Staying Alive

2010-06-29T10:35:00.000-07:00

I am now getting off line. Financial and technical problems have become too much. Stay live.

Michael

FOOD AND CORRUPTION

2010-06-24T10:19:00.000-07:00

I got a few emails this morning, which is always a pleasant time, and there was a message from a guy named Jim who forwarded a website https://www.mvseeds.com/cgi-bin/mvs_catdisp.cgi?cid=2597 of a place that will sell you seed pretty cheap. You just pick the things you want and they will tell you if they are non-hybrid or hybrid. Pretty fair arrangement. The Handmaiden dug up my garlic this morning and brought them in. I got six out of seven cloves to grow. Two small ones, two medium sized ones and two big daddies. Plus she brought in the scapes for something else to play with for a while. But I can grow garlic and that is good. I can grow beans too so we might have something to eat going on here. The tomatoes and the rutabagas are looking good and that means more for storage for the Winter. The butternut squash will make it and that is more food yet! The victories keep pouring in. If you want to build up your stash of seed for a little bit of comfort to your mind, the prices of the above company are very good. I can see me getting an order in pretty quick, except I am going to by wheat first. I am tired of listening to Jim Dakin talk about having grain in your stash and I am going to get some to hide my guilt.

There is not too much on the news as I type this. The media is still talking about General MacChrystal getting fired and that was during the first part of the week so you know there ain't much happening. Oil is still pouring out into the Gulf and that is cause for concern, I think. Folks are getting ready for hard times and that is good in most cases. I said things were going to get rude for Americans and folks seem to agree with that. It may get so damn rude we start shooting our weapons. And that could cause a ruckus across the land. Not that there would be any shortage of targets. The fedgov is the largest employer in the country. High wages, good pensions, lots of paid holidays. A sweet way to go in this economy. Might, however, be a portion of the taxpaying class who resent all these folks on the fedgov tit. Never can tell. But I can tell you this, once most of our citizenry get that old fedgov boob in their mouth they can't seem to let go of it. There just seems to be an addictive process that takes place and the addict is there forever. But then the fedgov will run out of money and what will happen? I think those addicts are gonna run wild in the streets and burn and loot and rape and all kinds of foul deeds. And then some foul politician is going to blame us out in here in flyover territory for all the trouble and we will get penalized. Life is a beautiful thing when you are dealing with Socialists. But never fear because I think the Dark Lord is going to get us into a major war and that will be good for the economy, according to the economists. Perfect capitalism. Make it, sell it to the fedgov for a profit and they take it out and blow it up, and proceed to buy more. But you can get everyone working that way and making money and paying taxes and spending again. Of course, you could lose the war and end up shit creek without a paddle. But no one wants to think about that so we had better let that one go. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

RUDE TIMES

2010-06-23T07:00:00.000-07:00

Are you getting ready? Have you got your grain grinder and your wheat bought? I have my grinder and am getting the wheat. I have bad feelings about the availability of food and other commodities in the not so distant future. The general in charge of the Afghan war is about to get the shaft, I think. Obama does not like dissent in his midst. And he does not like people making fun of the monkeys he has appointed to various positions of authority in his administration.

And this administration is the most hard-to-perceive bunch of people I can imagine. What are they doing? Are they doing anything they can for the common man in America? Don't make me laugh. Every time Obama makes a speech about something grand and glorious he wants to do for the good of the country, we always find out that it takes away more of our freedom and makes our taxes go up. What is it with this Kenyan? Has he no love whatsoever for this country? He hides his agenda like a miser hides his gold. It would seem that he gets his inspiration from the Russian Secret Service and we are not supposed to notice that. And it is starting to eat me up. I realize with my innermost being that this man Obama is our greatest enemy. He knows now that he will be a one term president and he wants to get as much damage done in his four years as he possibly can. I can feel it in my bones.

My heart goes out to working people in this darkened land of ours. The pillar the whole thing rests on is the working man. Without him you have nothing. And we are becoming without him. He is being outsourced and replaced by robots and computers. The wealth his labor created is becoming concentrated in the hands of a few. Millions are out of work. Labor is going to get very cheap pretty soon. Just like it is cheap in India, China, and Mexico plus few other places I can name. The guys that should be getting the praise are not even being mentioned anymore. What a disgrace. The stock brokers and the banks are fussed over like babies in a crib but the real producers are left in solitude. Something is dreadfully wrong. The perspective of life has been maladjusted. Ignorance rules, and reason and logic have gone out the door for a long walk.

The wife and bil are down at the garden watering this morning. They will sprinkle a bit of compost and crushed limestone and then let it soak into the ground. Pumpkins and Squash are big nitrogen eaters and Tomatoes need limestone for preventing end rot. I have to get off this posting page and let my computer try to tell Blogger to save this damn post. Wish me luck.

My thinking this afternoon has led me to some very grim thoughts about America. America is about dead financially and is about to take a blow militarily. We have a lot of force in the Persian Gulf right now and it could very well come under horrendous attack. And if Iran and Israel get to firing nukes you can bet your ass that a lot of American troops are going to bite the dust. The radioactive fall out from anything in Iran will hit American troops whether the wind blows East or West. And Iran has the missile defense system purchased from the Russians to put a big hurt on a carrier. So what are we if our battle tested troops are all glowing in the dark and our naval force is full of holes? Not very much, my friends. We'll be tore up enough to have to listen to just about anybody that wants to scream at us a bit. What a pity we could not be a little more humble when we had money and power and then maybe we could have escaped this mess. But if this is what is to come then we had better be ready for big brutal times here in the good ol' USA.

Got your garden seed for the next couple of years? I don't. But I will do the best I can to get it. I'll be trying to get non-hybrid stuff if it is available for a decent price. Any more it is almost cheaper to buy gold than it is non-hybrid seed. I am not wanting to be a "beater" of my fellow preppers. I do not want to scream and holler any message. I just want you all to see that things are getting rude on this planet and you had better get ready for some rude times. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

BANG!

2010-06-22T11:58:00.000-07:00

WHAM! The stock market collapses because there is no one to buy any of the stock for sale, at any price. It happens in the morning and the word gets out quickly. People know that something big is going on. By noon Eastern Standard Time the whole country is awash in the news. By two o'clock in the afternoon the big box stores are starting to sell out of groceries. All gasoline, food, and ammo are sold out that day. The unthinkable has happened. America has gone to her bunkers and awaits the anarchy that is sure to come. And the next day it begins. Those too stupid or unheeding are out and about looking for what they did not have to begin with. Violence breaks out all over the country, with warehouses in major cities being especially abused. Within a couple of days there is organized looting and robbing taking place. The bigger the marauding gang the more vicious they are. Power begets cruelty and lack of compassion.

The president has everyone in the country who wears a uniform, on alert. Troops are not put on the streets immediately but after three or four days they begin to make their presence felt. The populace is afraid of the troops at first but after learning that they bleed just like everyone else the fear starts to dissipate, replaced by a large anger. Their anger is directed at what they\ perceive as a force that is trying to stop them from doing what they must do to survive. The news reaches the country that the Mexican and Central American population of Los Angeles has gone out of the city and is looting and burning the suburbs. The race war begins. The tanks are called in to stop the burning and looting but the marauders find out that tanks may be made unbearably hot with one and two liter glass bottles with a mixture of gasoline and diesel fuel inside them and a flaming rag sticking out of the hole on top. Throw it and watch the flames start heating the steel. And this shit is going on all over the country, in every major city we have. There ain't enough troops to control the damn thing!

So what do the troops do? They pull back to selected spots and create strongholds that are damn near impenetrable. Sorta like the Green Zone in Iraq. And from these strongholds they send out patrols to areas they need to calm down and pacify. And then the fun begins.

The citizens are forced to protect themselves not only from marauders but from US troops! You can't prosecute them for anything they do in a war zone. It has been tried and it ain't worked. So now you have to defend against trained troops. What to do? What to do?

Well, the first thing you do is to pick up every goddamn weapon and piece of ammo you run across. Leave none of it. Get every rifle, pistol, grenade, and machine gun you can find. Don't leave behind any mortars or land mines either. Haul home any artillery you can get your hands on. And whatever weaponry you find that you cannot use, disable or destroy it.

Then it is time to put on your thinking cap and figure out what you can scavenge that will take out a tank or a helicopter. These contraptions will put a hurt on you that will end it for you if you don't get some means to destroying them when ever you see them. They be nasty as all get out. And they will kill your buddies too. You will end up needing ALL of your buddies, believe me. So pick up and carry home things like TOW missiles and things that look like they are Stinger missiles. I don't know, the Table of Organization and Equipment may have changed and I am not aware of it. There may be new toys in the TO and E that I don't know about but you had better learn them and learn them now while you have time to study. The bastards that will be coming after you will know the stuff by heart.

I hope that while you read this you will see the need for a group defense. Not only group defense but group food production and group building and schooling and all those things that make a people self sustained. One of the tricks employed to render us weak was the idea that we all had to have our own house and our own life and our own ways of doing things. So now we come to a place in history where we have no social cohesiveness. We are not used to working with each other. And it limits the hell out of our efforts, especially the effort to provide continuity of life. Adjust your life style to gain these advantages. And stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

SUMMER, SPIRIT, AND GANGS

2010-06-21T07:53:00.000-07:00

Hey, it's officially Summer of 2010. It's hot, muggy, and rather miserable. Summer in Indiana. But if memory serves me well this happens every year and I had better be getting used to it. Like I have said before, I remember the Summer in the late 50's when we set the state record for consecutive days over 90 degrees. We could see that again this year without too much trouble. I have noticed the animals are staying low to the ground. The Beagle hounds across the way come out and bark when anyone passes by but then they run immediately back under the shed close by and get back into the shade. The cats are staying on the floor all day. Just too damn hot to move. The ducks are not going up on the grass to eat but are staying in very shallow water. Just enough water to keep them cool. They are not moving around very much and there ain't any fussing going on. Too damn hot for much else. Remember, when it is 90 degrees outside, 80 degree water will feel cool. Fish are about the only critters showing any sign of energy. One will break the surface of the water every now and then. Just to eat some damn bug that is resting on top of the water.

I went to meeting last night as is my custom and it took a turn in a direction that I had not pursued to a great degree. A guy kind of mangled a scripture concerning sitting by the side of the road and being a friend to mankind and turned it into "If the vision tarry, wait by the side of the road until you see it." I found the newer version of scripture to be very stimulating. It triggered me to talking for a while. The part about waiting for the vision to come is a sign of maturity. How many times have we wanted big huge things to happen. We are so greedy for the plan of God to unfold before our eyes. If some of us got our way we would have the next 2000 years of the future over in the next 15 minutes. And it would be a great movie but no one would learn a damn thing. And learning is what it is all about. On this tiny planet our God has built his nursery and he is raising his babies and children here in preparation for the next school to come. You know, the scripture says "worlds without end" and I believe it. And our God has to have lots of folks to run those planets and solar systems. They will be as Gods where they rule, but they will pray to the same God I pray to. Our God will rule, no problem. I think when you get that far up the evolutionary ladder that there is no conflict. No in fighting and bickering will go on. Because those people selected to go out and rule will have the mind of our Father. Pretty wondrous thing. But we still have lots of stuff to learn. It's amazing how much we have to learn as yet.

