{"id":25977,"date":"2014-07-04T01:07:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T08:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/?p=25977"},"modified":"2023-03-13T11:09:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T18:09:59","slug":"black-coffee-the-yankee-doodle-dandy-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id25977-black-coffee-the-yankee-doodle-dandy-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Black Coffee: The Yankee Doodle Dandy Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/black-coffee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-23820\" title=\"black coffee\" src=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/black-coffee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/black-coffee.jpg 500w, https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/black-coffee-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><em>It&#8217;s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe<\/em> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My dad still gets a kick out of asking people around this time of year if they have a 4th of July in England. Nine times out of ten they look at him like he&#8217;s nuts and say something like, &#8220;Of course not!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then my dad sheepishly asks them if that means the English go directly from the 3rd to the 5th. Their reactions after that are usually pretty funny.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well &#8230; I hope everyone in the US has a great Independence Day weekend! I know I will &#8212; which is why it&#8217;s an espresso edition of Black Coffee this week.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, off we go &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Question of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><code>[poll id=\"15\"]<\/code><\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Week&#8217;s Poll Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you could visit only one country in Europe, which one would it be?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Italy (30%)<\/li>\n<li>United Kingdom (20%)<\/li>\n<li>Somewhere else. (11%)<\/li>\n<li>Germany (10%)<\/li>\n<li>France (9%)<\/li>\n<li>Spain (8%)<\/li>\n<li>Greece (7%)<\/li>\n<li>Portugal (3%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than 300 Len Penzo dot Com readers participated in this week&#8217;s survey, and half of the respondents said they prefer either Italy or the United Kingdom. I&#8217;m somewhat surprised that France ended up in fifth place, behind Germany and &#8220;Somewhere else.&#8221; I figured France would have been in the top two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>International News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been to Europe, but at least I can now say stories on my blog posts have been featured there. For some reason, several European websites took an interest in my work last month. I know. I&#8217;m not sure why either. That being said &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.side3.no\/15-knep-for-a-bedre-konomien\/8451275.html\">Here&#8217;s one<\/a> from a popular site in Norway called <strong>Side 3<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.be\/money\/nl\/wealthrepublic\/17-gewoontes-van-miljonairs\/203483.htm\">this one<\/a> from <strong>Express.be<\/strong> in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.negocios1000.com\/2014\/06\/19-secretos-para-el-exito-financiero.html\">this one<\/a> from <strong>Negocios 1000<\/strong> in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;d like to say thank you to my friends on the other side of the pond for taking the time to feature my stories! (And thank goodness for Google Translate!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Credits and Debits<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Credit:<\/strong><\/span> Did you see this? A lady who misplaced her diamond wedding ring and considered it hopelessly lost, found it six years later &#8212; after <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/dog-coughs-missingedding-ring-lost-years-ago\/story?id=24363981\">her dog barfed the ring up<\/a>. No, really. I bet that was the first time that lady was ever happy to see her pooch puke in her house.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Credit:<\/strong><\/span> Pop the champagne corks: The Dow Jones Industrial Average <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/stock-futures-inch-higher-1404389747?mod=WSJ_hp_RightTopStories\">topped 17,000<\/a> for the first time ever this week. Yes, yet <em>another<\/em> all-time high. If Rip Van Winkle woke up after a long slumber on that news, he&#8217;d be right to think that the US economy was booming.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Debit: <\/strong><\/span>However, I&#8217;m sure Mr. Van Winkle would also be scratching his head and wondering how the Dow could be at an all-time high with <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/ali-meyer\/record-number-americans-not-labor-force-june\">92 million Americans<\/a> not in the labor force &#8212; and a labor participation rate of just 62.8%, which is a 36-year low.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Debit:<\/strong><\/span> Of course, if Rip only followed the mainstream media, he&#8217;d never hear about that. Instead he&#8217;d see misleading reports like <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2014\/07\/03\/investing\/june-jobs-report\/\">this one<\/a> from CNN celebrating the creation of 288,000 net new jobs in June and claiming that, &#8220;The American jobs recovery seems to have finally hit its stride.&#8221; Uh huh.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Debit:<\/strong><\/span> Here&#8217;s the <em>real<\/em> story behind those 288,000 new jobs: In all, 799,000 new <em>part-time<\/em> jobs were created &#8212; but that number was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2014-07-03\/june-full-time-jobs-plunge-over-half-million-part-time-jobs-surge-800k-most-1993\">offset by the loss<\/a> of approximately 523,000 <em>full-time<\/em> jobs. Forward!