Holy crap on a flaming crutch, Batman

[unixronin]

OK, folks, pop quiz:  When you make a lump payment and pay off a credit-card debt, which of the following things happen?

1. There's less money in your bank account.
2. There's a lower balance on your credit card.
3. There's more credit available on your credit card.
4. You get investigated by Homeland Security.
5. All of the above.

Correct answer:  5, "All of the above."

This is bloody ridiculous.

In other news, the inestimable dr_nebula reports that the Dawn probe to Ceres and Vesta, already 90% funded, almost complete, and set to launch in three months, has been cancelled because the mission scientists asked for an additional $40 million added to the $371 million already spent on it.  So for the sake of $40 million, NASA is taking $371 million that's already spent and flushing it down the toilet.

Just think, that $40 million would fund Bush's precious war in Iraq for, what ... a few hours?  Maybe a day, if it's a slow day and no-one fires a weapon?

Comments

[dr-nebula.livejournal.com]

Hey - go check my post made in astronomy. Some twit just told me "..Your language and tone contribute nothing of value, please sit down and hold your tounge. "

Well, I'm not sure WTF a "tounge" is - but its obvious this clown is a Dubya wannabe.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Maybe Stephen King could finance your space program.
But then he'd be investigated by Homeland Security.

[batchfile.livejournal.com]

homeland security crap was scary when it started. and here we are a few years down the road, still behaving like the sheep we are.
i wonder how many more rights we need to watch erode before we rise up and revolt again.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/calendar.php?calid=15790

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I think they're barking mad.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

so do i.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I've begun to suspect that it won't ever happen, that too large a majority of the population are too gullible and too sheeplike. They'll do what they're told and think what they're told, and go meekly to the slaughter.

[fruitylips.livejournal.com]

Considering I've made larger lump sum payments on credit cards and our HELOC recently (in some cases paying them off and some not) I would like, as Paul Harvey says, to hear the rest of the story.

There's not much real information about what happened in this article, but it is far more likely that they were tripped up by a drug related financial laws that have been on the books for 20+ years. My grandmother used to get a nice annual visit from the DEA when she'd was working on giving away all of her money to her grand-kids 10-15 years ago.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Is DEA under the Homeland Security umbrella now? I don't remember.

[bbullock.livejournal.com]

It is a fact that people will give up what they consider to be "small liberties"--especially someone else's--if they believe it will provide them with more security. It has been proven over and over throughout history.
This is because people are too stupid to realize that there is NO SUCH THING as a "small liberty."