WAR OF NUKES
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A minion hurled a thinly veiled snarl at you ( okay, at me, but it sounds better if you all are to blame ) about how nuclear war is more of a threat than ever, mainly because no one thought it was much of a threat at all. This sarcastic rejoinder must have been prompted by my dismissal of the book Alas, Babylon as antiquated. Now, don’t get me wrong, I loved the book. It just wasn’t in the top ten of my fiction picks. But since two books on Peak Oil were, I think in no small part this was merely a vicious attack on my stance on said disaster ( an aside on my fiction picks. I loved Nova’s books, but to me they were just militia fantasy, not post-apoc or really even collapse. I really enjoyed Kunstler’s novel, but it was unrealistic in its violence avoidance. Anybodies fiction picks are highly subjective ). Almost NO one likes my fixation on our oil run down, so I take no offense. I’ll give the comment its just due. We almost certainly will have a nuclear strike or exchange in the near future. But war? I don’t think so.
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We all realize now that the whole Cold War scare was pretty much just homeland citizen control. Okay, a few really, really paranoid folks think the evil commies are still out to get us and will strike at any time. But I really think those same folks were unduly frightened as school children ducking and covering under their school desk and took the scare a bit too seriously. But how realistic was the Commie Scare? Both the Soviet Union and China had in their recent experiences mass citizen casualties from World War Two. The Soviets from the German invasion ( and prior to that civil war ) and the Chinese from the Japanese occupation ( when the Japanese occupied China and tortured citizens they were horrible, horrible monsters. When the US occupies Vietnam and Iraq and tortures suspected terrorists we are bringing democracy to the world ) that went on about ten years ( and then a brutal civil war ). Even in the most brutal regimes, consent is required from the masses. Soviet propaganda was to sugarcoat the oppression and purges, to get consent, even if begrudgingly. My basic point is that with a large population just emerging from a long history of violence and turmoil, do you really believe that there would have been consent for another world war for communist domination? Communist domination was the West’s boogieman. It wasn’t the fire burning bright within the breast of the peasant or factory worker. Having said that, I’ll wager that the governments quest for a secure buffer zone was gladly embraced, as a defensive measure. High levels of centralized control, consenting to the draft and other measures, all meant that your family was given a level of security not seen for decades. For Russia to garrison Eastern Europe and the Muslim southern states, to industrialize and defend Siberia, must have been seen by the common man as difficult but needed. China occupied Tibet and had a few adventures in Vietnam and Korea, not because she was necessarily out for world domination, but merely to secure her neighborhood. We get all uppity with Russia and Cuba, but it is perfectly alright to have Turkey join NATO? Dropping our imperial ambitions camouflaged as righteous indignation over communism will allow you to see how preposterous it was for us to fear communist world domination ( which is not the same thing as saying Russia wouldn’t have attacked if she felt threatened or if there was a perception of security in that action ).
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Since the threat of nuclear war was mostly constructed by us to keep the war spending at constant levels for economic reasons, let’s conclude that a global thermonuclear exchange was a very low probability. As long as we never made too much of a credible threat to the two communist nations with nukes, as long as it was mostly grand theatre for home consumption, the nuke war had a very low probability of happening. Widespread, global nuclear war, that is. Now, limited strikes are another kettle of fish entirely. Now that we have so many players with nukes ( I’d wager that many tactical nukes were indeed “disappeared” from the former Soviet arsenal, as a very smart way of keeping the US occupied with the terrorist threat and leaving Russia alone. If I was a CIA analyst, I would have gotten the message that if we continued to screw with Russia the KGB would control an attack against us with a Muslim terrorist proxy ), and so much genuine regime threats from rioting starving masses, who is to say a nuke strike won’t happen by one of the newer governments to emerge? As instability increases, the odds of nuclear exchange go up. Not that I’d think the terrorist threat is the be all and end all. I’d wager a donut that Israel or the US will preemptively nuke strike before I’d worry too much about a nuke for Allah. But with so many bombs out there under so many different controllers, anything is possible.
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As to how this shall unfold, I would also wager another donut that the delivery means will not be a Gulf of Mexico submarine strike but rather an on site detonation. Who needs to jeopardize your expensive navy when you can get Jerry the Jihadist or Sam the Special Forces dude to smuggle a backpack nuke across the Mexican or Canadian border and plant it at the target site? That is so easy, it both gives credence to the theory that the commies were NOT out to rule the world ( or they would have already done it ), and underscores how high the probability it is that it is going to happen. A nuclear strike is most likely in our future, but the good news is that the Japanese radiation is already going to kill us, so don’t worry too much about it unless you are ground zero.
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Monday, October 31, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
more banker bashing
MORE BANKER BASHING
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I’m not so different than all my minions. Oh, I know that you all secretly worship my hair ( some of you not so secretly which is embarrassing at times ), and wish you could either be just like me ( the males ), or wish to have my spawn ( the ladies ). But I am a mere mortal. I’d claim semi-deity status, but the story and movie “The man who would be king” left a lasting impression on me ( Sean Connery in one of his best, for the movie version ). Don’t claim to be a god or the teeming minion army will eventually take offense and try to kill you. As a mere mortal, a red blooded American, I lusted after a violent end to civilization ( don’t be ashamed to admit you WANT the end to be nigh. There is nothing wrong with wanting to cleanse the gene pool ). Something sexy like a comet hit or global thermonuclear war. Something Doctor Strangelovean. Hell, I would have settled for the oil pumps drying up and one huge spastic rioting and looting episode followed by bubbling stew pots. So what do we get instead? Bankers choking on their own ocean of worthless paper. So boring, it is a Rawlesian ending. I have maintained all along that the bankers are in charge. Long before the current housing bubble/derivative implosion/Euro mess. The bankers are in charge, they ( s )elect the politicians, and corporations get the sloppy thirds. And even though Obammy is a half breed Muslim from Uganda or some such place, I mostly hate him for being a bitch for the bankers. Sure, I’m a bit jealous. Give me half a million a year and I’ll be anyone’s stoolie also. I’d grin ear to ear as I was bending over the little people and violating them without lube. I would gladly be a flea bitten cur, drooling for my masters favors and treats. I’d flop on my back, expose my genitalia, pee on myself in excitement and then go out and attack whomever I was told to.
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Obammy, may his tanned hide bake in the fires of Hell for all eternity, is making absolutely no secret of who his masters are this week, dragging out with great fanfare his student aid plan and his mortgage refinance plan. Without going into too much detail, you are offered, distilled down to the basics, the once in a lifetime opportunity to lock in a lifetime of debt servitude. So your interest rates are lower, or your lower payment is stretched out longer. Big friggin deal. A lower interest rate in just the bankers way of making a smidge less money off you. But they aren’t doing you any favors. They are taking a bit less so you don’t go bankrupt and give them nothing ( in the case of the mortgages. Student loans are not dischargeable ) or just go jingle mail on them. In the case of the student loans, rather than throw you in jail where you will cost the bankrupt municipality money, they take a bit of a haircut due to inflation on a loan that takes you longer to pay back. They still make money. Because every cent the bankers loan was free money to them. It was created out of thin air. It isn’t gold coin they will lose. It is a bookkeeping entry only. If you default on a bankers loan, you aren’t cheating them. They didn’t give you real money. Nor is it like credit a grocery store gives you in between jobs. The store paid for those groceries first, then gave them to you on time payments. The central bank says to the central government, go invade oil country A. The taxpayers paid for that. Then, the oil enters the economy and as energy creates goods. The bankers increase the money supply to match the increased follow through of the economic activity. Or, the central bank tells the central government to outlaw drugs. The drug dealers go to the bankers and deposit cash. The bankers use that amount to start their magic fractional reserve money creation ( each step of the way a dollar is used, that dollar is loaned out eight or more times, only a few percent being kept on hand as collateral ). It isn’t real money. You can walk away from your loans, if legal, without feeling any moral compunction about cheating a thief.
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As I keep saying, get out of debt. Pretty soon, mortgages will be inflation indexed to force you to pay more, or, mortgages will become like student loans. Or, debtors prisons will be reestablished. Or all. The central government has taken over the liabilities of $75 trillion of Bank Of Americas derivatives exposure. They are saving the bankers by forcing everyone to buy health insurance. They are guaranteeing student loans, home loans and car loans. If you are a town, city, county or state that is bankrupt, the only relief the federal government offers you is a Greece Special. MORE debt, but at a lower interest. More hair of the dog toxin. The only way that any financial change is taking place is MORE debt, MORE inflation, MORE government mandates. MORE of the same and business as usual. If you don’t get out of debt, your odds of financial doom is multiplied exponentially. We will all get screwed, but debt will definitely give you no options to mitigate the effects. Before, being out of debt was good advice, just on general principles. Now, with solid examples of the government doing nothing to help everyone else but willing to do anything ( such as doubling the nation debt in a mere few years ) for the bankers, you had best assume the worse. There will be few if any concentration camps here. Too expensive. But there is definitely going to be a 99% indentured servitude to the bankers.
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I’m not so different than all my minions. Oh, I know that you all secretly worship my hair ( some of you not so secretly which is embarrassing at times ), and wish you could either be just like me ( the males ), or wish to have my spawn ( the ladies ). But I am a mere mortal. I’d claim semi-deity status, but the story and movie “The man who would be king” left a lasting impression on me ( Sean Connery in one of his best, for the movie version ). Don’t claim to be a god or the teeming minion army will eventually take offense and try to kill you. As a mere mortal, a red blooded American, I lusted after a violent end to civilization ( don’t be ashamed to admit you WANT the end to be nigh. There is nothing wrong with wanting to cleanse the gene pool ). Something sexy like a comet hit or global thermonuclear war. Something Doctor Strangelovean. Hell, I would have settled for the oil pumps drying up and one huge spastic rioting and looting episode followed by bubbling stew pots. So what do we get instead? Bankers choking on their own ocean of worthless paper. So boring, it is a Rawlesian ending. I have maintained all along that the bankers are in charge. Long before the current housing bubble/derivative implosion/Euro mess. The bankers are in charge, they ( s )elect the politicians, and corporations get the sloppy thirds. And even though Obammy is a half breed Muslim from Uganda or some such place, I mostly hate him for being a bitch for the bankers. Sure, I’m a bit jealous. Give me half a million a year and I’ll be anyone’s stoolie also. I’d grin ear to ear as I was bending over the little people and violating them without lube. I would gladly be a flea bitten cur, drooling for my masters favors and treats. I’d flop on my back, expose my genitalia, pee on myself in excitement and then go out and attack whomever I was told to.
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Obammy, may his tanned hide bake in the fires of Hell for all eternity, is making absolutely no secret of who his masters are this week, dragging out with great fanfare his student aid plan and his mortgage refinance plan. Without going into too much detail, you are offered, distilled down to the basics, the once in a lifetime opportunity to lock in a lifetime of debt servitude. So your interest rates are lower, or your lower payment is stretched out longer. Big friggin deal. A lower interest rate in just the bankers way of making a smidge less money off you. But they aren’t doing you any favors. They are taking a bit less so you don’t go bankrupt and give them nothing ( in the case of the mortgages. Student loans are not dischargeable ) or just go jingle mail on them. In the case of the student loans, rather than throw you in jail where you will cost the bankrupt municipality money, they take a bit of a haircut due to inflation on a loan that takes you longer to pay back. They still make money. Because every cent the bankers loan was free money to them. It was created out of thin air. It isn’t gold coin they will lose. It is a bookkeeping entry only. If you default on a bankers loan, you aren’t cheating them. They didn’t give you real money. Nor is it like credit a grocery store gives you in between jobs. The store paid for those groceries first, then gave them to you on time payments. The central bank says to the central government, go invade oil country A. The taxpayers paid for that. Then, the oil enters the economy and as energy creates goods. The bankers increase the money supply to match the increased follow through of the economic activity. Or, the central bank tells the central government to outlaw drugs. The drug dealers go to the bankers and deposit cash. The bankers use that amount to start their magic fractional reserve money creation ( each step of the way a dollar is used, that dollar is loaned out eight or more times, only a few percent being kept on hand as collateral ). It isn’t real money. You can walk away from your loans, if legal, without feeling any moral compunction about cheating a thief.
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As I keep saying, get out of debt. Pretty soon, mortgages will be inflation indexed to force you to pay more, or, mortgages will become like student loans. Or, debtors prisons will be reestablished. Or all. The central government has taken over the liabilities of $75 trillion of Bank Of Americas derivatives exposure. They are saving the bankers by forcing everyone to buy health insurance. They are guaranteeing student loans, home loans and car loans. If you are a town, city, county or state that is bankrupt, the only relief the federal government offers you is a Greece Special. MORE debt, but at a lower interest. More hair of the dog toxin. The only way that any financial change is taking place is MORE debt, MORE inflation, MORE government mandates. MORE of the same and business as usual. If you don’t get out of debt, your odds of financial doom is multiplied exponentially. We will all get screwed, but debt will definitely give you no options to mitigate the effects. Before, being out of debt was good advice, just on general principles. Now, with solid examples of the government doing nothing to help everyone else but willing to do anything ( such as doubling the nation debt in a mere few years ) for the bankers, you had best assume the worse. There will be few if any concentration camps here. Too expensive. But there is definitely going to be a 99% indentured servitude to the bankers.
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
it's for the environment
IT’S FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
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Why write fiction? The stuff that really happens is so astonishingly bizarre that you couldn’t make this stuff up. Some place in Utah has just passed an ordinance that you will be fined for excessive automobile idling. They graciously exempt those in below freezing weather or in heat over 90. After all, if they allowed their old bastards to freeze to death, who would they fine next month? So, whenever someone needs an example of how micromanaging and overregulation lead to mass stupidity, point them to the New York City ban on “evil” fat and Utah’s ban on allowing your car to remain running. Hey, don’t you worry your pretty little head about it ( they also protect your head by forcing motorcycle helmets to be worn and banning driving and texting so you don’t get into an accident ), we are only trying to protect the environment! They actually had the giant swinging iron balls to say that! Helping to save the planet. Sure, I’ll bet. Helping to balance your town budget with “spitting on the sidewalk and cussing on Sunday” laws. Here is proof positive that voting doesn’t change a thing, because surely no friggin voter is so stupid that they would allow this kind of crap. They have simply got to believe this puts them in danger. Example, They can’t talk on the cell while driving, so they pull over to report an injured man in an auto accident ( one can only conclude that the only reason an accident could have happened at all was because someone was eating illegal fat coated American Fries while talking on their cell phone, had an instant heart attack from the Evil Fat and was distracted from having their hands placed at the correct ten and two position and hit his head because he wasn’t wearing cranial safety gear, and Baby Jesus cut him down for taking the Lord’s name in vain as he panicked and lost control in the traffic jam ) and if they either forget to turn off the motor, or, worse, need to keep the juice flowing because the cell phone battery is dead, sure as God made little green apples just then an Environmentally Correct Enforcement Officer would whip up in his ethanol mobile and observe your capital offence. Or how about this. You are going to pull out of traffic from a store. You judge that the oncoming traffic is too fast and fail to pull out. Rather, you wait for the current wave of traffic to pass. Suddenly, an overhead helicopter illuminates you with their spotlight, a stern voice informs you to freeze as you are in Violation Of The Environment, Idling Too Long, police dogs are unleashed and you are apprehended and your bail set for twenty grand, as your picture appears in the Environmentally Approved Kindle Version Of The Newspaper, along with those soliciting prostitutes or molesting sheep.
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And you thought the Lawn Watering Police were the height of idiocy. It would be a lot easier to double the cost of water past X amount, discouraging the waves of hapless idiots that think the water table won’t fall as millions of homes keep lawns IN THE FRIGGIN DESERT IN A STATE EXPERIANCING LONG TERN DROUGHT. Notice how I capitalized that? Every tree molesting, Birkenstock wearing, Prius driving, female armpit hair weaving, college educated idiot out there that kills hundreds of thousands of trees to print a book telling us how evil we all are for causing global warming and we must all live at tropical Africa levels of poverty to save the environment, if they just looked at a friggin Google map of an southwestern city and saw how many homes had well watered lawns and trees on land where the closest surface water was five hundred miles away, then they would know how impossible it is going to be to get ANYONE to change their ways and Save The Environment. The only good these millions of mouth breathing banjo players are going to do for earth is when they die off in famine and fuel shortages and we bury them and give the dirt some needed nutrients. No one, to include Al “I invented the Internet” Gore, who was just in it for the money, nor any politician in some Podunk Utah berg, gives two craps about the environment. It is all about the money. When the CEO of a soap company tells you how he just loves the earth all to pieces, he slips Mother a sloppy wet tongue whenever he can, he gives money to starving kids in whatever country he gets raw materials from, so he is sending all his happy loyal customers in America a brand new reinvented box containing his soap that now uses one half the cardboard, and that cardboard is a whopping ten percent post consumer recycled paper, he is blowing environmentally safe smoke up your ass. He is doing it to save money.
