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2007-08-21 09:00:28
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for the price of one manhattan project and a fat boy...,
2007-08-21 13:19:12
land of the loompas:
The Israeli guide on the trip told a nice story about the super-secret Israeli Krembo chocolate factory over to the right. So secret is the Krembo recipe that Israel has shot down a plane which wandered over the factory, and the man who revealed chocolate secrets to the world was put in jail for a long long time.
Plus: "the lowest level since the Eisenhower Administration." Apparently Americans think we maintain 200 nukes, and only want 100. Actual: over 5,000. Cost to taxpayers? Out of this world:
nuclear weapons spending over this 56-year period [1940-1996] exceeded the combined total federal spending for education; training, employment, and social services; agriculture; natural resources and the environment; general science, space, and technology; community and regional development (including disaster relief); law enforcement; and energy production and regulation. On average, the United States has spent $98 billion a year on nuclear weapons.
:: posted by buermann @ 2007-08-21 09:42:03 CST |
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