RELOCATION TO COMMIETOWN
Most of you secretly hide your fear of being unworthy loyal minions. Just reading my drivel on a regular basis qualifies you for this status, but it can be revoked at will by management. On the one hand, by commenting as anonymous you hide rather well amongst the other 1300 minions. But on the other hand you can’t tell when you are going to say something really stupid, on a day I’m actually paying attention, while also caring enough to do something about it. I’m still debating whether I should glare menacingly in the direction of he who commented on my Libyan article, something to the effect that the Japanese radiation had affected my brain. Well, as news comes out that the radiation levels being monitored in Europe ( strodium 90 or something weird like that-what am I, a friggin rocket scientist? ) are already at 20% of
Chernobyl
( keep in mind Japan is a lot further away than Russia was ) levels and the Libyan rebels have already been allowed the special privilege of seller our oil to us, or Europe anyway, I can only merely shake my head in wonderment. Seriously? You can’t yet accept that my “
abnormal paranoia
” is now becoming the new “normal”? You don’t have to admit I’m right. Your validation would be nice, but it isn’t necessary. I’m my own biggest fan club. But you should learn how to get a lot more worried and stay that way.
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Rawles
had a nice article on an Ozzie relocating to the country on Tuesday the 29th. I don’t want to go all
Crocodile Dundee
on you and perpetuate the stereotype of Austrian males being macho he-men, swilling beer with one hand while slapping down uppity fems with the other, but it seems that what we have here is a fuzzy foreigner acting a lot smarter than a bunch of us
Yanks
. I won’t say he has a bigger pair of swinging testicles, able to overcome the objections of the spouse, “shut up, bitch, we’re moving”. I’m sure they’re just as hen pecked over there. I don’t blame you, guys. Even if you don’t have to sleep on the couch after misbehaving, the cold fish reception in the
wedding bed
can still be a powerful motivator. I’ve had to endure a bit of that myself, but lucky for me I can live with “better than nothing” for quite a time. Don’t give them a
clue
that it bothers you. Sorry, gals. I can’t keep the secret to myself. And besides, you can think of another way to wrap us around your little finger. It’s in your DNA. Anyway, I thought that this article was a nice instructional manual on how to move to a safer location while still appeasing the spouse with central air, SUV’s and running water. Since you can’t move away from the
zombie bikers
, at least you move to a safer location now. Peace of mind even on the off chance that we don’t collapse. Moving to a smaller town is a better focus than trying to buy a farm on top of the mountain for rich-mans wages. And all it takes is gas money and up front rent. Which most of us should have anyway.
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But…beware where you move. Just because an area has great agriculture potential doesn’t mean you should live there for love or money. As talked about before, if you can live on remote
junk land
with
raised beds
and rain water, why move to a farming community just outside a huge metro area? Or worse, to a state that is full of asshat liberal commie rimjobs. I’ll include Oregon and Washington in that category, but I’ve done little research into the area. I’ve heard third hand that they are little better than California politically, but of course that is buyer beware. I can’t say for sure they suck to live in, just that they might. I lived in Nevada prior to buying land so I knew its faults and attractions. I can live with its Yuppie population since as soon as you move out of the suburbs you leave their soft marshmallow asses. They play havoc with new intrusive laws but since the state started with such a low interference rate the scumbags haven’t totally ruined it yet. But my point is this. If you buy with a post-collapse viewpoint only, you set yourself up for present day fail. For instance, let’s pretend that
New Jersey
had survival potential. Moving there or even just building your bunker there means the property tax bankrupts you before the collapse happens. Obviously the area you want to go to must be habitable after the collapse, but it is far more important to survive the collapse financially of the government there now, plus the die-off of the population. My choice of rural property was dictated by financial criteria along with lack of population ( that being relative of course ). Only after the move did I focus on post-collapse livelihood. Which is the opposite of most teaching.
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I don’t know if you picked up on this yet, but I try to do the opposite of whatever conventional wisdom is. Keep in mind that most
survival
“wisdom” was formed forty of fifty years ago, when our population was a lot smaller. A lot is still pertinent but some is downright dangerous. Our country is no longer bread basket to the world and we are ourselves overpopulated. The refugee problem will be very real, very deadly and much more important to focus on than farmland. And our local governments are much more expensive to maintain, already failing financially and hence much more dangerous and will make your life miserable if possible. You wouldn’t go to Mississippi because of the population despite the farmland, so why would you go to, say, Oregon for the farmland if the government is socialist?
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Three cheers for Portland, Oregon!
- Good rainfall
- Surrounded by a major foodshed
- Environmentalists abound
- Community that invests in libraries
'Mousse
Oh Jimbo of silken locks...I got a huge stiffy at your preaching to us minions...and it felt GOOD!
Gotta admit that your blogs are actually increasingly more 'normal' and not quite 'orbital' as in the past. My answer? You have not changed...but the world has tilted so our little pisspot and our observations of those ramblings push us into the 'normal' category now.
How, you ask? Well, monster friggin quakes...normal now; all upper afrika peons rising up to free the shackles of their oppressors...check...normal; SIX friggin Mark II GE nuke jobs in different stages of warp core breach...normal..
-well yes, sirree...it's quite normal now.
Gonna be fun to watch the stuff perched on buckets-o-wheat in the middle of nowhere, wondering if mad max exists.
Ok, fearless/feckless leader, i'll hammer home the point: forget our notions of normal...the world has changed, permanently, quicker, and for the worse so you better get used to it, delay the stewpot a while as the gubberment grinds itself to dust in a typhoon of useless paper specie...
-topper
It's WHERE you live in the People's Republic of Washington that matters. I would not live in the libtard hellholes of Seattle, Tacoma or Olympia any more than I would live in Las Vegas or Reno. But Eastern Washington, where I live, is much more conservative, gun-friendly, etc. Having said that, please don't move here. :)
James,
Your post are always spot on. Thank you for continuing to bless us mere mortals with your wisdom.
Idaho Homesteader
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