CAUTION! READING AND UNDERSTANDING THESE FACTS MAY CAUSE YOU TO VOTE.
"It would be a good thing to take your bankbook to the fallout
shelter with you."
- Federal Reserve System suggestion
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION: (718) 459-3140
If No Answer Call: (718) 459-3140
Nassau County NYNEX Telephone Directory (1991) Listing
The Postal Service had to decide what to do with $500,000 in stamps printed in April, 1999, depicting the Grand Canyon -- in the wrong state.
The U.S. Postal Service has another problem with a Grand Canyon stamp: The photo used is a reverse image, giving a mirror image of a view from the South Rim.
In April 1999, the Postal Service mistakenly labeled the Grand Canyon as a Colorado landmark on 100 million stamps. Those stamps had to be destroyed.
This time, the Postal Service is sticking with the problem stamps. "It's still beautiful either way you look at it," U.S. Postal Service spokesman Don Smeraldi said of the 60-cent international stamp. "It's still the Canyon." A trade paper estimated the reprinting cost at $500,000.…
"I am pleased to sign into law ... the reauthorization of the Independent Counsel Act. This law ... is a foundation stone for the trust between the government and our citizens. ... Opponents called it a tool of partisan attack against Republican presidents and a waste of taxpayer funds. It was neither. In fact, the independent counsel statute has been in the past and is today a force for government integrity and public confidence."
President Bill Clinton, June 30, 1994.
In December 1994, the Internal Revenue Service demanded that John
Zwynenberg pay $6.4 million within 90 days. But Zwynenberg's only tax "liability" was that he stood to be awarded money in the lawsuits filed after the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in which his son, John, was killed. However, no date had been set for the distribution of that money, and the award amounts were not determined. Still, IRS said Zwynenberg would either have to pay or hire a lawyer and sue the agency.
The U.S. government spends $193 million a year on military bands, an amount that Mother Jones magazine noted is $172 million more than tax dollars spent for all arts education from kindergarten through high school. The magazine noted that music budgets for the Coast Guard, Army, Marines and Air Force combined equal $25 million more than the entire budget for the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 1997, the Army issued Bronze Stars to seven members of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment for "meritorious achievement" during the Persian Gulf war, even though their achievement was mistakenly firing on U.S. troops, killing one and wounding another.
Two federal commissioners on a Presidential panel studying gambling argued in September, 1998, that casinos should require every gambler to register his or her personal financial data, then track their gambling by computer so the gambler could be cut off for spending "too much" money. They did not specify a definition of "too much" money.
The federal government seized a Mississippi woman's house and all her possessions while she was on vacation in 1998, believing she had forfeitted a HUD housing loan. Unfortunately for her, they gave the repossessors the right address, but the wrong street. She is suing for damages and expenses.
Marjorie Brown, Atlanta's federal postmistress, was sworn in at a ceremony costing over $45,000, including a $22,000 video of her life, $9,900 airfare for postal officials who attended from out of state, and $2,400 on programs, invitations, and thank you cards. The prior Atlanta postmaster's swearing-in party, in 1992, cost $919.62.
On page 31 of the Defense Department's 1991 annual report to the President and Congress, Michigan's Sawyer Air Force Base is shown in Wisconsin, and the upper peninsula of Michigan is shown as part of Canada.
In 1995, the General Accounting Office announced that after inspecting all 78 Army missile storage sites, 7,732 more Stinger missles and 5,230 Redeye missles were found than records indicated, but 9,744 Dragon missles were missing.
In January, 1993, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to allow the five delegates representing the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories to vote on bills, but only if their votes don't matter. If the five votes are critical to the outcome, the House votes again, allowing only the 435 regular members to cast ballots.
The Federal Consumer Products Safety Council demanded in 1995 that soda/vending machine manafacturers place warning labels on vending machines indicating that tipping the machine in order to steal products or money can result in injury or death if the machine falls on the tipper.
The U.S. Treasury recently printed a new version of the $50 bill. Unfortunately, over 200 million of the bills will have to be destroyed and reprinted because the hair on the portrait is wrong. Cost of screwup: about $7.75 million.
I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses.
President Lyndon Johnson
"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."
Vice-President Dan Quayle
"When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."
President Calvin Coolidge
The Department of Labor has ordered a professional baseball team in California
to stop using bat boys/girls under age 16 after 7:00 p.m. during baseball season.
Federal law states that being up past this late hour is unwholesome for the youngsters.
According to an annual calculation, 1997's Cost of Government Day will fall on July 3.
This means on July 4, the average U.S. citizen will have earned enough to pay all taxes
to his or her local, state and federal government.
"African-Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do."President Bill Clinton
In 1994, the U.S Postal Service issued a stamp, based on a famous photo portrait, honoring blues musician Robert Johnson. In the interest of public health, however,
a cigarette Johnson was smoking was airbrushed out of the portrait.
If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor
their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a
record.
Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman
"The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the
Declaration of Independence says."
President and Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton, using a phrase first found in the Gettysburg Address
A panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the conviction of a man who sent a bomb to the U.S. Attorney
who prosecuted him for threatening the President. The decision was based on the fact that the bomb "fizzled" and thus,
according to the judges, was not a deadly or dangerous weapon. The Solicitor General did not ask for a reahearing or
appeal of this case, despite Supreme Court precedent to the contrary.
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
Senior Pentagon Official explaining censored film footage
Passive activity income does not include the following: Income for an activity that is not a passive
activity.
IRS form 8583, Passive Activity Loss Limitation
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the President."
President (oops) Hillary Clinton
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy. But that could
change.
Vice-President Dan Quayle
You will find it a distinct help if you know and look as if you know what you are doing.
IRS Training Manual for tax auditors
Please provide the date of your death.
from an IRS letter
"It has not worked. No one can say it has worked, so I decided we're either going
to do what we said we're going to do with the U.N., or we're going
to do something else."
President Bill Clinton
It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
President George Bush
"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep."
Clinton aide George Stephanopolous on Larry King Live
The U.S. Marine Corps changed its scoring system for women trainees
in throwing exercises so that women do not have to throw grenades
as far to pass. This was a result of 45% of female trainees not
throwing practice grenades far enough to avoid blowing themselves up,
had the grenades been real.
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a male convict wishing to become
a female is not entitled to get hormone injections at public expense under the 14th
Amendment, but he may be entitled to them under the Eighth Amendment, banning cruel
and unusual punishment.
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