VIPER AND COBRA
I’m wondering why more people aren’t worried about TSA. I mean, when you start out life as a federal law enforcement agency as a spliced recombined hair lipped banjo player and peeping Tom child molester, you’ve set the bar so low that your future performances are going to be something bewildering to behold. Let’s back up a few decades to the Janet “BBQ” Reno days and the infamous female agent from the ATF who stomped a kitten to death in front of the family kids held hostage. Forget for a moment the actual act and the fact it was allowed to happen. Forget that the agent was not held accountable by the courts or the press or the public. Just think about why it happened. Law enforcement abuse is as old as cops. You will always have abuse. Go back fifty years and if you were Black or homeless, you were likely to be arrested without cause, and get worked over with a lead filled rubber hose. I’m not trying to say that abuse is new. I’m saying that public support of abuse is new. And as I’ve said dozens of times, if not hundreds, when you place unsuitable folks in positions like law enforcement, abuse is more likely to happen and become normal. You need police matrons to safeguard the female prisons, but you are just asking for trouble when you make bitches street cops. Combat soldiers too. Females, by temperament, are not in general able to perform in these roles ( some males also, but that is far rarer ). When you put a female in this position, she is apt to overcompensate for her inferior strength. Hence, kitten stomping. I’m not saying males are any better, as witnessed by the NY city case where the victim was sodimized by nightsticks. I’m saying that you are courting extra instances such as this by placing incompetent asswhores in these positions. So, when you take morons who molest small children and feeble geriatrics, how much abuse do you think is going to occur?
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If you said, more often than not, it will be “normal”, give yourself a gold star and a Brilliant Boy Bison Biscuit. Whenever you are silly enough to board a plane, you should expect either a full body radiation dose equally ten times that of the Japanese nuke plant, or a fat pissed off room temperature IQ TSA agent to conduct a full body cavity search upon your person. By giving you a “choice”, they are of course blameless. And don’t give me the argument that people protested against these intrusive measures. You can say anything you want, but actions speak much louder. If you bleat and wail about a five year old being felt up to the point of trauma, yet still bought a plane ticket, you changed nothing. If you whined about the radiation dose but still underwent the scanning because it was faster and less obtrusive, your protest is certainly NOT noted. Only by fleeing air travel en mass would have anything changed. The sheep still boarded the chute, so they voted with their feet, noises notwithstanding. And because no one offered any real protest, that which would have crippled the industry and put the TSA out of a job, they know that they can expand their mandate by covering ALL travel. Bus, train, and private vehicle. They already started. Random checkpoints, even at the END of a destination rather than during a trip. Welcome to the Homeland Security drama, brought to you courtesy of Soviet and Nazi training.
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Now, how many Yuppie Scum Survivalists add up these three news items? 1) preppers, for buying storage food and ammo, are on the suspect lists. 2) TSA is expanding their searches everywhere. 3) all suspected terrorists are to be detained indefinably without charges or cause. Let me spell this out for you because while your heart is in the right place for prepping, your choices in life lead me to suspect you are not the brightest Crayon in the box. When you bug out, you will be pulled over in a random rolling checkpoint by the TSA. Since you have food and ammo in your vehicle, you are on the Double Top Secret Potential Terrorist List. You will be detained and never be heard of again. Really, do you think the bug out plan is all that smart any more? Right now, the TSA has VIPER teams ( I can’t remember what it stands for, something incredibly stupid ). They are the same idiots you would find anywhere in an airport molesting children ( if the kids were a little older you would find them in a Catholic church or a football locker room ). But they have been given SWAT training and equipment so they think they are the newest Billy Badass. And they will act like it with bluster, savagery and overcompensation ( because deep down, they fear they are really still just the same old jerk-offs ). If I were you, I’d fear these pricks because of that ( well, obviously because of the indefinite detention also, but these clowns will make sure that nightmare becomes more of a potential for more folks ).
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In light of the adage that if you don’t laugh you will cry, I’d like to suggest we rename the VIPER hit squads. Sure, VIPER sounds stupid enough, like a group of hormonal teenagers naming their gang Super Studmuffins. But let’s just be really stupid and go with COBRA, from the GI Joe cartoon. Crime Observers Bringing Relief to Americans. That might pass on the drugged public as more beneficial, and only a few will get the rip-off from the original terrorist fighters. Go Joe!
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I’d like to give a shout out to the minion who sent me a gift card from Home Despot. Thank you very much ( and believe me, I’m now worried afresh on the cold sink ). The plan is still on for construction this spring/summer. This weekend I’ll be renting a U-Haul for a bit of lumber and insulation ( I’m saving the card for the underground Bison Bunker though ). I’m raising the trailer living room floor to keep our feet from freezing ( the skirting helped until this December when we had three weeks of single digit cold. Surely a record for here. After a time, we just stayed cold ). I’m also closing in the room with hanging wool blankets. If it gets that cold again hopefully that combo will keep us comfortable. Of course, I’ll also be dropping off the wife to gamble. I’ll stop at the feed store for more wheat. And I’m getting another mattress as our old one is as soft and mushy as can be. A three-fer for the money.
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Friday, December 30, 2011
lymph node menu
LYMPH NODE MENU
Sometimes I wish I could just scream like a little prison bitch whose front teeth have been kicked out. Here we are in very short order going to either be in prison for not having a job and hence paying for Obammy Care, or we are going to be in a detention center just because a Fed said he suspected us of, whatever. And no, don’t think it is going to be like prison now. It is going to be quick starvation concentration camps. Your grand pappy got to die to free the Jews from those kinds of camps ( okay, it was to create an empire, but I’m in full patriotic mode here for illustrative purposes ). And you get to become one of the new Jews. The old Jews labored for the glorious Reich, and you get to labor for the glorious Homeland. Jesus weeps. And if you dare try to escape your banker controlled golden handcuff corporate cubical job, thinking you shall weasel out of their grasp by going self-sufficient in a rural area, they just close down your income generating web site. You are truly screwed ( we all are, baring an ability to disappear in the wilderness and escape drone detection ). I can’t believe how quickly the militia porn nightmare is actually unfolding. Well, don’t I feel like an idiot for thinking I was preparing. Alas, this new particular problem is going to have to wait. As I’ve said, I have no earthly idea how to try to alleviate it. If you go mobile because you don’t want to be a stationary target, the TSA checkpoints will get you. If you drop out of the Rat Race, they’ll get you for not working and paying the insurance company bail-out tax. So, while huge problems we need to worry about loom large, without answers all I can do is whistle while the lights go out. So today’s article, as inconsequential as it is, is what you get. Enjoy.
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I’ve always loved Chorizo sausage. My mom used to add it to hamburger ( which itself was usually soyburger ) for tacos. The taco shells were real corn tortillas fried up into a shell, not the crappy store bought brittle pasty pukes. To this day, I’ve yet to find as good of a taco ( and mom was as white bread as they come ). I got out of the habit of eating chorizo after awhile, but I’ve started again since it is a pretty cheap protein dish. A little goes a long way and you have a lot of fat to go with it. Kind of like pork fat ( the trimmings ), if you can find it at your butcher. If you close your eyes it almost taste like bacon. Between pork fat, eggs and Chorizo, you can make a lot of dinners with affordable animal flesh. The sausage is very spicy and very fatty, so you may not want to use the whole eight or ten once tube in one meal ( but of course, that depends on the number of folks eating ). Since I have to eat it all, not having a refrigerator, we try to use an absorbent starch to cut the grease. If you are twenty years old it might not bother you, but as my stomach can’t handle fat like it used to eating chorizo is like eating a lard stick. Flavored with habanera. This stuff will clear out the sinuses. Cook it for five or ten minutes on low to medium heat, and add it to whatever. Some folks like it in scrambled eggs. I think the best combo is putting it in couscous. Those little wheat balls soak up the fat real good. Rice, not so much. But not bad in rice and refried beans. It really tastes good on pasta of the more Italian persuasion ( I’m partial to mac and cheese with it ).
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Now, let’s talk about the making of this delicacy. Remember Vienna Sausage, those nasty little hot dogs in a can? Used to cost like two or three for a dollar before steel prices spiked from energy costs, ores declining in grade and the companies needing to pay back their loans. They had spleen in them. And tasted like it. If you had no teeth, these were great for gumming. Otherwise, they were foul and putrid butcher scrap in a tube. Well, chorizo is far worse. Here are the ingredients. Salivary glands. Lymph nodes. Cheek and tongue fat, flavorings and soy flour and nitrates. This stuff is the last piece of meat rejects sold to the last desperate idiot in line trying to pay with pennies and pocket lint. And yet, it does taste heavenly. Not at all do you get what you pay for in this case. Some genius back in time discovered how to make lemonade out of lemons. Or, in this case, delicious sausage out of butcher scraps fit only for rabid homeless dogs gathering out back in the alley.
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Since a minion was so nice to send me a book certificate from Amazon ( electronically, even ) I had to get a great gift with it. I think I got it. Drilling Down, The Gulf Oil Debacle And Our Energy Dilemma. When I had put this on my wish list, I paid no attention to the authors. One of which is Tainter, the guy that wrote on the complexity of civilization and their collapse. That book is old and dull. And very expensive. So, while the first book sounded good all on its own, it sounds even better knowing this could be a cheap update to his original tome. When I read it I’ll of course let you know how it turns out. I know only some of you care. Reading for pleasure isn’t a universal amusement. It used to be five percent of the population. Then the idiots consolidating the presses had to pay back all their loans through more growth so they started publishing putrid swill like vampire novels. So I’m sure that five percent has grown a smidge. But still a minority by any measure. I thought I’d just throw it out there for your consideration.
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Sometimes I wish I could just scream like a little prison bitch whose front teeth have been kicked out. Here we are in very short order going to either be in prison for not having a job and hence paying for Obammy Care, or we are going to be in a detention center just because a Fed said he suspected us of, whatever. And no, don’t think it is going to be like prison now. It is going to be quick starvation concentration camps. Your grand pappy got to die to free the Jews from those kinds of camps ( okay, it was to create an empire, but I’m in full patriotic mode here for illustrative purposes ). And you get to become one of the new Jews. The old Jews labored for the glorious Reich, and you get to labor for the glorious Homeland. Jesus weeps. And if you dare try to escape your banker controlled golden handcuff corporate cubical job, thinking you shall weasel out of their grasp by going self-sufficient in a rural area, they just close down your income generating web site. You are truly screwed ( we all are, baring an ability to disappear in the wilderness and escape drone detection ). I can’t believe how quickly the militia porn nightmare is actually unfolding. Well, don’t I feel like an idiot for thinking I was preparing. Alas, this new particular problem is going to have to wait. As I’ve said, I have no earthly idea how to try to alleviate it. If you go mobile because you don’t want to be a stationary target, the TSA checkpoints will get you. If you drop out of the Rat Race, they’ll get you for not working and paying the insurance company bail-out tax. So, while huge problems we need to worry about loom large, without answers all I can do is whistle while the lights go out. So today’s article, as inconsequential as it is, is what you get. Enjoy.
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I’ve always loved Chorizo sausage. My mom used to add it to hamburger ( which itself was usually soyburger ) for tacos. The taco shells were real corn tortillas fried up into a shell, not the crappy store bought brittle pasty pukes. To this day, I’ve yet to find as good of a taco ( and mom was as white bread as they come ). I got out of the habit of eating chorizo after awhile, but I’ve started again since it is a pretty cheap protein dish. A little goes a long way and you have a lot of fat to go with it. Kind of like pork fat ( the trimmings ), if you can find it at your butcher. If you close your eyes it almost taste like bacon. Between pork fat, eggs and Chorizo, you can make a lot of dinners with affordable animal flesh. The sausage is very spicy and very fatty, so you may not want to use the whole eight or ten once tube in one meal ( but of course, that depends on the number of folks eating ). Since I have to eat it all, not having a refrigerator, we try to use an absorbent starch to cut the grease. If you are twenty years old it might not bother you, but as my stomach can’t handle fat like it used to eating chorizo is like eating a lard stick. Flavored with habanera. This stuff will clear out the sinuses. Cook it for five or ten minutes on low to medium heat, and add it to whatever. Some folks like it in scrambled eggs. I think the best combo is putting it in couscous. Those little wheat balls soak up the fat real good. Rice, not so much. But not bad in rice and refried beans. It really tastes good on pasta of the more Italian persuasion ( I’m partial to mac and cheese with it ).
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Now, let’s talk about the making of this delicacy. Remember Vienna Sausage, those nasty little hot dogs in a can? Used to cost like two or three for a dollar before steel prices spiked from energy costs, ores declining in grade and the companies needing to pay back their loans. They had spleen in them. And tasted like it. If you had no teeth, these were great for gumming. Otherwise, they were foul and putrid butcher scrap in a tube. Well, chorizo is far worse. Here are the ingredients. Salivary glands. Lymph nodes. Cheek and tongue fat, flavorings and soy flour and nitrates. This stuff is the last piece of meat rejects sold to the last desperate idiot in line trying to pay with pennies and pocket lint. And yet, it does taste heavenly. Not at all do you get what you pay for in this case. Some genius back in time discovered how to make lemonade out of lemons. Or, in this case, delicious sausage out of butcher scraps fit only for rabid homeless dogs gathering out back in the alley.
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Since a minion was so nice to send me a book certificate from Amazon ( electronically, even ) I had to get a great gift with it. I think I got it. Drilling Down, The Gulf Oil Debacle And Our Energy Dilemma. When I had put this on my wish list, I paid no attention to the authors. One of which is Tainter, the guy that wrote on the complexity of civilization and their collapse. That book is old and dull. And very expensive. So, while the first book sounded good all on its own, it sounds even better knowing this could be a cheap update to his original tome. When I read it I’ll of course let you know how it turns out. I know only some of you care. Reading for pleasure isn’t a universal amusement. It used to be five percent of the population. Then the idiots consolidating the presses had to pay back all their loans through more growth so they started publishing putrid swill like vampire novels. So I’m sure that five percent has grown a smidge. But still a minority by any measure. I thought I’d just throw it out there for your consideration.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
selling santas crap
SELLING SANTA’S CRAP
Well, thank all the gods that Christmas is over. Remember, before the empire crumbles it sees the most lavish human sacrifices of all time ( in other words, the excesses are never more excessive right before it all comes crashing down ). Christmas has reached the pinnacle of stupidity with its greed and naked desperation for gift giving to support the once great retail sector. Most people would love to react to the commercials like the brain dead zombie Pavlovian dogs that they are and rush down to every single sale out there, but their means of production are gone, the credit cards are maxed and the income stream is in decline. I couldn’t believe this morning, Monday, with the pathetic “news” reporters blathering on about how stores expect to see day after sales much better than expected due to gift cards and discounts. I don’t know where this alleged shopping is going to take place, but here in Elko there was about zero traffic on the road all morning. Two weeks before Christmas if you were foolish enough to drive into the shopping center containing J.C. Penney’s you were literally run over by crazy Yuppie bitches in their SUV’s and minivans. It was such a dangerous situation, akin to the exit of a bar parking lot at 2am after a two for one chicken wing sale, karaoke talent night and nude dancer event, I went the long way around even though it was dangerously close to my lunch time. Today, the lot was deserted even late morning, tumbleweeds and litter outnumbering the cars. It was the same everywhere in town, and if you’ll remember correctly, town is one of the few places left in Nevada that still has a functioning economy. The Yuppies here are not in as bad of shape as Vegas or other pestilent sinkholes. Things are pretty bad when you have the “news” fabricating events to stimulate sales after a holiday season that was supposedly not too bad ( most likely, it was just a giant loss leader ).
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And now that the unholy event is concluded, it is time to think about selling all the crap Santa gave you from this and every other Christmas. You know, I know, and Ross Perot’s twin brother that the North Koreans didn’t kill knows that any time now the economy is going to take such a huge squishy dump that all the previous bad economic news like failing banks, imploding European Unions, food riots in the middle east and car company bail-outs is going to look like a mildly infected splinter compared to Bubonic Plague. When that happens, not if but when, all your toys and expensive possessions are going to be worth not pennies on the dollar but something far, far worse. They are going to be as valuable as buggy whips sold at the Daytona 500. Your RV’s, your ski-doo’s, your ATV’s, your electronics of every type and size, all that crap and so much more will be worthless crap no one can afford to buy and with no available fuel or content worthless even if it was affordable. You might be a year or two early right now, but this is something you can’t time. So get the hell rid of it all before the general population tries to do the same in a blind panic. Right now, husbands everywhere are seething in resentment that they didn’t get anywhere near the crap they wanted for Christmas. They work their balls off and all they get is a stupid tie or sweater. No I-Pad or notebook computer or Super Deluxe Ab Pumper or whatever. And wives are pissed that their jewelry is as fake as their D cups, their shoes are Chinese sweatshop fake knock-offs and their tight ass friggin husbands didn’t buy them a BMW like the couple in the commercials. This might be a good time to come along with these worthless trinkets at rock bottom prices. Are they worth a lot more? Could you get more if you waited? Perhaps. But prep supplies are just going to go up in price whereas worthless consumer crap is a highly flexible market. Better to take a slight loss now than wait until you can’t give them away.
