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Tuesday 22 September 2015

Brother can ya spare a dime?

Dear readers:

Your ever curious reporter ran across an interesting statistic today.

Back in the 1950's and 60's North American workers saw their paychecks, and prosperity, go up and up from one year to the next.

Then, as the 1970's dawned, something strange happened. Wages, and our standard of living flat-lined, and has stayed that way ever since.

(Of course this doesn't mean that the rich have suffered the same fate bunky!)

Here is a chart of wages since the mid point of the 20th century, adjusted for inflation and earning power!

 

You will also notice that men's wages have stayed at around $50,000 during this time while women's wages have slowly climbed from $25,000 to $35,000 during the same period.  (Quite a wage disparity, but that's another subject for another time!)

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Here's a headline that make me wonder:

Look kids, if these refugees are smart enough to make it all the way to Norway, THEY SHOULD BE WELCOMED WITH OPEN ARMS!

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Here's another reason George "W" Bush disgusted me, and Dick Cheney scared the hell out of me!

When it comes to the NSA, we've been discussing just how dangerous it is when the government gets to put in place its own secret interpretation of laws that, when read by the public, appear to say something quite different than the secret interpretation. Otherwise you have secret laws, and that's no way to run an open Constitutional democracy. 
For many years, it's been known that in March of 2004 there was a hospital room showdown between then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales (with White House Chief of Staff Andy Card) and (at the time, quite ill) Attorney General John Ashcroft and acting Attorney General James Comey, over whether or not to reauthorize some sort of surveillance program. 
Comey, Ashcroft, and then FBI Director Robert Mueller all threatened to resign over the issue, and eventually, we were told, President Bush overruled Gonzales and Card. 
We knew at the time that the dispute was over domestic surveillance and whether or not it was legal. 
More recently, it came out that it was over domestic collection of internet/email metadata. This was a program similar to the phone metadata program that was revealed by Ed Snowden, but for email/internet information.
However, in response to a FOIA lawsuit filed by the NY Times, late on Friday, the government declassified some more information about what happened, and it appears that George W. Bush tried to first retroactively "legalize" this pretty clearly unconstitutional domestic surveillance, by saying that he'd always meant that while the NSA could sweep up all metadata, it didn't technically "acquire" it until it did a search on it. 
Again, this is in direct contrast to what most people thought the law (and the 4th Amendment) says the government could do. 

 https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150921/11301932319/george-w-bush-tried-to-retroactively-declare-illegal-unconstitutional-nsa-surveillance-legal-because-he-said-so.shtml

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Instead of giving you a kick in the pants, energy drinks might be giving you a kick to the HEAD!

Image result for drunk teenager clipartYou may want to lessen Red Bull consumption as a recent study has linked energy drinks to 'traumatic brain injury' in teens.
The study found that teens who reported a traumatic brain injury in the past year were seven times more likely to have consumed at least five energy drinks in the past week than those without a history of TBI.

AH, but there's a reason for this, bunky ...., seems these teenagers were using the energy drinks as mixer for BOOZE!

(Yup, that will do it!)

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Folks we have a world wide catastrophe on our hands:

4 Billion People Are Still Without Internet

Somebody please do something!!!! 

(A least we have a more manageable birth rate here in Canada. According to statistics a Canadian woman gives birth to a baby every 14 minutes ........, SHE MUST BE STOPPED!!!!!)



 

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