Posted on 05/30/2007 9:47:34 AM PDT by cposnarkey
Houston-based KBR was awarded an initial $385 million contract in January 2006 for one year, with four one-year options extended into 2007. KBR held a previous emergency detention contract with ICE from 2000 to 2005.
ICE spokeswoman Jamie Zuieback told Corsi the primary intent of the contract was to build temporary detention facilities that could be used in the event of a mass migration crisis, but she confirmed the facilities could be employed in national emergencies, including natural disasters.
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Deepest sympathy re: brain fog.
I have been sitting in front of my computer for 5 days trying to design a thingammy that our company has never built before, based on an incomplete lineup from a salesman who is too busy to enlighten me and not entirely sure of what the customer wanted anyway.
I have a pile of blurry jpegs that my boss shot of a related thingammy that somebody else built for a different company except that ours is 90 degrees swung around and will be manufactured using a completely different machining process.
In addition I have some scraps of some drawings that I copied some of the details from and of course the part I copied is not the “same as” part and the parts they are sure the customer wants are the parts that are completely impossible to construct unless I can use a 5th dimension and that stone that turns lead into gold. And I’ve probably already used up the design budget for this tool.
So you can see why I have been quiet lately and as a matter of fact I’ve worn myself out just typing this missive.
Hope everybody’s toes are healthy and everyone’s children are as they ought to be.
Goodnight and sweet dreams all.
I love a challenge.
For a nominal consulting fee, you too can "Rent-a-Genius"
(Not that I'm a genius, but I negotiate for him.)
Besides, like John Kerry, for the right kind of money, I can try to be smart.
Good morning, Bob! How’s your uncle?
Slowing down. But I learned all my avuncularity from him.
Polysyllabic. Are we still in the asteroid belt, or did we move while I was dealing with the vacuum cleaner crisis?
Gosh, that sounds like MY job! Except... I don't design the thing.
I take vague requirements about what it should do, and sometimes how it should do it (in impossible ways), and turn all that into technical legalese (aka "standards English") that describes in great detail what an implementation shall and shall not do (with some "shoulds" and "optionally" thrown in for good measure) to be in accord with this standard...
... only to watch some engineer ignore one or another critical and mandated requirement to produce something that just doesn't work with any other implementation.
Shepherding cats, or keeping bagpipe drones in tune for a long period of time without retuning, is a piece of cake by comparison.
The Flying Castle is safely ensconced in the Asteroid Belt, having parked around a suitable shaped asteroid to use as raw materials.
Our orbital period is about four Earth Years.
Oh, that sounds good.
Did I mention that Vlad has two new teeth? Top molars, way back in his jaw.
He looks like your dad.
It’s amazing how kids can metabolize dirt into themselves and grow like “the blob.”
Yes, he does. So do Bill, Sally, James ... and I!
Vlad eats food, too, not just dirt.
Be careful about the food.
Some kids have trouble digesting it.
Really? I actually thought it referred to perspiration caused by hard labor, much the same way poor whites who work in the sun earn the name "redneck." Honest! That's what I thought!
And Yorlik, even if GWB is a one-worlder, the Third World Commies are so nationalist, patriotic, and jealous of their national sovereignty that they'd never go along with it.
James had a dreadful time getting food swallowed, and he’s still more likely to choke than any of the others.
One of the things about babies is that you find out how their digestion is working at the other end. “Oh, I see Vlad ate all the chickpeas out of the noodle dish!”
Ne Zot, actual content on the Undead Thread!
Howya, ZC? We all agree around here that opposition to illegal immigration isn’t racist.
Though their candidates have traditionally been anti-Israel (natch), I've heard that there are some good pro-Israel folks in their rank-and-file. Shoot, even Bob Dornan once ran as their candidate for something. I hope people like him take it over from the Rushdoonyites and John Birchers.
Night, uncle. Happy Friday tomorrow!
I have precious little use for the ADL, but they did force that miserable little rag into bankruptcy. Carto's Cult publishes something else now (I forget the name, but I've seen them occasionally). Still as pro-PLO as ever.
I think Carto will be ninety next month. Why doesn't he die?
Good Night!
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