Coast to Coast AM had a couple of really good ones this morning exploring the roots of the COVID-19 outbreak in China’s inhumane and unsanitary animal wet markets. Wayne Pacelle (‘Humane Economy‘) was just really good in describing the cost of our insane treatment of animals. Do you get that? Not just the tree hugger “we don’t want to hurt Bambi” thing, but we hurt ourselves as well as them.
But the main point of this post was to highlight once again the great work being done in the wee hours of the morning on Coast to Coast. Daytime hosts on radio (like those twin peaks of stupid Jeff Angelo and Simon Conway) like to deride C2C as always chasing UFOs and Bigfoot. That’s ridiculous.
C2C has covered in an in-depth nature many, many topics of vital importance that just aren’t given their due in the msm. Monetary supply, globalization, government overreach, health of the oceans, food supply, on and on and on. These daytime hosts are doing the bidding of corporate radio, C2C is working for humanity.
This is a picture of the Ames Resource Recovery Plant (garbage dump). Its closed to residents now. COVID-19 don’t ya know. We pay for it and we pay for the salaries, which haven’t been cut. The left lane with the door down is for residents. The lane about 6 feet over is for commercial drivers. Just 6 feet separates us from certain death. Bureaucratic nonsense is what it is. Paper pushers are not what you want in a crisis.
The first thing they do in an emergency is figure a way why they can’t do their job. In Ames they got that down to a science. All these signs over the front of city hall saying “Closed!” You know its an emergency, I saw a cop patrolling. Normally they got their ass sitting at city hall. Well guess what? Its kind a obvious we don’t need you. When you can go on vacation and you don’t have to be filled in, you’re superfluous. We could do a whole lot of cutting in city government.
Waste Management was no better, “We’re not taking large items right now”. Everybody is conspiring to force me to store garbage at the house. That seems stupid to me. Downright stupid. Boone County Landfill is just as worthless as Story County. Just some worthless sons a bitches. Like all bureaucrats they’re as lazy as the day is long. Lucky for them citizens are too stupid to cut them. Don’t need them. A shutdown shows that.
So I’m looking up on YouTube who sang the 70s classic, “More! More! More!” (1976), turns out it was a gal by the name of Andrea True who was also a 70s porn actress. What flashed into my head was a picture of the guy who epitomized 70s (and the next 3 decades) porn, Ron Jeremy. Voted #1 male porn actor by AVN (no idea). There was probably nothing dumber than 70s porn, though it didn’t seem that way at the time.
Debbie Does Dallas, Deepthroat…. on and on and on. There was nothing cool about it. For some reason the media liked to obsess about it. After awhile 1 face kept popping up, Jeremy. Over and over and over and over and over. The most prolific face (?) in porn. Like all film, his Russian Jewish pedigree helped. It would be interesting to know the workings of the industry. The connections with organized crime. The distribution, marketing, cast, crew, directors. Its said there’s not a colder more debased industry less interested in sex than pornography.
But as my title suggests, what if he had stayed as a teacher? What if he had never gotten into the business? How many other people wouldn’t have? How many lives wouldn’t have been ruined? Operating from a complete basis of ignorance, I’m lead to believe the sex industry exists because of drug abuse and child abuse of the women. And to some unexplored extent, the Devil.
But just going by the numbers, Jeremy’s role in the industry was huge. He made over 2,000 films. #2 John Holmes made just 384. It begs the question (as with the classic “What if Hitler had never existed?”) what if Ron Jeremy had never existed? The gut reaction is it wouldn’t have mattered an iota. Which is probably true. I just wonder. I can personally attest the 70s had the finest real women. Porn is a sickness, a disease on society. One of the biggest betrayals is when Congress had the opportunity to put all porn domains under ‘xxx’ instead of www, and didn’t do it. The implications of that is huge.
[Like with politicians that don’t fit the classic mode, handsome, well spoken, charismatic, neither did Jeremy. Short, balding, overweight. Go figure.]
