 80s; somewhere in my childhood photos is a picture of a 10 year old me sitting in one at the end of the assembly process.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
The folks who have fantasies about holding off the federal government with their arsenal of semi-automatic rifles and 100 round clips should really take a good look at the Apache...
If this had come from someone other than somebody like the editor of Mother Jones Magazine, (I assume that being a strident, humorless lefty is pretty much a prerequisite for that job) my immediate assumption would have been that it was probably intended satirically...
But she's had several days now (with plenty of getting ridiculed on Twitter) to clarify if she was kidding and hasn't done so...
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I thought it was satire as well at first; if it was called the peace pipe missile or something, I could understand someone possibly being offended, but naming a new weapon after something that was previously used as a weapon (and a pretty good one for its time at that), doesn't seem offensive in the least (at least to me).
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
