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Top Ten Florida Man Misadventures!
Whenever something REALLY strange happens in the USA, you can almost be certain, that it takes place in Florida.
The Sunshine State is home to several amazing places, and home to a LOT of weird occurrences. I shared that fact, if you can call it that, in a group on Facebook, and I got torn apart in the comments. Someone said, that Florida was the best place ever, and that no weird things could possibly happen there. He got quite defensive, even after several people linked to.. Let's say, weird.. Things that happened there. So when this video popped up in my YouTube feed
I just KNEW that A: I was right. Lots of weird things DO happen in Florida, and B: I have to see that video immediately!
If anyone, who reads my blogs, is from Florida, please let me know just how often you hear about weird stuff happening.
One of the best Florida Man headline I have read is "Florida Man attacks ATM with hatchet after it refuses to take his check."
I have several questions, one of them is "Why?!"
Nothing like that happens here in Denmark. Sometimes I am quite happy about that
The Sunshine State is home to several amazing places, and home to a LOT of weird occurrences. I shared that fact, if you can call it that, in a group on Facebook, and I got torn apart in the comments. Someone said, that Florida was the best place ever, and that no weird things could possibly happen there. He got quite defensive, even after several people linked to.. Let's say, weird.. Things that happened there. So when this video popped up in my YouTube feed
I just KNEW that A: I was right. Lots of weird things DO happen in Florida, and B: I have to see that video immediately!
If anyone, who reads my blogs, is from Florida, please let me know just how often you hear about weird stuff happening.
One of the best Florida Man headline I have read is "Florida Man attacks ATM with hatchet after it refuses to take his check."
I have several questions, one of them is "Why?!"
Nothing like that happens here in Denmark. Sometimes I am quite happy about that
As the rich get even more tax breaks......
.....many others starve, or live paycheck to paycheck.
In response to:
If you want to stay in the most expensive hotel suite in New York, you’ll need about $75,000 to spare. A report from NewYorkHotels.org looked at the priciest places to stay in Manhattan, and the incredible abodes come with a variety of upscale amenities, like a chauffeured Rolls Royce and a personal styling from Christian Dior.
At the top of the list is the Penthouse at the Mark Hotel at $75,000 per night in October, according to the research. The 12,000-square-foot suite was designed by French designer Jacques France and includes five bedrooms, four fireplaces, six bathrooms, a grand piano and two bars. If that’s not enough, there is also a library, dining room, conservatory and a rooftop terrace that provides view so the Met and Central Park.
If you want to stay in the most expensive hotel suite in New York, you’ll need about $75,000 to spare. A report from NewYorkHotels.org looked at the priciest places to stay in Manhattan, and the incredible abodes come with a variety of upscale amenities, like a chauffeured Rolls Royce and a personal styling from Christian Dior.
At the top of the list is the Penthouse at the Mark Hotel at $75,000 per night in October, according to the research. The 12,000-square-foot suite was designed by French designer Jacques France and includes five bedrooms, four fireplaces, six bathrooms, a grand piano and two bars. If that’s not enough, there is also a library, dining room, conservatory and a rooftop terrace that provides view so the Met and Central Park.
In response to:
CEO pay has increased from about 20 times the typical worker’s pay to 271 times greater, from 1965 to 2016, according to 2017 a study by the EPI.
As the economic recovery continues, Price said that it is critically important to continue to look at growth and specifically how it is distributed.
“For some reason, the economy just doesn’t have the generation of wage growth we’d like to see,” Price said. “We like to focus a light on the way that income is distributed to share that the people who make decisions are benefiting from the economy in a way we might not all be.”
The gap between incomes of the top 1 percent and bottom 99 percent are growing
CEO pay has increased from about 20 times the typical worker’s pay to 271 times greater, from 1965 to 2016, according to 2017 a study by the EPI.
As the economic recovery continues, Price said that it is critically important to continue to look at growth and specifically how it is distributed.
