Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Europe Says "Bang Bang!" -- Trump Continues to Rearrange Deck Chairs on the Titanic -- The Poor are Smoking More--



Gun ownership is rising across Europe, a continent that until recently faced far less gun crime and violence than much of the globe. Not long ago it was rare to see armed British police.
WSJ

There was a young person in Spain
who wanted a gun to obtain.
Said she: Caballeros 
will scatter like sparrows
when my weapon starts to explain.

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President Trump will address the nation on Tuesday night and travel on Thursday to the U.S.-Mexico border to press his case for a wall there, amid a partisan funding impasse over the issue that has kept the government partially shut down into a third week.
LATimes
If I were in Trump's shoes today
I think that I'd like just to say:
Instead of dividers
let's welcome outsiders
to make our economy pay.

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For starters, the people living in neighborhoods with higher smoking rates tended to make less money than people in neighborhoods with lower smoking rates. The researchers calculated that a $10,000 increase in a census tract’s median household income corresponded with a 0.92 percentage-point decrease in smoking prevalence.
LATimes

Tobacco makes paupers of folk,
the more that they inhale the smoke.
You're much better off
without that old cough,
and finances that aren't a joke.


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