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Debit:<\/strong><\/span> If that&#8217;s what an American jobs recovery looks like when it&#8217;s &#8220;hitting its stride,&#8221; then I&#8217;d hate to see what&#8217;s in store for us when this &#8220;recovery&#8221; ends and the economy takes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/peterferrara\/2013\/02\/07\/the-worst-five-years-since-the-great-depression\/\">a turn for the worse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Debit:<\/strong><\/span> If you think gasoline prices are starting to get uncomfortably high, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/gas-prices-wallop-wallets-1404336800\">you&#8217;re right<\/a>. The average price of regular unleaded in the US is currently $3.67 &#8212; that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/midstate\/index.ssf\/2014\/06\/gas_prices_for_fourth_of_july.html\">a six-year high<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Debit:<\/strong><\/span> By the way, in case you stopped counting, as of July 4th the average price of gasoline in the US has been more than $3.00 per gallon for <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/mrctv-blog\/julia-seymour\/gas-prices-extend-painful-record-july-4-marks-1290-days-above-3-gallon\">1290 consecutive days<\/a>. There&#8217;s no need to pull out a calculator &#8212; that&#8217;s three and a half years.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Credit:<\/strong><\/span> It feels like the average price at the pumps here in California has been more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/bay-area-news\/ci_25462076\/gas-hits-4-gallon-california-once-again\">$4.00 per gallon<\/a> for <em>at least<\/em> that long &#8212; but it&#8217;s only been that way since the end of March.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Debit:<\/strong><\/span> Alaska, Hawaii and Washington are also paying more than $4 per gallon right now. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salem-news.com\/articles\/july022014\/oregon-gasprices-kh.php\">Oregon will join<\/a> the other Pacific Coast states soon; the average price there is now $3.98.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Debit:<\/strong><\/span> Then again, I&#8217;m sure $4 gasoline will be a fond memory for us Americans once <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/energysource\/2014\/05\/29\/the-colder-war-and-the-end-of-the-petrodollar\/\">the petrodollar dies<\/a> &#8212; and that will result in the US dollar finally losing its long-time status as the world&#8217;s reserve currency. It&#8217;s a day that will be here sooner than most people realize.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Credit:<\/strong><\/span> In fact, thanks to the BRICS overt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2014-07-02\/brics-are-morphing-anti-dollar-alliance\">anti-dollar alliance<\/a>, the US is closer than ever before of losing the exorbitant privilege that provides most Americans with an artificially high standard of living, ridiculously cheap imports &#8212; and allows the government to run endless deficits with few repercussions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Debit: <\/strong><\/span>Finally &#8230; All this depressing news has put me in the mood for an exotic cocktail known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gR3GbL9jsM4\">The Jewel of Pangaea<\/a>. The drink was first introduced two years ago in a Singapore club.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Credit<\/strong>:<\/span> Did I mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/49205151\">it costs $26,000<\/a>? It does. That&#8217;s because the drink &#8212; Hennessy cognac and champagne &#8212; is garnished with edible gold flecks and a one-karat triple-X flawless diamond. It also comes with five bodyguards.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Credit<\/strong>:<\/span> You know what? On second thought, I think I&#8217;ll just grab a beer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(The Best of)<\/span> By the Numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few more cocktail facts for you to sip on:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>1912 <\/strong><\/span><\/span>Year absinthe was banned in the United States. The ban remained in effect until 2007, when it was officially lifted.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>41 <\/strong><\/span><\/span>Percentage of cocktail bar patrons under age 36. Because they&#8217;re more expensive than beer, most cocktails are typically purchased by older, financially-endowed customers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>62 <\/strong><\/span><\/span>Percentage of Americans who have used the services of a designated driver.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>1970<\/strong><\/span><\/span> Year the British Navy stopped providing every sailor with a daily ration of rum.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>10<\/strong><\/span><\/span> Countries where alcohol is illegal. (Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Pakistan)<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bundle.com\/article\/how-we-drink-part-ii-cocktails\/\">Bundle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/denizenrum.com\/blog\/facts-on-history-of-the-cocktail\">Denizen Rum<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.potsdam.edu\/hansondj\/FunFacts\/AlcoholTrivia.html\">Potsdam.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Useless News <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Programming note: Unlike most blogs, I&#8217;m always open for the weekend here at Len Penzo dot Com. There&#8217;s a fresh new article waiting for you every Saturday afternoon. At least there should be. If not, somebody call 9-1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Hey! If you happen to enjoy what you&#8217;re reading &#8212; or not &#8212; please don&#8217;t forget to:<\/p>\n<p>1. 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