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BELLWEATHER BITCHES

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So, once again being a glutton for punishment, I’m listening to National Pravda Radio and they are going on and on ad infinitum about some towelhead dude ( I was a young idiot and actually believed the fedgov about the communist threat, but now I am an old idiot and refuse to believe that Arab terrorists are anything other than a contrived enemy to get us to all pull together, send our sons to their deaths amidst clouds of radioactive dust, go shopping at the mall and nark on our neighbors for unpatriotic thoughts ) who was insisting on representing himself in court. I can’t remember what he was accused of, nor do I care. The point was, the fascist approved media talk piece was once again trying to condition us to another bad idea, this time that the courts could actually defend someone. In effect, a lawyer whore was saying since the guy didn’t know jack spit about cross examination and such, he was hurting himself. Then they went on to blather about how the courts step in and try to force representation. I took away two things here. One, if the circus is presented professionally, the masses will believe it is legitimate. Two, illiterate peasants with a third grade education are smarter than the average college educated idiot that lives here, rightfully fearing a court appointed attorney as being nothing more than a court paid whore that has less morals or class than a crackhead that takes it up the ass and then immediately offers to blow you for five bucks more.

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I just got the book “The Great Collapse”. The darn thing cost $18 ( I never pay shipping unless I can help it, always doing the “free shipping on $25 or more” deal ), and even though I’m only half way done I can already tell that the author has swindled me. Two hundred pages, and all I’m thinking is, this is pretty much a rip off of “Solar Flare”, but with worse writing. Okay, it is good enough that I want to keep reading, but bad enough that compared to most other disaster/collapse books it blows bloody chunks of undigested monkey balls. It took a hundred pages for the combo EMP/flare to wipe out global electronics and another hundred pages of superficially covered chaos, and you still are left wondering what the point of it all is. If I finish it and it improves, I’ll tell you. But I wouldn’t hold my breath. Now, when I get around to reading Rawles new fiction, I know it will be much better. I liked his first fiction book, at least the original story. It seems he later added that section after page 300 and to me at least, it doesn’t fit. But all in all, a very good story. It doesn’t matter that I don’t agree with the teachings. I can read fantasy without needing to agree that magic works, right? Reading the Rawles story, I just enjoyed a collapse novel. So I do look forward to it. I’ll order next week, and review it as soon as I can.

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California has always been a bellweather state. What happened there first, later moved mainstream to the rest of the nation, by and large. Remember where the derivatives implosion first happened? Who is forcing the locals to bear the burden of their created costs ( the current state cons moving to county jail )? Now, I was born and raised in California, so I feel authorized to trash talk the place. I paid attention to politics at a young age, being a bit of a news geek prior to Dungeons And Dragons coming out, turning me into a role playing geek. I think I can somewhat judge the before and after of a piece of paradise turning into a vile, foul, pestilent cesspool. I won’t get into all that, just to say I moved out twenty years ago when the semi-auto ban went into effect there ( not that I wanted the weapons, just that the ban, coupled with the already enacted ban on protecting yourself, was a benchmark of final oppression for me ) and will never go back. Don’t get me wrong, California has a lot of perfect places to survive. And, as a native, that will always be my mother culture. But paradise in the Soviet Union is still living in a dictatorship. That was the whole problem with California. It had nearly perfect weather, and a few generations of politicians that mined the natural resources negated all the negative aspects of the few shortcomings it had. Then, every swinging dingus from all over the country and the globe moved there to enjoy this perfection, and it turned into a crap hole of the highest order. Too many people spoil any great place.

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The point here is that the perfect place will be rapidly ruined with overpopulation ( it isn’t JUST California that is like this ). The perfect location in Dogs Colon, Idaho, while now a survivalists heaven on earth, will in short order crash and burn with an influx of population. The South, now able to feed a few good old boys, keeping them in crawfish and possum, will quickly be crawling with Yankee lice, fleeing from the cold north that has no grid heat. I can imagine a few places that will lose, not gain, population. Alaska and northern Nevada. Too damn cold. Forget the rest of the population, and what they think of as a perfect place to live. Living amongst them, or worse yet, being a trailblazer ahead of them, will just end in tears. You need to go against the crowd, be it in prep food ( grain instead of freeze dried ), or weapons ( foregoing semi-auto’s ) or a place to live ( go where no one wants to be now, with petroleum, and it should be a good collapse location ). I’m far from perfect, at one time prior to Y2K thinking Florida was a good collapse location ( I never thought through the population issue, like a dumbass ). But, if I were you, I’d do a bit better than ol’ Jim did. Of course, in my defense, I’d just got done with almost five years of working graveyard ( the only way, at the time, I could get enough money to pay the ex ). My brain wasn’t functioning very good with the constant sleep deprivation. Good thing I survived my stupidity. Will you?

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