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Thursday, September 6, 2018

wear your tinfoil 2 of 2

WEAR YOUR TINFOIL 2

Do you ever wonder about the constant narrative of bashing Hitler? Why it is still done. I do. And I reject being anti-Jewish just on principle. They are simply a tribe acting in their own interests just like the rest of us. Just like I can’t hate Blacks, which would just be returning the favor. But I still can’t hate any group. It would be like hating women just because they have ovaries. It ain’t their fault they act like they are programmed. I might hate how women act in certain circumstances, but I don’t hate them just because of their gender. Hell, I’m rather fond of them if for no other reason than their endowments.

So, let me repeat myself. I have nothing against Jews. I don’t hate Zionists, either. Again, tribal self interest. Having repeated that, can I now say that I don’t believe a lot of the anti-Hitler narrative? I don’t believe in the Six Million Dead In German Ovens ( joke. And oldie. How many Jews can you fit in a Volkswagon Beetle? It depends how many you put in the ashtray. Hey, I enjoy Dead Baby jokes too ). Germans historically, culturally and militarily have always existed in a resource scarce environment and their infrastructures have always compensated for that. It would be inconceivable to mentally take the conceptual leap to waste any resource.

And genocide is a waste unless it actually delivers a positive return ( reducing population pressure in Rwanda, eliminating any possibility of guerrilla resistance in Chechnya ). There was no resource gain for Germany just to eliminate undesirables. I’m not saying they didn’t despise Jews ( there is evidence against this, such as Jewish military units or even Generals, but since the German Haters will just claim fanaticism on Hitler’s part combined with his inability to completely control the military-another claim I find hard to believe-we’ll just call it hate for the sake of hating ).

What I am saying is that Germany didn’t have the resources to spare from the war to eliminate the Jews just for the sake of hate. Germany would have been more than happy to just send all the little Heeb bastards to Palestine. I don’t think Hitler was very fond of Jews in general because of their propensity towards the vocation of bankers, and he knew very well that bankers were the primary actors of WWI killing off many, many Germans. And most Germans probably agreed with him because you can’t really miss the fact that half your sons died in a war started by England ( in an economic self interest move ) and an additional half of your family died in the embargoes placed AFTER the war until the country was forced to sign that cursed treaty.

Hitler had far more interest in diverting assets towards the Russian front, rather than some mythical Jewish Purge. Could he have killed six million? Quite possibly. Hell, it wasn’t like they were shooting back. But I contend that he worked them as factory slaves and they died by malnourishment. The guys in charge knew how long a body could remain productive with X number of calories. Extensive studies were done. Now, granted, dead is dead and should it matter if it was a cattle car round up to be gassed or just being worked to death? Yes, it matters. Because the truth should always matter.

Do you know why I even care? Because Holocaust Deniers were the original Hate Speech victims. And you see where that has left us today, when anything can be declared Hate Speech and nobody is allowed to voice their opinion ( I know, we have this little thing called the First Amendment. What are you whining about? Lincoln didn’t recognize the 9^th and 10^th, and all gun laws ignore the 2^nd. Ignoring the 1^st was guaranteed ). It hasn’t reached imprisonment status here. Yet. Give it time. Now if you oppose Other Color Importation in almost all of Europe, you are on par with Holocaust Deniers and can easily be jailed.

It used to be, if you questioned Lincoln abolishing States Rights in favor of the federal leviathan, you were a racist. That is why THAT narrative is still pounded into our heads non-stop. The entire legitimacy of the Federals is tied up in that myth. Then, if you didn’t believe that the country had to go to war to save poor, poor Juden, if you thought the war was about empire and Colonialization, you were a racist. That is why THAT is still shoved down our throat. To this day, nearly eight decades later, it is still important to sell the story that we are not a colonial master ( well, we are, but don’t worry-we won’t be much longer ).

Just the simplest questioning of the official narrative shows you what utter horse crap it is. That is, if you even bother to question it. I don’t love Hitler. He isn’t some White Goy Boy fantasy hero of mine. I admire him as a patriot and a genuine leader ( who actually cared about his countrymen rather than money ), just as I do Putin ( who is being propagandized against because he dares to not tremble in fear at the ‘Murican hegemony, who dares not be effected by economic sanctions. Russia is the PetroDollar Death and we dare not look into that mirror ). What I do love is figuring out the mechanics of how things actually work. I don’t like jingoism or mythmaking or mythology or lies, as they stand in the way of that.