If you want to take a peek at the future you might go to http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/ and read everything for June 21, 2010. When you get done with that go to http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-corporate-entities-modern-day-street-gangs and read what Tyler Durdun has put up. Just remember that a gang is what ever the hell anyone wants to say it is. But the future may be portrayed much as these people are presenting. You start substituting "lawlessness" for the system and "warlords" for gang leaders and things get a lot clearer. You just have to get things in the proper perspective and said in a language you understand and then it is not too hard to grasp. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

CANNING, FOOD, AND POLITICS

2010-06-20T12:14:00.000-07:00

We canned green beans this Sunday, today. The Handmaiden handled it and I did the fretting. Worked just fine. Seven quarts of beautiful green beans to eat this Winter and Spring. The Handmaiden used the juice from the heating of the green beans to top off the quart jars and I loved that. The juice has the goodies in it, the vitamins that make it all worth while. I had never been around canning before and I was a little worried about the contraption blowing us to smithereens right here in our own kitchen. The Handmaiden handled it very well. She is a pretty smart cookie in the kitchen. The things I really want to save over the cold months are the squash and pumpkins. And they don't can the damn things! You just put down newspapers in a cool dark place and they keep real well. Saves on that energy bill. I got to reading the directions on how to do jellies and jams and they are just falling down easy. You don't even can them but rather get them hot and let them seal. It's a little more complicated than that but you can catch my drift. Just go online and get recipes and you will be okay. The Handmaiden and I are talking pretty seriously about getting some rabbits and breeding our own meat. You can can that stuff too! And those little pieces of rabbit poop can do you a favor down in your garden in the Fall. You have to take care of the ground and your seeds will take care of the rest. I need a bag of Dolomite dust to sprinkle on my tomatoes so they won't get blossom rot or end rot. Dolomite has both Calcium and Magnesium and that is exactly what your tomatoes need. And it don't take much. Just a sprinkle around each plant and go on to the next one. I'd say you could get by with a pound or two for a small amount of tomatoes.

The rabbits are for a variety of meat in our diet. That way we can eat venison, fish and rabbit on a day to day basis. It's not like the grocery store but the price is unbeatable and the nutrients are great. We can have our venison ground into sausage and maybe we will still get eggs from the Amish. I am not doing too well in the chicken arena. But another guy here is working on a chicken coop this very weekend and there is a good chance that progress is being made. And the meat will be from HERE and not from some PISSHOLE in China or somewhere else. I am getting sick of this globalist food and the bullshit tricks involved in it's production. Globalism is a scam and a farce. The food it brings is poison. Eat locally. To hell with foreign food. Obama will sell our GMO soybeans to China or whoever wants them. We preppers can sit at home and eat the good stuff. Damn right! That's the way things should be. Eat what you grow at your retreat. That way you can have the biggest chance of knowing what the hell is in your food. Keep the raw poop off of your crops when they are growing and just put it on the dirt in the Fall or Winter. That way you don't get a big dose of e.coli for supper. You stay healthy and fit and your family and friends are taken care of it a proper manner. And don't put that down. You must be strong to help anyone else. And you need to be strong to evade the FEMA camps, which I am convinced are right on the horizon of time. And people grow fish in barrels using runoff water. Folks with not much money like us can do a little something to keep themselves in protein. And you want that protein.

I think we, the preppers that read this blog, have the mental capacity to overcome most of our problems in life. We can grow food and raise meat. We can build a house and heat it. We can get around, at least locally. We know how to stay alive. Our big problem is government, here and elsewhere. Government has turned out to be the greatest impediment to the stability of mankind on this planet. Thirty years ago this country was locked in a battle we called the cold war and it consumed our armed forces and our governmental agencies as they tried to be ready for the conflict that never came. One thing it did do was keep the bastards off of OUR backs while we went about our daily grind. Major crime was not too big a thing. A little bit was around but most crime was social bullshit like gambling and what not. The drugs were in the cities and they stayed there. There were racial problems in some places and that was unfortunate. But the economy kept getting bigger and people were sold more and more shit that they didn't need and this term "The American Dream" was bantered about and came to be seen as a necessity. This is where we started to fall. Cause the politicians got a hold of it and ran with it. And we became a femocracy instead of a republic. 51% could legally take what the other 49% had. The bankers and Wall street picked up on what the politicians were doing and the race to the bottom was on. You all know where this has led. The collapse is here but it has not gotten to the shooting stage as yet. But it all started with government and don't ever forget that. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

FOOD AND OTHER THINGS

2010-06-19T11:57:00.000-07:00

I had no post for Saturday but this one is for Sunday and might make up for my shortcoming. Friday was an interesting day and this Saturday has been one also. I went to the auction at Dinky's yesterday and it was quite a deal. My first produce auction of all time. I did not understand how it worked and thus I watched and observed for a while. The auctioneer was your usual unintelligible robot. I'm used to that. I picked up on the bidding and that was useful. I looked over the produce and it was delightful. I saw onions that were the equivalent of a 10 point buck and should have been mounted. Some of the most beautiful onions I have ever laid eyes on. There were lots and lots of red raspberries and I got to drooling over them because I love raspberries. But I had talked to the Handmaiden before I went and we had agreed that I would stick to green beans. And I was true to my word and I bought a full bushel of them for $10. I think I can get the price to $8. You bid $10 and everyone starts looking at other things. I figure I can go in with a bid $8 and that will end it, for most folks anyway. But the wife has said she wants the onions the next trip and I will go after them. She would dehydrate a ton of onions if I would bring them in. She just can't have too many onions.

We had our Summer Solstice party last night. First a big feed at the community building and then a short intermission while the Sun went down and it got dark enough to shoot fireworks. And did they ever shoot fireworks! What a show. The grand finale just about took your breath. The Handmaiden and I are not used to staying up late and we had no trouble falling asleep after the show.

There is still something funny about the Gulf situation. There area lots of countries offering help in cleaning up the oil but they are all on hold. The state department can't see to get them processed and on the job. There is also the grim possibility that the oil cannot be stopped, that it is going on for years. And do not forget about those troops that have been activated for duty in the Gulf area Grand Isle and Venice, Louisiana, are the place they be. That will be it for the day. Keep you eye on the horizon and stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

MAYBERRY AND THINGS

2010-06-17T06:47:00.000-07:00

I have had the thought to praise Mayberry for the good things he has done. Some might seek to bury him but I would rather see him lifted up. He is just trying to live a normal life in a decent manner. He does not try any "Big Me, Little You" bullshit. He talks to everyone in a respectful tone. And he does talk. You can go to Mayberry's site about any time and find SOMETHING to carry you on a bit. It may be a rant or a set of directions on how to build a boat or repair a vehicle, or maybe just some tunes to listen to. And it could be the latest installment of his Blog novel, which is pretty damn interesting. Maybe it will be an update on his garden and a few pictures to show you how he is doing it. He works the hell out of that garden, or maybe I should say it works the hell out of him. He could have the latest news on how the fedgov is screwing us, or how the banks are screwing us, or how the various governments are screwing us. Being male he is always on guard to notice anybody trying to stick something into HIM. He does not go that route. Mayberry likes the ladies. He likes the sea. He was in the Navy and can see the Gulf of Mexico from his house. Every now and them he will whip out a little lesson on how to judge the weather on the coast and he will prove to be right. This guy is a veritable storehouse of knowledge concerning the sea. He loves it and it is his element, his place to really live. He does not charge a cent to benefit from his knowledge in any area where he is fluent. He does not try to hustle the masses or gather a group. He is a pretty clean dude in that respect. He is not trying to become a millionaire selling things to preppers on the internet. He will never get a pile of gold unless he finds it under his tomatoes. But maybe God will run him up on a pile of money and make him rich. Seems like a nice thing to dream about! I have been friends with Mayberry for about three years and he is just a fine fella. A friend to everybody until you prove yourself unworthy. And last but not least I wish to call attention to Mayberry's strong blast at "STARVING THE BEAST" He did a wonderful job with that one and brought some things to peoples attention that they needed to know.

In getting on to a different topic I would like to say that what Obama and the mainstream media are saying about the Gulf oil leak is a crock of shit. Fully one third of Louisiana's Gulf coast is closed. This thing is getting ready to bury us and no one is fixing it. We have a bunch of dumbass fedgov people from the Obama administration leading the fix-it brigade. The only thing these people know about fixing is an election. I lose hope for my country when I see what they are doing, or rather what they are NOT doing. Some 20 year old girl working on her Ph. D. had the idea to stuff the pipe with a special bag and use it to seal the damn thing. But I don't think this is possible because we have not been told the real story about what is going on down there. But do not forget about the troops in Grand Isle and Venice. They ain't got them down there for anything that will benefit you or I. And the number has been bumped to 17,500 troops. That's enough to make things exciting.

And talking about excitement gets me to thinking about a caravan down to the Gulf if the fedgov decides they they want to play. Hell. I like to play too! Get five or ten vehicles full of preppers and head on down there. I'm sure there are some southern guys who would join in with us. We don't want to pass up an opportunity to take advantage of a crisis. If that is a successful tactic of the socialists then we can use it too. And if it turns out to be nothing, well, we can have the biggest beer party ever seen in Louisiana. There will be a lot of good guys to drink with and just think of all the lies we can tell when we get back home. Just something to think about for a few days. I am going to Dinky's in the morning, God willing. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

RACISM AND BULLSHIT

2010-06-16T06:48:00.000-07:00

Did you ever get the feeling that the monetary attacks on the USA and Europe are racist in nature? The shit really happens in Europe and America. It's almost a daily occurrence that something bad has to happen to these people. Financial mishaps, natural/man made problems. Even some all natural problems. The ones that nature brings are supposedly acts of God, but the rest of them have human fingerprints all over the place. George Ure was going off this morning about how the Gulf oil blowout seems to have been an inside job. And the possibility of that is plausible. It could have been done. But the answer would lie in the area of "Who benefits?" And from my seat at the table I can't see anyone benefiting. It has to be someone who just wants to hurt this country. Someone who wants to break us down to getting by on seeds and stems. And who could that be? The Chinese? Venezuela? Who would do it? It has to be someone who really wants to see the USA grovel in the dirt. And England could take a real ass whuppin' from this little planetary episode. Our special relationship friends from Great Britain. It would seem that Obama is getting ready to evacuate the Gulf States. I read some stuff yesterday about troops being moved in to Grand Isle and Venice, Louisiana. The article said that Obama has called up 14,500 troops for one reason or another. Is a big game about to begin? Are the cards from a new deck about to be dealt? Is a civil war brewing in these United States? Damned if I know. But things are sure looking interesting. You folks who have prepped and gotten ready might think about how you want to play this hand. It might get rough. You could be next on the evacuation list.

There has been no rain this morning. And there is not supposed to be any for awhile. It sure has been good sleeping these last couple of nights. I might stagger down to the bathroom once a night but for the most part it has been very satisfying. Lots of big fluffy white clouds going overhead. Really pretty. But there is no sign of any cooling going on. Looks like we crawl into the oven for a few days. Thank God for all the humidity that goes with our heat. At least the tomatoes will be happy. Next month is our big rain month. We get more rain in July than any other month. And the farmers in the northern half of the state, where the land is like a pool table, will really make the money off of those Summer rains. But they are gamblers to the core of their being and if they win it is okay with me.

I saw an email today from a fairly successful businessman/prepper to a member of the blogging community. It was not kind. The businessman/prepper said the blogger had done nothing for the movement and was not to be paid any attention. I sorely disagree with that attitude. If you raise your voice and tell people to prepare then you are doing some good for others. They might not get the message but you are doing what you can. Not everybody is prepared to get into the world of business and all of it's pitfalls. I know. I've been there. On more than one occasion. We all cannot be Rush Limbaugh and make his millions and play golf with rich morons. Some of us put our shoulders to the plow and raised families. I was a member of a group that bought land in southern Indiana and we now presently live on it. It's paid for and we just have to make the land taxes every year. But it was brutal work and I don't have much besides a home and the ability to live on the land. But maybe that is what God wanted me to have and so I am thankful for it. Acceptance is contentment. I ain't complaining about my deal. As I get into this prepping thing for almost starting my fourth year, I can look back at what I have done and what others have done and I am glad I didn't have Bill Gates money to begin with. Think of the dumb shit I might have done. Think of the wasted resource. But I have been trying and others have damn sure been trying. And it don't all come out at once. The Bible says "line upon line and precept upon precept." And to say that someone is not doing anything for preppers is not a very smart thing to say. We just keep plugging along, doing what we know to do, and hoping for the best. No one has the whole ball of knowledge concerning this little game we play. We are seeking it and hoping for it or at least hoping we have enough done to make it through the really rough times that lie ahead. So stay with it and stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

GOVERNMENT AND DINKY'S

2010-06-15T04:22:00.000-07:00

It rained again last night after I went to sleep. The Handmaiden heard it and gave me the info. The garden is like a super soaker site right now. To go in it is to become mired. There is a lot of moisture in the air right now but the sun has not managed to come out and it is cool. Summer is officially about a week away and cold is much appreciated by all in the area.

