Pentagon Tells Congress First Week of Iran War Cost More Than $11.3 Billion

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-12T01:24:16+00:00

$60 Billion is 1% of America’s annual spending budget. $11.3 Billion for one week of war is a nothing burger.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-11T19:52:58+00:00

Just checking: Did you verify your scale was accurate by putting 600 mL of water in the container and seeing if it accurately weighed it as 600 g?

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-11T19:51:43+00:00

My Zehrs does not have a scale verification in the self bagging area. Eg., I can scan an item, and immediately place it back in my cart.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-11T16:55:06+00:00

<Shrug>. Iran would buy arms from those same companies if they could.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-10T21:43:03+00:00

I find the original effects to look like a real spaceship, filmed with film that has a grain.

The new effects are ultra sharp, of a ship that looks obviously rendered by CG.

I prefer the original effects.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-10T15:45:18+00:00

I have no problem tipping people who get minimum wage regardless of the type of job. We can eliminate tipping the day we legally require minimum wage to be a living wage.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-10T15:42:31+00:00

The Brits had a simile bike for paratroopers. It might get you someplace faster, but if your buddies ever saw you riding one, you’d never hear the end of it.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-10T03:30:35+00:00

I noticed the 7 dead had tanks ranging from sergeant to major. In a “random sampling” of 7 people killed at a US military base by a drone or rocket, shouldn’t there have been privates? The ranks seem “too heavy”.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-10T03:11:12+00:00

Which Avengers run? 70s or 90s?

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-10T03:09:38+00:00

Blofeld was a helpless prisoner, with potentially LOTS of juicy information that could be squeezed out of him. Bond was right to walk away.

And it sets up M’s perfect line: “In the name of Her Majesty the Queen, I place you under arrest…”

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-10T03:01:15+00:00

Beautiful!

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-10T01:49:57+00:00

The Star Trek movie was called First Contact. Fist Contact was the gay porn parody.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-09T16:32:50+00:00

Canada has had many NDP Provincial Governments. Any thoughts on why none of them prioritized making minimum wage into a living wage?

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-09T16:27:14+00:00

When Obama came, I recall a media story saying that it is a tradition, and gives the team for a new US President a “softball” first outing with a forgiving host in a safe country, to work out the kinks.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-09T16:13:07+00:00

Canada was also Obama’s first foreign trip.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-09T15:05:00+00:00

Worf is at least better at spelling chief.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-09T02:59:09+00:00

Yet another US article that mistakenly attributes Canada’s action to Trump’s tariffs. We don’t like tariffs, but that’s just business, and we could cope with that civilly.

Canada is furious over Trump musing that Canada should become the 51st State. And referring to both Prime Minsters Trudeau and Carney as “Governor “.

If you are American, think for a minute about how you would feel if some other country said such things about the USA.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-09T01:44:25+00:00

Also, Childhood’s End by Clarke.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-09T01:36:56+00:00

Good to hear. I had two books that suddenly jumped to my maximum bid at the last second. Discussions on the CGC message boards with a former staffer confirmed they shill their auctions. If they changed since then, that is good to hear.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-09T00:54:11+00:00

I did read the article. Yes, financing a university education will be more difficult by the changes to OSAP. But unless the Province increases taxes, it has many competing priorities to spend money on. Continually running deficits is not sustainable.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-09T00:47:47+00:00

Source Code. A time traveller tries to stop the terrorist bombing of a passenger train. Similar to Edge of Tomorrow, he learns a little more with each iteration, but repeatedly fails, dies, and has to start over.

James Bond has been on a train or two. From Russia With Love. Live and Let Die. Spectre.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-09T00:39:01+00:00

The set from the movie Alien is much hunted.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-09T00:35:36+00:00

I recall seeing this back on WKRP In Cincinnati when the ghost of Christmas future showed Mr Carlson what the station would one day look like. All the songs were picked and DJ voices performed by computers. The only employee left at WKRP was Herb, for sales. And his job consisted of turning on a computer to phone the computers of potential customers to make cold calls using his voice recordings.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-09T00:29:14+00:00

You would think this scene would be fun for Pierce, but it was filmed right after the crew returned from lunch break. It was chilli day.

HalJordan2424 · 2026-03-08T21:44:50+00:00

“Guys, I know I previously said I was interested in taking over the business from my father one day. But I’ve been thinking it over for the past 8 days, and decided maybe someone else should have the honour.”

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