Questioning Everything is just a way for the Truth Setting You Free. It is using your own brain to think for yourself instead of paying someone to do it for you ( you pay, indirectly. Oh, how you pay ). Figuring out if the Holocaust actually happened is small potatoes. It is just an intellectual exercise. But from that, you can see through the charade of Yankee Aggression in the War Between The States, and then you can see how they then use racism as the excuse to force Immigration Flooding on to us. If you understand that then you understand the coming civil war which has already started. Could you be WAAAAaaayyy off on some details about Nazi Germany, or the Civil War, or the globalization trend or the White Genocide? Of course you could. So what?

When you have to guess at things from a near complete lack of information, of course you are going to make mistakes. That doesn’t mean you should ignore the general trends caused by More True motivations ( they themselves, the motivations of our elite, can also only be guessed at, but at least it is closer than the BS they hand out officially ). It doesn’t mean you should take off your tinfoil hat. Enjoy your paranoia now, since the truth will be far less to your liking once it smacks you square in the face.

( .Y. )

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Wednesday, September 5, 2018

wear your tinfoil 1 of 2

WEAR YOUR TINFOIL

Are you a believer? Why? Allow me to take you back in time to a magical era where the glorious manes were unobstructed by convention, where The Pill, an establishment pharmaceutical megacorp invention along with Agent Orange was making life Better Through Chemistry, was allowing young maidens to begin the self inflicted White Genocide, the Hippie Age. One of their mantras ( besides “don’t trust anyone over 30”-I was never sure about that one because undercover FBI agents could be as young as they were. Unless that was the average age evil lawyers turned into Hitleresque Mega-Evil Dudes. Which is insulting to Hitler ) was “Question Everything”. Sure, they usually did so after ingesting LSD, another Better Living Through Science product, but the idea was still sound.

Do you question everything? Anything? Something? Here is the deal. The ideas put into your head are your reality. The people that control what goes into your frail little snowflake pea brain also control you. But it is far worse than that. Because the simple act of repetition makes those false narratives so lifelike that even if you are questioning everything, most things seem so natural that you don’t even know to question them. Even today, every day, I keep discovering new subjects that it hadn’t occurred to me to ever question. And I began Questioning Everything at a VERY tender age.

My mom was a better mom for the simple reason that I don’t even know how maternal she actually was. It must have been a very difficult thing getting up every morning and dealing with the rest of the families bullcrap, with as much enthusiasm as she did, doing rather well at it. So she gets large brownie points from me. She did me many favors, doing things as she did, but the biggest was wrestling the extra funds from the budget allowing me to buy unlimited books. To this day I’ll eat substandard fare to get another book in the mail ( the main reason I’ve cut way back is that the quality just isn’t there anymore, as I recognize more and more poor ideas brought on by everyone’s similar programming ).

Starting to read early ( not so early I missed out on any of the Boys Unlimited Outdoor Adventures, though ), I had a healthier skepticism than I believe the norm was. I still screwed up on a most massive scale, but I think that was just motivation to learn more to not repeat the same mistakes. As one example, I read a book recently that I remembered from my military days, and came across a passage on female body fat content and conception. I had read that information nearly a decade prior to my son ( younger of the two ) being conceived during lactation AND while using the withdrawal method. If I had remembered that particular fact about body fat, I might have avoided the pain and suffering of kids too close together ( not that I’m unhappy with the little freak, just that his timing sucked-if you ever read this, boy, love you! ).

Well, I probably wouldn’t have avoided that. One, I need to read most things more than once for retention ( which is why I re-read almost all good books. The best ones, three or four times ). Two, I was under massive sleep deprivation already. Three, even at age 28 I was still so horny any pair of decent bosoms still had the power to turn off my brain. I was never near enough skeptical about the motivations of Baby Momma, making it rather easy for her to continually screw me. I thought I was rather clever, Questioning Everything, but the amount of subjects I still subconsciously accepted without question was rather frightening. Bitches Lib was one of those things.

Most of us are like that, I think. When we Question Everything, at most we are questioning only a small percentage. As we learn how we became duped by one subject, another area is opened, another inquiry into our being screwed is started. It never ends. Even simple things like instructions never come close to real world reality, so infused with propaganda, assumptions and misinformation is every aspect of our lives. And since most folks hate to admit they are wrong, they cannot even begin to start the questioning process. Why would they want to prove to themselves they were schmucks all their lives? Far easier and better to just hug all the old assumptions all that much tighter.

