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Please excuse the Blogger wet fart here the last few days. The only damage appears to be a delay in posting and a few comment sections wiped out. They did delete my two weekend posts which I have saved on back-up ( I’m moving the posts around so that this is on Saturday instead on Monday to bring you this news as if you didn’t already know it ). Probably what happened was the CIA was trying to cripple my content and my ad revenue, the government evidently deciding that I wasn’t quite poor enough if I was getting paid for my writing, and they accidentally took down all the blogs. Thank goodness Google has more revenue than a lot of failing European states combined so they fixed the problem. Hey, almost five years of posting, and to only have a major problem like this once, that isn’t bad at all. It isn’t like, oh, I don’t know let me randomly pick some asshatness out of a hat here, mother humping Burger King who used to serve decent fast food ( you can’t get great food out of fast food, so decent is good enough ) but recently has disappointed me for the last time with consistent crappiness. McDonalds consistent type crappiness where the food chews a ragged hole in your stomach. I used to treat myself to the soft serve cone once a week during the summer until they reduced the amount, the height going from six or eight inches above the cone to more like three or four. Then, their Whoppers started tasting like ass. Then, the mother of all insults, they charged me five friggin dollars for a few mouthfuls of chicken nuggets that tasted like chicken droppings. When the BK chicken strips first came out in the mid eighties we went crazy over them ( of course, being in the military our food taste bar was set pretty low. I ate so many Doritos in lieu of mess hall meals that to this day 25 years later I can almost never eat nacho corn chips ) and it was a proverbial feast on BK Day. And now they go from strips to nuggets. No taste comparison. Old BK chicken, GOOD. New BK chicken, so Gott Damn BAD they are in contention with ex-wives ass. I normally only eat out once or twice a month. If that. When the food disappoints I nurse that hurt for some time.

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Kansas wheat crop early reports seem to be saying that a 20% decline is in the offing. Before, any local failure was offset by global buying and shipping. With that breaking down, expect our own crop shortages to effect us one of these days soon enough. Perhaps it is not the time to panic now, but don’t let it put you to sleep, either. One of these days, it will spell price jumps and shortages when our own crops see worse weather, water shortages or fertilizer price hikes. Or even transportation cost increases.

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I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before, but if I have it’s going to happen again. Work is crazy busy, I’m sweating ( you know you are acclimating to Elko weather when you miss fall because spring is hitting a scorcher of 70 ), unfocused and just plugging away at the keyboard hoping something semi-coherent will roll out. Tomorrow is the mail carriers food drive so my weekend is cut short, hopefully the couple of articles to follow won’t suck too much. Don’t worry, I stick by my work. Contact me for a full subscription price refund ( I try to churn out consistently BETTER, not consistently mediocre, if not from income greed than certainly from pride, but there will always be less than perfect articles popping up once and again ). Knowing our luck ( when you are blessed it all goes right, when you are cursed you can never catch a break ) we are going to see the worst of both worlds. A long slow collapse and then a sudden off the cliff collapse. If we could just have one or another, that would be manageable. A fast collapse and our mortgaged concrete bunkers with stream and woodlot and pasture, our twenty three credit cards maxed out to buy dozens of semi-autos, all would be a great investment. And a slow collapse would be as hunky dory and peachy keen as all the propaganda spinners would have you believe, a manageable slide into tree hugging eco-villages ( they can poo-pah doomers to their hearts fill, but my contempt for their wishy-washy non committal illogical fantasy world wet dreams is a far fiercer force of nature ).

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Alas, neither is to be, by all logical thinking. The credit card survivalists will see the bank repo their retreats and their once flush employer filing for bankruptcy, with the end of their nineteen quest for retirement met with a pink slip. The eco-villagers will see the same if they mortgaged. If not, they will see eventually lawlessness rule the land and their ecologically sensitive dwellings put to the torch, their liberated women placed into harems if not slaughtered after being violated. You can’t wish away the violence by accusing it’s reporters as lusting after the lifestyle. The collapse of one order sees widespread violence and chaos, and order is only restored after the barbarians fight amongst themselves for leadership dominance. Then, they substitute pillaging and rapine with taxation and attacking other nations or groups instead of the locals. Was that Kipling on the uneasiness of the population over the violence necessary to protect them?

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After a relatively long slow collapse, we reach a tripping point of lack of resources meeting an expanding population and then we see a fast collapse. The thing is, the long slow part doesn’t allow a surplus to prepare. The fast contraction sees all economic resources being utilized just to try to not become totally destitute. When your hours are being cut, you can’t pay the mortgage, let alone buy ammunition and MRE’s. You can’t expect to be able to wait to the last minute. You must prep now, not only for the fast collapse you can’t time, but the slow collapse ( by doing such things as getting ready for less energy such as passive solar- covered in an article coming up ). You aren’t hurrying because tomorrow the zombies strike, you are in a hurry now because a year before the collapse you lose your job and the supplies on hand are all you will ever get.

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