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The Sheeple still think the good times are coming back. They invest in super sweet bargains and you get the cash to invest in real valuables like wheat and ammo. When the end comes, their $50 computer is worthless. But you have six months of food. It didn’t matter that you spent $300 for that computer and sold it for $50. What matters is you secured six months of food before the panic. Remember when coffee went from $8 a can to $12? For once, Wal-Mart didn’t jack up the cost of their item ( one imagines they had a fixed price contract rather than they actually thought to not alienate their loyal customers some more ). Their can stayed at $5.30 the whole time ( well, their blue generic can. The Wal-Mart brand Great Value crap was $6.50, tasted worse and you needed to use one third more for the same flavor ). But you could find the can on the shelf only a quarter of the time. They were always out. The same is going to happen to prep supplies of all kinds, even bags of rice or beans or #10 cans of anything. If you can’t find it for sale, it doesn’t matter what the official price is ( like gasoline during a natural disaster ). You can’t wait until the last minute to shop, because stuff won’t be there. Last minute shoppers are idiots to the last. Sell your crap at a loss, buy now before the rush, and thank me later. Hell, by then the web will be down and you won’t be able to buy through Amazon, so you can save money and not pay me back for this wonderful advice which is just sweet garnish on the crap sandwich you wish you could serve up for my lunch. Damn ingrates.
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Well, thank all the gods that Christmas is over. Remember, before the empire crumbles it sees the most lavish human sacrifices of all time ( in other words, the excesses are never more excessive right before it all comes crashing down ). Christmas has reached the pinnacle of stupidity with its greed and naked desperation for gift giving to support the once great retail sector. Most people would love to react to the commercials like the brain dead zombie Pavlovian dogs that they are and rush down to every single sale out there, but their means of production are gone, the credit cards are maxed and the income stream is in decline. I couldn’t believe this morning, Monday, with the pathetic “news” reporters blathering on about how stores expect to see day after sales much better than expected due to gift cards and discounts. I don’t know where this alleged shopping is going to take place, but here in Elko there was about zero traffic on the road all morning. Two weeks before Christmas if you were foolish enough to drive into the shopping center containing J.C. Penney’s you were literally run over by crazy Yuppie bitches in their SUV’s and minivans. It was such a dangerous situation, akin to the exit of a bar parking lot at 2am after a two for one chicken wing sale, karaoke talent night and nude dancer event, I went the long way around even though it was dangerously close to my lunch time. Today, the lot was deserted even late morning, tumbleweeds and litter outnumbering the cars. It was the same everywhere in town, and if you’ll remember correctly, town is one of the few places left in Nevada that still has a functioning economy. The Yuppies here are not in as bad of shape as Vegas or other pestilent sinkholes. Things are pretty bad when you have the “news” fabricating events to stimulate sales after a holiday season that was supposedly not too bad ( most likely, it was just a giant loss leader ).
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And now that the unholy event is concluded, it is time to think about selling all the crap Santa gave you from this and every other Christmas. You know, I know, and Ross Perot’s twin brother that the North Koreans didn’t kill knows that any time now the economy is going to take such a huge squishy dump that all the previous bad economic news like failing banks, imploding European Unions, food riots in the middle east and car company bail-outs is going to look like a mildly infected splinter compared to Bubonic Plague. When that happens, not if but when, all your toys and expensive possessions are going to be worth not pennies on the dollar but something far, far worse. They are going to be as valuable as buggy whips sold at the Daytona 500. Your RV’s, your ski-doo’s, your ATV’s, your electronics of every type and size, all that crap and so much more will be worthless crap no one can afford to buy and with no available fuel or content worthless even if it was affordable. You might be a year or two early right now, but this is something you can’t time. So get the hell rid of it all before the general population tries to do the same in a blind panic. Right now, husbands everywhere are seething in resentment that they didn’t get anywhere near the crap they wanted for Christmas. They work their balls off and all they get is a stupid tie or sweater. No I-Pad or notebook computer or Super Deluxe Ab Pumper or whatever. And wives are pissed that their jewelry is as fake as their D cups, their shoes are Chinese sweatshop fake knock-offs and their tight ass friggin husbands didn’t buy them a BMW like the couple in the commercials. This might be a good time to come along with these worthless trinkets at rock bottom prices. Are they worth a lot more? Could you get more if you waited? Perhaps. But prep supplies are just going to go up in price whereas worthless consumer crap is a highly flexible market. Better to take a slight loss now than wait until you can’t give them away.
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The Sheeple still think the good times are coming back. They invest in super sweet bargains and you get the cash to invest in real valuables like wheat and ammo. When the end comes, their $50 computer is worthless. But you have six months of food. It didn’t matter that you spent $300 for that computer and sold it for $50. What matters is you secured six months of food before the panic. Remember when coffee went from $8 a can to $12? For once, Wal-Mart didn’t jack up the cost of their item ( one imagines they had a fixed price contract rather than they actually thought to not alienate their loyal customers some more ). Their can stayed at $5.30 the whole time ( well, their blue generic can. The Wal-Mart brand Great Value crap was $6.50, tasted worse and you needed to use one third more for the same flavor ). But you could find the can on the shelf only a quarter of the time. They were always out. The same is going to happen to prep supplies of all kinds, even bags of rice or beans or #10 cans of anything. If you can’t find it for sale, it doesn’t matter what the official price is ( like gasoline during a natural disaster ). You can’t wait until the last minute to shop, because stuff won’t be there. Last minute shoppers are idiots to the last. Sell your crap at a loss, buy now before the rush, and thank me later. Hell, by then the web will be down and you won’t be able to buy through Amazon, so you can save money and not pay me back for this wonderful advice which is just sweet garnish on the crap sandwich you wish you could serve up for my lunch. Damn ingrates.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
safecastle contest update
SAFECASTLE CONTEST UPDATE
If you remember, Safecastle was having a contest. Submitted articles to survival sites were judged and now, end of the year, the winners are given to the company and from those a winner emerges and prizes are won and great fun is had by all. Here is how I picked the winner to submit. I went with the article with the most comments. I'm not saying it was necessarily the best article, but I felt it was a good indicatorof which article people paid the most attention to and were impacted by ( although it could have been good or bad ). Yes, a bit arbitrary. I don't mean to piss off folks or belittle anyone's efforts or talent. It was just my version of a readers vote. The minion that wrote the motorcycle article posted 8-29-11 was the winner. Please e-mail me with an e-mail or other contact info in case I need to pass it on to the company if you win ( don't count on it, but you never know ).
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My regular article posted earlier. Scroll down.
If you remember, Safecastle was having a contest. Submitted articles to survival sites were judged and now, end of the year, the winners are given to the company and from those a winner emerges and prizes are won and great fun is had by all. Here is how I picked the winner to submit. I went with the article with the most comments. I'm not saying it was necessarily the best article, but I felt it was a good indicatorof which article people paid the most attention to and were impacted by ( although it could have been good or bad ). Yes, a bit arbitrary. I don't mean to piss off folks or belittle anyone's efforts or talent. It was just my version of a readers vote. The minion that wrote the motorcycle article posted 8-29-11 was the winner. Please e-mail me with an e-mail or other contact info in case I need to pass it on to the company if you win ( don't count on it, but you never know ).
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My regular article posted earlier. Scroll down.
peak centurion
PEAK CENTURION
The Last Centurion by John Ringo is quite a good book, but no way near a post-apocalypse story. Throughout the whole global climate cool down and plague, the government is quite functional or perhaps dysfunctional. Call it a dystopian novel. It is also a militia porn stroke book. It is also a nice Peak Oil Ignorer book ( it doesn’t qualify as a “denier” book since it deftly skates around the whole idea as if it doesn’t exist ). But despite the many and varied complaints I might have about the underlying philosophy ( which might be described as “soldiers as gods” ), the one thing you have to love about this book is the wonderful job it does pointing out problems that will arise from emergencies and then unwrapping the many layers of issues you have to solve, each one with many tentacles branching out in every direction that compound the problems. It is great in a few areas in this regard, mainly producing food. Of course, then you get into another philosophical problem, blaming all problems on “tofu-eaters” ( gotta love that one ) which obviously means the simple answer to all our problems is just “hiring smart dudes”. I could go on and on about that, and I will, but do keep in mind the basic point of my review of this book is, in a complex society every problem is multi-layered, and this is one of the better books illustrating that very well. Should you buy it or use it as a “prepper persuader”? I think so. The writing is quirky and fun ( it gets a bit “gamer fantasy” stupid in the last quarter, but before then it is quite good in peeling back the layers of the onion ). And the story will not frighten away potential converts because it allows them to still grasp the delusional straws of government control, energy supply flow, smarty saviors and other modern fantasies while at the same time perhaps getting them to think of potential problems and all that could go wrong because of all those multiple layers of complexity.
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I’m going to try yet another time to point out our energy issues. I know you are tired of hearing it, and that I harp on it a lot, but I’m also betting the grid will crash before this blog gets too damn lame and you stop reading ( hey, it’s probably on a downhill projection, quality content wise, but since this ain’t no “Seinfeld” I don’t have to worry about going out on the top [ remember the episode where George keeps trying to one up his own jokes and Jerry tells him to walk out after one good one, leaving them wanting more?] ). Until then, I’ll keep preaching to the deaf and blind. Okay, simplifying things can be both dangerous and illuminating. Dangerous because you might leave out something critical that later takes on life threatening importance. Illuminating because by putting it into a one sentence bumper sticker, they have a frame work to judge every other detail involved in the issue. For instance, economics can be distilled down into “supply and demand”. If all detail that follow fit into that framework, they are allowed to stay and help give depth to the idea. If they violate that, out they go. Anthropology can be distilled down into “it’s all about getting fed”. If an explanation into human behavior goes with that basic tenet, it makes sense. If it violates that, you can ignore it as the bleatings of a degreed moron.
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The supplies that keep humans alive can be described as “picking the fruit or chopping the tree down”. If you are picking fruit from a tree, you are leaving the tree there for next season to once again bear fruit ( we’ll ignore such things as locust attacks or lightning or tornado strikes and concentrate on the normal cycle of replenishment ). If you chop down the tree you get both fruit and wood, a huge increase in supplies, but clearly a “one off” action. Non-repeatable in a realistic time frame. Returning some plants to the soil ( directly in green manure and indirectly by grazing cattle and using their manure elsewhere ) keeps the soil productive for next season. Planting extra crops without returning enough nutrients delivers a lot of extra food, but then the yield drop off a cliff and you can’t get much more out of the soil in any meaningful time frame. Extracting ore from a mine, pure mining, is in no way, shape or form sustainable. It is a one time activity. You are chopping down the tree.
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Petroleum is mining the energy we use. Period. You always run out of what you are mining. Always. It has been proven that we are running down decades old super fields, and no others of comparable size has taken their place. All new fields are smaller by orders of magnitude. Today’s exciting finds wouldn’t have gotten the rigs installed forty years ago. As our population has doubled. Thank goodness for the North Dakota frac oil fields. Without them we might be in a collapse rather than a Depression. But they haven’t replaced lost imports, they just make the losses in total available energy a lot less. We are still in total energy decline, but it could be a lot worse. We have, a decade later, less energy to burn ( with more population ). All the effort in the last ten years to replace SOME of those losses has made for a decline rather than a collapse. But opening another mine, or ten mines, to replace the huge one played out, does not replace the ore you used to get. It only gives you some time to adjust to decline.
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Are any of us really getting ready for the global petroleum mine to start producing a trickle rather than a torrent? The torrent has already slowed, yet we continue to act as though the next wonderful find will keep the volume going at the old levels. It ain’t happened in ten years. So, you are betting your life it suddenly will, right? We are not picking fruit, we are chopping down the tree. If we kept discovering new wells to replace what we’ve used, that is one thing. But using two or three times what you are finding is quite another. How far does that can get kicked down the road?
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The Last Centurion by John Ringo is quite a good book, but no way near a post-apocalypse story. Throughout the whole global climate cool down and plague, the government is quite functional or perhaps dysfunctional. Call it a dystopian novel. It is also a militia porn stroke book. It is also a nice Peak Oil Ignorer book ( it doesn’t qualify as a “denier” book since it deftly skates around the whole idea as if it doesn’t exist ). But despite the many and varied complaints I might have about the underlying philosophy ( which might be described as “soldiers as gods” ), the one thing you have to love about this book is the wonderful job it does pointing out problems that will arise from emergencies and then unwrapping the many layers of issues you have to solve, each one with many tentacles branching out in every direction that compound the problems. It is great in a few areas in this regard, mainly producing food. Of course, then you get into another philosophical problem, blaming all problems on “tofu-eaters” ( gotta love that one ) which obviously means the simple answer to all our problems is just “hiring smart dudes”. I could go on and on about that, and I will, but do keep in mind the basic point of my review of this book is, in a complex society every problem is multi-layered, and this is one of the better books illustrating that very well. Should you buy it or use it as a “prepper persuader”? I think so. The writing is quirky and fun ( it gets a bit “gamer fantasy” stupid in the last quarter, but before then it is quite good in peeling back the layers of the onion ). And the story will not frighten away potential converts because it allows them to still grasp the delusional straws of government control, energy supply flow, smarty saviors and other modern fantasies while at the same time perhaps getting them to think of potential problems and all that could go wrong because of all those multiple layers of complexity.
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I’m going to try yet another time to point out our energy issues. I know you are tired of hearing it, and that I harp on it a lot, but I’m also betting the grid will crash before this blog gets too damn lame and you stop reading ( hey, it’s probably on a downhill projection, quality content wise, but since this ain’t no “Seinfeld” I don’t have to worry about going out on the top [ remember the episode where George keeps trying to one up his own jokes and Jerry tells him to walk out after one good one, leaving them wanting more?] ). Until then, I’ll keep preaching to the deaf and blind. Okay, simplifying things can be both dangerous and illuminating. Dangerous because you might leave out something critical that later takes on life threatening importance. Illuminating because by putting it into a one sentence bumper sticker, they have a frame work to judge every other detail involved in the issue. For instance, economics can be distilled down into “supply and demand”. If all detail that follow fit into that framework, they are allowed to stay and help give depth to the idea. If they violate that, out they go. Anthropology can be distilled down into “it’s all about getting fed”. If an explanation into human behavior goes with that basic tenet, it makes sense. If it violates that, you can ignore it as the bleatings of a degreed moron.
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The supplies that keep humans alive can be described as “picking the fruit or chopping the tree down”. If you are picking fruit from a tree, you are leaving the tree there for next season to once again bear fruit ( we’ll ignore such things as locust attacks or lightning or tornado strikes and concentrate on the normal cycle of replenishment ). If you chop down the tree you get both fruit and wood, a huge increase in supplies, but clearly a “one off” action. Non-repeatable in a realistic time frame. Returning some plants to the soil ( directly in green manure and indirectly by grazing cattle and using their manure elsewhere ) keeps the soil productive for next season. Planting extra crops without returning enough nutrients delivers a lot of extra food, but then the yield drop off a cliff and you can’t get much more out of the soil in any meaningful time frame. Extracting ore from a mine, pure mining, is in no way, shape or form sustainable. It is a one time activity. You are chopping down the tree.
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Petroleum is mining the energy we use. Period. You always run out of what you are mining. Always. It has been proven that we are running down decades old super fields, and no others of comparable size has taken their place. All new fields are smaller by orders of magnitude. Today’s exciting finds wouldn’t have gotten the rigs installed forty years ago. As our population has doubled. Thank goodness for the North Dakota frac oil fields. Without them we might be in a collapse rather than a Depression. But they haven’t replaced lost imports, they just make the losses in total available energy a lot less. We are still in total energy decline, but it could be a lot worse. We have, a decade later, less energy to burn ( with more population ). All the effort in the last ten years to replace SOME of those losses has made for a decline rather than a collapse. But opening another mine, or ten mines, to replace the huge one played out, does not replace the ore you used to get. It only gives you some time to adjust to decline.