Isn’t it human nature to go along with the crowd and to fear rejection from non-conformity? To fear being mocked by all others? To admit that crowd led you astray? To acknowledge you were a dumb ass most of your life? It is SOOoooo easy for the propagandists to sway our Monkey Minds. Repeat the lie long enough, and the subjects do the hard work for you. Self delusion added to peer pressure. And that is even on high IQ citizens. How many scientists unthinkingly accepted Gore Warming, just because all their other little while lab coat buddies liked the idea? How many of them are unthinking Political Correct priests?

How many doctors actually understand the disinformation they labor under? Or do the vast majority of them accept unthinkingly what they were programmed? Do they want to understand that simple carbohydrates hurt rather than help diabetics or that chemotherapy is more harm than good? How many scientists went along with thinking Adam Atom was their joyous little buddy, decades after Marie Curie was dead and glowing in the dark? Smart people are usually smarter in a lot of things, but just as dumb as the rest of us in common sense and identifying self inflicted stupidity. Because the smartest chimp in the room is still just a chimp ( if you don’t agree with evolution, fine. We are still a Hive Mind species. I don’t argue conceptually that evolution is inviolate. It has many issues only resolved by faith. A sure sign it is less sciencey and more emotional driven group hallucination. See below ).

When you begin to Question Everything, that means you minor in questioning others and major in questioning yourself. You are your own worst enemy when it comes to awareness. All you can do is question an assumption, by making another assumption. But also always be ready to question your assumption of the assumption, even if you need to make another assumption. In other words, always assume all assumptions are making an ASS out of U and ME. I call it making best educated guesses, but also knowing I need to keep educating myself.

I LOVE the fury and sound surrounding 9/11. It is amazing both how many people assume the official narrative is correct as well as some of the crazy crap conspiracy theories they accept as the alternative. The important thing is to just Best Guess, as long as you don’t buy too heavily into your own BS ( like a lot of “smart” scientists and doctors and academics do ). Tomorrow, let’s talk about alternate histories, conspiracy theories and Best Guessing as to which reality, hell, ANY reality, is preferable to the official narrative. When you can’t believe anything THEY say, it can lead to some pretty bizarre rabbit holes you dive down. Don’t worry. As long as you can laugh at you own Best Guesses, you won’t get stuck there. Also, why it is so important to question every narrative ( hint: it can save your pathetic life ).

( .Y. )

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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

tasting of ass

TASTING OF ASS

There are a very few survivalist truisms that are timeless wisdom and irrefutable. ‘Ol Remus with his Stay Away From Crowds. That is so simple and yet so unforgiving without wiggle room. That means not only must you live outside the city or the suburbs ( which, I mean, Friggin Duh!, how much more obvious must that be with The Knockout Game and ghetto riots and everyday crime and out of control taxes and looming government bankruptcies? ), but commuting there for work or shopping or seeing a country western concert is also the height of folly. You have been warned by one of the best and if you ignore it you only have yourself to blame when the Other Colors are killing you slowly for Friday Night amusements.

Then there is Two Is One And One Is None. If you have a super deluxe ultra snazzy razzle dazzle two grand AR-15 with FLIR scope, by gum you had better have another AR as a back-up. I don’t even care if it is a $333 lower polymer Piece ‘O Da Crap 21^st Century Mosin-Nagant AR. At least it is One instead of None. Well, actually much better would be a $250 single shot 5.56 break open carbine, but if you place importance in the semi-auto’s you would still be better off with the worst possible back-up than no back-up at all. Do NOT only have one of anything, because as good as it is it becomes less than worthless when it is accidentally broken, is lost, is stolen, or turns out to be a lemon from a Made In ‘Murica company you thought was reputable.

Next, and what I want to talk about today, is Store What You Eat, Eat What You Store. Or is it visa versa. No matter. The point is valid and you can’t cheat on it even a little, just like the above two. Why do you think I make so much fun of freeze dried foods? Not JUST because they are so expensive. I overpaid for my junk land, but it was still cheaper than paying rent. Overpaying for food is still cheaper than starving. Another big part of my disdain and hatred is the fact that it ain’t really food. Some items taste right, but the overwhelming majority tastes like crap. Little chunks of salt flavored artificially. And that would be okay, I suppose, if you were used to a diet of fast food restaurants and its banjo playing cousin grocery store frozen foods.

But there is another problem. Unless you can eat anything, unless you can turn off your taste buds, you don’t eat freeze dried foods every day. So you are violating the Store What You Eat rule. We’ve all had a taste of freeze dried, or at least dehydrated. The military is infamous for serving fake eggs in the field kitchens. It only tasted good compared to yet another MRE. Mom might have tried to slip fake milk in on you, if you were poor growing up. Instant mashed potatoes have ( dis- ) graced many a bachelor dinner plate ( or, more likely, the Better Than Nothing wives cooking produced the slop because just putting out once a month is too much work and she is exhausted come supper ).

