May 8, 2004 in Madrid, Spain. Million Joint March (La Marcha del Millón de Porros en Madrid, Mayo 2004). See source.[9]. For more info and photos: [10][11][12].
10 Nov 2021: Senator Warren presses Biden on pardons for nonviolent cannabis convictions. Article: The letter cites the Democratic primary debate in November 2019, during which Biden laid out his views on marijuana reform. "Number one, I think we should decriminalize marijuana, period," Biden said at the time. "And I think everyone — anyone who has a record should be let out of jail, their records expunged, be completely zeroed out."
26 Oct 2021: Elon Musk Made $36 Billion on Monday but Republicans Don't Want to Tax Him.[52]. "Musk infamously paid $0 in federal income taxes in 2018. ... Musk’s tax bills in no way reflect the fortune he has at his disposal. In 2015, he paid $68,000 in federal income tax. In 2017, it was $65,000, ... Between 2014 and 2018, he had a true tax rate of 3.27%." 26 Oct: Unrealized capital gains tax: This is the plan Elon Musk and other billionaires don’t like. "Elon Musk, the richest man on earth with a net worth of $289 billion. As Gizmodo points out, Musk increased his net worth by $36 billion yesterday—all in one day. That’s $36 billion he is currently not taxed on, but would be under Biden’s new plan." 26 Oct: How to tax Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. "the 'income' that comes without having to break a sweat or get out of bed deserves to be taxed at least as much as the income most of us get by actually grinding it out on most days."
22 Oct 2021: Luxembourg set to legalize cannabis production, consumption.[55][56][57]. Excerpts: grow up to four plants per household, making it the first country in Europe to fully legalize the production and consumption of the drug. ... trading seeds would also be permitted ... possible to buy seeds in shops, to import them or to buy them online. ... government of liberals, social democrats and greens agreed in their coalition paper in 2018 ... [Note the lack of dumbass conservative parties!]
Minimum wage by US state and territory. Dark blue areas have a higher minimum wage than the federal rate ($7.25 per hour). For the other colors the federal rate applies. Except for "special minimum wage" that applies to 2 island territories. See source for more info.
Just like the drug war, another war sustained by lies, and massive wasteful spending.
23 Aug 2021: I served in Afghanistan as a US Marine, twice. Here’s the truth in two sentences. "The right call was getting out in 2002. 2003. ... We deserve better. Instead of politicians spending $6.4 trillion to 'nation build' in the Middle East, we should start nation building right here at home. ... When our country’s elites were preaching about how they had solved the financial crisis and the housing market was booming, I watched the house I joined the Marine Corps out of sit on the market for two years. My dad finally got $43,000 for it. He owed $78,000."
17 Aug 2021: Nearly Half of U.S. Adults Have Tried Marijuana. "The percentage of U.S. adults who say they have tried marijuana has ticked up to 49%, the highest Gallup has measured to date. More than 50 years ago, just 4% said they had tried the drug".
27 July 2021: Inside a KKK murder plot: Grab him up, take him to the river. The KKK owns law enforcement today in the Republican state of Florida. "Even though three current and former Florida prison guards were exposed as klansmen, the state’s Department of Corrections says it found no reason to investigate whether other white supremacists were employed in its prisons."
IrfanView. See Wikipedia: Irfanview. Free, popular, easy-to-use image viewer and editor. Install free plugin pack too. IrfanView Thumbnails is a great way to view folders with images in older versions of Windows that do not have Windows built-in thumbnail viewing of folders with images.
Open an image in IrfanView (with free plugin pack installed). Open paint dialog from the edit menu. Click on the text tool (3rd row down on the right). Then click in the image. From help: "The Text Tool adds formatted text to the image. The text cursor's cross-hair will be the baseline for the inserted text. The text will be left, right, or center aligned on the insertion point. When you click the text cursor on an image, the Insert Text dialog opens."
Type or paste in some text. Select some or all of the text. Play around with text font, size, bold, italics, etc. for the selected text. Do the same with the color. Be sure to click "OK" in the color box after choosing the color. Otherwise it will not be remembered. To see how it will look on the image click "hold to preview". If you like it, then click OK in the dialog box.
For more info open up help from the help menu. Then look for "paint" in the index. There is also a question mark in the paint dialog box. Toggle it for longer and shorter help tooltips.
This works best for areas with only one background color behind the text, logo, watermark, etc.. Open the image. Go to the edit menu, and then "show paint dialog". Click on the clone tool (2nd row down, right side).
Right click an area with the color you want to use. Then left click and drag over the stuff you want to remove. Repeat if problems. At the bottom of the paint dialog box you can set the width of the circle numerically in pixels. Or according to help: "Hold down the shift key, and scroll with the mouse-wheel to adjust the width of the clone brush.". A smaller diameter can help a lot in some situations. Open up help from the help menu. Then look for "paint" in the index, or "clone" in help search. There is also a question mark in the paint dialog box. Toggle it for longer and shorter help tooltips.
