Posted on 11/29/2012 11:28:59 AM PST by Nachum
Lettin’ it all hang out, just like Victoria does.
“For amusement (and to show consistentcy of evil), you should read the glowing articles about Hitler and Stalin from the NYT.”
I’ve read books on how the New York Times did everything but drag Americans to Stalin’s Russia, with the vast majority ending up in the Gulags and then dead within a decade. It was absolutely horrendous.
There’s a catch to US aid for Israel. Besides only being necessary because the US arms its Muslim neighbors to the teeth, most of the money must be spent to benefit US businesses.
Yep, this rather mundane facility is actually a kind of subsidy for US corporations. The story actually says it’s part of a U.S. Foreign Military Sales program as part of the ‘98 Wye agreement.
Did u watch that on TCM the other night? Great flick (and book).
$100 million doesn’t go very far these days- it takes $4 million just pay for one of the Lord of the Flies’ numerous Presidential vacations.
Your village called; they are missing you very much.
Because Henry Blodgett and BI are a bunch of liberal hacks.
The Army Corps of Engineers often handles odd procurements such as this in the ME for host countries. This is just an RFP, no doubt.
I like the tightness of the script in the book and the 1971 movie, which they kind of fouled up in the mini-series.
It could, theoretically at least, be remade, in an intelligent manner, instead of a CGI-fest, but that would require an intelligent and informed screenplay.
Oddly enough, they could say the facility was built to work with (real) extremely deadly pathogens, such as H5N1 influenza and Extremely resistant Tuberculosis and other resistant diseases; and then as now a paradox exists that biological weapons defense is almost identical to biological weapons offense.
(Some years ago, during the Reagan years, some smart guy at the Pentagon tried to sneak an appropriation through congress for an “aerosol lab”, which is a biological weapons development facility and a major treaty violation; and it was only spotted by a bored congressional aide who was flipping through the voluminous appropriations bill in the early hours of the morning. He called a buddy at the Pentagon to ask what it was, and caused a huge hubbub.)
In any event, not only could a remake show a modernized USAF and satellite tech, but decontamination tech, futurized scientific equipment, yet the same or similar personalities and interactions.
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