Hi Lama:
Just imagine how bad it would be if there were brilliant people in the
government- you'd be wearing the barrel!
Gord
From: "Lama-Jim L'Hommedieu"
> Speaking of naval museums, our beloved Federal Government is moving a
nuclear submarine to a new (planned) museum in Cincinnati.
> Unfortunately we don't have money to improve education but we *DO* have
money to remove the nuclear reactor from inside a submarine
> (which was not designed to have it removed- DUH!), then transport the huge
vessel across the Rocky Mountains and more than a dozen
> states.
>
> School kids in 2015 may not be able to do algebra but they will be able to
tell they're penniless ancestors that they once toured a
> nuclear submarine.
>
> The new museum will be within sight of our new 4-lane bridge that our
beloved Federal government built, despite the Federal experts
> who said no such bridge was warranted. It replaced a 2 lane bridge that
saw almost no traffic. We don't have the money to replace
> the fatal 8-lane Interstate bridge that's within sight of the 4 lane
bridge but at least "we got something".
>
> We call this pork-barrel politics in the US.
>
> All the best,
> Lama
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