I think that your opinion reflects a majority view. President Rutherford
Hayes was elected in a contested election in the 1870s and was voted in on the
promise to end reconstruction after the Civil War. He put the country back on
the gold standard, promising to back the greenbacks issued during the civil
war with gold. This caused a multidecade deflation during a huge economic
expansion in the West and usured in the gilded age of wealth in our country.
It is all so simple, yet hugely controversial, thus complicated and disputed.
Of course the Jim Crow laws were also a result.
Our current monetary policies are not sustainable in my opinion, but are a boon
for cryptocurrencies. Perhaps crypto ill take over the world, undermining
central banks. It is more likely central banks will take over crypto?
Doug Everett
On Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 05:02:38 PM MST, rhelkins
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Fiat currency ultimately leads to Zimbabwe, but it doesn't have to be that
way. The U.S. government owns untold trillions of assets it could use to
securitize the dollar, including immense tracts of land out West, as well as
the National Park System. Obsolete weapons systems could also be monetized.
Going back on gold is not in the cards, and you can be sure the Chinese will
include gold in the array of natural resources on its list, like it has already
done with rare earths, to monopolize and weaponize. Trust me when I tell you
that Goldman Sachs would love to do this.
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I read that book. It is ok, but no new information. There is no country in
the world on the gold standard. I wonder what will happen if the Chinese
decide to go on the gold standard. That will be a total disruption of commerce
and likely the end of the dollar and our ability to sell debt. Congressional
chaos will then require a balancing of our budget? This story will not have a
happy ending.
Doug Everett
On Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 04:48:53 PM MST, Nissen Bron
<nissenbron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Reminder in JULY! From: pa64-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pa64-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rhelkins ;(Redacted sender
"rhelkins" for DMARC)
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 6:23 PM
To: pa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pa64] Re: This is what WaPo is teaching kids these days It's already
ended badly. It will subsequently go to badder and baddest. Remember those
bizarre old days when people actually did keep cash under the mattress or, if
they were more sophisticated, buried in the back yard? Cash is now a cruel joke
on traditionalists. Jeff Garten has a book coming out in July about the U.S.
going off the gold standard ("Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in
1971 Transformed the Global Economy") which I am planning to read..
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To: pa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wed, Feb 24, 2021 6:14 pm
Subject: [pa64] Re: This is what WaPo is teaching kids these daysLinda Henry
nee Pizzuti is a daughter of affluent real estate family and a doll indeed
Google pix of Celtics owner Wyc Grousbecks wife for a comp. Pizzuti/Henry seems
smart and competent. She is probably responsible for how much I have been
paying. The Wonderland we are in is truly incomprehensible and will end
badly as it is fueled and sustained by debt which we are adding to it at a
parabolic rate. This only works for short periods of time and parabolas end
abruptly with steep declines. In debt it will be a decline of value—ie
inflation and currency. I think we will see at least the beginning of the
downside but who knows. And Rome rallied back a couple of times so maybe...
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 24, 2021, at 5:06 PM, rhelkins (Redacted sender "rhelkins" for DMARC)
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I see that the wife of the owner of the Red Sox and the Globe is the new CEO of
the Globe. She is a looker, for sure, and emblematic of the takeover of America
by sexy, white, sociopathic females, who make up all of the non-male, non-white
Democratic members of congress and our state and local legislative bodies. All
we have left of a great America is our memories. It seems impossible what has
happened, and so quickly, but it's a good lesson for future historians how the
morals, ethics, values and collective wisdom of a country can be hollowed out
in a mere fifty years to make it a dumbed down, authoritarian version of
Pleasure Island in Pinnochio. I bet there were a lot of Romans who had feelings
similar to ours back in the day. I thought I was paying a lot for WaPo ($260)
and am blown away by how much the Globe charges. I told the ole ball and chain
that I would no longer pay for WaPo and she was so addicted to the TV section
that she renewed on her own. -----Original Message-----
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To: pa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <pa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Feb 24, 2021 4:47 pm
Subject: [pa64] Re: This is what WaPo is teaching kids these daysThe Globe is
the same. The editorial page is almost all vitriolic left. The sports pages are
not what they used to be either, and the internet allows me to read as much
about sports as I want to. I am close to cutting the paper which now costs
about $1,000/year. I will miss a couple of the comics and the Bridge column,
and some local news. Old habits die hard, but I am sick of getting the BS
shoved in my face every morning.
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To: pa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <pa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Feb 24, 2021 2:37 pm
Subject: [pa64] Re: This is what WaPo is teaching kids these daysThis is
typical example of why the Washington Post is unreadable. I still trust the
Bridge column, which they buy from a syndicate, and they have not yet found a
way to inject race into the Sudoku puzzle. Other than that, the Post is a true
bag of worthless, biased, white-hating, male-hating, Jew-hating horseshit.
"Intersectionality" apparently doesn't apply to people who are all of the
following: (1) straight, (2) white and (3) male. Or perhaps there's a separate
Post definition of "white supremacist" which they would---and in fact
do---define in terms of such intersectionality. Who'd a thunk back in the day
that we would all sixty years later be presumed without further inquiry to be
white supremacists, our sympathy for the civil rights movement notwithstanding?
Must have been the Rush Limbaugh malevolent influence. -----Original
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To: pa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <pa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Feb 24, 2021 1:43 pm
Subject: [pa64] Re: This is what WaPo is teaching kids these daysIt is ironic,
both overt and subtle.