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Are any of us really getting ready for the global petroleum mine to start producing a trickle rather than a torrent? The torrent has already slowed, yet we continue to act as though the next wonderful find will keep the volume going at the old levels. It ain’t happened in ten years. So, you are betting your life it suddenly will, right? We are not picking fruit, we are chopping down the tree. If we kept discovering new wells to replace what we’ve used, that is one thing. But using two or three times what you are finding is quite another. How far does that can get kicked down the road?
END
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
selling on the collapse
SELLING ON THE COLLAPSE
A great many people are under the illusion that any day now our great fearless leaders will jolt upright from their slumber, shout in glorious proclamation “hallelujah” and begin directing us towards a sustainable future in which we happily peddle our bicycles around our green village tending our organic asparagus and repair our windmills with locally grown wood. And perhaps that might happen if we could stop all current economic activity and redirect it centrally by an enlightened intellectual genius. Now, while you are contemplating the odds on that, please excuse me while I painfully extract that monkey out of my ass ( he could fly out but I’m such a tightass that there are some birthing pains ). You can’t direct folks against their own self interests. That includes the idiot that draws down the desert water table to keep his lawn green, the idiot that cuts down the last of the jungle hardwood trees using the last of the oil to transport it to China to make gee-gaws to sell to Yuppie Scum. You can’t force people to build green technology alternate energy if they will lose money on it ( if your solar panel cost $100 to make and the Chinese type is $90, you can’t sell enough of yours to pay back the bank loan interest rates. Even if the loan interest is only 1% ). People are going to promote their own future needs without regard to the “smart” way of doing things. If the economic advantage is to grow, you grow. Nobody cares if the oil is running out, the soil is depleted, the nearest farm to the mega-city is three hundred miles away and transportation costs are extreme. They only care about buying the wife shoes, the mistress diamonds, sending junior to Harvard and hopefully having enough left over to survive the implosion of Social Security so they can retire from this soul crushing piece of crap job that sees their arteries clogging, their hair falling out in clumps and their daily evacuations full of blood.
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This is what happens in a collapse ( both economic and energy draw-down ): economic interests stop becoming general enrichment and start becoming a fight for a dwindling share of the wealth. Before, there was enough for everyone. Now, not so much. You must understand this to understand why prices go up, why your pension is going to fail before you ( even with bloody stools ), why taxes go up as government shrinks, why your job won’t survive as long as the mortgage and why you will see a whole host of lifestyle crushing events very soon. Yes, it is nice to think we can muddle through until the end of our lives, but a contraction isn’t a straight line event but rather an exponential snowball into an avalanche process. You can’t worry about one or two things getting worse, but dozens if not scores. For instance, it isn’t just that the banks need bail-outs which cause government deficits to double ( banks are a suck ass parasite but have burrowed into every modern transaction economically so they are now essential to the current system surviving ), but also that the banks stop extending credit because of shrinking margins they now have which disallows investment and encourages sell-offs. Lack of credit slows down the economy as well as the higher inflation and taxes caused by the government deficits. Now every business facing lack of credit must cut quality, short change the future, raise prices and triage.
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Budweiser beer was sold to a Belgium firm. Old news, but a good example. Beer is a perfect gauge for our economy. Beer sacrifices food to become a luxury. Right there you are measuring surplus land and energy, irrigation, land prices, fertilizer costs, transportation issues, etc. And beer comes in disposable containers. The cost of smelting and transportation of a liquid over hundreds of miles, the real estate for bottlers and warehouses, to include the cost of loans for that equipment. Beer tells you in advance the direction of all these factors because it is a luxury rather than a necessity. The shrinking surplus for luxury is a barometer of the economy which is almost all demands for surplus. And the barometer clearly read “shrinking supplies, added cost”. The A-B folks said, screw this noise. Let’s sell this bitch off and make it someone else’s problem. Well, the Belgians have made it their problem. By making it your problem. Beer has doubled in cost. The profitability has decreased, what with all the rising inputs coupled with another layer of corporate debt, but everyone but the beer drinker is happy and glad for their income. And this is a non-critical industry. Next up, your favorite bridge to work.
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Your county government is in trouble. All the industry moved overseas, the housing bubble crash halved property tax income and at the same time every idiot making twenty grand a year thinks it is welfares problem to feed his family because he can’t make a budget to save his life ( not that the county is complaining too much about the extra Food Stamp money since each recipient is paying into the local economy through cell phone taxes, gasoline taxes, fast food joint taxes, cable TV taxes, etc. ). So revenue is down and spending is up. You’ve already laid off half the Sheriff Department so you don’t have to worry about an extra few million a year in pension costs in fifteen years. But you still need to cut expenses. So you sell your bridge to a corporation for $1 and half of all toll revenue. As a local, your taxes have increased but you still can’t drive for “free” anymore now that a toll bridge is between you and work. Okay, it is only $6 a day which is twenty minutes wages, and far less than the extra gas money it takes to get there. But that isn’t the only cost. To rub salt into the wound, you will one day end up in the river the hard way.
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Corporations are not known for long range planning. They maximize this quarters profits, make the CEO a nice bonus. When the inevitable blowback happens, they cash in their golden parachute and let the next idiot untangle their problem. Your toll bridge operator is inevitably going to play with the balance sheet to shrink declared profits by declaring costs for worker pensions and maintenance. But they will declare bankruptcy long before that money sees its way to either and the former CEO will have squandered that extra cash. Okay, the county would have done the exact same thing, but at only half the cost to the taxpayer. My point here is the increased cost for the same outcome.
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Look at GM or the airlines. Screw the retirees, and the taxpayer. Socialize the loses and privatize the profits. There is no money in transitioning to a sustainable future, but there is plenty in picking over the corpse of our current system. All the remaining money and credit is going into squeezing the last profits out. There is nothing left to invest in for the other end of the Oil Age.
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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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By the by, all my writing is copyrighted. For the obtuse out there.
A great many people are under the illusion that any day now our great fearless leaders will jolt upright from their slumber, shout in glorious proclamation “hallelujah” and begin directing us towards a sustainable future in which we happily peddle our bicycles around our green village tending our organic asparagus and repair our windmills with locally grown wood. And perhaps that might happen if we could stop all current economic activity and redirect it centrally by an enlightened intellectual genius. Now, while you are contemplating the odds on that, please excuse me while I painfully extract that monkey out of my ass ( he could fly out but I’m such a tightass that there are some birthing pains ). You can’t direct folks against their own self interests. That includes the idiot that draws down the desert water table to keep his lawn green, the idiot that cuts down the last of the jungle hardwood trees using the last of the oil to transport it to China to make gee-gaws to sell to Yuppie Scum. You can’t force people to build green technology alternate energy if they will lose money on it ( if your solar panel cost $100 to make and the Chinese type is $90, you can’t sell enough of yours to pay back the bank loan interest rates. Even if the loan interest is only 1% ). People are going to promote their own future needs without regard to the “smart” way of doing things. If the economic advantage is to grow, you grow. Nobody cares if the oil is running out, the soil is depleted, the nearest farm to the mega-city is three hundred miles away and transportation costs are extreme. They only care about buying the wife shoes, the mistress diamonds, sending junior to Harvard and hopefully having enough left over to survive the implosion of Social Security so they can retire from this soul crushing piece of crap job that sees their arteries clogging, their hair falling out in clumps and their daily evacuations full of blood.
*
This is what happens in a collapse ( both economic and energy draw-down ): economic interests stop becoming general enrichment and start becoming a fight for a dwindling share of the wealth. Before, there was enough for everyone. Now, not so much. You must understand this to understand why prices go up, why your pension is going to fail before you ( even with bloody stools ), why taxes go up as government shrinks, why your job won’t survive as long as the mortgage and why you will see a whole host of lifestyle crushing events very soon. Yes, it is nice to think we can muddle through until the end of our lives, but a contraction isn’t a straight line event but rather an exponential snowball into an avalanche process. You can’t worry about one or two things getting worse, but dozens if not scores. For instance, it isn’t just that the banks need bail-outs which cause government deficits to double ( banks are a suck ass parasite but have burrowed into every modern transaction economically so they are now essential to the current system surviving ), but also that the banks stop extending credit because of shrinking margins they now have which disallows investment and encourages sell-offs. Lack of credit slows down the economy as well as the higher inflation and taxes caused by the government deficits. Now every business facing lack of credit must cut quality, short change the future, raise prices and triage.
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Budweiser beer was sold to a Belgium firm. Old news, but a good example. Beer is a perfect gauge for our economy. Beer sacrifices food to become a luxury. Right there you are measuring surplus land and energy, irrigation, land prices, fertilizer costs, transportation issues, etc. And beer comes in disposable containers. The cost of smelting and transportation of a liquid over hundreds of miles, the real estate for bottlers and warehouses, to include the cost of loans for that equipment. Beer tells you in advance the direction of all these factors because it is a luxury rather than a necessity. The shrinking surplus for luxury is a barometer of the economy which is almost all demands for surplus. And the barometer clearly read “shrinking supplies, added cost”. The A-B folks said, screw this noise. Let’s sell this bitch off and make it someone else’s problem. Well, the Belgians have made it their problem. By making it your problem. Beer has doubled in cost. The profitability has decreased, what with all the rising inputs coupled with another layer of corporate debt, but everyone but the beer drinker is happy and glad for their income. And this is a non-critical industry. Next up, your favorite bridge to work.
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Please support Bison by buying through the Amazon graphics above and to the right of each article. Or, visit
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You can purchase anything, not just the linked item. Enter Amazon through my item link and then go to whatever other item you desire. As long as you don’t leave Amazon until after the order is placed, I get credit for your purchase. Thank you.
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Your county government is in trouble. All the industry moved overseas, the housing bubble crash halved property tax income and at the same time every idiot making twenty grand a year thinks it is welfares problem to feed his family because he can’t make a budget to save his life ( not that the county is complaining too much about the extra Food Stamp money since each recipient is paying into the local economy through cell phone taxes, gasoline taxes, fast food joint taxes, cable TV taxes, etc. ). So revenue is down and spending is up. You’ve already laid off half the Sheriff Department so you don’t have to worry about an extra few million a year in pension costs in fifteen years. But you still need to cut expenses. So you sell your bridge to a corporation for $1 and half of all toll revenue. As a local, your taxes have increased but you still can’t drive for “free” anymore now that a toll bridge is between you and work. Okay, it is only $6 a day which is twenty minutes wages, and far less than the extra gas money it takes to get there. But that isn’t the only cost. To rub salt into the wound, you will one day end up in the river the hard way.
*
Corporations are not known for long range planning. They maximize this quarters profits, make the CEO a nice bonus. When the inevitable blowback happens, they cash in their golden parachute and let the next idiot untangle their problem. Your toll bridge operator is inevitably going to play with the balance sheet to shrink declared profits by declaring costs for worker pensions and maintenance. But they will declare bankruptcy long before that money sees its way to either and the former CEO will have squandered that extra cash. Okay, the county would have done the exact same thing, but at only half the cost to the taxpayer. My point here is the increased cost for the same outcome.
*
Look at GM or the airlines. Screw the retirees, and the taxpayer. Socialize the loses and privatize the profits. There is no money in transitioning to a sustainable future, but there is plenty in picking over the corpse of our current system. All the remaining money and credit is going into squeezing the last profits out. There is nothing left to invest in for the other end of the Oil Age.
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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Monday, December 26, 2011
Christmas thanks
CHRISTMAS THANKS
My regular article for today is posted below. Here, I'd like to thank all my minions for e-mailing me wishing me a happy holiday. Thank you to the two minions that each sent me an Amazon gift card. It will be used wisely. And Sam, thanks for the care package. I got the coffee last Friday, so it came just in time for the holiday. Both of my kids called me yesterday, so that alone made my day. But gifts are always appreciated. Now, back to the gloom!
My regular article for today is posted below. Here, I'd like to thank all my minions for e-mailing me wishing me a happy holiday. Thank you to the two minions that each sent me an Amazon gift card. It will be used wisely. And Sam, thanks for the care package. I got the coffee last Friday, so it came just in time for the holiday. Both of my kids called me yesterday, so that alone made my day. But gifts are always appreciated. Now, back to the gloom!
bad attitudes
BAD ATTITUDES
One of the good things about having published my drivel for five years is that since I’ve pretty much covered it all already I can safely take a detour now and then and take up on more important topics later and no one has missed anything. Okay, sure, the letter to Santa the other day was about nothing at all except perhaps a slight jab at Yuppie Survivalists. And today you might even say that this somewhat ties in with the economy, cultural mores, etc., but even I’ll admit this is a stretch. But don’t worry. This isn’t going to be an everyday affair. Despite this being a blog, this isn’t about my life other than how it exemplifies how to be frugal or how to avoid being a dumbass. The scary thing is, as much as I personally do dumbass things, I’m still smarter than the average bear ( okay, just wiser, not smarter ). Anyway, I was reading somebody online and they recommended an article by Smith at Of Two Minds blog on this being the last debt fueled Christmas. It really was one of his more exceptional articles, on par with the economy being The Titanic ( which I believe was from about two years ago but I’m not positive- time flies when the vultures are circling the stewpot ). It was the December 20th article ( I’m trying to cut back on links to postpone the inevitable Thought Crime Police shutdown as long as possible ). That article got me thinking on how you should really think about selling all your worthless crap now for junk land and prep money before it is all rendered worthless ( a good example that sticks in my mind was when I was a nineteen year old idiot and bought a used Mustang. You could literally see the gas gauge drop doing sixty on the freeway. Being as this was Hawaii still in a recession in the early 80’s, the demand for a V-8 was at zero. Dealers wouldn’t even consider them for a trade in. I had to drop it off at the bank for a repo ). It doesn’t matter what you paid for something but what you can sell it for. Before everyone else figures this out, you should beat the rush. High electric, expensive or non-existent gasoline, a spike in unemployment. A lot of different things can suddenly turn your crap in the garage worthless.
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But I didn’t want to talk about that after I came across a sentence in his article which essentially wondered why today’s worker serfs were such poorly customer service orientated. Why, he wondered, would anyone have a bad attitude when they could so easily lose their job and never find another one? He sees this as a puzzling paradox ( the worse the job situation, the worse the attitude ). But never fear, Charlie, I’m here as the resident know it all. Okay, you scoff. But who is still living in California and who was smart enough to get the crap out of that petulant horrid toxic waste dump straight out of Dante’s illustration of Hell twenty years ago? Thank you. With that settled, let’s easily answer the question. I know it quite easily eludes managers. And if someone has been self-employed for awhile it might seem strange. Managers, after all, pay up to an easy hundred grand to go to college. They come out with proof which claims to represent a business education but what is in actuality a bill for a medical procedure called a lobotomy. I have had the displeasure of meeting a large number of stupid mother humpers in my day, and inevitably they are managers ( military officers included- the military seems to have an inferiority complex in relation to the private sector and tries to outdo them in idiocy in such things as managers, political correctness, waste of resources, etc. ). So, managers are basic clueless bitches. If it wasn’t an abstract theory that would never survive the sunlight of reality, they don’t acknowledge its existence. The self-employed are no stranger to hard work or pleasing their customers, but they whole heartedly drunk on the Kool-Aid of perpetual growth. They could never believe that we are in a collapse ( I think even most of the survivalist suppliers are not truly convinced anything truly earth shattering is going to happen- just your run of the mill natural disaster ).
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Now, don’t you believe for a second that minimum wage peon serfs are too much smarter. In fact, I think if we go with the theory that a mega- catastrophe happened in pre-history which wiped out most of humanity and only left a few score breeding females surviving ( brought up by Ringo in “The Last Centurion” which I’ve only just started but which has really impressed me with its massive data dump of free association rambling which I’m enjoying immensely ) , we can safely conclude that mankind is a bunch of inbred retard banjo playing morons and that the occasional bright bulb is far more the exception rather than the rule and our worker bees aren’t any smarter than the average dumbass but at least has a bit of street smarts due to being subjected to the cruel mistress’ Reality barbs. The worker drones are still idiots, but at least they have a slight grasp of logic. And while I hate to give them any credit, I think we can say that these people know exactly what their future holds. Corporations, which nowadays means almost all jobs, are disloyal, lying, heartless and no smarter than consequences through the end of the present quarter. Workers know that they can be perfect workers, perfect ambassadors to customers, work harder than anyone else, and still get canned at will when the office idiots need to cut expenses. They know that corporate will hump their customers to save a dime and let the workers take the heat for it. They know that no matter what they do, they will be punished rather than be rewarded. So why try hard at customer service? The companies that treat their employees right get good customer service without demanding it. It is built in to the compensation. The companies ( 99% of them ) that hump their workers get what they pay for. Simple.
