It seems when I come home from a council session I have some sort of energy aurora that gets Gus all whacko. I come home from other meetings and so forth and get a normal over the top dog greeting but after a city council session I come home and he is just CRAZY WILD for about an hour. every time. odd.********************
I'm TRYING to not be so politically toxic on Facebook but GEEZ. The Wisconsin GOP failed to close the Dark Store Loophole that allows companies like Walgreens and Menards (the big loop holers) to file as much property tax as a closed empty store. This way the citizens of the community are forced to their property taxes and not the corporation.
Again - the GOP screws the citizens and communies to help big business.
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So I'm always looking for a way to make more money and there is a companycalled Canopy Growth, the largest cannabis publicly owned company in the world. They are based in Canada which will legalize cannabis later this year. This company has been working to secure all the infrastructure from farm to retail.
Last year they were selling at $5.08 a share, spiked to $33.87 and dropped back to a sustainable $25ish now. They have been acquiring all sorts of companies but are now bidding on some weird company, Alcaliber a Spanish morphine maker. WEIRD . . . . . .but then it seems their play is to use that company to enter markets around the world that are legalizing medical cannabis. These pharmaceutical companies also need cannabis to fight the opiate problems by getting people off opiates which cannabis does.
The worry is that Canada might have too much cannabis once it's legalized so they need to have an outlet to ship medical cannabis to other countries beating America to a free 10s of billions of dollars. The current estimate is Canada will bring in 4.2 to 6.2 billion per year.
HOWEVER - is this a wise move? Are they like a brewery that is doing great early but are getting over extended because of success? Maybe. I think I'll wait a bit because of this bidding war but man, these guys have the right idea. They are acquiring farms, distribution and retail for a business that is NOT getting smaller but growing amazingly fast.
In America legal cannabis sales are up 33% from 2016 to $9.7 billion. 29 states now are fine with medical cannabis (Wisconsin is not counted as one) and 9 states allow legal recreational cannabis with New Jersey ready to come online.
I doubt Wisconsin will do anything until the old school tea party anti citizen pro big business group get booted.
The estimate is that by 2026 the estimated size of the legal cannabis market will be near $50 BILLION. How can I reap some of those rewards . . . . legally.
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I listened to the school board thing last night and one candidate said our schools were good enough for him 50 years ago so why build new schools.
In my anecdotal research in the last 5 years a new school bring up grades because students (who are humans just like adults) are proud of their schools. Notice how many kids wear Columbus HS clothing. Being proud of where you work makes you work harder, it's how humans work. And if you are proud of your school you carry that your entire life.
It was also found that for some reason better schools also bring less crime in a community. Happy kids and all that. There is no real link but it seems to happen a LOT.
Plus if a kid has better grades and a school system has better grades there are better wages (this is a proven fact) and with better wages the city gets more business which brings more taxes into the tax bucket which lower or at least help property taxes.
The male candidate in question believes the problem is teachers and not buildings, says we need to be more strict and get rid of the bad students by placing them . . . .somewhere else?
I 100% disagree with him.
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OH - I wish our government had this kind of action
https://youtu.be/Sd0b32YuuGw
When you want to postpone a vote (snow mobile ordinance next year?? - one of the reason I'm not running - one more snow mobile meeting and I will shoot myself out of pity - OH - you think I'm kidding about my reason for not running) - just toss some tear gas.
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The amount of people visiting Breitbart last year was about 15 million. That has been cut in half and is now in the 7.2 million area. On that note I see I passed the 700,000 pages read at some point a few months ago. You guys must be bored losers or just monitoring me for indictments.
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Everybody talks about lead in water but there are still 37 million homes in the US covered with lead paint. DO NOT LICK YOUR HOUSE! (I stopped last year)
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Did you know that the first Star Wars toy came out 1 year AFTER the movie? In fact nobody wanted to make Star War action figures, too risky. A small company in Cincinnati took on the challenge and the contract called for them getting 95 cents for every dollar sold. SWEET DEAL!
In fact at Christmas they sold basically an empty box IOU. Buy the empty box and you were promised to be the first to get the toy. The empty box was a HUGE HUGE success.
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Speaking of the Republican Party - The number of people born between 1981 and 1996 (37 to 22 years old) who are registered as Republicans is 17%, down 10% from the previous 10 year group.
Gen Xers are leaving the party in droves going from 34% to 25% in the last 10 years.
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FACEBOOK - stop giving away your personal data. Here is what you HAVE TO DO - follow along with your phone or whatever
Click the 3 horizontal lines on lower the right side and scroll all the way down to the bottom where you fine
SETTINGS - click on it.
go all the way to the bottom again to fine APPS
Clicked on Logged in with Facebook and be amazed at all the apps
everyone of those will share your information - click on each app and scroll to the bottom and remove. The app is still on your phone but it will not share information with God only knows.
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I'm in a beer competition tonight with a "beer that is beer" London Porter. Nothing special from what I can tell. Doubt I will win. What can ya do ??? I guess I can drink it.
Sadly I will miss the candidate forum tonight. Vote TRAXLER, VOTE THEILAN
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