You’d eat this
Food scientists working for the US military have developed a dried food ration that troops can hydrate by adding the filthiest of muddy swamp water or even peeing on it.
The ration comes in a pouch containing a filter that removes 99.9 per cent of bacteria and most toxic chemicals from the water used to rehydrate it, according to the Combat Feeding Directorate, part of the US Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Massachusetts. This is the same organisation that created the “indestructible sandwich” that will stay fresh for three years
Today’s reason: budget, don’t spend; spend, don’t budget.
Money approved to rebuild Iraq.
Thus far, nothing from the package has been spent on construction, health care, sanitation and water projects, according to the report. More money has been spent on administration than all projects related to education, human rights, democracy and governance. Of $3.2 billion earmarked for security and law enforcement, only $194 million has been spent.
Money problems attacking Iraq and supporting troops.
The U.S. military has spent most of the $65 billion that Congress approved for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and is scrambling to find $12.3 billion more from within the Defense Department to finance the wars through the end of the fiscal year, federal investigators said yesterday. … The Army, which is overspending its budget by $10.2 billion for operations and maintenance, is asking the Marines and the Air Force to help cover the escalating costs of its logistics contract with Halliburton. But the Air Force is also exceeding its budget by $1.4 billion, while the Marines are coming up $500 million short.
One of Jon Stewart’s recurring bits during this election cycle has been to focus on the conservative media’s use of the echo chamber to further it’s bias. jk — I’m in the group that believes “news” is whatever gets retired people and bored housewives to turn away from the Ellen show, and Rupert Murdoch is simply the greediest of them all — The RonCo© of news if you will. Still, the unwashed masses can’t be expected to accurately form opinions when the exact same verbiage is used by every talking head on one side of an issue. I’m hoping, though, that this NeoCon tactic will eventually backfire as people start to percieve the sheep-like lack of originality of these guys. <<bleat – bleat>>
p.s. I’ve always wanted to atttempt a bandwidth killer on my website. (I’ve never achieved more than 5% bandwidth usage over a month.) Maybe this kind of thing will get me there.
p.p.s. How ‘bout those 1337 skillz You know the ones: downloading a program that will record real video and then using it!