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Corporations using petroleum inputs to turn barren dirt into fields of corn using genetically modified seeds and turning it into ethanol aren’t trying to use a zero carbon fuel or save the environment or keeping America fuel independent. They are making money. And I sure as crap don’t care if I’m saving the earth by riding a bicycle. I’m doing it to save money. Very soon we will all be “saving the environment” as oil runs out. Those still driving will pay a per mile carbon tax, which will just go into the counties tax slush fund and go to pay the interest on the loans to the bankers for unneeded crap. These people with Save The Environment are completely Business As Usual. They are pissing on your leg and calling it acid rain. Don’t listen to the hype, instead follow the money. I just wish we could really help out the environment and fertilize the ground with the rotting corpses of any idiot that tried to sell us this horse crap. And you, go back to watering your desert lawn, our politicians are busy saving the earth.
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Why write fiction? The stuff that really happens is so astonishingly bizarre that you couldn’t make this stuff up. Some place in Utah has just passed an ordinance that you will be fined for excessive automobile idling. They graciously exempt those in below freezing weather or in heat over 90. After all, if they allowed their old bastards to freeze to death, who would they fine next month? So, whenever someone needs an example of how micromanaging and overregulation lead to mass stupidity, point them to the New York City ban on “evil” fat and Utah’s ban on allowing your car to remain running. Hey, don’t you worry your pretty little head about it ( they also protect your head by forcing motorcycle helmets to be worn and banning driving and texting so you don’t get into an accident ), we are only trying to protect the environment! They actually had the giant swinging iron balls to say that! Helping to save the planet. Sure, I’ll bet. Helping to balance your town budget with “spitting on the sidewalk and cussing on Sunday” laws. Here is proof positive that voting doesn’t change a thing, because surely no friggin voter is so stupid that they would allow this kind of crap. They have simply got to believe this puts them in danger. Example, They can’t talk on the cell while driving, so they pull over to report an injured man in an auto accident ( one can only conclude that the only reason an accident could have happened at all was because someone was eating illegal fat coated American Fries while talking on their cell phone, had an instant heart attack from the Evil Fat and was distracted from having their hands placed at the correct ten and two position and hit his head because he wasn’t wearing cranial safety gear, and Baby Jesus cut him down for taking the Lord’s name in vain as he panicked and lost control in the traffic jam ) and if they either forget to turn off the motor, or, worse, need to keep the juice flowing because the cell phone battery is dead, sure as God made little green apples just then an Environmentally Correct Enforcement Officer would whip up in his ethanol mobile and observe your capital offence. Or how about this. You are going to pull out of traffic from a store. You judge that the oncoming traffic is too fast and fail to pull out. Rather, you wait for the current wave of traffic to pass. Suddenly, an overhead helicopter illuminates you with their spotlight, a stern voice informs you to freeze as you are in Violation Of The Environment, Idling Too Long, police dogs are unleashed and you are apprehended and your bail set for twenty grand, as your picture appears in the Environmentally Approved Kindle Version Of The Newspaper, along with those soliciting prostitutes or molesting sheep.
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And you thought the Lawn Watering Police were the height of idiocy. It would be a lot easier to double the cost of water past X amount, discouraging the waves of hapless idiots that think the water table won’t fall as millions of homes keep lawns IN THE FRIGGIN DESERT IN A STATE EXPERIANCING LONG TERN DROUGHT. Notice how I capitalized that? Every tree molesting, Birkenstock wearing, Prius driving, female armpit hair weaving, college educated idiot out there that kills hundreds of thousands of trees to print a book telling us how evil we all are for causing global warming and we must all live at tropical Africa levels of poverty to save the environment, if they just looked at a friggin Google map of an southwestern city and saw how many homes had well watered lawns and trees on land where the closest surface water was five hundred miles away, then they would know how impossible it is going to be to get ANYONE to change their ways and Save The Environment. The only good these millions of mouth breathing banjo players are going to do for earth is when they die off in famine and fuel shortages and we bury them and give the dirt some needed nutrients. No one, to include Al “I invented the Internet” Gore, who was just in it for the money, nor any politician in some Podunk Utah berg, gives two craps about the environment. It is all about the money. When the CEO of a soap company tells you how he just loves the earth all to pieces, he slips Mother a sloppy wet tongue whenever he can, he gives money to starving kids in whatever country he gets raw materials from, so he is sending all his happy loyal customers in America a brand new reinvented box containing his soap that now uses one half the cardboard, and that cardboard is a whopping ten percent post consumer recycled paper, he is blowing environmentally safe smoke up your ass. He is doing it to save money.
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Corporations using petroleum inputs to turn barren dirt into fields of corn using genetically modified seeds and turning it into ethanol aren’t trying to use a zero carbon fuel or save the environment or keeping America fuel independent. They are making money. And I sure as crap don’t care if I’m saving the earth by riding a bicycle. I’m doing it to save money. Very soon we will all be “saving the environment” as oil runs out. Those still driving will pay a per mile carbon tax, which will just go into the counties tax slush fund and go to pay the interest on the loans to the bankers for unneeded crap. These people with Save The Environment are completely Business As Usual. They are pissing on your leg and calling it acid rain. Don’t listen to the hype, instead follow the money. I just wish we could really help out the environment and fertilize the ground with the rotting corpses of any idiot that tried to sell us this horse crap. And you, go back to watering your desert lawn, our politicians are busy saving the earth.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
cloth diapers
CLOTH DIAPER
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I know we’ve talked about cloth diapers before. I don’t know if we expanded their use to include a whole host of other tasks. Which is what we will do today. But first, if possible, yes, for the short term disposables are best. I mean, we all know how disgusting babies are. They are on a liquid diet and so of course they shoot out high velocity unnaturally colored liquid feces. No diaper on earth is designed to contain that slop. The only reason we don’t mind changing those things is because we love our own spawn ( 10% ) and because we are so sleep deprived that we can’t remember how revolting the last diaper was ( 90% ). Which, if you will allow me to sidestep to an almost related topic, baby diarrhea caught on video. I’m watching America’s Funniest Videos and I’m greatly amused by the following. A dog is sleeping peacefully next to an infant. The infant is leaning up against the dog. Infant lets out an audibly wet pant load and the dog leaps up and runs away. This is one of the nominees for the nights funniest video. So who wins? Some old fart who thinks a laser pointer dot is attacking her. Okay, it is possible that the bitch is suffering from dementia and forgot what a laser is. More likely, they faked the whole thing. Anymore, if the video doesn’t feature small kids or pets, they all look faked. Let me put it this way- professional wrestling looks better. And another thing. Every friggin time I think a video is hilarious, they come in third place. The stupidest one always wins. What the heck? Either people are retards, or they are doing this just to piss me off. I’ll leave you to conclude which one I believe.
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Okay, back to diapers. When you are manning the firing slots in your concrete bunker, fighting off desperate zombie storm troopers with your blazing plastic carbine ( yes, I did post an Amazon ad for a “complete your own” AR-15. Hate the bitches, but if you insist on having one, far better to save $200 on one and use that savings to buy 600 pounds of wheat ), you simply have no time to handwash poopy diapers. Better to lob the disposable diapers out the hatch with a lit cherry bomb inside to diminish the morale of the attackers ( shooting at me? No big deal. Exploding dookie? Retreat!!! ). But sooner or later, you will need to switch over to cloth diapers for Survivalist Sam/Suzy Junior. There isn’t enough money or space to stockpile all disposables. Perhaps a month or two worth of disposables and then plenty of cloth. The great thing about the cloth diapers is you can buy a pack every week as you go grocery shopping. Pretty soon it will add up. And, everyone should stock them. This will be a great barter item, even a rental item, because kids never stop being born. Don’t stock a Conex full, post-collapse weaving and spinning will produce cloth soon enough. But enough to get you through to that time. But covering babies butt is only the tip of the iceberg. You need cloth diapers for other things.
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Obviously, babies won’t be the only folks leaking disgusting fluids. Bitches be leaking every month. And grandma and grandpa will be leaking at front and back until they die from lack of medication. Another, less revolting use could be to use them as cloth napkins and cloth dishcloths ( to replace paper towels ). But for the love of Baby Jesus, embroider those so you don’t mix up the body fluid ones with the kitchen/dining ones either in use or in a batch of laundry. You can use them for a hankie. Those can just go in the regular laundry batch. And, most importantly, they will replace toilet paper. Sure, you COULD use water and your hand. But why would you want to? I don’t care if a billion Indian dudes do it. That is still disgusting. Sure, so is stirring a bubbling pot of water full of crap stained cloth, but at least it doesn’t touch your hands. They also crap in their rice paddies, and I wouldn’t do that either. Urine is sterile, feces is harmful. I don’t want it near my food, either in the fields or near the hand I eat with. Using one piece of paper, you can theoretically scrape away the bulk of the residual solids ( for all the complaining you fems do about how it sucks to be you, try living with a bunghole surrounded by hair which makes for a natural dookie strainer ) and then get the rest with however many pieces of cloth diaper you need for a refreshingly clean orifice. Then, make laundry day the responsibility of the village retard or prisoners of war or criminals ( spitting on the sidewalk? That’s a crap cleaning offense, partner ). Simply put, it is silly to NOT have cloth diapers as part of your survival stockpile.
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Word comes out from or little commie puke whore anal wart ( thanks, troll dude in the comments section, for reminding me to use “anal wart” ) licking banjo players, National Pravda Radio, that the twat in the Nevada National Guard that was shot in the pancake house and survived is now advocating making semi-automatics illegal in the state. News flash to mouth breather, you took an official oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. Remember that? Did you even bother to read the document you pledged to give up your life defending? Hear about the part titled Second Amendment? Is “shall not be infringed” too difficult to understand? The parts that recognizes our natural rights are not negotiable. It doesn’t grant use the right, it tells us the ones government can’t take away. I expect politicians to lie and break their oaths. They started out as bottom feeding lawyers, then devolved further. But I do expect a soldier to take the pledge seriously. I don’t have a way to express my outrage while writing with the self imposed constraints of foul language I work with. A shining example of the new type of citizens now making up Nevada.
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I know we’ve talked about cloth diapers before. I don’t know if we expanded their use to include a whole host of other tasks. Which is what we will do today. But first, if possible, yes, for the short term disposables are best. I mean, we all know how disgusting babies are. They are on a liquid diet and so of course they shoot out high velocity unnaturally colored liquid feces. No diaper on earth is designed to contain that slop. The only reason we don’t mind changing those things is because we love our own spawn ( 10% ) and because we are so sleep deprived that we can’t remember how revolting the last diaper was ( 90% ). Which, if you will allow me to sidestep to an almost related topic, baby diarrhea caught on video. I’m watching America’s Funniest Videos and I’m greatly amused by the following. A dog is sleeping peacefully next to an infant. The infant is leaning up against the dog. Infant lets out an audibly wet pant load and the dog leaps up and runs away. This is one of the nominees for the nights funniest video. So who wins? Some old fart who thinks a laser pointer dot is attacking her. Okay, it is possible that the bitch is suffering from dementia and forgot what a laser is. More likely, they faked the whole thing. Anymore, if the video doesn’t feature small kids or pets, they all look faked. Let me put it this way- professional wrestling looks better. And another thing. Every friggin time I think a video is hilarious, they come in third place. The stupidest one always wins. What the heck? Either people are retards, or they are doing this just to piss me off. I’ll leave you to conclude which one I believe.
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Okay, back to diapers. When you are manning the firing slots in your concrete bunker, fighting off desperate zombie storm troopers with your blazing plastic carbine ( yes, I did post an Amazon ad for a “complete your own” AR-15. Hate the bitches, but if you insist on having one, far better to save $200 on one and use that savings to buy 600 pounds of wheat ), you simply have no time to handwash poopy diapers. Better to lob the disposable diapers out the hatch with a lit cherry bomb inside to diminish the morale of the attackers ( shooting at me? No big deal. Exploding dookie? Retreat!!! ). But sooner or later, you will need to switch over to cloth diapers for Survivalist Sam/Suzy Junior. There isn’t enough money or space to stockpile all disposables. Perhaps a month or two worth of disposables and then plenty of cloth. The great thing about the cloth diapers is you can buy a pack every week as you go grocery shopping. Pretty soon it will add up. And, everyone should stock them. This will be a great barter item, even a rental item, because kids never stop being born. Don’t stock a Conex full, post-collapse weaving and spinning will produce cloth soon enough. But enough to get you through to that time. But covering babies butt is only the tip of the iceberg. You need cloth diapers for other things.
*
Obviously, babies won’t be the only folks leaking disgusting fluids. Bitches be leaking every month. And grandma and grandpa will be leaking at front and back until they die from lack of medication. Another, less revolting use could be to use them as cloth napkins and cloth dishcloths ( to replace paper towels ). But for the love of Baby Jesus, embroider those so you don’t mix up the body fluid ones with the kitchen/dining ones either in use or in a batch of laundry. You can use them for a hankie. Those can just go in the regular laundry batch. And, most importantly, they will replace toilet paper. Sure, you COULD use water and your hand. But why would you want to? I don’t care if a billion Indian dudes do it. That is still disgusting. Sure, so is stirring a bubbling pot of water full of crap stained cloth, but at least it doesn’t touch your hands. They also crap in their rice paddies, and I wouldn’t do that either. Urine is sterile, feces is harmful. I don’t want it near my food, either in the fields or near the hand I eat with. Using one piece of paper, you can theoretically scrape away the bulk of the residual solids ( for all the complaining you fems do about how it sucks to be you, try living with a bunghole surrounded by hair which makes for a natural dookie strainer ) and then get the rest with however many pieces of cloth diaper you need for a refreshingly clean orifice. Then, make laundry day the responsibility of the village retard or prisoners of war or criminals ( spitting on the sidewalk? That’s a crap cleaning offense, partner ). Simply put, it is silly to NOT have cloth diapers as part of your survival stockpile.
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Word comes out from or little commie puke whore anal wart ( thanks, troll dude in the comments section, for reminding me to use “anal wart” ) licking banjo players, National Pravda Radio, that the twat in the Nevada National Guard that was shot in the pancake house and survived is now advocating making semi-automatics illegal in the state. News flash to mouth breather, you took an official oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. Remember that? Did you even bother to read the document you pledged to give up your life defending? Hear about the part titled Second Amendment? Is “shall not be infringed” too difficult to understand? The parts that recognizes our natural rights are not negotiable. It doesn’t grant use the right, it tells us the ones government can’t take away. I expect politicians to lie and break their oaths. They started out as bottom feeding lawyers, then devolved further. But I do expect a soldier to take the pledge seriously. I don’t have a way to express my outrage while writing with the self imposed constraints of foul language I work with. A shining example of the new type of citizens now making up Nevada.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
top twenty fiction
TOP TWENTY FICTION
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Every one of us has a different top ten or twenty in survival fiction. Most of you simply love “Earth Abides”. I put it at the bottom of my list, as one of my bad pet peeves in survival fiction is the Judgment Day effect of everybody dying off and leaving the survivors a sea of plenty. An otherwise great book is spat upon and ridiculed if it has this feature. I also have a different set of priorities than most of you. You- guns blazing in orgasmic semi auto delight. Me- logistics. My selection will reflect both of these. Militia porn is not included, although I’ll allow fantasy if it suits my purposes. To each his own.
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One- Lucifer’s Hammer by Niven and Pournelle. My first apocalypse read, what got me interested in The End Of The World. In my opinion it is still the best. Yes, it meanders at the beginning. It is called character development and plot sketching. You want to buy into an alternate universe with fiction, not just have a printed version of a TV episode of A-Team. It balanced a fine line between Too Optimistic and Too Paranoid. Most books just go one way or another.
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Two-Dies The Fire by SM Stirling. I can’t help it, I simply love this book. All the rest in the series blew bloody chunks, being little more than contemporary fantasy. But this one just seemed to have its finger on the pulse of a collapse. When you run across those sections were the characters start orgasmic worshipping of trees and tree deities, don’t despair. It is usually over in a page or three. And they don’t happen too often. There were plenty of Idiotic Foreigner Lawyer Liberal Puke Author moments, such as when females are unrealistically given the equal physical powers of males ( or more, if they are processed by magical tree deity powers ), but after those 1% distractions, overall the book simply kicks ass.
