Thursday, July 07, 2016

7 July - Tweetlog Picks

. .Carbon levy

Trickle up is more stimulative + it saves lives. Stupidparty trickle down is deadly stupid http://buff.ly/28TaIoR 

‏@Aine

The average age of a minimum wage worker is 35. That is reality. http://bit.ly/1LdaFMN 

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Why the government keeps spoiling your online bargains:
Neil Macdonald
by keeping that purchase threshold at $20 instead of giving Canadian shoppers a break and raising it to $80, Ottawa spends about $166 million to collect $39 million in additional taxes and duties.

E-Cigarettes Keep Blowing Up In People’s Faces

E-cigarette users in several states, including New York, California, and Florida, are suing e-cigarette and vaporizer companies for devices' tendency to explode during use, spraying corrosive battery acid on users' skin and inside their mouths.

THINKPROGRESS.ORG|BY LAUREN C. WILLIAMS

CannaLifeNet ‏@CannaLifeNet Jun 27

Potential Canada Post Strike Reveals Flaws In Licensed Producer System #mmot #MMPR #canpoli #CanadaPost #cndpoli

Doug McVay ‏@dougmcvay Jun 23

RT @nationalpost: Toronto police raid 4 more marijuana dispensaries, 1 month after major citywide crackdown http://natpo.st/28Sa2Sa

#mmot

Guess how many people have tested positive in Michigan's drug-testing welfare program? Zero. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/27/1542917/-Guess-how-many-people-have-tested-positive-in-Michigan-s-drug-testing-welfare-program-Zero …

How about water testing

#StonerNation #StonerFam #PotheadPal #StonersCircle #MMOT & ALL #STONERS ~HappyHumpDazed~

S. W. N. ‏@Norstackk Jun 25

:>}_~#WAKEnBAKEn #StonerNation #StonerFam #PotheadPal #TeamKUSH #StonersCircle #MMOT &ALL #STONERS ~HappySaturdazed~

DCMJ ‏@DCMJ2014 6 hours ago

After Medical Marijuana Legalized, Medicare Prescriptions Drop For Many Drugs http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/07/06/484977159/after-medical-marijuana-legalized-medicare-prescriptions-drop-for-many-drugs …

Wonder how much DCgov has saved? #mmot

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Think Progress

4 hrs

These losses are a big deal for beekeepers, who collectively say that 18.7% is about the maximum amount of bees they can lose without serious economic impacts.

The U.S. Can’t Afford To Keep Losing Honeybees Like This

It's been another rough year for honeybees.

THINKPROGRESS.ORG|BY KATIE VALENTINE

The Jon Stewart Fan Page.

July 3 at 2:27pm

"A program like SNAP (food stamps) makes up less than four percent of our total budget. Meanwhile, we lose up to $500 billion annually to tax evasion, which is six times more than the entire SNAP program costs to help feed 45 million people (mostly children, the elderly and the disabled). You tell me what’s truly draining this country.” - Allen Clifton