text: The reality of political pet projects is far stranger, and more asinine than the financial forethought my 7 years old imparts on me.
  
  Let me get this straight... the borough applied for, and received, a $12,000,000 grant.  They built a ship, that subsequently they decided to sell for $1,750,000.  But in order to sell it, they had to spend $3,000,000.   Now they still have to repay the $12,000,000 grant money. So the borough just donated $12,000,000 to a shipwright and paid to refurbish someone else's boat for them.
  
  If they would have just scuttled the damn thing they would have saved $1,250,000.  Seriously, a million dollars would have been made by just blowing up the boat. They could have done it this coming Monday as part of the valley's version of a fireworks display - allowing, of course, people to shoot at it while it burns for funsies.
  
  What ever happened to that 4:20 song they used to play on the radio "Ooout in Wasilla!"?