If Johnny had 4 apples when he came out of Krogers @ $2.00 ea.

what would Johnny be? Two things, poorer and a damned fool! I refuse to pay it! A $2.00 apple is where I draw the line!

It just makes you wanna' ask every still ignorant of reality freeper you meet, to answer a famous republican's most famous question..."Are you better off now than you were 8 years ago," when Johnny could have bought 4 apples for a freakin' Dollar?

Your dollar ain't worth a dime, because, I vividly remember 5 cent apples at the tender youngish age of 57!

The GOPers invented two kinds of math..."Fuzzy math" and Fudgy math and even a old senile geezer like myself can see, that absolutely nothing, a GOPer EVER tells you really ADDS up.

Fudging the numbers ENRON style is not going to fool the bean counters forever George! King Dumbya has a recipe for an American disaster, just about like the one Enron had in Kenny's book cooker's cook book.

orange trees
lemon trees
apple trees
persimmon trees
pear trees

instead, we have yucca plants & weeds :grr:

Why not plant those trees now? You can have fruit in a relatively short amount of time.

You can eat it as well as extract the oils for cosmetics and skin treatments. Yucca is an alternative to manufactured soap. The fibers are used for basket-weaving and other such materials. I'm all for fruit orchards but please, don't knock the Yucca.

although my idiot husband chopped TWO of them down :grr:

See? Yucca rocks.

Unemployment don't even count in Bushzarro World, because after you draw out all your unemployment compensation money, you are then magically not unemployed anymore, according to this modern GOP Fudgy math?(if you want your old job back, it's still available...just move to China and take a 95% pay cut without benefits, or any form of personal dignity, or personal safety, on your old, new, job!)

Even YOU don't count...you ain't number one anymore...you ain't even number two!(sez FZ)

Fudgy Math..."Does Not Compute!"(even a bubble headed, bushbotic, booby should see that) Unless you're the typical, garden variety, brain dead, freeper type, GOPer, making up your own fudgy reality as you zip right along with wonderdumbya, toward the bushista black hole that we've all been dragged into here, by the freeper's sheer historical and political stupidity.(some of us kicking and screaming, but seemingly to about zero avail)

You can't have too many doodads. You ABSOLUTELY NEED the latest iteration of iPod, software program, or teevee. You ABSOLUTELY NEED the latest form of decoration or color scheme. You WILL DIE without the current fashion of the season, so buy a new wardrobe every few months and throw out last seasons even though most have the tags on them. Then you can go hungry to be fashionably chic.

Sadly, it's not just freepers that can't count, but lots of other persuasions that also refuse to. How many times have we seen threads appear titled something like "I've gotta get 'insert doodad of choice'." All gadgets packed in sleek designs with vampire lights twinkling. All fashion designed to titillate and entice. Merchandise in huge mountains to razzle dazzle and lure the gullible in to be sucked bone dry by huge conglomerates. Much of this stuff is junk, designed to break down within months. Our landfills are full of it. Mountains of it made of components leaching chemicals into the earth and materials that will not biodegrade. Meanwhile, millions on the planet starve or go without. And Bill Gates and his ilk rake in the wealth while the razzle dazzle of a brightly colored computer will fill his coffers at home while assuaging the brief guilt of the jaded Western consumer by assuring him or her that a child without adequate food, clothing, or shelter far away will instantaneously benefit by receiving one.

The country is being stampeeded over the cliff and about 65% of the lost sheep still don't have a clue. Even the sheep in Washington.

I've tried to cover up my head and not see the bushzarro monster's fangs, but the monster just seems to have gotten bigger and meaner with each passing lie.

My parents planted a bunch of apple trees & it only took a few years for the fruit to start coming in. YUM!

Here, it's like $2.00 a bag full!

that $2.00 bag of apples is worth just about what two bushel would cost you out on the farm in West Virginia! I really kind of don't understand all I know about Fudgy Math, so far, but I sure don't like what I do know!(WTF, has become the American expression of the day, under King Dumbya's fudgy rules)

markets. We also need a consumer rebellion against conglomerates, and refuse to buy anything but the essentials. Then we need to set up local companies and purchase from them. AND we need a corresponding movement to oust politicians who think that the best way to benefit their community is through some sweetheart deal with an international company set on bleeding the community dry.

:shrug:

I buy locally grown apples. ;)

the clinton prosperity came from regulating the speculation in the stock market..

edit .. gas was about 1.35 http://www.energy.ca.gov/gasoline/margins/1999.html

still specolation is a major cost

That'll guac a mole!

here in our GOP think, make-reality, Buszarro world...everything else is so damned high, that now everybody just assumes that the large hump up between the poor old guy's shoulders, is his ass.(I try to find a bright side, to everything, but that's really stretching and distorting reality to very the brink of insanity, to actually think, that WE are "REALLY Doing Good")

Just keep watching Doktor Feel and Ophra and forgetaboutit and vote for Rude-ie!

In America it's okay for the store to rob everybody who comes in the door, but it's against the law for a single coustomer to walk in and rob the store...Fudgy Justice Too...

Is there anything that the GOP can't screw up to the max?

Most apples you buy in the store suck. Jonathan's, Red Delicious, etc. are picked unripe and they do not ripen. If you have enough apple trees a natural mutation will eventually occur and the fruit will have a red skin before ripening. So apple growers have selected and grown these mutations as a way to get their fruit to market quicker, allowing them to sit around longer. Unfortunately this means the skins are too thick and the flesh has no flavor and is too hard.

There is a new apple on the block. Honey Crisp. It is the only apple I will eat now. This apple was bred by the U of Minnesota and it is a way for smaller producers to compete against the giant Washington corporate farms. The mutation has not been found yet. It is produced as a "boutique" apple, commands a high price and is so much better than the other crap you get in the store.

I pay between 1.75 and 2.50 a pound for Honey crisps. They are worth it. And if you are willing to join in the race to the bottom to get crappier corporate apples, then you deserve it.

I prolly do, because I was born without ever giving much hard consideration or worry about the consequences to come with my birth. I spent my entire first nine months, blindly, lazily, loafing about inside mommy and then I've led a pretty wild and crazy life since that first birthday!(but I have never voted for a repub)

No matter how good your $2.00 apples are, your Dollars are not nearly as sweet as they were in 2000!

I too have noticed that most store bought apples are kind of bland and tasteless these days.(have been eating Fuji apples lately) I do grow my own yellow transparent apples, but this year a freak warm spell followed by a freak cold spell, along about Easter time, killed off my apple blossoms, so that I only harvested about 15 apples($1,550.00 worth)off of my two $20.00 apple trees.(circa 2000)(prolly worth about $45465432321234543.99(in bushCo, reality free, fudgy-dollars)per tree here in Bushzarro world)