I’m all for ambition and entrepreneurship. After all, they are supposedly what “Makes America Great”. But occasionally maybe we should step back for a reality check.

For example, do we really want our government buying ammunition from freshly-minted con artists?

“MIAMI - A Miami Beach man says he is not guilty of defrauding the Pentagon under a contract he had to supply ammunition to forces in Afghanistan.
Twenty-two-year-old Efraim Diveroli entered the plea Monday in Miami federal court. Diveroli remains free on bail.
Prosecutors say Diveroli’s company, AEY Inc., provided banned Chinese-made ammunition to forces in Afghanistan and claimed it came from Albania.  Read more 

Via CNN.

Truth in advertising, indeed.

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To bed, silly people! But:

As I’ve been reading and posting here today, no fewer than three military (trust me, I know the sound) helicopters have flown over my staid, quiet suburb of a not-politically important stretch of burb.

I can’t help but wonder: it’s all on my tab, no? That is, what does it cost to suspend a 0000000$ military helicopter presence over my head, my neighbors’ heads, this night? Every night? And at the cost of what else?

Universal health care, flying over my head and spit out without any effect other than enriching those who make machinery. And who hate me, and want to see me dead/jailed/silenced. There is little that is a stronger reminder- I have no guns, I’ve killed no one, I’m at peace with my community. And yet- armed forces are required to keep the peace between me and my neighbors? I think not.

Fear. They have nothing else. Don’t give in.