On May 20, 11:16 am, "Jonathan" wrote:
"Rand Simberg" wrote in message

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On Sun, 20 May 2007 11:24:00 -0400, in a place far, far away,
"Jonathan" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in

The Coast Guard has responded to the hammering from lawmakers by
taking oversight of Deepwater from the contractor, Integrated Coast Guard
Systems (ICGS), a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and
Northrop Grumman; canceling the conversions; and making design
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
There were only two bidders for Orion--Lockheed Martin and Northrop
Grumman.

So your statement of fact means what? That we should
expect better work with Orion? Or worse work?
When they can toss a hundred million bucks into
the sea and no one is held accountable, no one
gets fired, why should we expect any different
with this project?

In fact I'm counting on incompetence by Lockheed
to delay Orion until a new administration is in power.
Ya know that old saying, 'you have to hit bottom
before you know there's a problem'. Applies here.

NASA hasn't quite hit bottom yet.
But after a couple more years of wasting money
on a trip to nowhere, Congress will respond as
with the Deepwater program...trash the whole thing
and start over.

An opportunity for a major policy swing is coming soon!

Jonathan

What part of our government has not been operating pretty much exactly
like Hitler's Third Reich, and otherwise on behalf of their Jewish
minions?

You do realize that our mutually perpetrated cold-war was 100+% hocus
pocus, as in orchestrated, don't you?

Besides all the mostly innocent dead folks, how many all-inclusive
trillions per decade did that phony cold-war fiasco cost all of us?

Is there something about our government that's actually the whole
truth and nothing but the truth?
-
Brad Guth