A hit piece is a hit piece is a hit piece. It doesn’t make any difference if CBS, Politico, or People Magazine produced it. Once we know it’s a hit piece, I don’t take any of it as the whole, or actual, story. That’s what I meant when I said figuring what is reliable on line isn’t hard. If I was really concerned about chairs and pianos, I’d do more poking around on the internet. Most of the time I don’t care like the @aloha-hoosier so- called lawfare link.
Reporting factual information obtained through public records requests doesn't sound like much of a "hit piece".
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Exactly. The surf and turf went to the troops. The Dems will criticize anything this administration does, no surprise there. Meanwhile not a peep about much more money funneled to learing centers in Minnesota and phony hospice patients in California.
The MAGAts will defend anything this administration does...including protecting child predators.
Some depositions are coming out from a lawsuit filed.
The reason for termination of a holocaust project..
https://twitter.com/lydiakauppi/status/2031545537527226517?s=20
This guy was questioned why he had to send documents to his personal phone and then sent to signal.
https://twitter.com/LucasSa56947288/status/2032058253341843847?s=20
What a shit show.
Wow.
He didn't know why signal was not allowed but decided it was ok to use a workaround to use it anyway. So either dumb to the point he owns the short bus or he knew full well they were trying to get around accountability and public information requests.
When the facts are “ selected” the article will definitely be a hit piece, especially when anonymous leakers are part of the story.
@co-hoosier BA, you griped at EVERYTHING done in the Biden and Obama administrations. I wish the old site were still up. But your Trump Devotion Syndrome is too strong to admit they are wasting any money.
You hate when I mention that you never would have let something like this go if done by Biden or Obama because you know it is true and have no defense to the charge
Right next to the hard hitting "Top Story" about Chelsea Handler's new relationship.
Could it be McM?
So this hit piece should have explained how much of the cost of gourmet food will be reimbursed?
It can be a hit piece on the current Admin and also (at least partially) correct. Why was a piano ordered, let alone a Steinway?
Why was a piano ordered, let alone a Steinway?
Obviously the "troops" prefer very high end musical instruments. Why do you HATE the troops? 😉
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
@boogie First time seeing a deposition out in the wild? LOL
More often than not, they are shit shows in my limited experience.
I actually feel for the first guy. He was likely told to err on the side of caution and nuke anything remotely close. The first time he didn't, and it got caught in a review, he got his ass handed to him. From that point on it would be malicious compliance.
The attorney in the second one is just on a fishing expedition. "I'm not involved in the creation of policy, so I wouldn't know why specific apps are not allowed, nor how apps are approved for download."
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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I don’t know about that. This food thing is very strange. Every military unit (ship, wing, battalion, etc.) has its own budget for food. Furthermore, the officers and enlisted pay for their food out of their allowances for food called Basic Allowance for Sustenance (BAS). On a ship out of home port the BAS of enlisted goes to the ship and the ship provides food to the Sailors from it on the Mess Decks. For officers, we get a monthly bill for food served in the wardroom and sometimes for more than our BAS. On my first ship the CO wanted steak and crab legs or lobster every Friday so our bill was often twice BAS. Operating units have pretty much the same deal in all the services though officers sometimes just eat out of the general mess. In fact, Navy has gone that route for the most part too by eating the same menu, though sometimes small variations are added and officers pay that additional cost. When not operating for exercises or deployment all the enlisted and officers keep their BAS and are on their own for food for the most part. People in the Pentagon aren’t provided meals. They all have to buy their breakfast, lunch and dinner. They have restaurants and cafeterias in the building to purchase food or they can go to local restaurants. Of course they also eat at their homes with their families, if they have them, when not working. This huge cost of food for the Pentagon doesn’t make a lot of sense based on the way the the military does business. It’s a head scratcher. I haven’t seen it explained sufficiently anywhere.Exactly. The surf and turf went to the troops. The Dems will criticize anything this administration does, no surprise there. Meanwhile not a peep about much more money funneled to learing centers in Minnesota and phony hospice patients in California.
My nephew said they got steak and crab legs before they deployed. He jokingly referred to it as their last supper. Army, not Navy though, so a different circumstance from yours onboard a ship.
Regardless of how a unit handles it from a budget standpoint, the food needs to be procured first. Isn't that what these expenditures are related to?
@goat please ignore the preposition at the end of that last sentence.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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Regardless of how a unit handles it from a budget standpoint, the food needs to be procured first. Isn't that what these expenditures are related to?
@goat please ignore the preposition at the end of that last sentence.
There is nothing wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition in English. That's a myth.
Regardless of how a unit handles it from a budget standpoint, the food needs to be procured first. Isn't that what these expenditures are related to?
@goat please ignore the preposition at the end of that last sentence.
There is nothing wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition in English. That's a myth.
Mrs. Cox would have had you begging for mercy, even though she was in her 70s.
Thanks for the info. That was just drilled into my head over and over in school.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
POTFB
Art, you are just full of shit. I supported Obama’s drone campaign. I did criticize his micro-managing the targets. I came on this site and enthusiastically supported his speech after the Gabby Giffords shooting, then he stuck his foot in his mouth a few weeks later when he spoke about the Wisconsin leftist legislative sit- in. I support his gun control efforts but I said he was ineffective about how he went about it. I supported his spending freeze. I supported his Sotomayor appointment.
You are right about Biden. He did nothing of any importance right.
I have seen this "we have year end money and have to spend it" stuff. Anyone who doesn't believe it wastes money, huge amounts of money, has no idea much this happens.
As to the food, that is a lot. And while some may have gone to troops, I bet generals and lobbyists got their share.
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