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Ask yourself, “Why the hell are they going hammers to hell now, to restore the US Economy? Because it was effin UNRESTORED since 1975 and it went too far.

A very long time ago I made a post about the unemployment. Even if we had ZERO unemployment, if most people are under paid for higher expenses, and barely getting by, and can’t piss away money, its the same as a 10% unemployment rate.

Look at all the empty store fronts. Food stamps. Even the Gov’t is under paid ($20 trillion shortfall) because of low wages. Minimum wage today to copy 1967’s $1.40/hr would require $26/hr today for the same purchasing power. And the average national wages today is $26.90 they said.

I know what you all are thinking. What the business media tells you. We can’t pay a burger flipper $26/hr. Well, yesterday I emptied my mailbox. Everything in it was garbage circulars. I put it all right in with my kitchen garbage, and told Mrs. Copper……

“Do you believe, they just paid a GROWN man about $40-$50/hr with benefits? to deliver GARBAGE to my house. A burger flipper job is a lot harder. BUT, the difference, the mail man is paid by the Gov’t, us, and the burger flipper is paid by a private sector business man who doesn’t want to pay you anything. If for example most people were OVER paid, and combined with an unemployment rate of 10%, the “economy” would not “notice” it

Now the funny part. We all hate Nancy Pelosi, but look what she said…..

Parts of story:

The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index rose 2.4 points in May, reaching 128 — for the highest reading in more than 17 years, (me now, only 2001, what was it 1960 1000?) she claimed low unemployment numbers reported earlier “mean little” to the American people.

People say, ‘Oh my goodness, … people are saying the unemployment rate is down, why isn’t my purchasing power increasing?” Pelosi said. “So, this isn’t just about the unemployment rate, it’s about wages rising in our country, so that consumer confidence is restored.”

Story with video:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/08/pelosi-scoffs-at-strong-us-consumer-confidence-figures.html

VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s right-wing government plans to shut seven mosques and could expel dozens of imams in what it said was “just the beginning” of a push against radical Islam and foreign funding of religious groups that Turkey condemned as racist.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-austria-politics-islam/austria-to-shut-down-mosques-expel-foreign-funded-imams-idUSKCN1J40X1

Swiss Government Pension Fund To Buy Gold Bars Worth Some USD 600 Million

The Swiss government pension fund, Switzerland’s AHV/AVS fund, has decided to diversify into physical gold bars in their substantial CHF35.2bn (€30.5bn) pension portfolio.

At the end of last week the first pillar buffer fund tendered a custodianship and storage for CHF 700m (EUR 600m / USD 700m / GBP 525m) in gold bars via IPE Quest.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-07/swiss-government-pension-fund-buy-gold-bars-worth-some-usd-600-million

He’ll be missed. Very unexpected!

Longtime former director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, James A. Wolfe, was indicted and arrested Thursday night on charges of giving false statements to FBI agents in 2017 about repeated contacts with three reporters, according to the Washington Examiner.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-07/top-senate-intel-staffer-arrested-leak-probe-nyt-journos-records-seized

We watch him on TV often. They say their has been a 30% increase in suicide. No surprise to me at all. I remember the 1950s, 60s and part of the ’70s, everybody was happy. Then when they started globalization I knew it was very bad. For paychecks.

I watched it all unfold. What a shame, 43 years so far down hill on entry level private sector wages, that held down most other wages. Finally they unleashed Trump. Anthony may have been having money problems, or he was on antidepressants and suicide is a side effect. Or both. Look at all the school shootings by suicidals’.

Friggin bummer.

Donald Trump ‘tired of Theresa May’s school mistress tone’ and will not hold talks with her at G7

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/07/donald-trump-tired-theresa-mays-school-mistress-tone-may-turn/

Italian rates are still blowing out. 10 yrs are > 3 % at 3.03, the 10 yr spread on Bunds is out another 6 % tdy. Who would lend to Italy at less than 10 % for 10 years…not me for sure.

Meanwhile the Donald is threatening to tell everyone at the G7 to rotate, he is apparently leaving early, so he can miss the climate talks.

So it looks like the globalists are throwing a hissy and letting the SM’s crater…which may or may not be very significant…are the globalists the scum, I think they may well be ?????

…from my front yard.

