the price of scrap metal has gone through the roof, just like anything else.
People are gathering up old cars and pickups from way out in the desert in nevada to sell them for scrap. this ticks me off, cuzz some of them are restorable old 40's and 50's cars and pickups that shouldn't be destroyed.
Scrap steel is going for over $150 a ton, which means nails are gonna get real expensive real soon. when the raw material price doubles, the retail product usually quadruples, such as what happened with flour and corn. Maybe we should invest in nail futures.
About the only thing i know of that hasn't gone up is the price of legal prostitutes in nevada. There are so many unemployed ones from california that the supply/demand thing has tipped the scales to the supply-siders. (I have never been a patron, but quite a few cowboys in town come back with massive hangovers and tales to tell, and i like to listen to funny stories) Ann Coulter is said to frequent the ones in Winnemucca, but that is another topic.
However, i have brother-in-law, a farmer, that stops there. A couple of times, i even waited out in the truck while he went in. His wife does not approve, to put it mildly. She raises pigs as a sideline. They have become wealthy beyond imagination by raising organic alfalfa to sell to dairymen.
When you wrestle pigs daily just because they need wrestling, running a bimbo off by just flexing an eyebrow is hardly a tough task for her. And she means business on that account... i bet she is the only woman on earth that has a pig crate in the back of her Lexus SUV.
A couple weekends ago, i went to his newly purchased hunting lodge in oregon, and he had a whole fleet of new quad runners, which we quickly broke in with the help of some Gentleman Jack whiskey during a quest to find arrowheads. My system doesn't approve of more than a sip of whiskey at a time, but he got so drunk that he couldn't even say "Barack Obama" during his cussword streams.
He is so republican that his neck glows red on moonless nights; he was a regular contributor to the Rudy Gulliani campaign until i told him that Rudy was a cross-dresser, which caused him to have to choose between shooting me or believing me, and since he hates funerals and would have had to go to mine being relation and all, he chose to believe me.
He will not say obama's name out loud, even when he can. He defends bush to the point where i don't even bring dumbya up in our conversations, cuzz he is convinced that he got rich because of dumbya's policies.
He said that he just cannot bring himself to vote for McCain, which i find to be curious because he has is a straight-ticket republican voter for 35 elections. Ron Paul is now his man, and he donates a LOT to him. Which is about the most bizarre turn of events in this whole election year for me.
"If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you"
