Yesteryear
One year ago today: July 1, 2015, early housing searches, almost comical now.
Five years ago today: July 1, 2011, $90,00 gone in 4 months.
Nine years ago today: July 1, 2007, sucker diet plans.
Random years ago today: July 1, 2012, yeah, but it ain’t Colorado.
MORNING
Back in Broward county, watching silver react to the Brit vote to split the Union. Their newspapers are the model for our out Liberal press, always taking the side they believe makes themselves stink a little less. It seems 17 million voted to leave, but the BBC and clones have been running the presses overtime to mention that 16 million voted to remain and “it’s not right” that so “many voters” get “ignored”. Duh.
Today the article was about Trump saying Hillary’s soft on immigration. Politifact states Trump must be a liar because Hillary has stated that she would address the illegals in her first hundred days in office. Well, there you go, Hillary is going to address the thing.
Address? No details if she will solve the problem or confront the illegals, only that she will “address” things. Therefore, concludes the Herald, when Trump says she’ll throw open the borders (the more people on welfare, the more votes for Hillary), why, he must be lying.
Isn’t it great to be back out on the coast? Where you get exposed to these big issues and forget you cannot afford a house, find a job, or let your kids play in the city parks. Not that these things cease to exist when I leave, but you aren’t bombarded by them out in the country. It was more fun to watch silver climbing toward $20 per ounce this morning—and to do so for the third time in a row without the daily NYMEX pullback.
And speaking of newspapers, was nine years ago plus a day my toothpicks were last featured in newsprint. Hey, that’s still one time more than most people ever get if you discount their obit.
The Bernina Express
NOON
It’s another nothing day so far, except for feeding the birds. Let me read the newspaper. It says here two Brazilian models in Miami felt pressured to pose nude and lewd. Gosh, what is female modeling coming to? A Palestinian terrorist stabbed a sleeping Israeli girl to death. Solution—let that terrorist immigrate to America, provided he moves next door to a Liberal. The driver of a Tesla set his car on autopilot and promptly killed himself by broadsiding a tractor-trailer painted the same color as the sky. The truck driver says he clearly heard the occupant of the Tesla listening to a Harry Potter video. Tesla says that is impossible in their cars. Somebody is a lying bastard and it is usually the party with something to lose. I'm just sayin'.
This photo makes you wonder what Carter has up his ass. His brain maybe? It’s the right size, the armed forces say, and they are excellent judges of that factor.
And how about the civilian bomb squad members who got overpaid something like $173,000 apiece. The Pentagon says now they don’t have to pay it back after one committed suicide. The punch line is the spokesman who said the members didn’t know they were getting overpaid. Eric Badger has just told the American public how stupid he thinks they are. Besides, what in hell do we have civilian bomb squads for any way? It’s that the army’s business? Or are they too busy attending military balls?
For those who doubt the degree of government intrusion into daily life, look at the cop who was charged with having child porn on his iPhone. Somebody at the government office “decided” she was too young to have her picture taken. The charges were dropped, but still, the policeman’s career is ruined. All were pictures of his girlfriend. It turns out she was 31 years old and apparently was not charged for “appearing to be” underage in the photos, which believe it or not, is a federal crime. But only if you are the man.
AFTERNOON
Florida and real estate. We have another mini-bubble happening. It is not an economic recovery, it is not Florida’s improving business sector. It is tinkering with supply and demand. Like Canada, if you ignore the plight of your own and keep bringing in immigrants, of course the economy thinks there is a boom. The graphs show demand increasing whether it is desperate locals or an increase in mouths to feed. I’m out of that loop now that I have a place, but I’ll still be watching out. For political shrapnel, economic fallout, and that sort of thing.
*[Author's note: I say "suppressed" metaphorically. The press does report on this, but always in couched terms. It is a fact rarely stated directly, rather usually an oblique sideline deep in some other article with a misleading title. A title like, "Long Term Residents Forced Out." The bottom line is that unless you bring with you enough money to buy a place to live, you are unlikely to make enough in Florida after you arrive. That partially explains the huge numbers of retirees.]
There is no miracle about it. The state is floating on the accumulated wealth of newcomers, or one might more accurately say “oldcomers”. If there is any specialized manufacturing going on, I’ve not seen it. Just cement plants and orange juice factories, all small scale. House prices are rising in an environment of real depression at most levels. And people are on to the government lies. Even clueless citizens have very long memories. When prices rise faster than wages, the all-critical first time buyers are squeezed out of the market. I know from personal experience.
