May 25, 2026…Only One Day Of The Year
May 25, 2026 … MEMORIAL DAY
Only one day…four days at the most…for America’s war dead. Only one.
Some people’s priorities are a bit out of whack.
History
May 25, 2026
May 25, 2026…Memorial Day
THE NATIONAL DEBT: $39.1 trillion
Some believe that the only part of the solution to the $39.1 trillion national debt…is eliminating government waste. For those people, I have a question…
So what exactly prompted the breakdown in the friendship between Elon Musk and President Trump after Elon Musk did so much to eliminate waste in federal spending?
THE WORLD ALMANAC. 2026
The Department Of Defense paid O-9’s and O-10’s $18,808 a month in 2025. So the most the U.S. Government paid any military personnel in 2025 in a single year was $225,696.
$225,696 a year for the highest ranking officers in the military.
The Federal Income Tax Rate for those making over $626,350 was 37% in 2025. ($626,350 is quite a bit more money than $225,696.)
- Are people who make more than $626,350 a year that much more valuable to society than anyone in the military?
- Is it possible some folks are overpaid and undertaxed in light of what the government pays military personnel and that the country faces a $39.1 trillion national debt?
- Did President Eisenhower know what he was doing back in the 1950’s when he taxed top income earners at 91% to keep national deficits under control?
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Box-Office Reporting….1981
May 30, 2026 by Blogging For 20 Years • Books, Dancing, Entertainment, Financial, History, Society, Success, Television 0 Comments
According to the 1996 book The Hollywood Reporter Book Of Box Office Hits, Raiders Of The Lost Ark earned $115 million in domestic rentals between June 1981 and 1996. Superman II earned $65 million in domestic rentals between June 1981 and 1996.
According to the 1990 book Box Office Champs, Raiders Of The Lost Ark earned $90.4 million in domestic rentals in the year 1981 alone, which is quite a bit more than what Superman II earned in the year 1981 alone. Superman II earned $64 million that year. Raiders Of The Lost Ark was #1 and Superman II was #2 in 1981.
And according to a 2021 magazine on Indiana Jones from Hollywood Spotlight, on page 37 the magazine reported the following about Raider’s box-office performance: “Thanks to good word of mouth and repeat viewings, the film returned to the top box-office spot in its sixth week of release. It would stay there for another nine weeks…”
But according to online box office reporting, Raiders Of The Lost Ark ranked #14 in 1981 according to the grosses made in 1981 alone, as the site claims it grossed just $21.8 million in the year 1981. But the movie, released on June 12, according to that very same online source, was #1 according with a lifetime gross of $212 million. A $212 million lifetime gross after a dismal $21.8 million gross during its first 6.6 months…
ACCORDING TO THE ONLINE SITE…Raiders Of The Lost Ark grossed at the domestic box office…
In other words, the online site reports it had a decent opening weekend in mid-June of 1981, then utterly tanked for the rest of the year…but made an unheard-of explosive word-of-mouth rebound at the box office grossing 90% of its life-time gross after its first 6.6 months in the theaters. Makes no sense. Complete and utter nonsense. So obviously false.
Never mind that the site shaved off 12% of the $242 million gross reported by more reliable Almanacs from 1999 and 2005.