Our governor has been busy. He signed into law a measure that requires EVERYONE to show I.D. before they can get sold anything at a liquor store. The Handmaiden saw a clerk demand I.D. from an 82 year old man. I don't know how the Amish are buying their booze these days because they do not carry picture I.D. The word in these parts is that the idiot law is really to get people used to showing their I.D. "Papers please." is just around the corner and they want everyone to get into practice showing that they have the states permission to buy and sell. Hmm...I seem to remember something about this from the Bible. But that is what we are looking at as a nation. The fedgov has it's ass stretched over a big drum and they are scared to death of the populace and want to get as much control over them as possible. And that is okay with me. Most of the clowns we acknowledge as our fellow citizens deserve to have their rights and freedoms curtailed. It just does not seem to be in the cards for the small minority of folks that can think for themselves. I'll just have to drink the Handmaidens home made wine and not go to the liquor store any more. That will deprive the state government and the federal government of tax money but I am all for that! Booze is a big revenue stream for most every government you can think of and like has been demonstrated, if you starve them they fall away. And once again I can say that I am for that. They will have me up for behavior modification pretty soon if I keep saying things like that! But I have some Lead pills stashed back and that will cure a lot of the social problems. I just ain't going for their bullshit.

In the country to the West of us there is a big auction barn called "Dinky's." It's a huge place. Must be two or three acres under roof. Big concrete block building. It's a regular Friday night hang out for the locals. And people come from all over to buy and sell their livestock. The parking lot is bigger that a Walmart Super Store lot, by far. They must have hauled gravel for days to get it made into something besides a dirt field. Monster parking lot. Dinky's sold produce and canned goods on Friday night. Semi loads of canned goods. The stuff went pretty cheap too. You could get some real deals on food on those Friday nights. But once again our governor came to our rescue and said food and animals cannot be sold in the same building. Too much chance of disease. Dinky has been selling the canned goods and produce for years with no reports of disease. But the governor said "No more!" so Dinky had to do something. He went down the road about a half mile and built a huge produce auction facility. Big concrete block building and lots of gravel for the parking lot. So that is where they sell the produce and canned goods. And there are a huge group of produce growers in the area. There is one Amish guy who plants a 50 acre garden every year. By hand! He has a bunch of kids and some neighbors who need some work and he gets after it. A 50 acre garden! I would look at a 5 acre garden as a suicide attempt but this ol' boy plants 50 acres. But it is how he pays his land taxes and his income tax. Plus he has a huge family. One tough cookie if you ask me.

The disgust I generally feel about the shape this country is in is coming over me again. I read the bullshit that the media puts out and I could just about vomit. I read articles where talking heads are going on about the "recovery" and I think to tell them there ain't no damn recovery. But they keep pumping it out to the public just as hard and fast as they can go. What a joke! Talk about the king not having any clothes. I'll get off of here and not get too much involved in a rant. Take care and stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

IT AIN"T HERE YET

2010-06-14T15:39:00.001-07:00

I am once again looking for the train wreck of Western Civilization and so far I see the train is still on the tracks. No one has made a mushroom shaped cloud on the Middle East or the Far East. The stock market has not crashed on Wall Street. The federal government is still in business and spending money. Gold is still hovering around $1200 an ounce. The stores still have food in them and there is no rioting. There have been no major invasion of any major country. The ships of state are still afloat. I am kinda getting bored with the spectacle of nothing. Yeah, we have a problem with an oil leak in the Gulf and we are going to have to do something about that. But the rioting in the streets of America has not transpired. Freaking sissies!

I just got a PREPPER ALERT from a friend. The Amish in another area from where we shop are going to be selling green beans for $2 or $3 per five gallon bucket full tomorrow. That is a nice price and we will get a bunch if at all possible. It was nice to hear the words prepper alert over the phone. That kind of talk is generally the sign you are hearing from a real friend.

We got a thunderstorm tonight just as it was starting to get dark outside. Perfect timing. The temperature dropped about 15 or 20 degrees and it had no chance to make it up before sundown. You don't get many of those kinds of Summer rains. We will sleep well tonight.

A lot of talk about folks doing time for unpaid debts. That is supposed to be illegal in this country. But some shyster lawyers are bending the rules, as usual. I have a daughter who is very intelligent but she became a lawyer and I don't like that one damn bit. Life throws you little curve balls sometimes.

Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION

2010-06-14T07:33:00.000-07:00

I'm back at it on Monday morning. How's that for perseverance, or maybe insanity if you study the definition.

Things are not looking up. This Obama administration is determined to give this country away to foreign powers. I have never seen the like before in my life. Things were bad when they put the 9 mm handgun contract up for test and bid for the Army. Some foreign company won the contract and now our soldiers shoot an Italian handgun. Sickest thing I had ever heard of. We ALWAYS went to war with our own homemade weapons.

Now Obama is going to modify our behavior with his new executive order. 25 of Obama's stooges will form a council and start looking in on our social behavior. What we eat, what we drink, what we smoke, what we read, and on and on. I think we should modify Washington's behavior with lead pills. This is getting so much like 1984 that the difference is hardly distinguishable. Behavior modification my ass! "Take your pill and get to work you ignorant savages!" And if there is no work, "Then starve quietly!" I've got your behavior modification loaded and ready to go. And I will tell you that I believe that the law regarding Executive Orders gives congress 30 days to say no dice. But I never hear of that anymore. Hell, maybe it was changed by executive order!

I haven't heard about what Obama is going to do about BP not having the oil well plugged. Since the company is the main supplier of tax revenue to England I cannot foresee much happening. Jolly Old England is slammed right smack dab in the New World Order and as a loyal slave state must be preserved. This will teach the American rowdies to behave themselves. Just one more instance of someone trying to modify our behavior.

That's about it for today. I haven't lost anything and I don't intend to push my luck. Thanks to all of those folks who have sent me emails of encouragement. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

Bungled

2010-06-13T09:06:00.000-07:00

Just recuperating from the damnedest night's sleep in a long time. Didn't get up until after eight o'clock this morning. Must have been 10 hours or more. Had to have rained like a mad dog while I was asleep. Everything was so nice and cool when I woke up.

I have received a lot of emails from people who enjoy my blog and they are encouraging me to write more so maybe I will.

I found a recipe for a homemade Quikclot on http://catmanslitterbox.blogspot.com/ this morning. Pretty damn good if you ain't allergic to shell fish. I told my Paramedic son about it and he did not seem to be too impressed. They use triangular bandages and tourniquets and ambulances to get to a hospital.

I just lost two thirds of this post. That is all for today.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

DRAMA AND GARDEN

2010-06-12T06:38:00.000-07:00

Well here it is, Saturday morning, and I am sitting here typing away. Don't have much to say so I won't try to do more than what is there. But it rained like a mutha last night. The Handmaiden told me the storm really kicked ass. No one wanted to work in the garden today anyhow.

I got a post this morning that said Katla, the bad ass volcano on Iceland has been having lots of earthquakes, some within minutes of each other. And Katla is 10 times the volcano that shut down the skies over Europe a few short weeks ago. Now, if we can get Katla to open up and the Yellowstone Caldera to do likewise we will really have something going. Probably a new Ice Age. With the Gulf filling up with oil and two major volcano's going off we would really see who had it together and who didn't. I suspect what we would really see is a huge die off. Got preps?

Saudi Arabia has given a short bit of airspace to Israel in case Israel wants to fly over on their way to Iran. Makes it easier for Israel to get there you understand. Have fun guys. And oh, about that Saudi Prince who has warned the Royal family to get the hell out of their country. I think he may be onto something. He said they would be better off in Canada, Australia, and one other country I can't think of right now. The Saudi Royal family is not too popular with other Muslims right now. The Prince made a remark about them getting their heads cut off in the streets if they didn't make the move. Has a ring of seriousness to it.

It is starting to warm up outside and it will not be difficult for the heat to add plenty of humidity to the air. Wonderful heat and humidity. Sure does grow great beans and corn, except my corn never came up. The beets are not doing so well right now either. But everything else is coming on strong. My Rutabagas especially. I love those damn things. They beat the hell out of Potatoes and Turnips. The Squash is doing well and they also store well. It could be a good year for storage food in the garden, if I just has some corn. But I have plenty of substitutes and we will be okay.

That's about it for the day. Take care and stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

SHORT SHOTS

2010-06-10T11:25:00.000-07:00

It's Thursday afternoon and I think I will write a post and see how it comes out.

I have talked to some people today and they seem to be doing alright. My buddy in Minnesota is prepping pretty well and thinks the normal American citizen is completely nuts. I could not agree with him more.

I just turned on my Little Anthony and the Imperials album. Nice tunes.

My friend Grumpyunk brought over a tiller for us to use for a week or so. The garden is looking like something out of a textbook. Grumpyunk is a mighty fine friend. Yep.

I still am thinking about that big boss of BP saying he wanted his life back. Someone ought to tell him about the thousands of fishermen who would like to have THEIR lives back. Selfish bastard.

I haven't checked the market today so I don't have anything to say except I hope that it crashes. It severely deserves to crash. I liked that comment that this one financial adviser made about investing in barbed wire and ammo. Made sense to me!

Stay alive and keep your eyes open!

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

PRETTY GOOD DAY

2010-06-07T14:33:00.001-07:00

Ah...Monday evening and supper is almost ready. The Handmaiden has a really good feed to put out tonight. And my friend Grumpyunk came over for a while and we talked a bunch. He is growing food this Summer like a mad man. It's even wore him out a couple times. But he keeps bouncing back and that is important. He seems strong and alert and ready to handle about anything that comes along. And if things get to be too much he just climbs onto that blue motorcycle of his and he goes for a ride. Good man with a good outlook on life.

I had another visitor Sunday from Virginia. More of a hill dweller than a coastal flat-lander. We talked of food and preps and family and all kinds of stuff. He has been into prepping for about 3 yeas and is coming along quite well. He has himself a pretty sweetie and thinks they might be a pair in the future. I hope he does well in that endeavor. As I get to know him a little more I will talk about him more, if it is proper.

The DJIA dropped about 115 points today. Not what I was hoping for but good enough considering the Plunge Protection Team had to have been out in full force. Our tax dollars at work making America safe for stock owners. And we ought to remember that they have done this shit in order to keep their wretchedly corrupt system going. But it is going to fail and we all know it. We are going to have to keep a running tally of our enemies. These are the lawyers, the politicians, the bankers, the insurance people, the major oil companies, the AMA, big Pharma, and the judiciary. I am sure I left a few groups out but we will get to them soon enough. We don't want to leave out any deserving souls, if they have a soul. There have been some hugely criminal acts put on the American people these last few years and I am betting there will be calls for retribution. And any revenge will be more than earned. Who cares if any of them die? Not I. They have stolen America and ripped it apart. They have no scruples or morality. America will sink into the sunset and go the way of many nations before it, but it will go hard for those who ruined her. Very hard indeed. All the polls are showing the people of this country want criminal charges filed against British Petroleum. Will it happen? Maybe. But if it doesn't happen there will be other ways of settling the score. And it will get done.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

WHAT IS REAL

2010-06-05T11:12:00.000-07:00

I was going to take a month off, or at least I was thinking about it, but I decided to write a bit more. There are some things that maybe need said.

We just had a little family conversation about what "collapse" means and we seem to be on the same page. We are in sort of a collapse right now, but it could be called an economic slowdown too. When I speak of collapse I am talking about some "wild in the streets" action and not about sitting in front of a TV watching movies and drinking beer. That sort of stuff is being laid off and getting some sit down time to pass the time. When I think of collapse I think of people in the streets and crowds getting a little rowdy. I think of fires and rocks being thrown. I think of looting and robbery. I think about the various governments losing control of the people and the people acting very belligerently and pissed off. And I ain't seeing any of that in this country. We are way too domesticated at this time to do this kind of stuff.

