Thursday, September 30, 2010

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USED PROPHYLATIC


Every once in awhile Baby Jesus sends me a pretty clear signal in warning. Sometimes I act promptly and make myself look good, hogging all the credit. I’m sure I’ll be paying for that one soon enough. Although in my own defense, an all knowing deity should know that is how I’d react and make allowances. And look at all the good I do. Showcasing perfect hair. Telling people what idiots they are ( for their own good, I say. But I’m sure I’ll get some retort like, you knew you would drive them away with that attitude so you really wanted to hog all the wheat and Enfields for yourself )( Lee-Enfield No.1 MkIII SMLE / No.4 MkI Rifle Web Sling ). Bringing fame and fortune to the area. I should be a friggin saint. Anyway, after a grueling hour of thinking up new ways to tell you your faults, no easy task, I went to hit Copy and did something else and promptly lost all my work. Sloppy habits on my part, not manually backing up my drivel. I could just chalk it up to laziness, or I could put a spin on it and invoke the Lords name in vain. Which I know riles up a bunch of you. But let me ask you this. If you take the existence of God as an article of faith, why do you refuse to acknowledge resource depletion which is based on the laws of physics ( The Law of Physics )? Peace, brothers and sisters. I’m not trying to dog on your religion. I envy you the peace and comfort it brings you. But my question is valid. So, Baby Jesus sent me a message. “I smite your pathetic drivel, a tired rehash of the same old crap. Write it over again, and try to do better, you pathetic hack!” Whoa! That really hurt my feelings. But because I love all of you, at least officially, and really truly love those that send books, bacon, silver or LED’s ( Planet Bike Blinky "3" 3-Led Rear Bicycle Light ), I’m writing this article in the evening at home, hurriedly trying to beat the sinking sun so as not to drain the battery.

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I’ve got bad news for you. The bankers, their minions in government, and the businesses that suck up the leftovers like the whores that they are, all will discard you in a hot New York minute like a used prophylactic once you no longer serve their needs. Need proof? There was a little thing called the deindustrialization of America, NAFTA ( The Case Against Free Trade: GATT, NAFTA, and the Globalization of Corporate Power (An Earth Island Press Book) ), four decade long decline in living standards and such disasters as Katrina and 9/11. You have been subjected to a gradual disregard for a very long time. You wonder why you are being screwed. Why is my Social Security being eroded by inflation? Why does my Medicare not pay for my medical anymore? Why did my food bill go from 10% of my budget to 30% ( mine has anyway, and that ain’t eating that great )? Why is Wal-Mart bending me over the Chinese made sawhorse and dry humping me? Why is the food from the market poisoning me even as it costs more? Newsflash, Captain Einstein, you no longer profit the powers that be. The energy available to our exploding population, a population made by deliberately opening the borders to downgrade wages, is declining. There is no more energy growth. There is energy contraction. Energy equals wealth. Less energy equals falling wealth. Falling wealth equals your life sucking hind tit, if you can find a tit at all. Obammy could give two shites that you worked all your life paying into the system. He is going to get his to put in the safe underneath his framed Nobel Prize ( The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: Advice for Young Scientists )( The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversyand Prestige ).

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It is all so simple, but in a blatant disregard of reality since it resembles a nightmare, everyone tries to complicate the damn thing. You are a useless eater. I am a worthless eater. We will all be starved deliberately, just as the Ukrainians were in Soviet Russia ( New 2x3 USSR Flag Russia Russian Soviet Union Flags ). Forget your precious semi-auto guns. The Feds aren’t afraid of your chest beating, your “Don’t Tread On Me” flags, your copy of the Constitution. They are tickled pink that you only have a months supply of food, though. Are you capable of paying interest to the bankers and tax to the government and consume from the corporations as the economy dives straight down? If it is only because of local pension payments, your time is limited. If it is on federal pensions, your time will expire a little farther down the road. I’m not picking on the retired, I’m asking a question. Are you really that essential? It will soon be triage, and “right” and “just” are quaint leftovers no one can afford.

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Very short this time, for obvious reasons. Just stop overlooking the obvious. That is all I’m asking.

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11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congratulations James,

You have won the "Most Original Blog Title Award" (MOBTA). This is a coveted prize that many have sought but none have received. You are the first and will be remembered in the history books.

Of course, your flowing locks of silky hair gave you an unfair advantage with the judges. But did anyone ever say "life is fair".

Idaho Homesteader

Anonymous said...