Freeze dried simply doesn’t taste like real food, at least in my experience. If your mileage varies, good on you. The package might say “beef balls in gravy”, and you might think beef balls in gravy is the next best thing to Spam and sliced bread, but the freeze dried version doesn’t come close to tasting the same as real cow testicles. But I’ll lay off of freeze dried. I think I made my point. Let’s cover real food, but the wrong food. We just talked ( I wrote, you got lippy in the comments, we talked ) about how every swinging cheese dingus was all erect nipples and enlarged prostate over rice and beans and I said that, hey, isn’t flour and beans more like what we all are used to eating?

And you were like, dude, I just spend a Queen’s Ransom packing up three years worth of rice and beans for the extended family and I was just doing what YouTube told me to do and even though I really hate rice I’m just going to ignore you because it would be way too inconvenient and expensive to change my mind so there ( addendum to that article-I didn’t mention that outside my desert, you must worry about flour soaking up moisture from the air, and hence package it far less casually than I do ).

This morning, for some unknown reason, I decide to break with decades long tradition and have oatmeal for breakfast rather than my whole wheat toast ( for variety, on occasion it could be whole wheat waffles or pancakes or flatbread or nuke bread ). This was not the putrid swill of childhood trauma, but oatmeal I actually like, the instant variety with fruit. I ate one and mysteriously it never hit my stomach, its destination seemingly the same place single socks transport to from the dryer ( another reason to only solar dry, yo ). So I followed it up with another one and all I felt was twice as hungry as before. And the heartburn hit me, as a super deluxe bonus.

I never have heartburn in the morning, as I eat my whole wheat toast and it expands to sponge up the acid ( I’m assuming ). After that, I can safely start drinking my coffee. So, not only was this “whole grain” oatmeal not delivering calories, at least not compared to my other whole grain, it was useless against stomach acid ( I’ve formulated a theory that today heartburn is the equivalent of the 1950’s epidemic of ulcers. A lot of it might just be in ones head. The acid is real, but the effects might just be psychosomatic. I never had stomach issues until The Worst Boss In The World Through All Of History took over the Food Bank. As I said, it is just a theory. I could be full of feces ).

Once that heartburn hit, I suddenly had a delayed craving for my wheat toast again. This confirms that I did the right thing not storing oatmeal past my “stock for the store shortages and PetroDollar death hyperinflation, last stage of the decline prior to collapse grocery store stockpile”. But it also got me thinking about my bug out bag ( which, yes, I hate on general principle but better to have just in case ). I only have oatmeal in there for the breakfasts. I can always just eat Top Ramen, but I think much better would be to add my dehydrated whole wheat bread slices ( better than hardtack, just a lot bulkier ). Then I can eat oatmeal in addition to rather than Instead Of.

I might have another article on The Great Re-Do Of The Bug-Out Bag, as I thought I’d not only refresh all my decade old items from it, but also replace some items as the bag is from a time of innocence and ignorance. My point today is that even though the food tastes like ass, and you can still choke it down, it might not be a fuel the body will accept. Plan accordingly.

( .Y. )

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Monday, September 3, 2018

prioritizing regriminations

PRIORITIZING RECRIMINATIONS

I was going to title this “Prioritizing Purchases”, but I realized that all we are really doing is picking and choosing imperfectly and will later be faced with self-recriminations. As we are starving we will belittle our purchase of a second FLIR scope or the mid grade sniping scope which we’re really not even sure about how to use with those mil-dot things. If we have plenty of food, we’ll be pissed we didn’t invest in a better assault rifle to keep the hoards away from our pimping compound. We might bemoan TOO many preps as we are stuck in the suburbs right next to the ghetto and the Mau-Mau Uprising, realizing too late that we should have bought junk land instead of overpaying for that piece of crap Detroit sheet metal with Bill Gates Blue Screen Of Death computer controls.

Of course, obviously, you are all going to be sorry you didn’t listen to me on a lot of stuff, but not even I, master of the universe with perfect hair, can reach a deity level of greatness and I too have a hard time effectively prioritizing. After the last month stockpiling White Foods, should I have bought more wheat? Should I be buying the heck out of cheap as dirt chicken and be running the dryer for chicken jerky 24-7 until the dehydrator sputters and dies, instead? Or was that $200 in lead a finally long overdue wise purchase?

