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Post #358,745
by dmcarls
6/11/12 12:03:12 AM
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New In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree:
Super FOB !

[...]

"The base, already more than three years behind schedule, is so elaborate it will require fuel and technical skills that many U.S. officers doubt the Afghan army will possess once American troops withdraw.

It is also being built to American specifications, with a huge, propane-powered kitchen whose stoves the Afghans say they won't use. Instead, they are getting wood stoves designed for their tastes."

[...]

""Super FOB is no more unique" than any of the other 16 brigade bases now in various stages of construction, said Lt. Cmdr. Robert Wadsworth, a NATO engineering officer. Six corps-size bases are being set up, each with a $300 million to $350 million price tag."

http://online.wsj.co...cleTabs%3Darticle

What's in your wallet?
Post #358,754
by lincoln
6/11/12 8:26:43 AM
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New Re: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree:

What's in your wallet?




A lot less of my own money thanks to the industrial-military complex running our government today.




"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."

-- E.L. Doctorow
     In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree: - (dmcarls) - (1) - June 11, 2012, 12:03:12 AM EDT
         Re: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree: - (lincoln) - June 11, 2012, 08:26:43 AM EDT

Truly you are Earth's greatest customer.
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