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Feds Pay Millions for Lobster Tail, Booze, Toys in End of Year Spending Binge

March 7, 2019 National

Federal agencies billed taxpayers millions for lobster tail, alcohol, standing desks, golf carts, and more frivolous expenditures before budgets ran out at the end of the fiscal year. A new analysis released by OpenTheBooks.com found 66 agencies spent $97 billion last September, the final month of fiscal year 2018. The end of the year taxpayer-funded spending spree included contracts with Coors, millions on iPhones, furniture, and CrossFit equipment. >click to read<18:38

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This Insane Mimosa Has a Lobster Tail and Muffins in It and You Will Want It Right Now

February 18, 2016 National

Depending on where you fall on the minimalist-maximalist scale, you’ll either love or abhor the newest drink on offer at the Nectar Wine Bar & Ale House in San Antonio, Texas. Called the Ultimate Mimosa, it’s a top-heavy brunch cocktail ($28) served with skewers of fruit, cheese, smoked salmon, a lobster tail, and, wait for it, two kinds of muffins: banana nut and blueberry. Oh, and you get Champagne and orange juice too. Read the rest here 18:03

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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