Archive for November 12th, 2008

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Nov

Obama continues actually reforming ethics

   Posted by: Sean DeCoursey    in Politics

I always thought one of the most underreported stories of the Democratic primary was the Obama campaigns absolute, straight up refusal to pay out walking around money in Philadelphia.  For the uninitiated, walking around money is when you literally give tens of thousands of dollars to random dudes to walk around and pass out to supporters to get out the vote.  Because its filtered through political machines and “activists” it isn’t legally classified as the blantant bribery and vote purchasing that it is.  

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12
Nov

New Navy ship costs too much and doesn’t work

   Posted by: Sean DeCoursey    in Military

The awesomsauce of the Navy’s continuing insistence on its relevance as something other than a protector of shipping lanes continues.  This article up on Time.com by Mark Thompson does a nice job of detailing just what a total clusterfuck the procurement and deployment of the new amphibious assault ships has been.  Money quote: “We’ve been building these kinds of ships since 1943,”… “It has no big missiles, no advanced radar, and no nuclear propulsion.”

Of course, describing just how badly the ship works and how much its price went up in cost overruns ignores the more serious problem.  Why the hell are we ordering new amphibious assault ships anyway?

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