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One of the good things about having published my drivel for five years is that since I’ve pretty much covered it all already I can safely take a detour now and then and take up on more important topics later and no one has missed anything. Okay, sure, the letter to Santa the other day was about nothing at all except perhaps a slight jab at Yuppie Survivalists. And today you might even say that this somewhat ties in with the economy, cultural mores, etc., but even I’ll admit this is a stretch. But don’t worry. This isn’t going to be an everyday affair. Despite this being a blog, this isn’t about my life other than how it exemplifies how to be frugal or how to avoid being a dumbass. The scary thing is, as much as I personally do dumbass things, I’m still smarter than the average bear ( okay, just wiser, not smarter ). Anyway, I was reading somebody online and they recommended an article by Smith at Of Two Minds blog on this being the last debt fueled Christmas. It really was one of his more exceptional articles, on par with the economy being The Titanic ( which I believe was from about two years ago but I’m not positive- time flies when the vultures are circling the stewpot ). It was the December 20th article ( I’m trying to cut back on links to postpone the inevitable Thought Crime Police shutdown as long as possible ). That article got me thinking on how you should really think about selling all your worthless crap now for junk land and prep money before it is all rendered worthless ( a good example that sticks in my mind was when I was a nineteen year old idiot and bought a used Mustang. You could literally see the gas gauge drop doing sixty on the freeway. Being as this was Hawaii still in a recession in the early 80’s, the demand for a V-8 was at zero. Dealers wouldn’t even consider them for a trade in. I had to drop it off at the bank for a repo ). It doesn’t matter what you paid for something but what you can sell it for. Before everyone else figures this out, you should beat the rush. High electric, expensive or non-existent gasoline, a spike in unemployment. A lot of different things can suddenly turn your crap in the garage worthless.
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But I didn’t want to talk about that after I came across a sentence in his article which essentially wondered why today’s worker serfs were such poorly customer service orientated. Why, he wondered, would anyone have a bad attitude when they could so easily lose their job and never find another one? He sees this as a puzzling paradox ( the worse the job situation, the worse the attitude ). But never fear, Charlie, I’m here as the resident know it all. Okay, you scoff. But who is still living in California and who was smart enough to get the crap out of that petulant horrid toxic waste dump straight out of Dante’s illustration of Hell twenty years ago? Thank you. With that settled, let’s easily answer the question. I know it quite easily eludes managers. And if someone has been self-employed for awhile it might seem strange. Managers, after all, pay up to an easy hundred grand to go to college. They come out with proof which claims to represent a business education but what is in actuality a bill for a medical procedure called a lobotomy. I have had the displeasure of meeting a large number of stupid mother humpers in my day, and inevitably they are managers ( military officers included- the military seems to have an inferiority complex in relation to the private sector and tries to outdo them in idiocy in such things as managers, political correctness, waste of resources, etc. ). So, managers are basic clueless bitches. If it wasn’t an abstract theory that would never survive the sunlight of reality, they don’t acknowledge its existence. The self-employed are no stranger to hard work or pleasing their customers, but they whole heartedly drunk on the Kool-Aid of perpetual growth. They could never believe that we are in a collapse ( I think even most of the survivalist suppliers are not truly convinced anything truly earth shattering is going to happen- just your run of the mill natural disaster ).
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Now, don’t you believe for a second that minimum wage peon serfs are too much smarter. In fact, I think if we go with the theory that a mega- catastrophe happened in pre-history which wiped out most of humanity and only left a few score breeding females surviving ( brought up by Ringo in “The Last Centurion” which I’ve only just started but which has really impressed me with its massive data dump of free association rambling which I’m enjoying immensely ) , we can safely conclude that mankind is a bunch of inbred retard banjo playing morons and that the occasional bright bulb is far more the exception rather than the rule and our worker bees aren’t any smarter than the average dumbass but at least has a bit of street smarts due to being subjected to the cruel mistress’ Reality barbs. The worker drones are still idiots, but at least they have a slight grasp of logic. And while I hate to give them any credit, I think we can say that these people know exactly what their future holds. Corporations, which nowadays means almost all jobs, are disloyal, lying, heartless and no smarter than consequences through the end of the present quarter. Workers know that they can be perfect workers, perfect ambassadors to customers, work harder than anyone else, and still get canned at will when the office idiots need to cut expenses. They know that corporate will hump their customers to save a dime and let the workers take the heat for it. They know that no matter what they do, they will be punished rather than be rewarded. So why try hard at customer service? The companies that treat their employees right get good customer service without demanding it. It is built in to the compensation. The companies ( 99% of them ) that hump their workers get what they pay for. Simple.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
merry humping christmas
MERRY HUMPING CHRISTMAS
Dear Santa, Merry Humping Christmas you overweight tub of lard. You know I’m not too fond of Christmas, but I’m willing to reconsider my objections if you can fulfill my list. You haven’t gotten me diddly spit for the last few decades, so I think we can all agree that you owe me. Turn about is fair play. I’ve seen you give the ex wife a new Mustang a few years ago, on my dime. And you’ve given that big eared bastard in the White House ( doesn’t he kind of remind you of a Ross Perot with a tan? ) which is here without a Green Card all kinds of goodies like vacations to Stockholm to get a Nobel Prize for stealing my money and giving it to the central bank. I’m sure part of the cost of Bill Clintons cigar was from my paycheck. So, really, can you be cool and try to listen to my wish list this year?
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First off, not to be too greedy or anything, but I’d like a buttload of Kugerrand gold coins. And yes, I’m doing you a favor here requesting the South African gold. Everyone is so butt hurt about being politically correct that they don’t want to buy any precious metal tainted by that White Boy country, so the mark up on those is less than the communist China Panda coins or most other branded gold. Which brings up the definition of “buttload” which you can take to mean “more than I’ll ever need for the rest of my life”. When you are procuring that much gold, the $20 or so per coin add up real fast. Next up, I’d like a mountain of my own in the middle of nowhere ( not in a really cold place like Alaska, or in a place that has a jungle at its base- I think in the Rockies probably ). Fortified concrete fortress, please. A real bitch to attack, even if you could get up the mountain to it. And a natural source of water. No shrinking glacier. And I don’t want the construction to have been done by a Mafia owned firm. No substandard building materials. In that fortress I’d like a decent arsenal. I really love my Brit bolts, but I wouldn’t mind switching over to German made HK-91’s. Plenty of mags and ammo would be nice.
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Of course I’d need an army of minions, but I imagine that recruiting later wouldn’t be too much of a problem. So we can leave that for now. What I would like right now is a harem. Not that I ever really want “strange”, but in numbers I gain several advantages. First, if one gets uppity, I can kick her to the curb and bed another. Second, and much more importantly, if there is more than one hanging around, they can converse and socialize with one another and leave me the heck alone. I’m too darn busy to be acting as entertainment to the wife. And no plastic Barbies. I want all natural appendages. First off, the fake boobs aren’t the regular wonders of the universe but pale imitations. Secondly, I don’t want to have to worry about any leakage and silicone poisoning. Health problems will be bad enough after the collapse.
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Santa, I can think of a lot more that I’d like. But I’m not wanting to reach beyond your grasp. This is just the basics to prove you still love me. Please don’t disappoint me yet again. You know I’m tight with Baby Jesus ( no, I can’t ask him since that time I brought Olympia beer to our monthly board meeting ), so don’t make me narc on you for being a tightass bitch.
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Now, you all know that I still love the Druid Dude, despite our polar opposite viewpoints on the collapse of civilization. I love him for the time he recommended one of the best non-fiction collapse books of all time, “Overshoot”. And I love his logical arguments ( except for the possibility of quick collapse, he has few blinders on ). This week he ragged on people and their irrational attachment to fantasy to bolster their privileged positions ( you think you got it bad since your house lost half its value? Try living in a Third World craphole with machinegunning bandits chasing you out of your mud hut ). I have to once again recommend his blog, The Arch Druid Report, for your required reading. Despite his flaws in reasoning ( he seems to confuse the inability of people to forecast collapse with the ability of Mother Nature to take away the marbles and go home ), he gets things right more often than wrong. He has quite a few valid points to make.
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Okay, I am within thirty pages of completing Harry Turtledoves new book “Supervolcano: Eruption”. I really enjoyed the book, but I’m still confused if it is a post-apoc book or just a disaster book. This is another one of his multi-volume series, so he could go either way. The first book doesn’t let you know. He hints plenty at the potential of future shortages ( hard to have the Midwest grain or cattle delivered for consumption if they are under a few feet of ash ), but hasn’t taken it past that. The near end of the book is still just days past the eruption of Yellowstone. You can tell, so far, that the research is basic Wiki info on ancient eruptions and the experience of the Philippines with motor vehicles and the ash in the air. Whether he can draw a complete logistics argument remains to be seen ( for instance, it would be cheating, and unrealistic, to assume foreigners have enough food surplus to ship enough to both coasts ports to replace our output. I’m already a bit leery of his use of refugee camps with enough MRE’s to go around ). As I said, I enjoyed the book, regardless of how it turns out- if it is part of our genre or not. I’ll get the next in the series as soon as it comes out and let you know what I discover.
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Dear Santa, Merry Humping Christmas you overweight tub of lard. You know I’m not too fond of Christmas, but I’m willing to reconsider my objections if you can fulfill my list. You haven’t gotten me diddly spit for the last few decades, so I think we can all agree that you owe me. Turn about is fair play. I’ve seen you give the ex wife a new Mustang a few years ago, on my dime. And you’ve given that big eared bastard in the White House ( doesn’t he kind of remind you of a Ross Perot with a tan? ) which is here without a Green Card all kinds of goodies like vacations to Stockholm to get a Nobel Prize for stealing my money and giving it to the central bank. I’m sure part of the cost of Bill Clintons cigar was from my paycheck. So, really, can you be cool and try to listen to my wish list this year?
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First off, not to be too greedy or anything, but I’d like a buttload of Kugerrand gold coins. And yes, I’m doing you a favor here requesting the South African gold. Everyone is so butt hurt about being politically correct that they don’t want to buy any precious metal tainted by that White Boy country, so the mark up on those is less than the communist China Panda coins or most other branded gold. Which brings up the definition of “buttload” which you can take to mean “more than I’ll ever need for the rest of my life”. When you are procuring that much gold, the $20 or so per coin add up real fast. Next up, I’d like a mountain of my own in the middle of nowhere ( not in a really cold place like Alaska, or in a place that has a jungle at its base- I think in the Rockies probably ). Fortified concrete fortress, please. A real bitch to attack, even if you could get up the mountain to it. And a natural source of water. No shrinking glacier. And I don’t want the construction to have been done by a Mafia owned firm. No substandard building materials. In that fortress I’d like a decent arsenal. I really love my Brit bolts, but I wouldn’t mind switching over to German made HK-91’s. Plenty of mags and ammo would be nice.
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Of course I’d need an army of minions, but I imagine that recruiting later wouldn’t be too much of a problem. So we can leave that for now. What I would like right now is a harem. Not that I ever really want “strange”, but in numbers I gain several advantages. First, if one gets uppity, I can kick her to the curb and bed another. Second, and much more importantly, if there is more than one hanging around, they can converse and socialize with one another and leave me the heck alone. I’m too darn busy to be acting as entertainment to the wife. And no plastic Barbies. I want all natural appendages. First off, the fake boobs aren’t the regular wonders of the universe but pale imitations. Secondly, I don’t want to have to worry about any leakage and silicone poisoning. Health problems will be bad enough after the collapse.
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Santa, I can think of a lot more that I’d like. But I’m not wanting to reach beyond your grasp. This is just the basics to prove you still love me. Please don’t disappoint me yet again. You know I’m tight with Baby Jesus ( no, I can’t ask him since that time I brought Olympia beer to our monthly board meeting ), so don’t make me narc on you for being a tightass bitch.
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Now, you all know that I still love the Druid Dude, despite our polar opposite viewpoints on the collapse of civilization. I love him for the time he recommended one of the best non-fiction collapse books of all time, “Overshoot”. And I love his logical arguments ( except for the possibility of quick collapse, he has few blinders on ). This week he ragged on people and their irrational attachment to fantasy to bolster their privileged positions ( you think you got it bad since your house lost half its value? Try living in a Third World craphole with machinegunning bandits chasing you out of your mud hut ). I have to once again recommend his blog, The Arch Druid Report, for your required reading. Despite his flaws in reasoning ( he seems to confuse the inability of people to forecast collapse with the ability of Mother Nature to take away the marbles and go home ), he gets things right more often than wrong. He has quite a few valid points to make.
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Okay, I am within thirty pages of completing Harry Turtledoves new book “Supervolcano: Eruption”. I really enjoyed the book, but I’m still confused if it is a post-apoc book or just a disaster book. This is another one of his multi-volume series, so he could go either way. The first book doesn’t let you know. He hints plenty at the potential of future shortages ( hard to have the Midwest grain or cattle delivered for consumption if they are under a few feet of ash ), but hasn’t taken it past that. The near end of the book is still just days past the eruption of Yellowstone. You can tell, so far, that the research is basic Wiki info on ancient eruptions and the experience of the Philippines with motor vehicles and the ash in the air. Whether he can draw a complete logistics argument remains to be seen ( for instance, it would be cheating, and unrealistic, to assume foreigners have enough food surplus to ship enough to both coasts ports to replace our output. I’m already a bit leery of his use of refugee camps with enough MRE’s to go around ). As I said, I enjoyed the book, regardless of how it turns out- if it is part of our genre or not. I’ll get the next in the series as soon as it comes out and let you know what I discover.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
middle class clueless
MIDDLE CLASS CLUELESS
I had a minion write and express confusion on my term “Mormon Yuppie Scum”. He felt it was a bit harsh, and perhaps I should clarify that I have nothing against Mormons ( hopefully they aren’t too sensitive like those wishing to be addressed as “Sub-Saharan African-Americans Of Descent From Unwilling Oppressed Minorities Unfairly Subjected To The Honky Mo-Fo’s Incarceration” and won’t mind that I don’t call them LDSers or something ). I actually like them more than most other organized religions. Say, oh, just off the top of my head, someone like the Roman Catholics who have a really bad history of torturing Jews ( if I’m remembering right, I think it was the first Spanish Jews that had to wear a distinctive ID badge or armband by law, about 500 years before the Nazi’s reinvented the idea ), burning witches or sanctioning their priests that ran around sticking their junk up the asses of twelve year old choir boys. I mean, even if you are just a selfish prick and don’t care about the kids, if I were the Pope I’d be trying to save my organization from imploding by rounding up all the priests and burning them at the stake as punishment. Of course, some of the blame must be shouldered by the church itself, because in the history of really retarded ideas, banning priests from marrying, violating the cardinal rule of human existence which is little more than procreation, is among one of the most moronic ideas ever in all the history of mankind. I’d even be willing to bet that not even Neanderthals or Cro-Magnons or whoever it was that was just beginning to use their brain for something more than a pillow ever had such a stupid idea as they were taking their new brains out on a test drive. But of course, the church should not take TOO much of the blame because when someone decides to be a priest they are usually a teenager and their hormones are raging and if they decide at that time of all times to become celibate than they absolutely know what pain and suffering they have in store for them. Although, getting back to the church, can anyone think of a worse recruiting tool to grow your organization? Look, we are so stupid we ask people to go against their very nature, their very programming. Also, once we turn these freaks on you, they will be so unhappy that they really put a negative vibe on the whole thing. Wow! No wonder no one wants to be Catholic unless a missionary threatens to hold a flaming bush under their testicles.
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Anyway, back to whatever the heck I was talking about at first. I have absolutely nothing against the Mormon dudes. It is a religion that preaches survivalism, so I can’t argue about that. And every Mormon I’ve met is a mellow, agreeable chap. But they all have THAT look. The look that shows how astounded they are to be amongst not so polite company. I described it as a look of time traveling Beaver family members, confused and dazed at modern times. And I called them Mormon Yuppie Scum not because I dislike Mormons but because I dislike Yuppie Scum. Mostly for their attitude that they are so special that they deserve the very best of everything, from houses to wives to SUV’s to coffee to jobs. But in this case, the Mormon comment, I was going back to THAT look. The look that says, I Am A Clueless Bastard. Clueless as their world crumbles around them. Clueless as to why it is happening and what they can possibly do about it.
