What's Worse Or Better In The News With Birding, Mexico's Economy, And Social Secuity Benefit Judges

    Increasingly, birdwatchers are using apps on their iphones, sometimes with portable speakers, that have recorded bird calls to try to get birds to call back and come closer. Pishing -calling birds by mouth- has long been an accepted practice by birders. However, pishing is a skill while turning on your apps is difficult only for technophobes. Now the woods could be resonating with the songs of smart phones. Birders are encountering people who are using their birdsong apps very loudly and incessantly. Words are flying between the two parties. The National Park Service forbids the use of bird apps on its lands. Evidence of the apps causing any problems for the birds themselves is sketchy. A Princeton University ornithologist did find that the spirited wren simply ignored after a while an app that generated wren calls.
  We became admirers of Mexican president Enrique Nieto when recommended more freedom and competition into Mexico's economy. Now we learn that over two million jobs have been introduced since 2010. Some believe Mexico's flood of illegal immigrants to the U.S. may soon cease. With Obama, one wonders if there will be a reverse flow into Mexico, and if the Mexican government would be world-class hypocrites by trying to stop the immigration.
   There are 1,500 administrative law judges who make the final decision on appealed social security disability benefits in America. These judges have just had their "complete individual independence" provision yanked by Social Security officials. The provision now reads "subject to the supervision and management of social security officials." This is an immense power grab by the Social Security bureaucrats over these formerly independent judges.
    Social Security Disability has around seven million recipients and is projected to run out of money from its trust fund in 2016. That means it will be sooner than that. This could result in reduced payments. Last year, 53 percent of the applicants were approved. Yet dozens of judges awarded benefits to 90 percent of applicants.
    These commentaries are based upon news from the Wall Street Journal, America's most trustworthy national newspaper.
    Peter Nickerson. Neither a Republican nor a Democrat but an Evidentist.
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