Quoth the Raven

 Talking with one of the fortunate five-hundred ravens calculating moves against chess engines of the business cycle I asked if he had any good prospects in mind.

He related that directed energy weapons to take down drones were being short sold since they had a better application powering electric cars and spacecraft than taking down ground hugging, forest flying drones bearing quarts of nerve agent for surprise attacks on American cities. The loquacious bird said that during the summer’s hot weather he had ventured sufficient capital to corner the market on knitted shawls across the nation.

I said that shawls probably were not much wanted during the hot weather. The big bird informed me that was his strategy; ‘buy low and sell high’. Evidently the bird with warehouses of shawls would engineered a shawl shortage letting Democrat voters begin to shiver around the time of the fall election and he would not release any for sale until November, and then only in his new fast comfort foods franchise restaurants from sea to shining sea.

Quoth the raven; “The masses will line up in pre-dawn darkness to take a seat in my Comfortable Fast Foods restaurants to buy authentic knot shawls. They will pay premium prices for cantaloupe stuffed with guacamole, whip cream and delicate, tiny shrimp, baked egg plant filled with tapioca pudding and pay as much as Democrats do for gourmet canned cat food . Chardonnay Smoothies served in genuine steel lined plastic comfort cup replica Republican skull mugs will draw the majority in like flies.”

So I asked what he thought of the quest to make Phoenix the number one solar powered high albedo city I the United States.

Quoth the raven; “Solar powered drones flying in weapons of mass destruction from Mexico like nerve gas and viruses to underground W.M.D. dealers are a down side to buying in to the whole Phoenix big bird thing. Alternatively, it is a good opportunity to invest in my pyramid line Pterodactyl wish bone water-finding division since the boundary salt water desalinization canal and albino asphalt projects fell through congress again. Event so, research continues at my Albino  Asphalt and Feather Company  to boldly fly where no raven has flown before”

An electrifying caw.