“For some reason, the economy just doesn’t have the generation of wage growth we’d like to see,” Price said. “We like to focus a light on the way that income is distributed to share that the people who make decisions are benefiting from the economy in a way we might not all be.”
The gap between incomes of the top 1 percent and bottom 99 percent are growing
State/region
Average income of the top 1% ......Average income of the bottom 99%
New York $2,202,480..... $49,617
Florida $1,543,124..... $39,094
Connecticut $2,522,806 ..... $67,742
Nevada $1,354,780..... $41,470
Wyoming $1,900,659..... $60,922
Massachusetts $1,904,805..... $61,694
California $1,693,094..... $55,152
Illinois $1,412,024.... $52,216
New Jersey $1,581,829 $65,068
Washington $1,383,223 $57,100
Texas $1,343,897 $55,614
Georgia $995,576 $44,147
Arkansas $864,772 $38,472
Pennsylvania $1,100,962 $50,830
Michigan $917,701 $42,825
Tennessee $947,021 $44,219
Missouri $944,804 $44,650
Arizona $882,657 $42,000
Minnesota $1,185,581 $56,728
Colorado $1,261,053 $61,165
North Carolina $902,972 $43,850
South Dakota $1,130,048 $56,610
Oregon $908,898 $46,090
Utah $1,057,066 $53,614
South Carolina $761,185 $38,646
Alabama $743,644 $38,587
Montana $855,976 $45,197
Wisconsin $964,358 $50,953
Ohio $858,965 $46,157
Kentucky $719,012 $38,990
Kansas $1,034,676 $56,628
Rhode Island $928,204 $50,963
Louisiana $814,386 $45,060
New Hampshire $1,134,101 $62,796
Maryland $1,135,718 $63,656
Oklahoma $932,520 $52,533
Virginia $1,109,984 $62,844
Idaho $829,268 $47,727
Indiana $804,275 $46,501
Delaware $869,461 $51,049
Mississippi $580,461 $35,353
Nebraska $945,869 $58,013
Vermont $816,579 $50,283
North Dakota $1,080,845 $68,316
New Mexico $615,082 $39,675
Maine $655,870 $42,575
West Virginia $535,648 $34,987
Iowa $788,419 $53,753
Hawaii $797,001 $57,987
Alaska $910,059 $71,876
District of Columbia $1,858,878 $61,102
Source: Economic Policy Institute
CEO pay has increased from about 20 times the typical worker’s pay to 271 times greater, from 1965 to 2016, according to 2017 a study by the EPI.
As the economic recovery continues, Price said that it is critically important to continue to look at growth and specifically how it is distributed.
“For some reason, the economy just doesn’t have the generation of wage growth we’d like to see,” Price said. “We like to focus a light on the way that income is distributed to share that the people who make decisions are benefiting from the economy in a way we might not all be.”
The gap between incomes of the top 1 percent and bottom 99 percent are growing
CEO pay has increased from about 20 times the typical worker’s pay to 271 times greater, from 1965 to 2016, according to 2017 a study by the EPI.
As the economic recovery continues, Price said that it is critically important to continue to look at growth and specifically how it is distributed.
“For some reason, the economy just doesn’t have the generation of wage growth we’d like to see,” Price said. “We like to focus a light on the way that income is distributed to share that the people who make decisions are benefiting from the economy in a way we might not all be.”
