Posts In Category American Upbeat

My Mother Would Have Lived 83 Years Today

on January 30, 2012 by alchemystic in American Upbeat, Comments (0)

I miss her, I guess it shows, she died Christmas Day, 2010, born January 30 1929, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!

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Sucking Soup

on January 20, 2012 by alchemystic in American Downbeat, American Upbeat, Depression Cookbook, Comments (3)

I guess the high side of this little adventure of mine will be selling my gold, I sold $12.63 in pennies today to Bank of America for $23.41, I’m wondering […]

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Mass Inflation Ahead — Save Your Nickels!By James Wesley, Rawles — Editor of www.SurvivalBlog.comUpdated, January 18, 2012

on January 19, 2012 by alchemystic in American Downbeat, American Upbeat, Depression Cookbook, Comments (5)

I’ve often mused about how fun it would be to have a time machine and travel back to the early 1960s, and go on a pre-inflation shopping spree. In that […]

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Enter The Dragon

on January 2, 2012 by alchemystic in American Upbeat, Comments (2)

Hold on, not quite yet, February 4, 2012, Chinese New Year, I can’t wait! “Occupying the 5th position in the Chinese Zodiac, the Dragon is the mightiest of the signs. […]

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS

on December 25, 2011 by alchemystic in American Upbeat, Comments (4)

Merry Christmas from the Southeast side of Hollywood, from Katie and me.

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Stepping Up Out Of This Rut

on October 23, 2011 by alchemystic in American Upbeat, Comments (1)

One hundred dollars in quarters ain’t even worth twenty bucks, I get it now, Mom saying Eddie, save your nickels, save all your pennies too, (see http://www.coinflation.com/coins/basemetal_coin_calculator.html) I’m just […]

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Great Balls On Fire

on October 14, 2011 by alchemystic in American Upbeat, Rim Shot, Comments (4)

How long was Middle America expected to keep swallowing the lie, land of opportunity, yea right, not no more! Today’s opportunities belong to just a chosen few! The banks get […]

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Silver Nickels

on October 7, 2011 by alchemystic in American Downbeat, American Upbeat, Depression Cookbook, keg party, Comments (5)

? “By this means government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.” -John Maynard Keynes I’m […]

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Black Swan’s Racing

on September 6, 2011 by alchemystic in American Downbeat, American Upbeat, Depression Cookbook, Rim Shot, Comments Off

Ya know, its fitting, dark clouds hanging low, a dark canopy hovering over this years Labor Day Parade. I’m an old guy, never the first to catch on, for forty […]

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Counting Dimes

on August 3, 2011 by alchemystic in American Downbeat, American Upbeat, Comments (2)

When he said your problem is you don’t look down enough, it confused me, granted, we weren’t in the best of situations, but suggesting somehow this being caused by some […]

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