Most folks still have food in the cabinet and the fridge and the freezer. The electricity is still on and there is a can of coffee beside the coffee machine for in the morning. The car has SOME gas in it. The phone still works. The mail comes regularly. The washer and dryer still work and folks have some clean clothes. Not many are hanging clothes on a line in the back yard. Small business guys are still getting diesel to run their equipment. Young people out here in the country still have gas for their four wheelers. Dog and cat food is still being purchased. The kids still get lunch money for school, though it is finally out for the Summer. The mortgage might be a few payments behind but that does not seem to bother anyone any more. They ain't getting thrown out on the street so they go right ahead and keep living where they always have.

In short, we are not in a collapse as yet. Now, I think it may have started this past Friday when the stock market down 324 points. If we get that kind of report this Monday then we may have a real live collapse on our hands. And if pension checks don't roll out as usual and Medicare and Medicaid are cut short then you will see blood in the streets. But the checks keep rolling and the money goes with it and that is the name of the game. No matter how illogical people are in their heads to think that government freebies are forever, when they are stopped then we have a problem like we aint never seen before. And they will stop because the taxes are not rolling in to pay for all of this wonderful bounty. Cities and towns and states are running out of money every day of the week. Illinois has stopped paying a lot of their bills. And you all know about the others so there is no need for me to continue along that line. I have pursued this line of thinking to point out that we are about to meet up with SHTF. And it will not be a joke. No sir. This will be as serious as a heart attack.

A lot of people do not believe this can happen in America. These people will soon get another word added to their name. The word is DECEASED. It is going to happen in America. When your gasoline goes to 15 or 20 dollars a gallon and your electric bill goes by a factor of 4 then you will know of what I speak. And it will not be because of a shortage but because your money ain't gonna be worth a damn. Uncle Sham has been borrowing like crazy these last 20 years or so. We have spent a trillion dollars looking for and trying to kill bin Laden. My, my, ain't we powerful. But we have about run out of good will across this planet and we ain't gonna get to borrow much more money to keep this house of cards erected. It is a STRAW that breaks the camels back. Remember that and stay alive.

I THINK IT'S HERE

2010-06-04T16:31:00.000-07:00

Well, it may be sphincter pucker time and all those folks who did not listen to us will be trying to get our preps for free, if they can. I aim to hold on to mine, however, so they may as well go look somewhere else. If the market drops big again Monday it is all over but the pictures of guys lynching Goldman Sachs employees. I won't be there because Wall Street is not in Indiana. Wonder what I would be doing if it was? Interesting thought.

I was not going to type a post today except to say that I was taking a month off of blogging. The collapse is in the good hands of Mr. Obama and he will see it to it's conclusion. I have posted over 1200 posts to this blog and the message should have gotten out to whoever wanted to read it. I still owe a recipe for Spoon Bread and I aim to get it out there. Nice change of pace.

Grow your gardens and gather your clans. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

A SHORTY

2010-06-03T07:03:00.000-07:00

Acts like it might be a warm one today. Rained last night but no thunderboomer. I went to bed and went out like a light for about nine hours. Nothing like a good night's sleep. I'll take every one I can get. The wife and brother-in-law have gone to the garden. It's gonna be muddy. But they have this drive to survive and I can't hardly blame them. More people should be getting the drive all the time, but they won't. They are too stupid. And I didn't make 'em that way. There are three things that form up a person. Genetics, environment, and the will of God. And these things control our drives and our outlook all of our days. We know that the environment we have provided most of our kids has been screwed to the max. Spending their days playing computer games has not done them any good whatsoever. It maybe trained them u to fight technological warfare but it gave them no sense of values. And this country is hurting for values.

The Gulf oil mess is still growing and nothing is getting done. How shameful. And Obama is getting ready to go to the Pacific to do some diplomatic stuff. How nice. Our wonderful Gulf of Mexico is getting turned into a sludge pot, even as you read this blog.

The news is so distasteful I can barely type this post. The Book says oppression maketh a wise man mad. And I think the "mad" refers to insane. Which would lead me to think that this nation is going insane and going to do a damn good job of it. Well, go ahead and get it on. And when you snap please release your energy toward Washington, D.C. We don't deserve it here.

We are not buy any more tobacco for the family. It is getting to be just too damned expensive and we can not afford it. Which proves that there is good in poverty. Anything that can get you to cry out to God and quit smoking can't be all bad. But that can't be true or else we would relish being burnt at the stake. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

MEANDERING

2010-06-02T08:14:00.000-07:00

It's really nice this morning. Sorta overcast with a nice cool breeze to make you comfortable. There are spots of blue and they are very pretty. I recall those photographs taken of the Earth from outer space back in the day. The beautiful blue planet. So special, floating around on it's orbit. So clean looking and sorta hopeful. One wonders how it will look over the next few years. Will it be clouded up with ugly dirty clouds full of ashes? Will it become so polluted that men sicken of it's air on occasion? Will the Gulf of Mexico look black and oily? One begins to wonder. I know that a lot of humanity goes to bed at night hungry and thirsty. We have not had to do much of that here in America. But a lot of folks go to bed with hunger unspeakable. Not too much of that here in the good ol' USA but across the globe it is an everyday occurrence. Humanity either learns to deal with it or die. But a lot of them still die. And that could be coming our way in a month or two. Almost a big joke ain't it? Nothing like that can happen to America. The major fault with that thinking is that it is wrong. It can happen here and most likely it WILL happen here. Right here in America the beautiful, the place of spacious skies and amber waves of grain, people will starve to death. I look out my window at the hills covered with green and it is not likely possible, at least while it is like this. The wife and Brother-in-Law are down at the garden weeding as I type this. Food in abundance. But can I guarantee it will stay that way? No. I cannot. We are finding out more and more, day by day, just how fragile man's existence really is on this planet. A busted oil rig in the Gulf can set us back a decade on some of our food. And you will find out just how much we depend on that Gulf. I am afraid it is a lot. And if some hurricane comes on an sucks up a lot of oil and dumps it on our cropland we have had the meat throwed to us. Very unfortunate. And remember that Hurricane Katrina got all the way in to Ohio after trashing New Orleans and surrounding areas. I reckon that since they used the chemical dispersant on the oil plumes that the oil will be a lot easier to pick up and take somewhere else.

Dan the Man from Ohio said they were getting rained out up by Toledo. Plumb soaked through and through up there. And a big rainstorm coming in even as I type. A few inches are forecast. This could raise havoc with their crops and gardens this season. I reckon they have pretty good dirt up there since it used to be a swamp. Only problem is, it would seem to be heading back to being a swamp and this does not speak well for preppers. I like it here in the uplands of southern Indiana. You have plenty of bottom ground that can grow you a hell of a crop if it don't flood out and you have higher ground to grow food. Food you don't want to lose. And in the days ahead we don't want to lose any food. A couple, maybe three, years ago I bought the Handmaiden a one gallon old-fashioned canning jar. It has a glass lid and a wire restraint on it and it is a thing out of our past. Cost me a good part of a $10 bill to get it. But she keeps the darn thing on her kitchen shelves and stores Cranberry beans in it. She can glance at the jar and tell when it is time to go to the stash to get some more beans. And that can happen more frequently than you might imagine. We can eat the hell out of those beans. Regular beans, soup beans, chili with beans, and all of them with cornbread of course. I found a recipe for old fashioned Spoon Bread the other day and she has fixed it twice since then. It has been over 50 years since I ate spoon bread and it sure is good. She tossed a can of hominy in it for the first try and it was delicious. Mixing a little grated cheese in the batter don't hurt it a damn bit either. It is pretty simple food but it is so good and it has the stuff you can live on. The corn is your grain and the beans are your legume and that adds up to a complete protein. The Handmaiden just came in and told me that we no longer have access to a tiller for our garden crops. Looks like it is back to the hoe and pulling the weeds. And that is a method that works. But it is work and maybe you don't feel like doing that all the time but you have to or you may lose your garden to the weeds. But that is life and we aim to live so here we go. Wish us luck.

So whatever happens we will keep plugging along. Getting some extra food here and there. Getting some more ammo and medicine. Buying good sturdy clothing that won't wear out too quick. Prepping never ends and don't ever think it does. It is just something that is in the back of your mind constantly, without even thinking about it. You know, I can get into the seed business on about 10 acres of land easily. If you are just growing for seed, 10 acres will produce a lot of the stuff. And it will be a good business. You might figure out if you can do it yourself and get in on the next big thing. Eating never seems to go out of style. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

LOOKING AT THINGS

2010-06-01T05:42:00.001-07:00

I feel more like writing than I have for a couple weeks. Maybe I will get out of my funk and get to doing the prepper things. And the prepper things are becoming more important every day. The dyed-in-the -wool preppers are getting ready like mad men and women. No one will believe anything the mainstream media or the fedgov says. They are all a bunch of liars and horse thieves anyhow so why worry about them? I am thinking about our next buy. What should it be? You can throw a rock and hit just about anything and it will be a winner as far as prepping is concerned. How about $100 worth of canned chicken? How about 5 cases of beer? How about some more ammo? How about some more clothing? Tobacco would be nice. How about more gun cleaning equipment? How about more cooking oils? Man! When you can only shoot a $100 you can be forced to omit a lot of nice things. And how am I to pay for a lot of stuff with my little Social Security check? If this hyperinflation comes on us I can see the old folks taking a major hit in their purchasing power. The fedgov gave us a real big shaft when they declared fuel and food to be too volatile for computing inflation. So we can take a look at a probable scenario. Gasoline goes to $20 a gallon and food goes from $100 a week to $600 per week. But buying a home goes to such a low level as to be insane and a car or pick-up are just cheap as hell. The fedgov can come out and say that there is no inflation because food and fuel don't count. So people are starving and they can't afford to go to town and buy any food or work for food so what the hell? I guess the ideal answer would be to have your bank on one side of your house and your supermarket on the other. Actually, the best answer is to have your ass out in the country and growing you own food like a bunch of preppers have been telling you to do. And these people are the very ones who are doing what they preach. It's no joke to them!

The various governments are getting ready for war. The textbooks tell them that war is the best way out of the financial difficulties they are now in. Israel just killed a few people bringing supplies in to the starving Palestinians. The matter has been taken to the United Nations where it will more than likely die of natural causes. Israel don't give a shit about the UN and their actions prove it. Israel has also got 3 submarines in the Persian Gulf and they are armed with nuclear war head cruise missiles. You don't reckon they might be thinking about launching them at Iran do you? And the American forces have all kinds of carriers and what not in the Persian Gulf. All that sand over there could be turned to glass in a hurry. Radioactive glass. That area of the world is so volatile it makes you butt pucker. Even the Turks are pissed at the Israelis. The Turks are not a nuclear power that we know of but they are damned tough and fight like devils. Mean guys. The Americans are getting ready to do it up big in Pakistan. They are gonna do it for the benefit of the existing government. India will be watching and at the first sign of Pakistani weakness they will nuke the absolute hell out of them. India has over a billion people living there and losing ten million down not scare them. So if the buttons get pushed then you can kiss the Middle East goodbye.

Then over in the Far East we have our friend the Cuckoo bird of North Korea. This guy is a case to study. He does not give a shit about anything but his plans, whatever they are. He has sunk a South Korean ship and has pretty much told everyone that is interested to get bent. And he has nuclear weapons. If he gets pissed he might take out South Korea and Japan both and then old Uncle Sam is in a nuclear war. China could very well come to the aid of North Korea while attacking and invading Taiwan just for good measure. If this happens then the Shit has Hit The Fan. We will launch at the Chinese as they are launching at us. And if no one else decides to get in on the action we are still ruined.

I read a lot of stuff that says that Russia is interested in restoring the USSR and that means bringing in a whole bunch of states that have shaken loose from the old deal. You can bet your ass that they want to restore the old Warsaw Pact and bring Poland back into the fold. They probably just killed the leadership of the entire Polish nation.