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Three-One Second After by W Forstchen. Possibly the most realistic and least fantastic of the bunch. After all, comets rarely hit but a solar flare melted telegraph lines only about 150 years ago. And we won’t even go into the Space Bats in the last book. Also, a very talented author.
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Four-Retrieved From The Future by John Seymour. A pick from the other side of the pond, and notable for its realistic story of the fight of the survivors over functional farm land. Not for the minions who think an AR and a stern look will save their gardens from the mass migration of city folk. Very well written by the guy most known for back to the land books.
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Five- As Wind In Dry Grass by G Llewellyn. Perhaps this is more of a militia book than a survivalist/doomer/post-apocalypse book, but I include it here because it is such a rare realistic look at how true human nature is to our primitive ancestors, tooth and claw, rather than a moralistic, simplistic, love thy neighbor crap that is only realistic in times of plenty. Most doomer books are Little House On The Prairie. This is Little Indian Scalping War Party On The Prairie.
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Six-The Mist by Stephen King. I think King’s The Stand should never be included in doomer book lists, but this novella is one of the best of the genre. The only reason it isn’t closer to the top is because of its strong fantasy/horror elements. But is paints such a vivid feel of doom and gloom that I don’t think I’ve ever seen its equal ( to possibly include The Road ). This is King at the top of his form, suspending reality for you and putting you into another universe.
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Seven-Afterlight by Alex Scarrow. Better than its prequel. Surviving on a bit of salvage and a lot of manual labor and by abandoning most luxuries. And of course, hiding out helped a lot. A more realistic look at survival than the fools in their Escape Pods with ten thousand rounds of ammo and a warehouse of MRE’s.
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Eight- Last Light by Alex Scarrow. At first glance you wouldn’t think this to be a very good tale. Middle east oil stops, society collapses. But it just focuses on one family rather than society as a whole being impacted. But somehow it works as no other Peak Oil fiction has, and it is a companion to number seven.
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Nine- The Road by C McCarthy. This book is really irritating with its droning on and on about feelings and other fem crap by the dad of a surviving father and son. But few other books spell out the realistic conditions of a mass die off aftermath. This is what Rome must have been like, without the nuclear winter.
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Ten-Survivors by T Nation. The British book they based two BBC series on. Perhaps it should have been a bit farther down the list, but since this is MY list, the top ten had to have the “Oh My God, I will simply die if I don’t read this book at least once more, and possibly several times” factor going for it. And I surprised myself with this one. Not greatly realistic or even all that special, it had something to prompt you to reread.
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Eleven-Alas, Babylon by P Frank. A bit dated, or it might have been a bit up the list. Nuclear war just isn’t as much of a probability as it used to be ( yes, yes, I know Dies The Fire is totally improbable ). A classic, and a reread, but sorry, it is still #11 due to the Leave It To Beaver tone that seriously dates it.
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Twelve-Wolf And Iron by G Dickson. A realistic Quest Story. Also a reread, but something kept it from the top ten. I’m not sure what.
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Thirteen-Islands In The Sea Of Time by SM Stirling. One of his first books I ran across, and his peculiarities threw me off and forced me to say bad things about his writing. That whole Linda Hamilton female warrior that is plausible with firearms but not muscle weapons. But I grew to overlook that and went on to enjoy this book and Fire.
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Fourteen-The Folk Of The Fringe by OS Card. I don’t like much of his other writing, but I keep coming back to this collection of short post apocalypse stories. Most don’t even meet my ideal, being placed in a time after the collapse and once order is reestablished. But this book works nonetheless.
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Fifteen-Faraday’s Orphans by N L Wood. Just like the above, in a settled post collapse environment, but gritty enough in its living conditions of the survivors I had to include it.
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Sixteen-The Things That Keep Us Here by C Buckley. Normally I can’t stand female authors. When one impresses me with her story, and better yet a prepper/collapse story, I pay attention. You can share the fear and angst.
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Seventeen-The Cross Time Engineer Series by L Frankowski. OK, not a doomer series in the slightest. Engineer dude goes back through time to battle the forces of evil. But it nicely depicts simple technology, a must for reestablishing a civilization.
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Eighteen-The Lost Regiment Series by W Forstchen. Again, fantasy rather than post-apoc. But the group must build a Civil-War era army from scratch. Useful for small glimpses of primitive tech and pre-modern logistics.
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Nineteen-The Aftermath by S Florman. A cruise ship full of engineers survives a comet strike and must totally rebuild from scratch. Weak writing but great subject matter.
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Twenty-Patriots by JW Rawles. I know, a book by my main nemesis. But I can’t stop rereading this book, for whatever reason. Something about it. Sure, the new one is better, but for me it isn’t a reread. This one is, at least up to about page 300.
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Okay, that’s it. I have about sixty six others, but these made the top of the list. Perhaps not the best, but the most striking, memorable, or compelling rereads.
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Every one of us has a different top ten or twenty in survival fiction. Most of you simply love “Earth Abides”. I put it at the bottom of my list, as one of my bad pet peeves in survival fiction is the Judgment Day effect of everybody dying off and leaving the survivors a sea of plenty. An otherwise great book is spat upon and ridiculed if it has this feature. I also have a different set of priorities than most of you. You- guns blazing in orgasmic semi auto delight. Me- logistics. My selection will reflect both of these. Militia porn is not included, although I’ll allow fantasy if it suits my purposes. To each his own.
*
One- Lucifer’s Hammer by Niven and Pournelle. My first apocalypse read, what got me interested in The End Of The World. In my opinion it is still the best. Yes, it meanders at the beginning. It is called character development and plot sketching. You want to buy into an alternate universe with fiction, not just have a printed version of a TV episode of A-Team. It balanced a fine line between Too Optimistic and Too Paranoid. Most books just go one way or another.
*
Two-Dies The Fire by SM Stirling. I can’t help it, I simply love this book. All the rest in the series blew bloody chunks, being little more than contemporary fantasy. But this one just seemed to have its finger on the pulse of a collapse. When you run across those sections were the characters start orgasmic worshipping of trees and tree deities, don’t despair. It is usually over in a page or three. And they don’t happen too often. There were plenty of Idiotic Foreigner Lawyer Liberal Puke Author moments, such as when females are unrealistically given the equal physical powers of males ( or more, if they are processed by magical tree deity powers ), but after those 1% distractions, overall the book simply kicks ass.
*
Three-One Second After by W Forstchen. Possibly the most realistic and least fantastic of the bunch. After all, comets rarely hit but a solar flare melted telegraph lines only about 150 years ago. And we won’t even go into the Space Bats in the last book. Also, a very talented author.
*
Four-Retrieved From The Future by John Seymour. A pick from the other side of the pond, and notable for its realistic story of the fight of the survivors over functional farm land. Not for the minions who think an AR and a stern look will save their gardens from the mass migration of city folk. Very well written by the guy most known for back to the land books.
*
Five- As Wind In Dry Grass by G Llewellyn. Perhaps this is more of a militia book than a survivalist/doomer/post-apocalypse book, but I include it here because it is such a rare realistic look at how true human nature is to our primitive ancestors, tooth and claw, rather than a moralistic, simplistic, love thy neighbor crap that is only realistic in times of plenty. Most doomer books are Little House On The Prairie. This is Little Indian Scalping War Party On The Prairie.
*
Six-The Mist by Stephen King. I think King’s The Stand should never be included in doomer book lists, but this novella is one of the best of the genre. The only reason it isn’t closer to the top is because of its strong fantasy/horror elements. But is paints such a vivid feel of doom and gloom that I don’t think I’ve ever seen its equal ( to possibly include The Road ). This is King at the top of his form, suspending reality for you and putting you into another universe.
*
Seven-Afterlight by Alex Scarrow. Better than its prequel. Surviving on a bit of salvage and a lot of manual labor and by abandoning most luxuries. And of course, hiding out helped a lot. A more realistic look at survival than the fools in their Escape Pods with ten thousand rounds of ammo and a warehouse of MRE’s.
*
Eight- Last Light by Alex Scarrow. At first glance you wouldn’t think this to be a very good tale. Middle east oil stops, society collapses. But it just focuses on one family rather than society as a whole being impacted. But somehow it works as no other Peak Oil fiction has, and it is a companion to number seven.
*
Nine- The Road by C McCarthy. This book is really irritating with its droning on and on about feelings and other fem crap by the dad of a surviving father and son. But few other books spell out the realistic conditions of a mass die off aftermath. This is what Rome must have been like, without the nuclear winter.
*
Ten-Survivors by T Nation. The British book they based two BBC series on. Perhaps it should have been a bit farther down the list, but since this is MY list, the top ten had to have the “Oh My God, I will simply die if I don’t read this book at least once more, and possibly several times” factor going for it. And I surprised myself with this one. Not greatly realistic or even all that special, it had something to prompt you to reread.
*
Eleven-Alas, Babylon by P Frank. A bit dated, or it might have been a bit up the list. Nuclear war just isn’t as much of a probability as it used to be ( yes, yes, I know Dies The Fire is totally improbable ). A classic, and a reread, but sorry, it is still #11 due to the Leave It To Beaver tone that seriously dates it.
*
Twelve-Wolf And Iron by G Dickson. A realistic Quest Story. Also a reread, but something kept it from the top ten. I’m not sure what.
*
Thirteen-Islands In The Sea Of Time by SM Stirling. One of his first books I ran across, and his peculiarities threw me off and forced me to say bad things about his writing. That whole Linda Hamilton female warrior that is plausible with firearms but not muscle weapons. But I grew to overlook that and went on to enjoy this book and Fire.
*
Fourteen-The Folk Of The Fringe by OS Card. I don’t like much of his other writing, but I keep coming back to this collection of short post apocalypse stories. Most don’t even meet my ideal, being placed in a time after the collapse and once order is reestablished. But this book works nonetheless.
*
Fifteen-Faraday’s Orphans by N L Wood. Just like the above, in a settled post collapse environment, but gritty enough in its living conditions of the survivors I had to include it.
*
Sixteen-The Things That Keep Us Here by C Buckley. Normally I can’t stand female authors. When one impresses me with her story, and better yet a prepper/collapse story, I pay attention. You can share the fear and angst.
*
Seventeen-The Cross Time Engineer Series by L Frankowski. OK, not a doomer series in the slightest. Engineer dude goes back through time to battle the forces of evil. But it nicely depicts simple technology, a must for reestablishing a civilization.
*
Eighteen-The Lost Regiment Series by W Forstchen. Again, fantasy rather than post-apoc. But the group must build a Civil-War era army from scratch. Useful for small glimpses of primitive tech and pre-modern logistics.
*
Nineteen-The Aftermath by S Florman. A cruise ship full of engineers survives a comet strike and must totally rebuild from scratch. Weak writing but great subject matter.
*
Twenty-Patriots by JW Rawles. I know, a book by my main nemesis. But I can’t stop rereading this book, for whatever reason. Something about it. Sure, the new one is better, but for me it isn’t a reread. This one is, at least up to about page 300.
*
Okay, that’s it. I have about sixty six others, but these made the top of the list. Perhaps not the best, but the most striking, memorable, or compelling rereads.
END
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
changing your spots
CHANGING YOUR SPOTS
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I don’t know if I’ve repeated this fable to you before, but I like it so much I shall, and you shall like it and verily all will be well throughout the land. A scorpion wanted to cross a river, but of course he couldn’t swim. So when he spotted a frog he asked for a ride across. The frog, knowing the scorpion would sting him, refused. To which the scorpion replied that this couldn’t possibly happen, as if the frog was stung and died and sunk half way across the river, the scorpion also would die. It would not be in his best interest to sting the frog. Faced with this impeccable logic, the frog consented. Well, of course, half way across the scorpion just couldn’t resist temptation anymore and stung the frog. With its last breath, the frog implored, why? Now we must both die. To which the scorpion answered, hey, I’m a scorpion.
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Moral of the story, you can’t change your fundamental ways. Or, to use another competing fable ( because evidently even back then they were having competition in all occupations and everyone was throwing around fables like they were cowpies and only the best got repeated, and of course there were a few that tied for first place and you never again heard about the ones that lost, like the second place tale of the intestinal worm that took a ride in the ass crack of a baboon ) a leopard can’t change its spots. Personally, I like the scorpion tale better, because an animal not being able to change its appearance can be a bit confusing. I mean, without hair color or cosmic surgery, how can he. He doesn’t even have opposable thumbs to manipulate those tools if he could get them. But, the great thing about fables are, we’ve all heard them and it doesn’t have to make perfect sense, we are all just responding to the title or main theme tied to the moral or point of the story. We all know what “can’t change your spots” mean. It doesn’t mean, for instance, that since Monday’s blow you should act like an ass. You can force yourself to act nice to your coworkers. It means, for instance, that a women can’t lift a hundred pounds and a man can’t get pregnant, despite the best efforts of the FemiNazi’s. There is one bunch that has their heads up their asses. They think positive thinking or legislature can change your spots. Forcing police departments to accept females as beat cops doesn’t make them naturally aggressive or allow them to wrestle a two hundred pound man to the ground. A female firefighter can’t carry victims out of a burning building like her male counterpart can. And don’t even get me started on affirmative action hiring.
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A leopard isn’t going to turn into a vegetarian when meat gets scarce. He isn’t physically equipped for that change. He also won’t stop killing herbivores just because their numbers are dwindling. Here is the fundamental point I want you to take away today. Even if the predator only has a few prey left, he won’t go hungry to conserve the remainder. If he has to eat to survive, he does. Humans will do the same. We have more options, but the fundamentals don’t change. Bankers are like leopards. They are incapable of physical change. Growth is meat to bankers. It keeps them in business and alive. Growth is what makes interest possible, which are the bankers wages. True, obscenely profitable wages. But then, one could argue that a leopard doesn’t need that whole wildebeest either ( a banker does over profit in good times to survive the lean as a leopard overeats now for several meals ). Look, you all know I hate and despise bankers for the parasites that they are. But one thing I hate more is irrational thinking. I can admit that bankers serve a needed economic niche.
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In times of resource growth, you need bankers. If resources are increasing, you need increasing prices both to act as some sort of brake on consumption while also rewarding those who would continue to extract and process that resource. If you didn’t increase the money supply, you would run out of that resource ( the market would run out, regardless of the availability of it in nature ). If there was a finite amount of gold available as money, and an increasing supply of oil, the price of oil would fall. If that price decreased, everyone would use more and more, wasting it. At the same time, the wages of wildcatters and drillers would fall as the price of oil fell, and they would stop working. Vast pools of oil would lay underground untapped. Now, if you substituted gold with paper, and allowed the supply of paper to increase every year to roughly parallel that of the oil supply, people wouldn’t waste as much oil and the oil companies would try to find more to increase their profits ( which are just wages ). So, in essence, the bankers were needed to keep the energy flowing. Okay, bravo. But now, as oil supplies are diminishing, the whole paradigm has changed. No more growth due to oil. So, what must the banker do to keep eating? Instead of dinning on the baby wildebeest he must start going after the mothers, as they are the only meat left ( think of it as the grass supply dwindling, so there is less to eat so the females don‘t get pregnant ). Oil supply growth is substituted with bad inflation.
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Not inflation to keep pace with oil and pay the bankers profits. No, that is tame inflation. The kind we are used to and can live with ( I don’t like the illustration of how in a century a dollar is only worth five cents. That implies you wake up from a coma and discover your savings gone. In reality, folks used their houses to mostly cushion against inflations cost, plus got some kind of wage increase. The workers didn’t lose most of that 95 cents, just some ). No, now we are talking about hyperinflation. The kind you can’t keep up with. I don’t LIKE currency devaluation, but can see it as the necessity it is to control resource growth. But the downside of it is now hitting us. Now, without resource growth, we are still stuck with the bankers. Now, instead of being paid handsomely to act as resource managers, they are simply parasites. And the meat eaters will keep killing the members of the herd, because they still have to eat. Until both the predators and the prey are all dead. This is simply the nature of the beast, and a million well intentioned eco-books imploring the leopard to turn vegetarian won’t change a damn thing. The bankers must die of starvation before they go away and a new food chain is established. If you are reliant on the bankers to keep your numbers down, to keep the grass supply from being overgrazed, please beware that one day YOU will become dinner.
