Mingo's Lingo

[the mingo]

Read this morning that the dollar is a "strong currency". Stopped into a grocery store earlier today. Had some of that "strong currency" in my pocket. I spent seven whole dollars of this "strong currency" and thirty two cents of an eighth dollar on two items. The items ? Two loaves of bread.
$7.32 = 2 loaves of bread
I burned about a gallon of gas traveling to the bread and then bringing it back home. Cost of a gallon of gas in my area (as of today) three dollars & seventy eight cents. I won't get into the esoteric here about the cost of wear & tear on the vehicle for this little trip. $3.78 = gallon of gas.
$7.32
+3.78 = $11.10 = 2 loaves of bread & a gallon of gas. To eat plain bread just cost me $11.10 of "strong currency" to meet not the frivolous but the unyielding demand of my stomach.

I did not have to read any reports or studies or analysis or listen to any talking monkey to confront this, "the face of economic realities in real-time". All I had to do was to get a bit hungry and walk out my front door & head for the nearest grocery store. At the cash register there were only cold hard facts, no bullshit allowed.

I tried hard but failed to find the humor here.

Walking across the parking lot back to the Jeep I had a vision of an economic reality in the form of a barrel of a gun held above a loaf of bread.

There is no humor when the vision is real enough to be frightening.

[judih]

conclusion:
store = location of dire poverty inducer
remove store from daily travels

buy much bread = keep in freezer = fool store!
or
buy flour = keep in freezer = make own bread!
or
no bread, no milk, no store

11 dollars for 2 loaves of bread = if you gave up bread for 16 loaves worth, you could buy Allen Ginsberg and Annie Leibovitz's photography books - oh how lovely

[the mingo]

[Steve Plonk]

Inflation, inflation, inflation...Stronger than some currencies, but the dollar
still has it's woes. Gas is a little cheaper here in Tennessee, and bread loaf
is cheaper--costs about a dollar and a half, less if on sale. Which state do you
live in? We also do not have very efficient public transportation here...Chattanooga has a bus line but no passenger trains. The bus line, as far as it goes, is good, but the bus doesn't serve areas of town, etc. it used to serve twenty years ago.

Certainly, Mingo, you hit the nail on the head. In 1967 dollars, our dollar is worth about a quarter of what it was in buying power. Oil has fueled the inflation since we are still dependent on Mid-East oil. We need to build cheaper
alternative fuel cars, etc. We have electric busses but they need to serve
more areas here. Do you have any public transportation where you are?

[the mingo]

I live in upstate New York, Steve. They have a bus line in town but it don't come out where I am. I'd still have to have a vehicle to get back & forth to work. The fuel bills this winter past were brutal. The animals eat better than I do. I don't know what the solutions are or may be. I don't think anyone realizes that it's not dissatisfied or even angry voters that will change things. It will be the desperate that will shake this shit to the ground if need be.

[the mingo]

Sorry about the mini rant Steve. It's just that the squeeze is on for millions of us and there seems sometimes no where to turn and nothing to do. I implied a faith in the desperate in my last post but it isn't true for the desperate will simply endure as they always have. I suppose if the desperate ever did break out there would be change alright but it does not mean for the better. There seems to be a lack of common sense across the board about anything. Maybe we never had that in the first place. The problems may go deep but I feel they all have one and the same source. The squeeze may be just a symptom on a journey to the discovery of an answer or better yet - hope.

[Doreen Peri]

My new hero... Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent, Vermont

[stilltrucking]

the fellaheen will survive.

Bread still 94 cents but something weird about it. Crumbly, the crust falls off, breaks in half when you fold it over.

maybe they are putting saw dust in it

Doreen if you get a chance to watch a documentary called Orwell is Spining in his Grave. The senator is interviewed extensively in it. He sounds good to me too.

[Doreen Peri]

I found it... Orwell Rolls in His Grave...

Watch full documentary here... I'm watching.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/orwell-r ... his-grave/

Thanks!

[the mingo]

Thx, doreen. The chickens have come home to roost. Thomas Jefferson where have you gone?

[stilltrucking]

Thomas who?

Texas Board f Education removes Thomas Jefferson from US History textbooks.

So they removed the Enlightenment references and Thomas Jefferson, who played a key role in the two most prominent revolutions in the history of the Western world, and replaced them with Thomas Aquinas, who lived 500 years before the Enlightenment, and John Calvin, who lived 200 years before the Enlightenment and was a major figure in an entirely different period of history, the Reformation, which preceded the Enlightenment.

Makes me proud to be from Texas where we don't need no stinking enlightenment

Do you ever read your children's text books?
We don't need no stinking deists here in Texas.

Thomas Jefferson No Longer Worthy of Study
The Texas State Board of Education has removed Thomas Jefferson from the history text books. Texas and California the largest buyers of text books, the other states pretty much have to buy the same books due to market forces. Thank God for California.

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[the mingo]

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
Thomas Jefferson

Maybe they are right to keep his influence to a minimum, Jack. His thought has the virtue of inflaming active minds and is detrimental & dangerous & deadly against tyranny in all its manifestations. If I had an agenda of control his name would be at the top of my list as among the first to minimize or even to reduce to zero his place in the history of this nation.

The enemies of the historical ideas upon which our nation is built have succeeded in stealing a presidential election from before the eyes of the American people and now they know that anything is possible for them. We have been sucked in chewed up and spit back out. I, for one, hope to be an item of chronic & acute indigestion to those whose appetites are pornographic in scope. To those who come to lie and steal not only from my fathers & grandfathers but from my children & grandchildren & their children I vow an eternal resilience in the face of the dangerous sleep they offer or wish to impose on everyone.

This kind of thing is just one more headless rooster come to dance across our chest as we lay momentarily stunned and flat on our backs, Jack, and you already know how I feel about that.

[stilltrucking]

We the fellaheen will survive

Combating the “system” is nonsense.
There is only one aim in life and that is to live it. The only thing for nonenslaved man to do is move out to the edge, lose contact with the machines of organization.
…Instead of knocking your head against a stone wall, sit quietly with hands folded and wait for the walls to crumble

Henry Miller aka “Ghandi with a penis”


headless roosters,

I thought about it the other day, but nothing to do with you, I was thinking about jimboloco, about a line I read in a poem

let my legacy be that I cared
with all my intensity, to do no harm.
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