“I Need To Pray, lead by: Lynette Hawkins Stephens along with The Love Center Choir. From the album entitled Edwin Hawkins Live with The Oakland Symphony Orchestra.” I’ve known for a few years the magic of black gospel singing. Can’t put my finger on it, but I know it when I hear it. It might be gone. I don’t know. A lot of it emanated from the 70s with Edwin (1943-2018) and Walter (1949-2010) Hawkins. I’ll have to look and see if Oakland still even has a symphony!
Edwin had The Edwin Hawkins Singers, Walter had the Love Center Choir. Edwin arrived on the scene in 1969 at the ripe old age of 26 along with Dorothy Morrison when he came up with a new arrangement of O Happy Day. Sold over a million copies, international success. Walter started out a member of his brother’s choir. He really came into his own with 1975’s Love Alive album. Its a little bizarre, he produced albums for wife Tramaine, sister Lynette and cousin Shirley Miller.
Musical talent of that depth in one family is beyond my comprehension. But its more than that. What I gave were the facts. What my words will fail to convey is the passion of the “urban contemporary gospel” sound. I suppose that’s why I put the video up. Lynette and the Edwin Hawkins Singers flow together effortlessly. When you watch the choir, the power and the talent they have is simply phenomenal. I suppose you start getting into the “gift from God” thing.
Just no other way to explain it, when music stirs the soul like that. Just no other way. I realize over the years I’ve tried to tackle this to no avail. Another choir from the past I just love are the Ray Conniff Singers. Its a totally different ballgame. That’s my go-to group for pop music choral arrangements. Simply beautiful what they can do with just their voices. I’ll never be able to explain myself. Maybe that’s why it sticks with me.
Maybe its like when you hear your favorite version of Amazing Grace or How Great Thou Art, or some other gospel favorite, it grabs hold of you and there’s just no explaining why.
If you look to the right side of this chart you’ll see the DOW all time high at 29,511 on February 12, 2020. At the extreme right edge you’ll see it today (3/20) close to its 52 week low at about 20,000. Close to 30% off the market top. You’ve got to figure its going to go lower. In 2008 with the Global Financial Crisis it went negative 48% off the top. I suppose if I cared I’d put 3% of available cash in the market now.
But frankly, I want to see it hit 15,000 before I got serious. Even then I don’t think I’d put more than 50% of available dollars at that point. I think it could get down to DOW 10,000 fairly easily, especially considering they want Trump out so bad. A lot of people think that’s what all this is about. DOW 10,000 would be a 2/3 decline. I think I’d put 80% of available cash in at that point. Never want to go 100%.
Buying opportunities like what may be coming don’t come along that often. For god sakes don’t sell now. Keep your powder dry. What I’m talking of course is an S&P 500 index fund. We’re getting closer, but we ain’t there yet. The bad news is I don’t think it would be in the trough long at 10,000. Psychologically it would be devastating. You’d need to be ready to pull the trigger quick if it gets that low.
[The great buying opportunities I know of with my limited knowledge were 1929, 1973, 1987, 2002 and 2009. Essentially 5 times in the past 100 years was there a distinct opportunity. Number 6 may be anytime. Doubling your money is a good opportunity. Tripling it is a great opportunity.]
“You don’t want to be like Venezuela do you??” Have you looked at the store shelves lately? No toilet paper. I have to send supplies to a relative in California like they were a 3rd world nation. Shortened store hours guarantee a higher density of crowds. Create more of the “buying frenzy” hysteria.
But my real problem is having to bailout corporate America once again.
American business can’t survive without:
Illegal labor
Interest free money
A direct infusion of taxpayer cash
But its Bernie Sanders’ socialism we have to worry about!
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“But he is being hamstrung by a Hillary Clinton-supporting federal bureaucrat named Anthony Fauci whose advice has stymied early, widespread use of hydroxychloroquine against the Wuhan virus.”
