About 1/2 the people I know don't like lobster. That means there is about 1 per year for the rest of us in the US. (About my consumption rate.) This is a fun read for lobster lovers, "The Secret Life of Lobsters:"
George H.
The lobstermen operating off the coast of Maine are singlehandedly responsible for the near extinction of the right whale. Boycott them.
About half the people I know are vegetarian or vegan and therefore don't eat lobster. Lobster is also not kosher. I presume the pentagon must be substituting lobster mushrooms for the real thing: There's no accounting for taste, but substitution is usually acceptable.
Incidentally, did you know that the number of US federal employees has been roughly constant at between 2 to 3 million since about 1950? During this time period, federal spending (and deficit) has increased dramatically. Each federal employee is now responsible for spending tax dollars on an ever increasing amount of (mostly outsourced) goods, services, and lobsters. For example, the government spent about $4 trillion dollars in 2018. That's: $4 trillion / 3 million_employees = $1.33 million/employee In 1950, the feds only spent $42 billion or $42 billion / 2 million_employees = $21,000 per employee Adjusting for about x10 inflation, that would still only be $210,000 per employee in 2018 dollars.
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If it's for them and it is once in a while fine. But they shouldn't be spen ding a dime of military money on food other than for the boots on the groun d. Generals making $9,000 should pay for their own food unless they want to eat shit on a shingle at the mess hall.
You're right, it is a drop in the bucket. But a bucket of water is made out of drops. From where come these drops ?
And don't tell me not to "micromanage macroeconomics", that is EXACTLY how it should be done. One lobster at a time.
You ain't seen shit;
"Countless sensitive crustaceans experienced an agonizing death when this truck rolled over and their bodies came crashing down onto the highway..."
I'm sure getting dumped in a pot of boiling water is much more pleasant.
Nothing surprises me anymore, much. Actually seeing people act in a logical manner is rare enough now to be noteworthy.
I'm not aware of anything concerning US military food quality or quantity. However, as I haven't read anything in the news about any military style assault on restaurants and fast food dispensaries, I deduce that the food is considered adequate.
A friends two sons were both in the Air Force until about 5 years ago, I could ask her to ask them if they had ever been served a lobster dinner. However, she's presently angry at me and suspect that I won't receive a coherent answer.
Apparently, lobster was on everyone's menu in 2013 just before our slow motion pull out from Afghanistan: However, instead of spending money at the end of the year, we had to eat everything in sight let it be left to feed the locals.
A full general (4 stars) with 20 years of service (O-10) gets $17,639.25 per month plus approximately another months salary for housing expenses (BAH) which vary somewhat by location: That's about $230,000/year total. However, 90% of the base pay is taxable.
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?Only someone with too much of someone else?s money and not enough accountability for how it was being spent could come up some of the se projects,? Coburn, R-Okla., said in a released statement.
Here's more of just the tip of the iceberg.
Here's another super-great performance by the Navy, all crooks and incompet ents.
No substantiating URL's or detail again. I guess I have to do the heavy lifting for you. In the future, if you're going to make such statements, it would be helpful if you supplied corroboration.
No mention of right whales being entangled or trapped by lobster pots:
300-350 whales left. Right whale population seems to have been increasing up to 2010, followed by a slow decrease. Also, no mention of lobsters: The major risks seems to be ship strikes and low birth rates.-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
Let me help you:
Endless publication of this issue.
It's a BIG issue.
Boycott Maine lobster!
The latest crisis is that someone found a glow-in-the-dark deck marker under the dirt somewhere. The source is an RA226 alpha emitter embedded in plastic. I wish I had one of those.
Maybe we should evacuate the Peninsula.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
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LOL- definitely. It needs to be capped and put permanently off limits.
The deck marker or the San Francisco peninsula?
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
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competents.
The Treasure Island fiasco.
TI is just 0.9 square miles of soggy land fill. Some of it is sinking into the bay, which is no surprise.
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I find it amusing that people think that Trump actually has a "philosophy" rather than careening from issue to issue making what ever statement seems to sound the best at that moment. This is easy to show, just look up the m any, many times Trump has reversed himself. The one thing he never seems t o reverse himself on is in admitting that he does reverse his statement.
Uh, how is Mexico paying for the wall if Trump is making the military pay f or it?
Rick C.
SOP. If at the end of the budget year, you have not spent all of your allocation, then you MUST spend down to/near zero else you will not get it next budget year.
Rule has been around for ages.
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There's been a glut of US lobsters since Trump's trade attacks on China and many other countries, so eating large numbers of lobsters dipped in good Wisconsin butter is actually the patriotic thing to do.
--Spehro Pefhany
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It's not actually a rule. The GAO and Congress don't actually worry over t his stuff. Every budget is zero based. You have to justify every penny in your budget every year. This is the perception by the people spending the money and there is no reward for not spending it.
Rick C.
Change the rule: 5% of any unspent money becomes bonuses.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
Why? The uncertainty of civil service pay is intended to be zero, a 'bonus' would be inappropriate unless it were for civil service. Pennypinching is not equal (or even similar) to civil service. People can come to depend on bonuses, and that's NOT good in a political sensitive job. In the case of a bureaucracy (lots of cogs with mechanical rules to follow) it's ludicrous.
Suckering folk into regular jobs in the civil service, then interrupting their paychecks over boondoggle funding is... even worse.
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