I really, really try to be nice and not make fun of the less fortunate, like certain career bureaucrats, but sometimes they lob such a temptingly easy serve it can't be ignored, like this one:
"Former NASA associate administrator Scott Pace, now a professor of space policy at George Washington University, said relying so much on commercial companies is taking a big chance because they might not deliver on time or on budget."
Apparently Professor Pace has never run into a government agency that doesn't "deliver on time or on budget". At least in his own little fantasy-world, of course. But here in real life the rest of us can spew our morning coffee all over the room when we read his words and he just ignores the mess he leaves behind. "On budget", eh? I wonder if he ever in his entire lifetime ever heard those words muttered together, by themselves, in a meeting or by a co-worker?. No? I thought not.
I really, really try to be nice and not make fun of the less fortunate, like certain career bureaucrats, but sometimes they lob such a temptingly easy serve it can't be ignored, like this one:
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The space shuttle was supposed to be a money maker for NASA. Now it costs a half-billion dollars per launch, so seven crewmembers more racially and ethnically balanced than the crew of the USS Voyager can spend a week studying the effects of weightlessness on the dung beetle. How's that for on-time and on-budget?
NASA. How the mighty have fallen. Once the cajones go, the over-powering drive to explore "space" under OSHA-type safety constrictions triggers the two minute whistle of the fourth quarter. And no OT. Btw, who is that woman clearing her voice and stepping up to the mike?
Teresita: And so deliciously relevant, too! Apparently we can all learn important truths from the lowly dung beetle, no?.
WAG Hmmmmmmm. She is sort of rotund, isn't she?
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