3/10 % Raise On Social Security That's ridculous

This % percent symbol all by itself it stands for 1/100.
.3% can be written in two more ways either as .3/100 meaning 3/10 divided by 100 or even as 3/10 /100 still 3/10 divided by 100.

 To divide 3/10 by 100  we must first invert the right side to 1/100 then multiply.
                             3/10 x 1/100 = 3/1000

To figure out how much extra a person would get, all he/she have to do is first multiply what she/he gets now by 3 and divide that result by 1000.

Let's put this in perspective suppose we actually get a 3% raise which of course is 3/100 and suppose we get $900 a month now. When we multiply 900 by 3  and divide that result by 100 we get $27 extra when added to the 900 we get $927.total.

However it is not 3% (3/100) raise but .3% (3/1000)  so it will be 10% less. ,Multiply 900 by 3 and divide that result by 1000 and we get $2.70 extra or $ 902.70 total. When we round that off it should be $903 but if I know them they will probably drop the .70 and round that figure to $902.

   What are they doing with our money?
   
 Again multiply the amount you get now by 3 and divide that result by 1000 that's how much extra money you'll be getting.
 In the make shift formula below X is the amount you're making now. The * means to multiply this symbol is used so it won't be confuse with the unknown X.
                                  (3 * X)/1000.

                                      

The Country Music Lady From Japan

About 10 years ago one of my friends purchase a album titled "The Country Lady From Japan" for about $3 at a Goodwill store. I had checked the internet and found that the album was rare and back then it was worth $60.So I am guessing it is worth a lot more now. However, why purchase the album when you can hear all of Tokyo Matsu's songs on youtube anyway.

But hold on, what if the album  was personally autographed by Tokyo Matsu herself. There we go; That would definitely make the value of the album sky rocket.I have no idea how much but there may be some rich person that may want it, after the autograph has been authenticated.

Yes, one can go to a pawn shop. What they'll do is quote a price that is 1/4 of its actual value and then let you talk them into 1/2 what the actual value is, making you feel like you have won: 
                                 "It's a deal" 

Below are two videos one is the full album of "The Country Lady From Japan" Toyko Matsu and second one a live performance.from the UK in 1984.
    click here The Country Lady From Japan

    click here for Toyko Matsu's Live Performance

                                                          (finis)

Unusual Stories In the Comic Book World

In the 1960's president John F. Kennedy ask National Periodical Publications now known as DC (Detective Comics) to publish a Superman story to promote physical fitness.  On the main cover readers were challenge to guess who will wind up playing Clark Kent's identity  near the end of the story, since both Superman and Clark kent had to appear at the same time.It turn out it was JFK himself who took over Clark Kent's identity.

.In a Jimmy Olsen issue there was a story were Jimmy somehow went back in time and he recorded everything in the past with a film movie camera. What was unusual about the story Jimmy was on his own without any help from Superman or Supergirl. When Jimmy got back to the present he opened his film can reels and the films crumbled to dust.

There was another story in a Superman issue where he did save people with his powers but no where in the story did he change into his Superman identity.

In a issue of Detective Comics one story was just about Batman's butler  Alfred Pennyworth and like Jimmy Olsen I mentioned earlier Alfred was on his own. No help from Batman and Robin.By the way Robin the boy wonder was named after Robin Hood and not the bird which explains the similar outfits.

In another Batman story "Robin Dies At Dawn"  Batman was driving towards a serve thunderstorm and somehow winds up on an alien planet but he did not realize he also traveled into a parallel universe and it was that Robin who died and not the Robin on his earth. Well, that's a lot better than the soap opera cop out:  Batman dreamt the whole thing. :)  
  Click here to see Cover "Robin Dies At Dawn"

In a Superboy story Superboy saves an alien girl who has a power to read minds as she read Superboy's mind it seem to her that he did not have any respect for women drivers or other things they do. The alien girl change Superboy into a girl until he learns to respect and appreciate women. Superboy went through most of the story as Claire Kent. (end)

German Twins And The Busher's Boy.

This is sometime before the identical  German twins Allison and Heidi had to head back to their own country.

One Sunday (1963) it was nice out except my toxic uncle had to  come to visit and ruin it all. Forcing me to sit on the couch to watch a ballgame .It was nice out. I wanted to go outside to play, go to the park and ride my bicycle. I did not want to watch stupid ballgames all day long.The only program I wanted to watch on that day was "Dennis The Menace"  which would have come on at 7 PM EDT.

Finally it was a little after  7 PM and "Dennis The Menace" was join in progress during this time my mom ask me to take out the trash  After I put the trash in the barrel  I heard bushes shaking and  voices  behind the bush  going "GRRRRR !" . it turn out to be  the German twins (Allison and Heidi)  along with some of my other classmates from the fifth grade pretending to be bears.

At that moment the beautiful German twins had "attacked" me  forcing me down to the ground and pinning me  making growling noises, smacking noises with their mouths and wagging their tongues  before they finally said "We got you, Stanley". Yes, I could force my way back up but I didn't want to

Now all of us were pretending to be bears running, chasing and "attacking" each other. I was even pinned down with some of my male friends  disappointed  they weren't girls it was all right though they were my friends. While playing with the German girls I did not care about "Dennis The Menace" any more nor any of the following weekly episodes. Something inside me had changed.

When I went back in the house (after 90 minutes )  my toxic uncle was still there and angrily asked " WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ? " I told him I was playing with the German girls.Now here we go Mr. toxic uncle is now also  Mr. Bigot and started to talked about  the world wars during which  he forbade me to play with them  . Of course I wasn't going to obey him he is just an idiot.My heart was on cloud 9, you all ! AND WAS HE EVER SORRY THAT I BARED MY FANGS ! Basically, I told him if he is going to bitch then go back home.

      Some days I wish that I  could freeze dry my toxic uncle and make him into a busher's boy.

 If you do not know what a busher's boy is:  It's a peeing statue or any other statue usually seen on sides of fountains.

 The law may have something to say about that; But if I did that to Aldoft Hilter no one would have really cared  not even most of the Germans and I doubt anyone would stop me. In fact today's Germany has anti-nazi   laws in place. All races are now welcome to their country. nazi doesn't deserve a capital 'N'

Now it is kind of strange having friends playing with me on Sunday usually we played after school during the weekdays maybe it was an act of God. 
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