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It isn’t only non-preppers. I’ve been subjected to survivalist writers for thirty years ( I fell in love with the concept in my teens during the 70’s ), going by one name or another, one profession or another, and without fail, other than Kurt Saxon, they all preach Yuppie Scum variants of prepping. Spend a buttload of money and duplicate your middle class lifestyle for after the Apocalypse. I respect them all for what they were/are trying to do, but they are still grossly misinformed. Prepper and non-prepper alike, the whole middle class concept is a reflection of a historic abnormality. Which is energy surplus in a hierarchal society since after the Agriculture Revolution. It only happened to a small percentage of folks during the last five hundred years, and only to most of the globe in the last decade or two ( and that might not even really count since most of the recent globalization is nothing more than colonialism and ever decreasing rewards to the new straw-bosses ). In effect, the ruling elite allow a small amount of a giant surplus to leak down to the middle managers or trader class to grease the machinery. The recent middle class made up of Unions, minorities and the uneducated was nothing more than a bribe to the masses to not harm the means/machinery of production. None of this had squat to do with American Greatness, our Constitution, freedom or anything else other than the above.
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The whole middle class thing was wonderful, don’t get me wrong. I tried it for awhile myself but failed to impress anyone. I’ve always been content in any shelter or with any income, my only criteria being able to buy books. The whole middle class lifestyle requirement didn’t leave much room for a library ( as an example, take your monthly car payment, insurance and all added, and divide that by $15- the average price for a good book at Amazon-you would be surprised how many books that will buy ). But I can see how wonderful the opportunity was for those that chose it. But that is no longer a viable option. The welfare pukes are being squeezed, the middle class are being squeezed. The rich are getting richer, and those choosing “none of the above” go along unnoticed and unmolested. It is a much better survival strategy to step away from the middle class lifestyle trap than to delude yourself it will provide any better prep supplies. Middle class is an endangered species. You can’t save yourself, nor can you return to it. Don’t try to hold on until the bitter end. Just let go while you have some control.
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I had a minion write and express confusion on my term “Mormon Yuppie Scum”. He felt it was a bit harsh, and perhaps I should clarify that I have nothing against Mormons ( hopefully they aren’t too sensitive like those wishing to be addressed as “Sub-Saharan African-Americans Of Descent From Unwilling Oppressed Minorities Unfairly Subjected To The Honky Mo-Fo’s Incarceration” and won’t mind that I don’t call them LDSers or something ). I actually like them more than most other organized religions. Say, oh, just off the top of my head, someone like the Roman Catholics who have a really bad history of torturing Jews ( if I’m remembering right, I think it was the first Spanish Jews that had to wear a distinctive ID badge or armband by law, about 500 years before the Nazi’s reinvented the idea ), burning witches or sanctioning their priests that ran around sticking their junk up the asses of twelve year old choir boys. I mean, even if you are just a selfish prick and don’t care about the kids, if I were the Pope I’d be trying to save my organization from imploding by rounding up all the priests and burning them at the stake as punishment. Of course, some of the blame must be shouldered by the church itself, because in the history of really retarded ideas, banning priests from marrying, violating the cardinal rule of human existence which is little more than procreation, is among one of the most moronic ideas ever in all the history of mankind. I’d even be willing to bet that not even Neanderthals or Cro-Magnons or whoever it was that was just beginning to use their brain for something more than a pillow ever had such a stupid idea as they were taking their new brains out on a test drive. But of course, the church should not take TOO much of the blame because when someone decides to be a priest they are usually a teenager and their hormones are raging and if they decide at that time of all times to become celibate than they absolutely know what pain and suffering they have in store for them. Although, getting back to the church, can anyone think of a worse recruiting tool to grow your organization? Look, we are so stupid we ask people to go against their very nature, their very programming. Also, once we turn these freaks on you, they will be so unhappy that they really put a negative vibe on the whole thing. Wow! No wonder no one wants to be Catholic unless a missionary threatens to hold a flaming bush under their testicles.
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Anyway, back to whatever the heck I was talking about at first. I have absolutely nothing against the Mormon dudes. It is a religion that preaches survivalism, so I can’t argue about that. And every Mormon I’ve met is a mellow, agreeable chap. But they all have THAT look. The look that shows how astounded they are to be amongst not so polite company. I described it as a look of time traveling Beaver family members, confused and dazed at modern times. And I called them Mormon Yuppie Scum not because I dislike Mormons but because I dislike Yuppie Scum. Mostly for their attitude that they are so special that they deserve the very best of everything, from houses to wives to SUV’s to coffee to jobs. But in this case, the Mormon comment, I was going back to THAT look. The look that says, I Am A Clueless Bastard. Clueless as their world crumbles around them. Clueless as to why it is happening and what they can possibly do about it.
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It isn’t only non-preppers. I’ve been subjected to survivalist writers for thirty years ( I fell in love with the concept in my teens during the 70’s ), going by one name or another, one profession or another, and without fail, other than Kurt Saxon, they all preach Yuppie Scum variants of prepping. Spend a buttload of money and duplicate your middle class lifestyle for after the Apocalypse. I respect them all for what they were/are trying to do, but they are still grossly misinformed. Prepper and non-prepper alike, the whole middle class concept is a reflection of a historic abnormality. Which is energy surplus in a hierarchal society since after the Agriculture Revolution. It only happened to a small percentage of folks during the last five hundred years, and only to most of the globe in the last decade or two ( and that might not even really count since most of the recent globalization is nothing more than colonialism and ever decreasing rewards to the new straw-bosses ). In effect, the ruling elite allow a small amount of a giant surplus to leak down to the middle managers or trader class to grease the machinery. The recent middle class made up of Unions, minorities and the uneducated was nothing more than a bribe to the masses to not harm the means/machinery of production. None of this had squat to do with American Greatness, our Constitution, freedom or anything else other than the above.
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The whole middle class thing was wonderful, don’t get me wrong. I tried it for awhile myself but failed to impress anyone. I’ve always been content in any shelter or with any income, my only criteria being able to buy books. The whole middle class lifestyle requirement didn’t leave much room for a library ( as an example, take your monthly car payment, insurance and all added, and divide that by $15- the average price for a good book at Amazon-you would be surprised how many books that will buy ). But I can see how wonderful the opportunity was for those that chose it. But that is no longer a viable option. The welfare pukes are being squeezed, the middle class are being squeezed. The rich are getting richer, and those choosing “none of the above” go along unnoticed and unmolested. It is a much better survival strategy to step away from the middle class lifestyle trap than to delude yourself it will provide any better prep supplies. Middle class is an endangered species. You can’t save yourself, nor can you return to it. Don’t try to hold on until the bitter end. Just let go while you have some control.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
terrorist scum 2
TERRORIST SCUM 2
Yesterday, we talked about how easy it would be for you to be declared a terrorist. Not by proof but by accusation. Now let’s ask, why? It is one thing to see how easily it can be done, but we need to answer why someone would want to do it. Remember the 1990’s rash of asset forfeitures? The government wanted your crap, so they took it, accused the actual property-not you- of the crime, and it was up to you to prove the items were innocent? It was always cheaper to let them keep it ( a stack of cash was accused of coming from drug sales, a car was accused of being used to transport drugs, etc. ) than to try to get it back ( another dividend from allowing lawyers to add so much cost to the entire system ). The 1990’s were financial gravy for governments. The decade of cheap oil made the economy hum. So, the government didn’t actually need the money ( in fact, whatever extra money was made by stealing these items, the corresponding budget cuts were made- the LEO’s didn’t see a net gain from that alone ). But the feds were happy to militarize the police, and this was the way departments got extra funds prior to the War On Terror. After decades of a war on drugs, and two decades of extra financing to local departments to surrender independence to some degree, added to the recent terror by every local civil servant that his/her job is in danger, and you now have complete control of the new national police force ( but for all appearances acting independently ) by both carrot and stick.
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Now move on over to the civilian side. Every citizen is in terror of losing their place at the federal trough. And if money isn’t enough, you allow this new terror. A process where there is no rhyme or reason, a total arbitrary selection process that does more to place fear than the actual number of arrests which must remain small ( any government that borrows 40% to pay its bills has a limited shelf life and despite appearances is struggling for operating expenses ). Because you can’t know if you are next, you live in terror and you try to make no waves. You are docile and easily controlled. This is just another tool to keep the civilians from rioting. Its passage, to me, points to a near certain near future problem. Money collapse, crop shortage, whatever. The point is you need a new and effective weapon to control your herd better than before. This just might be it. Could I be totally off base? Of course. I’m just spitballing here. But a little voice is screaming at me and I can’t help but be very friggin worried. Perhaps next summer isn’t the end of the world, just the end of MY world. Most likely I’ll be covering this more, because to be it seems a pivotal moment.
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Okay, that was short today. I was so damn busy on Monday, I couldn’t take a lunch. Since lunch is when I write this blog, this was a serious breach of protocol. I have worked like a rabid dog for three and a quarter years to be done with all required tasks so I could be off in time for lunch. A lot of the time, my writing income was all that kept me afloat, like when the truck ( when I used to have it ) and the bike both needed mechanical work, when I just got done renting a car to visit my dad right after I had sent my kids money and my savings were shot. So I take this writing time quite seriously. Yet Monday saw me screwed of that time. If I take home $600 a month, and writing can deliver up to an additional $300, a few times a year that is critical money. Most of the time writing income is just blow money, I have to keep that attitude because that income could always suddenly end, but I treat it like any other regular paycheck. Never put it off, always meet the deadline. I could have written Monday night, but Monday’s always kick my ass and I’m tired as hell ( hmmm. More heavy lifting at work tiring me out? Old age? Or, perhaps, Japanese radiation poisoning!?!? You bastards! Revenge for Hiroshima at last! ). So I am writing two articles Tuesday at lunch ( I’ve been taking half days off on Tuesday and Thursday to use up all my accrued vacation so I don’t lose it at the end of the year, so I can work a bit past the usual time ). Picking one subject cut in half makes it easier and faster than writing two articles on two different subjects. And I’m telling you all this to make an excuse for having part two of this article so short.
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To continue to waste your time fleshing out this article, I shall now blather about a couple of books. I had just ordered The Last Centurion by John Ringo. A minion told me he had Most Excellent luck turning folks on to prepping with this book. In it, a mini-ice age and a global plague both happen together. The next book was Supervolcano: Eruption by Harry Turtledove. That was obviously on the Yellowstone volcano erupting. Now, normally, Harry writes in a style I can’t stand. I only like a few of his books, like the time traveling dudes arming the Confederacy with AK-47’s. But last night I read a quarter of this one and the style is pleasant and easy to read. It remains to be seen if this is a realistic TEOTWAWKI story or just a disaster and single hero saves the day story. I’ll let you know. As far as “Centurion”, I’ll read that next. Being as this guy writes military action, I have my doubts he can pull off a survivalist novel that is realistic. But I’ll be happy to be pleasantly surprised.
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Yesterday, we talked about how easy it would be for you to be declared a terrorist. Not by proof but by accusation. Now let’s ask, why? It is one thing to see how easily it can be done, but we need to answer why someone would want to do it. Remember the 1990’s rash of asset forfeitures? The government wanted your crap, so they took it, accused the actual property-not you- of the crime, and it was up to you to prove the items were innocent? It was always cheaper to let them keep it ( a stack of cash was accused of coming from drug sales, a car was accused of being used to transport drugs, etc. ) than to try to get it back ( another dividend from allowing lawyers to add so much cost to the entire system ). The 1990’s were financial gravy for governments. The decade of cheap oil made the economy hum. So, the government didn’t actually need the money ( in fact, whatever extra money was made by stealing these items, the corresponding budget cuts were made- the LEO’s didn’t see a net gain from that alone ). But the feds were happy to militarize the police, and this was the way departments got extra funds prior to the War On Terror. After decades of a war on drugs, and two decades of extra financing to local departments to surrender independence to some degree, added to the recent terror by every local civil servant that his/her job is in danger, and you now have complete control of the new national police force ( but for all appearances acting independently ) by both carrot and stick.
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Now move on over to the civilian side. Every citizen is in terror of losing their place at the federal trough. And if money isn’t enough, you allow this new terror. A process where there is no rhyme or reason, a total arbitrary selection process that does more to place fear than the actual number of arrests which must remain small ( any government that borrows 40% to pay its bills has a limited shelf life and despite appearances is struggling for operating expenses ). Because you can’t know if you are next, you live in terror and you try to make no waves. You are docile and easily controlled. This is just another tool to keep the civilians from rioting. Its passage, to me, points to a near certain near future problem. Money collapse, crop shortage, whatever. The point is you need a new and effective weapon to control your herd better than before. This just might be it. Could I be totally off base? Of course. I’m just spitballing here. But a little voice is screaming at me and I can’t help but be very friggin worried. Perhaps next summer isn’t the end of the world, just the end of MY world. Most likely I’ll be covering this more, because to be it seems a pivotal moment.
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Okay, that was short today. I was so damn busy on Monday, I couldn’t take a lunch. Since lunch is when I write this blog, this was a serious breach of protocol. I have worked like a rabid dog for three and a quarter years to be done with all required tasks so I could be off in time for lunch. A lot of the time, my writing income was all that kept me afloat, like when the truck ( when I used to have it ) and the bike both needed mechanical work, when I just got done renting a car to visit my dad right after I had sent my kids money and my savings were shot. So I take this writing time quite seriously. Yet Monday saw me screwed of that time. If I take home $600 a month, and writing can deliver up to an additional $300, a few times a year that is critical money. Most of the time writing income is just blow money, I have to keep that attitude because that income could always suddenly end, but I treat it like any other regular paycheck. Never put it off, always meet the deadline. I could have written Monday night, but Monday’s always kick my ass and I’m tired as hell ( hmmm. More heavy lifting at work tiring me out? Old age? Or, perhaps, Japanese radiation poisoning!?!? You bastards! Revenge for Hiroshima at last! ). So I am writing two articles Tuesday at lunch ( I’ve been taking half days off on Tuesday and Thursday to use up all my accrued vacation so I don’t lose it at the end of the year, so I can work a bit past the usual time ). Picking one subject cut in half makes it easier and faster than writing two articles on two different subjects. And I’m telling you all this to make an excuse for having part two of this article so short.
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To continue to waste your time fleshing out this article, I shall now blather about a couple of books. I had just ordered The Last Centurion by John Ringo. A minion told me he had Most Excellent luck turning folks on to prepping with this book. In it, a mini-ice age and a global plague both happen together. The next book was Supervolcano: Eruption by Harry Turtledove. That was obviously on the Yellowstone volcano erupting. Now, normally, Harry writes in a style I can’t stand. I only like a few of his books, like the time traveling dudes arming the Confederacy with AK-47’s. But last night I read a quarter of this one and the style is pleasant and easy to read. It remains to be seen if this is a realistic TEOTWAWKI story or just a disaster and single hero saves the day story. I’ll let you know. As far as “Centurion”, I’ll read that next. Being as this guy writes military action, I have my doubts he can pull off a survivalist novel that is realistic. But I’ll be happy to be pleasantly surprised.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
terrorist scum
TERRORIST SCUM
The Alien And Sedition Act passed by the prick Adams made a bit of a mockery of the whole “die to defend your country against oppression so you can be free”. Well, okay, granted, you don’t get a bunch of hayseed farmers to go to war by threatening to pay them in hyperinflated money and then admit the war agitators would be your new masters after they made a killing by buying up cheap frontier land that could only make a profit with the British out of the way. But without making a bunch of excuses or pulling some lawyer crap like asking what the definition of “is” is, the plain fact is that the federal government has ALWAYS, for hundreds of years, been able to dispose of you if they wanted to. They have never been any better than the English king, other than they were local tyrants instead of overseas ones. The American people until recently got a small benefit in the rape and pillage of the resources of an un-mined continent and as long as they are paid off they have no problem with minority exploitation. To this day this is true, even if we are now paid in paper and promises instead of gold and cheap energy. If you think death, bondage or incarceration of the unwanted is something new, you haven’t been paying attention. We had a nice little genocide against the Indians, then accused a Syrian president of killing off his opposition. We imprisoned Japanese Americans for years as we accused the Nazi’s of imprisoning Jews ( of course, the Jews didn’t survive the ordeal, so we have that propaganda coup going for us ). If you were accused of being a communist, you might not have been jailed, but your livelihood was destroyed.
