George Rebane

To get an idea of the impact of the new federal tsunamis headed our way, tsunamis that may finally swamp this dear land of ours, take a look at this 26 page recipe for brownies from the US Air Force cookbook – MILITARY SPECIFICATION, COOKIES, OATMEAL; AND BROWNIES; COCOLATE COVERED.   Can you imagine the number of people, the time, the cost, etc involved in putting out this tripe?  And this is repeated thousands of times a day throughout all the departments, bureaus, commissions, … .  This is simply the way they do things, all things.

I’m not done yet.  Now consider what is required to get some fed employees to actually work with instructions like this.  Remember, in all large bureaucracies – public and private, especially those with pension plans – the standing order is ‘CYA all the way!’  These instructions will be followed.

And you’d think that with so many eyeballs checking and rechecking the damn thing over the years, that somebody by now would have picked up on the spelling of ‘chocolate’ in the title – or does that highlight another problem?  Your government in peace and war.

(H/T to a regular RR reader with connections who is trying to get the total pagecount for this cookbook.)