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I don’t know if I’ve repeated this fable to you before, but I like it so much I shall, and you shall like it and verily all will be well throughout the land. A scorpion wanted to cross a river, but of course he couldn’t swim. So when he spotted a frog he asked for a ride across. The frog, knowing the scorpion would sting him, refused. To which the scorpion replied that this couldn’t possibly happen, as if the frog was stung and died and sunk half way across the river, the scorpion also would die. It would not be in his best interest to sting the frog. Faced with this impeccable logic, the frog consented. Well, of course, half way across the scorpion just couldn’t resist temptation anymore and stung the frog. With its last breath, the frog implored, why? Now we must both die. To which the scorpion answered, hey, I’m a scorpion.
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Moral of the story, you can’t change your fundamental ways. Or, to use another competing fable ( because evidently even back then they were having competition in all occupations and everyone was throwing around fables like they were cowpies and only the best got repeated, and of course there were a few that tied for first place and you never again heard about the ones that lost, like the second place tale of the intestinal worm that took a ride in the ass crack of a baboon ) a leopard can’t change its spots. Personally, I like the scorpion tale better, because an animal not being able to change its appearance can be a bit confusing. I mean, without hair color or cosmic surgery, how can he. He doesn’t even have opposable thumbs to manipulate those tools if he could get them. But, the great thing about fables are, we’ve all heard them and it doesn’t have to make perfect sense, we are all just responding to the title or main theme tied to the moral or point of the story. We all know what “can’t change your spots” mean. It doesn’t mean, for instance, that since Monday’s blow you should act like an ass. You can force yourself to act nice to your coworkers. It means, for instance, that a women can’t lift a hundred pounds and a man can’t get pregnant, despite the best efforts of the FemiNazi’s. There is one bunch that has their heads up their asses. They think positive thinking or legislature can change your spots. Forcing police departments to accept females as beat cops doesn’t make them naturally aggressive or allow them to wrestle a two hundred pound man to the ground. A female firefighter can’t carry victims out of a burning building like her male counterpart can. And don’t even get me started on affirmative action hiring.
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A leopard isn’t going to turn into a vegetarian when meat gets scarce. He isn’t physically equipped for that change. He also won’t stop killing herbivores just because their numbers are dwindling. Here is the fundamental point I want you to take away today. Even if the predator only has a few prey left, he won’t go hungry to conserve the remainder. If he has to eat to survive, he does. Humans will do the same. We have more options, but the fundamentals don’t change. Bankers are like leopards. They are incapable of physical change. Growth is meat to bankers. It keeps them in business and alive. Growth is what makes interest possible, which are the bankers wages. True, obscenely profitable wages. But then, one could argue that a leopard doesn’t need that whole wildebeest either ( a banker does over profit in good times to survive the lean as a leopard overeats now for several meals ). Look, you all know I hate and despise bankers for the parasites that they are. But one thing I hate more is irrational thinking. I can admit that bankers serve a needed economic niche.
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In times of resource growth, you need bankers. If resources are increasing, you need increasing prices both to act as some sort of brake on consumption while also rewarding those who would continue to extract and process that resource. If you didn’t increase the money supply, you would run out of that resource ( the market would run out, regardless of the availability of it in nature ). If there was a finite amount of gold available as money, and an increasing supply of oil, the price of oil would fall. If that price decreased, everyone would use more and more, wasting it. At the same time, the wages of wildcatters and drillers would fall as the price of oil fell, and they would stop working. Vast pools of oil would lay underground untapped. Now, if you substituted gold with paper, and allowed the supply of paper to increase every year to roughly parallel that of the oil supply, people wouldn’t waste as much oil and the oil companies would try to find more to increase their profits ( which are just wages ). So, in essence, the bankers were needed to keep the energy flowing. Okay, bravo. But now, as oil supplies are diminishing, the whole paradigm has changed. No more growth due to oil. So, what must the banker do to keep eating? Instead of dinning on the baby wildebeest he must start going after the mothers, as they are the only meat left ( think of it as the grass supply dwindling, so there is less to eat so the females don‘t get pregnant ). Oil supply growth is substituted with bad inflation.
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Not inflation to keep pace with oil and pay the bankers profits. No, that is tame inflation. The kind we are used to and can live with ( I don’t like the illustration of how in a century a dollar is only worth five cents. That implies you wake up from a coma and discover your savings gone. In reality, folks used their houses to mostly cushion against inflations cost, plus got some kind of wage increase. The workers didn’t lose most of that 95 cents, just some ). No, now we are talking about hyperinflation. The kind you can’t keep up with. I don’t LIKE currency devaluation, but can see it as the necessity it is to control resource growth. But the downside of it is now hitting us. Now, without resource growth, we are still stuck with the bankers. Now, instead of being paid handsomely to act as resource managers, they are simply parasites. And the meat eaters will keep killing the members of the herd, because they still have to eat. Until both the predators and the prey are all dead. This is simply the nature of the beast, and a million well intentioned eco-books imploring the leopard to turn vegetarian won’t change a damn thing. The bankers must die of starvation before they go away and a new food chain is established. If you are reliant on the bankers to keep your numbers down, to keep the grass supply from being overgrazed, please beware that one day YOU will become dinner.
END
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
affordable war
AFFORDABLE WAR
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Being your intrepid man of the hour on the spot Johnny globe spanning news analysis super dude, I joyfully tread where most others fear. While most tremble in fear, blathering uselessly about professional reputations and spot checking their facts, I manfully charge ahead and tell you what you need to know. Okay, sure, most of my theories are tinged and contaminated with paranoia and fear. But while I’m usually wrong in my timing, I’m rarely wrong in my underlying trend pattern. Today, I’d like to talk about Obammy and his claim that all but 600 troops will be pulled out of Iraq by the end of the year. Let’s take this at face value, assume he is not lying to us once again like the fuzzy foreigner that he is, not trying to weaken us so that his Allah praying buddies can kick our ass. Okay, I’m kidding about the Muslim part. He is a whore for the central bank, not any religion ( I’m pretty confident about his being a foreigner- remember our discussion about his being greenmailed to do the bankers bidding? ). The question that is critical here is, why are we pulling out? Because the motivation is very, very important. If it is politics, little harm done. If it reflects undisclosed oil reserve shenanigans, it might be a problem. If it is more about our ability to police the country, we might have a serious problem on our hands.
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If anyone is going to try to tell me, with a straight face, that Obammy is just doing this to try to get reelected, I will scream like a little bitch in a high falsetto and point a quivering finger in their direction, implore this devil to get behind me ( what is the deal with demanding the devil to “get behind me”? So you can’t see him and thus not be tempted? Myself, I’d worry that he would try to mount and sodimize me ) and in general make a spectacle of myself. Oh, my overly trusting friend, can’t we all agree that in politics, the money men change the tune? If the money men don’t want you to change strategic course, it doesn’t happen. If the money men don’t want you elected or reelected, it isn’t going to happen. It really makes my smile so wide the gaps between my teeth are revealed ( I’m not overly sensitive about my appearance outside being scrubbed and cleaned up a bit, but I already ride a bike, giving the illusion of a habitual drunk with no drivers license, so I don’t want to lose any front teeth which would add “crackhead” to my fictitious resume ) that you still believe in free and fair elections and the Easter Bunny. Do you also believe in democracy and Santa Claus? If you can’t even begin to question the basic propaganda that is spit out at grade school level, I fear this is not the place for you to be. I hear Glen Beck has a really popular site.
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Let me simplify this. We went into Iraq for the oil. Why would we then leave it? Not on a stupid pretence such as one of the worst presidents outside Grant or Carter wanted another term in office. Oil is the economy, it is the military. Obammy would be assassinated before he was allowed to weaken either. Obviously, he was told to withdraw the troops. So, why? If it isn’t to get reelected, that leaves two possibilities. One, there really isn’t as much oil there as we thought, or the oil infrastructure is too damaged to replace. Or, more ominously, we simply can’t afford to be there any longer. Let’s examine the first. We just got done dinking around in Libya, most likely to keep the Europeans in oil so that their economy doesn’t freefall so fast, and Libya has less oil that Iraq, so why would we suddenly give up on it? The reserves could be overestimated, a common occurrence throughout the middle east. But surely if that was the case they would still have more than Libya, right? Or, it is simply the case that between our blundering about with high ordinance Shocking and Aweing and then the continual low level intensity guerrilla attacks as tribes fought each other to control the resource, the infrastructure is simply too shot to Shitte to be useful? You would think if this was the case, then we would have known it a long time ago. If it was true, you would have thought Obammy could have stopped the occupation years ago. Now, granted, this is all conjecture. I have about 1% of the needed facts. But going with what I know, I have to conclude we are left with only one alternative, that we are so dead ass broke we can’t fund the occupation anymore.
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As a minion more versed in history pointed out to me, looking back at the Romans you saw a mere one year gap between an occupying force and its sudden withdrawal due to finances. It doesn’t matter how vital or strategic a force is, if the treasury can’t fund it, the troops are sent home. And, no, you can’t send home German or Korean occupiers and get the same savings. Those two forces are in a peacetime occupation, and their cost is within the budget. The Iraq occupation is largely outside the regular defense budget and it is a hot, wartime occupation. More and more of our federal money and new debt creation is going towards trying to stabilize the global economy ( we are hiding the Eurozone bailout rather well, but you can bet dollars are pouring in at a pace to make AIG look like a warm up exercise ). Look, almost two years ago when the economy started shrinking and taxes fell, our cost on the federal level to pay the interest on our debt went from twelve to twenty percent. As tax revenue declines, we are borrowing 40% of our daily federal budget. How much is our interest payments now? 30%? 35%? We are rapidly borrowing more and more just to keep the federal government functioning, and less and less of it can be earmarked for social spending or defense spending if more and more is going towards interest payments.
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How bad are things financially if we have to give up occupying Iraq? Supposedly, it was the third largest oil reserves globally. Are things falling apart so fast financially that we can’t hold on to that plum ( and why give it up and not Afghanistan? )? Now, to be fair, there is one other possibility although I don’t know how feasible it is. Are we going to get into another war before Christmas and we are going to shift the troops from Iraq to that theatre? If we didn’t need them in Iraq anymore because officially we were ending the occupation, it would leave a large number available. I like this scenario if only because it means the financial house of cards isn’t tumbling and I want another year to get the New And Improved Bison Underground Hovel finished. But then, who would we be interested in fighting and occupying? Saudi Arabia? Is that feasible? It would mean jumping from a marginal oil producer to the juiciest prize, even if they are in production decline. I just wonder if that would escalate other countries involvement, as they are the direct buyers of Saudi oil and have no replacement country. Not sure on that one. But we can all agree that the Iraq draw down is posing a lot of important unanswered questions.
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Being your intrepid man of the hour on the spot Johnny globe spanning news analysis super dude, I joyfully tread where most others fear. While most tremble in fear, blathering uselessly about professional reputations and spot checking their facts, I manfully charge ahead and tell you what you need to know. Okay, sure, most of my theories are tinged and contaminated with paranoia and fear. But while I’m usually wrong in my timing, I’m rarely wrong in my underlying trend pattern. Today, I’d like to talk about Obammy and his claim that all but 600 troops will be pulled out of Iraq by the end of the year. Let’s take this at face value, assume he is not lying to us once again like the fuzzy foreigner that he is, not trying to weaken us so that his Allah praying buddies can kick our ass. Okay, I’m kidding about the Muslim part. He is a whore for the central bank, not any religion ( I’m pretty confident about his being a foreigner- remember our discussion about his being greenmailed to do the bankers bidding? ). The question that is critical here is, why are we pulling out? Because the motivation is very, very important. If it is politics, little harm done. If it reflects undisclosed oil reserve shenanigans, it might be a problem. If it is more about our ability to police the country, we might have a serious problem on our hands.
*
If anyone is going to try to tell me, with a straight face, that Obammy is just doing this to try to get reelected, I will scream like a little bitch in a high falsetto and point a quivering finger in their direction, implore this devil to get behind me ( what is the deal with demanding the devil to “get behind me”? So you can’t see him and thus not be tempted? Myself, I’d worry that he would try to mount and sodimize me ) and in general make a spectacle of myself. Oh, my overly trusting friend, can’t we all agree that in politics, the money men change the tune? If the money men don’t want you to change strategic course, it doesn’t happen. If the money men don’t want you elected or reelected, it isn’t going to happen. It really makes my smile so wide the gaps between my teeth are revealed ( I’m not overly sensitive about my appearance outside being scrubbed and cleaned up a bit, but I already ride a bike, giving the illusion of a habitual drunk with no drivers license, so I don’t want to lose any front teeth which would add “crackhead” to my fictitious resume ) that you still believe in free and fair elections and the Easter Bunny. Do you also believe in democracy and Santa Claus? If you can’t even begin to question the basic propaganda that is spit out at grade school level, I fear this is not the place for you to be. I hear Glen Beck has a really popular site.
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Let me simplify this. We went into Iraq for the oil. Why would we then leave it? Not on a stupid pretence such as one of the worst presidents outside Grant or Carter wanted another term in office. Oil is the economy, it is the military. Obammy would be assassinated before he was allowed to weaken either. Obviously, he was told to withdraw the troops. So, why? If it isn’t to get reelected, that leaves two possibilities. One, there really isn’t as much oil there as we thought, or the oil infrastructure is too damaged to replace. Or, more ominously, we simply can’t afford to be there any longer. Let’s examine the first. We just got done dinking around in Libya, most likely to keep the Europeans in oil so that their economy doesn’t freefall so fast, and Libya has less oil that Iraq, so why would we suddenly give up on it? The reserves could be overestimated, a common occurrence throughout the middle east. But surely if that was the case they would still have more than Libya, right? Or, it is simply the case that between our blundering about with high ordinance Shocking and Aweing and then the continual low level intensity guerrilla attacks as tribes fought each other to control the resource, the infrastructure is simply too shot to Shitte to be useful? You would think if this was the case, then we would have known it a long time ago. If it was true, you would have thought Obammy could have stopped the occupation years ago. Now, granted, this is all conjecture. I have about 1% of the needed facts. But going with what I know, I have to conclude we are left with only one alternative, that we are so dead ass broke we can’t fund the occupation anymore.
*
As a minion more versed in history pointed out to me, looking back at the Romans you saw a mere one year gap between an occupying force and its sudden withdrawal due to finances. It doesn’t matter how vital or strategic a force is, if the treasury can’t fund it, the troops are sent home. And, no, you can’t send home German or Korean occupiers and get the same savings. Those two forces are in a peacetime occupation, and their cost is within the budget. The Iraq occupation is largely outside the regular defense budget and it is a hot, wartime occupation. More and more of our federal money and new debt creation is going towards trying to stabilize the global economy ( we are hiding the Eurozone bailout rather well, but you can bet dollars are pouring in at a pace to make AIG look like a warm up exercise ). Look, almost two years ago when the economy started shrinking and taxes fell, our cost on the federal level to pay the interest on our debt went from twelve to twenty percent. As tax revenue declines, we are borrowing 40% of our daily federal budget. How much is our interest payments now? 30%? 35%? We are rapidly borrowing more and more just to keep the federal government functioning, and less and less of it can be earmarked for social spending or defense spending if more and more is going towards interest payments.
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How bad are things financially if we have to give up occupying Iraq? Supposedly, it was the third largest oil reserves globally. Are things falling apart so fast financially that we can’t hold on to that plum ( and why give it up and not Afghanistan? )? Now, to be fair, there is one other possibility although I don’t know how feasible it is. Are we going to get into another war before Christmas and we are going to shift the troops from Iraq to that theatre? If we didn’t need them in Iraq anymore because officially we were ending the occupation, it would leave a large number available. I like this scenario if only because it means the financial house of cards isn’t tumbling and I want another year to get the New And Improved Bison Underground Hovel finished. But then, who would we be interested in fighting and occupying? Saudi Arabia? Is that feasible? It would mean jumping from a marginal oil producer to the juiciest prize, even if they are in production decline. I just wonder if that would escalate other countries involvement, as they are the direct buyers of Saudi oil and have no replacement country. Not sure on that one. But we can all agree that the Iraq draw down is posing a lot of important unanswered questions.
