Tricks
No treats for me today.
I’m back on my laptop because the big box died this morning. I suspect it is the power supply because of the way it happened and a change in fan noise over the last couple of days, more precisely a fan becoming audible, where silence once reigned.
Then there was the Not-Halloween, Definitely-Not-Samhain, Fall Harvest Festival at the fundie recording studio and school, occasionally acting like a place of worship, down the block. They fill their parking lot up with activities and people feel free to park on other people’s lawns, because it is a ‘church event’.
The nastiest trick is the one that Congress is playing on the economy by reducing the food stamp funding by $5 billion. That money is pure ‘demand’, it was going to get spent on food because that’s all it can be used for, and a major chunk of it is spent at MalWart.
Together with the uncertainty because of the possibility of another shutdown in December, retailers can just write off Christmas, people are going to hoard whatever they have. We are looking at another recession, while the Fed is inflating a stock market bubble with its monetary policy.
October 31, 2013 4 Comments
All Hallowed Evening
Whether you celebrate Celtic New Year’s Eve [Samhain], the evening before All Saints Day [Halloween], or the posting of Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses in 1517 [Reformation Day], have a happy one.
Wikipedia does its normally thorough job of covering all of the bases on the holidays that share October 31st.
These are my remembrances of a traditional American Halloween.
October 31, 2013 Comments Off on All Hallowed Evening