And here I was thinking that your story would be about the hotel incident involving a small child who found "your title" while vacationing in Hot-lanta and now has an STD. The degree to which humanity has sunk is unbelievable. The human experiment to prove that we are not just animals has failed.
I know that I am being used by the system as I am in the highest tax bracket doing work all over this depressing planet in search of the magic black elixir. I choose to do this because I figure that the time-value equation for dollars is on a exponentially negative slope. I have my stores now and increase them each a little each month, but I can bail out whenever. (My only worry is being able to make it out of "BFE, hack 'em up for fun" land and back to my compound if the ball drops while working.) They will get no more from me and there will be very little residual benefit from my existance in the system. A bird in hand is worth two in the bush. I have one account that still has funny money in it, but it is less than 1.5% of my worth (in terms of real goods), so I do not care.
P.S.- Peak Oil is not real, the earth still holds trillions and trillions of barrels of oil. We just drill in remote technologically straining conditions as a means to justify getting more money...Right?!?

Anonymous said...

You heard it right there folks; from a fat cat in the oil patch. Peak oil is only propaganda created in the "bison ministry of truth" because Mr "Slick Locks" wants you to send him your meager coinage. Revolt peasants!!! Free beer in elko; fear not the pit of doom. Shuttles will be available in your area soon.
11:11--"your title" realative's health issues shouldn't be discussed in open forum they are underage after all.
C--glass-- box-- Tequila bootles-- whasst's to understand? hic!--57
Prolly confusion of flow versus batch

Anonymous said...

Bahhahah!
I did missread your writing's intent 11:11. I be dumb my bad; I think the way I read it was funnier tho'.
C--ib-dum---57

Anonymous said...

Here's another suggested post-apoc novel for you to read and review- The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley. Central Ohio suburban soccer mom vs. a bird flu pandemic.

Thanks for finishing The Unit and The Fall of Eden so I didn't have to.

Anonymous said...

12:36 - Alcohol should be used in moderation...but feel free to go nuts with the spellcheck, though.
I am by no means a "fat cat" just an overpaid dog. This game is a means to an end...the end. Money doesn't define a person, it only helps to ID the jackasses among us. I am looking forward to the cleansing just to see all the non-believers lie in the bed that they didn't make or buy or even think that they would need. It sucks to be wrong.
The slick, connoiseur of coifs maybe a tad bit harsh but he has the right mindset. JWR will not be able to support his "holier than thou" supreme christian plan because the masses will overwhelm. He will have to resort to animal instincts in order to survive. Any one who preaches kindness has never been involved with a crazed, starving, native who thinks he has every right to your french fry and would be quite content hacking your arm off to get it. Oh, the poor misunderstood people of the world.

Anonymous said...

"used prophylatic", "entertaining nut job", and "rubber hose heroes" if someone didn't know better they may think that you are running a gay porn site instead of a bare-bones survival blog.
Keep plugging away, Jimbo.

Mal said...

"Which I know riles up a bunch of you. But let me ask you this. If you take the existence of God as an article of faith, why do you refuse to acknowledge resource depletion which is based on the laws of physics ( The Law of Physics )?"

Because Malthusians have always been wrong. Hundreds of years ago, firewood was how everyone heated their homes. "What will we do when peak firewood hits? All the forests are being depleted," the intelligentsia mewled. Then came coal. Then came oil. And all along, someone was crying that the sky was falling on X-resource, and the same people, who were also economically ignorant, whined that the sequential waves of Bohemian/German/Italian/Irish/Mexican immigrants were "takin' American jobs and makin' everyone poor."

But nuclear energy and solar energy will come into their own, as well as other means of energy we can't fathom yet. How little do we realize what technological advances have been made in the past 110 years of human history. From the first manned flight in an airplane in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1901, to spaceflight. 100 years is the blink of an eye, in the grand scheme of things.

"Overpopulation" is a term only fit for animals which do not have intrinsic value.

I remember a cartoon by Bill Mauldin, depicting an atom bomb atop the globe, wearing a bowler hat, tipping cigar ashes onto the world before a shocked populace, saying, "You want population control? I'll give you population control." Look at the big picture. A few hundred years ago, a plague wiped out a huge portion of the European population. "Overpopulation" didn't cause the plague, and "underpopulation" wouldn't have prevented it from taking a proportionate toll. The same goes for war. War isn't caused by a lack of resources. It's caused by men refusing to utilize the resources they already have. It's caused by greed, not by the scarcity of resources. Men's desire for possessions can be insatiable. That's because they misplace their desires. They try to put their longing, which is infinite, into the material realm, which is finite. Such a mindset always leads to violence, as that mindset is not in accordance with human nature.

You see, you haven't got a proper understanding of human nature. You don't realize why we exist, so naturally, you might think the purpose of life is to scramble to acquire whatever finite resources exist on the earth.

It is sad if you think that human beings are nothing more than consumers. "Eaters." Nothing more than lice on the surface of the earth.

We're a bit more than that. We are dreamers. Innovators. Problem-solvers. We figure out how to preserve existing resources, or how to utilize extant and plentiful resources in new ways.

There is more meaning to human life than preserving one's physical existence for as long as one can, Lord Bison. It's got to be a sad world for anyone who believes there isn't more to life than that.

Anonymous said...