So there we have our observations for the day. There is so much shit that can go wrong it makes you mind whirl. And all of the stuff has been building up for years. I am going to prep as much as I can while the prepping is good. I urge you to do the same. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

THINKING ABOUT THINGS

2010-05-31T05:37:00.000-07:00

Good morning to all of you out there in blogland. It has been an interesting weekend and I'm sure most of you know why. The top of the list is the gushing oil well in the Gulf that has not been stopped. I read an estimate this morning that said that it should stop by itself in August. That is about when it will get capped or blown up or whatever. I have been thinking about racism this morning. You know, big city blacks are as prejudiced against whites as they can be. And they are prejudiced against the South. You don't suppose they have let that oil well keep leaking out of spite do you? They wouldn't put it on the South like that would they? Just wondering. But it has been 43 days since that leak appeared. It sorta makes you wonder what this fedgov really can do. They can't get the job process started. They can't do anything about North Korea. They cannot stimulate the economy except the big banks. They can't so anything with health care that is not a rip-off. These people are losers. Just regular, garden variety losers. Something should be done about them this coming election. They should get roundly beaten into oblivion.

The garden is looking good so far. The mechanical planter had a few mishaps but nothing that can't be fixed. Some transplanting and some thinning will do wonders for it. My beans are happy, happy, happy and they are growing like weeds. It's too early to tell about the corn but we will know in a few days. The weather forecast says we have a 70% chance of rain today and that should do us no harm. Unless it comes a toad strangler and everything gets washed out. But I am still holding with a cooler temperature this Summer and that seems to mean lots of rain. And rain means plants will grow, unless they get washed away. I keep repeating my self on washing plants away. I think it is because I know it can happen. It's normally called too much of a good thing.

I got word this morning that a kid I have known all of his life has been diagnosed as Bi-Polar. This Bi-Polar mental disorder is what used to be called Manic-Depressive. Manic Depressive kinda lost it's kick awhile back so they came up with another term. They can sell more pills that way. But the Quack, er, ah I mean the doctor who was treating him prescribed some medication for a super crazy manic-depressive. Some really strong stuff. And it was making the kid crazy. He could no longer sleep well and things like that. And this shit is going on in this country all the time. Millions of cases. It sells lots of polls but it screws up some decent minds. I'll be in touch with the kid's older brothers today and we will see if we can get something worked out.

Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

THE TRAP

2010-05-28T04:47:00.000-07:00

Well, we are back to "play it again, Sam." I am once again sitting at this computer typing out God knows what. It will go up on the blog tomorrow, Saturday. The day of no comments. People are busy on Saturday, the day they catch up on all their business outside of work.

Obama has now decided to go to the Gulf Coast this weekend. He will create a photo opportunity for the media. He will be in many pictures shown on the MSM to all the people who think he actually gives a damn. 'Cause he does not really give a damn. And probably no one else does either. America is a bunch of selfish bastards that are primarily out for what they can get at whatever peril it may place their neighbor. The Book says to love they neighbor as thyself and damn few ever got the message. I was talking to a neighbor yesterday about getting prepared. And I think he is in to it. I believe he will do something. Can you believe it? I told him I had told every one who would listen for moment about the need to prep. He said I had done my job. It was on the backs of those who heard me, now. I had never heard that line of thinking before. Maybe is is right and I have delivered the message and got it across. Ain't my fault if they don't listen and believe. But it sure seems like an obvious conclusion to me.

We are looking at two kinds of preppers now. One type has been at it for a while and these are the people who need to fine tune their system. These are the people who need to catch up their loose ends and finalize what they are trying to do. I think most of us are in this area. The other kind of prepper is just starting and needs to get busy! Time may be running out and you can do it now or do without. If you don't have too much money then get to growing a garden. We have most of our essentials in the ground. The Handmaiden just got the rutabagas and butternut squash in and just has a few tomato plants to get into the dirt. That will just about do it for us. We have a lot of stuff growing and I hope we can get it all stored. Storing food is the name of the game.

I was reading an article about how Americans used to have food. It said that back in the 30's the average poor person had five or six years of food stored up. If nothing else they were going to be able to eat. Then we got up to the 50's and early 60's and we find the US fedgov having enough food stored to feed the country for 2 or 3 years. Well they sold that food off to pay for LBJ's war in Viet Nam. And the country never got back to being prepped for food again. Today we have six million meals stored up and ready to eat. That means that 5% of the population can sit down and eat a meal before the country runs out of food. We have enough wheat to fix everybody a half loaf of bread. Such wealth and power is just staggering. Know what I mean?

And when the stores are empty and the money is no good what do you reckon the people are going to do? They are going to go stark, raving crazy. They are going to tear things up like you have never seen. Don't get caught in the trap. Prepare. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

SAME OLD UGLINESS

2010-05-26T09:17:00.000-07:00

It's a Wednesday afternoon and I am back at the keyboard typing this useless crap out once again. I don't want to teach survivalism or talk about the latest news. I want to see people in the streets, marching to defeat the Powers That Be. I want to see the Wall Street guys hanging from light posts. I want to see the same outside the Capital Building in Washingtyon, D.C. I am sick and tired of what is going on and I want it to end. Period.

The wife planted a bunch of stuff in the garden this morning. I know she got rutabagas and onions in. I am not sure about butternut squash. I'll take a maybe on that one. Rutabagas are coated with regular old Parafine wax when you go to store them. If you don;'t do that you don't get too good a product.

Obama is spending a long week-end in Chicago. He won't be at Arlington Cemetary to lay the customary wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. Dont worry, the unknown soldier will not be bothered by this. Only people who care about this gutted and robbed country will be upset with this behavior. Obama isn't bothered by it at all.

Still a lot of misery in the ammo field these days. Get what you can. You'll need it.

I got my non-hybrid corn seed at an orchard outside of the local town.

Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

GARDENING AND LIES

2010-05-25T07:57:00.000-07:00

And here we go for another day of the Follies Collapse. As a precaution we just planted 12 rows of organic NON-HYBRID CORN. So now we have 13 rows of Cranberry Beans and 12 rows of corn. Starting to look good. There is still a bunch of onions and tomatoes and rutabagas and butternut squash to go in as yet but they will get there. Most of what I plant is for long term storage like beans and corn. The wife likes the other stuff and plants it herself. Fine by me. I am thinking about storing my seed stock in 1 quart canning jars this year. We can buy them at the Amish Herb Store for $7 or $8 dollars a case. That's a pretty good price and I like the idea of using glass for storage. I might store my eating food is the jars also. Dried beans and dried corn aren't gonna be any trick to stuff into a jar. And I am reminded that I will have to plant a cover crop this Fall or I will have to sprinkle some decent compost. All the beans I have grown will get me a lot of Nitrogen but I am not replacing the the other elements necessary for growing. If you want the soil to take care of you then you must take care of the soil. The seed itself will take care of producing a plant if it has something to feed it. Good gardeners and farmers grow good dirt and the seed takes care of the rest. Pretty simple formula.

The oil is still being pumped out into the Gulf of Mexico but Obama is going on vacation. That's the clue to all of you that HE IS THE MAN. Just to prove it the MSM has told the world that private sector job wages are falling but fedgov wages are going great!

I read a piece somewhere today that said the threat of terrorism is not the problem with the Internet today but rather the Internet is capable of exposing the bullshit of the fedgov and other hoaxes. That is the real threat of the Internet. Too many people are finding out what the Powers That Be are doing! Can't be having that!

The drums of war are pounding around the planet. It is almost a sure way of getting an economy to run again. We don't need a war but the politicians are hungry for money. It's their life blood, you know. Obama will get us up into the 60 to 70 percent range when he gets his VAT tax going in Washington. Won't it be good to pay all of those taxes?

I'm done with this post. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

JUST BULLSHIT

2010-05-24T06:34:00.001-07:00

So it's Monday morning and I am typing away. Still not inspired or enthusiastic. There does not seem to be a lot to say, at least that has not been said a dozen times before. God has given us a child for a king. He has the power. His name is Obama. He does not have the sense to pour piss out of a boot. That oil well down in the Gulf of Mexico is still blasting out cruse oil in the worst ecological disaster to ever hit this country. A man made one anyhow. That well has been going off since April 20th. What the hell? This man is a bureaucrat. He believes in that stuff. That's why he has appointed all those Czars to the Whitehouse. Those people are supposed to be leading the effort to clean this goddamn mess up and they are not doing a damn thing. They are supposedly having British Petroleum clean up the mess. So we can bet that the effort is about three steps down from our leader. Woe unto the people when their king is a child. This guy does not lead, he has conferences. I find him to be a very disgusting form of human being.

The wife and brother-in-law are down at the garden. They will not do much because the ground is too wet. 'Nuff said. The wife did get some Asparagus. We will dine well this evening.

I am getting tired of people who doubt that the economy is going to take another wild ride to the bottom. They do not make any sense to me. I am starting to shut the out of my mind. It is just a form of mental illness and I don't seem to be able to cure them. Their one shot at happiness is that they are not alone. They will have plenty of company when the SHTF.

The Obama administration is letting BP handle the oil problem. That leaves me feeling so secure! Our 'do nothing' president strikes again.

I have read of segments of the border with Mexico that the Border Patrol does not patrol. It's down there where the rancher go killed. Here we are with millions of people out of work and the Border Patrol is letting millions of illegal workers into the country. Just one more thing the Obama people cannot solve. But they don't really want to solve the problems, you know. Obama wants all of those illegal aliens to become legal Democrat voters.

And the list of grievances goes on and on and I am getting tired of writing about them. We prep and prep and prep some more. Hoping to make it! Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

NO POST

2010-05-22T09:18:00.000-07:00

Just don't feel like blogging today. I feel I would just be repetitive. I'll try again tomorrow.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

THE EGO IS BRUISED

2010-05-21T06:59:00.000-07:00

Here we are, getting so soggy we might grow gills, and waiting to see what the end of the business day brings. I think it will show minimal damage to the system. The Presidential Push Team will be busy on the phone to those Bermuda banks buying stocks with your money to keep the price up for those of you who have no stocks. Can't let a failed program be known all over the place, you know. Obama's socialist programs are failing and everyone knows it. This Dark Lord from Chicago is a complete failure. What a boob! I wonder how it will affect his ego? Will he become bitter and hateful? Will he become a strident accuser of the people as his ship sinks into something well below mediocrity? And what will he do when he gets his ass handed to him in the Fall elections? Maybe he will resign and go to an island with some of his banking cronies. He has paid them enough for a seat, you know. He really let things go to hell when he let the President of Mexico address congress and the idiot told our politicians to reinstate the Assault Weapon Ban. This guy wants to run this country! It made me think a little differently about the illegals in our country. They want to come here to maybe prolong their life instead of having to die by drug lords in their homeland. I would want to get way from an idiot like that myself. But really they should support a pro-gun candidate for President and get the means to kick the drug lord's asses. But that ain't the socialist way you know. You have to live with those evil killers and change them. Good luck!

The drum beat of war is sounding across the land these days. The Carrier Group Harry Truman has set sail for the Med and other places. Is this normal rotation or is it a build up for an armed clash? The PTB have Hillary Clinton coming down hard on North Korea. And that could get ugly. South Korea and Japan could take a huge hit from this little shenanigan. A nuclear response from the USA could just wipe pit a whole big glob of humanity. And that is scary. That crazy mutha over in North Korea would love to start a nuclear war. What the hell do you think he was thinking when he got the stuff to make one of the damn things. Now there is not telling what he has. Ain't anyone got the balls to back him down and take his little radioactive toys away from him.

