[QUOTE=The King of Soup]
He’d be an * it.
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Sign over an outdoor fireplace at Loon Mountain Ski Resort in NH:
If the B MT, put :
If the B full, stop putting :
Don’t put : over a -der
You be an * it.
If the grate be empty, put coal on.
If the grate be full, stop putting coal on.
Don’t put coal on over a high fender.
You’d be an ass to risk it.
Just put them on the list, the ground is frozen, can’t dig any holes till spring.
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
And the price tag for this fucking fiasco in the making? Up to $27 billion. That’s right, $27 Carl Sagan units! Jesus fuck! Do you have any idea of what I could do with half that money?
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It’s twice the budget of some entire federal government departments. NASA for instance, is just over half that amount.
$25 billion? Drop in the bucket. Bush wants $245 billion for Iraq and Afganistan over the next two years, on top of the $70 billion already appropriated for 2007.
Meanwhile, a Republican whines about the cost of the 9/11 Commission recommendations (from here):
Compare and contrast.