Thank you for smoking

I smoke cigarettes. I have smoked for decades. I enjoy smoking. As the saying goes, "too old to care & to addicted to quit." I smoke in my house, my car, my back yard, my front yard, anywhere that if it is legal to smoke, I smoke.
I try not to smoke around non smokers in public. i.e. the streets or outdoor events. If I do smoke at these events, I find a open area & I do not blow smoke in the direction of nonsmokers. This is done out of a sense of civility, not out of concern for the supposed effects of "second hand smoke." I am smoking now, even as I type this blog. It is so tasty. That said, on with the show

I stream via Netflex. Lately, I have been watching British cop shows such as "A touch of Frost", "Inspector Lewis" & my personal favorite, "Midsomer Murders." If you're unfamiliar with "Midsomer Murders", look it up on Wikipedia. 13 seasons & counting. It offers a great cast, plot lines & is intelligently written.
Recently, while watching an episode of season 11, I noticed that on a dark & chilly night, while a murder was about to be committed, a barmaid, witnessed the two antagonist (one was brandishing a firearm) having a heated argument.
These two people then walked off to a semi secluded space. A gun shot was heard off camera & one of the two ran off & was seen by another woman standing on the street corner. The commonality of the witnesses is that they were both outside, enjoying a cigarette. Both witnesses provided essential information & were instrumental in helping the "coppers" solve the crime.

My hypothesis, is the logical assumption that smokers have now become crime fighters. You can have your "Batman" your "Kojack" your "Dick Tracy"
& the countless others involved in crime solving. Without us, the average
smoker, outside in all kinds of weather, crime would be running rampant.
So the next time all you nonsmokers see us enjoying our addiction, don't condemn us. Lighten up & light up. The next crime solved could involve you. Smokers unite & ignite. Lets help keep the world a safer place.

Reform this you government peculators

The Social Security System is not broke. It has never been broke. It will never be broke. Let me qualify that last statement.

Since the 1980's our beloved federal government has been stealing the SSS surpluses to pay for other programs that strike their fancy. Presidents Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II & now Obama have perpetrated this thievery on the American public. Where do you think the money comes from to pay for the Wall Street & auto makers bailout? How about the Iraq & Afghanistan wars? Both political parties are equally guilty. They have pissed away this money.

All surplus revenues, which by the way are paid for with with your earmarked tax dollars collected from you payroll tax (FICA) were going into a special Social Security trust fund at the U.S. Treasury. In the fund is Treasury IOUs for the spent revenues. When the “trust funds” are needed to pay Social Security benefits, the Treasury will have to sell more debt in order to redeem the IOUs. These T Bills, which the public "purchases" offer some of the lowest interest rate on the planet.

Social Security now "owns" nearly 18 percent of the federal debt, making it the largest single holder of US debt. The government owes almost twice as much to Social Security as it does to China.

Through the decades, the Feds have "borrowed" trillions of dollars from Social Security. Last count was 2.5 trillion & climbing. When the US decides to default on money owed to Social Security, which they will because they can, the public who have worked their entire lives will be left out in the cold without so much a blanket to keep warm. That blanket was supposed to be Social Security.