So I stop into my favorite lunch spot today Taco Casa (which means ‘Taco House’) and I eye a copy of the March ‘City View’. I had picked it up for the retrospective photo on the cover of girl’s basketball in Iowa, and yes there was a blurb about the Great Denise Long of Union Whitten. But there was also an article re-celebrating the closing of the Gortz Haus by the homosexual couple of Lee Stafford and Jared Ellers.
Funny thing about these articles, they always mention the Christian couple that was targeted by the homosexual activists, but they never give credit and a picture to the actual couple that stopped this Christian family from running their business. I pointed out to the author Randy Evans his oversight about not naming the couple, so I did it for him. Lee Stafford and Jared Ellers. They should be so proud they stopped religious freedom. They got their cake though, that’s the important thing (you don’t want to get between a gay person and their cake, I tell you what).
One of the primary reasons for founding this country was for religious freedom, but the gay gestapo put an end to that.
Excited chants of, “Old white guy! Old white guy!” spread across the land as Democrats celebrate getting Joe Biden for their presidential candidate! (for VP pick you gotta figure he’s going to recreate that old black magic and go with Cory Booker. “Spartacus!”) The celebrity journalists at CNN were doing synchronized cartwheels in their excitement.
To me it seems a little strange that in a country of 330,000,000 people that they would choose 77 year old creeper to represent them. Maybe its just me? The guy just told a voter yesterday that he was “full of shit”. He told a woman a couple of weeks ago she was an “ugly dog faced pony soldier”, whatever the hell that is. As it was the black voter in South Carolina that pulled his fat from the fire, I have to figure Biden will pick Cory Booker to be his running mate.
If not him then “damn near black” Kamala Harris. If not her then “gay is almost as good as black” Pete Buttigieg. If not him then how about “Cherokee is the new black!” Elizabeth Warren. But then a lot of times candidates love to choose someone that wasn’t even near being on the radar, a surprise pick. I think we can safely rule out Tom Steyer, unless he wants to secure the “we like to watch the paint dry” vote.
This country has gotten so strange I don’t begin to recognize it. On YouTube is a clip from the 80’s of Republican Ronald Reagan giving a speech at a birthday/roast for Democrat House Speaker Tip O’Neill. From all appearances those 2 had a functioning and convivial relationship. You got the feeling there was a certain understanding between the 2 that they had a job to do for the good of the country.
Not today. Speaker Pelosi rips up the Presidents SOTU address on camera for the whole world to see! Crazed lunatic leftists gun down Republican Representatives at a softball practice. Normally panty waisted liberals in Portland, Oregon turn into a violent street gang named Antifa, and the cops stand back and let them do their mayhem! Libraries across the country bring in unvetted sex offenders to do “Children’s Story Hour”! A 14 year old girl decides she’s a boy and has the male gym teacher supervise the locker room!
This is not the country I grew up in. I don’t know where it went, I don’t know who stole it, but its missing. Somebody put an APB out for America! This country is nearly gone, swallowed up by Mexico. Crazy, absolutely crazy. The one time “greatest nation in the world” swallowed up by a failed narco state. Well, not just them, I think Muslims will be fighting them for the rubble.
Nurse Nancy Bergman from Holland, Michigan spends her 22nd and 23rd birthdays in Vietnam. Considering the wounds she describes, and putting a doctors age then at about 30 – 35, I bet we had a really crackerjack set of doctors that would have retired in the mid-nineties. Really good. They would have seen about everything. Everything.
The other thing that occurred to me for about the gazillionth time, was what a bullshit war. The death and destruction we participated in for absolutely no reason. The lives. All the lives. For nothing. For not a damn thing. The inhuman pain and suffering so idiots in DC could play a real-life game of Global Conquest. Which one of them paid for their stupidity? Which one was held accountable?
As she says at the end of the video, “There is truly evil in this world and I saw a little part of it.”
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