…the white lady
New York City is said to be so nice, the Yanks had to name it twice – New York…New York!! So what do you say about cocaine which they call among other things, “Coke, blow, flake, candy, nose candy, pepsi, coca puffs, “C”, Charlie, toot, gold dust, AKA, Vitamin C, snow, girl, glass, the real thing, white lady, o.k., okey doke”!!?? And then there’s crack – which is a form of cocaine that’s modified to be smoked – and is sold in small amounts which increases its popularity and earned even more names: 51s, Apple Jack, Baby T, Baseball, Base, Bazooka, Beemer, Bings, BJ, Black Rock, Blowcaine, Blowout, Blue, Bomb. Blow Crusher, Candy, Casper the Ghost, Caviar, Cheap Basing, Chingy, Cloud Nine, Cookies, Devil Smoke, Dice, Dime Special, Double Yoke, Eastside Player, Eye Opener, Fat Bags. Freebase, Garbage Rock, Gold, Golf Ball, Hail, Hard, Hotcakes, Ice Cubes,, Jelly Beans, Johnson, Moon Rock, Nuggets, Piedras, Quarters, Ready Rock, Rox, Roxanne, Sleet, Speed Boat, Sugar Block, Top Gun, White Ball, White Ghost, White Sugar!!! Whew!! Get the idea? That’s popular baby!!
The US is the world’s biggest consumer of cocaine – millions and millions of their citizens use the stuff every day. And as we all know – from movies if nothing else!! – that once you start using…you come back for mo!! And pretty soon, you’re hooked and you GOTTA come back for mo!! Now this is the condition that everybody and their uncle in “free market” economies drool over – a product that the consumer just gotta have!! It’s like IPhones on steroids!!
The LAW in the free market is if there’s a demand for some product – somebody’s gonna supply that product – once a buck can be made. And with cocaine we’re talking about billions and billions of bucks – so you can imagine the incentives to supply THAT (captive) market!! The fly in the ointment – and it would be too good to be true if there weren’t a fly or two around – is the US defines cocaine trade as “illegal” – even though the users aren’t prosecuted. In fact they eat up a big chunk of their medical budget to treat their addiction!
So what does the US do?? Try to cut the supply – which is outside their country with Columbia in this hemisphere as the major source – while leaving their (domestic) demand chain intact!! And we arrive at the news that six persons – two Columbians and four Guyanese – were just sanctioned by the American Government’s Treasury Dept! Had to’ve been connected with that big cocaine bust – 4.4 TONS!! – in Reg 1 last August – which came from Columbia!!
The Yanks are simply confirming who dunnit – including the Cop who looked away!! And the law of supply and demand??
…returns
Most folks today wouldn’t remember, but there was a time when all Guyanese “recycled”: not just their soda (“sweet drinks”?) bottles but also rum bottles – which at that time outnumbered the former! The recycling drive didn’t come from any government pushing “environmentalism” but from the mundane fact it was cheaper for the “beverage industry” to pay folks to return the glass bottles than buying new ones!
With the advent of plastic bottles, these cost so little, it wasn’t worth the while for manufacturers to purchase empties. And pretty soon, this practice resulted in the non-biodegradable plastic bottles polluting the environment as it presently does – including clogging canals!. But in the US, they solved the problem by mandating a 5 cents consumer deposit on beverages bottles that can be redeemed when the bottle is redeemed.
With the slogan “Don’t trash ‘em – cash ‘em!” their environmental problem’s solved. So your Eyewitness was quite chuffed to see that one of the major bottlers was offering to buy used bottles!!
Back to the future!!
…race hate
Looks like Aubrey Norton’s got a (political) death wish!! He just announced he’s got no problem with the racist, anti-Indian bilge that WPA extremist spouts daily. In fact, he said it’s what the PNC believes!!
