President's Staff Idiots Trying to Kill LORAN



So much for having a hardened backup to GPS:

SEE:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02042007/sports/end_of_the_line_for_the_loran__sports_ken_moran.htm

350 Million was just spent in the past two years to modernized the
system. It costs, depending on whose numbers used, between 12 million
and 35 million a year to operate, chump change compared to a bailout.

Steve
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