Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Bad Welds

An inspector at the Newport News Shipyard signed off on welds that he didn't inspect. He falsified reports on thousands of welds, which means that welds on about 13 ships and submarines will need to be reinspected. This is after Newport News was caught using the wrong type of welding rods for several years' worth of welding.

The Russians had the best headline: Lazy inspector endangers US submarines.

I first saw this story in the New London Day; there is probably no shortage of schadenfreude going on since Electric Boat, in Groton, CT (across the river from New London) has been building submarines for over a century. The problem is that the Day only allows access to non-subscribers for 24 hours, so there is little point in linking to them.
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deadstick said...

You bet your shiny metal ass there's schadenfreude at Electric Boat, because they played out that act thirty years ago. Their defective-weld scandal ended with the boss of EB, a chap named P. Takis Veliotis, permanently exiled in his native Greece as a fugitive from justice.

Might want to read "Running Critical" by Patrick Tyler, ISBN-13: 978-0060914417...good account of the whole bloody mess.

5/30/2009 11:55 AM

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