“Your Tax Dollars At Work”
Golden Dome Panned by Russia, China, North Korea
A long time ago in an Administration far, far away Russia, China, North Korea condemn Trump’s $175 billion Golden Dome missile shield US foes call Trump’s Golden Dome ‘arrogant’ By Caitlin McFall The U.S.’s chief adversaries, Russia, North Korea and China, all of which are nuclear-armed nations, have condemned President Donald Trump’s space-based defensive plan […]
Trump gets 747, reportedly not a “gift”
The Defense Department has released a statement that the famous Qatari 747 has been accepted by the government, presumably to serve as Air Force One. Mr. Trump purportedly dislikes that the current two planes in use as AF1 are older vintage 747s nearing the ends of their usable lifespans. The unprecedented $400 million gift, which […]
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 […]
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