From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:50:25 -0800, Bobbie Sellers   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2/10/26 10:31, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   >> Thomas Koenig  writes:   
   >>> Torbjorn Lindgren  schrieb:   
   >>>   
   >>>> The earlier Constellation program was also a Shuttle derived program   
   >>>> designed to keep pork flowing to the right places.   
   >>>   
   >>> Not sure I'd like the idea of liquid pork; does that come from   
   >>> liquid pigs?   
   >>    
   >> Have you actually seen them make pork sausage? :-)   
   >   
   >	Not in person but in videos But the term Pork here refers to   
   >appropriation to finance the construction and related matters of   
   >testing the components, etc.   
   >	In the USA Pork Barrel politics refers to the practice of   
   >awarding contracts for whatever to the State, City, County   
   >where the voters for the party or person to be  re-elected reside.   
   >   
   >	Just another form of bribery or Grift. However it does   
   >generally provide jobs therefore income to the residents of   
   >the district.   
      
   Last year, I read an article about a town in Montana that was DOGEd   
   out of existence,   
      
   It's only major employer was a Federal facility, and DOGE closed it.   
      
   Gone were the jobs. Gone were the families those jobs supported. Gone   
   were the retail stores supported by those familes.   
      
   Left were the true locals -- a much reduced population of farmers. Who   
   now had to drive a lot farther to find any stores. Or, for all I know,   
   doctors, lawyers, etc, etc.   
      
   OK, this was rural Montana, and they were MAGA to the core -- but   
   still ...   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)