PANIC IN YEAR EIGHTEEN
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All through the Obammy
administration I had very little real concerns over another gun ban. Sure, there were a lot of scares. Thankfully, other than the complete
ruination of our economy through the
ObammyCare, he really was an extremely lazy president. I mean, if I were Black, rather than all
cheering the bastard ( “thanks for the phone, bro!” ), I’d be like, dude, you
give us a bad name with the stereotype we are all a bunch of lazy humpers. Okay, perhaps they would blame that on the
White half. What do I know?
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Don’t get me wrong, the
list of crap he pulled was at a near record one tenth the length of the Hilary
Death List. But he just pretty much
staffed the place with social justice warriors and let them do whatever they
wanted. He chimed in every once in
awhile to steady the course ( “why, I think school vegetarian lunches and
gender identifying pedophiles in restrooms is a super duper idea!” ), but he
truly was lazier than an old hound next to the fireplace in winter. He just didn’t really seem to be at all a
true threat if there was any effort involved.
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Well, strangely, I’m far
more paranoid NOW, under every fair haired fascist’s favorite boy Trump than I
ever was during the half breeds reign.
No, NOT because of the recent Florida shooting and sudden fury of gun
control there, with Forrest Trumps idiocy about ignoring civil rights ( hey, Florida
might have pretty much started the castle doctrine/must issue concealed trend,
but they are NOT exactly bastions of freedom and liberty. Janet Reno ran for governor, as did Jeb, “it’s my turn at the crown” Bush,
and I trust we won’t forget the hanging chad fiasco that lead to Gore
Warming. Or that they are chock a block
full of Gott Damned Yankees ), prior to all that.
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I’ve said since before the
election that Trump is a whore and a liar and is in no way, shape or form out
for the 90%. He is a rich prick only out
for himself, and any and all bloviating to the contrary ( “why, why, he is
against the Deep State. Yeh! That’s it!
Against the Powers That Be.
Because, you know, they can’t fix the election or nuttin!” ) is
self-delusional. So, sure, we could have
gun control under a Republican. Nothing
is impossible. But I don’t think I’ve
been researching gun builds and getting excited about low ammo prices because I’m
worried about gun control itself per se.
I think I’m really, really, paranoid and all skeert about the
economy. Because once that goes, who the
hell knows that spastic knee jerk responses await.
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For all we know, since a
foreign war is impossible to win and has done nothing for the economy this last
time around ( the last half of the IraqStan War ), they might just go all full
domestic suppression to keep all the elite enriched and safe. I never panicked about the one billion hollow
point rounds of pistol ammo ( it could have been nothing more than a bail out
to the ammo companies, like the Clinton Chinese Gun Ban was a bail out of
domestic arms manufactures ). At the
worst, the worlds most pussy-fied and incompetent civil servants would be more
of a danger to themselves than to civilians.
But I need to remind myself that just because what they planned for then
didn’t happen doesn’t mean it can’t now.
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Rather than pat ourselves
on the back for both having a super duper nice President and all of us, even
freezing bums with radiation poisoning, having nicer hair than him, we might want
to remind ourselves that nobody can steer the USS Titanic away from the
iceberg. Ron Paul being Prez wouldn’t
keep the economy from crashing ( he might have made it worse. Sorry, but no matter how corrupt and evil the
Federal Reserve is, the economy we barely are hanging on to is still dependent
on it. You work with the infrastructure
you have, not the one you wish for ).
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There has been no “one
thing” that has me, once again, extremely nervous about the economy. Even when there is little more to be done to
prepare, I still get nervous and twitchy.
Well, this time around ( I have peaks and valley’s in my economic
panic. I’ve been at it since I was
barely over twelve years old. Thanks,
hormones ), I started fixating on gun bans.
I don’t know why that started. In
the Yankee states and Florida, sure, some mouth breathing douche immediately
passed ban laws after a mass shooting, and Nevada did just see a ban on
civilian-to-civilian private sales, but the Las Vegas shooting didn’t do
anything as far as a local panic ban.
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I think it had more to do
with my long rocky path towards divorcing myself from being a consumerist. Damn, that is harder than giving up booze or
cigarettes. A LOT harder. All of us, all our lives, turned to spending
money to solve problems. It is almost
like I started looking for a problem to justify one last orgy of spending. Like any other addiction, it is easy to
justify cheating just a little and once you do that you keep cheating. But like my other addictions, while it was
easy to stop, it was much harder to keep quit.
That is why I still smoke one cigarette a day. I quit dozens of times, and for good lengths
of time, but I couldn’t stay off of them.
Better to use discipline to ALMOST quit.
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Well, with booze, I was
better off weaning myself and never touching the stuff again. Because with alcohol you need to power
through getting sick as you drink increasingly more. It is easier to quit completely, for me. And it doesn’t hurt that writing is my stress
release and I’d rather write than drink.
Cigarettes are different, a far worse addiction. I’m better off with a small taste and no
more. I smoke less if I smoke one a day
then if I start and stop and smoke more each day until I stop again. With consumption, cigarettes are nothing in
comparison, addiction wise.