If there is immediate danger, it is once more in the condo market. I remain of the opinion only an idiot would buy a condo. The authorities say the next crisis won’t be another bloodbath. Well, it doesn’t have to be, you see, this time the entire infrastructure is a weakling compared to 2008. If South American drug money stopped buying Florida real estate for even a month, we’d see the true nature of the invisible hand.
To me, even the formulas of what constitutes an “affordable” house are a sick joke. Only gullible fools would think something for 3% down and 30 years of payments is “affordable”. Nor would I feel any special sympathy later for anyone who does such a thing. And just you wait to see what inflation is about to do with the real values. Of course, none of this will affect me much. I’m off the market. (But plans for another house are already underway.)
Air Force Research Laboratory: Peace, 2007. While considering bombs that would cause enemy forces to sweat, fart, and have bad breath so horrid they could be sniffed out, our air force tried to make a “gay bomb”. This would make the enemy “irresistible” to each other. They got Ash Carter instead.
NIGHT
Nigel Farage, that’s the guy to watch. He’s the one putting boot-to-ass at the European Parliament or whatever they call their stagnant version of democracy. This guy is cool under fire, markedly the vitriolic rehearsed Libtard fire that is directed at any anti-establishment entity that speaks out. This guy may be familiar to you but it’s all new to me. I may even have remarked on him before, but until Donald Trump came along, I did not pay attention to politics. Actually, I still don’t. My interest ceases at making money under whatever regime exists at the time.
I’ll give one example, but there are thousands. The anti-Union advocates say Britain sends hundreds of millions of pounds per week to the union, the pro-Union people say so what, they get more than half of it back. It’s easy to see where I stand on that. Even if it does come back, will it always come back? Once it leaves, England loses control of the funds, if only momentarily. I’ve traveled enough in Canada to know where that situation leads—even if the money comes back, it is much heavier due to attached conditions that were not part of the deal.
The point is, one supposes, that no matter what arguments the pro-Union media puts forth, they are picking at the edges. You can’t fool all of the people all of the time and the general feeling appears to be that the whole European arrangement stinks. It won’t be long before the Liberals start calling the separatists racists and bigots, we’ve heard it all before. This time, the Germans are ready for it.
I have no personal love of England, nor most of its backward customs and concepts of heredity. Yet I do feel that love of country is a valid reason to disobey bad laws, to dislike certain brands of foreigners, and to resist pressures to act differently than what the individual feels is natural in most situations. (There are laws for when they are wrong.) Not wanting to change to be like other people is not, in my books, automatically racist. Nor do I think the majority of persons who are branded as bigots are blind to the facts. For that matter, I find most of them have very substantial reasons for thinking as they do. Why should they change to be like others when it is them that moved here?
Then again, I could just be concerned with how the Brexit movement affects silver prices. It nearly broke $20 today and shows no signs of the usual bank fiddling. For several days the lines move steadily upward at a (fairly) constant slope, so this is no spike or panic. Please let this be the long-awaited surge that quashes the entire “baby boomer” housing and credit façade. They skimped by in 2010-2011, but that required a totally corrupt government. This time, Trump won’t do it because it is not a good business deal.
As for the semi-retarded who scream that under Trump prices will go up? Good. It is just the economy returning to where it should be. Who cares a twit about the prices of the consumer junk the experts use for the indexes? Riding lawnmowers and imported phones are toys, not the cornerstone of the industrial base. Maybe the country needs to re-enter the age when we had the newest and best factories in the world, before government interference chased them overseas.
ADDENDUM
Time to ponder the future of the blog. You’re aware I have access to the statistics behind the scenes and these are closely guarded. I’m more interested in trends than numbers yet you’ll hear me squawk if numbers are too low or if I see any view gaps. That’s a time of day where nobody in the world is reading my blog. My stats only go back ten years. For the first time in that stretch, today there were two such gaps where for an entire hour, nobody was there.
This always provokes a review of blog fundamentals. Add-ons like my “Yesteryear” and “Ig Nobel” links are, time-wise, rather expensive. I like to consider the links to be of first quality but because other blogs use them indiscriminately each such feature is less effective at attracting readers--the old law of diminishing returns. I don’t write for the masses, but I would still like the numbers to be large enough to one day make me rich and famous.
As far as that goes, the blog is self-evolving and doesn’t require the same motives I see everywhere. You don’t see any ads here, or pop-ups. Quality literature doesn’t need those. But if the addition of special features does not enhance readership, my natural conclusion is that my core readership has not changed in years and they are indifferent to "super-posts" like the work of art blog entry you just read here today.
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