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The just passed hidden passage in a budget bill that now authorizes the military to indefinitely detain anyone without charges is nothing new. For sixty years the Prez could have declared a national emergency, any emergency he deemed fit not just a nuclear war, and the government overnight turned into a dictatorship. And we’ve been living under the Patriot Act for ten years which no one seemed too concerned with. No, the passage of this does not surprise me, nor does it concern me too much. Because we have been living under that threat for a very long time. But I will tell you what DOES concern me and that is the total disregard everyone is showing. Granted, this was passed right before Christmas, and was sandwiched in between the manufactured crisis of North Korea change of leadership, the curious large drop in retail gasoline prices and the horrifying threat of any slow down in televised football games if the any coaches were accused of anally probing ten year old boys. But that surely isn’t an excuse to ignore this, is it? You can’t say we don’t have enough news outlets anymore. Why is this not something everyone is very concerned about? They must think this is nothing more than a way to jail Al Queda bitches. Or, they simply don’t give a rats ass. They don’t think it will effect them because they voted for the Kenyan, and because they parrot whatever the PC Police inform them is the right thoughts to have.
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Now, I don’t necessarily think that we have the resources to imprison everyone that we think is thinking illegal thoughts. But that isn’t going to be much of a comforting thought to those that are “disappeared”. And just the slightest increase in terrorists, quote and unquote, incarcerated will have the effect of totally larding up the system. So, even if they aren’t actually evil, which of course they are, even if they originally intended to catch and release you, the mere fact that they can’t process the new arrivals means you sit and rot anyway ( look at the slow death by malnutrition the Indians faced on the first Reservations for a taste of what you are in for ) . You are screwed anyway you look at it if you get arrested. And no one will care. Because if they complain, they get accused of terrorism. Or, they lose their Social Security benefits or their pension or their Food Stamps or even their children. And perhaps that is why folks won’t even make a sound before the first arrest is made. They don’t want to be on a reprisal list. Me, I’m already humped. I’ve said enough more times than can be counted enough to see me rotting in a cell. That doesn’t mean I’ll continue to poke the tiger. I’m not that brave. It just means my fate is certainly already sealed. I actually don’t know as of now what my defense mechanism is going to be. I will tell you I’m scared spitless. The lack of an outcry means it is you against 300 million narcs. In fact, you might actually be targeted by your fellow citizens rather than the government.
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Let me tell you, I can very well see my ex-wife, as soon as she sees her last child support check, contact DHS and feed them all my juicy seditious rantings in my blog. Why not? She has always hated me ( I’m not denying I might have deserved it, I’m just saying her response was way out of proportion to my crimes ) and sought revenge. She hasn’t needed my money for many years, not on her salary, but by taking most of my money she is punishing me. Revenge is the goal, not support financially. So I have little doubt she might ( call it about a 20% chance ) try to get me imprisoned. Or, how about this. Your business competitor wants to get your customers. Why not frame you, or even just bribe an official to take you away? I can’t imagine my blog competitors turning me in, I’m simply not a threat to their reader numbers ( and their publishing’s are so bland and inoffensive that they wouldn’t fear any blowback ). I hope. But anyone, even your next door neighbor who saw your cat crap in his flower bed, could make up crap about you to the feds. If the feds were interested in you, or if they needed to make that months quota ( remember the NYPD scandal recently with the drug plants? ), or if they had another cot open after the last “terrorist” died from AIDS, TB, or Japanese radiation poisoning, that would be enough to see you gone.
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The Alien And Sedition Act passed by the prick Adams made a bit of a mockery of the whole “die to defend your country against oppression so you can be free”. Well, okay, granted, you don’t get a bunch of hayseed farmers to go to war by threatening to pay them in hyperinflated money and then admit the war agitators would be your new masters after they made a killing by buying up cheap frontier land that could only make a profit with the British out of the way. But without making a bunch of excuses or pulling some lawyer crap like asking what the definition of “is” is, the plain fact is that the federal government has ALWAYS, for hundreds of years, been able to dispose of you if they wanted to. They have never been any better than the English king, other than they were local tyrants instead of overseas ones. The American people until recently got a small benefit in the rape and pillage of the resources of an un-mined continent and as long as they are paid off they have no problem with minority exploitation. To this day this is true, even if we are now paid in paper and promises instead of gold and cheap energy. If you think death, bondage or incarceration of the unwanted is something new, you haven’t been paying attention. We had a nice little genocide against the Indians, then accused a Syrian president of killing off his opposition. We imprisoned Japanese Americans for years as we accused the Nazi’s of imprisoning Jews ( of course, the Jews didn’t survive the ordeal, so we have that propaganda coup going for us ). If you were accused of being a communist, you might not have been jailed, but your livelihood was destroyed.
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The just passed hidden passage in a budget bill that now authorizes the military to indefinitely detain anyone without charges is nothing new. For sixty years the Prez could have declared a national emergency, any emergency he deemed fit not just a nuclear war, and the government overnight turned into a dictatorship. And we’ve been living under the Patriot Act for ten years which no one seemed too concerned with. No, the passage of this does not surprise me, nor does it concern me too much. Because we have been living under that threat for a very long time. But I will tell you what DOES concern me and that is the total disregard everyone is showing. Granted, this was passed right before Christmas, and was sandwiched in between the manufactured crisis of North Korea change of leadership, the curious large drop in retail gasoline prices and the horrifying threat of any slow down in televised football games if the any coaches were accused of anally probing ten year old boys. But that surely isn’t an excuse to ignore this, is it? You can’t say we don’t have enough news outlets anymore. Why is this not something everyone is very concerned about? They must think this is nothing more than a way to jail Al Queda bitches. Or, they simply don’t give a rats ass. They don’t think it will effect them because they voted for the Kenyan, and because they parrot whatever the PC Police inform them is the right thoughts to have.
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Now, I don’t necessarily think that we have the resources to imprison everyone that we think is thinking illegal thoughts. But that isn’t going to be much of a comforting thought to those that are “disappeared”. And just the slightest increase in terrorists, quote and unquote, incarcerated will have the effect of totally larding up the system. So, even if they aren’t actually evil, which of course they are, even if they originally intended to catch and release you, the mere fact that they can’t process the new arrivals means you sit and rot anyway ( look at the slow death by malnutrition the Indians faced on the first Reservations for a taste of what you are in for ) . You are screwed anyway you look at it if you get arrested. And no one will care. Because if they complain, they get accused of terrorism. Or, they lose their Social Security benefits or their pension or their Food Stamps or even their children. And perhaps that is why folks won’t even make a sound before the first arrest is made. They don’t want to be on a reprisal list. Me, I’m already humped. I’ve said enough more times than can be counted enough to see me rotting in a cell. That doesn’t mean I’ll continue to poke the tiger. I’m not that brave. It just means my fate is certainly already sealed. I actually don’t know as of now what my defense mechanism is going to be. I will tell you I’m scared spitless. The lack of an outcry means it is you against 300 million narcs. In fact, you might actually be targeted by your fellow citizens rather than the government.
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Let me tell you, I can very well see my ex-wife, as soon as she sees her last child support check, contact DHS and feed them all my juicy seditious rantings in my blog. Why not? She has always hated me ( I’m not denying I might have deserved it, I’m just saying her response was way out of proportion to my crimes ) and sought revenge. She hasn’t needed my money for many years, not on her salary, but by taking most of my money she is punishing me. Revenge is the goal, not support financially. So I have little doubt she might ( call it about a 20% chance ) try to get me imprisoned. Or, how about this. Your business competitor wants to get your customers. Why not frame you, or even just bribe an official to take you away? I can’t imagine my blog competitors turning me in, I’m simply not a threat to their reader numbers ( and their publishing’s are so bland and inoffensive that they wouldn’t fear any blowback ). I hope. But anyone, even your next door neighbor who saw your cat crap in his flower bed, could make up crap about you to the feds. If the feds were interested in you, or if they needed to make that months quota ( remember the NYPD scandal recently with the drug plants? ), or if they had another cot open after the last “terrorist” died from AIDS, TB, or Japanese radiation poisoning, that would be enough to see you gone.
CONTINUED TOMORROW
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
populism
POPULISM
Today we talk about two books. I briefly review one and use another to point to the insidious effects of populism. I could have titled the article “Why you are a supreme dumbass and will wave your flag vigorously to the point of harming your joint as the parade of Homeland Security tanks rumbles into town as you greet them as liberators from the Constitution which didn’t pay jack spit” but that seemed like an unwieldy handle. The first book up is “Holding Your Ground” by Prepper Press. This was a complimentary review copy and when I first opened and skimmed it I groaned loudly and cursed the gods for my love of free books. Christ on a rocket propelled cracker, the damn thing was talking about a worksheet. I hate books, lectures or concepts that use worksheets. And the thing was chock full of graphs and illustrations. I’m used to a concept being talked about. If you need a graph you haven’t done a very good job describing the idea. But since the publisher sent me a free book and even paid the postage, I had to uphold my end of the bargain and trudge through the thing. It wasn’t a light read, but it actually ended up impressing the heck out of me. As one who focuses almost exclusively on logistics, this book on all the whys and how-to’s of defending your supplies was very informative to me. A lot of “no duh” information, it also covered a lot of stuff I’d never had thought of and most likely might even save my life. As someone who has trudged through hundreds of survivalist books, I learned a lot of new stuff from this book. It might not be for everyone. If you’ve had hands on with defensive tactics you already know this stuff. And I’ll admit it is on the pricey side ( although few books aren’t these days ). But even if it isn’t cheap, it is educational. I would say it is the “go-to” book on defensive tactics ( and that is quite the concession from me, as the author is another AR worshipper ).
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I was in between post-apocalypse books so I decided to try “Republic” by Charles Sheehan-Miles. Before I say anything else, I did enjoy the heck out of the book just because it was so well written. But the subject matter is what really pisses me off. This isn’t your typical militia porn in that the good guys battle the evil federal guys on an individual basis. Rather, the stare secedes from the Union after the Homeland jackboots mow down unemployed factory workers staging a protest. What hacked me off no end was the weepy story about the main characters terminally ill son. If only the federal government hadn’t allowed the owner of the factory to move overseas, the guy would have kept his medical insurance and his son wouldn’t be dying. Also implied was that a drug user killed the guys wife in a robbery, and if he hadn’t been allowed to the mom would still be working and better medical care would be available. I don’t know if this was endorsing a harsher penalty against drug dealers, if he thought drugs should be legalized to lower the price so idiots could fry themselves cheaply without needing to steal, if the government was to blame for the economic conditions or if it was just a plot device to let you see how hard the dad had it.
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But you had absolutely no trouble knowing that the federal government was evil since they wouldn’t save the son with free medical care. That was spelled out pretty plain. Now this is where I have a problem with most peoples logic. They want a totally free economy, very low taxes, no federal government overstepping their bounds, and at the same time a big fat huge payday in the form of welfare. They want health care for the needy, retirement for the needy, jobs for the needy. We must be compassionate. But only for our favorite programs. The federals were accused of stealing money from the state, returning twenty cents on the dollar. So, it isn’t high taxes that piss people off. It is not getting more than they paid in! Our founding fathers had no problem with taxes. If it had remained in the colonies. They didn’t want the King to have their money. Ah, but if those calling for the blood of the peasants to be spilled could decide how to spend it, as long as it home grown tyranny, it was acceptable. For a populist, repression and taxes are okay, as long as their favorite programs are funded. A huge military industrial complex is okay, because soldiers are honorable and noble. Just no free college education ( unless it is West Point or ROTC ) because radical hippie scum abuse the system. No welfare, unless it is make work jobs with the military. Police abuse is okay, but no corporate abuse if it gets in the way of blue collar worker jobs. These idiots want all the rewards of big government with none of the drawbacks. They want government spending and compassion but only if they deem it acceptable.
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I have bad news for you. If you allow wish for big government, you get big government. And not just your favorite parts. You get the whole thing. You want a global control of energy production, but not the taxes that subsidize that? You want jobs for everyone, even if government created, but no IRS abuses that go with getting enough taxes to fund that? When you lie down with the devil, he doesn’t lovingly kiss your neck and cuddle you. He butt humps you, wipes himself off in your hair and pushes you out of bed when he is done. It isn’t that I think people are stupid. Most aren’t. But they sure act stupid with self deception and by applying convoluted logic to suit their pocketbooks. In the end, it catches up with them. You don’t like DHS detaining you without a trial? Well, you sure enjoyed that county civil service office worker position after getting free college through the GI Bill, didn’t you? Where in the Constitution does it allow the welfare state? Were does it say you can suspend that document if the cause is worthy? If “it’s for the children”? There ain’t no free lunch. But you think you got one, with your government job, your kids eating school lunches before they go to a free medical check-up. Because after all, we must be compassionate.
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Today we talk about two books. I briefly review one and use another to point to the insidious effects of populism. I could have titled the article “Why you are a supreme dumbass and will wave your flag vigorously to the point of harming your joint as the parade of Homeland Security tanks rumbles into town as you greet them as liberators from the Constitution which didn’t pay jack spit” but that seemed like an unwieldy handle. The first book up is “Holding Your Ground” by Prepper Press. This was a complimentary review copy and when I first opened and skimmed it I groaned loudly and cursed the gods for my love of free books. Christ on a rocket propelled cracker, the damn thing was talking about a worksheet. I hate books, lectures or concepts that use worksheets. And the thing was chock full of graphs and illustrations. I’m used to a concept being talked about. If you need a graph you haven’t done a very good job describing the idea. But since the publisher sent me a free book and even paid the postage, I had to uphold my end of the bargain and trudge through the thing. It wasn’t a light read, but it actually ended up impressing the heck out of me. As one who focuses almost exclusively on logistics, this book on all the whys and how-to’s of defending your supplies was very informative to me. A lot of “no duh” information, it also covered a lot of stuff I’d never had thought of and most likely might even save my life. As someone who has trudged through hundreds of survivalist books, I learned a lot of new stuff from this book. It might not be for everyone. If you’ve had hands on with defensive tactics you already know this stuff. And I’ll admit it is on the pricey side ( although few books aren’t these days ). But even if it isn’t cheap, it is educational. I would say it is the “go-to” book on defensive tactics ( and that is quite the concession from me, as the author is another AR worshipper ).
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I was in between post-apocalypse books so I decided to try “Republic” by Charles Sheehan-Miles. Before I say anything else, I did enjoy the heck out of the book just because it was so well written. But the subject matter is what really pisses me off. This isn’t your typical militia porn in that the good guys battle the evil federal guys on an individual basis. Rather, the stare secedes from the Union after the Homeland jackboots mow down unemployed factory workers staging a protest. What hacked me off no end was the weepy story about the main characters terminally ill son. If only the federal government hadn’t allowed the owner of the factory to move overseas, the guy would have kept his medical insurance and his son wouldn’t be dying. Also implied was that a drug user killed the guys wife in a robbery, and if he hadn’t been allowed to the mom would still be working and better medical care would be available. I don’t know if this was endorsing a harsher penalty against drug dealers, if he thought drugs should be legalized to lower the price so idiots could fry themselves cheaply without needing to steal, if the government was to blame for the economic conditions or if it was just a plot device to let you see how hard the dad had it.
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But you had absolutely no trouble knowing that the federal government was evil since they wouldn’t save the son with free medical care. That was spelled out pretty plain. Now this is where I have a problem with most peoples logic. They want a totally free economy, very low taxes, no federal government overstepping their bounds, and at the same time a big fat huge payday in the form of welfare. They want health care for the needy, retirement for the needy, jobs for the needy. We must be compassionate. But only for our favorite programs. The federals were accused of stealing money from the state, returning twenty cents on the dollar. So, it isn’t high taxes that piss people off. It is not getting more than they paid in! Our founding fathers had no problem with taxes. If it had remained in the colonies. They didn’t want the King to have their money. Ah, but if those calling for the blood of the peasants to be spilled could decide how to spend it, as long as it home grown tyranny, it was acceptable. For a populist, repression and taxes are okay, as long as their favorite programs are funded. A huge military industrial complex is okay, because soldiers are honorable and noble. Just no free college education ( unless it is West Point or ROTC ) because radical hippie scum abuse the system. No welfare, unless it is make work jobs with the military. Police abuse is okay, but no corporate abuse if it gets in the way of blue collar worker jobs. These idiots want all the rewards of big government with none of the drawbacks. They want government spending and compassion but only if they deem it acceptable.
