By I mentioned earlier this week how some members in Congress and think tank types want to cut the pay and benefits of people who serve in the US military, yet here is a perfect example of what these Congress people don’t want to cut:
The Pentagon doesn’t want an alternate engine for the F-35 fighter; they’ve tried to terminate the program since fiscal 2007. Congress has continued to fund the program over Pentagon and administration objections. Obama threatened a veto in 2009, but Congress still added more funds for an alternative engine. The fiscal 2010 Defense spending bill included $465 million for an alternative F-35 engine. The FY2010 defense appropriations bill (signed by Obama on Dec. 19, 2009) included $430 million to continue alternate engine development and appropriated $35 million for alternate engine procurement. [Blackfive]
9:43 pm on May 14th, 2010 1
Well you know, you gotta have that big gun, who needs food.
12:48 am on May 15th, 2010 2
Well, they cut 40,000 airforce jobs to pay for the F22 and then cut the program at 180 when the planes were around 135 million a copy. The cuts ultimately didnt' save money, and then they found they couldn't run things without those people, so they had to then hire thousands of untrained people to help fill the holes. Now the JSF is over 100 million, can't do what the F22 can do, has only one engine and is still tauted as the "affordable" version. Makes as much sense as anything.
Retarded has become so ubiquitous there should be a new word for retarded. I can this the newtard.
2:04 am on May 15th, 2010 3
"newtard"
Oh goodie. A new word. Hopefully, Sarah Palin isn't offended by it.
4:24 am on May 15th, 2010 4
Kind of like North Korea eh Tom? You know, YOUR brothers and sisters to the North. You know, YOUR enemy America protects YOU from.
Yup, Congress is ricetarded.
7:09 am on May 15th, 2010 5
Having a shitty weekend?
7:29 am on May 15th, 2010 6
I sure she would. After all, she's highly educated…She went to 4 different colleges to earn her BA in journalism.
10:14 am on May 15th, 2010 7
You're right, he's having a shitty weekend.
11:24 am on May 15th, 2010 8
American war industry is a mammoth that lives for self preservation. The roles were changed: now the USA exist to preserve and feed the mammoth.
5:18 pm on May 15th, 2010 9
Dr. Yu. Just becuase the Koreans for 5,000 years have failed to stop sucking China's tit, do not assume the Americans will follow suit for soo dreadfully long.
9:13 pm on May 15th, 2010 10
America is already sucking China's tit. Haven't you seen how Obama went to China with his hat in hand?
America is afraid of China, and what's America going to do about it? Face it, you guys are losing, and losing bad. 
10:39 pm on May 15th, 2010 11
No palin fan, but I did notice that you used the word "earn". Interesting. I did not expect that from a Liberal/Canadian with a Masters Degree. Sorry, "two" Masters Degrees.
10:40 pm on May 15th, 2010 12
10:43 pm on May 15th, 2010 13
Translation of the above from tom; "BUT BUT, I know you are but what am I."
See you at the bottom tom. Korea will get there years before her big brother America arrives.
10:51 pm on May 15th, 2010 14
FOOD? Shocking that one who constantly speaks of the fat americans, would find america short of food. I'm more concerned about bullets then beans. My garden is doing fine.
10:59 pm on May 15th, 2010 15
This from a Libtard?
Only a Libtard can be so concerned with what some simple country girl might think. Of course you did suggest that she does, in fact, think. 
Was that a Libtard slip of the tongue.
11:25 pm on May 15th, 2010 16
There IS a new term for mentally retarded. They're now called cognitively impaired, or CI among acronym-loving educators.
1:47 am on May 16th, 2010 17
"There IS a new term for mentally retarded. They’re now called cognitively impaired, or CI among acronym-loving educators."
A euphemism change generally indicates a turd is trying to be polished. Big turds get frequent changes.
Minutes after CI becomes mainstream, the slang will follow… and it will be right back where it started.
Will it be coggies or cog-tards?
3:48 am on May 16th, 2010 18
Wise move ditto81, keep deviating the focus from the problem.
Why worry about this issue if you can focus all your time and energy insulting Korea, that BTW has nothing with this subject.