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All my cost saving
measures, the bicycle riding and share-of-utilities-only rent and shopping at
thrift stores and whatever else, as great as that is for living frugally, you
can only save 60-70%. If you want to
save 90% over your typical American, if you really want to live cheaply, you
need to wean yourself off shopping. And
yes, that means even from the truly important books and prepping category. I’ve been trying yet fighting that this whole
time, and I think the gun scare ( in my own mind ) was just reflecting this
battle. When I continue tomorrow, less
philosophy and more nuts and bolts on prepping for the gun ban and my
alternative.
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ReplyDeleteYep, as a retail gun purveyor during the obammy regime I had ample motivated customers, but price points and newby lack of self confidence slowed down good folks "pulling the trigger" and buying in. I developed phrase-ology to help folks understand in an analogy manner. "Sir, there is no expiration date on the firearm or ammunition, thus your children or grandchildren can benefit from your investment" "ma'am, this firearm your are considering is a highly durable,precision manufactured product that will long outlast any thing else in the household such as a washer, refridgerator, toaster etc". "Sir, by cost comparison this firearm is at a month or two of a mortgage or vehicle payments and it is a once and done transaction and you own it, forever" "ma'am with inflation and natural price increases whatever you may pay today is certainly cheaper than what will HAVE to be paid later" Once, folks equip up in a sufficient manner(after food) then they they can back file the whole category of guns and ammo as just about done. Helpful with one less thing to stress over.
ReplyDeleteI think that one time investment philosophy is transferable to almost all other kinds of investments. Food, land, etc. It really is amazing how little you think about what you spent, verses its benefit of peace of mind.
DeleteActually nobdy is talking about the economy anymore. Talking about Wall Street is a substitute, no, a distraction really. Wall Street is completely disconnected from the economy as we experience it daily.
ReplyDeleteSure, there are talks about steel & aluminoum tariffs and whatnot, but in reality, how many people have stuff at home to see themselves past temporary trouble ? Nobody knows. How poor are the poor really ? Hard to tell.
It doesn't seem like thinks are going too well, but I get the impression that people adapted to poorer living, or let's say living without pretensions, such as literacy or owning your own tools.
The impression I get all around me is that less things are getting done, and when they do they aren't great. it's something like a creepy stagnation without drama or joy. Maybe it's me getting older. But when thinking about how things were just ten years ago, it's like we are in that show "Sliders" and we're in the bland, meh alternate world.
At least the 70's had disco :)
The 70's had cocaine, too. Not that I ever used, but it was nice to see widespread civil disobedience with its use. I think the "less getting done" is the lack of funding or proper materials, rather than attitudes.
DeleteI whinged at work one day about the amount of smokey vehicles on the road. My co worker said that's because people are putting off getting their cars serviced because of the lack of money
DeleteI can see that-I was amazed at the reported mechanic costs over ten years ago. Can't imagine what it is now.
DeleteOff topic. I have not done this personally, but in the right situation it might be a win for self sufficient energy production without battery storage: solar panels power the pumping of water to a higher location (elevated tank, pond up slope, etc.) whenever sun is out.
ReplyDeleteAt night or when power needed, water is drained thru pipe from higher elevation to power pelton wheel type turbine connected to alternator.
The potential energy in the elevated water is your battery.
Also saw a methane generation system today. It used the big plastic cube in a cage liquid containers that industry uses for lots of things.
In one cube (are they 500 gallons?) waste consisting of half food waste/ half livestock manure was poured in on a daily basis to be broken down by anaerobic bacteria. Byproduct was half methane and half CO2.
Gas was collected into a second cube container with the bottom side cut out and floating in water ( like an upside down cup). Gas produced by the digester cube flowed through tubing, bubbled up through water to be trapped/collected in the upside down floating cube. Gas was piped out of this to feed a cookstove burner. Bricks were used as weights on top of the floating cube to increase gas pressure as it flowed out to be used.
Search "ECHO in North Fort Myers" for free downloadable technical bulletins on this and other things Bison readers would be interested in.
Just beware the life span of the water electrical generator. Less than a battery? I believe the totes for the methane are something like 280 and 330 gallons.
DeleteTrue that on the generator life. Always something to stockpile it seems. Perhaps alternators salvaged from vehicles could be pressed into service.
DeleteAnd not just the generator but also the pump. It seems like a sound idea, but the complexity level might be too much. I wonder if the hydrogen gas on a cottage level was feasible or just hype. A lantern for lighting perhaps? Probably still too complex, but al least less so.
DeleteThe only problem with that size methane digester would be in suppling enough ca ca to fuel it. Otherwise it would create enough gas to cook and run a small gas powered generator a little each day. Of course you'd need clean up the gas first with scrubbers.
DeleteThough mechanical storage has friction loses. It might well be a viable means of energy storage long term. Key would be to have pumps and generators which can be serviced and maintained. Batteries cannot be stored long term, whereas parts for a mechanical system can be.
I think most in-laws are so full of crap a methane digester is feasible.
DeleteRoger that !
DeleteSmith L, et al. Sexually transmitted infections.
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