It's not such a stretch to say we shoulda elected a golden retriever. 'Hogan'. Hogan takes one sniff of Putin, pisses on his shoe. There. Our foreign policy has a direction.
Unfortunately once they were on the ground in Scotland (without commenting on how they got there; see my other post) and there is no government-run lodging available, the travel regs leave the decision of where to stay up to the traveler. There is no incentive to take a place less than the per diem rate; you just leave money on the table if you do. The goal is generally to get as close as possible to the max without going over. Years ago I proposed splitting the difference between the max and actual rates with the traveler, to incentivize finding a cheaper place, and got shot down for some stupid reason like it would be too HARD..........
It's not the money in his pocket...even a couple hundred visits might be a few tens of thousand Ameros...chump change when the hotel is operating at like a $4M loss. No, the corruption is PABOTUS ordering, encouraging or even just enabling additional refueling flights into an airport which, while he doesn't own it, nevertheless is an integral part of his resort. The airport was hemorrhaging money, and risked going belly up. Then all of a sudden it has a whole bunch more planes filling up with fuel (at maybe $20 to $50 thousands PER TANK), oh and how nice! a multi-year contract to continue the same. That will look good the next time Lord Dampnut goes to refinance his property, that there is a local, solvent airport nearby. THAT'S the corruption.
The odd thing is the airport could go under and it really wouldn't make much of a difference to Turnberry. The only carrier to operate from there is Ryanair and they do not transport Trump's clients. Prestwick (the Glasgow part is silent since that is a Ryanair fiction) is about 45 minutes from Turnberry, real Glasgow Airport is about an hour and a half and it handles most of the trans-Atlantic traffic.Prestwick will never go belly up, it was bought by the Scottish Government (yeah Socialism) to keep it in business so as a 1/5,000,000th owner of it I'm very happy that the USAF is subsidising it.
Apart from the putrid excrescence oozing across the bed, is that not the ugliest bedroom anyone has ever seen? The sickly pink wall, the equally sickly print on the pillowcases...I guess he ripped off the decorator too? https://media0.giphy.com/me...
Possibly...when you arrive after a 10 hour flight the last thing you want to do is worry about where you will be staying. You just accept the hotel offered if it’s within the per diem rate. The fact none of them questioned the drive says to me though that they knew it was something “different” and they were OK with it.
Someone in Pentagon Acquisitions made a IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity) contract with the airport to establish the ability to fuel the planes. The flight crews are not authorized to commit government funds...only a Contracting Officer (CO) can.
That being the case, the trick is to find the CO who negotiated the contract. There had to be a stated rationale for setting up the contract, and someone higher up the food chain had to authorize it.
Spending government money isn't as easy as a pilot deciding that fuel is required, so it's time to start looking for the nearest airport. The gub'mint calls it an "unfunded commitment," and that's a big-time bad thing to do.
Yes. Mad and vicious, and if we're not careful, all-powerful.
It's not such a stretch to say we shoulda elected a golden retriever. 'Hogan'. Hogan takes one sniff of Putin, pisses on his shoe. There. Our foreign policy has a direction.
Or maybe Elagabalus. Look him up! Makes Caligula seem ....well, almost normal.
And I hereby swear to believe everything that DJT ever says.
All of the above, plus it's money going directly into Trump's pocket, which is a thing that is not supposed to be happening while he is POTUS. /spits
Unfortunately once they were on the ground in Scotland (without commenting on how they got there; see my other post) and there is no government-run lodging available, the travel regs leave the decision of where to stay up to the traveler. There is no incentive to take a place less than the per diem rate; you just leave money on the table if you do. The goal is generally to get as close as possible to the max without going over. Years ago I proposed splitting the difference between the max and actual rates with the traveler, to incentivize finding a cheaper place, and got shot down for some stupid reason like it would be too HARD..........
It's not the money in his pocket...even a couple hundred visits might be a few tens of thousand Ameros...chump change when the hotel is operating at like a $4M loss. No, the corruption is PABOTUS ordering, encouraging or even just enabling additional refueling flights into an airport which, while he doesn't own it, nevertheless is an integral part of his resort. The airport was hemorrhaging money, and risked going belly up. Then all of a sudden it has a whole bunch more planes filling up with fuel (at maybe $20 to $50 thousands PER TANK), oh and how nice! a multi-year contract to continue the same. That will look good the next time Lord Dampnut goes to refinance his property, that there is a local, solvent airport nearby. THAT'S the corruption.
The odd thing is the airport could go under and it really wouldn't make much of a difference to Turnberry. The only carrier to operate from there is Ryanair and they do not transport Trump's clients. Prestwick (the Glasgow part is silent since that is a Ryanair fiction) is about 45 minutes from Turnberry, real Glasgow Airport is about an hour and a half and it handles most of the trans-Atlantic traffic.Prestwick will never go belly up, it was bought by the Scottish Government (yeah Socialism) to keep it in business so as a 1/5,000,000th owner of it I'm very happy that the USAF is subsidising it.
There seems to be a suggestion that some aircrews were sent to Turnberry rather than chose it.
And bathrobes
That’s what all the cool kids are doing, Senate, DOJ, Supreme Court,
Apart from the putrid excrescence oozing across the bed, is that not the ugliest bedroom anyone has ever seen? The sickly pink wall, the equally sickly print on the pillowcases...I guess he ripped off the decorator too? https://media0.giphy.com/me...
Possibly...when you arrive after a 10 hour flight the last thing you want to do is worry about where you will be staying. You just accept the hotel offered if it’s within the per diem rate. The fact none of them questioned the drive says to me though that they knew it was something “different” and they were OK with it.
This is Good, He just Tweet-Fired Bolton.
The Executive branch of the U.S. Government has become exactly like a Mafia organization enriching Trump at every opportunity .
Someone in Pentagon Acquisitions made a IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity) contract with the airport to establish the ability to fuel the planes. The flight crews are not authorized to commit government funds...only a Contracting Officer (CO) can.
That being the case, the trick is to find the CO who negotiated the contract. There had to be a stated rationale for setting up the contract, and someone higher up the food chain had to authorize it.
Spending government money isn't as easy as a pilot deciding that fuel is required, so it's time to start looking for the nearest airport. The gub'mint calls it an "unfunded commitment," and that's a big-time bad thing to do.