Another $100,000,000 Down The Toilet

[unhappycamper]

http://www.stripes.com/news/marine-corps/marines-osprey-damaged-beyond-repair-in-nevada-crash-1.239322

Marines: Osprey damaged beyond repair in Nevada crash
By Travis Tritten
Stars and Stripes
Published: September 4, 2013

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – The Marine Corps said Wednesday that an MV-22 Osprey crash in Nevada last month resulted in the complete loss of the aircraft but the investigation into the cause of the incident remains ongoing.

[CrispyQ]

1. What if we had used that money to fund something the People could use over & over again,

like a bridge, or a road, or a library, or a school. Oh, my bad! Those kind of investments return value to the community, not bucks to the 1% bank accounts.

Our values as a country are perverted.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

2. American culture is sick and has been cheapened.

One can point out that there is a lot of good, but I can see a tremendous amount of evil that continues to multiply and fester.

[CrispyQ]

3. "Robots of Dawn" was one of my favorite stories.

I love Daneel, Giskard & Bailey stories. Gis is my fave, though. The Zeroth Law.

Perhaps we should try to live by the four laws, huh?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

4. There are many laws that we should abide by, but it seems that we live in

a multi-tiered system where power and privilege are the least answerable to law while they expect the great majority to be subject to them.

And all the while we a fed a steady diet of reality show shit, depressed economy, rigged financial systems, corporate malfeasance, lobbyist fellating politicians and blind indolent cheerleaders to the whole lot above.

Laws are for the little guy.

[MADem]

5. I hate those fucking things--flying coffins.

The entire procurement process, stretching across not just decades but two centuries (the Twentieth and Twenty First) was a disgrace.

Reminds me of that tank movie that starred Olympia Dukakis and Kelsey Grammar...

Makes the phrase "Stay and Die For BHI" have new meaning....