were you right?

WERE YOU RIGHT?


Regarding yesterday’s post on the Master Crapper, remember that I wasn’t trying to reinvent the wheel ( Reinventing the Wheel ), or overcomplicate things or introduce unnecessary expenses. I was trying to throw out ideas on cheaply replicating flushing toilets to appease the little lady. If her main complaint is crapping in a bucket or an outhouse, then you keep the water solution, at least at first. You people think I have it easy just because the wife lives with me in trailer squalor? I have to pay for it almost every other day with the bitching and attitude. You would think, hey, the bitch moved out for a few months and then voluntarily came back so you would think she knew exactly what she was getting into. Unfortunately your average wife believes that you can read her mind and that anything she says wasn’t what she meant and you should know the difference. So it IS all your fault. Or maybe that’s just the class of broad I end up with, not being blessed with money, looks or an abnormally proportioned member.

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I got the surplus rain suit a few days ago and it seems very well designed. Suspenders to keep it up and zippers down both legs so that you can put them on without removing your boots. And that sucker is heavy, very thick. I’m just passing it on if you want to use that information.

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You get another guest article each day this weekend. Don’t get too used to it, that might be it. I think I’ve abused and overworked all possible contributors already. I could offer prizes, but as with any advertisers eventually you’re constrained by their financial support. I don’t want to turn into American Rifleman ( The American rifleman goes to war: The guns, troops, and training of World War II as reported in NRA's magazine ) where only gushing positive reports are seen on products. You would think by abusing my readers I also constrict my financial rewards since you are how I get paid. But I only really drive away the unworthy. Those that stay hopefully recognize my humor as harmless. If not, I get new suckers all the time to replace those departing in a huff. I think. It would be pretty sad to think I’ve drug along the same readers and bored them silly with my endless repetitive drivel.

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I want you to ask yourself a question. Were you right? Did you foresee the housing crash? The derivatives bubble going over a quadrillion dollars? Did you foresee a non-citizen of questionable religious practices becoming president ( and thank god he did since Billary [ Billary "It's a Mouth Full" Hot Sauce ] was the alternative )? Did you see the inflation against Social Security benefits this soon? Did you see $150 oil or global shortages of rice? Did you see $5 gasoline on the East coast after a relatively minor hurricane? I know you didn’t. I sure as heck didn’t. It didn’t surprise me much since I’ve been screaming about Oil Down for years. But I can’t see details ahead of time. And neither can you. Hell, you argue with me over every detail of declining energy. I’m reporting facts that already took place and you argue with me over it. I sure don’t have a crystal ball. My start of the year eleven forecasts have all been wrong so far ( although you could argue that the global grain problems were correct ). And I could care less about being wrong on the details because in general the trends all point to collapse. It is nice to be right over certain details, some might even save your life. But the most you can hope for is to be in the ballpark. I’d say I’m in the ballpark.

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I’m going to get a lot of details wrong. Mostly because I like to blather about anything and everything and so I’m always spitballing ideas. A lot are bound to be wrong. But in general, my gloomy paranoia ideas have been correct. We continue on a downward path. No recovery. No “twenty years to prepare” crap that the Yuppies need. But forget my track record. What about yours? If you are constantly NOT forecasting huge negative events, what makes you think you are qualified to believe things will get better? You’ve been wrong so far, so maybe you need to stop being so positive. What? You say you think a collapse ( Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed ) is coming? Why are you still living in the city? Why don’t you have several years of food for every family member? Okay, I’ll stop there. I understand a lot of you are natural disaster only preppers. You don’t buy into the civilization collapse thing. Fine. I could very well be wrong about it myself. If you’ve gotten out of debt and have a months supply of food and a garden and a shotgun and a few boxes of shells, you are doing just fine. You can refine slightly, get a water filter ( Katadyn Hiker PRO Water Microfilter ) and dig a disguised outhouse, etc. But basically you are okay. In your case, I would just advise extra economic paranoia. We have yet to see the real impact of city and state bankruptcy since the pain keeps being put off until next fiscal year. They’ve done it for the last few years, soon it will become much more obvious as the ability to hide the problem evaporates.

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The rest of you that keep hoping for time but know worse in on the way, I say that your timing is just as bad as mine. I can’t see the details coming, nor can you. And I spend a heck of a lot more time on this crap than you do. If you think things will get worse, act like it will happen tomorrow, not in ten years. You can’t guess the timing so don’t try. Act early instead of late. Would you wait to clear your lot of combustibles until you see the approaching flames? Or do you clear it years early?

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