Silver Bullet. The Santa Fe ‘San Diegan’
departs north to LA.
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/659680/

it’s my understanding that lava often weathers out into pretty good, fertile  soil because it has a little of everything.  the weathering out isn’t a fast process, it takes half a brazillion years.

About the only thing you can ‘mine’ out of lava is semi-precious OLIVINE crystals… a light green quartz type crystal.  Don’t ask me the chemical reaction, but it’s one of the first things to crystallize out of hot lava under certain cooling conditions.  I’ve seen lots and lots of lava rock with embedded olivine crystals.

Some of the first sailors to ‘discover’ Hawaii at Honolulu Harbor found an old shoreline crater rim full of crystals and thought they were rich!  They named the place “Diamond Head”.  Today it is a landmark next to Waikiki Beach.

You mean ‘ I can’t mine lava for some gold nuggets ?????? ‘    lol

I spent a career getting ‘Live TV’ out of strange places, usually VIA Satellite.   Now with the tech revolution, my career became obsolete and I was put out to pasture.   Now I watch a local girl reporter go out on a boat, offshore of the lava, and do Live TV from out in the middle of nowhere on the ocean.   They use a backpack computer with broadband modems that connect to local cell sites and digitally hack a HDTV signal back to the station via a several broadband internet connections all knit together.   My communications engineering skills have reverted to a ham radio hobby now.   But I’m happy to have survived this far.

Were you here yet in ’83 when Kalapana was eaten by lava?  Same kind of feeling.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-07/argentina-secures-50-billion-in-imf-backing-to-bolster-economy

Courtesy USGS.

The count is up over 500 homes lost now.  A friend sent me a scare story about how FEMA rounded up all these people in a “Mandatory Evacuation”, put them on buses and cattle cars, and is holding them in an undisclosed FEMA pen somewhere here.

PURE BS!  FEMA application for aid was made only yesterday after we surpassed the threshold of 173 homes destroyed.  People fled on their own.  Local county “Mandatory Evacuation” means first responders will NOT be coming to get you and endangering themselves if you get in trouble.  There are some farm residents in the area that live off-grid and chose not to leave, even though they are cut off from land access… but they are not immediately threatened by lava.   Hardy, self-reliant homesteaders.

Lava is molten magma from the earth’s mantle.  It is a rich mix of almost everything.  On the older, ancient islands here it decomposes into a rich, red, clay type of soil much like ‘Georgia Clay’.

Other types of rocks on the continent are classed as ‘metamorphic’ rocks… those which have undergone geologic change due to extreme pressure, or solvent actions of water, or sedimentary… or… well there are lots of different types of rocks.  Most have undergone some kind of metamorphosis in their composition due to external conditions.

Lava is pure mantle ooze… the primordial ‘soup’ that the planet is made of.

I pass every one of those tests!  LOL!

Yes, I grew up in Wisconsin.  And now people ask why I live on a Volcano.   Well…. DUH!  🙂

If interested, here is a pretty interesting report from Jim Willie.

No coughing, snorting, or shouting!

Here’s a link:

Sister in law brought this up. Jeff Foxworthy on Wisconsin.

If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 38 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you’re proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Park Falls is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Wisconsin

If you have ever refused to buy something because it’s “too spendy”, you might live in Wisconsin.

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of Head Cheese, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time,
you might live in Wisconsin.

If you have either a pet or a child named “Brett,”
you might l ive in Wisconsin.

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you know how to say Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Menomonie & Manitowoc, you might live in Wisconsin.

If every time you see moonlight on a lake, you think of a dancing bear, and you sing gently, “From the land of sky-blue waters”,….you might live in Wisconsin.

Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the Highway.

“Vacation” means going up north past Hwy 8 for the weekend.

You measure distance in hours.

You know several people who have hit deer more than once.

You often switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day and back again.

Your whole family wears Packer Green to church on Sunday.

You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow durin g a raging
blizzard, without flinching.

You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including
weddings and funerals ).

You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

You think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison.

You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend
knows how to use them.

There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill’s Fleet Farm at any given time.

You design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled
with snow.

You refer to the Packers as “we.”

You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.

You can identify a southern or eastern accent.

You have no problem pronouncing L ac Du Flambeau.

You consider Minneapolis exotic.

You know how to polka.

Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to
your blue spruce.

You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

Down South to you means Illinois.

A brat is something you eat.

Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.

You go out to fish fry every Friday

Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

You find minus twenty degrees “a little chilly.”