Friday, June 11, 2010

I sent you three boats already

I SENT YOU THREE BOATS ALREADY


Two quick quotes that have nothing to do with anything but which amused me to the point of writing them down. From “Dave Barry Turns 50” by Dave Barry. “There is a fine line between ‘hobby’ and ‘mental illness’”. “People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them”. On another note, I started reading “Anasazi America”. At about a quarter way through it I am rather pleased. Gird yourself for a review sometime in the future.

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I can’t remember who posted it, but there was recently a comment on another blog to the effect that Louisiana shouldn’t be surprised about the oil spill after getting the wake up call from Katrina. Not that the disasters were similar but that the man made structures were breaking. The old joke about the man on the rooftop in a flood refusing three rides from passing boats as he waited for the Lord to provide ( then asking why he was forsaken and being told God had already sent three boats ) was given. People are preparing for the last disaster when they should be asking themselves why not enough is done afterwards to get life back to “normal”. Just as the 2000 elections were finally an unmistakable highlight to the fact that elections are controlled, Katrina should have been a very plain lesson to anyone that not only does the government not care if you live or die, their very incompetence will hasten the unwanted option. And they have no intention of picking up the pieces to the mess they caused.

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Now, let’s just say that you don’t want to tax your grey matter in any way and just accept the explanation given to you by the federales that after the Arab attack on the twin towers by untrained pilots, after the plane crash into the Pentagon that left a hole smaller than the alleged plane engine that crashed into it, after people were turned to ash but the “terrorists” passports remained unburned, another skyscraper far removed from the WTC crashed down hours later after NOT being hit by anything other than magic fairy dust, all was a straightforward attack on The American Way Of Life by sneaky bastards from lands we stole oil from and hence it is necessary to repeal the Bill Of Rights. Even taking the government at its word ( Third World peasants with a second grade education, severe brain damage and even perhaps a case of leprosy thrown in display more intelligence distrusting our central government than the average American does ), the fact still remains that New York City is a nice fat juicy target. Recent aerial photographs show large graffiti letters spelling “kick me”. I mean, come on! The building was already bombed years ago. How much more warning do you need to the impending nuke than two bombings of the Trade Center? Get the heck out of the city.

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People in Louisiana were rightly startled when Katrina damage went largely unrepaired. Yet then acted surprised when the oil started turning up on the beaches. Reasons to stay away from the coast-hurricanes. Things you avoid by leaving the coast- oil spills and more hurricanes. Reason to leave Haiti- soil erosion and dictators. Things you avoided by leaving- massive city pulverizing earthquakes. Or, put another way- fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. You only get one warning, then the second whammy is something you didn’t expect but could have been avoided by moving or being far more paranoid. The 1970’s was our one warning about the oil supply. We responded by going from manufacturing economy to financial manipulation economy. And by buying as many SUV’s as the oil from Alaska and the North Sea could turn out. We won’t experience another oil shortage and then be rescued by more monster fields being put into production. You had your one chance. Now you know why the human population is genetically programmed to overpopulate. Most humans are so freaking stupid that they kill themselves off. With enough population to start with blind dumb luck will save just enough to repopulate after the crash.

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Look, I realize you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. I’m not trying to insult you into suddenly embracing the doom and gloom religion. I’m speaking generally here. Since we are tribal, herd animals, a lot of the problems caused by others also effect you and you have no choice but to live with the problem. But let me give you another example of how not thinking things through causes you problems. South Africa is hosting the World Cup. To present a nicer, cuddlier picture of itself ( as if you could put lipstick on the pig of epidemic AIDS, massive unemployment and crime, infrastructure collapse et al ) it is cleaning up some urban areas. Number one target? The homeless. Force them away, and now the tourists can root for their home team in a southern paradise. A black run government relocating blacks, just like under the racist white leadership. People thought the whites were the problem, rather than the government exercising a monopoly on force. You have to think beyond the slogans beamed into your brain by the nightly news if you want to avoid future problems.

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14 comments:

YeOldFurt said...

You're starting to sound rational (again).
I still have better hair.
YeOldFurt

panhandletex said...

"Look, I realize you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."

But who wants flies? :-)

Panhandle Tex

vlad said...

(A 22LR subsonic to the head killed a 400 lb hog.A round to the head will stop a man.)
re jesus, more rimfire and rimfire strategy

http://www.ruger1022.com/docs/israeli_sniper.htm
(excerpt) After several incidents involving the death of Palestinians by the Ruger fire, IDFconducted a
field experiment in the Ruger at the IDF Sniper School in Mitkan Adam under the supervision of the IDF Judge Advocate General (JAG). The test showed that the Ruger
was more lethal then thought especially in upper body injuries. Also, since it's suppressed and was considered less lethal by the troops, the soldiers were much more
likely to use the Ruger loosely then intended.
As a result of this test, the JAG reclassified the Ruger as a lethal weapon. As a lethal weapon, the usage of the Ruger in riot control is much more limited today. In IDF Center Command it was completely prohibited to use and the IDF South Command it's deployment
was cut down dramatically.

Jennie said...