END
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Monday, October 24, 2011
spend wise grasshopper
SPEND WISE GRASSHOPPER
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Yes, yes, sure, sure, it’s all been covered before. No All Great And Overwhelming Wisdom suggested itself today, so I’m just rehashing one of my old favorites. I liked the article at Creekmore’s which mentions the Edison Battery ( a literal lifetime battery ), but I have no knowledge of it so I can’t pretend to stretch that subject out. And I could have blathered on some more about the alleged death of Gadhafi, but I saw little point in it. I could have talked about Occupy Wall Street, but that message, the bankers are asshats who rule you as a serf, I’ve recently beat that to death as the dead horse it is. So, by default, I’ll just make some noise about the only way you can survive the economic meltdown. As usual, you won’t like my advice. You never do, since it fails to address your comfort zone or sense of entitlement. It used to be that folks understood they were lucky. If they were born white middle class, they understood things could be a lot worse. They could be an oppressed minority. Now everyone is born with a feeling that they are the brightest shooting star Baby Jesus himself has ever witnessed and they are entitled to all the finest things life has to offer and that the world should debase itself and trip over itself to provide them with only the best. Even the minorities, rather than feeling relief that they aren’t inside burning churches or being eaten for lunch by police dogs, feel they are more than special. As soon as I bring up a bit of common sense, my long suffering minions roll their eyes ( “you’re preaching to the choir, bitch!” ) and my potential readers steered here from elsewhere run away as fast as their stubby little sticks of fat can carry them. The only way to combat the continuing rise in unemployment and fall in purchasing power is to get rid of your car and your rent or mortgage. After that, you will either have so much money falling out of your ass, or so much free time from being able to work less ( this assumes a still functioning economy ), you won’t know what to do with yourself.
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I understand that most of you worship the automobile as a false idol. Rather than being embarrassed about that, shuffling your feet and looking sheepish, apologizing to Jesus and begging forgiveness so you don’t spend all of eternity burning in the fiery bowels of Hell, you get all defensive and make excuses. Oh, I live too far from home ( buy a more expensive lot closer to town, it is cheaper than keeping that car, usually ). Oh, my wife refuses to go without a car ( have you looked very closely at that bitches thighs? She needs to get on a bike and she will thank you for it later, after she leaves you for the UPS guy ). Be honest, if you could, you would stroke that bumper as you attempted forced entry into your cars tailpipe, wouldn’t you? You are simply just gay over your car. But a car is a simple addiction like any other. Sure, harder to break than cigarettes or TV, but still an addiction. I’ve never owned, or owned but rarely drove a car most of my adult life. Even living in the country and hauling water I can do without one. I never would ever have kept the last vehicle this long if I hadn’t wanted to appease the wife ( the great thing about her leaving me and then wanting to move back is I can renegotiate terms. This last time I got rid of the truck while she was gone, and then she agreed that there wouldn’t be anymore weekly trips into town AND guaranteed frequency of sex. Sure, I’m an asshat, but once life gets short you should stop living under self imposed constraints ). I didn’t NEED to keep the truck, but I chose to. Now that I’ve chosen to do away with it altogether I’m ahead marginally financially but light years ahead cutting my stress. A car is only a money pit. If you think it provides freedom you are delusional.
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After you’ve saved twenty percent of your income by kicking the car habit, the next step is telling the bankers to go hump themselves bloody. If you own a house, you never are free of the house expense. Even if the second mortgage is paid off, maintenance is ongoing. Sure, maintenance on a travel trailer or salvaged wood hovel is ongoing, but it is the difference between bicycle or car mechanics. Hundreds if not thousands of percent difference. Just what it costs you to replace your roof, for example, would pay for my lot of land AND my travel trailer ( which is in great shape and a larger size ). If you don’t buy a home, but instead buy land and build your home on a cash carry basis, you don’t owe the bankers half your income for half your life. And if you pay rent, you are doing worse. It never ends until you die ( you are paying the landlords mortgage indirectly, so it is still a mortgage ). By thinking outside the box for home and transportation, you can live on 30% of what you spend now. That is how easy this is. You don’t have to deprive yourself any other way ( I can spend 15-20% of my income on books, easy, something I love, because I don’t fall for the above “necessities” myth ). I understand winter bike riding and junk land living isn’t for everyone. It doesn’t have to be. You can live unconventionally by employing other devices. But the concept is sound. Say no to debt and employing the most expensive solutions. And then enjoy life. It comes around once, don’t piss it away for the bankers.
END
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Yes, yes, sure, sure, it’s all been covered before. No All Great And Overwhelming Wisdom suggested itself today, so I’m just rehashing one of my old favorites. I liked the article at Creekmore’s which mentions the Edison Battery ( a literal lifetime battery ), but I have no knowledge of it so I can’t pretend to stretch that subject out. And I could have blathered on some more about the alleged death of Gadhafi, but I saw little point in it. I could have talked about Occupy Wall Street, but that message, the bankers are asshats who rule you as a serf, I’ve recently beat that to death as the dead horse it is. So, by default, I’ll just make some noise about the only way you can survive the economic meltdown. As usual, you won’t like my advice. You never do, since it fails to address your comfort zone or sense of entitlement. It used to be that folks understood they were lucky. If they were born white middle class, they understood things could be a lot worse. They could be an oppressed minority. Now everyone is born with a feeling that they are the brightest shooting star Baby Jesus himself has ever witnessed and they are entitled to all the finest things life has to offer and that the world should debase itself and trip over itself to provide them with only the best. Even the minorities, rather than feeling relief that they aren’t inside burning churches or being eaten for lunch by police dogs, feel they are more than special. As soon as I bring up a bit of common sense, my long suffering minions roll their eyes ( “you’re preaching to the choir, bitch!” ) and my potential readers steered here from elsewhere run away as fast as their stubby little sticks of fat can carry them. The only way to combat the continuing rise in unemployment and fall in purchasing power is to get rid of your car and your rent or mortgage. After that, you will either have so much money falling out of your ass, or so much free time from being able to work less ( this assumes a still functioning economy ), you won’t know what to do with yourself.
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I understand that most of you worship the automobile as a false idol. Rather than being embarrassed about that, shuffling your feet and looking sheepish, apologizing to Jesus and begging forgiveness so you don’t spend all of eternity burning in the fiery bowels of Hell, you get all defensive and make excuses. Oh, I live too far from home ( buy a more expensive lot closer to town, it is cheaper than keeping that car, usually ). Oh, my wife refuses to go without a car ( have you looked very closely at that bitches thighs? She needs to get on a bike and she will thank you for it later, after she leaves you for the UPS guy ). Be honest, if you could, you would stroke that bumper as you attempted forced entry into your cars tailpipe, wouldn’t you? You are simply just gay over your car. But a car is a simple addiction like any other. Sure, harder to break than cigarettes or TV, but still an addiction. I’ve never owned, or owned but rarely drove a car most of my adult life. Even living in the country and hauling water I can do without one. I never would ever have kept the last vehicle this long if I hadn’t wanted to appease the wife ( the great thing about her leaving me and then wanting to move back is I can renegotiate terms. This last time I got rid of the truck while she was gone, and then she agreed that there wouldn’t be anymore weekly trips into town AND guaranteed frequency of sex. Sure, I’m an asshat, but once life gets short you should stop living under self imposed constraints ). I didn’t NEED to keep the truck, but I chose to. Now that I’ve chosen to do away with it altogether I’m ahead marginally financially but light years ahead cutting my stress. A car is only a money pit. If you think it provides freedom you are delusional.
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After you’ve saved twenty percent of your income by kicking the car habit, the next step is telling the bankers to go hump themselves bloody. If you own a house, you never are free of the house expense. Even if the second mortgage is paid off, maintenance is ongoing. Sure, maintenance on a travel trailer or salvaged wood hovel is ongoing, but it is the difference between bicycle or car mechanics. Hundreds if not thousands of percent difference. Just what it costs you to replace your roof, for example, would pay for my lot of land AND my travel trailer ( which is in great shape and a larger size ). If you don’t buy a home, but instead buy land and build your home on a cash carry basis, you don’t owe the bankers half your income for half your life. And if you pay rent, you are doing worse. It never ends until you die ( you are paying the landlords mortgage indirectly, so it is still a mortgage ). By thinking outside the box for home and transportation, you can live on 30% of what you spend now. That is how easy this is. You don’t have to deprive yourself any other way ( I can spend 15-20% of my income on books, easy, something I love, because I don’t fall for the above “necessities” myth ). I understand winter bike riding and junk land living isn’t for everyone. It doesn’t have to be. You can live unconventionally by employing other devices. But the concept is sound. Say no to debt and employing the most expensive solutions. And then enjoy life. It comes around once, don’t piss it away for the bankers.
END
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
and business is good
AND BUSINESS IS GOOD
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I really had no idea, once I decided for sure that I was going to stop wandering and actually sink down roots in the late great state of Nevada, how outstanding we were. I didn’t have any clue that we would be number one in the nation in unemployment. Number one in underwater mortgages ( two friggin thirds of all homes! ). And at the time I didn’t know we were number one in the nation as the most urbanized of all states. You would think something like Alaska would be, where it would make sense to be on grid heat with snowplows around. But no, we are 88% urban. This makes sense because the cost of getting water almost anywhere in the state is prohibitive, plus a lot of areas are under the control of our good buddy Obammy. So, you cluster in Vegas ( Hoover dam ) and Reno ( Truckee river and Sierra snow pack ). This explains why the state went Democrat, also. City slicker asshats love to act as colonizers to the surrounding countryside. Hey, the state is pretty messed up, the prime example of all the bad things that followed the Great California Out Migration and The Housing Bubble. Of course, there are so many places out there that are a lot worse that overall you are bound to do MORE poorly living elsewhere. I wouldn’t want to live elsewhere, all things considered. Nevada used to be the prime Libertarian state, and it has a long way to get as socialist as most others.
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Almost nobody used to live here. It was as Western and cow county as you could get except for west Texas. The Mexicans moved in, but what was the end result there? Family orientated, hard workers. More Protestant work ethic than most white boys anymore. A plus for the state. But then the Californians moved in. What did we get? The once happy little cities turned into Oakland East as Yuppie Scum jacked up the real estate costs, forced through zoning restrictions and overbuilding that the terrain couldn’t sustain, and turned a relaxed atmosphere into just another over regulated government pestilent craphole. Now we have reached the state of affairs where all the roosters are coming home to roost. Yet no one is changing a thing. It is business as usual, and business is good. Here you have the two major industries overtaxed to give all the Yuppie Scum free services, gaming and mining. Gaming has been in perpetual decline before the economy got worse, since most other states emulated Nevada and legalized it. What would have been the ideal solution? Legalize pot, and tax it. Strange that a bunch of former Granola State citizens didn’t pass that one, but perhaps not so much given their love affair with big daddy government micromanaging everything so they never need feel any pain. And then, just to plunge a fork into the gaming industry to make sure it was done as done could get, the idiots outlawed smoking most everywhere. Hey, getting stupid drunk while throwing away your paycheck and chocking down cancer sticks all go together like glitter and unicorns.
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The mining industry is, surprise!, running out of ore to mine. So lets add a few more taxes to it so the mining companies will move overseas quicker as their costs go up. And why encourage home ownership? Let’s double and triple property taxes, water fees, etc. If you want to see the perfect example of business as usual, a self destructive reinforcing, snake eating its own tale, look no further. If your state isn’t there yet, it will be. Nevada!! We are Number One!
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News today that our little buddy Gadhafi has been killed. Hey, I always say that you should die doing what you love. If kicking ass and killing folks after boring them with Castro length speeches appeals to you, best to go out as a dictator. And yet… was he really killed? I find this new trend disturbing. We just claim we killed enemy number one, and everyone mills around congratulating each other and takes it at face value. Does anyone ask for pictures, or more tangible proof? No, they just hear what they want to hear. Obammy, who we all strongly suspect is a liar, Muslim, illegal immigrant, should never be believed ( a half a friggin million new unemployed every month- at this rate there simply won’t be any more jobs left in a couple of years- and the unemployment rate stays at 9% )( “read my big ass lips, No New Taxes” and two months later loose tobacco goes up three times in cost )( “our troops out of Iraq” and into Afghanistan ) and yet as soon as he claims Bin Laden is dead, no proof, bumper stickers are on every other car with inane BS like Terrorists zero, Seal Team Six one. Crap, at least put up the illusion of a struggle as they are pulling the wool over your eyes.
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Apropos to little if nothing, here is an interesting observation. A female coworker observed that she had never met a female that liked The Three Stooges. Of course, this was amongst a demographic that had actually HEARD of them. Your younger pups are either too busy being drowned in a sea of media infotainment and have too much else to pick from, or simply never watched something that old. She found this strange, but I think there is a very simple explanation. Males are genetically predisposed to not only be entertained by violence, but think it is normal. If you love violence, engage in violence, and hence trivialize violence, you easily incorporate violence into everyday normalcy. Cries of, Slaughter The Deer, Slaughter The Butt Pirate, or in cases of extreme boredom, Let’s Watch Sports Dudes Slaughter Each Other, are guy things. Guys are supposed to go out and slaughter the enemy. Three Stooges engaged in a never ending comic routine of violence ( no one is ever injured, so the violence is non-stop ) is the best of all worlds.
END
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I really had no idea, once I decided for sure that I was going to stop wandering and actually sink down roots in the late great state of Nevada, how outstanding we were. I didn’t have any clue that we would be number one in the nation in unemployment. Number one in underwater mortgages ( two friggin thirds of all homes! ). And at the time I didn’t know we were number one in the nation as the most urbanized of all states. You would think something like Alaska would be, where it would make sense to be on grid heat with snowplows around. But no, we are 88% urban. This makes sense because the cost of getting water almost anywhere in the state is prohibitive, plus a lot of areas are under the control of our good buddy Obammy. So, you cluster in Vegas ( Hoover dam ) and Reno ( Truckee river and Sierra snow pack ). This explains why the state went Democrat, also. City slicker asshats love to act as colonizers to the surrounding countryside. Hey, the state is pretty messed up, the prime example of all the bad things that followed the Great California Out Migration and The Housing Bubble. Of course, there are so many places out there that are a lot worse that overall you are bound to do MORE poorly living elsewhere. I wouldn’t want to live elsewhere, all things considered. Nevada used to be the prime Libertarian state, and it has a long way to get as socialist as most others.
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Almost nobody used to live here. It was as Western and cow county as you could get except for west Texas. The Mexicans moved in, but what was the end result there? Family orientated, hard workers. More Protestant work ethic than most white boys anymore. A plus for the state. But then the Californians moved in. What did we get? The once happy little cities turned into Oakland East as Yuppie Scum jacked up the real estate costs, forced through zoning restrictions and overbuilding that the terrain couldn’t sustain, and turned a relaxed atmosphere into just another over regulated government pestilent craphole. Now we have reached the state of affairs where all the roosters are coming home to roost. Yet no one is changing a thing. It is business as usual, and business is good. Here you have the two major industries overtaxed to give all the Yuppie Scum free services, gaming and mining. Gaming has been in perpetual decline before the economy got worse, since most other states emulated Nevada and legalized it. What would have been the ideal solution? Legalize pot, and tax it. Strange that a bunch of former Granola State citizens didn’t pass that one, but perhaps not so much given their love affair with big daddy government micromanaging everything so they never need feel any pain. And then, just to plunge a fork into the gaming industry to make sure it was done as done could get, the idiots outlawed smoking most everywhere. Hey, getting stupid drunk while throwing away your paycheck and chocking down cancer sticks all go together like glitter and unicorns.
*
The mining industry is, surprise!, running out of ore to mine. So lets add a few more taxes to it so the mining companies will move overseas quicker as their costs go up. And why encourage home ownership? Let’s double and triple property taxes, water fees, etc. If you want to see the perfect example of business as usual, a self destructive reinforcing, snake eating its own tale, look no further. If your state isn’t there yet, it will be. Nevada!! We are Number One!
*
News today that our little buddy Gadhafi has been killed. Hey, I always say that you should die doing what you love. If kicking ass and killing folks after boring them with Castro length speeches appeals to you, best to go out as a dictator. And yet… was he really killed? I find this new trend disturbing. We just claim we killed enemy number one, and everyone mills around congratulating each other and takes it at face value. Does anyone ask for pictures, or more tangible proof? No, they just hear what they want to hear. Obammy, who we all strongly suspect is a liar, Muslim, illegal immigrant, should never be believed ( a half a friggin million new unemployed every month- at this rate there simply won’t be any more jobs left in a couple of years- and the unemployment rate stays at 9% )( “read my big ass lips, No New Taxes” and two months later loose tobacco goes up three times in cost )( “our troops out of Iraq” and into Afghanistan ) and yet as soon as he claims Bin Laden is dead, no proof, bumper stickers are on every other car with inane BS like Terrorists zero, Seal Team Six one. Crap, at least put up the illusion of a struggle as they are pulling the wool over your eyes.