You can drive yourself crazy, except that you are probably content that you made the best decisions with the limited available information you have now, having over thought most purchases far too long before you pried open your wallets. With my limited income I try to be so overly analytical with every single dollar spent that I would make the tightest Jew blush in embarrassment ( to be clear, I think the cheap Jewish stereotype is probably more of a reflection on the German propensity towards anal compulsiveness, as the Scots make any Jew look rather spendthrift. Being Scot/German I’m the perfect miser ).

Yet, I’ve also long ago passed the point where I have to worry about being too short on anything. I keep playing the game of finding new shortages to worry about, such as without good cause suddenly changing my minimum ammunition requirement from 10k rimfire to 15k, or from deciding my 5k in 303 British now needs to double ( at least in carbine rounds, not full powered ones ). I’ve been happy with my 1k count in 38/357 for nearly twenty years now. And I’m sure one day I’ll look around at my embarrassment of riches ( only “rich” in extremely frugal terms, you understand ) and then decide, well, it’s all perfect, EXCEPT…,I think I need more pistol rounds.

Not that I’m complaining. Once you reach that point, the apocalypse has a hard time keeping you up at night. That’s a good thing. Then you’re just tweaking and perfecting. So, my question becomes, “when you’ve prioritized long enough, bouncing from one Must Have item to the next, until you come full circle back around to the start, what happens then?” I have no idea, because I keep re-prioritizing needs, but I know I’m doing something wrong. What does one do with ones time and money? You can’t go back to frivolously spending. You just can’t. How do you enjoy a $10 giant bacon cheeseburger and heaping pile of fries, when you know the mark-up of the food, comparing it to your home-made?

As just discussed, I had finally taken the whopping twenty minute round trip to go way out to the recycling center and cash in my eight years worth of alcoholic ex-wife beer cans for a cash windfall of $33. Now, we went in the NOL’s car, and I am kind of overly fond of the old gal, so I thought it would be fitting to spend the money on her, rather than myself. Well, it would be money spent on us, as she is invited along on the ride for the apocalypse, but this reasoning sounds hollow even to my own ears. And I can justify anything by forcing it through the prepping paradigm. Sometimes money needs to be “wasted”.

And neither one of us knows how to go waste it. We keep putting off spending it. We are so used to pinching pennies at home that neither one of us likes shopping. I finally had to insist that within a week we needed to either go to the movies ( she loves the popcorn-but of course this can only be on Bargain Tuesday’s when the entrance fee is under the cost of a matinee ) or go out to eat a weekday post-lunch, pre-dinner meal ( the only rational time to go out and eat ). This is $33, mind you. Granted, as a percentage of my income it can travel north of 10%. But I spend so little, and worry so much over every dollar that it is inconsequential. If we are having this hard of a time wasting $33, imagine quadrupling that. Every month.

I can’t even contemplate doing that. It boggles my mind. I’ve been so cheap for so long, I don’t know what else to do but invest. It isn’t like anyone is going to care about any of it when I die, if I kick it before the apocalypse. I don’t even think precious metals are going to be enough to get one of my kids on an airplane to come out from the east coast. I wonder if there will be much left after the air fare. God, I’m turning into one of those cat ladies that leaves everything to her feline friends in the will.

I guess this is where we have to remind ourselves that humans are extremely flawed beings and irrationality is the order of our every day existence. Why are we making flawed life decisions based on “love”, an emotion that is only good for procreating? Why do we try to stay alive long after everything hurts so much we curse God for waking up the next morning? Why do we think anything we do is all that important? And the most vexing question-why do you still read my drivel? I’m kidding. You read it because you are bored and I amuse you. Please carry on.

Today’s random blathering brought to you out of a directionless mind. Expect the normal far more brilliant horse offal to continue on schedule.

( .Y. )

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Sunday, September 2, 2018

guest article- post 2 of 2 today

GUEST ARTICLE

This article is intended for those that lack the skills or ambition to construct a more complicated shelter. I am one such person, and readily concede to my shortcomings. In my quest to come up with a really simple shelter that anyone could build, I did a little research. Initially, I entered the keywords:

“Emergency shelter made from plastic panels”

I chose these keywords because I remembered the sportsman’s guide having a plastic snap together shelter, that I am now unable to find at their site. I found some interesting shelters. One such shelter was plastic, and folded out in a 180º fashion, much like an accordion (didn’t see it for sale though. “Portable collapsible shelter” and “portable plywood shelter” also yielded some great results (click on images; I used DuckDuckGo).