You couldn't pay me to live in any part of the super-city that is the NE US.

Hubby's still drooling over Seattle of course, but I'm' not convinced one huge town is any better than the other huge towns. No matter how many hippies and farmers markets there are.

It could be argued that everywhere has potential problems though, even here in rural Iowa, we're downwind of the missile silos in SD, so if those ever get attacked we'll be in the path of dust/debris/fallout.

That reminds me, I've been working on our 3 month food stash, and I'm struggling a bit with water. Enough of it falls from the sky here that I think I could muddle through with rain water catchment, but I haven't run the numbers yet.

If I'm remembering correctly, you're somewhere in the SW right? What are your plans for water? I know you said you have a filter, but where do you plan to get water to filter?

Mfskinner said...

The damage was meant to be repaired post Katrina. The land was thought to be valuable for real estate investors and they wanted the population out. Seems they used the same calculator to come up with this scheme as they did with the housing bubble.
Some of the anointed ones would like to see the world's population decreased. Chemicals form the oil spill will mix with rain and render small gardens plots in the yard a sick joke. Evacuated coastal cities will stress the economies of inner areas and put more strain on the supply change to that area. This will lead to increased crime, violence and good old poverty.
Even if the wunderkinds of our industrial giants could fix the "leak" it is not clear that is their intention at all. It appears that it is going to be an excuse to make a lot more pain beginning in the gulf states.
But all we have to do is buy guns, beans and band aids and the multiple pronged attack on our country, economy and lives will all go away according to many internet sites.
We see what this nation was when it existed and now that it is done many refuse to accept it is time to either get the hell away from here or crawl out of the cave and do something about it.
I apologize to the good people who have given so much of their money and effort but survival-ism in my opinion is a way to say I will not fight to keep what I have. I think it is a cop out because the best way to survive what is upon us is to stop it. And that is where people fail every time.

James m Dakin said...

Jennie-I'm northern NV. High, not low desert. Big differance. I'm a mile away from the Humbolt river.

Michael said...

Jennie,

I'm a little bit south of Seattle. Seattle's overgrown, overpriced and overrated. Your hubby's about 20 years too late. At this point the Puget Sound basin is one of the larger metro areas in the nation and will suffer from all the same problems that all the other big metro areas will as the oil economy winds down.


Small town Iowa sounds pretty good to me.

Suburban Survivalist said...

911 conspiracy? Really?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_World_Trade_Center

Doc said...

Vlad,
A sharp pointy stick is also lethal, but if someone is coming at me I don't want a 22. Funny story, I got a person shot call one night. When I got there I was met on the front porch by a man who said he had been shot by his friendgirl. He raised his shirt and sure enough there were three small holes in his torso. Of course I had to ask why she shot him. And she said she threw him out two weeks ago because he wanted to climb on top her when he brought her butter bread and poke chops and everytime he did, she got pregant. and tonight he brought her butter bread and poke chops and she already have four of his chillen and she didn't want mo. So she shot him. I took him to the hospital and they removed the 22 rounds under a local and he went home.
Morale to my story,I want the biggest, largest, giantest(no such word) hughest, caliber gun I can lift to shoot the sucker multiple times as fast as possible.

Anonymous said...

I entirely agree with james about getting out of the large cities. I recieved and eye opening lesson in sociology living in the LA area during the 92 riots. I personally am in favor of being far enough north that your spit freezes before it hits the ground. My roots are in the northern midwest and my parents both grew up with no electricity or running water. They grew their own food growing up so I know it can be done. IMO we do not have a lot of time before a breakdown.
I like Jims approach of owning a small parcel to ride out the dieoff. Just like during the plaque in the middle ages opening up land availability, there will be more land after the dieoff.

Anonymous said...

LOL...
Thanks to the World Cup I might have to add a few vuvuzelas to the preps... Cheap way to communicate over a distance.

russell1200 said...

Hurricane Floyd in North Carolina seemed to be the first Hurricane where they left the State to do most of the work itself. It also seems to be the first time the insurance companies tried out their various tactics of not paying off legitimate complaints.

Unfortunately water in its various forms is a big economic multiplier, but also a source of many disasters. The current black swan (that shouldn't be one) that I am pondering is a dam-dike water source containment collapsing. Even if a wall of water doesn't smash some downstream town, the draining of the reservoir is going to leave a lot of people without a source of potable water.

So what are the issues with high deserts? Since they often sit on the shielded side of a mountain range, I presume seismic activity is not out of the question. I assume that (like everywhere else) it only has so much fresh water, and that their is a population tipping point (in both directions) that make habitability an issue.

Liberal Survivalist said...

Everybody knows that Katrina wasn't cleaned up because George Bush is a racist Rethuglican.

Good thing we have a BLACK president now. I HOPE that we now CHANGE our path, but I am prepared for things to get worse. The job George Bush did may be to hard for our black president, the leader of all Americans, to fix.

Anonymous said...

having number four back is mellowing you out. i'm glad you are giving it another go. yeah save enough 22's and don;t store em with the other ammo. got 3 thousand rounds stored with a super single six away from everyhing else. thanks again for your efforts. delr