poliphilo

O what wild things the internet has been telling me! For instance it says that the US aircraft carrier, Gerald R. Ford.....

Hang on right there, who in their right mind would name the pride of the US Navy after Gerald Ford?

I dunno, but that's not the point.

Seems pointed enough to me. Gerald Ford was the most forgettable US President in recent history....

So maybe they felt sorry for him. Anyway, getting back to what I was saying, the Internet was telling me that the USS Gerald R. Ford has been deployed to the Middle East with its decks running with sewage.

The symbolism is deafening!

Quite so, but there's more. This may not simply be a systems malfunction but something the crew themselves have brought on themselves by stuffing things down the toilets.

Why on earth would they do that?

Because they've been at sea for nearly a year and they're sick of it and want some shore leave.

Wouldn't that be mutiny?

Shhhh. Anyway that's not the end of it because if they reach the Middle East they may find it hard to find a port that'll take them.

Because they stink?

No. Because all the nations round there have been pissed off by Ambassador Huckabee's cheerleading for a Greater Israel. Or, in other words, taking scads of their territory and handing it over to Mr Netanyahu.

Why would he do that? Isn't it undiplomatic and isn't he supposed to be a diplomat?

Ah, but above all else he's a Bible-believing Christian. And God promised all the land between somewhere and somewhere else to the children of Abraham. I'd look it up but I can't be bothered.

So maybe it wasn't so clever to appoint him to such a sensitive post.

Exactly. But you may have noticed who's in charge....

Ah....yes....Him. But at least he's not as forgettable as Gerald Ford.....