The gap between incomes of the top 1 percent and bottom 99 percent are growing
State/region
Average income of the top 1% ......Average income of the bottom 99%
New York $2,202,480..... $49,617
Florida $1,543,124..... $39,094
Connecticut $2,522,806 ..... $67,742
Nevada $1,354,780..... $41,470
Wyoming $1,900,659..... $60,922
Massachusetts $1,904,805..... $61,694
California $1,693,094..... $55,152
Illinois $1,412,024.... $52,216
New Jersey $1,581,829 $65,068
Washington $1,383,223 $57,100
Texas $1,343,897 $55,614
Georgia $995,576 $44,147
Arkansas $864,772 $38,472
Pennsylvania $1,100,962 $50,830
Michigan $917,701 $42,825
Tennessee $947,021 $44,219
Missouri $944,804 $44,650
Arizona $882,657 $42,000
Minnesota $1,185,581 $56,728
Colorado $1,261,053 $61,165
North Carolina $902,972 $43,850
South Dakota $1,130,048 $56,610
Oregon $908,898 $46,090
Utah $1,057,066 $53,614
South Carolina $761,185 $38,646
Alabama $743,644 $38,587
Montana $855,976 $45,197
Wisconsin $964,358 $50,953
Ohio $858,965 $46,157
Kentucky $719,012 $38,990
Kansas $1,034,676 $56,628
Rhode Island $928,204 $50,963
Louisiana $814,386 $45,060
New Hampshire $1,134,101 $62,796
Maryland $1,135,718 $63,656
Oklahoma $932,520 $52,533
Virginia $1,109,984 $62,844
Idaho $829,268 $47,727
Indiana $804,275 $46,501
Delaware $869,461 $51,049
Mississippi $580,461 $35,353
Nebraska $945,869 $58,013
Vermont $816,579 $50,283
North Dakota $1,080,845 $68,316
New Mexico $615,082 $39,675
Maine $655,870 $42,575
West Virginia $535,648 $34,987
Iowa $788,419 $53,753
Hawaii $797,001 $57,987
Alaska $910,059 $71,876
District of Columbia $1,858,878 $61,102
Source: Economic Policy Institute
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Road-Rage Xmas
'Twas the night before Xmas, the streets were a mess
with last-minute shoppers unleashing their stress.
The traffic was swarming like flies on a turd
with honking and yelling and flipping the bird.
Mamá in the cockpit, and I with a map,
had just turned around to get out of the crap,
When over a median, cellphone-distracted,
an urban assault wagon flew and compacted
a mini-van trying a left-handed U-ie:
The shopping bags flew as they both went Ka-blooey!
The corridor lights on the metal and snow
shone blue on the cuts of the victims below.
The cellphones were chiming, an ambulance called;
it couldn't get thru 'cause the traffic was stalled.
But lawyers there were, and in less than a flash,
arrangements were made to distribute the cash.
With similar accidents all over town,
the exits to parking lots all were shut down.
Employees and shoppers were trapped in the malls,
and Xmas arrived with them climbing the walls.
And we heard someone say, as we got out of range,
"How much of this stuff will they let us exchange?"
kornbluth
Winter Solstice 2002
with last-minute shoppers unleashing their stress.
The traffic was swarming like flies on a turd
with honking and yelling and flipping the bird.
Mamá in the cockpit, and I with a map,
had just turned around to get out of the crap,
When over a median, cellphone-distracted,
an urban assault wagon flew and compacted
a mini-van trying a left-handed U-ie:
The shopping bags flew as they both went Ka-blooey!
The corridor lights on the metal and snow
shone blue on the cuts of the victims below.
The cellphones were chiming, an ambulance called;
it couldn't get thru 'cause the traffic was stalled.
But lawyers there were, and in less than a flash,
arrangements were made to distribute the cash.
With similar accidents all over town,
the exits to parking lots all were shut down.
Employees and shoppers were trapped in the malls,
and Xmas arrived with them climbing the walls.
And we heard someone say, as we got out of range,
"How much of this stuff will they let us exchange?"
kornbluth
Winter Solstice 2002
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The so called government shut down....