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I have bad news for you. If you allow wish for big government, you get big government. And not just your favorite parts. You get the whole thing. You want a global control of energy production, but not the taxes that subsidize that? You want jobs for everyone, even if government created, but no IRS abuses that go with getting enough taxes to fund that? When you lie down with the devil, he doesn’t lovingly kiss your neck and cuddle you. He butt humps you, wipes himself off in your hair and pushes you out of bed when he is done. It isn’t that I think people are stupid. Most aren’t. But they sure act stupid with self deception and by applying convoluted logic to suit their pocketbooks. In the end, it catches up with them. You don’t like DHS detaining you without a trial? Well, you sure enjoyed that county civil service office worker position after getting free college through the GI Bill, didn’t you? Where in the Constitution does it allow the welfare state? Were does it say you can suspend that document if the cause is worthy? If “it’s for the children”? There ain’t no free lunch. But you think you got one, with your government job, your kids eating school lunches before they go to a free medical check-up. Because after all, we must be compassionate.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
generating idiocy
GENERATING IDIOCY
Some things that I do are pure brilliance in their return on investment. After our first winter in the high desert ( for you easterners, all desert in Nevada is not the same. The southern tip is Mohave-think the Sahara- and the rest of the state is part of the Great Basin, five thousand feet elevation- think Mongolia ) which in retrospect was very mild, I was so traumatized by the cold that I spent three hundred bucks and added insulation to every interior wall ( mostly foam padding, some foil backed bubble wrap ). This doubled the amount of heat retained by solar exposure ( for instance, even if the day before was 30 degrees, if the sun is out it gets twenty five degrees warmer inside and usually keeps it about twenty degrees warmer inside overnight- 29 degrees waking up in the morning is bad, but great compared to the 10 degrees outside ). A year and a half ago I added insulated skirting to the trailer, and for a mere $80 or so that was a great investment. It helps keep your feet much warmer in winter. Although, again, it is all relative. Mildly cold feet rather than your feet feeling like they are frostbite. But then there are really crappy investments, like my gasoline generator.
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I’ve always hated generators, and I dislike writers who suggest them for survivalists. It is one thing to want them for off-grid living. That makes for electricity being a very expensive luxury. But for a survivalist to own one, you have to wonder what the crap they are thinking, if indeed that is actually what they are doing. A survivalist that thinks a generator will be a viable tool after the collapse must rate his calamities at the scale of one being an ice storm taking out the power line and ten, end of the world, being a rate increase from the power company and the frac gasoline from North Dakota selling for an unheard of five bucks a gallon. Oh, the travesty! Friggin idiots. I’m sorry, but planning on fossil fuels after the end of civilization is delusional and retarded, and I can’t think of a nicer way of saying it. Because of that attitude, I lived off only my solar panels for two and a half years ( granted, panels with battery storage is also short term, the batteries being good for only a few years. But that is why I have AA battery lights using rechargeables, to keep going years after the 12v battery dies. But even the not perfect 12v is far better than a generator. Years rather than days of power ). But because I love all my minions and feel bad for them and try to help them out by thoughtfully pointing out all their faults, I gave in to the incessant demands and went from a five day a week publishing schedule to a seven day a week one at the beginning of 2011. Well, I thought I needed a generator to recharge the batteries on the weekend after writing on a cloudy day ( using the computer for just an hour adds about 60% to the amount of juice I use each day- normally the lights use about 30 watts in the winter and we watch about two hours of TV a night for another twenty watts ). But looking back over the last year of records, the generator was only critical less than half a dozen times. I was a damn fool for buying it.
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Okay, I understand that everyone’s weather differs. Some folks get a lot more cloudy days ( although I bet that the clouds mean more rain which means actual trees grow there which means you can heat with wood ). My situation is contingent on that. But every area being different just means your means of generation are different. The Pacific northwest might be mostly cloudy, but that just means you can hook up a year round, round the clock, micro-hydro power generator. In my case, it is normal to get sun, so passive solar heat and solar panels work best for me. And using a generator for back-up was overestimating the amount of cloudy days I was going to get. Our first winter here, we had two weeks of solid clouds. My 15 watts of solar panels didn’t even cut it for keeping one light on that whole time ( this was before LED bulbs, using the old fashion incandescent 18 watt auto bulb- nowadays my 3 watt LED delivers more light than that old bastard ). The battery drained down and never recovered for a month, at which time we used candles and flashlights ( big time suck ). Well, I added another 15 watt panel and shortly thereafter Big Bear turned me on to LED’s, bless his pea-picking heart. Since then we’ve had only six days of cloudy days, max. So I can usually count on the last day of the week to charge the batteries all the way back up. If I have 70 watts of panels, and use 50 watts a night plus 60 watts on the weekend writing two days, I use about 600 watts a week. In eight hours, the panels deliver 560 watts give or take. I shouldn’t even have needed a generator in the first place, but that initial two weeks when I moved here kept scaring me.
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Looking back over the last year, I had one month, January, with a lot of clouds. I used the generator every weekend and three times during the week. Yet for all that I still only ran the generator three hours. And that was A QUARTER of the years generator use. January through May I used the thing ten hours. This December one hour, and the other six months I used it only two hours total, not for power but just to keep it maintained. Thirteen hours for the year, and only eleven were critical. I wrote for a hundred hours or slightly over in that year. You could say that I only needed the generator less than ten percent of the time. Now, that might still make a case for the generator. 10% use means 10% of the time you still got a weekend article. Articles equate to Amazon income. But once you compare that to the alternative of added solar panels, the generator loses.
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The generator cost me $150. Add a gas can, filling the can, the two stroke oil and a plastic tub to keep the rain off, and it cost $200. Then add the $40 I spent on the AC battery charger I had to buy after the generators DC plug stopped working ( cheaper than getting it repaired ). For that same amount of money I could have bought 45 watts worth of solar panels. After two weeks of clouds, on the first sunny day the added panels would have given 360 watts. Those two weeks would have seen me use 180 watts for the computer, at most. And as an added bonus, year round that same added panels would have given me 60% more generated power every single day. And this all assumes the generator never breaks and gas is never factored into the equation. Simply, I was an idiot and wasted the money. The investment will never pay itself off like the panels would have. Of course, in my defense, the PVC pipe and earth pipe project wasted the same amount of money, so you could say I’m always an idiot.
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Some things that I do are pure brilliance in their return on investment. After our first winter in the high desert ( for you easterners, all desert in Nevada is not the same. The southern tip is Mohave-think the Sahara- and the rest of the state is part of the Great Basin, five thousand feet elevation- think Mongolia ) which in retrospect was very mild, I was so traumatized by the cold that I spent three hundred bucks and added insulation to every interior wall ( mostly foam padding, some foil backed bubble wrap ). This doubled the amount of heat retained by solar exposure ( for instance, even if the day before was 30 degrees, if the sun is out it gets twenty five degrees warmer inside and usually keeps it about twenty degrees warmer inside overnight- 29 degrees waking up in the morning is bad, but great compared to the 10 degrees outside ). A year and a half ago I added insulated skirting to the trailer, and for a mere $80 or so that was a great investment. It helps keep your feet much warmer in winter. Although, again, it is all relative. Mildly cold feet rather than your feet feeling like they are frostbite. But then there are really crappy investments, like my gasoline generator.
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I’ve always hated generators, and I dislike writers who suggest them for survivalists. It is one thing to want them for off-grid living. That makes for electricity being a very expensive luxury. But for a survivalist to own one, you have to wonder what the crap they are thinking, if indeed that is actually what they are doing. A survivalist that thinks a generator will be a viable tool after the collapse must rate his calamities at the scale of one being an ice storm taking out the power line and ten, end of the world, being a rate increase from the power company and the frac gasoline from North Dakota selling for an unheard of five bucks a gallon. Oh, the travesty! Friggin idiots. I’m sorry, but planning on fossil fuels after the end of civilization is delusional and retarded, and I can’t think of a nicer way of saying it. Because of that attitude, I lived off only my solar panels for two and a half years ( granted, panels with battery storage is also short term, the batteries being good for only a few years. But that is why I have AA battery lights using rechargeables, to keep going years after the 12v battery dies. But even the not perfect 12v is far better than a generator. Years rather than days of power ). But because I love all my minions and feel bad for them and try to help them out by thoughtfully pointing out all their faults, I gave in to the incessant demands and went from a five day a week publishing schedule to a seven day a week one at the beginning of 2011. Well, I thought I needed a generator to recharge the batteries on the weekend after writing on a cloudy day ( using the computer for just an hour adds about 60% to the amount of juice I use each day- normally the lights use about 30 watts in the winter and we watch about two hours of TV a night for another twenty watts ). But looking back over the last year of records, the generator was only critical less than half a dozen times. I was a damn fool for buying it.
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Okay, I understand that everyone’s weather differs. Some folks get a lot more cloudy days ( although I bet that the clouds mean more rain which means actual trees grow there which means you can heat with wood ). My situation is contingent on that. But every area being different just means your means of generation are different. The Pacific northwest might be mostly cloudy, but that just means you can hook up a year round, round the clock, micro-hydro power generator. In my case, it is normal to get sun, so passive solar heat and solar panels work best for me. And using a generator for back-up was overestimating the amount of cloudy days I was going to get. Our first winter here, we had two weeks of solid clouds. My 15 watts of solar panels didn’t even cut it for keeping one light on that whole time ( this was before LED bulbs, using the old fashion incandescent 18 watt auto bulb- nowadays my 3 watt LED delivers more light than that old bastard ). The battery drained down and never recovered for a month, at which time we used candles and flashlights ( big time suck ). Well, I added another 15 watt panel and shortly thereafter Big Bear turned me on to LED’s, bless his pea-picking heart. Since then we’ve had only six days of cloudy days, max. So I can usually count on the last day of the week to charge the batteries all the way back up. If I have 70 watts of panels, and use 50 watts a night plus 60 watts on the weekend writing two days, I use about 600 watts a week. In eight hours, the panels deliver 560 watts give or take. I shouldn’t even have needed a generator in the first place, but that initial two weeks when I moved here kept scaring me.
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Looking back over the last year, I had one month, January, with a lot of clouds. I used the generator every weekend and three times during the week. Yet for all that I still only ran the generator three hours. And that was A QUARTER of the years generator use. January through May I used the thing ten hours. This December one hour, and the other six months I used it only two hours total, not for power but just to keep it maintained. Thirteen hours for the year, and only eleven were critical. I wrote for a hundred hours or slightly over in that year. You could say that I only needed the generator less than ten percent of the time. Now, that might still make a case for the generator. 10% use means 10% of the time you still got a weekend article. Articles equate to Amazon income. But once you compare that to the alternative of added solar panels, the generator loses.
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The generator cost me $150. Add a gas can, filling the can, the two stroke oil and a plastic tub to keep the rain off, and it cost $200. Then add the $40 I spent on the AC battery charger I had to buy after the generators DC plug stopped working ( cheaper than getting it repaired ). For that same amount of money I could have bought 45 watts worth of solar panels. After two weeks of clouds, on the first sunny day the added panels would have given 360 watts. Those two weeks would have seen me use 180 watts for the computer, at most. And as an added bonus, year round that same added panels would have given me 60% more generated power every single day. And this all assumes the generator never breaks and gas is never factored into the equation. Simply, I was an idiot and wasted the money. The investment will never pay itself off like the panels would have. Of course, in my defense, the PVC pipe and earth pipe project wasted the same amount of money, so you could say I’m always an idiot.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
guest article two of two today
GUEST ARTICLE
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Handy Hermit Hut
You can build this little shelter in one hour. No carpentry experience is needed, and, there is no measuring needed! Total cost is under 50 dollars, less if you use scrounged materials. The shelter sleeps one or possibly two people and will last for years with an occasional coat of paint. This tiny shelter is perfect as a hunting camp, low profile hideaway, doghouse, or backup shelter. It ain’t fancy but beats sleeping in the rain. If I am ever down to my last 50 dollars I will build this shelter to live in. Here is a list of materials and tools you will need.
(5) Sheets of 7/16 inch OSB – Some folks call this chipboard. Ask for OSB at the building supply, they will know what you need. It comes in 4 foot by 8 foot sheets
(4) 2 by 4 by 8-foot boards - Pick the straightest boards you can, it makes building way easier.
(1) pound of 1 5/8 inch or 2 inch coarse thread drywall screws
(1) tube of latex caulk – The cheap stuff works fine
(1) Caulking gun – the cheap ones work fine
(1) set of door hinges with screws
(1) Piece of scrap rubber, an old rubber car floor mat or inner tube works well.
Rechargeable drill with screwdriver bit or a good ratcheting screwdriver
Caulking gun
Staple gun
Cut one of the OSB sheets in half to make two 4 foot by 4 foot pieces. The building supply will do this for free in most places. They use a panel saw that can do a neater job than you can.
Start by building a long box, open on both ends. A full sheet of OSB forms each side of the box and a 2 by 4 goes into each corner. A rechargeable drill makes this quick and easy. Use one screw about every foot. Drywall screws are the best thing that ever happened to amateur carpenters. If you drive it in wrong, reverse the drill and back it out. Screws are way stronger than nails as well.
Screw one of the half sheets of OSB over one end. Drive screws into the ends of the 2 by 4. Work carefully to minimize gaps that rain water can leak through.
Attach the other half sheet with hinges ON TOP to make the door.
Caulk the top seams with latex caulk to keep rain and wind out. Pay special attention to the top edge of the end piece. A leak there will drip water on your head.
Cut strips of scrap rubber and staple them over the hinge to keep rain out.
The shelter works best when the closed end is uphill. This keeps rain from running in and makes the whole thing shed water. Never sleep with your head downhill, it will cause a headache. OSB is not rated for outdoor use, but, I have seen the stuff last for 10 years exposed to the weather. Two coats of exterior paint will help durability as will putting the shelter up on boards, concrete blocks or rocks. The one weak point of OSB is it cannot take contact with damp ground. If you can get the shelter off the ground about a foot it will last for years.
In colder areas, some one or two inch thick foam insulation can be fastened inside the hut with screws or a glue called Liquid Nails. Insulate the end and door as well. The insulation can be cut to shape with a pocketknife, razor knife, or a hacksaw blade.
For security, you can install 2 hook and eye fasteners on the door. That way you can lock it from the inside.
SAFETY WARNING! DO NOT use any fuel-burning appliance in this tiny space. Carbon monoxide will be produced and WILL kill you. Use an LED lantern if you need light. You can burn a candle lantern or small oil lamp ONLY if you leave the door open about an inch for air circulation.
There you have it. You have just built an insulated box to sleep in. In most climates, your body heat and a sleeping bag will keep you warm without an external heat source.
Scroll down for my daily article.
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Handy Hermit Hut
You can build this little shelter in one hour. No carpentry experience is needed, and, there is no measuring needed! Total cost is under 50 dollars, less if you use scrounged materials. The shelter sleeps one or possibly two people and will last for years with an occasional coat of paint. This tiny shelter is perfect as a hunting camp, low profile hideaway, doghouse, or backup shelter. It ain’t fancy but beats sleeping in the rain. If I am ever down to my last 50 dollars I will build this shelter to live in. Here is a list of materials and tools you will need.
(5) Sheets of 7/16 inch OSB – Some folks call this chipboard. Ask for OSB at the building supply, they will know what you need. It comes in 4 foot by 8 foot sheets
(4) 2 by 4 by 8-foot boards - Pick the straightest boards you can, it makes building way easier.
(1) pound of 1 5/8 inch or 2 inch coarse thread drywall screws
(1) tube of latex caulk – The cheap stuff works fine
(1) Caulking gun – the cheap ones work fine
(1) set of door hinges with screws
(1) Piece of scrap rubber, an old rubber car floor mat or inner tube works well.
Rechargeable drill with screwdriver bit or a good ratcheting screwdriver
Caulking gun
Staple gun
Cut one of the OSB sheets in half to make two 4 foot by 4 foot pieces. The building supply will do this for free in most places. They use a panel saw that can do a neater job than you can.
Start by building a long box, open on both ends. A full sheet of OSB forms each side of the box and a 2 by 4 goes into each corner. A rechargeable drill makes this quick and easy. Use one screw about every foot. Drywall screws are the best thing that ever happened to amateur carpenters. If you drive it in wrong, reverse the drill and back it out. Screws are way stronger than nails as well.
