Sept 27, 2007-Early(yawn)Morning Edition

While waking up and getting ready for the day ahead is a chore, sometimes the morning news is pretty weird, as this story points out(see picture with todays blog)

"SWASTIKA?: The buildings, constructed in the 1960s, are on the Coronado amphibious base and serve as a barracks for Seabees. From the ground, or even adjoining buildings, the configuration cannot be seen. Nor are there any civilian or military landing patterns that provide such a view. But Google Earth shows the shape clearly."

These buildings were built 40 years ago, and nobody knew this? "Well surprise, surprise, surprise.." Gomer Pyle, USMC

Navy to Mask Swastika Look of Barracks in California

The Navy plans to spend $600,000 for “camouflage” landscaping and rooftop adjustments so that 1960s-era barracks at the Naval Base Coronado near San Diego will no longer look like a Nazi swastika from the air. The resemblance went unnoticed by the public for decades until it was spotted in aerial views on Google Earth.But Navy officials said they became aware of it shortly after the 1967 groundbreaking, and had decided not to do anything.

“There was no reason to redo the buildings because they were in use,” a spokeswoman for the base, Angelic Dolan, said. She added that the buildings were in a no-fly zone that is off limits to commercial airlines, so most people would not see them from the air.“You have to realize back in the ’60s we did not have the Internet,” Ms. Dolan said. “We don’t want to offend anyone, and we don’t want to be associated with the symbol.”

So during groundbreaking in 1967 they realized it was going to look like a swastika, and didn't change the design..Oh Kay....(not really..its pretty STUPID) I bet if they had realized it was going to look like a Peace Sign, they would ahve ordered the contractor to redesign...