......most of the polling says few seem affected by it, or are even aware of this latest fake news biased media boondoggle. Our Brilliant President Trump appropriately is letting things stew, including the days/lives of so many paper pushing govenment "workers". And now has made a strategic offer that the dems reject out of hand, moving the blame a bit more in their direction, inspite of how hard the media tries otherwise. The pseudocrisis will end when the government employees' unions, largest of such anachronistic outfits, start banging on dems' doors on behalf of their usually coddled charges. Wonderful chance to rif many of these folks, who wouldn't survive in the dreaded private sector. And to thereby deregulate their meddlesome input into the lives of us all, to cut the costs of ever burgeoning government, and to sell the enormous infrastructure housing them to real economy productive enterprise. The talk of their doing so to avoid future shutdowns is pathetic. Oh yeah, they'll leave the jobs where now the pay is on average higher than in private "real work" employment. And where firing them is near imposssible. And where, unlike nearly nowhere else, over generous lifetime defined pensions still are the rule. And where we see how many are deemed "nonessential" at the tiniest snow storm. Except of course where municipal and state governments are realizing how this latter is unsustainable, and where new employees will have to live as all the rest of us, with the non pensions we have to fund on our own. How's government employment/pensions going in Kentucky these days? Watch many states follow.
Real happiness
Modern civilization is victimized by selfishness unfortunately in which everyone is talking and seeking about his or her own happiness and forgetting about real happiness which is related to the people around us in the shape of our family,kids ,relatives,friends,neighbors and those who need us ,but unfortunately we are too busy in chasing paper money that we are forgetting these true essences of life ,so money is guarantee of real happiness??? Think about it now
My 2 Weeks Behind The Iron Curtain
It was about this time of the year in 1985 that I went to Poland. Poland was still behind the Iron Curtain.
I was picked up at the airport in Warsaw by my host family. We drove about 4 hours south to the town of Nysa. Along the way we got low on gas so we stopped at a station. We banged on the door and awakened the fellow working there. He told us come back in the morning. I flashed an American 10 dollar bill and he couldn't pump the gas fast enough. I stayed on a farm. When it was dinner time they grabbed a chicken, chopped his head off and plucked it then cooked it. Every meal had potatoes. Everyone bathed while dinner was being cooked because the hot water pipes were run through the stove. That was the only way to get hot water.
I toured the Auschwitz concentration camp. I was told that I would still smell the stench of death, but that was not the case. I was able to visit the barracks that the interred were living in. Several of the hallway walls were removed and replaced with plexiglass walls and was able to see inside. In one room there was a mountain of shoes, from the deceased. In another room, there was a mountain of eyeglasses. In another room there was a pile of false teeth. In another room there was a pile of prosthetic limbs. It was truly the most profound experience I have ever had in my life.
I was able to walk away from a place that thousands were not. My life changed.
I was picked up at the airport in Warsaw by my host family. We drove about 4 hours south to the town of Nysa. Along the way we got low on gas so we stopped at a station. We banged on the door and awakened the fellow working there. He told us come back in the morning. I flashed an American 10 dollar bill and he couldn't pump the gas fast enough. I stayed on a farm. When it was dinner time they grabbed a chicken, chopped his head off and plucked it then cooked it. Every meal had potatoes. Everyone bathed while dinner was being cooked because the hot water pipes were run through the stove. That was the only way to get hot water.
I toured the Auschwitz concentration camp. I was told that I would still smell the stench of death, but that was not the case. I was able to visit the barracks that the interred were living in. Several of the hallway walls were removed and replaced with plexiglass walls and was able to see inside. In one room there was a mountain of shoes, from the deceased. In another room, there was a mountain of eyeglasses. In another room there was a pile of false teeth. In another room there was a pile of prosthetic limbs. It was truly the most profound experience I have ever had in my life.
I was able to walk away from a place that thousands were not. My life changed.
Forgiveness
"The only thing that stands between us and our bliss are the grievances we imagine we hold justly against what is/was. Nothing happens to us. It all happens for us. It's the exercise of our own magic in finding the pearl that redeems the muck that teaches us to be more and more what we truly are eternally."
So, shall we make a pearl together?
MAGAs, I do not believe you are bad, heartless people. Actually, the only thing I have against any of you is your continued support of trump, and I think I should tell you why trump so upsets me.
