I\U.S. inflation running at the fastest pace in 17 years

[mtmynd]

Some more news from the media :

Consumer prices shot up in July
Inflation running at the fastest pace in 17 years

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26195964/

So I take note of this '17 years' and go back to 1991. Guess who was President 17 years ago? George Bush! What a stinking legacy... the burning bushes.

[stilltrucking]

jitterbug
tells me it is good to have someone to blame

the oceans are dying
missles to poland
so much good news

everything on time on schedule

[mtmynd]

i have it on good authority that jitterbug is right - it is good to have someone/something to blame. but it becomes problematic when blame shift sides away from our own ineptness.

"everything on time on schedule"

... and everything's perfect as it is.

((back to work. TY))

[stilltrucking]

"Everything is on time on schedule."

That is a line from Buffalo Bill Carson


Thinking about the great sweep of time from when first woman dug the earth with a stick and grew her first crops.

How it has become a run away train.

We talk about culture like it is going to the art museum. But most of what culture is about is technology.

I tried to talk about culture big C Culture and little c culture with e_dog once and he told me to fuk off.

OH well, I guess the money is the last thing I worry about,

I was just thinking about the inflation in the size of the dead zones in the oceans the past fifty or sixty years.
Due to the run off from the feritlizers that get washed into streams and head out into the ocean causing great blooms of phytoplankton, that die and get eaten by bacteria which consume all the oxygen in the water. They say there is a sulfurous smell around those dead zones. I am reminded of the great die off of a couple hundred millon years ago when 90 percent of all life forms went extinct. But as you say there is a formlessness from which all forms arise.

No I don't sweat the inflation cecil. I remember WIP. The war against inflation? I think that was after the war on proverty but before the war against the cows.

Thinking about Weimar when people would take a wheel barrell of money to buy a loaf of bread.

I think about ronnie and his child, thinking about your greatgrandchildren

Somehow as bad as it is, I got to believe that we will muck on through somehow.

Sorry about the ramble
nothing to do with inflation
I am pretty stupid about money Cecil.

[stilltrucking]

5.6 percent inflation rate for 2008
It was 14 percent or better under Carter in 1980
all through his term and nixon's it was double digit inflation.

for what it is worth.

"How much is that doggie in the window?"

[stilltrucking]

WASHINGTON - Wholesale inflation surged in July, leaving prices for the past year rising at the fastest pace in 27 years, according to government data released Tuesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080819/ap_ ... fi/economy

[hester_prynne]

Inflation?
Perhaps a big loud universal fart is the needed remedy.
Deflation!
Don't buy it if you can't pay cash for it...don't buy it if you don't need it, change comes from the bottom up and we here at the bottom got a quit supporting the delusions that the top sells us.
I've been going for 3 4 and even 5 days without buying anything.
It's a gas!!!!!!! And I mean that...I mean, I feel really good about it...it's kind of like detoxing...consumer detoxing!!!!!!
H

[stilltrucking]

Bust the mythos of homo economicus

[stilltrucking]

"poverty wears middle class clothes"

watching Bill Moyers last night
talking about a food bank in Denver
the people who once brought in donations
are now on the other side of the building getting free food

I forgot the book's name
"things fall apart
when the center can not hold"

So is it any wonder why we must not dwell on these petty domestic issues when the international situation is so desperate?

Ask not what your country can do for you
ask what your country can do for South Ossetia
or Lower Berserkistan

[stilltrucking]

I go with out buying stuff
so I can go with out selling stuff
the less I have to buy
the less time I have to sell

I am a snake oil salesman
selling sweet dreams of happiness on a consumer shopping network
not sure about this new side job I got going
is it right Livelihood?
I may have to go back to selling adult diapers.


'Buy the truth and never sell it" I heard an old time quaker with the big hat say that in a Meeting many years ago, cogitated on that many times.


One of things I admire about Cecil is how he earns his livelihood.
You too hester.

I worry you might drive yourself too hard in your new j oh bee.
I hope you find some singing gigs to help you chillax.
baby it's getting cold out there
sounds like you going to be plenty busy with social services.