Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Wanna debate?



Meet me after school behind the bike racks. It's time to settle this mano a mano. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called out President Bush to debate him on 'how to end problems in the world.' The White House responded by calling the request for dialogue a 'diversion'. Can you imagine if it happened. Ahmadinejad would rend him asunder...that said, an average three year old should be able to have their way with him (Mr. Kerry...your balls are in the lost and found).
Can you hear the engines of the figher bombers warming up? You should my friend. You should.
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Below is an amazing piece of video. The man in the picture is one Michael De Kort. He is a former Lockeheed Martin engineer who worked on refurbishing a fleet of US Coast Guard cutters on a projec titled Deepwater. He alleges some pretty serious security problems.
"What I am going to tell you is going to seem preposterous," De Kort solemnly tells viewers near the outset of the 10-minute clip. Posted three weeks ago, the video describes what De Kort says are blind spots in the ship's security cameras, equipment that malfunctions in cold weather and other problems. "It may be very hard for you to believe that our government and the largest defense contractor in the world [are] capable of such alarming incompetence and can make ethical compromises as glaring as what I am going to describe." In response to De Kort's charges, a Coast Guard spokeswoman said the service has "taken the appropriate level of action." A spokeswoman for the contractors said the allegations were without merit.
He tried going through regular channels and no one listened so what did he do? He posted on Youtube.com and now?
The video also has caught the eye of people in high places. De Kort's video has been covered by defense trade magazines, and yesterday, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, wrote a letter to the Coast Guard asking for an answer to De Kort's "extremely distressing" allegations.

"I want to make sure that the product we paid for is a product that does not jeopardize our men and women in service," Thompson said.

The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general's office had launched an investigation into De Kort's allegations before the video was released, and spokeswoman Tamara Faulkner said that inquiry should be completed in the next few months. Although De Kort said he believed the Coast Guard was not cooperating, Faulkner said she did not know of any problems.


Sweet:)



Stay revolutionary and as always...

Stay Naked.

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