Government gags

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Fascinating segment on the Sibel Edmonds case today on NPR.

In case you haven't heard of Sibel Edmonds,

www.thenewamerican.com/node/8507

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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I listened to NPR for an hour this am and missed it. I'm hitting the road now and hopefully they'll replay it.

The Edmonds case is further evidence to me that there isn't a lick of practical difference between the Dems and GOP. Neithrt are clean enouigh to hold the other accountable so under the rug it all goes

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[Samurai136 0]

Maybe this is all part of the nuclear weapons counter-intelligence game?

"Buttons aren't toys." - Trillian
Ken

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You know, I watched one episode of "24" since everyone seems to talk about it. It made me laugh to see how efficient and righteous everyone in the show was. I wondered if I could go to the networks and propose a similar show, but based on my experience working with government employees. The script would go something like this:

Kiefer Sutherland (KS): "I saw a bunch of guys loading a nuclear bomb into a van outside in the parking lot. They don't look white and they were speaking some weird language".

Boss: "Can we talk about this after my two-hour lunch? I'm starved."

KS: "Think we could go track them down sometime after our third staff meeting today?"

Boss: "Well, we probably could, but that's not the way we do things around here. I need to get approval from the Vice President, a nun in Argentina and that one chimpanzee in the Chinese zoo that we're still trying to teach how to sign papers."

KS: "Wow - how long does that normally take."

Boss: "I don't really know - never done it. Anytime I rock the boat, it causes sooo many problems. Longer hours, lots of paperwork. How about we just say they were the gardeners watering the asphalt and that was a lawnmower that they were putting in the van?"

KS: "OK, you're the boss."

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD