Claude Berube
@cgberube
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Historian; novelist; Trekkie; political independent; retired USNR CDR; retired USNA prof.
Joined March 2012
RT @SeaShepherdSSCS: MISSION-READY! After months of refit, the #Allankay finally hit the water for sea trials—and it’s more than ready for…
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Why having a black lab in Maine is a good thing: you never lose sight of them in winter
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Tiananmen Iguana. In GTMO, you lost your license and were fined if you ran over an iguana. This one on the left stopped me one morning resulting in several vehicles being stopped. Got to admit, they were pretty cool critters.
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GTMO is a unique environment. My thoughts on the place and the administration's intent to use it for illegal immigration:
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RT @KHostages: There's a new podcast on the US Senate by Dr. @cgberube, a former Naval Academy Professor, of which I was honored to be a pa…
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Episode 3 of #TheSenate podcast. I interviewed former Secretary of the Senate Kelly Johnston. One of the many facts in this discussion: the Secretary is the only person aside from Senators or the VP who can, under certain conditions, preside over the Senate.
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Smoking on airliners: bad Smoking on captured Soviet boomers: just another day at the office
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The TV series Lost in Space had two theme songs. Both by John Williams long before Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, and all his other theatrical music. Seasons 1-2: The better Season 3 where you can start to hear the style of his future films
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Give a lab an inch and he takes a mile. This shall not stand...but he's a good boy.
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Worth a read. Not ideal, but reality has been building for a while. There are historical trends in great power navies. "if deterrence fails, and the United States goes to war with China — by the time the smoke clears, the U.S. Navy won’t have enough ships left for presence anyway" Rolling Back Naval Forward Presence Will Strengthen American Deterrence @WarOnTheRocks
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Police Squad had no equal
Police Squad! (1982) One of the funniest shows ever to appear on TV only produced 6 episodes. It spawned three Naked Gun movies, and although he'd previously appeared in Airplane! (1980), it was the role of Frank Drebin that turned Leslie Nielsen into a comedy legend.
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RT @pegobry_en: The first restaurant in history opened in Paris in 1765. Until then travelers staying at an inn ate at the host’s table or…
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