We all go through traumas in life, and I've had my share. I'm a survivor of long term abuse (emotional and physical/s*xual) by a p*dophile when I was just a little kid. It was my grand uncle and he got away with it using psychological tactics that terrorize a child more and more so they will not tell what's going on. I know how these abusers work and trump is doing to the whole country what my grand uncle did to me and my little sister--slowly turning up the abuse. It scares me on a primal level. I've never felt so vulnerable and incapable of defending myself and my country and those I love since I was that 5 year old.
It naturally makes me very angry. I want to defend myself and I can't because I must abide by the very law that he tramples in utter defiance and lawlessness every day. And we know the man is a rapist and that he has raped little girls and adult women. It sets me off and it's not his politics. It's the abuse. The phucker is an abuser and you people who support him must be either all rapists and abusers -- or you are clueless to what he is doing because you have been lucky enough to have never seen this behavior before--so you don't recognize it.
Either that, or you've all seen it so much that there's something wrong with your minds: You know what he's doing and you approve or just think it's normal--the way things are, natural. Or maybe you're indoctrinated politically or so full of rage/hate convoluting your perceptions that you can't help but identify with him and his constant defiant tantrums.
Whatever you think gives you just cause to continue supporting him, my fear is that your support marks you all as sociopaths who likely use his bombastic intimidation and lawlessness in your own relationships--or maybe you feel someone is doing all that to you--and supporting trump is how you get even with the world. Whatever it is, surely there must be a way to address your grievances without destroying the whole world for whatever it is that has made you so angry that you refuse to see all the suffering he is causing and simply say "Enough".
I may look at comments but I'm unlikely to participate much. This venue is toxic. With this blog, I hope to make it a little less so. Y'all think and feel before you reply, if so inclined. I am ready for a meeting of the minds/hearts. I've shown you mine. Is there anything loving/constructive in any of you? Show us your jamb.
So, shall we make a pearl together?
MAGAs, I do not believe you are bad, heartless people. Actually, the only thing I have against any of you is your continued support of trump, and I think I should tell you why trump so upsets me.
We all go through traumas in life, and I've had my share. I'm a survivor of long term abuse (emotional and physical/s*xual) by a p*dophile when I was just a little kid. It was my grand uncle and he got away with it using psychological tactics that terrorize a child more and more so they will not tell what's going on. I know how these abusers work and trump is doing to the whole country what my grand uncle did to me and my little sister--slowly turning up the abuse. It scares me on a primal level. I've never felt so vulnerable and incapable of defending myself and my country and those I love since I was that 5 year old.
It naturally makes me very angry. I want to defend myself and I can't because I must abide by the very law that he tramples in utter defiance and lawlessness every day. And we know the man is a rapist and that he has raped little girls and adult women. It sets me off and it's not his politics. It's the abuse. The phucker is an abuser and you people who support him must be either all rapists and abusers -- or you are clueless to what he is doing because you have been lucky enough to have never seen this behavior before--so you don't recognize it.
Either that, or you've all seen it so much that there's something wrong with your minds: You know what he's doing and you approve or just think it's normal--the way things are, natural. Or maybe you're indoctrinated politically or so full of rage/hate convoluting your perceptions that you can't help but identify with him and his constant defiant tantrums.
Whatever you think gives you just cause to continue supporting him, my fear is that your support marks you all as sociopaths who likely use his bombastic intimidation and lawlessness in your own relationships--or maybe you feel someone is doing all that to you--and supporting trump is how you get even with the world. Whatever it is, surely there must be a way to address your grievances without destroying the whole world for whatever it is that has made you so angry that you refuse to see all the suffering he is causing and simply say "Enough".
I may look at comments but I'm unlikely to participate much. This venue is toxic. With this blog, I hope to make it a little less so. Y'all think and feel before you reply, if so inclined. I am ready for a meeting of the minds/hearts. I've shown you mine. Is there anything loving/constructive in any of you? Show us your jamb.
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