My wife doesn't get drunk very often...
(*PURSED LIPS*)
...but when she does get drunk...
(*SIGH*)
I only wish I had pictures! (Perhaps I do "need" one of them thar fancy picture-taking cellphones after all...?!?!)
(*SHRUGGING WHILE CHUCKLING*)
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http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/men-who-work-full-time-earn-less-40-years-ago
The real median income of American men who work full-time, year-round, peaked forty years ago in 1973, according to data published by the U.S. Census Bureau.
In 1973, median earnings for men who worked full-time, year-round were $51,670 in inflation-adjusted 2012 dollars.
* MEANING IT'S ACTUALLY WORSE BECAUSE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DELIBERATELY UNDERSTATES INFLATION - MAINLY BY REFUSING TO INCLUDE FOOD AND FUEL IN THEIR "BASKET" OF COSTS.
In 2012, the latest year for which the Census Bureau has published an estimate, the real median earnings of men who worked full-time, year-round was $49,398. That was $2,272 — or about 4.4% — below the peak median earnings of 1973.
* ACTUALLY... I'M GUESSING THE REAL "HIGH YEAR" WAS 1972. (1973 SAW THE OIL CRISIS.) IN ANY EVENT, YOU GET THE IDEA, FOLKS...
By comparison, the real median earnings of American women who work full-time year-round peaked in 2007, when women who worked full-time earned $38,872 in constant 2012 dollars. From 1960 through 2007, the real income of American women who work full-time increased $16,774 or about 76%.
From 2007 to 2012, the real earnings of women who work full-time declined $1,081, or about 2.8%.
* LOOKS LIKE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN "WAGING WAR" ON BOTH WOMEN AND MEN!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-28/n-y-congressman-grimm-charged-over-restaurant-operations.html
U.S. Representative Michael Grimm, a New York Republican up for re-election this year, paid workers at his Manhattan restaurant off the books to skirt state and federal taxes and lied about it, federal prosecutors said, unsealing a 20-count indictment.
* HE LIED. HE GOT CAUGHT. SEND HIM TO JAIL.
Grimm, 44, “deliberately lied to every taxing authority to evade taxes and keep more money for himself,” Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said today. Grimm pleaded not guilty in federal court in Brooklyn and was freed on $400,000 bail, secured by a home on Staten Island.
The congressman was a partner in Granny Sayz LLC that did business as Healthalicious restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper East side. He held a 45 percent stake in Granny Sayz, kept two sets of books and concealed the under-the-table payments from payroll processing companies, hiding more than $1 million in earnings, the U.S. said. Grimm oversaw the day-to-day operations of Healthalicious, which serves protein shakes and power salads on its menu, from 2007 to 2010, according to the indictment. He underreported the workers’ wages, many of whom were employed illegally, and is accused by the U.S. of wire fraud and mail fraud, among the other charges. Convictions of wire fraud and mail fraud each carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
* AND THAT'S RIDICULOUS... BUT BESIDES THE POINT FOR THE MOMENT. IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT "EVERYONE DOES IT." THIS GUY GOT CAUGHT.
“Rep. Grimm should resign immediately,” Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government watchdog group, said today in an e-mailed statement.
* AGREED.
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.stripes.com/report-pentagon-to-destroy-1b-in-ammunition-1.280372
The Pentagon plans to destroy more than $1 billion worth of ammunition although some of those bullets and missiles could still be used by troops, according to the Pentagon and congressional sources.
* WHY...??? WHY DO WE HAVE SUCH EXCESS? WHY DON'T WE HAVE EXISTING SALES PROGRAMS (& FOREIGN MILITARY AID PROGRAMS) TO HANDLE SUCH SITUATION AS OPPOSED TO SUCH UNFORGIVABLE WASTE...???
It's impossible to know what portion of the arsenal slated for destruction — valued at $1.2 billion by the Pentagon — remains viable because the Defense Department's inventory systems can't share data effectively, according to a Government Accountability Office report obtained by USA TODAY.
* AGAIN... INCOMPETENCE SEEMS TO BE THE NORM IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE.
"There is a huge opportunity to save millions, if not billions of dollars if the (Pentagon) can make some common-sense improvements to how it manages ammunition," said Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., and chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. "Despite years of effort, the Army, Navy and Air Force still don't have an efficient process for doing something as basic as sharing excess bullets. This Government Accountability Office (GAO) report clearly shows that our military's antiquated systems lead to millions of dollars in wasteful ammunition purchases."
* AND YET... WILL ANYONE BE COURT MARTIALED? CASHIERED? (I WON'T BE HOLDING MY BREATH.)
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
The Army and Pentagon, in a statement, acknowledged "the need to automate the process" and will make it a priority in future budgets. In all, the Pentagon manages a stockpile of conventional ammunition worth $70 billion.
The effect of inaccurate accounting of ammunition for troops at war was outside the scope of the study. However, there were limited supplies at times of .50-caliber machine gun and 9mm handgun ammunition at the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a senior military officer who spoke on condition of anonymity to talk about the issue. "We simply cannot afford this type of waste and ineffectiveness," Carper said. "The (Pentagon) has a responsibility to efficiently manage its ammunition stocks, not only because it is important to be fiscally responsible, but also because our antiquated ammunition inventory systems can shortchange our war fighters and compromise their ability to complete their mission."
Other key findings from the report:
• The services have inventory systems for ammunition that cannot share data directly despite working for decades to develop a single database. Only the Army uses the standard Pentagon format; "the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps operate with formats that are obsolete."
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
• The services hold an annual conference to share information about surplus ammunition and swap bullets and other munitions as needed. Data about ammunition left over after the meeting disappears from the books, resulting in an unknown amount of good bullets headed to the scrap heap.
* GEEZUS...
• The Army, although required by regulation, had not reported annually on its missile stockpile until last month, shortly before the GAO study was to be released.
* AND YET... NO ONE GETS FIRED... NO MIILITARY BRASS... NO CIVILIAN BRASS...
The report illustrates the obsolete nature of the Pentagon's inventory systems for ammunition. A request for ammunition from the Marine Corps, for example, is e-mailed to the Army. The e-mail is printed out and manually retyped into the Army system because the services cannot share data directly. Not only is this time consuming, but it can introduce errors — by an incorrect keystroke, for example. Waste, buying new ammunition while usable stockpiles exist, can occur "because the Army does not report information on all available and usable items," the report states. The annual conference among the services — although it saves about $70 million per year, according to the Pentagon — is inadequate. The services, in fiscal year 2012, exchanged 44 million items, including 32 million bullets for machine guns and pistols. "Specifically, the Army's report does not include information from prior years about usable ammunition that was unclaimed by another service and stored for potential foreign military sales or slated for potential disposal," the report says.
Missiles are another source for concern, the report notes.
* FOLKS... CONTINUE READING ON YOUR OWN; I JUST CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE!
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