Looking for the Proper Descriptor

Over the next week, we're going to be hearing a lot about how the sequester is going to gut our national defense so that some country with 90 percent fewer aircraft carriers than we have, and 99.9 percent fewer nuclear weapons, is going to march on up through Texas and impose sharia law on Augusta just before the Masters

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[Y]ou may not have heard that the F-35, the Flying Swiss Army Knife, aka The Lemon Of The Skies, got the entire fleet of itself grounded over the weekend by the Defense Department.[...]This thing already has cost $400 billion and it can...not...fly.

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This is the second time in two months that the entire fleet has had to be grounded. Not only that, but you and I and your Uncle Fud are all paying for most of the best pilots in the military to hang around Eglin Air Force Base, taxi these turkeys out onto the runways, and then taxi them back again because nobody dares to send them aloft.

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Its projected cost has jumped from $233 billion to an estimated $385 billion, including development.

Forty-three F-35s have been built and another 2,443 have been ordered by the Pentagon.

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They have built 43 of these. None of them can fly. So, naturally, we need almost 2500 more. The obscenity for this has not yet been coined

  Charlie Pierce

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.