Things i'm not going to write about
today include Chucky Hansen's rape comments which can be found at the
St. Croix Source or the Daily News on-line. It is unfortunate that
she did manage to bring unwanted negative publicity to the island of
St. Croix.
i'm not going to write about the
shooter at the Navy Yard. If you read my blog you already know that i am not against gun ownership but i do support stringent licensing
regulations and back ground checks.
Getting a gun shouldn't be easier to do
than getting a license to drive a car. A new report came out today
at the American Journal of Medicine claiming that countries with less
guns are safer. The question asked was do guns make a nation safer?
i'm not going to write about Syria and
chemical weapons except to say the weapons inspectors are going back.
The UN report just released says “Sarin” was used but it does not
claim to know who fired it.
i'm not going to write about the recent
revelations from the FISA court regarding the fact that telephone
companies since 2006 who received court orders did not challenge the
law despite there being a mechanism to resist. Qwest is the only one
that did prior to 2006.
i'm not going to write about the
Colorado 1000 year flooding event or the Mexican floods and those
40,000 stranded tourists and 1,000,000 impacted Mexicans from a two
storm convergence. i spend a lot of time out doors and a life time of
observation tells me something is terribly wrong.
And what about that law passed in the
Dodd Frank bill that requires publicly traded companies to reveal
CEO compensation(includes pay, stock options,bonus, pension and
incentive pay) and relate it to all their workers(including part-time
and overseas workers) median pay. Business groups want to exclude
overseas workers but the SEC is not going for it. Apparently the
average multiple of CEO compensation to workers median pay is 204%
according to Bloomberg up 20% just since 2009.
Or how about the fact that in 2012
according to recently released FBI statistics violent crime declined
1.8% while property crimes increased 0.03%. Seventy-four percent of
the arrested were males and most of that was because of drugs,
alcohol, and theft. More were arrested for drugs than for any other
crime. And here is one we all should note...in 2012 69.3% of all the
arrests were white, 28.1% were black and the remaining 2.6% were
other races.
Scotland is looking at waves and tidal
energy in a bid to get all its power needs covered by renewables by
2020. Oh if only we in the VI had such vision.
And the jelly fish are out in
force...so far not so bad here but around the world there has been an
explosive growth of jelly fish plagues. Thirty thousand square miles
off southern Africa is a swarming mess of gooey, stinging blobs. Once
here we had a bloom that went from Cane Bay all the way to Carambola
1.8 miles. Luckily the day of our swim the jellies that were out(they
looked like dice with three black spots) didn't sting but boy were
they weird to swim through for so long. i can't imagine that on a
daily basis.
And to close...there are 1500
newspapers, 1100 magazines, 9000 radio stations, 1500 TV stations,
and 2400 publishers owned by 6 corporations. Where do you get your
info?
See ya next week
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