darthbob88 posted:

1. Don't forget a picture.

Grand Prize Winner posted:

Quoting lack of picture

quote:

When it was announced in March that Kristin Shott, a 36-year-old welder at the Naval Air Depot on North Island, had won an award for blowing the whistle on a long history of faulty welds made by unqualified tradesmen working on the pride of America's carrier fleet, the USS Abraham Lincoln -- along with the Stennis, the Constellation, and the Nimitz -- the Navy quickly launched a campaign of damage control.

"The whistleblower is part of the system, and we're pleased that it worked," North Island's Captain Peter Laszcz told one of the several TV news reporters to show up at the base as a result of a news release touting Shott's award from the Washington-based U.S. Office of Independent Counsel. "Once we became aware of that,we took immediate steps to stop all work, inspect the work we had done, and fix the work once we found out it wasn't up to standards."

gnarlyhotep posted:

lol everybody else makes up for my lack of picture

hahahaha

C.M. Kruger posted:

Hitler was radicalized before he went to Vienna. And he already knew how to paint.

Wasn't a very good artist though, I'd say motel art at best.

Boko Haram posted:

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2003/may/29/hear-whistle-blow/

Volcott posted:

Volcott posted:

Protip: one worked within the system, the other released unredacted documents into the ether and hosed off to Russia.

StickySweater posted:

+/- 4.9 percentage margin of error? Only 400 people polled? Not fake, but not really meaningful either. Polls of this size are done to drive media narratives. No one spends money on real polls (5,000+ people, >2.5% error) until there's actually something at stake.


https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/654792470585196546

C.M. Kruger posted:

Three OSHA films produced in 1980 that were banned by the Reagan administration in 1981 for being "too biased towards workers." The films were recalled and destroyed, but some union officials held onto copies despite threats that they'd loose all funding for health and safety programs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1N48Z5HerA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puRnHE1nNYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v2JTQjiCdc

A Handed Missus posted:

What are zippers? We just don't know.

Rand alPaul posted:

A really frail-sounding Noam Chomsky talking about how hosed America is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUc8ukdVtMs

America isn't a democracy, both political parties in the US are far-right, elections are a joke.

Volcott posted:

You can always move if you don't approve of the way Our Benefactors are doing things. (Also, the Democrats are clearly center-right.)

Lucy Heartfilia posted:

Is that the F-35?

Dr. Killjoy posted:

Where is the lie?

quote:

“Workers of all lands unite,” reads the marble engraving atop Karl Marx’s grave in London. But if said workers were to congregate at the tomb of their advocate, they’d have to part with some of their capital: It costs about $6 to enter the portion of Highgate Cemetery where he lies.

Dr. Killjoy posted:

Where is the lie?

quote:

...Kennedy’s assistant press secretary, “Mac” Kilduff, hurried into the cabin, spotting Stoughton with a look of relief. “Thank God you’re here,” Kilduff said. “The President’s going to take his oath. You’re going to have to make the pictures and release it to the press.”

Kilduff was barely holding it together. JFK aide Kenneth O’Donnell had told Kilduff earlier that fall that he should start looking for a new job—the White House didn’t want him around anymore. The swing through Texas had been meant as Kilduff’s final presidential trip before leaving—and now he found himself the ranking press aide on the trip, ushering in a new administration, while O’Donnell, his antagonist, mourned the fallen idol...

At one point, well after Air Force One’s departure from Dallas, the Air Force in Washington called the presidential plane as it sorted out whom to expect in Washington.

“Air Force One—this is the Air Force Command Post,” the radio squawked. “If possible, request the names of the passengers onboard, please.”

“We have 40-plus,” the plane responded.

“Forty people! Is that affirmative?”

“Affirmative.”

“Can you tell me in regard to number one and number two—the top people?”

“Roger,” Air Force One explained. “The President is onboard. The body is onboard, and Mrs. Kennedy is onboard.”

Never before or since has Air Force One carried two Presidents at once—one dead, one alive. Never before or since has a Vice President witnessed the murder of his President. Never before or since in the nuclear age has an assassination forced the government into a panicked transition from one chief executive to another. And never before or since have the aides of the fallen President and the incoming President been locked together for hours in an aluminum tube, with one another and their own thoughts.

In fact, we may never know precisely how many people were aboard Air Force One as it took off for Washington—a sore point for conspiracy theorists in the dec­ades since. A steward’s handwritten flight manifest, which now lies in the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, was obviously done hastily while the plane was still on the ground in Dallas—it lists “Capt Stoughton” as a passenger. The 41 people aboard are listed in an orderly manner, line by line, grouped by rank and organization—and then handwritten in the left margin are the names of the two journalists brought who made the flight: M. Smith and C. Roberts.

Scrawled at the bottom of the page by a hand obviously unsure where to place such a tragic piece of information are words that make a reader pause: “Also body of Pres. K—.”

Nckdictator posted:

http://www.washingtonian.com/projects/JFK-AF1/layout1.html#story



It's honestly slightly scary to read how disorganized the Presidential team was after JFK was shot.

System Metternich posted:

some of them being highly, er, suggestive for 8 year old children

System Metternich posted:

^^^ quick, post a picture! ^^^

http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A21333 (can't link the video directly). An awesome 1929 video of a band of young African-Americans playing the kazoo and homemade drums while two even younger boys show off their dance moves, some of them being highly, er, suggestive for 8 year old children The facebook post I pulled this from says it was shot in New Orleans, but the site itself doesn't tell anything about the location.

The Dark One posted:

Slavvy posted:

The other girl is an F22 so it's a gay black kettle pot situation.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

I still smile when I think back of D&Ders arguing that F-35 was the much more practical plane we should be funding more of, instead of F-22.