Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Not going to write about...

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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