btn vs. nib

BTN VS. NIB


Mmmmm! An unpleasant waft of human decay right before lunch. I just love when one of our less than sanitary clients decides that sharing is caring. Putrid bastards. I’m trying to eat enough here to keep up my strength and they think nothing of trying to push out a fossilized turd. The guy was setting up squatters rights in the bathroom stall for fifty minutes. I’m very upset. And my stomach is doing flips as I try to consume my nuke bread with what pretty much tastes like what I just smelled ( I had to switch over to margarine since all the old butter is gone and I won’t use new butter fresh from the fallout sprinkled fields ). Gottdamn, everyone is trying to kill me. The ex-wife is trying to make sure I freeze in the winter, the asshats at work are trying to kill me from olfactory shock. And fuzzy foreigners are trying to irradiate me. Oh, and the Obammy Bunch is resetting “acceptable” radiation level standards so that all is well and no one panics ( thanks to the minion that sent me that article ). Can’t admit to 25% unemployment, just redefine the definition. Can’t admit that Japanese nukes are dangerous when they meltdown, just change the doses we are allowed. I hate everyone.

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Speaking of hating everyone, I do not like someone else’s application of logic. We bomb Libya. People bitch and moan, why don’t we ever invade non-oil countries to install democracy? And the court yes-men rush in with an explanation along the lines of, “just because we can’t help everyone, does that mean we shouldn’t help anyone?”. My, what impeccable logic that is. Why not use some other gems, like, “just because we didn’t find any WMD’s doesn’t mean there weren’t any”. Or, how about, “we had to destroy the village to save it”. I don’t disparage the profession of prostitution. It is a victimless crime, by which I mean consensual between the two parties ( ho and john ) if not the three ( and his wife ). At least there is an intellectual honesty about it. She sells sex for money. But when guys turn to prostitution it usually means they are figuratively rather than physically screwing someone and justifying the behavior. Acting dishonest with us and themselves. It is an intellectually dishonest act, and I believe inexcusable. If you are going to screw me, at least own up to it. But, to get back on topic, the justification cited above, “does that mean we shouldn’t help anybody?”, is quite similar to the justification for Yuppie Scum equipment. “If you are going to run out of ammunition in your semi, you will also run out with your bolt. Why not just use a bow and arrow?”.

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So, what is being said is that if your solution isn’t perfect, you can’t fault theirs. Even if theirs is far worse. Now, I’m not picking a fight with any particular minion for comments being made. It isn’t that I want to discourage logical thinking. God knows it is in short enough supply. But faulty logic is worse than no logic. Or, maybe the same. Anyway, really what it all boils down to is picking the lesser of evils. Far too many survivalist pundits preach “Nothing Is Better”. I’m all about “Better Than Nothing”. I’ve talked before about the 80/20 rule. 80% of the function for 20% of the price. That is most of the frugal supplies over the Yuppie types. Yes, agreed, theirs is better. Semi’s are better than bolts. Freeze dried is better than grains. But you can’t afford to pay 80% more for everything or even anything. It isn’t that you don’t deserve it, bless your little pea picking heart. You deserve the absolute very best. Your smile is the brightest, your brain the sharpest, your sexual magnetism is the mightiest. Co-workers flock to your cubical for your wisdom, you must fight off estrogen dripping fashion models with a stick and no one looks better in a suit and tie. Never let it be said that you don’t deserve the bestest and brightest of everything. But otherworldly forces conspire against you. It certainly isn’t your fault. Your wife hates you and spends all your money. Your children resent you and need bailing out of jail, just out of spite! The government has flagged you as a terrorist.

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As a result, you are poor. Hell, even the other six and half billion people on the planet are against you, using all your petroleum that would otherwise be used to restore a Union at your employment, lower your taxes and bring you back to an autocratic rule in your own home. How dare everyone else deny you!! You deserve the bestest!! Now that we are over bemoaning your fate, just realize life is unfair and you must compromise. You can’t afford two grand in a wonderful semi-auto with magazines ( well, you might be able to eventually afford it but chances are you can’t wait too long or you’ll end up with nothing ). But you can swing $300 for a great bolt action from WWII. Plenty of grain, junk land, blah, blah, friggity blah blah. It’s all been said a hundred times. The point today, and please remember it because I’ll only repeat it a few dozen more times, is that YOU CAN’T AFFORD N.I.B. Just thank Baby Jesus that you are still able to get B.T.N.

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You can tie up your ego in your good paying job. Then it won’t hurt until you are laid off. You can tie up your ego in the brightest and prettiest battle carbines. It will only hurt when you either run out of food because you couldn’t afford both, or you run out of ammo because you couldn’t afford much of that either. Don’t confuse deserving with affordability, and don’t confuse what is best and what is affordable. Or prudent. Remember, the collapse has its own timetable and the odds are really, really good that it doesn’t coincide with your equipment acquisition on a limited budget timetable. You would think you would all get tired of hearing this, but you are still here. So I can only conclude that you are all like those Jesus Freak dudes that whip themselves trying to repent. You need my abuse to punish yourself for your prepper indiscretions. Hey, you are very welcome.

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