Chalk this up under Near Disasters. Earlier today police arrested a 17-year-old who was allegedly putting together bomb-making materials in order to wage war on his former high school and “cause more casualties than were suffered at Columbine”.
According to Steve Anderson, a retired brigadier general who served as Gen. Petraeus’ chief logistician in Iraq, the Department of defence spends $US20 billion air conditioning tents and temporary structures for the military. That’s more than NASA’s entire $US19 billion annual budget.