Yes - Odumbo Obamamama has found a new way to spend $1,000,000,000 of our money.
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February 24, 2010
US diplomats add a moat to their expenses at $1bn London embassy
Catherine Philp, Diplomatic Correspondent
The United States has unveiled plans for its new $1 billion high-security embassy in London — the most expensive it has ever built.
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The new embassy, on a former industrial site behind Battersea power station known for its gay clubs, will be designed by Kieran Timberlake, the Philadelphia architect.
A moat 30 metres (100ft) wide and rolling parkland will separate the building from the main road, protecting it from would-be bombers and removing the need for the blast barriers that so dismayed the people of Mayfair.
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A billion for a place in ghaytown. How thweet. Will there be moat-monsters to keep the ghays out? And: "Kieran Timberlake, the Philadelphia architect..."??? I happen to know for a fact that there are LOTS of architects in Philly. (But most of them are caught up in the high demand for designing local prisons!)
FYI - I also understand the Obummer Administration wants to put billions of $ of incentives out there for Big White Caulk... But that's a whole other story!
*sigh*
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13 comments:
A moat? Haven't they heard of missiles? The terrorists have. It must be great to be able to spend all the money you want, so long as it's someone elses money.
What if: What if every American refused to pay their taxes?
How much you wanna bet that embassy was planned years ago?
Dumb white trash.
Doesn't matter when it was planned you cock-sucking idiot.
Me and the Mrs. have made MANY plans that we've changed due to economic conditions, you stinking, non-thinking moron asswipe...
Crawl back into you hole, dipshit - you add nothing to an intelligent discussion.
Damn you are stupid.
"Porterhouse" how's that for a blog name?
I'll revert back (regardless of my earlier WONDERFUL suggestions...) to the one suggested by others:
The Inferno
The light in the Darkness
Although I still like:
The Fly on the Wall
We Speck the Best
But I am just one of a few. Stick me in an oven with the other Jews.
Oh... Wait! I'm not Jewish.
Never mind. :-)
Anon is probably correct, as designs take a long while. However, as Jimbo says, it takes action to implement the plans - building an expensive building while broke is kind of foolish. The contract process shoud take 6-9 months, so that is all Bambis fault.
I hate to say it, minus the slur, he / she is right. It takes YEARS to create plans for something this size.
And let me ask, doesn't it say in the article, we get $1 Billion for the OLD embassy site? How is this money SPENT if we sell the old one, for the money it takes to build the new one? (I just went back and looked, it says MORE than $1 billion) I'm no economist, but I have done some buy'n an' sellin'. If I sell my old car for MORE than $1.00, and I buy a new one FOR JUST a $1.00, I actually MADE MONEY on the deal, I did NOT spend money. And it doesn't change if the cars are worth one dollar, or a BILLION dollars. Profit percentages are not scalable that way.
Yeah, I know about cost over runs, but no one, until now, has questioned the over runs. What the article says and folks here before me said, was about Obama and the Billion Dollars. As bad as he is for the country, Obama did not start this process, and that means he can't be totally responsible for the costs.
And I've got to tell you, moats are still the best defense from ground troops. Which is typically how terrorists attack, as ground forces. Moats have to be crossed to attack. They must be crossed by boats or by swimming. It's easy to defend a moat now.
Electricity.
You charge the moat and swimmers are immediate zapped, boat crews are zapped when they attempt to leave the boat. I assume a moat means minimal access points to the facility with gates or even draw bridges. Actually, I remember several of us here, me included, saying a moat (complete with swimming predators) is a great, cheap, effective idea for our southern border. If it will keep out Spanish speakers, it will keep out Arabic dialect speakers too.
There is no such thing as plans that can't be changed or postponed. Also we should run some kind of raffle to see who can come close to guessing how many "bugs" will be placed in that new building by the Brits.
When does the gov't ever spend anywhere near the estimated costs for anything? If they say it will cost $1, rest assured it will cost more than $1K and will be junked or obsolete and delayed and lawsuited and......ad nauseum. Then it will fall apart.
BOW,
so your saying it will eventually cost a trillion? And beings we're the good guys, we don't bug the embassies we build here for other people, do we? Everybody bugs everybody, if none of us did it, all the spies would be unemployed too.
I say put a $100-million mote around a $100 million building and throw in a bunch of sharks for good measure. Then sell the old building for $1-billion. Make $800-million on the deal. Sounds reasonable, doesn't it?
What we need, my cycloptic friend, is sharks with frickin' lasers beams attached to their frickin' heads!! And if we can't get the sharks...we fill the moat with evil hot magma!
Sharks? That won't stop terrorists. Fill it with ex-wives and their lawyers. Then you'll be safe.
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