The final banker endgame is coming closer. I predict that once inflation starts raging, banks holding fixed rate mortgages will get CONgress to allow INVOLUNTARY conversion of fixed rate mortgages to adjustable rate mortgages. Think that cannot happen? The taxpayers assumed the bad debt of banks that should have failed and bailed out companies( GM, Chrysler ) that should have failed, doubling the national debt virtually overnight. The media will spin this as "saving the banks, the American homeowner, Mom and apple pie" The sheeple will get higher mortgage payments for a longer term. GET DEBT FREE OR DIE MOFO! HAIL DARWIN

Anonymous said...

11:11- 4:53;
I'm Not Drinking;
it's a "bit". I'm trying for humor; I guess I missed.
re: spell check etc; you worry about it if it suits you; I don't. PS-- bootles and such are often deliberate. Auger; drill bit/prediction/argue--- Hmmmm, or should that be dill-bit or--Dilbert?
--Naw; that could be misconstewed as an attack.
C--shaking his head and hearing it rattle; maybe I need to wind myself tighter---57

but:
I agree with what you are saying. Manners and kind "christian" treatment do not/cannot stand and have not stood in the face of desperate human animals or even just RAW POWER.
Romans/gladiators/cruxifiction
Modern germans/ "Hey It's just a shower"
Pol pot/stalin etc

Selective interp of king james edition sections even states this as a teaching.
This is not my world; In my fathers kingdom-- etc.
In my area Christian white guys of the past hung pregnant "red" women up; used 'em, abused 'em; for entertainment; inverted them and Cut the babies out to watch 'em squirm and swing and wind around in momma's face. Utilitarian as they were they made tobacco pouches from the breasts. We'e got a high school around here named after one of those "explorers'. Red guys were just as kind.
yada yada Yada

"Civil"ity and an expectation of interpersonal safety are artifacts of "Civil" I-sation: which is an artifact of surplus.
Lord Lux-o-locks has a position that I agree with; your name is noted for possibly lumping him in with the stupid just cause he's poor and not an overpaid dog of the man... Attention:attention:attention; this is a practice humor attempt; this is an attempt at humor: there is no attack; there is no attack.

C- on saturday; Hmmm vodka, bourbon, or tequila? which bootles will be best in the box?--57

I had a student that stated that he put his baby cousin in the microwave "just a little while" to see what would happen. Evidently you can nuke a baby for 20 secs w/o noticable harm.......or maybe crazy cecil was just shining me on.... but truly; i think he did it. Substantiated by the local law was the group of young men that would engage in sex with neigborhood cats and then kill them as a thing for acceptance in their group.

IMO

Zombies can't match normal stupid.

C--tequila bootles be square'ish and thick, would stack good in the box; that's one choice of the day outta the way---57

Anonymous said...

I Lost a brilliant long winded entry.

11:11 oil guy, I'M not drinking; It's a "bit"
Spell check; you're right; I'm wrong. A great deal of it is on purpose trying for double triple [and more] meanings in a feeble attempt to engage the readers in *Th[e dr]inking.*
recent example: auger/drill bit/prediction/argue
What can I say; it's different and less clear; but it's just me....
I agree with your assessment. I believe lord Lux-O-Locks to be "more correct" than Lou Rawles.

7:14
What you have going as your artycals of faith are not what I was taught in undergrad/grad school. Nor what I directly observe going on now and back to 1957.
Last I checked firewood is still the # 1 fuel world wide and IS an issue in "developing" countries. Depletion has to be considered as a contributing factor resulting in deserts/ decline of Greece/- maybe the island culture Jim points out.
English oaks [mast quality] are very reduced now; trees in the freaking "new world" were cut to supply the empires needs.
I am aware of your position. It was part and parcel of a multiday/multi prof/multiverse ity exchange I participated in. Our general conclusions did not conform to your stance.
I throw up for your cosideration-- Maltus'--
Was he really "wrong" for maybe just missing the date; and/or does our brainiac head exempt us from normal regulatory process.
Consider:
Finite world?-infinite growth?and Exponential Math? Applyied to poopulation and con sumption. I believe we have operated for awhile on a basically flawed economic model/structure and I'm not alone in that idea. If we are right; how does that affect you?

IS "Magic smart" Homo sap. gonna find da answer?

Maybe the Hollow Earth will get us a reprieve.

Slammin jammin Po'folks already got more than 80% of themselves back against the wall. water-food fuel-disease and ignorance/- politics.

I'm fat and sassy 'cause I soooo smart [and favored by baby jesus] to be born here at this time.

Will the party continue to roll and it's only gonna get better and better with more and more for everybody? -----or is it the party WILL continue to roll.

Oil patch guy is telling you-- it's in your face obvious Ms Pollyanna; so is the Lard Bison

Party hardy? [gonna FIGHT! for my RIGHT! to parrrrrr ty!] If so; for how many? for how long.
Good luck to you!!

Silly Wabbit. Trix are for kids

----and the band plays on: the tune?? --Nearer My God to Thee.