Money to burn
The US government has money to burn on useless purposes. That is news to no one. However, the depths to which the government will go continues to astonish. The latest idiocy, via AP:
The Navy will spend as much as $600,000 to modify a 40-year-old barracks complex that resembles a swastika from the air, a gaffe that went largely unnoticed before satellite images became easily accessible on the Internet.
The Navy said officials noted the buildings’ shape after the groundbreaking in 1967 but decided against changing it at the time because it wasn’t obvious from the ground. Aerial photos made available on Google Earth in recent years have since revealed the buildings’ shape to a wide audience.
The Navy approved the money to change the walkways, landscaping and rooftop solar panels of the four L-shaped barracks, used by members of the Naval Construction Force at the Navy’s amphibious base at Coronado, near San Diego.
That’s nice. While the US is at it, maybe they should spend the money to remove the statue of Mohammed from the frieze at the Supreme Court building. Clearly that blasphemous representation is more relevant to our time than a defunct and defeated ideology of a century ago.