The initial query led to the link below, in which is featured what looks to be a simple shelter to build, made from Coroplast plastic panels, for under $100. The plans are $15, which isn’t too much to gamble with, and it looks pretty nice. The one in the link below has been exposed to the elements for 5 years now, and is still holding up well. I just might attempt this one, because it looks like something that I might actually be able to pull off.

http://www.elkinsdiy.com/stationary-shelters/homeless-emergency-shelter/

The link below is for a bicycle towed camper, that looks similar to a teardrop trailer. This is more involved, and I would never attempt to build one, but for the more handy among us, this just might be the ticket. Plans are $20.

http://www.elkinsdiy.com/mobile-shelters/micro-airstream-bike-camper/

There were other shelters at the same site that were better, but they would require someone of more ambition and skills to take on, so not for me.

I recall Thoreau mentioning briefly in his book Walden, a small wooden crate (it was described as looking somewhat like a casket) that was used for storing railroad workers tools. But he was referring to its usage as a possible sleeping chamber, and this sort of stuck with me. One day at work (back when I was still fortunate enough to be employed) a large shipping container came in. This gave me some serious shelter option considerations. This thing was pretty sturdy, and as long as you could weather proof it, it appeared as if it would easily hold up for many years to come. I still haven’t completely abandoned my idea of the shipping container/shelter, and still think that it would probably be the easiest to build. You might even get lucky, and find one for cheap, or even free, and be able to modify it for long term use. There is already plenty of information on how to build these containers online, so no plans required. Of course you would want to modify it slightly from its original shipping container configuration. For example, you would want a slight angle on the roof to allow for moisture run off, as well as to extend the roof at least a few inches past the box on all sides, as a sort of overhang. You would also have to apply roofing. I would just use the stuff that comes in rolls, and that you roll over the roof, as opposed to shingles, because this would be the easiest option. The entrance would also have to have a gutter to divert moisture away from the interior and door jam. In addition, it would be best to place it up on pier blocks, to keep it off the ground. This shipping box will be built so that it will fit into the bed of the truck that I plan on borrowing to haul it out to my property. I would use a thinner plywood so that it wouldn’t be so heavy that I can’t drag it off the truck on my own (Well, that, and so that I could kick my way out of it in an emergency, should the door somehow become blocked).

I’m also considering a custom built shed, that is portable, and can be hauled to the construction site in pieces, and put together quickly and easily, without power tools. It would be designed so that you could take it down just as easily, and bring it with you if the need were to arise. I have not seen any plans for this, and this is something that I might have to figure out on my own.

Finally, I also came across a pretty effective tree tent system (think portable tree house here). These tree tents are reasonably priced, and will offer at least some stealth qualities come PA. They can be placed high in a tree if necessary, and are available in camouflage. I can envision a scenario where with a variety of tree caches, smaller, low-key groups, can survive high up in the trees long enough to wait out any immediate danger.

https://tentsile.co.uk/

There are a good many possibilities, but again, using the keywords “Portable collapsible shelter” and “portable plywood shelter”, yielded some good results.

how to be tribal-post 1 of 2 today

post one of two today

HOW TO BE TRIBAL

Before I start, I want to say that this is an article pointing out how every one of our brains is wired. It is NOT directing any hate or animosity at one person. I hope you all follow the wonderful postings by Raconteur Report Blogspot. The man is THAT good. Of course, like the brilliant Thomas Gold, when he is right he is SO right, but when he is wrong he really is wrong ( Gold is pretty much one of the poster boys for belief in the mineral source for petroleum, a theory full of issues not because it couldn’t be correct but because it ignores the replenishment rate problem ). RR was and is the only sane voice over the Ebola issue ( see August 24, 2018, for a for instance )

He has much more to say about everything and is a true master of the intriguing and interesting rant. I season my teaching with rants. I don’t hold a candle to him, as he seasons his rants with teaching. I love the guy, I really do. I would buy him a beer if he ever showed up here ( no damn way I’m visiting California ). But when he is wrong, he is epic. To hear him blame all the ills of California on the hillbillies and Oakies who came over during the Dust Bowl is hilarious. But that is minor. What wrongness he excels at is being a member of the Yankee Tribe.

It took some reading to figure it out, but the man never met a Republican Party fascist he didn’t like, nor a genocidal practice from the Lincoln brigade he didn’t approve of. This was over the course of more than a few comments I made at his blog. And it is his blog and I respect his work. So I make my comment and try to be as polite as possible, and then I let him have the last word. I don’t think I usually comment on his comments. I have my say, hoping against all hope that someone, hell, anyone, can see how illogical certain beliefs are and then I just move on.

