Posts Tagged ‘PAC’

Anyone seen my $13 BILLION helicopter?

May 8th, 2009 | 4 Comments

Ever wonder how we have trillion dollar deficits?  Here’s a good example.  This was the original request: The Presidential Helicopter is responsible for the safe, reliable transport of the President in administrative and contingency environments, worldwide. The VH-71 is being developed to replace the existing VH-3D and VH-60N helicopters, which currently serve as “Marine One”. [...]

How corrupt is Congress?

June 11th, 2007 | 4 Comments

I read an excellent comment on Outside the Beltway. I’d like to just post the whole thing here, but that’s discouraged. So, I’ll just lift the best part: Perhaps naively, I still believe genuine corruption among Congressmen and other major officials in American politics is an aberration rather than routine. The people who aspire to [...]

Google officially gets political

October 25th, 2006 | No Comments

People have accused Google of allowing their political leanings to affect some of their content searches.  Google of course denied the allegations.  But, it was kind of obvious something was amiss.  The reason I yanked Googe AdSense was because no matter what I wrote about Bush, their "unbiased" searches would ALWAYS come up with something [...]