My favorite was the guy who wrote That’s BS. Sadly, Ambassador Stevens made some bad decisions, and he paid for it with his life. The rest of it is right wing obfuscation.
There's some truth there. Bad decision #1, work for Hillary Clinton. We can all agree on that one. #2, not leaving her employ, even if it means becoming a barber in Wyoming.
There's a reason I don't do Twit. I don't even visit my own facebook page, have not configured it in any way, or posted anything on it, after starting the page, and leaving in the profile section the statement that people shouldn't feel bad if I don't accept them as friends or reply to anything, since I don't go to the page.
I don't care what people say about me on social media. I don't read it. So far I haven't been affected, that I know of. If it gets to be an issue in the real world, I will just call the police.
So, I now feel unclean for just reading that link. Dang.
Hoot, i didn't mean to imply you were not well read, but that you might enjoy that Adams post immensely.
While I don't agree with Trump 100%....maybe less than 70%, on Iran, the NY Daily News guy has it all wrong.
It's understandable. He's a provincial rube who thinks everyone thinks like he does. He's willfully ignorant of who the Iranian leader is. He's willfully blind to what Islam is, as a political weapon & Way.
Understandable gets no sympathy. The editorial position is suicidal, for civilization.
First, the notion that anything Trump, or Obama, could say would start a war with Iran is ludicrous. The war started years ago. That's like saying FDR insulting Tojo in 1943 would start a war. You can analyze this deception as self deception, R derangement syndrome, or deliberate falsehood. Result, and mockery of this idiocy, is the same.
Second. The Ayatollahs have been consistent, for home consumption, since Jimmie Carter screwed the planet by supporting the Islamic Revolution. Death to America. And they've always meant it.
Third.... You biased lying sack. Obama went to Iran, praised the glories of Persia, ( fair ) and gave the Ayatollahs praise & cash bribes, and concessions. The Ayatollah promptly gave the speech, in Farsi, telling his people and the world that Barry was a wimp, a suck up, threatened war, then mocked the man child again as a fool.
But carefully Not as an apostate. That always told ME they played Taqiya With Obama. None of our enemy Islamists afaik, declared Obama apostate, which he claims to be. Either he's fooled the entire Islamic World, or he's lying to us. Figure the odds, and the record.
I won't get into where I disagree with Trump on Iran. He might surprise me, pleasantly or not.
President Trump Participates in “Made In America” Product Showcase Event CTH - July 23, 2018
President Trump is emphasizing “Made in America” products at a White House event to celebrate products manufactured in the U.S.A. Approximately 344,000 manufacturing jobs have been created since the President took office:
Thank you @POTUS and @VP for highlighting the hard work of American businesses and workers at today’s @WhiteHouse “Made in America” event. From a F-35 fighter jet to Texan boots, it is clear America is open for business due to a robust economy and tax cuts. #MadeInAmerica
Grateful for the American job creators I met today at the @POTUS’s Made in America Product Showcase at the @WhiteHouse. These men and women are growing American #manufacturing, creating jobs, and fueling our economic growth.
God Bless the NASA guys and the White House staff for getting the ORION deep space capsule onto the White House lawn today. It was worth the effort. #NASA #MAGA2018
Lockheed adds 1,800 workers to ramp up F-35 fighter production By James Langford | July 23, 2018
Lockheed Martin will add 400 workers to boost production of the F-35 fighter jet, the most expensive in U.S. history, after making a good on an earlier promise to President Trump to increase the aircraft's workforce by 1,800.
"The F-35 is an iconic product," Lockheed Chief Executive Officer Marillyn Hewson said in a statement. "The program supports 194,000 direct and indirect jobs nationwide, and as we ramp up production we are creating even more opportunities for American workers."
During my career as a machinist, many of the guys I worked with came from other shops. I heard many stories how they made parts for the government that they had no idea what it was. That's how they did it. Give a single blue print to a shop and there was no security issue. They spread blue prints to shops all over the U.S. so nobody could figure out what the heck they were building. It gave a lot of shops some income yet remained secure. A pretty smart way of getting the job done without doing it all "in house" and supporting small businesses all across the country.
I heard many stories how they made parts for the government that they had no idea what it was.
I know my dad built things for NASA during the moon race era. Also, the shop my brother works for supplied gear reductions for the Space Shuttle crawler. My dad's biggest clients were the auto makers though. That was when Detroit was thriving.
The government is also in the business of having companies produce parts that never get used. I know of at least one program that the end user was a scrap yard who also supplied materials (from those scrapped parts) to other manufacturers. I was confused as to why we were sending unfinished parts out the door.
I used to work at McDonnell Douglas and saw things go on that surprised me until I actually sat and thought about it.
Every State with a member on the appropriations committee. Just like every major defense contract since WW2.
Senator Foghorn from Utah is on the committee? They have a factory, & jobs, in his district. I've made, or inspected, parts for Abrams, Apaches, ....... Fill in the alphabet. New York had a member on the committee when they bought the item or spares. California, Connecticut, & Washington are a given.... Lockheed, Colt, Boeing. Parts everywhere.
On the Apache program, I actually read the documentation on one pallet, for the matching part. Small job shop, we drilled and tapped a few holes and did a QC survey, my job. 2 pallets, 1 part. Joined together as a unit through 34 States. It was all there. The Aluminum ore sample results. Aluminum smelter reports. Alloy testing report. Billet size and alloy verification report. First cut, to last polish on a finished part, eventually logged to a specific helicopter. TADS/PNVS optics platform.
Most of the thousands of people who touched, documented, and moved those parts didn't know or care what the part did. ( I did, as did thousands of others who signed the paperwork in the classified sections ) But every man, women, and manager knew it Had To Work Or People Died, and that their paycheck depended on the contract.
I'm betting there is a FBI taskforce investigating felony leaks. Very, very quietly.
My only uncertainty is if the indictments will be issued just before the mid term elections this year, the odd year elections next, or the Presidential election in two.
Just imagine the screams when Lizzie Warren's election staff has members arrested in September, for breaking their oaths.