Obviously, all blogs are Echo Chambers. I try to respect that. When I’m over at Cassandra’s I try to hold my tongue not agreeing on Gore Warming. It would be like someone coming over here and going on the assumption that voting matters and Fracking Oil will last for a century. Anything you say after that just means you pretty much reject the other basic truths I hold self-evident, such as frugal prepping. So, yes, to a certain extent everyone has SOME blinders on, preconceived-notion-wise. I get that. I try to play by that rule. I don’t try to win arguments as much as comment on particularly erroneous concepts I simply cannot ignore.

For instance, if you want to believe in Gore Warming, yo, whatever, dude. Just don’t pretend that the scientific community is really in complete agreement on that ( supposedly unless they are paid off by Big Oil-which, BTW, hasn’t been a real thing for decades. The Shrunken Seven Sisters don’t amount to dingus compared to state owned oil ), or that they base it on real science. I might have a thing or two to say otherwise. I try not to hurt anyone in their delusion bubble ( because we all live there, myself included ), but some things are just such a lie filled lump of offal I have to disagree.

RR Dude made the following statement. “I reject the concept of Innocent Southerners”. This was in response to my asking how many innocents Lincoln killed ( after he had gotten done rim jobbing the Republican Party ). Does this stick in anyone else’s craw as it did mine? I won’t go on for two additional articles about the unjust Northern invasion, how the Bill Of Rights specifically gives states ALL rights not specified as belonging solely to the federales. I won’t bore you with how slavery was Constitutional, and how the North granted that legality just to get the free and independent southern states to sign the Constitution, giving up some of their rights granted in blood to enrich some northern elites to begin with.

I won’t argue about how the northern industrialists got rich indirectly off of slavery. I can say all of that and more and if you don’t agree with anything other than Republican propaganda ( the same brainwashing used to globalize your job ), you’ll just reject it all out of hand. What I would instead ask you is how do the majority of Southerners who never held slaves end up being guilty? Even if they were “seditious”, a blanket term for anyone who dared fight for states rights against the rights of the Federal Government-a problematic term I’m sure most of you would agree to disagree with, many, many more were in fact completely innocent of any wrong doing other than picking the wrong location to live in. Old women, young children, and slaves ( yes, there were plenty of violence against slaves by the Blue Bellies )-how could they be considered guilty?

They were guilty of belonging to the wrong tribe, and that is it. No other sin was committed. Now, you know I preach about violence being directed against other tribes. I don’t disapprove of that in the slightest. If RR Dude was intellectually honest, he would just say, hey, Might Makes Right and screw the innocent and infirm. I could accept that. I would applaud him for being an upright standing member of the Yankee Tribe. God Bless you, Sir, for you will make a fine warrior for your tribe. I mean, he did. He is. By being able to demonize all innocents for the sin of being Not Him, he will gladly smite those wicked in defense of his people.

What I cannot approve of is a tribal warrior pretending to be logical and just when he is merely just believing a myth. When my son joined the Crotch, he responded to my concerns about the imperial occupation of the oil fields with “meh. I just want to go kill stuff”. I can respect that. It is honest. He wasn’t draping the clock of righteousness over himself. He wasn’t pretending he was fighting evil or saving Christendom from Muzzies. He just wanted to kick ass and take names. He wasn’t trying to deceive others, or more importantly, himself either. If you are going to preach through a blog, one expects preconceived notions and particular paradigm’s defended. But one should also not be completely blinded by a particular mythos. One shouldn’t let facts be discarded out of hand.

If you are going to do Bad against Others, fine. If you are enriching yourself at the expense of others, whatever. Just don’t piss on my leg and tell me it is raining ( a Southernism, rather apropos here I believe ). If you are getting ten times the amount in Social Security as you ever paid in, don’t tell me you deserve it and you earned it. No, you were just early in on the Ponzi Scheme. Now it is coming right out of the pay of the young ( well, not really. It is more likely borrowed. I’m making a point here ) who will never get any of it. You are in on the theft. Hey, enjoy that. You got lucky. But “earned” it? Come on. Don’t blind yourself and don’t lie to me.

Now, besides being righteously pissed, do I have another point? Just this. Every single douche lick out there? They all think just like RR Dude. You are not of the tribe. You cannot be innocent just because of that very fact. You deserve to die. They will help kill you. They will lose zero seconds of sleep, unless your smoldering corpse produces an unpleasant smell that offends them. I can go on all day long how evil Leftists, or Social Justice Warriors or commies will kill you for being White. You probably accuse me of hyperbole. But here, I am pointing out how one of “us” is blinded by tribal mythos. You have just as much to fear from people “on your side”, in the coming civil conflict. Plan accordingly. Guerrilla war-and thank you ‘Ol Remus for the Nugget ‘O Wisdom steal-always has more casualties amongst the allies than from the enemy.

