Legitimate business transitioning to the black market, home spun style.


Would you use a local currency if it were available? Why?

By now you know I’ve got my eye on the growing black market. This news came to me, it’s separate but related I guess you could say.

Included in the stimulus package is incentive for a specific industry to hire new workers. To be eligible for the government money the business has to hire someone new and employ them for 90 days.

The stimulus will also pay to train the person so they are gearing up for this as well and while it appears this is an on ramp to employment it is anything but.
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I seem to be the only one around here interested in this (yet) but hey. I used sell on ebay long before Meg Whitman came on board, long before there were fees to sellers. Matter of fact I was also a very early user of paypal who (get this) launched with this promise - “No fees forever!  Send money on the internet for free!”
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Vivian and I rooted for each other but from a distance because when you are in a whirlwind, sort of vortex it takes everything you have. You just can’t get too near another person’s whirlwind vortex or you’ll get sucked up but you can connect via the eyes so this is what we did and time passed the way it does.

Eventually the soldier moved here and Vivian and I had more in common than ever. We were both with men we loved, who we met when we were teenagers. Both men were ultra-masculine and devoted to their families and while neither of our daughters were healed things had calmed dramatically. We had a few months like that and then Vivian told me her husband had lost his job.
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I met Vivian about six years ago. The first thing you notice about Vivian is she is not very attractive. If you think I am a jerk, think again.

I want you to know Vivian and the way I do and her appearance is a marked part of her presentation. There’s that but there is also Vivian herself who is well aware of how she looks. She is also a Sagittarius, known for candor and she has no qualms whatsoever about discussing this.

Vivian has four kids and I remember the first time I met one of her daughters. The girl was jaw-droppingly beautiful and I said so.
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When Pluto transits a sign we see the shadow side of the things the sign rules. For example with Pluto in Sagittarius we saw the shadow side of religion (Suicide bombers and the sex scandal with the Catholic priests), the shadow side of sports (OJ Simpson, steroid use), the shadow side of courts (OJ Simpson again) the press (too many scandals to list).
Continue reading Pluto In Capricorn And The Expanding Black Market: A Real Life Tale…

Truck driving is dangerous. The last company the soldier worked with statistically saw 1/3 of their trucks wrecked each year. Not a day goes by where the soldier doesn’t see dead drivers on the road and when I used to drive to meet him all the time I saw them myself.

There were all those drivers killed on the Oklahoma ice storm we got caught in and on another trip I passed 17 trucks blown over and off the road caught in gusts of wind with their trailers empty. But there is a new and growing threat. People have started stealing trucks with knives or at gunpoint and taking off with the load.
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Just the other day I wrote about people wanting to work for cash these days, big time. I dropped off my defective cell phone package at the UPS store and was pulling out of the parking lot when a truck pulled up alongside me to remark on the dent in my bumper.

I glanced over and he started selling full tilt. I liked the guy and listened to his pitch. “I can take that out of there, pop it out and paint it for $175. Make it look just like the other side. If you take it to a shop, they’ll want to replace the whole bumper…”

Sounded about right to me.
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