“Your Tax Dollars At Work”
The dumbassery of a 747
Hopefully life won’t overtake this – I am traveling this weekend so writing is taking place early. We’ll see if what I do Tuesday lasts till Friday! Oh, Lord, everyone is making noise about Qatar’s gift of a luxo 747 to serve as Air Force One. Trump is hailing it as a wonderful gift: “So […]
Top 5 examples of government waste: DOGE
May not be the biggest bucks, but they certainly contend for most outrageous! *$132,000 to Taliban official (Mohammad Qasem Halimi, a former Taliban member who was Afghanistan’s former Chief of Protocol) by the United States Institute of Peace (who?) Halimi was detained by the U.S. and held at Bagram Air Base for a year beginning […]
Office of Federal Student Aid- Pay Up
Department of Education The previous administration sought to purchase votes with tax dollars by forgiving unpaid Federal student loan debt to college borrowers. This was patently unfair, not to mention unconstitutional, and was eventually found so by SCOTUS. Yet the ~5,000,000 defaulted loans went uncollected until now. Department of Education to Restart Involuntary Student Debt […]
The lighter side of 3300 points
Seems to be a pattern in the current administration…of not thinking things through very well. It started with Cabinet nominations… we noted months ago that with a tiny majority in the House and Senate, taking too many candidates from the – yep, House and Senate – might come back to bite ’em in that […]
Let’s pile it on
Dunno about you, but I have a depressed area on my upper left arm. Bet most of you fellow old farts do, too. It’s those damn vaccinations! The smallpox vaccine created a small reaction within the recipient’s body which showed their body was immunized and that the vaccine was working. Good thing, too, because other […]
Admin steps on its d*ck – bigly
Well, our war planners have figured out how to keep things secret in a new way. Pinky swearing. OK, that was unfair…almost.What they did do, however, was about as infantile. Signal, for those (like me) who don’t follow the latest apps, is a ‘secure’ commercial messaging app on a par with Meta’s WhatsApp. You send […]
DEI purge and AI
Seems we can chalk up a lot of the controversy in the last couple of months to non-human causes. The officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations, said, for example, they were waiting for guidance on whether military “firsts” count as history that can be restored. The […]
Boeing wins F-47 fighter contract, heads explode
The competition between Boeing and Lockheed Martin for the Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter (NGAD) is over, with Boeing taking first prize. During the Oval Office announcement ceremony, Trump displayed a poster showing the first glimpse of the F-47 design, revealing a forward fuselage and sharply swept back wings but no further design features. The […]
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