interesting things in the news last week...monday was juneteenth...celebrating the delayed freeing of those persons who had been enslaved in galveston texas, usa...nowadays they are free to work for minimum federal wage of $7.25 per hour...what a joke..why are there not people protesting in every city in the nation to increase the federal minimum wage! i spent so much time working for minimum wage that my social security is pretty minimal too...better than a stick in the eye...next day was migrant day...(actually we should say refugees) there are 100 million refugees across the globe these days...what the hell is that about!...the next day was the day that the constitution of the usa was adopted in 1788...lets hear a big cheer for the constitution of the usa...well Aristotle collected constitutions but the only one that survived was the one for athens greece...i picked up a newspaper with an interesting story about a fellow...a mr. s. bickings...who climbed over a 4 foot fence and after a cop told him it was not legal to swim in the lake he waded into the lake and drowned...do you know what law was enforced in this case? it was the LAW OF NATURAL SELECTION...thats right mr. s. bickings was culled out of the population....there of course were protests because the cops did not enter the water to save the man from drowning...what a joke !also there has been protests about monkeys being used to harvest coconuts for the juice...thats what monkeys do...climb trees...this is in thailand where they just legalized pot...maybe they can get stoners to climb the trees instead...just a thought...big news in el salvador...2% of the population has been detained (read imprisoned) 11 thousand of these detainees are children...40 thousand people in all have been picked up because there was so much violent crime associated with "GANGS"...they say 70% of the population approve of this action...i believe this country has some of the strictest gun laws in the world...a computer type worker has claimed that he has a computer that is "sentient"...which means that it has feeling that were not part of the computer program...his bosses say they doubt it...who knows...but i would think twice about how much information you give to your smart phone or alexis or any other mother board...HAL is lurking out there...a good article in NY times about transgender people...1.4% of the population is transgender in the usa...or 1.6 million people...i do not know if this is politically correct to ask but how many people went from male to female and from female to male...
i have been thinking about my "LIST"...which is persons whose absence would be beneficial to the health of the planet...of course at the head of the list is v.putin...i have been reading a book which i have seen around for a while."Legacy of Ashes" a history of the central intelligence agency"....this little misfit agency has made a lot of lists of people to eliminate...but they are pretty inept to say the least...so perhaps a billion dollar bounty could be put on putins head...payable anonymously...i watched a movie recently which i was not going to recommend because...well it is about two used car salesmen...who kill people for money also as a side job...it is called "Jerry and Tom" (2011) 97 minutes...it has several well known actors in it...and the camera work is very creative...it is kind of depressing though...and it has a message...at the end...you might say the message is about "the rule of complete play" as they say in the gambling circles...
"It is an endless and frivolous pursuit to act by any other rule than the care of satisfying of our own minds in what we do." Richard Steele
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