Nothing much else to talk about. Obama still wants to shut us down on the Internet and he still wants our guns taken away. Nothing new there. The Handmaiden got some free mulch and is busy with her terrace row down below the porch. It really is looking great. We have another soil build up coming to the hillside. It will be a BIG WIDE ROW. It will grow a huge amount of garden. That's about it for today. The market is up in positive territory. I told you those guys at the Bermuda banks would be getting a work out. They have to stall for time while they figure out what to say about Obama's failure. They have to get the spin just right so the pee-wee brain does not feel abused. All Hail The Failure! Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

MORE COLLAPSE

2010-05-20T06:53:00.000-07:00

It is Thursday as I type this and we are supposed to get some Sun today. Ain't hardly noticed any Sun for a few days. Could be an episode of good cheer! And we can use all the good cheer we can get our hands on.

This guy presently occupying the Whitehouse is not an American. And I don't care where he was born. This guy, Obama, is endangering the very air we breath and the water we drink. And the liberals are supposed to be such environmentalists. That oil well pumping crude into the Gulf of Mexico is just short of becoming a global catastrophe and Obama is doing nothing about it. What the hell is he thinking? That slop out there is going to be a total calamity when all the chips are counted in this little poker game. And he lets the President of Mexico stand out on the Whitehouse lawn and run down our properly enacted laws in Arizona. What the hell is going on, Obama? Are you so indoctrinated with foreign attitudes that you cannot even protect the people who elected you? I put up with your bowing and stooping to foreign leaders but this is getting to be too much. You must stop this oil leak and stop it NOW. You must send troops to the border and keep this alien invasion off our property. We can't afford these people any longer. They are bankrupting us as it is. For one moment try to think like an American. Try to think of a way to save us. It's the least you can do.

I saw some contention about taking on a mob at your retreat this morning. First thing to cross my mind was what ELSE are you going to do? Give up and let them have their way? I don't like the "give up attitude." To hell with giving up. Make 'em pay dearly for everything they get. The other point is something I have stressed for a long time and that is BE IN A GROUP. Have a plan. Put some thought into it. Do it NOW and don't wait until the mob gets there. I have explained the L shaped ambush a couple of times already. It works! Use it to your advantage.

I just checked the financial news. The DJIA is down about 255 points at about 11:30 a.m. Gold has dropped a little, but not much. Of course, the day is young and a lot can happen between now and when the market closes. The figure that got me was that the US Dollar is worth over 86 cents. So what the hell is 86 cents? Will it get you a cup of coffee? Not any place I buy coffee. Will it get you a gallon of gasoline? Not in the last 10 years. Will it get you a pack of cigarettes? Don't be ridiculous. Could you take it and belly up to the bar and drink a cold beer with it. Not any time in recent memory. So what is anyone selling that keeps the dollar up that high? How about Greek government bonds? Say, you know, that might be a good idea. Trade Greek bonds for dollars. That could make the dollar really look good. It will make the Euro look bad but who gives a damn about the Euro. Europe is about to crash anyhow so why worry about their currency? Seems pointless to me! I just sorta go along with the idea that when Europe goes then the USA is next.

I have been reading about the President of Mexico running his mouth a little more while he was here as our guest. It seems that he doesn't like our policy if blocking illegal aliens at our Southern border. But you know, the potty mouth little faggot never mentioned his own rules and regulations his country uses on THEIR southern border. It's bad for us to do it but well and good for them? Give me a break. Nuke the gay baby whales!

Well the market ended DOWN 376 points yesterday. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

COUNTER-MEASURES

2010-05-19T05:56:00.000-07:00

Well, we had some elections yesterday and it would seem that the Obama idiots got their asses handed to them. Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy. Arlen "The Magic Bullet" Specter got drilled in Pennsylvania. If you want to know the mentality of the average American citizen you just need to remember that this guy served on the Warren Commission after Kennedy got shot. They kept the guy in there all this time! He's 80 for chrissakes. He wears more make-up than an aging whore. I generally have some respect for older folks but in this case I depart from my usual practice. Good bye and good riddance. If you ain't heard, Dr. Rand Paul won the Republican primary race against an establishment guy in Kentucky. Laughing my ass off! The whole country is repudiating the evil cabal of Obama and Pelosi. Life could be about to become a living hell for these folks. And I hope the fires scorch them. I haven't been voting of late but I will be voting anti-establishment right down the line when I do. And that means you don't get my vote, Dan Coats. You have enough money. Stay home.

And I don't want all of you to think that this will make a damn bit of difference in the coming economic bad times. It ain't going to happen. The system is collapsing right along and these limited humans cannot stop it. You can't put the brakes on after the car has already gone off the cliff and is headed toward the rocks below. The ordained outcome will transpire. And after about tomorrow the press will have gone on to other things to save Obama the embarrassment of reading about his failure. Then we can get it on with the fall of the Euro and the EU. After that we can expect a few little surprises to arrive on OUR shores. They will not be surprises to the prepper community but they will sure be a surprise to our detractors. Life will start to get real tough. My son is real tough. He ran into a patient who was not responding to his own breathing mechanism. People are so constructed as to breath when the carbon dioxide level in the body is too high and they need oxygen. This drive to make you breath can fail. My son put his patient on high concentrated oxygen. A fellow Paramedic asked him why. There was other things wrong and that Paramedic was going to treat them. My son told the other paramedic that he was going to provide oxygen to the patient and become the driver himself. If the patient would not breath he would slap him up side the head until he did. The kid is tough. He was going to get done what had to be done, one way or another. And we, the preppers must learn this way of thinking. What ever has to be done had better get done. Like Bill Jordan used to say, "Ain't no second place winners". You make the shot or you get shot.

I was talking yesterday about defending against predators who come against you. They will shoot you going out to get water. They will shoot you when you go to check the mail, if there is any mail. All of the things you do by habit are what can leave you naked before a determined enemy. You have to break your habits. Don't do ANYTHING at the same time every day. Don't ever take the same path to the well or the outhouse every day. You have to become unpredictable. You have to become the unknown quantity. You used to getting up and taking a leak immediately? Better vary your pattern. Get an old Thunder Bucket if you have to. Anything to break your pattern. Your habits can kill you. And your enemy will be watching you for HABITS.

Get a Watch Dog. It don't have to be a big bruiser of a dog or a natural born killer. It just has to bark when it sees something out of the ordinary. The best watch dog around here is a Chihuahua named Banjo and he is a devout coward. Runs from his own shadow. But you go up toward his master's house and he sounds off like crazy and he don't let up until the master comes out or you head another direction. Can't fight his way out of a wet paper bag but he sure can raise hell. Just the ticket for a homestead out in the country. Especially one that does not have enough security on guard at night.

And you are in the process of sounding the alarm to your survival clan aren't you? This close to playing smear the queer and you ain't called in the troops? It may be a little early yet but it doesn't do any harm to keep things fired up a bit. When the twig snaps, when the rubber band unwinds, you want all your survival mates to be there a.s.a.p. We will not be playing games. So stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

DANGER

2010-05-18T07:34:00.000-07:00

It looks like another dark and gloomy day here in southern Indiana. My Brother-in-Law told me at breakfast that we are supposed to see the Sun on Thursday. I must say that God knows what He is doing and we will get what we need. It is sprinkling outside and I guess we will need the water later on. I ain't gonna bitch because humans are always bitching about something and God could get a little tired of that. The book says he sits on the rim of the world and the Earth is silent before him. I can understand him keeping the noise volume down. I am allowed to pray to him and to expect a hearing but I try not to bother Him too much. Just a little courtesy, a little respect, is all it is. But I think He likes it when those who can pray to him do so. He likes it when we cry out to him and put our hope in him. After all, he is our shelter in a time of storm.

My fan up in my bedroom does not blow on me. It is down at the foot of the bed and I want it to blow between my legs. I sweat a lot and it really does bother me. Today that situation has to get solved. Period.

I have been sitting out on the porch watching folks drive to work. I sometimes question their sanity in this action. Oh, I know that everybody needs to make a living and all of that, no problem. But they go out everyday expecting the gas station to be open and having fuel. They expect the fast food joints or the deli's or the buffets to have food ready to go when they get hungry. And it may not be too awful long before that is all over. The fuel may not be there, and the food place may be closed. What are they going to do? Will they panic? Will they go home and turn on the TV and await instructions? Will they sit at home and wait for things to change back to "normal"? I am already seeing people turn out a whole lot of lights at night. The electric bills are getting a bit pricey these days. You have to pay attention! But hitting them in their pocket book is a good way to get folks attention. The wife and I have pretty much gone through our poverty trip and have come out on the other side a bit stronger than when we went in. We know answers that we did not know before. We can cut our budget to zero if we have to do it. And cutting the budget to zero is what we are facing. And so are you. When the collapse gains enough speed, the budgets go out the door and you eat what you have and you sleep where you can. And I am saying this because I believe it. I knew a couple a few decades ago that were poverty stricken. He was 15 or 20 years older than his wife. And when rent day came around he would disappear for a while when the landlord came for the rent. The landlord would go inside and spend a few hours with the wife and then he would leave and the rent would be paid up for another month. Ugly? Yeah. But that is the way it could work and that is the way it got done. But most Americans are not used to living this kind of lifestyle. I know I ain't. And I ain't gonna be. But it happens. And life can get pretty cruel at times. And like I said, Americans are not used to living that way. Back in the first depression when girls had to travel the rails and thing like that they would cut their hair real short and keep their faces dirty and wear really baggy clothes to keep from looking like girls. It was a safety precaution. It seems that the more poverty that sets in the more animalistic humanity becomes.

And for the cause of animalistic humanity we get ourselves armed. We will not allow our friends and family to be victimized and humiliated for the sake of satisfying some beast's hearts desire. It just would not be right. I have a wife and two daughters and I could no more accept them being ravished by animals than I could fly unassisted. It would just be killing time as far as I am concerned. But this is what America is looking at in the future. And other writers have tried to talk about it is a nicer manner than me but that may have to go by the way today. Rape and murder and slavery are the terms we are talking about here and they ain't too damn funny. But that is how it is when the social infrastructure breaks down. It's like the volleyball I played when I was a kid: Jungle Rules. You did what ever you could get away with. And that is what we are looking at. You take those guys with the uniforms out of the picture and you are going to have a mess on your hands. You have a nice idea with your water filter. Damn fine invention. But it would not be a thing unlikely that TWO people go out for a bucket of water. One carries the bucket and the other carries a shotgun or a rifle. Just insurance, you know. Insurance to help warrant the return of the water bearer. And America is not used to attitudes like this. Going out to the well or the creek is not something they have considered as being anywhere close to dangerous. But if you were a desperado and you wanted to do evil to a household how would you rig the game so that you would win? If you were smart you would scout them out for a few days and learn their habits. Then you would make your kill and do what you wanted to do. That is the way the big boys play it in a war zone. You counter this with stealth and perimeter patrols, with people looking for signs of other humans. You don't leave things to chance because that could make you dead. Enough for now. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

TROUBLES

2010-05-17T06:31:00.000-07:00

Things are pretty wet around these parts. In fact, the wet stuff is coming down right now. But (drum roll) we got 13 rows of Cranberry Beans in the ground yesterday. 13 rows ! Man! Are we producers or what? And this rain is going to make sure we have good seed/soil contact. I do not know if we will get anything else in or not, but we got that much. The temperatures are down in the 50's and that is not making anyone very happy. But maybe we do have a 30 year cold spell coming in on us. Let it come. We will adapt or we will go down to Kemp's place in the hills of Southwestern Mississippi and get to it there. We are preppers and not afraid to do what has to be done. There is not quite enough evidence to make us move at this point, you understand, but it don't hurt to think about the future. And if the climate changes the other way, the wife and BIL have cousins in Northern Michigan not too far from the UP. But until the message is clear, we will ride it out in Southern Indiana. We're kinda familiar with it.