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Apropos to little if nothing, here is an interesting observation. A female coworker observed that she had never met a female that liked The Three Stooges. Of course, this was amongst a demographic that had actually HEARD of them. Your younger pups are either too busy being drowned in a sea of media infotainment and have too much else to pick from, or simply never watched something that old. She found this strange, but I think there is a very simple explanation. Males are genetically predisposed to not only be entertained by violence, but think it is normal. If you love violence, engage in violence, and hence trivialize violence, you easily incorporate violence into everyday normalcy. Cries of, Slaughter The Deer, Slaughter The Butt Pirate, or in cases of extreme boredom, Let’s Watch Sports Dudes Slaughter Each Other, are guy things. Guys are supposed to go out and slaughter the enemy. Three Stooges engaged in a never ending comic routine of violence ( no one is ever injured, so the violence is non-stop ) is the best of all worlds.
END
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
commander zero's fiction
COMMANDER ZERO’S FICTION
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You all know how I feel about Yuppie Scum in general and Yuppie Scum Survivalists in particular, but a great everyday survival skill is being able to spread the blarney thick and wide, so I usually make reassuring sounds so that each person I’m insulting thinks they are the exception to my displeasure and wrath. I think I’m quite skilled at bullspitting, which will come in handy after the apocalypse. I’ll go up to the Idaho survivalists and give them an M-60, which even though it is one of the worst infantry arms of all times gets them pretty excited because they all sport wood at the thought of semi-auto’s but positively lose all restraint and have multiple orgasms when it comes to belt fed full auto. Then I can go over to the Jesus Freaks in Utah and I’ll whip up something about devil worshiping or better yet false deity worship like druid tree alters and get those guys worked up into a lather, and hopefully those two groups go after each other and leave me alone to conquer the Great Basin. Anyway, as far as Commander Zero goes, he really isn’t that bad of a guy, for a Yuppie Scum Survivalist. Anyone that ignores my displeasure at their perverse way of doing things, who callously disregards my disapproval, you just got to love them. I admire the Commander for sticking to his totems. He loves his arsenal and freeze dried foods and other toys and doesn’t care what anyone else thinks. His blog is just his thoughts and he isn’t out to try to preach or convert. I enjoy it for a change of pace ( which is not to say I agree with his stance, because I myself am out to preach and convert and I take umbrage at most who fail to succumb to my wisdom and radiant spellbinding perfect hair ).
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The Commander was musing about survivalist fiction.
http://commanderzero.com/?p=2536
I pretty much liked his analysis. For instance, no chance of The Road becoming a reality since we won’t see a nuclear winter, or in the instance of Lucifer’s Hammer we have almost zero odds of seeing a comet hit. The silliness of The Road Warrior ( which, yes, had flimsy science behind it but was great in other ways ). In his closing statements he talked about how no fiction covered what was happening now. On the face of it, true. But we aren’t just in an economic collapse because we can be. We are in an economic collapse because our energy supply has been and is contracting. We aren’t inflating because we can, but because we must. We inflate about six to nine percent a year to get our one half percent of growth. Of course it isn’t the same as increased oil availability fueling growth. Inflation of the currency is always just a temporary fix that feeds on itself. It of course makes things worse, but it kicks the can down the road. Before it supplies the tempting path to our eventual doom, it keeps the bankers in business, who are mostly idiots but there will be a few that use the reprieve to bail out ( I think the best part of the book Castigo Cay was the rich dude who was building a self-sustaining Bahaman island to weather the storm- the author of course smeared the prepper movement by making him a sick and perverted sexual kidnapper. Which of course most of you forget or ignore because he also authored a bunch of militia porn you all read as you stroke your plastic carbines ). It keeps the Right Wingnuts on the radio, blaming everything on Obammy ( I hate the slick little turd myself, but I also realize that ANY sitting president, captaining the Titanic, would do as bad of a job ). This in effect distracts us from the real dangers, so I place a lot of blame on Rush and Glen for their part in keeping the establishment in business ( the fact that Beck hawks survival supplies does nothing to redeem him, and in fact might not be helping our cause ).
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But, I’ll try to stop screeching in a panicky and high pitched voice about the economy. My point is that, in fiction, I’d like to nominate two books that might be relevant to the Commander’s discussion. Alex Scarrow’s Last Light and Afterlight. The first used a compressed oil supply collapse ( terrorists destroy Saudi terminals/production facilities ) rather than a long drawn out supply contraction like we are already seeing, but he almost had to given that I would have been the only reader to buy a thousand page per volume novel series that actually addressed the level of complexity such a treatment would require. Essentially the book was about how a regular normal family would be thrown into chaos with no oil and no food or order. The second book was even better. It takes place ten years later and is all about bare bones survival using brute muscle labor and some salvage. And, taking place in the UK, it takes place amidst a near zero firearms future. And, yes, oh gun fag, it will happen here also. We’ll have plenty of guns, but no ammo. The future won’t be all about fiercely busting caps into bitches, yo, but more like the following scenario. Remember Humongus in Road Warrior? He had a scoped pistol and just a few rounds of ammo. Almost used as a status symbol, a royal staff. In the near future after the collapse, your king will be the one who still has ammo ( him, or a close inner circle dude ) for his bolt action. He lies in wait until the enemy villages mayor is in his sites, snipes his ass, and then his legions of Janissaries surges in with edged weapons ( most salvaged Made In China stainless steel ninja reproduction swords that lose their edge after one disembowelment ) to act as cannon fodder ( they might literally be charging a black powder cannon ). So, yes, there will be an almost zero firearms environment even here in the US, and I think this novel is a nice reflection of that reality. As is the general theme of NO oil, NO modern conveyances, and massive die offs. The economic collapse is temporary, before the real collapse begins.
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You all know how I feel about Yuppie Scum in general and Yuppie Scum Survivalists in particular, but a great everyday survival skill is being able to spread the blarney thick and wide, so I usually make reassuring sounds so that each person I’m insulting thinks they are the exception to my displeasure and wrath. I think I’m quite skilled at bullspitting, which will come in handy after the apocalypse. I’ll go up to the Idaho survivalists and give them an M-60, which even though it is one of the worst infantry arms of all times gets them pretty excited because they all sport wood at the thought of semi-auto’s but positively lose all restraint and have multiple orgasms when it comes to belt fed full auto. Then I can go over to the Jesus Freaks in Utah and I’ll whip up something about devil worshiping or better yet false deity worship like druid tree alters and get those guys worked up into a lather, and hopefully those two groups go after each other and leave me alone to conquer the Great Basin. Anyway, as far as Commander Zero goes, he really isn’t that bad of a guy, for a Yuppie Scum Survivalist. Anyone that ignores my displeasure at their perverse way of doing things, who callously disregards my disapproval, you just got to love them. I admire the Commander for sticking to his totems. He loves his arsenal and freeze dried foods and other toys and doesn’t care what anyone else thinks. His blog is just his thoughts and he isn’t out to try to preach or convert. I enjoy it for a change of pace ( which is not to say I agree with his stance, because I myself am out to preach and convert and I take umbrage at most who fail to succumb to my wisdom and radiant spellbinding perfect hair ).
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The Commander was musing about survivalist fiction.
http://commanderzero.com/?p=2536
I pretty much liked his analysis. For instance, no chance of The Road becoming a reality since we won’t see a nuclear winter, or in the instance of Lucifer’s Hammer we have almost zero odds of seeing a comet hit. The silliness of The Road Warrior ( which, yes, had flimsy science behind it but was great in other ways ). In his closing statements he talked about how no fiction covered what was happening now. On the face of it, true. But we aren’t just in an economic collapse because we can be. We are in an economic collapse because our energy supply has been and is contracting. We aren’t inflating because we can, but because we must. We inflate about six to nine percent a year to get our one half percent of growth. Of course it isn’t the same as increased oil availability fueling growth. Inflation of the currency is always just a temporary fix that feeds on itself. It of course makes things worse, but it kicks the can down the road. Before it supplies the tempting path to our eventual doom, it keeps the bankers in business, who are mostly idiots but there will be a few that use the reprieve to bail out ( I think the best part of the book Castigo Cay was the rich dude who was building a self-sustaining Bahaman island to weather the storm- the author of course smeared the prepper movement by making him a sick and perverted sexual kidnapper. Which of course most of you forget or ignore because he also authored a bunch of militia porn you all read as you stroke your plastic carbines ). It keeps the Right Wingnuts on the radio, blaming everything on Obammy ( I hate the slick little turd myself, but I also realize that ANY sitting president, captaining the Titanic, would do as bad of a job ). This in effect distracts us from the real dangers, so I place a lot of blame on Rush and Glen for their part in keeping the establishment in business ( the fact that Beck hawks survival supplies does nothing to redeem him, and in fact might not be helping our cause ).
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But, I’ll try to stop screeching in a panicky and high pitched voice about the economy. My point is that, in fiction, I’d like to nominate two books that might be relevant to the Commander’s discussion. Alex Scarrow’s Last Light and Afterlight. The first used a compressed oil supply collapse ( terrorists destroy Saudi terminals/production facilities ) rather than a long drawn out supply contraction like we are already seeing, but he almost had to given that I would have been the only reader to buy a thousand page per volume novel series that actually addressed the level of complexity such a treatment would require. Essentially the book was about how a regular normal family would be thrown into chaos with no oil and no food or order. The second book was even better. It takes place ten years later and is all about bare bones survival using brute muscle labor and some salvage. And, taking place in the UK, it takes place amidst a near zero firearms future. And, yes, oh gun fag, it will happen here also. We’ll have plenty of guns, but no ammo. The future won’t be all about fiercely busting caps into bitches, yo, but more like the following scenario. Remember Humongus in Road Warrior? He had a scoped pistol and just a few rounds of ammo. Almost used as a status symbol, a royal staff. In the near future after the collapse, your king will be the one who still has ammo ( him, or a close inner circle dude ) for his bolt action. He lies in wait until the enemy villages mayor is in his sites, snipes his ass, and then his legions of Janissaries surges in with edged weapons ( most salvaged Made In China stainless steel ninja reproduction swords that lose their edge after one disembowelment ) to act as cannon fodder ( they might literally be charging a black powder cannon ). So, yes, there will be an almost zero firearms environment even here in the US, and I think this novel is a nice reflection of that reality. As is the general theme of NO oil, NO modern conveyances, and massive die offs. The economic collapse is temporary, before the real collapse begins.
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Friday, October 21, 2011
natures ass
NATURES ASS
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Let me paint you a not improbable picture, to set the stage for today’s article. Three smelly guys with bones through their noses are sitting around a campfire, scratching their flea infested armpits. One says to the others, old timey dudes, I wonder if the river will overflow and nourish the grasses and attract more grass eating steaks on the hoof. The other replies, Only if Gog The Magnificence wills it. Well, that was pretty easy, because they all know Gog loves them as they are the purest of the tribes and always follow his will. The rains should come any day now, so there is no need to move. Fast forward about thirty thousand years, when their malnourished bones are discovered in the same spot by a trio on all terrain vehicles. They had been playing off road on their snazzy ten thousand dollar vehicles, toed by their forty grand diesel getting twelve miles to the gallon. After a time zipping up and down trails scaring off all the wildlife with their noise, they decided to shoot up rocks and bushes with their rimfire rifles. The bones were discovered after one dug a cathole trying to eliminate three days worth of MRE’s. Their only mental exercise being limited to players stats for watching the NFL, they thought nothing of them, surmised they were coyote bones or something, kicked dirt back over them and then got on their vehicles and scooted a few miles back to the truck. Then they proceeded to drive to the intersection in front of my trailer. One noticed a loose tie down and they stopped to fix it ( the ATV’s still had five years of payments to go, so they were very protective of them ). While doing that, one knocked over a box of shells. As the sand was powdery and mixed in with sharp goat tail thorn balls, they deemed it unworthy to scavenge the shells and left them. My bet is that their bones will be in a shallow grave nearby very soon.
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No one talked to the other of their superstitions. They didn’t verbalize their assumptions. But implicit in their actions was the belief that Free Market Capitalism The Magnificence would provide for them when their provision grew low. America The Magnificence would send more rimefire shells their way whenever they prayed for them ( and sacrificed colorful pictured paper slips for them ). What is the fundamental difference between believing in an omnipotent deity that saves your ass, or a belief that a system of economics can magically provide anything at will? You might as well believe in a huge Magic Ass In The Sky that you can pull anything out of. We are little better than the island idiots that built cargo planes out of bamboo to summon more free stuff. The day after the Chief Of Security observed the Redneck Conveyance and its mysterious loitering, I saw the beckoning glitter in the dirt, which turned out to be .22 shells. Sure, it was time consuming and dirty and cramping and I poked my finger tips a few times, but I recovered 414 shells. People with illusions of wealth and security from an overpaid job at the mines ( overpaid to both keep out Unions and prevent disgruntled sabotage, but vastly overpaid for the required monkey work ) think nothing of throwing away hundreds of rounds of ammunition when the salvage will take more than a few minutes. I mean, I know I’m virtually alone living in my fear and paranoia of an apocalypse, but to me that pile of loaded brass equals months if not years of self defense and or hunting. It is only currently worth about $13, but to me it is priceless. But these folks just need to sacrifice a few pieces of paper and magic is created and solves all their problems.
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From the bank that created loans to the builders putting up homes to the town that created roads and put in more water storage, etc., everyone is going on the assumption that these mining jobs are forever ( or at least thirty years ). And that as long as these jobs exist there will be more magic totems to buy anything. In the last ten years, total ore from northern Nevada mines has been falling. But no one looks at that, or the surrounding ghost towns. Really? Did you know that Canadian tar sands now account for more “oil” than from Mexico or Saudi Arabia? This is far more energy intensive to mine and process and ship, so we are getting far less BTU’s than before. Just as ethanol provides 10% less energy than petroleum oil on burning, and also takes more energy to produce. Yet no one is worried. Even if the last five years has seen at a minimum a 25% decrease in our total energy availability ( between import declines, substituting ethanol for gas, lowered BTU output in lower grades of coal, the higher energy cost in frac gas over natural gas, tar sands substituting for Mexican crude, etc. ), and I’d personally bet it is closer to a third but I’ll be conservative in my figures, folks are just looking at the Magical Ass Pull to save them from anything bad. We believe in magic just as our distant ancestors did, but at least they had the excuse of not spending three to five years wages on a worthless college degree to teach them to be stupider.
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Look at all those business “leaders” out there. Their holy grail is GROWTH. All Hail Growth! Year over year sales growth. I can forgive politicians being stupider than a box of rocks. They are just east coast mafia crooks, uneducated but ruthless ( one poll shows Congress has a 12% approval rating. The Tory population of the Colonies was higher [ those that approved of the English king ] ). But supposedly those getting a degree in business ( or, those without a degree but informally, OJT types ) are actually educated. But how can you believe in perpetual growth? If every business grows, and hence every customer gets more income derived from selling more at their business that is growing, where do all the resources come from? Do they believe in a hollow earth filled with oil and ore, or do they think it comes from that big ass in the sky, where You Can Always Pull More Out Of Your Ass? This is what we are, collectively, a nation full of Ass Pullers. Darwin weeps.
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Let me paint you a not improbable picture, to set the stage for today’s article. Three smelly guys with bones through their noses are sitting around a campfire, scratching their flea infested armpits. One says to the others, old timey dudes, I wonder if the river will overflow and nourish the grasses and attract more grass eating steaks on the hoof. The other replies, Only if Gog The Magnificence wills it. Well, that was pretty easy, because they all know Gog loves them as they are the purest of the tribes and always follow his will. The rains should come any day now, so there is no need to move. Fast forward about thirty thousand years, when their malnourished bones are discovered in the same spot by a trio on all terrain vehicles. They had been playing off road on their snazzy ten thousand dollar vehicles, toed by their forty grand diesel getting twelve miles to the gallon. After a time zipping up and down trails scaring off all the wildlife with their noise, they decided to shoot up rocks and bushes with their rimfire rifles. The bones were discovered after one dug a cathole trying to eliminate three days worth of MRE’s. Their only mental exercise being limited to players stats for watching the NFL, they thought nothing of them, surmised they were coyote bones or something, kicked dirt back over them and then got on their vehicles and scooted a few miles back to the truck. Then they proceeded to drive to the intersection in front of my trailer. One noticed a loose tie down and they stopped to fix it ( the ATV’s still had five years of payments to go, so they were very protective of them ). While doing that, one knocked over a box of shells. As the sand was powdery and mixed in with sharp goat tail thorn balls, they deemed it unworthy to scavenge the shells and left them. My bet is that their bones will be in a shallow grave nearby very soon.
