Government 'Bake Sale" half baked.

There's a bumper sticker that says something like "It'll be a better world when schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to have a bake sale to build a bomber".

Well , finally the Government listened! "WASHINGTON - The U.S. military has sold forbidden equipment at least a half-dozen times to middlemen for countries -- including Iran and China -- who exploited security flaws in the Defense Department's surplus auctions. The sales include fighter jet parts and missile components. " That's from The Associated Press on Yahoo news this morning. It continues ,"The sales were to a Pakistani arms broker convicted of exporting U.S. missile parts to Iran resumed business after his release from prison. He purchased Chinook helicopter engine parts for Iran from a U.S. company that had bought them in a Pentagon' surplus sale. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, speaking on condition of anonymity, say those parts made it to Iran....Federal investigators are increasingly anxious that Iran is within easy reach of a top priority on its shopping list: parts for the precious fleet of F-14 "Tomcat" fighter jets the United States let Iran buy in the 1970s when it was an ally."

They saw the ad in The Terrorist Times, "Yard Sale 7am -7pm this Saturday at US Pentagon. No early birds please. All sorts of great stuff. No ID required."

The Pentagon spokesperson, General A.E Neuman, said,

"We always use The Terrorist Times. We sell out after every ad"

I love the guy that the Pentagon sold the parts to ; a Pakistani arms dealer just out of prison!
"So Abdul, what are you going to do with all these parts and arms
I plan to sell them to countries to kill Americans with them.
Not a problem, Checkout is to your left. And come again"

"Countries don't die from murder, they die from suicide!", a famous historian once wrote. But when our guys and gals get bombed , know they're being bombed by well made American products, not some foreign piece of crap. That'll make you feel better.

In other mideast news Saddam Hussein's (now literally) half brother (when he was kidnapped a few years ago, they put his picture on a container of Half and Half) , Barzan Ibrahim , was hanged yesterday and, when they opened the trap door with the noose around his neck and let him drop, his head came off. Ouch!

The Sunni's are angered. Beheaded, can you imagine? The Iraqi government asked that it not be blamed as they bought the rope at a US Government Surplus auction and, according to Prime Minister Nouri El-Maliki "that is the last time we do that."

He continued, "I got that, some used roller blades and an old snow blower at Bush's Yard Sale and he told me they all worked. I bet the snow blower is a a piece of junk too " .

Caveat Emptor!