The Justice Department says their Inspector General's conclusion that they paid $16 per muffin at a legal conference in 2009 is, pardon the pun, half baked.
"Under a complete accounting of the services provided for the Executive Office for Immigration Review conference, it is clear that the muffins did not cost $16," DOJ spokeswoman Gina Talamona said in a statement.
"The abbreviated banquet checks did not reflect all of the food and services provided," Talamona said in an email to reporters. "The package consisted of food, beverages, staff services and function space, including a 450-seat ballroom and more than a dozen workshop and breakout rooms each of the five days of the conference."
That jibes with what the hotel said about the package, which had come under criticism from Sen. Chuck Grassley and led the White House to crack down on conference spending.
We refuse to resist the obvious.Sending the second number out to Charlena W.!"Under a complete accounting of the services provided for the Executive Office for Immigration Review conference, it is clear that the muffins did not cost $16," DOJ spokeswoman Gina Talamona said in a statement.
"The abbreviated banquet checks did not reflect all of the food and services provided," Talamona said in an email to reporters. "The package consisted of food, beverages, staff services and function space, including a 450-seat ballroom and more than a dozen workshop and breakout rooms each of the five days of the conference."
That jibes with what the hotel said about the package, which had come under criticism from Sen. Chuck Grassley and led the White House to crack down on conference spending.
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4 comments:
what, you couldn't find a Utuber of "Stuffin' Martha's Muffin"?
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El Ron Hubbard.
In his eighteen page after-action report, Hubbard claimed to have "definitely sunk, beyond doubt" one submarine and critically damaged another.
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However, the subsequent investigation by the Commander NW Sea Frontier, Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, cast a skeptical light on Hubbard's claims. His summary memorandum to Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, stated:
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An analysis of all reports convinces me that there was no submarine in the area. Lieutenant Commander Sullivan states that he was unable to obtain any evidence of a submarine except one bubble of air which is unexplained except by turbulence of water due to a depth charge explosion.
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The Commanding Officers of all ships except the PC-815 state they had no evidence of a submarine and do not think a submarine was in the area.
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Unauthorized shelling of Coronado Islands and failure to follow orders
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On June 30 a Board of Investigation was convened concerning PC-815 which concluded that Hubbard had disregarded orders, both by conducting gunnery practice and by anchoring in Mexican territorial waters without proper authority. His orders stated that the PC-815 was supposed to return after completing that day's training. Hubbard argued that his crew was inexperienced, it was foggy, and he was tired so he did not return to port as ordered.
And then he started a religion.
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UMRK Editor:
What stopped you from finding it?
We've told the story The Divine Mr. M. told us about meeting Isaac Asimov at a convention & asking him if El Ron Hitler had made a $50.00 bet that he could start a religion, which Asimov neither confirmed nor denied, 'though he told Mr. M. "you're a clever/smart young man," haven't we?
Oddly enough, Mr. M. seems to have taken inspiration from that.
The SeaOrg must have been El Ron's compensation for his naval ineptitude.
Slothful Shambler Editor Adds:
Finding it & linking it, you lazy sod.
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