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No one talked to the other of their superstitions. They didn’t verbalize their assumptions. But implicit in their actions was the belief that Free Market Capitalism The Magnificence would provide for them when their provision grew low. America The Magnificence would send more rimefire shells their way whenever they prayed for them ( and sacrificed colorful pictured paper slips for them ). What is the fundamental difference between believing in an omnipotent deity that saves your ass, or a belief that a system of economics can magically provide anything at will? You might as well believe in a huge Magic Ass In The Sky that you can pull anything out of. We are little better than the island idiots that built cargo planes out of bamboo to summon more free stuff. The day after the Chief Of Security observed the Redneck Conveyance and its mysterious loitering, I saw the beckoning glitter in the dirt, which turned out to be .22 shells. Sure, it was time consuming and dirty and cramping and I poked my finger tips a few times, but I recovered 414 shells. People with illusions of wealth and security from an overpaid job at the mines ( overpaid to both keep out Unions and prevent disgruntled sabotage, but vastly overpaid for the required monkey work ) think nothing of throwing away hundreds of rounds of ammunition when the salvage will take more than a few minutes. I mean, I know I’m virtually alone living in my fear and paranoia of an apocalypse, but to me that pile of loaded brass equals months if not years of self defense and or hunting. It is only currently worth about $13, but to me it is priceless. But these folks just need to sacrifice a few pieces of paper and magic is created and solves all their problems.
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From the bank that created loans to the builders putting up homes to the town that created roads and put in more water storage, etc., everyone is going on the assumption that these mining jobs are forever ( or at least thirty years ). And that as long as these jobs exist there will be more magic totems to buy anything. In the last ten years, total ore from northern Nevada mines has been falling. But no one looks at that, or the surrounding ghost towns. Really? Did you know that Canadian tar sands now account for more “oil” than from Mexico or Saudi Arabia? This is far more energy intensive to mine and process and ship, so we are getting far less BTU’s than before. Just as ethanol provides 10% less energy than petroleum oil on burning, and also takes more energy to produce. Yet no one is worried. Even if the last five years has seen at a minimum a 25% decrease in our total energy availability ( between import declines, substituting ethanol for gas, lowered BTU output in lower grades of coal, the higher energy cost in frac gas over natural gas, tar sands substituting for Mexican crude, etc. ), and I’d personally bet it is closer to a third but I’ll be conservative in my figures, folks are just looking at the Magical Ass Pull to save them from anything bad. We believe in magic just as our distant ancestors did, but at least they had the excuse of not spending three to five years wages on a worthless college degree to teach them to be stupider.
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Look at all those business “leaders” out there. Their holy grail is GROWTH. All Hail Growth! Year over year sales growth. I can forgive politicians being stupider than a box of rocks. They are just east coast mafia crooks, uneducated but ruthless ( one poll shows Congress has a 12% approval rating. The Tory population of the Colonies was higher [ those that approved of the English king ] ). But supposedly those getting a degree in business ( or, those without a degree but informally, OJT types ) are actually educated. But how can you believe in perpetual growth? If every business grows, and hence every customer gets more income derived from selling more at their business that is growing, where do all the resources come from? Do they believe in a hollow earth filled with oil and ore, or do they think it comes from that big ass in the sky, where You Can Always Pull More Out Of Your Ass? This is what we are, collectively, a nation full of Ass Pullers. Darwin weeps.
END
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
blue helmets
BLUE HELMETS
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I read Rawles new book over the weekend, and while I won’t put it in the top ten survival books of all time ( one of these days this will be an article- #1 is of course Lucifer’s Hammer and #2 is most likely Dies The Fire. But after that I need to assemble all my fiction collection together and make piles and whittle things down to a top ten and twenty list. Not something I can do from a list, since I usually recall books by their covers ), I will say that I enjoyed it, I thought it was worth the money, and that compared to his other fiction book ( which I also liked ) it was an improvement. I thought that it was a very good overall introduction to the collapse. You can easily see how there could be a whole lot of books picking up on a lot of barely explored ideas. I could quibble on a lot of things such as semi-auto and Jesus worship, that that would be silly because we are in Rawles’ world in this book. These things make sense in his world. The one thing that stuck out as highly improbable was the UN troop occupation of the east coast. This is what I want to pick apart, but just keep in mind that basically, if you liked his other book, this one will be better.
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Some of the books economic collapse details are already dated. One example would be Japan. Since the majority of its manufacturing infrastructure was destroyed, it is no longer a viable economy. I’d wager that only the US Fed printing presses are keeping it afloat ( most likely the same with Europe ). So, Japan would take no role in working against the US in the collapse. Another would be that the end of other central banks buying US debt has already happened. It isn’t a future guess. But even if Europe stayed healthy as a horse, I can’t believe that it would send occupying troops to America. I don’t know where the militia/black helicopter tin foil hat fools got this idea. Really? Europe’s professional armies, outside of Switzerland, have either a force so small it can barely suffice as an internal peace keeping force in times of trouble, or a small force so incompetent that a troop of Boy Scouts with pellet guns would tie them up for weeks. The US occupying force and/or a nuclear arsenal, provide the majority of Europe’s defense. It isn’t large standing armies. How are they going to send over enough troops to occupy us to make a bit of difference? And the idea that an occupation would be a credible source of revenue is just underlying the ignorance of the authors of this idea. All our resources, from aquifers to fertile soil to fertilizers to coal to oil to metal ores to precious metals, all are in decline, and most in decline for the last ten years. Even if Europe’s colonial days weren’t behind them, there isn’t enough left here to justify the expense of war and occupation.
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Moving on to Russia and China as potential occupiers. Has everyone forgot that Russia had to give up a lot of its empire as the cost of control became too much? If they can’t keep Kazakhstan, right next door to its tanks, how would they be able to occupy America? And China has plenty of choice military targets right next door to itself. They have everything that is needed in loot, and a bonus is that the civilians there are usually not armed, and the country is not on the other side of an ocean. To me, it seems like “blue helmets occupy America” proponents are actually desperately grasping at straws trying to prove America is not in decline. If it is worthy of occupation it must be rich and grand. Please stop trying to have a wet dream around me. It embarrasses us both and it can get messy. Now, to give my nemesis his due, this one section of his book was barely touched on and didn’t grieve us too much with irritating length or detail. In fact, I’d wager this was the section that prompted a minion to complain the characters in the book weren’t given any depth.
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On to other collapse news. In middle west Nevada, the epicenter of Yuppie Whore Anal Licking Monkey Molesting California Migration, there has been a huge amount, as in dozens at a minimum, of domestic horses being hit on a state highway. It seems that these mouth breathing oxygen wasters are having a tough time making ends meet trying to pay off their overpriced McMansions without a job, so they jingle mail and turn the horse loose. Horses being one of the many overpriced high cost upkeep status symbols that these sub-humans employ in their quest to find and keep their marshmallow spouses. Being evolutionary dead ends, these idiots think a horse let loose will automatically fend for themselves. Maybe they do, or maybe they have intelligence bred out of them, just like their owners, and it never occurs to them that cars are dangerous. After all, their former owner drove close by all the time and the horse was never in danger. Another sign that the middle class lifestyle in endangered.
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This weekend was rental car weekend, as I needed a wheelbarrow. And it is the ancient crones birthday. The car was $80 after gas, and I found a wheelbarrow on sale for under forty after tax. Of course, I couldn’t sop at that decent amount. I had to buy more storage food ( after the daily water hauling, I’m lucky to get an extra ten pounds of food on the bike, so usually my bulk food shopping is just four or five pound bags of pinto beans or white flour a week ) and storage buckets. I got 125 pounds of flour and nine poly buckets. While at Home Despot getting the buckets I also saw a deal on LED’s. $3.80 for a combo lantern/flashlight. Which is much brighter than the Wal-Mart $5 lantern. I found it at the rack at the check out counter, you might want to take a look.
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I read Rawles new book over the weekend, and while I won’t put it in the top ten survival books of all time ( one of these days this will be an article- #1 is of course Lucifer’s Hammer and #2 is most likely Dies The Fire. But after that I need to assemble all my fiction collection together and make piles and whittle things down to a top ten and twenty list. Not something I can do from a list, since I usually recall books by their covers ), I will say that I enjoyed it, I thought it was worth the money, and that compared to his other fiction book ( which I also liked ) it was an improvement. I thought that it was a very good overall introduction to the collapse. You can easily see how there could be a whole lot of books picking up on a lot of barely explored ideas. I could quibble on a lot of things such as semi-auto and Jesus worship, that that would be silly because we are in Rawles’ world in this book. These things make sense in his world. The one thing that stuck out as highly improbable was the UN troop occupation of the east coast. This is what I want to pick apart, but just keep in mind that basically, if you liked his other book, this one will be better.
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Some of the books economic collapse details are already dated. One example would be Japan. Since the majority of its manufacturing infrastructure was destroyed, it is no longer a viable economy. I’d wager that only the US Fed printing presses are keeping it afloat ( most likely the same with Europe ). So, Japan would take no role in working against the US in the collapse. Another would be that the end of other central banks buying US debt has already happened. It isn’t a future guess. But even if Europe stayed healthy as a horse, I can’t believe that it would send occupying troops to America. I don’t know where the militia/black helicopter tin foil hat fools got this idea. Really? Europe’s professional armies, outside of Switzerland, have either a force so small it can barely suffice as an internal peace keeping force in times of trouble, or a small force so incompetent that a troop of Boy Scouts with pellet guns would tie them up for weeks. The US occupying force and/or a nuclear arsenal, provide the majority of Europe’s defense. It isn’t large standing armies. How are they going to send over enough troops to occupy us to make a bit of difference? And the idea that an occupation would be a credible source of revenue is just underlying the ignorance of the authors of this idea. All our resources, from aquifers to fertile soil to fertilizers to coal to oil to metal ores to precious metals, all are in decline, and most in decline for the last ten years. Even if Europe’s colonial days weren’t behind them, there isn’t enough left here to justify the expense of war and occupation.
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Moving on to Russia and China as potential occupiers. Has everyone forgot that Russia had to give up a lot of its empire as the cost of control became too much? If they can’t keep Kazakhstan, right next door to its tanks, how would they be able to occupy America? And China has plenty of choice military targets right next door to itself. They have everything that is needed in loot, and a bonus is that the civilians there are usually not armed, and the country is not on the other side of an ocean. To me, it seems like “blue helmets occupy America” proponents are actually desperately grasping at straws trying to prove America is not in decline. If it is worthy of occupation it must be rich and grand. Please stop trying to have a wet dream around me. It embarrasses us both and it can get messy. Now, to give my nemesis his due, this one section of his book was barely touched on and didn’t grieve us too much with irritating length or detail. In fact, I’d wager this was the section that prompted a minion to complain the characters in the book weren’t given any depth.
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On to other collapse news. In middle west Nevada, the epicenter of Yuppie Whore Anal Licking Monkey Molesting California Migration, there has been a huge amount, as in dozens at a minimum, of domestic horses being hit on a state highway. It seems that these mouth breathing oxygen wasters are having a tough time making ends meet trying to pay off their overpriced McMansions without a job, so they jingle mail and turn the horse loose. Horses being one of the many overpriced high cost upkeep status symbols that these sub-humans employ in their quest to find and keep their marshmallow spouses. Being evolutionary dead ends, these idiots think a horse let loose will automatically fend for themselves. Maybe they do, or maybe they have intelligence bred out of them, just like their owners, and it never occurs to them that cars are dangerous. After all, their former owner drove close by all the time and the horse was never in danger. Another sign that the middle class lifestyle in endangered.
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This weekend was rental car weekend, as I needed a wheelbarrow. And it is the ancient crones birthday. The car was $80 after gas, and I found a wheelbarrow on sale for under forty after tax. Of course, I couldn’t sop at that decent amount. I had to buy more storage food ( after the daily water hauling, I’m lucky to get an extra ten pounds of food on the bike, so usually my bulk food shopping is just four or five pound bags of pinto beans or white flour a week ) and storage buckets. I got 125 pounds of flour and nine poly buckets. While at Home Despot getting the buckets I also saw a deal on LED’s. $3.80 for a combo lantern/flashlight. Which is much brighter than the Wal-Mart $5 lantern. I found it at the rack at the check out counter, you might want to take a look.
END
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
chinese colony
CHINESE COLONY
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I really seriously sometimes doubt my fiction writing abilities. I don’t know if it is just because I can only devote a quarter of my mental abilities to it, already being golden chained to my non-fiction daily blog articles, or if it just needs a lot more practice ( when I first started non-fiction it was worse than bad, and now look at my supernova strength brilliance, in all modesty if I do say so myself ). I’m not complaining, it isn’t as if I’m going to starve if I don’t churn out the Bison Blathering ( that is a benefit of still working a regular job ). It is my own doing, not jumping into training myself with practice. There are various reasons for this, such as getting up there in middle age I don’t have much desire to write for ten years as practice and only then being financially compensated after I’m getting too wore down to enjoy it. Also, there is that little nagging feeling that you won’t have grid power or an Internet connection too much longer to read what I have to write. And of course, not having practiced, writing it doesn’t seem natural as does non-fiction. Why do I bring this up? I’d like to revisit my last piece of longish fiction, the black powder army dudes and their connection with Chinese trade ( I think I might have brought this up in my book Life After The Apocalypse, but honestly its been too many years since I wrote it, or read it, to remember correctly ). If I had stayed with that story, I think I could have made a pretty good case for its feasibility. Which, no, I didn’t need to bring up the connection but it killed a lot of blank space.
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When I first wrote that, I worried that I was engaged in a bit of a cop out, a mental short cut. I was giving the characters an easy way out logistically by allowing trade with China, post collapse. But I wonder if it is too fantastic to consider. China has a very long history of centralized control, overpopulation and recovery from collapse. China also has a very long history of overseas trade, conducted by Chinese immigrants with ties to the mainland. Our historical perception of Chinese in discolored by the manual laborers building the railroads and then of communism. I think that this is such an abnormal point of view that it hides their true potential. China has such a human surplus, and probably always had, that even if we perceive that all its immigrants are coolie labor, or even some Triad gangs, the actual fact is probably closer to a huge trader network. The Chinese have two very important assets as traders that will come in very handy very soon. They are their own bankers, and their family connections dictate business organizations.
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While the world financial order is imploding, the Chinese merchants can turn back ( if they ever left it ) to informal family savings and loans. And being family, there is a network of both trust and of connections. In short, the Chinese trader can go back to a decentralized way of business. Since, mostly, the Western world doesn’t have this ability, the Chinese will in very quick order, come to dominate most long distant trade. They will of course pick and choose the most profitable. And you can only hope that your area has something they really want. But if you do, perhaps you will be reconnected to the quasi-modern world as your neighbors descend into darkness. Because I wonder how much of Chinese infrastructure will actually collapse. Yes, trade will need to be downgraded. Perhaps oil will become too precious to burn for ocean crossing cargo. It might be a time before sailing infrastructure is established. But the manufacturing itself might stay intact. The Chinese are not Americans. They might rise up in protest, but there won’t be individual rebellion and anarchy. The Chinese peasants will not have personal arms, as the centralized state ( the Chinese state has always been centralized, communism just being the newest dynasty name ) monopolizes force. I don’t see the level of individually caused destruction over there. And, as all hippies have wet dreams about, China is still largely run with public transportation.
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China is still heavily blessed with coal deposits. This provides most of its needed factory electrical power. Its train system, not deteriorated like ours, can transport feed stocks to the factories. Yes, there are continuous power outages even now. But once the centralized states steps back in to micromanaging the economy, all the surplus electrical need, such as those making strategically unneeded items such as plastic toys included in breakfast cereal boxes, will be shut down and enough power will be available to critical factories. Those factories churning out items soon to be available almost no where else. Shoes and clothing, bicycles, ammunition, solar panels and the like.
