On the advice of tiling contractors, I started with a modest backsplash project, which turned into a headboard project, which earned a spot in our local dump.
"On Brownstoner, I often call people out on ugly developments, or contractors I see who are doing things without getting landmark permits," Mr. Butler said at a tavern in Dumbo the other day.
"To have half of your army be contractors, I don't know that there's a precedent for that," says Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a member of the House oversight and government reform committee, which has been investigating war contractors.
Like the Blackwater contractors, I am a former grunt, and, admittedly, there was something unsettling for me about seeing them punished harshly, even if justly; during the eight years I spent in the Marines, I stood in my fair share of chaotic Nisour Squares, afraid and with a loaded gun.
Defense contractors?" "I don't know.
While the contractors I spoke to maintained that none of this amounts to a political message, they happily agreed that the overarching message of the film is unusually patriotic.
