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No Post Today
No post today. Well except this one, which has no real content/links because I am busy or whatever.
Seymour Hersh is said to have a piece out this weekend about U.S. clandestine operations in Iran. That might be interesting and we’ll look at it when it appears.
In other news, casualties in Iraq are up, casualties in Afghanistan are up and the U.S. economy is tanking.
As GM reaches a new low let’s remember "What is good for GM is good for America."
- GM has a problem funding health care for its workers. Universal health care would be good for GM and America.
- GM has a problem with fuel efficiency. Better fuel efficiency standards would be good for GM and for America.
- GM has a problem with defaults on unregulated loans. Regulated loans would be good for GM and for America.
So that phrase (which is false in its origin) still holds.
My child came home with their first paycheck as a regular 40 working stiff, opened the envelope, and a horrified look came over their face. Two weeks of work but they only got paid for one, the union took 1/4 and uncle scam took another 1/4, of the 1/2 they paid them, so the weekend party was scotched. “Don’t worry, kid”, I said, “My first job I only made $1 a day, and here I’m still alive to tell you about it.”
We made a bit more than $1 a day, although in the 1930’s they made two bits a day, and that was enough for a steak and a coffee. My $1 was only enough for a couple of hamburgers and what passed for coffee. My kid’s $40 a day, hey! He’s back to steak, potatoes, coffee, and all the muffins he can eat! What the heck is going on here!?
Which only shows what you see in the little window of the envelope ain’t the whole picture. There’s lots of fluff and dander, and that brings me to the talking point.
Say you want to make $3/4B fast….
You cobble together a Scud knockoff, put a second stage on it, pretend that you put a nuke payload in that second stage, shoot it over Japan into the ocean, far short of any US landfall other than the Marianas, every aeronautical observer who knows rocketry says your Taipo Dong hasn’t got the structural, hasn’t got the thrust and hasn’t got the guidance to carry a warhead, but there you go, you’re front page now.
You cobble together a nuclear faux pas device, not a hydrogen bomb for cripes sake, you don’t have the capability to precision machine or build electronics. So you fill a mining truck with a couple 1,000 pounds of high explosives, pretend it’s shaped around a uranium core, announce to the world your thermonuclear test so they have all their seismic gear turned on, every nuclear observer who knows fission says your bomb isn’t more than a high school science experiment, you light it off in some cave filled with ANFO, and they figure it was far less than a half-kiloton blast, but there you go, the papers scream “they’re a newclur terrorist now!”
Then you toss 16,000 pages of high school science experiments into a diplomatic pouch, deliver it to the Chinese, before “blowing up” (after the cut-away shot), a 60-foot tall alleged nuclear plant cooling tower, when every nuclear power observer is scratching their head, nuclear cooling towers are 600-feet tall and you’re looks like my backyard barbecue, but there you go, you’re a Good Old Boy.
Pappy George welcomes you to the PNAC NeoZi.con club with 1,000,000 TONS of free distillates, at a time when his own citizens and airlines are starving for it.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!! When are they gonna finally audit them sumbitches in WADC?!
Like I said, you can’t always see through that little window in the envelope. Maybe Haggee was over in Pyongyang and converted Emperor Kim Jong-il to US kleptocracy?
Say you want to make $3/4B fast….
You bow, bend the knee, kiss the ring, pay a tribute to GWOT, and get a kibble.
There’s a good boy! And plenty more 1,000,000 TONS of oil where that came from.
You’re in The Chosen of God’s Army now!
Posted by: General Arnold Obermeyer | Jun 28 2008 8:16 utc | 14
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