The word is out that there is still an ammo shortage in this country and no one has a good reason as to why. It ain't the fedgov that anyone knows about. They make their own ammo and are well supplied. And the commercial companies are running 24 X 7. So what is the score? Why is there a shortage of ammo? Are the cops stockpiling it? Something is going on and there is no reasonable explanation. I know that a couple months ago my son had my Colt Commander gone through by a gunsmith and made ready to roll. It's in sweet shape now. But he wanted to get me a box of ammo to run through the gun and he looked all over an Indiana town and could not find any. He finally hooked up with a box of Fiocchi 230 grain FMJ at an Army surplus store. And it was not cheap! I about gagged when I saw the price sticker. So what the hell is going on? We are producing, and this is my estimate from my reading, about 9+ billion rounds per month. Where in the hell is it all going? It would seem that the most ambitious survivalist would be stocked up to the gills by now. Most survivalists could have a semi-load by this time! Just curious, you know. This is big time news and it ain't making the screen. What is going on?

I am also wondering what is going on with the oil spill down in the Gulf. It has become evident to me that no one is trying to shut this damn thing off. BP is trying to recover the oil! This thing could have been stopped a month ago. Detonate one bomb right on the top of the well and it will collapse the damn well all the way down. But they are not trying to stop the gushing oil, they are trying to recover it! What are they thinking! To hell with the poor people of Louisiana and Mississippi. They want that goddamn oil! And this will show you exactly where we stand with our government. When an oil company has the power to reach inside the office of the President of the United States and maintain the biggest man-made environmental disaster in our history, in other words keep it going, then we have no representation in our government. It's over. The disconnect has transpired. The social contract is Kapoot! Lock and load! And I read all of the bullshit the media is putting out and it all makes me sick. What is the problem with this country that we cannot plug a goddamn leaking oil well? Has our morals fallen so low that we cannot bear to lose a dime, that we would risk the livelihoods of millions of people for a stinking oil well? Dear God say it isn't so. The latest word is that they are going to fill the well casing with drilling mud followed by concrete. It sure will be good to get this over with.

This day has been overcast and rainy and I will be glad to see it go. These days are made to make us appreciate the really few nice ones we get. But humans are always bitching about SOMETHING. I really feel like this year, 2010, will bring some bad times to the people of this planet. Don't ask me why, I just do. Now that BIG VOLCANO over in Iceland named Katla is starting to rumble. If that sucker goes off we have a problem, and I mean a major problem. But we will face whatever the good God of Heaven has in mind, hoping he will spare us for some purpose. But what ever our role, let us do it with good grace and hope in the future. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

NEWS AND VIEWS

2010-05-16T06:12:00.000-07:00

It looks like Obama is about to institute his police state, and I want to wish him lots of luck, cause it ain't gonna work. Too many people are in the know these days and the masses will get set up to listen for a change. They have not paid attention in the past. Dubya showed their weakness to the political world and the political world is going for the chrome. Still no budget passed this year. We have no budget for 2010-2011. And it is due on the scene by next month. What so you suppose is the matter? Are we just going to finance our government by fiat, like we print our money? This could get interesting. Of course that will be interesting as in "dry heaves" being interesting. Obama carries the breath of a dog on his mouth and the odor of a fat ugly woman on his body. He is not to be trusted. He will do the bidding of the New World Order come hell or high water. These guys have the idea that the NWO is a forgone conclusion and I am here to tel; that that it is not. It is a failed experiment. It was created to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. But it has already demonstrated it's power to ruin and people are not going to go for it. But it still tries to conquer. Monsanto has donated 475 tons of seed to Haiti. What great guys! Next year they will pay tons of aid money for their seed. But that is how the system rolls. You would think that Obama would raise hell about this. He knows that that seed is. And it is going to be used to enslave people of his own race. So I guess you can say that Obama is a race traitor on top of everything else he is. Get ready for some awesome legislation this Summer. The Dark Lord is be pushing for a VAT tax, hard and heavy. He will go after cap and trade in a big way. And like I said the federal budget is not even introduced as yet. These deals will sweep over us like a tsunami. We won't have a say about a damn thing. Mayberry has an excellent expose over on his KEEP IT SIMPLE SURVIVAL website. That man can write!

The real roar has to go out to bashingwilliam@aol.com this morning. The man has produced a blog post that will reveal a large portion of the phony prep suppliers we have selling us non-hybrid seed. These guys have been getting rich off of us, all the while pretending to be our friends. I guess we deserve it because we let them do it. But http://theelectedretards.blogspot.com/ will get you the real story. So you can read BASHING WILLIAM and get an idea of the rip off we have suffered and you can go to http://mayberry-keepitsimplestupid.blogspot.com/ and find out the next move by the Jack-Boot in Chief. Two very good articles and further proof that blogs have more real news and facts than the mainstream media, by far. So step right up and get your education folks! Just click on these hot links and get the latest and the greatest. I am proud to know both of these guys. Great job!

One thing I am not happy about is the mainstream media's avoidance of real news. What a sickening array of infotainment. It is disheartening. And you would think that Obama, as our Commander-in-Chief, would be warning the people like a mad man. This thing is getting more ugly by the day and Obama ain't saying a damn thing about it. He should be like that guy in The Fellowship of the Ring who was getting his ass tore off in battle and was blowing the Horn of Gondor. There was no one around to answer the call but he blew it anyhow. If Obama really loved this country he would be sounding the alarm. He should be stockpiling food like a crazy man. I think we have enough grain stored away to make everyone a half a loaf of bread. How sick. This guy Obama is a real guy. We should have two years of food stored at a MINIMUM. All the rice and beans and corn imaginable. Cheese and butter and eggs should be stuffed in those caves under Kansas City and a few other places. We are culling our national dairy herd right now because the market is over supplied. Any fool would know that this is the time to stock up. You can't do it in a drought! The time of plenty is the time to stock up!

We should have a couple million M-14's stored up and a couple billion rounds of ammo to go with them. Same with the M-16's. And tell the world that America is ready to rock and roll! The Commander-in-Chief should be proud of his country and it's attitude toward invaders and aliens. Not any of this apologizing and rolling of the eyes and hapless negotiations. Stand up and tell the bad guys to back off! There are lots of things to do to make this country stronger and more ready. If we would quit bailing out the banks it would stop a lot of cash flow problems. The hard decisions have to be made and the work started to get this country back on it's feet. And it is not getting done. The bailouts have been a complete failure. I get news from all over this country and things are not getting better, they are getting worse. And get rid of that damned NOT federal reserve bank. I get so tired of the smug-faced sonovabitch Ben Bernanke doing his double talk. Get rid of the bastard! And stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

FREEDOM

2010-05-15T05:11:00.000-07:00

I'm writing this as the Handmaiden and the brother-in-law head out to Amishland for their usual Saturday frolic. That means I will have good eggs for breakfast for another week. The blogs were pretty good this morning except for one genius on Survival Blog. He was noting that some preppers seem to think that things will be enjoyable when full scale collapse comes. He ran that idea down pretty well. But that tells me that this person does not have a soul that hungers for freedom and fairness in this world. It is more than likely that living conditions will degrade somewhat at some point in the collapse. And that might be a physical discomfort for some but it has nothing to do with any ideals we may harbor that says the system collapsing is a good thing because it is killing us as it is. The brother writing on Survival Blog must not have taken to heart the words about the tree of liberty needing watered by the blood of tyrants AND patriots. He must have missed that class. Some folks just don't admire the smell freedom in the air. I find it very refreshing myself. Another odor I like a lot is the smell of fear coming from my enemies sweat. That really gets me into high gear. It gives me that "pour it on 'em" attitude. One of life's rare treats if you ask me!

The DJIA fell over 160 points yesterday. Love it. Let the bastards go home and worry about their little game collapsing over the week end. But as long as there is a dollar to steal they will be back. It's in their DNA. They are much like those guys the Elder Brother took a whip to back there in Jerusalem a couple thousand years ago. They called them money changers back in those days. The Elder Brother said, "The zeal of thy household hath eaten me up!" Then he took the whip to them and overturned their money tables. Put it on them! And so it will be in the days ahead. Men will think to eradicate the tick that is sucking all of their blood. Men will think to eradicate the legislative traitors who have enacted laws that make the looting possible. BEFORE WE CAN HAVE PEACE WE MUST HAVE WAR. Sorry about that but I don't make the rules. Rule making is way over my pay grade. I think it is what the Bible calls "For as a man soweth, so shall he reap." What goes around comes around.

I have been reading about Jessica Watson down in Australia. The sixteen year old girl has sailed around the world by herself. Youngest person to have ever done it. As she was sailing into Sydney Harbor she was boarded by the 18 year old guy who had held the title of youngest to circumnavigate the globe and he took it on into the harbor while she got to see the crowd that had come to greet her and welcome her home. She was sailing a 34 foot yacht named Ella's Pink Lady. She had not stepped off of the boat the whole trip. I thought about Mayberry and how he would probably love to sail that boat around the globe. He could do it too, by God.

Before I shut down for the day I would like to mention that Sarah Palin told the members of the NRA that Obama would like to take way our guns. Now, ain't that a concept. I know a bunch of people who would be goddamn pissed off it that were to arise. But I reckon that Bill Clinton will explain to Obama what will happen if he decides to take the guns. If he can in fact take the guns. I doubt that he can do it. The price is too much to pay. Stay alive.

LATE BREAKING STORY

Go to the Elected Retards and read William's story on the rip off we have been getting on non-hybrid seed. It's at http://theelectedretards.blogspot.com/

YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS STORY.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

FOOD AND MARKETS AND TRAITORS

2010-05-14T07:10:00.000-07:00

It rained last night and most planting is off the table but the wife is going to plant Parsnips in the terrace row on the hill below the porch. Something is going to get done. Yeah team! I am wanting to get in some Rutabagas to have some sort of "bulk" nutrition next Winter. Ruta's have so much more to offer than a potato it ain't even funny. And they taste good too. All I gotta do is figure out how to wax them. Rutas are waxed for storage. I do not know why but I bet I find out. We had fried chicken for supper last night. I can eat fried chicken until I just can't eat any more. God must have had me in mind when he caused the dish to be invented. I am not getting much done on solving the problem of no chicken coop and it is bumming me out. I will just have to be patient and wait until the time is exactly right. Eggs for breakfast is a wonderful thing, especially when the eggs are not those factory, watery things you get from the store. Our radishes and cabbages are doing well. My garlic is looking VERY healthy. First time I have ever grown garlic. I also found out my wife, the Handmaiden, has some cilantro growing in the terrace row. It is only fit and proper that I grow some onions to make salsa. Homemade salsa. It just does not get any better than that.

I cannot stress the importance of growing cheap food to you. There are some surprises coming up and you don't want to be caught needing food. And if you think for one minute that the fedgov will take care of you I wish to say that you are horribly wrong. Our people in the fedgov are the most inept bunch of idiots on the planet. What ever way they go you can bet it is the wrong way. If we have a hundred million people starving you can almost predict that the fedgov will find some totally useless place to spend the money. And Obama will give a great speech explaining why it had to be done. But that shit will stop pretty soon too, because there is not going to BE any money for helping anybody. Our money will become toilet paper. You can use it to wipe your butt or start a fire. Branches off of trees will be worth more than our money. You can use tree branches to cook food or heat a dwelling and those are are real world accomplishments that need looked into. Last year I bought a couple of bow saws for cutting branches. I also have a "new in the package" 12" Mill Bastard file. I have been around saws of one kind or another for decades. I can generally get them to cut. Yessir.

I just checked the DJIA and it was down 180-some points for the day, so far. Things could be getting a little rough on Wall Street. Poor babies. Don't they realize that Wall Street will likely be razed to the ground in a short while? Don't they realize how much the American public hates them? Do they understand how they have blackened the name of most businesses in this country? I still remember when Goldman Sucks handed out guns to a lot of their guys. Getting ready to make your escape fellas? Got the Limos ready for the trip to the airport? All the food goodies stashed on the island? And the wine and the girls and the drugs? Probably have the bigger, heavier guns already on the island so you can repel angry representatives of decent governments. Are you sure the the medicine on hand will be enough? And are the doctors and nurses all taken care of? Whew! This instant expatriate stuff is complicated, ain't it? I have often wondered about the similarity of TRADER and TRAITOR. And as the days move on I find the difference almost meaningless.

