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Wow! The Cowboys are playing like Champions after that Dolly Parton version Queen. That last interception run to the end zone was amazing. It was like, "Coach, we'll play harder, just don't make us watch Dolly Parton anymore!"
Why are we watching dinosaurs? Cher sang at the Macy's parade. Is the economy that bad? I know that M stock is down. But I didn't know that they were that broke, that they can't afford to pay for more modern entertainment.
One of these retail companies must be at a strong buy point. When they report after the holidays, the numbers will look better. Every retailer makes money during the end of the year.
Finally! The networks are catering to us old folks. Cher is the only female to have a top ten hit in six consecutive decades. And she will be a part of the tree lighting celebration in NYC. I doubt neither Cher or Dolly Parton work cheap.
Load up now on KR and ACI. They are merging. Which means that combined, they are really going to rip off the public. Not just lure me with fake discounts. These tricksters are going to bamboozle most of the people who have to buy groceries.
I keep looking at my groceries receipts and wondering if anyone is actually falling for those bogus sales and savings.
Notice how they are actually making money while other retail is going down.
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Totally different topic. If anyone ever ends up in an electric scooter or wheelchair, do NOT go into the yard of your local salvage yard as it is covered in gravel, and you WILL get stuck multiple times. Turns out the office to buy vehicles is not in the yard but a quarter of a mile further south. By the time I got back to my apt, my battery indicator was on its last red light, and I was sweating bullets. Good news is they bought the donor truck for $328. Since the shop is closed for the holidays, I set up a pickup time for Monday between 8am and noon. The Mellings high volume oil pump arrived yesterday, so I will take it to them and have it installed in my old engine. I can't afford the $1,300 they want for a low mile engine so I will just have them put my old one back in.
Jim Green from South Africa. Stitchdown construction like Pacific Northwest boots. Priced with South Africa Rand equaling 5.3¢. The exchange rate in our favor. We get to exploit another foreign economy. Because of the way they are handmade, these compare to US brands like Thorogood, at a fraction of the price.
I have family in South Africa. Allegedly, these are very popular. Only amongst the people who can afford them. As you can guess, that means the smallest percentage of the population who holds the largest percentage of the wealth. Of course it's not news that the wealth is also racially divided. Essentially, the poorest are the natives of the land. As is here, where natives still live on reservations.
Funny how that works out. And if gold is discovered on native land guess what happens? Even Sutter of Sutter's Mill fame didn't fair well after the gold rush. Nobody wanted to work for him when they could get rich panning for gold.
South Africa has quite the colorful history. Although circumstances there are different than what we have in The USA.
Here in The USA, the native people are a very small minority. Barely a few percentage points, if that. We can include natives of all 50 states. Alaska. Hawaii. Their economic impact and their votes are not likely to tip any scales.
South Africa's native population is the majority. Even though they individually have less, as a collective group, they have a large economic impact. Other races of people, by and large, make their money off the native population. The economy focuses around the native population. A "trickle out" economy. If you own a farm, your workers are black. If you own a store, your customers are black. If you own buildings, your renters are black. If you own a factory, your workers are black.
My cousins are now several generations in South Africa. 4th & 5th generation Afrikaners. They identify as Afrikaners. More specifically, they are intermarried with descendents of Dutch settlers. They have government jobs, serve in the military, own small businesses..... and they are the minority of the population with the majority of the wealth. And as I'm told, there is now more foreign investment than ever before. Instead of gold and diamonds, now it's other resources. The stuff that is used to make batteries. Textile factories. Agriculture. Foreign investment means that more people are coming to South Africa with money, to make more money, and the money trickles out. The money doesn't stay in Africa.
So with very little soul searching, I decided to take advantage of the South African people. The same way that I take advantage of low wage workers in other countries. After all, if we didn't buy those products, they wouldn't have those factory jobs at all. Then we would just have to buy extremely overpriced American products, to support American union labor. Have you seen the price of Made in the USA shoes lately? The most iconic American shoes are probably Alden's Indiana Jones boots, and Allen Edmonds which are worn by US Presidents. Shoes that cost more than a set of tires.
Amazon's Black Friday pricing was even better than the exchange rate of the South Africa Rand conversion, and the US website sale. So I ended up ordering the steel toe version of the shoe. I don't specifically need steel toes or safety toes. But I've always heard over the years that it's safer to ride a motorcycle with steel toe shoes. You just never know. I might be washing dishes or something, and a knife drops.
That is why I like Amazon. Twenty dollars for the slippers I wear 90% of the time. My dress shoes were free, courtesy of the VA as one foot is larger than the other one thanks to that last accident I had in 2011.
According to The X, from now on, we are going to make boneless birds. Turkey, chicken, and duck. It cooks better this way. Only I have to do the work of deboning it.
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