Screw one of the half sheets of OSB over one end. Drive screws into the ends of the 2 by 4. Work carefully to minimize gaps that rain water can leak through.
Attach the other half sheet with hinges ON TOP to make the door.
Caulk the top seams with latex caulk to keep rain and wind out. Pay special attention to the top edge of the end piece. A leak there will drip water on your head.
Cut strips of scrap rubber and staple them over the hinge to keep rain out.
The shelter works best when the closed end is uphill. This keeps rain from running in and makes the whole thing shed water. Never sleep with your head downhill, it will cause a headache. OSB is not rated for outdoor use, but, I have seen the stuff last for 10 years exposed to the weather. Two coats of exterior paint will help durability as will putting the shelter up on boards, concrete blocks or rocks. The one weak point of OSB is it cannot take contact with damp ground. If you can get the shelter off the ground about a foot it will last for years.
In colder areas, some one or two inch thick foam insulation can be fastened inside the hut with screws or a glue called Liquid Nails. Insulate the end and door as well. The insulation can be cut to shape with a pocketknife, razor knife, or a hacksaw blade.
For security, you can install 2 hook and eye fasteners on the door. That way you can lock it from the inside.
SAFETY WARNING! DO NOT use any fuel-burning appliance in this tiny space. Carbon monoxide will be produced and WILL kill you. Use an LED lantern if you need light. You can burn a candle lantern or small oil lamp ONLY if you leave the door open about an inch for air circulation.
There you have it. You have just built an insulated box to sleep in. In most climates, your body heat and a sleeping bag will keep you warm without an external heat source.
guest article one of two today
GUEST ARTICLE
My regular article was just posted, scroll down. Here is a way for folks way out in the boonies to get some bulk food. I can't say it is the cheapest, it is up to you to comparrison shop. I can tell you that the coffee he sent was pretty tasty.
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My family is in the gourmet coffee business, you may remember me sending you some a few months back. My reading and discussions with “experts” have opened my eyes to the fact that you do not want to live long term on just wheat. I have formed the opinion that I would need to supplement anything I could grow for at least one year. Adding some dried beans and peas would make you much healthier and would be easier on the palette.
I have made connections in the dry good grocery industry and have developed the following price list. NONE of these items are packaged for long term storage. That is your job, but my preference is packing in smaller Mylar bags and then in 5 gal. buckets.
If I open a 5 gallon bucket the life span of that product just stated ticking.
I would like to add dried berries to this list but have not found them at an affordable price at this time.
I will accept a check, silver, gold or Paypal for payment.
50 lbs. of the following products:
NONE of these items are packaged for long term storage
Cracked corn ……………..$ 29.55
(try to hand grind corn and you will know why I found cracked for my preps)
White Rice ……….……..$ 34.75
Fine ground Corn Meal ……………..$ 29.55
Whole Green peas …………….$ 34.95
Lentils …………….$ 49.50
Lima Beans …………….$ 99.00
Black Eyed Peas ……………$ 79.95
Light Red Kidney Beans ……………$ 75.65
Pinto Beans ……………$ 69.55
Bulgar Wheat ……………$ 29.00
All purpose Flour ……………$ 28.75
Table Salt NOTICE this is 25 LBS. …………….$ 8.75
These items are all priced FOB Mia. Shipping will be expensive unless you get several items and they are shipped by truck on a pallet. I will charge for pallet unless I get it free, and incidental expenses related to the truck shipping. I will also be happy to ship UPS.
I am not in the prepper or shipping business, if you can find these items cheaper let us
( all minions of the Great Bison) know where to get them. Some items are cheaper because they are a staple in that geographic area but not used as much somewhere else.
alan.alanwatkins@gmail.com
My regular article was just posted, scroll down. Here is a way for folks way out in the boonies to get some bulk food. I can't say it is the cheapest, it is up to you to comparrison shop. I can tell you that the coffee he sent was pretty tasty.
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My family is in the gourmet coffee business, you may remember me sending you some a few months back. My reading and discussions with “experts” have opened my eyes to the fact that you do not want to live long term on just wheat. I have formed the opinion that I would need to supplement anything I could grow for at least one year. Adding some dried beans and peas would make you much healthier and would be easier on the palette.
I have made connections in the dry good grocery industry and have developed the following price list. NONE of these items are packaged for long term storage. That is your job, but my preference is packing in smaller Mylar bags and then in 5 gal. buckets.
If I open a 5 gallon bucket the life span of that product just stated ticking.
I would like to add dried berries to this list but have not found them at an affordable price at this time.
I will accept a check, silver, gold or Paypal for payment.
50 lbs. of the following products:
NONE of these items are packaged for long term storage
Cracked corn ……………..$ 29.55
(try to hand grind corn and you will know why I found cracked for my preps)
White Rice ……….……..$ 34.75
Fine ground Corn Meal ……………..$ 29.55
Whole Green peas …………….$ 34.95
Lentils …………….$ 49.50
Lima Beans …………….$ 99.00
Black Eyed Peas ……………$ 79.95
Light Red Kidney Beans ……………$ 75.65
Pinto Beans ……………$ 69.55
Bulgar Wheat ……………$ 29.00
All purpose Flour ……………$ 28.75
Table Salt NOTICE this is 25 LBS. …………….$ 8.75
These items are all priced FOB Mia. Shipping will be expensive unless you get several items and they are shipped by truck on a pallet. I will charge for pallet unless I get it free, and incidental expenses related to the truck shipping. I will also be happy to ship UPS.
I am not in the prepper or shipping business, if you can find these items cheaper let us
( all minions of the Great Bison) know where to get them. Some items are cheaper because they are a staple in that geographic area but not used as much somewhere else.
alan.alanwatkins@gmail.com
too much
TOO MUCH
Well, I’ve been setting this one aside for quite awhile, hoping I could keep postponing the inevitable day when there simply wasn’t a darn thing to write about. Oh, I guess I could read more news every morning and talk about current events, but that is just a vast putrid time sink, the kind you might find in aDMV or a garage full of Natural Geographic magazines from the 1940’s. Both the reading and writing part. Even the items I do cover of a topical nature are mainly wastes of time. Which is proof enough if you need it that the darn collapse is taking way too long if you’ve been reading this for five years. You could have shelled out $3 in 2006 for my Frugal Survivalist e-book, spent a few hours reading it, then completely ignored the drama of the road-rage/road wrecks towards Apocalypse and not missed too much. It might all be fascinating or mildly entertaining but ultimately the show serves very little purpose. So why not just throw more navel gazing your way, as you’ve already proven to be a ready audience, eyes bright in the advancing headlights, frozen in inaction. Today’s burning question is, what the heck do I do if the world doesn’t end in the first weeks of June, 2012 ( the first paycheck after child support ends, the world ends as I am not meant to enjoy the fruits of my labor )?
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I know most of you could easily blow through $400 a month. You would be buying more semi-auto weapons, more semi-auto magazines, more semi-auto ammunition and more semi-auto accessories like laser sites, tactical nuclear weapon tipped grenade launchers and radar imaging TV screens. You would throw more money down the 401(k) rathole, the mortgage craphole and the SUV black hole. You would be bribing your wife with diamonds so you could get some nasty more than once a month ( the next time the wife asks, “you got a hand don’t you?”, answer with “oh, you’re right. Get out” ). You would be buying the kids McSlop’s or getting them tennis shoes that didn’t have any holes in them. In short, you would totally waste the extra money, the whole time wondering why you are dead ass broke and destined to work until the day after you die ( tip to Wal-Mart on saving money so you don’t have to rip me off on my food items- prop up a dead greeter with a motion detector to play the digital recording “hi, welcome to Wal-Mart”. When he gets too ripe, replace with another cadaver. The live one’s move so slow no one can tell the difference and bribing the funeral director will be much cheaper. Old dudes- demand a cut of his action with a funeral discount ). I can’t waste money like that. I’ve trained myself to be so cheap that any consumer spending that doesn’t make me money ( books ) or keep me alive ( food ) goes against my nature. Why spend money on a car if insurance gets too expensive, gas becomes rationed or the mechanic sees most of your disposable income? Why eat out now that the crap is so much more expensive and tastes like cardboard dipped in grease? Why have a bigger domicile if the taxman is just going to screw you out of enjoying it?
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And how many preps can you own? You can always refine and add and tweek, but at some point you have to stop getting too crazy on it. Oh, I’ll spend more on ammunition for the Enfield and get serious about the reloading components. I’ll always be buying more wheat ( I like the idea about the twenty year stash, hoping I’ll live that much longer ). Here is my basic criteria on what to do with my new found embarrassment of riches, should the world not end next summer. Anything spent is temporary only. Nothing budgeted I can’t change my mind and immediately stop paying ( for instance, I wouldn’t get broadband Internet access if it came with a two year commitment ). If I start renting a car once a month, I’ll not only make the wife much happier since she can get into town, I’ll be able to buy bags of wheat and other bulk items I can’t handle on my bike ( no, I won’t buy a trailer and haul them that way. I put enough mileage on just getting to work and I’m burning enough calories schlepping thousands of pounds a day there ). If I need that extra $80 a month, I can stop. But in the mean time it is a luxury I’ll be able to afford ( call it an even $100 after the wife gets slot machine playing money ). Another $100 in 250 pounds of wheat, or 125 pounds of pinto beans or 200 pounds of white flour or whatever. Come next summer, I should have even more storage space ( hallway to underground bunker ) although I still have plenty to spare now if I go down into the spider pit. $100 will go towards ammo and once in a great while a gun ( I’d like to replace my tube fed semi rimfire with a few single shots, plus one of these days I’ll supplement my Enfields with an arsenal of 223 singles with mil-dot scopes. Plus, if they are still available, Russian bolts and ammo, once I get full up on everything else gun-wise. And I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to invest in post-apoc bikes and parts which will be a back-up for my daily riding, plus the occasional cash savings ( I won’t get crazy there, as too much cash is just inflation-bait ). But for all of the above, I can’t see it lasting all that long.
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After so many tons of wheat, why go on? After twenty or thirty thousand rimfire, why continue? I think if I reach that point, and I have the land paid, I’m in trouble with over half my take home pay sitting around burning a hole in my pocket. I’ll build underground on the other pieces of land, hell, I’ll even pay for a backhoe instead of digging it myself. That can either be back-up residences or a home for my son if he ever moves out this way. I don’t know what the heck I’ll do after that point. I can’t increase my book budget past what I have now, I’ll just start buying crappier books. I’ll already be totally maxed on preps ( even doubling or tripling the solar panels will only take a month or two ). Perhaps I’ll just start a publishing company and sink all the cash into book inventory. Until then, I’ll have plenty of time to write a few of the books, and if it succeeds, I can will a business to the kids. That should take care of the next twenty years of surplus earnings. Damn, what a great problem to have.
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Well, I’ve been setting this one aside for quite awhile, hoping I could keep postponing the inevitable day when there simply wasn’t a darn thing to write about. Oh, I guess I could read more news every morning and talk about current events, but that is just a vast putrid time sink, the kind you might find in aDMV or a garage full of Natural Geographic magazines from the 1940’s. Both the reading and writing part. Even the items I do cover of a topical nature are mainly wastes of time. Which is proof enough if you need it that the darn collapse is taking way too long if you’ve been reading this for five years. You could have shelled out $3 in 2006 for my Frugal Survivalist e-book, spent a few hours reading it, then completely ignored the drama of the road-rage/road wrecks towards Apocalypse and not missed too much. It might all be fascinating or mildly entertaining but ultimately the show serves very little purpose. So why not just throw more navel gazing your way, as you’ve already proven to be a ready audience, eyes bright in the advancing headlights, frozen in inaction. Today’s burning question is, what the heck do I do if the world doesn’t end in the first weeks of June, 2012 ( the first paycheck after child support ends, the world ends as I am not meant to enjoy the fruits of my labor )?
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I know most of you could easily blow through $400 a month. You would be buying more semi-auto weapons, more semi-auto magazines, more semi-auto ammunition and more semi-auto accessories like laser sites, tactical nuclear weapon tipped grenade launchers and radar imaging TV screens. You would throw more money down the 401(k) rathole, the mortgage craphole and the SUV black hole. You would be bribing your wife with diamonds so you could get some nasty more than once a month ( the next time the wife asks, “you got a hand don’t you?”, answer with “oh, you’re right. Get out” ). You would be buying the kids McSlop’s or getting them tennis shoes that didn’t have any holes in them. In short, you would totally waste the extra money, the whole time wondering why you are dead ass broke and destined to work until the day after you die ( tip to Wal-Mart on saving money so you don’t have to rip me off on my food items- prop up a dead greeter with a motion detector to play the digital recording “hi, welcome to Wal-Mart”. When he gets too ripe, replace with another cadaver. The live one’s move so slow no one can tell the difference and bribing the funeral director will be much cheaper. Old dudes- demand a cut of his action with a funeral discount ). I can’t waste money like that. I’ve trained myself to be so cheap that any consumer spending that doesn’t make me money ( books ) or keep me alive ( food ) goes against my nature. Why spend money on a car if insurance gets too expensive, gas becomes rationed or the mechanic sees most of your disposable income? Why eat out now that the crap is so much more expensive and tastes like cardboard dipped in grease? Why have a bigger domicile if the taxman is just going to screw you out of enjoying it?
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Please support Bison by buying through the Amazon graphics above and to the right of each article. Or, visit
http://bisonpress.com/affiliatebooks.html
You can purchase anything, not just the linked item. Enter Amazon through my item link and then go to whatever other item you desire. As long as you don’t leave Amazon until after the order is placed, I get credit for your purchase. Thank you.
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And how many preps can you own? You can always refine and add and tweek, but at some point you have to stop getting too crazy on it. Oh, I’ll spend more on ammunition for the Enfield and get serious about the reloading components. I’ll always be buying more wheat ( I like the idea about the twenty year stash, hoping I’ll live that much longer ). Here is my basic criteria on what to do with my new found embarrassment of riches, should the world not end next summer. Anything spent is temporary only. Nothing budgeted I can’t change my mind and immediately stop paying ( for instance, I wouldn’t get broadband Internet access if it came with a two year commitment ). If I start renting a car once a month, I’ll not only make the wife much happier since she can get into town, I’ll be able to buy bags of wheat and other bulk items I can’t handle on my bike ( no, I won’t buy a trailer and haul them that way. I put enough mileage on just getting to work and I’m burning enough calories schlepping thousands of pounds a day there ). If I need that extra $80 a month, I can stop. But in the mean time it is a luxury I’ll be able to afford ( call it an even $100 after the wife gets slot machine playing money ). Another $100 in 250 pounds of wheat, or 125 pounds of pinto beans or 200 pounds of white flour or whatever. Come next summer, I should have even more storage space ( hallway to underground bunker ) although I still have plenty to spare now if I go down into the spider pit. $100 will go towards ammo and once in a great while a gun ( I’d like to replace my tube fed semi rimfire with a few single shots, plus one of these days I’ll supplement my Enfields with an arsenal of 223 singles with mil-dot scopes. Plus, if they are still available, Russian bolts and ammo, once I get full up on everything else gun-wise. And I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to invest in post-apoc bikes and parts which will be a back-up for my daily riding, plus the occasional cash savings ( I won’t get crazy there, as too much cash is just inflation-bait ). But for all of the above, I can’t see it lasting all that long.
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After so many tons of wheat, why go on? After twenty or thirty thousand rimfire, why continue? I think if I reach that point, and I have the land paid, I’m in trouble with over half my take home pay sitting around burning a hole in my pocket. I’ll build underground on the other pieces of land, hell, I’ll even pay for a backhoe instead of digging it myself. That can either be back-up residences or a home for my son if he ever moves out this way. I don’t know what the heck I’ll do after that point. I can’t increase my book budget past what I have now, I’ll just start buying crappier books. I’ll already be totally maxed on preps ( even doubling or tripling the solar panels will only take a month or two ). Perhaps I’ll just start a publishing company and sink all the cash into book inventory. Until then, I’ll have plenty of time to write a few of the books, and if it succeeds, I can will a business to the kids. That should take care of the next twenty years of surplus earnings. Damn, what a great problem to have.
END
The Official Bison Web Site http://www.bisonpress.com/
*
My e-mail is jimd303@netzero.com
*
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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By the by, all my writing is copyrighted. For the obtuse out there.
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