Boredinary (BORE-deh-nar-ee) Roots: boring and ordinary; What newsrooms are like with large segments of the US population are on vacation, in rehab, scouting other jobs, or calling in with the air conditioning flu. As I told you last Thursday, gold is going down.
If I seem a little bit distracted over the next couple of months, there’s a simple reason for it: I’ll be spending some extra time on eBay looking for the next tube type radio to repair for this coming winter DX season. DX is ham radioese for distant or distance. And in the winter, especially after the holidays when there’s little besides “formula” television offered in media, nothing beat a tube-type radio, a hot cup of cocoa, and a large low-band antenna set-up. On the 75-meter band (say from 3.
Look for the market to put on new records today. And I know that how? Well, Home Depot stock is smoking – and when their earnings hit, it was $1.21 a share in earnings. Hard to beat that in this [sucky] environment.
Down to the joys of summer, at least when the sweat dries off, around here. The humming birds were humming like the little guy to the right, the occasional piercing pain of sinuses acting up from a ton of mowing and such. And for those wondering, the June bugs were starting to decline in number down at the hangar where our old airplane is still being held hostage by paperwork with the FAA. Several people wanted to know, however, if putting down $30+ worth of peppermint oil would actually repel the June bugs. I don’t know about other varieties of June bugs, but the ones in our area don’t seem to care about a) peppermint oil, rosemary oil, garlic, or that $25 “ultrasonic pest repeller.
Denver and San Francisco were the hottest of the Hot in this morning’s S&P Housing report just out: New York, April 28, 2015 – S&P Dow Jones Indices today released the latest results for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices. Data released for February 2015 show that home prices continued their rise across the country over the last 12 months.
The conspiracy mindset is fascinating. In that many things in world seem to happen “by chance.” But there are limits to coincidence. One of our readers up in the PNW has been on the lookout for a major west coast quake, as have I. But for different reasons, perhaps.
First things first: The latest Consumer Prices report is hot off the wire from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent in March on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S.
But first, an off topic remark or three… My consigliore, just back from a hard week of skiing in Montana, bashed me good on the phone yesterday by pointing out that a major decline of exports doesn’t necessarily mean collapse of the GDP…and he was a) better rested, b) more caffeinated, and c) right. After we kicked around the likely date for the Big West Coast earthquake I dreamed about back in January, he let on that in his scans of the net, there’s been an uptick in tsunami talk. Showing up in prophecy and dream boards and worth noting. And you do know what happens Saturday, right? 109th anniversary of the major quake in 1906 that devastated the city by the bay.
First: I won’t dignify the candidate’s run for the White House by repeating her name. From here to the end of primary season, I’ll refer only to “She of whom we don’t speak.” [SOWWDS} If SOWWDS wants an ad. she can buy it.
Resurrection and Drought for breakfast this morning: We first covered the coming California Drought/Panic (and potential Diaspora) back in January of 2014 for our Peoplenomics.com™ subscribers. What I like to do with Peoplenomics™ (much more so than UrbanSurvival) is look into the future –toward where the data has been pointing – and project what that future will be like when it shows up. So fifteen months ago, we were considering how the federal protections of frogs and such would lower reservoirs and how the rains had not come, nor would any be expected.
Elaine and I had a wonderful weekend up in Oklahoma – long conversations comparing market and futuring outlooks, plus a good amount of time was spent on the subject of prepping. On the way back (somewhere over the Red River, I think it was), I made a note to discuss prepping as an important change in people’s outlooks compared to past Depressions. There wasn’t any prepper movement in the 1928-1930 period, at least in a large enough sense to have been lumped as a “movement” and carved into the history book. This time around, prepping is huge. The numbers are pretty impressive.
Elaine work up in a kind of Yogi Berra mood this morning. There’s nothing like a discussion at 4 AM about the boundaries of intention to kick-off Monday. On her side of the ledger, the science is pretty obvious: She figures that when people are born, they are like fresh sheets of paper – blank – and ready for imprinting. The “printers” are the parents, schooling, expectation-setting, and social context – all of which turns the blank-pieces of humans into nice, malleable republicans and democrats and keeps most people coloring inside the lines.
If you’re reading this morning’s column, I assume you forgot to call in sick and fly your Gulfstream up to Greenland for the eclipse today. Just a guess, mind, you. Got to love the headlines about it, though. Not to burst your bubble, or anything, when when you read headlines like “Total solar eclipse provides a spectacular celestial show” don’t get too worked up. Around here, when we see stories like this, we take an East Texas Outback kind of practical approach, which includes laughing our butts off at live coverage of darkness on television.