( .Y. )

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Saturday, September 1, 2018

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AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS T SHIRT 4

Before I got all distracted with getting pissed about the Internet which was nothing more than another excuse to take all of our jobs, the next economic salvo in the war against White males using their Mammon worship against them ( the current censorship salvo is going to finish them off by killing the Work From Home element that is barely hanging on ), I mentioned that your first step getting rid of your golden handcuffs was to downgrade your shelter. I know that you all living in Glittery Unicorn Land thinking making more money is the answer didn’t get the memo, but the cost of shelter increases alone are going to undermine your future ( not being able to afford health care will actually help out most people, as the industry as a whole regardless of the noble intentions of some of its practitioners is evil and dangerous ).

Own your own land? How are those property tax increases working out for you? You are still renting your bought and paid for land, and I’ll bet any one of you a jelly filled donut that the locals will employ the same level of force against you should you not pay-even if you can’t as you become unemployed-as they used to direct against home schoolers, pot smokers or moonshiners.

You do NOT hump with the governments money. You think it is your money, but you are soooo wrong. The company decided how much you would get paid, in company script, and that is never enough to pay for the company store food, the company doctor or the company house rent. The Company might be the actual corporation, or the CIA “Company” or the banking controlled whatever, but in the end you are always under company control. You cannot beat them, you can only work at alleviating the worst of the effects. Owning far less land and far less house in a far less nice area is the only way to play the shelter game.

Again, you THINK having more money insulates you, but the well paid CEO is always one pink slip away from personal bankruptcy, as is the best paid employee. They control the money, and they control you. Self employment is certainly a step in the right direction, it adds one layer of insulation between you and asswhoredness, but as long as they control the money they ultimately control you. By all means, minimize shelter. Just know in the end it is just a delaying action. So, you are still working, which means you may still need your car. If you can find alternate shelter, such as being a roommate with eight other students and only paying $100 a month rent, then you can eliminate an auto. Minimizing rent is the very first step, the most important one. You save between 25% and 75% of your wages.

If you do just that one thing, you are already winning the game stacked against you. You make $30k gross a year, and if half that net is for rent, you’ve just “earned” a raise of one quarter to one third of your pay by going full barbarian in your shelter. Think of the credit cards you can pay off with that. You’ve doubled your take home pay by getting out of the apartment and living out of your car. You know I hate cars. Nothing screws with your income as bad as having a car, but that is AFTER you become rent free. Prior to that, you probably need a car to escape rent. But you had better have a friend that can help you with mechanics, and then have a car that is payment free ( or, VERY short term payments ).

You could own one clunker van, live in it, have ANOTHER registered and insured van parked in a storage unit ready to go if the first one breaks, and still only be spending not much more than $100 a month total for everything but gas and repairs. Much better than an $800 a month apartment rental. Hey, nobody wants to live down by the river in a van, but by doing so you are in a position that very soon you are living on your own land ( probably not next to a river, but perhaps close ) in a cabin. Without debt. With almost no living expenses. Even if you ignore my adage that Auto’s Kill, Even While Parked, cracking the slumlords control over you will get you 80% closer to freedom.

Then, because you are feeling all pumped because you got away from the plantation, then think about trying to live without a car. Now you are 90% closer to freedom. You might stay about at that level, still reliant on Monsanto/Bayer to feed you, but that is what all your storage wheat is for. To at least give yourself a cushion from when the global petroleum ag system crashes ( and, I for one will find it amusing to survive off of the grain they practically gave away to me, as a byproduct of the corporate culture of insisting on the cheapest possible inputs necessary. Practically free is good. I would have even more years of food stored if it wasn’t for the high cost of storage for it ).

Freeing yourself from the dependence on shelter will free up your budget to radically reduce all other expenditures. I don’t need to get into all the minutia of cutting TV costs and phone costs and food budgets. That is easy enough. Everyone covers that. They don’t tell you how to get out of the big ticket items, though, do they? And it is the simplest thing in the world, isn’t it? All you have to do is decide to do it. Living out of a vehicle, or in a tent on your junk land, or in an overcrowded ghetto apartment full of roaches and roommates ( usually the same thing ), to free up the money to pay off debt and invest in off grid living, that short term sacrifice will free up the rest of your life.

( .Y. )

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