-----Original Message-----
From: rhelkins <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <pa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Feb 24, 2021 12:51 pm
Subject: [pa64] Re: This is what WaPo is teaching kids these daysYou will find
that all of the Black iconic performers (other than Motown artists) who have
died within the last few years are lauded for particular iconic recordings
which were written by Whites and produced by Whites, although that is rarely if
ever mentioned in the obituaries. Only blackness matters. For example, The New
York Times obituary of Aretha Franklin in 2018 opens with specific mention of
five iconic songs she recorded, but only identifies the composer for one of
them, who was black. This is typical of the subtle and blatant anti-White
racism that pervades the media today. -----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wed, Feb 24, 2021 12:32 pm
Subject: [pa64] Re: This is what WaPo is teaching kids these daysOne could
conclude that the writers were key, since both performers did very well with
the song. L&S wrote a number of hit songs, many for the Coasters. Down in
Mexico and Run, Red, Run lesser known personal favorites
-----Original Message-----
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To: pa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <pa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Feb 24, 2021 12:02 pm
Subject: [pa64] Re: This is what WaPo is teaching kids these daysAnd they were
Jewish as well, so if you apply intersectionality to them, they would be doubly
hated and despised by certain prominent cohorts of today's Democratic Party. It
would be nice if at least in one of these all-white-people-are-evil-racists
articles the author would point out that the record business, as with virtually
all commercial enterprises, value sales above all, and that the white
population in the early 1950s was roughly six times the size of the black
population and that the record companies recorded and promoted what they
thought would sell best. I guess that's too much to ask. -----Original
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To: pa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <pa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Feb 24, 2021 11:44 am
Subject: [pa64] Re: This is what WaPo is teaching kids these daysThose black
guys Leiber and Stoller who wrote it must have got screwed too.
-----Original Message-----
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To: pa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <pa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Feb 24, 2021 11:18 am
Subject: [pa64] This is what WaPo is teaching kids these daysI personally would
have preferred this if it were part of a quiz to teach kids to identify and
describe misandry and anti-White racism. Might as well add in intersectionality
as well while we're at it. KidsPost
Blues singer ‘Big Mama’ Thornton had a hit with ‘Hound Dog.’ Then Elvis came
along.
After the “king of rock-and-roll” recorded a version, Thornton’s original was
largely forgotten.
By Haben KelatiFeb. 24, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. ESTImagine you have a good idea, but
someone copies it and gets more credit. That’s basically what happened to
rhythm-and-blues singer Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton with her song “Hound
Dog.” If you know the song, you might only know “King of Rock-and-Roll” Elvis
Presley’s version. But before the song helped Elvis’s career skyrocket, it was
a big hit for Thornton.Thornton, who was born in Ariton, Alabama, in 1926,
signed with Peacock Records in 1951. She stood out when compared with other
female singers. Nearly six feet tall and 200 pounds, she got the nickname “Big
Mama.”“She had this tough exterior, and she had this very powerful voice which
made her also seem very tough,” says Maureen Mahon, a music professor at New
York University.She often performed while wearing a suit jacket and tie with
cowboy boots.“Sometimes she would wear a dress or gown, but she also liked to
wear what people would refer to as men’s clothes,” Mahon says. Mahon says
Thornton had an aggressive power when performing while staying true to the
emotions of a song.“She could convey many emotions and different kinds of
feelings through her vocals. That’s a really important part of blues singing,”
Mahon says.Watching Thornton sing inspired Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller to
write “Hound Dog” for her in 1952. Thornton recorded it with a growl
emphasizing the frustration that the song lyrics suggest — coping with a
boyfriend who is also dating someone else.Thornton had moderate success with
the song in 1953. It reached Number 1 on the Billboard rhythm-and-blues chart.
Several musicians recorded their own versions, but none had much success until
Elvis.The 21-year-old performer had heard a version of the song in early 1956
with some of the words changed. (It was about a dog, not a man.) Elvis decided
to record it. His recording climbed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart
and stayed there for 11 weeks. The song is seen as an important beginning of
rock-and-roll, especially in its use of the guitar as the key instrument,
according to Mahon.Mahon says Elvis’s cool stage presence, which captivated
audiences, can be traced to Thornton’s influence.“I think he was getting that
attitude from a singer like Big Mama Thornton, who was projecting that in her
song,” she says. Elvis was able to get his version to wider audiences than
Thornton, in part because he was a White man, according to Gayle Wald,
professor of American studies and English literature at George Washington
University. He had hit songs by 1956, but he also had access to larger,
mainstream markets.“Popular music history is filled with examples of Black
women being pushed to the margins,” Wald says.Wald points to the start of the
blues as an example. “The first [vocal] blues songs that were ever recorded [in
the 1910s], were recorded by White singers. It wasn’t until 1920, when Mamie
Smith put out ‘Crazy Blues,’ that a Black woman actually was on record singing
a blues song. Even though blues was an African American art form.”“[Thornton]
belongs in that story. . . . Because of the way race works in the United
States, Elvis got accolades” for “Hound Dog,” Wald says. “He received exposure
and celebrity and praise for it.”Thornton’s influence on Elvis and American
popular music as a whole is an important part of her legacy. Although her work
may have been forgotten by some, researchers such as Mahon and Wald continue to
study and elevate her music and its impact.“I think we’re making a lot of
progress,” Wald says. “The Internet has made it easier to let people know about
artists from the past.”