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Friday, January 04, 2008

Happy New Year for 2008

Had a great start with this blog.
Added a few meaningful tweaks of my own...to perfect things you know.
Lost the bloody lot.
Sigh.
So please excuse the rather bare page, I hope to sort it out shortly. Either that, knowing my luck and skill, this is the last post!
Winter edition of the mag is out now, if you haven't seen a copy yet, then either be bloody patient, or you can read it on the net at: www.med-liv.com
As the most popular part of the mag seems to be the jokes, I've started pages on the website for all you pervs, racists and heathens out there. Take a look.
I say pages, there is on, but it's a start.
You can also sign up for a regular dose of funnies by email...just send an unstamped email to laughs@med-liv.com and mark the subject jokes.

This reminded me of my younger days,
A lonely wife brought a man she had just met at a bar home to her bedroom one evening when she thought her husband was out of town.
They immediately tore each other's clothes off and started going at it.
She sat up quickly in bed as she heard the key in the lock.
"Quick!" she said to the man, "it's my husband! You've got to get out of here quick!"
"Where's the back door?" the man asked as he grabbed his clothes.
"There isn't one," she replied.
"Where would you like one?" he asked.

Reuters came up with these facts, about the production of cocaine in Latin America, this week.

Of the money earned,

  • 2% goes to the growers.

0.7% goes to those who convert it from a leaf to pure cocaine;

5.2% goes on the “system” in the country of origin, the wholesalers if you like.

91%, goes to the drug barons, dealers and sellers.

So just 2.7% goes to the producers, those involved before the Mr Bigs of the drugs world get their filthy mitts on it.

Much of this 2.7% goes to feed the starving poor in Latin America, and many areas now rely on the growing of drugs as a source of income.
America spends a fortune fighting the drugs trade in South America.
I know it sounds simplistic, but wouldn’t money diverted to these poor countries to give a reasonable minimum wage encourage the growers to give up growing the illegal crops?


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