cvgzdfgdgdfLast week, failed presidential candidate John McCain went all all budget hawk on the city of Bainbridge, comlaining via a new report about $190,000 grant received by the Bainbridge police department for equipment upgrades to a “high performance” police boat. According to a report from the Kitsap Sun already boasts enough high powered security gadgetry to give the average tech geek a case of the vapors. McCain then questions why such a hamlet with a police force commiserate with it’s relatively small size needs a boat with telescopic night vision cameras, machines that test air vapor for microscopic traces of explosive materials and lots of other really, really cool stuff.
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