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China controls large sections of the world trade NOW. It already has a monopoly on a lot of items. In the future, transporting these items will be a bottleneck, not their manufacture. China can gain control back from the mercantilists ( the company that bribes the local politician prevails ), use its vast train network and its coal, and with its current monopoly it can trade its newly depopulated southern neighbors for rice ( the transition to post collapse will see huge numbers of Chinese population starving, but there is a lot of surplus, and the peasants there still farm old school ). The population crash will benefit China. It has a lock on manufacture and can keep it, and less population means an end to pressure on food supplies. China is vulnerable now to famine, but I don’t think its “farms to factories” policy was shortsighted. The Chinese authorities are shrewdly gambling on using the last of the petroleum surplus to position themselves. Remember that figure on politicians? The US has almost all its politicians drawn from lawyers, the Chinese all from engineers. The Chinese know the realities of Peak Oil as they are realists rather than abstracters. As it stands now, after the crash, after the die-off, most of the world will return to local farming. You can’t monopolize decentralized farming. But you can monopolize modern manufacturing, which China has done. It will still be able to import surplus food, because of its monopoly position. Meanwhile, the US bravely plows ahead with its only monopoly, printing money.
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How does this effect you? Have something a Chinese trader will want ( silver is always good ). And perhaps you should have something that shoots 7.62x39.
END
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I really seriously sometimes doubt my fiction writing abilities. I don’t know if it is just because I can only devote a quarter of my mental abilities to it, already being golden chained to my non-fiction daily blog articles, or if it just needs a lot more practice ( when I first started non-fiction it was worse than bad, and now look at my supernova strength brilliance, in all modesty if I do say so myself ). I’m not complaining, it isn’t as if I’m going to starve if I don’t churn out the Bison Blathering ( that is a benefit of still working a regular job ). It is my own doing, not jumping into training myself with practice. There are various reasons for this, such as getting up there in middle age I don’t have much desire to write for ten years as practice and only then being financially compensated after I’m getting too wore down to enjoy it. Also, there is that little nagging feeling that you won’t have grid power or an Internet connection too much longer to read what I have to write. And of course, not having practiced, writing it doesn’t seem natural as does non-fiction. Why do I bring this up? I’d like to revisit my last piece of longish fiction, the black powder army dudes and their connection with Chinese trade ( I think I might have brought this up in my book Life After The Apocalypse, but honestly its been too many years since I wrote it, or read it, to remember correctly ). If I had stayed with that story, I think I could have made a pretty good case for its feasibility. Which, no, I didn’t need to bring up the connection but it killed a lot of blank space.
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When I first wrote that, I worried that I was engaged in a bit of a cop out, a mental short cut. I was giving the characters an easy way out logistically by allowing trade with China, post collapse. But I wonder if it is too fantastic to consider. China has a very long history of centralized control, overpopulation and recovery from collapse. China also has a very long history of overseas trade, conducted by Chinese immigrants with ties to the mainland. Our historical perception of Chinese in discolored by the manual laborers building the railroads and then of communism. I think that this is such an abnormal point of view that it hides their true potential. China has such a human surplus, and probably always had, that even if we perceive that all its immigrants are coolie labor, or even some Triad gangs, the actual fact is probably closer to a huge trader network. The Chinese have two very important assets as traders that will come in very handy very soon. They are their own bankers, and their family connections dictate business organizations.
*
While the world financial order is imploding, the Chinese merchants can turn back ( if they ever left it ) to informal family savings and loans. And being family, there is a network of both trust and of connections. In short, the Chinese trader can go back to a decentralized way of business. Since, mostly, the Western world doesn’t have this ability, the Chinese will in very quick order, come to dominate most long distant trade. They will of course pick and choose the most profitable. And you can only hope that your area has something they really want. But if you do, perhaps you will be reconnected to the quasi-modern world as your neighbors descend into darkness. Because I wonder how much of Chinese infrastructure will actually collapse. Yes, trade will need to be downgraded. Perhaps oil will become too precious to burn for ocean crossing cargo. It might be a time before sailing infrastructure is established. But the manufacturing itself might stay intact. The Chinese are not Americans. They might rise up in protest, but there won’t be individual rebellion and anarchy. The Chinese peasants will not have personal arms, as the centralized state ( the Chinese state has always been centralized, communism just being the newest dynasty name ) monopolizes force. I don’t see the level of individually caused destruction over there. And, as all hippies have wet dreams about, China is still largely run with public transportation.
*
China is still heavily blessed with coal deposits. This provides most of its needed factory electrical power. Its train system, not deteriorated like ours, can transport feed stocks to the factories. Yes, there are continuous power outages even now. But once the centralized states steps back in to micromanaging the economy, all the surplus electrical need, such as those making strategically unneeded items such as plastic toys included in breakfast cereal boxes, will be shut down and enough power will be available to critical factories. Those factories churning out items soon to be available almost no where else. Shoes and clothing, bicycles, ammunition, solar panels and the like.
*
China controls large sections of the world trade NOW. It already has a monopoly on a lot of items. In the future, transporting these items will be a bottleneck, not their manufacture. China can gain control back from the mercantilists ( the company that bribes the local politician prevails ), use its vast train network and its coal, and with its current monopoly it can trade its newly depopulated southern neighbors for rice ( the transition to post collapse will see huge numbers of Chinese population starving, but there is a lot of surplus, and the peasants there still farm old school ). The population crash will benefit China. It has a lock on manufacture and can keep it, and less population means an end to pressure on food supplies. China is vulnerable now to famine, but I don’t think its “farms to factories” policy was shortsighted. The Chinese authorities are shrewdly gambling on using the last of the petroleum surplus to position themselves. Remember that figure on politicians? The US has almost all its politicians drawn from lawyers, the Chinese all from engineers. The Chinese know the realities of Peak Oil as they are realists rather than abstracters. As it stands now, after the crash, after the die-off, most of the world will return to local farming. You can’t monopolize decentralized farming. But you can monopolize modern manufacturing, which China has done. It will still be able to import surplus food, because of its monopoly position. Meanwhile, the US bravely plows ahead with its only monopoly, printing money.
*
How does this effect you? Have something a Chinese trader will want ( silver is always good ). And perhaps you should have something that shoots 7.62x39.
END
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
hyperinflation hunker down
HYPERINFLATION HUNKER DOWN
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Of the many things we’ve talked to death here over the years, one has been the ill advised process of last minute stocking up. A panic or disaster develops, say, Obammy is shot down by Iranian sponsored terrorists and the 99% of people who didn’t vote for him ( he was Selected, not Elected, remember? ) start celebrating and things get out of control like when there is a soccer victory riot in merry ol’ England, and you suddenly realized that you are an incredible dumb ass. Not a large dumb ass like when you woke up early from stress because the boss wanted you to take over the job of a fifth person to add to your workload, you were all groggy and stubbed your toe on the same coffee table you had passed safely over something like ten thousand times. Oh, no. More like being a colossal, supreme overlord of the universe dumb ass when you got married to the wife who was charmingly plump and had jiggles in all the right places, but you had seem her mother who weighed in excess of a UPS truck ( fully loaded ) and you knew that the daughter would look just like her mother in just a few years, but you married her anyway and after two kids she weighed about the equivalent of two of her mothers and now you had a huge fat lard ass of a wife and while you loved her dearly and her two offspring that looked like Hansel and feffin Gretel you still feared for your very life every time she rolled over in bed.
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You were a dumbass because you didn’t have jack for survival supplies. Well, you and 99.999 percent of the population ( did I get the decimal point right? 30k out of 300 million prepping ) are not prepared. So, you go out there and try to shop. But the stores, with their just in time inventory ( because, hey, as a business you have a fiduciary responsibly to your shareholders to maximize profits, and playing emergency supply warehouse to the bleating sheep is definitely NOT a way to profitability and without inventory you can afford to pay the bankers interest since with everybody paying interest to buy everything jacked up in cost due to everybody paying interest, there is a whole lot of cost associated with a loan, so let the government help out folks in an emergency but oh crap, guess what? The government keeps borrowing money to pay its yearly expenses so while they pay all that money to the bankers in interest there isn’t anything left to buy emergency supplies for times of crisis ) don’t have much if anything on hand. So, here you have a business that stocks what is needed for one or two days, on the assumption that most customers won’t come in and buy said items because they don’t need it just yet, 99% of the population having kitchen cabinets that also operate in JIT ( the larger percentage of homes with more than three days of food in comparison to the number of preppers is explained by Depression era grandma’s stocking 100 cans of pickled beets- it won’t keep them alive but at least they are trying, after the onset of senility, to do something positive, so we can forgive them their choice of calorie deficit foods ). When anymore than 001% of the population starts stocking up for future consumption, the whole system falls apart and people get irritated and start shooting each other. So, a much longer story shortened, don’t go out for emergency supplies after panic has set in, as there will be too much armed competition.
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Now, let’s talk about trying to buy anything, stockpile wise, in a hyperinflation environment. You know, the kind where hapless German or Argentinean housewives scurry around from line to line, looking on in dismay while the window signs are taken down and replaced with higher posted prices several times and if they get to the head of the line a wilted turnip is the only thing left and it cost several million units of currency. I’m not necessarily saying that America will see hyperinflation. It most likely will, but there is also a good chance that oil imports will be interrupted and since there is no way in heaven our economy can function on forty percent ( it used to be 30% of domestic production but since we’ve lost 20% of our imports we are in a position where it looks like we are more energy self sufficient, especially factoring in the incredibly stupid policy of turning half our corn into inferior gasoline ) of the oil we are currently using, commerce just freezes up. Oh, there will be insane prices for what is left, but not hyperinflation insane. Just insane based on today’s prices.
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If we do see hyperinflation, my guess is that we will see inflation indexed loans. Why? Because the bankers are the puppet masters, and they refuse to go out of business. This isn’t like Germany, where the banks were an extension of national strategy and empire building. Here, the bankers are a sovereign occupying power ( if I can’t convince you of this, our conversation is useless, as if it were a Peak Oil advocate talking to an abiotic oil theorist ), which, yes, in the past helped the government consolidate power but are now scrambling for their own sole survival. Once loan interest rates go up, yet peoples wages don’t, if any are in actual fact still employed, business transactions fall off a cliff. Businesses start closing their doors very quickly. Hence, this will be far worse than a sudden cataclysmic disaster where everyone runs out for supplies. Because the number of potential stores where you can fight for supplies has drastically diminished. The frenzy and panic and violence will be worse.
*
In a sudden collapse, violence escalates almost to maximum at once. But it is dispersed. And not everyone is participating in the free for all, because most folks think normal will return soon. But in hyperinflation, by the time enough time has gone by for most folks to convince themselves that the end is nigh, most stores have shuttered and most prices have gone beyond what is affordable. Far more people are panicking at far less locations. I think the violence, slow to start, will be just as bad but a lot more people will participate. Avoid last minute stockpiling in a hyperinflation era. The emotions will scream to run out and get rid of worthless paper for tangibles. The logic should be telling you to stay in the perimeter. Charlie is outside. Stay put. If you aren’t squared away in supplies, going out and getting injured or killed will help the family even less. If you finally want to prove useful, long after it was needed and long after it was too late, because you were a friggin pussy and didn’t stand up to the wife and insist you must protect the family, just put a bullet into everyone’s head. Far better than starving to death for over a month.
END
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Of the many things we’ve talked to death here over the years, one has been the ill advised process of last minute stocking up. A panic or disaster develops, say, Obammy is shot down by Iranian sponsored terrorists and the 99% of people who didn’t vote for him ( he was Selected, not Elected, remember? ) start celebrating and things get out of control like when there is a soccer victory riot in merry ol’ England, and you suddenly realized that you are an incredible dumb ass. Not a large dumb ass like when you woke up early from stress because the boss wanted you to take over the job of a fifth person to add to your workload, you were all groggy and stubbed your toe on the same coffee table you had passed safely over something like ten thousand times. Oh, no. More like being a colossal, supreme overlord of the universe dumb ass when you got married to the wife who was charmingly plump and had jiggles in all the right places, but you had seem her mother who weighed in excess of a UPS truck ( fully loaded ) and you knew that the daughter would look just like her mother in just a few years, but you married her anyway and after two kids she weighed about the equivalent of two of her mothers and now you had a huge fat lard ass of a wife and while you loved her dearly and her two offspring that looked like Hansel and feffin Gretel you still feared for your very life every time she rolled over in bed.
*
You were a dumbass because you didn’t have jack for survival supplies. Well, you and 99.999 percent of the population ( did I get the decimal point right? 30k out of 300 million prepping ) are not prepared. So, you go out there and try to shop. But the stores, with their just in time inventory ( because, hey, as a business you have a fiduciary responsibly to your shareholders to maximize profits, and playing emergency supply warehouse to the bleating sheep is definitely NOT a way to profitability and without inventory you can afford to pay the bankers interest since with everybody paying interest to buy everything jacked up in cost due to everybody paying interest, there is a whole lot of cost associated with a loan, so let the government help out folks in an emergency but oh crap, guess what? The government keeps borrowing money to pay its yearly expenses so while they pay all that money to the bankers in interest there isn’t anything left to buy emergency supplies for times of crisis ) don’t have much if anything on hand. So, here you have a business that stocks what is needed for one or two days, on the assumption that most customers won’t come in and buy said items because they don’t need it just yet, 99% of the population having kitchen cabinets that also operate in JIT ( the larger percentage of homes with more than three days of food in comparison to the number of preppers is explained by Depression era grandma’s stocking 100 cans of pickled beets- it won’t keep them alive but at least they are trying, after the onset of senility, to do something positive, so we can forgive them their choice of calorie deficit foods ). When anymore than 001% of the population starts stocking up for future consumption, the whole system falls apart and people get irritated and start shooting each other. So, a much longer story shortened, don’t go out for emergency supplies after panic has set in, as there will be too much armed competition.
*
Now, let’s talk about trying to buy anything, stockpile wise, in a hyperinflation environment. You know, the kind where hapless German or Argentinean housewives scurry around from line to line, looking on in dismay while the window signs are taken down and replaced with higher posted prices several times and if they get to the head of the line a wilted turnip is the only thing left and it cost several million units of currency. I’m not necessarily saying that America will see hyperinflation. It most likely will, but there is also a good chance that oil imports will be interrupted and since there is no way in heaven our economy can function on forty percent ( it used to be 30% of domestic production but since we’ve lost 20% of our imports we are in a position where it looks like we are more energy self sufficient, especially factoring in the incredibly stupid policy of turning half our corn into inferior gasoline ) of the oil we are currently using, commerce just freezes up. Oh, there will be insane prices for what is left, but not hyperinflation insane. Just insane based on today’s prices.
*
If we do see hyperinflation, my guess is that we will see inflation indexed loans. Why? Because the bankers are the puppet masters, and they refuse to go out of business. This isn’t like Germany, where the banks were an extension of national strategy and empire building. Here, the bankers are a sovereign occupying power ( if I can’t convince you of this, our conversation is useless, as if it were a Peak Oil advocate talking to an abiotic oil theorist ), which, yes, in the past helped the government consolidate power but are now scrambling for their own sole survival. Once loan interest rates go up, yet peoples wages don’t, if any are in actual fact still employed, business transactions fall off a cliff. Businesses start closing their doors very quickly. Hence, this will be far worse than a sudden cataclysmic disaster where everyone runs out for supplies. Because the number of potential stores where you can fight for supplies has drastically diminished. The frenzy and panic and violence will be worse.
*
In a sudden collapse, violence escalates almost to maximum at once. But it is dispersed. And not everyone is participating in the free for all, because most folks think normal will return soon. But in hyperinflation, by the time enough time has gone by for most folks to convince themselves that the end is nigh, most stores have shuttered and most prices have gone beyond what is affordable. Far more people are panicking at far less locations. I think the violence, slow to start, will be just as bad but a lot more people will participate. Avoid last minute stockpiling in a hyperinflation era. The emotions will scream to run out and get rid of worthless paper for tangibles. The logic should be telling you to stay in the perimeter. Charlie is outside. Stay put. If you aren’t squared away in supplies, going out and getting injured or killed will help the family even less. If you finally want to prove useful, long after it was needed and long after it was too late, because you were a friggin pussy and didn’t stand up to the wife and insist you must protect the family, just put a bullet into everyone’s head. Far better than starving to death for over a month.
END
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Anyone can submit a guest article. No minimum word length, no writing skill necessary ( just get the idea across ). You retain copyright ( this must be your original writing ) and I’ll just use the once. I’ve yet to turn down an article, just don’t use the N Bomb or libel another that can sue me. Send by e-mail ( please, label as “guest article” so I can find it easily later ). Payment will be your removal from my enemies list.
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