Gonna shut down on this post and have an afternoon of talking treason and drinking a couple beers with the Handmaiden. Her suggestion. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

GARDENS, BLOGS, GOVERNMENT

2010-05-13T07:15:00.001-07:00

Howdy and good morning to you all. It has been a pleasant morning so far and we are enjoying it. The garden will be checked for moisture content but it is not going to be acceptable, we think. It just got too damn much water yesterday and the days before. We think it will get into the high 80's today and that should be drying things out a bit. I hope so. I want to get the seed in the ground. It has been my observation that you can't get a garden to grow unless you get the seed in the ground. Once the seed is in the ground you run into other things to worry about but that is beside the point. Ain't no sense worrying about weeds and water until there are plants there a growing. We will follow our regular method of preserving things and thus guaranteeing that we have food this Winter and next Spring. You can't have too much preserved food. If you can't eat all of it there will damn sure be someone who will help you get the job done.

I want to give Chinasyndrome a heads up this morning. He has three blogs he writes to and he has kept 'em pretty well stocked up this week. China doesn't try to be erudite or anything like that. He just sort of writes in a common vernacular and make his point in a simple manner. And he writes the damnedest questions you ever read. Real simple questions, easy to understand but difficult for the Powers That Be to answer. Give him a look. He ain't hard to find. You can pick up his trail at http://chinasyndrome-americanapocalypse.blogspot.com/ and work from there. You'll be keeping good company. You can also get on http://theelectedretards.blogspot.com/ and have a pretty good time. You can reach him via email at BASHINGWILLIAM@aol.com. This guy knows a lot about the SEED business. He can save you a TON OF MONEY. Just get on him and tell him to give up the data. He's a Prince of a fella and will give you the low down on what is what. He told me that we preppers have been take to the cleaners on what we pay for non-hybrid seed. He really has an amazing story to tell. And speaking of non-hybrid seed, we had beans last night. Home grown Cranberry beans. Cooked with a little bit of ham and some onion. Delicious! Those beans are so flavorful as to be unbelievable. Just put the stuff in a crock pot and go do other things. A little bit before supper you just put on some cornbread and sit tight. You will have some fantastic eating ahead of you.

The DJIA is shuckin' and jivin' today. A little bit down as I last checked. Who cares? Not I. The word is out that Angela Merkel is going to take Germany off of the Euro and put in back on the Mark. I would laugh my ass off at this. I have two beers stashed in the 'fridge and I would drink them in celebration of Merkel sticking to her anti-bail out position. It has been so long since a politician showed any kind of principle in this tired old world of ours. And the deal over in the Eu is the same old tired song and dance that we has played by our American orchestra. Take mega-bucks of taxpayer money and pay off all the banks bad debts. Make all their balance sheets look like gold. And the dumb or crooked moves they made with their money originally is all covered over and of no account any longer. The tax payers are out a trillion or so but who worries about them? They can pay the money back for DECADES. The stupid sheeple will never know the difference. Champagne for the House! The world is safe for banking again. My, don't it give you that warm fuzzy feeling? But the Irish and the Greeks are saying no deal and they are rioting their asses off. I can agree with them.

As a parting shot I just read that the next 2000 page bill to go before congress will be the financial reform act. All kinds of spy shit on the American public and two new bureaucracies will be formed. Spy on the citizens and make government bigger. We are to pay and pay and pay. Don't give the people any type of break. Keep their noses to the ground at all times. I reckon they must deserve it, cause they are sure going to get it. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

JUST LIFE

2010-05-12T03:59:00.000-07:00

And we get a very wet planting day to start the cycle. It's been raining cats and dogs for about an hour and a half so far. But there will be a day of opportunity and the planting will begin. Seems to always happen that way. But my son wants to start installing our new bath tub today and we will be around to help. The old tub is not going to last much longer and we can get water to it even if the power goes off, so a new tube it is. My son is helping us out financially to get this task accomplished. I ain't used to those circumstances. Not at all. But it is his idea and not mine. We shall see how it works out. His thinking is that the tub will not last for the "maybe" two years he will be away to Las Vegas for an RN nursing degree. He only has to take one class and then a year of clinicals. He is a pretty damn good Paramedic and he will add to his income and his expertise with an RN degree. He has sisters and a mother in Las Vegas and will probably get free rooming for his trouble. I am just afraid that he has no idea of what Las Vegas might be headed into this year. Things could get pretty messy out there. He just does not believe that a collapse is coming and I believe it is already here. So we go on with what there is and hope for the best.

I have had the computer shut off twice already this morning as the thunderheads have shed their lightning. It seem to have abated for a while so I am typing once again. The weather radar says we may have a break now. The thunderheads I see on the radar are at St. Louis. The wife saw old Mad Tech, the Great Blue Heron, last night. He has been feeding like a mad man in his absence. He has really picked up the weight. I told the wife that Mad Tech is in his weight gain mode after his Winter cut-back. He has been eating frogs and worms and fish and whatever suits his fancy and lots of it. The five ducks in the lake were all out in full force last night. They are picking up weight also. Winter is hard on critters.

Life is hard these days, especially for a low income guy like me. And I have had to prep without much money. But I have managed and God has seen to it that things get bought. It is really amazing what has been wrought. We have our emergency food stash. This land that we live on has huge amounts of water. If the soil will dry out we will have a good garden and thus more food in storage. It all works together for good. Sometimes I would like to take the wife out to dinner but we can't afford it and we eat better than we can buy anyhow. The Handmaiden is a pretty good cook. It just takes some getting used to in order to enjoy life on a smaller and slower level. But it can be done and it is pretty nice once you get used to it. You start noticing things you never saw before. You are not constantly reaching for your wallet. Conversations start to have real meaning. You feel like you might be gaining on the learning curve. And the wife has been a big help in acquiring our prep goodies. Couldn't have done it without her. At least I don't think I could have. I reckon if things were to be then they just happen. But I will give credit where credit is due. Lots of folks have contributed to my preps and I am eternally grateful to them and the God who caused them. I hear more rumbling and must get off line. Stay live.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

SURVIVAL

2010-05-11T08:08:00.000-07:00

Strange thing. It's almost noon and the stock market is still down a bit, about $11. I figured the bounce that started yesterday would continue into Wednesday, at least. But the presidential push team will take over when it looks like another bad day. The politicians do not like bad days! It will probably come up a bit and make some good news. I could give a damn less. No money in it for me either way.

I saw lot of good articles on the blogs this morning. It does not seem like anybody is buying the happy days are here again bit from Wall Street. People seem to be more interested in home defense and food storage. Both subjects are getting a lot of space.

One thing I have decide in my own mind is about the use of the word ZOMBIE in writing about survival topics. I have decided that is it very appropriate and well used. A Zombie is the living dead. They are up and shuffling around but they are dead. And the masses of citizens in this country warrant classification as Zombies. There is no life in them. They go about their daily routine and accept their lot in life without question. But they have no initiative or original thinking. When faced with the possibility of a social breakdown they do whatever the TV tells them is best to do. They are mindful of everything a politician tells them. They are very difficult to converse with. You leave certain blank spaces in your conversation so that they might express their opinion and you quickly find out they have none. They scrupulously avoid doing anything extra to maintain their lifestyle. No survival garden on THEIR property. Their main source of food is the deli section of the local convenience store. If it ain't processed food then it ain't food! And getting our hands on real food is going to be a major part of our survival effort in the future.

I have gotten a line on a place to buy open pollinated corn. It is the real deal or at least looks that way. It's at http://www.openpollinated.com/benefits.htm They will sell you open pollinated seed corn, enough to plant a whole farm if you care to do it. And the price is going to be reasonable. One of my favorite terms, "the price is reasonable." The open pollinated seed sellers on the survival sites are getting rich off of us. We ought to be getting some other sources. I'll turn the crowd on to what I find if you care to check things out. If anyone has a good place to buy open pollinated seed "at reasonable prices", let me know and I will get the word out.

The Handmaiden is cooking Millet for supper. I had a taste of it and it ain't bad. I can't chew it because I have no teeth but the flavor is good. The trouble with it is that it is so damn small. I can chew a steak or a pork chop or a salad but those Millet grains are just too damn tiny for me to get a hold of. Stealth Survival had a good recipe for Pemmican that I want the Handmaiden to try and make. That stuff lasts a long time and has high nutritional value. I'll be signing off now and hoping you have a good day. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

TROUBLES AND MARKETS

2010-05-10T11:30:00.000-07:00

I have waited until Monday afternoon to write this post. Just was not in the mood after listening to a verbal barrage that was intended to humble me at a meeting last night. I was not humbled. I was actually a bit ashamed of my antagonist. He could get nothing on me and therefore stayed in the realm of inuendo and generalities. I couldn't be bothered to mount an offensive. How do you fight warm air? It is all over my talking about the collapse and the troubles coming down the road. This guy did not want to hear about it. He wants to stay in the spirit and not deal with things of a negative effect. And it is true that there is no high like the Most High. But my talk, which prompted the reply, was about growing extra food for people in the village. Food prices are way up and don't look to be going down and there are a lot of kids who will need to eat. I said it was time to start being fatherly and looking out for those who don't have what it takes to prepare. Not a real heavy message but one that could start something for the benefit of everyone. Oh well. We will see if anyone was helped or not. I gave it a shot.

The market today is giving us the Big Bounce. It should last until Wednesday with no problem. A lot of the loss incurred last week will be made up but probably not all of it. Then we get back to the real world again. And the real world is that there is not reason for a stock market boom to be going on. No new products. No new mineral discoveries. No new manufacturing. Nothing of any real interest. "Nothing new here. Just same shit different day. Keep moving." And for all the cheerleading and noise making and media manipulating, there just ain't a damn thing worth putting your money into. America has all of her money tied up in twenty million empty homes. Let's see now...at $100,000 apiece that is over two trillion dollars. Quite a stash of cash for being empty homes. Homes they can't sell. Wonder why there is no money moving around the country now. So don't get any ideas that the bad times are going way beecause they are not. The fat lady has sung. We partied down for a few years on all that construction money and now it is over and we have to declare poverty. Seems like wanting to grow some food for those too young and those too stupid to prepare is not a bad thing to do. Times could get rough.

The market is close and it's up $404. Not a bad number for something that is really not there. It is all because Europe has supposedly pledged a billion Euros to back it's debt. Again, let me remind you that none of this billion Euro pledge is made up or based upon anything of value. It is pulled out of the air and consequently has about that much value. The stock brokers are all beating themselves on the back and congratulating themselves no end. Just like they did when the stock market hit 14,000 a few short years ago, you remember, right before it went to six or secen thousand. These bounces are nothing to invest it, folks. They can go away like a puff of smoke on a breezy day.

Things are not so hot with the weather. It does not get cold and it does not get hot. But tomorrow is supposed to get to 72 and that should be nice. We are to plant garden Wednesday and it is to rain. But that is part of the game. Old enemy Thunder Storm will fall asleep at the wheel after a while and the seeds will go into the ground. Then of course, we will be looking for rain. Ah, the fickleness of it all. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

LA VIOLENCIA IS ON THE WAY

2010-05-09T04:37:00.000-07:00

I got an interesting email from Remus this morning. It was a post from another blog. The guy writing said that there had been a big battle between the impersonal global economic system and the concept of nation states. The global economic system beat the living hell out of the nation state idea and we are about to watch the nation states disintegrate. I don't think many of us can disagree with this analysis. It's pretty much right on the money. What Remus sent me was not very long so I read it twice. I noticed that not many stood up and fought back for the nation states. Loyalty amongst the masses was sorely lacking. Or maybe there was not much loyalty to be found within the nations state's government. Maybe the masses were sold out like we have been. They probably were. And you can wonder how this could happen on a global basis. I say wonder no more. The international central banks are the culprits. The Bilderburgers and the tri-lateralists and the international banks were the mechanism. These folks are the octopus that has spread it's tentacles into every facet of every one's lives. And they are merely part of the conspiracy we now call the New World Order. The NWO is merely a bill of goods sold to the masses to make them think that everything is going to be alright. And we all have learned that the NWO bill of goods is just a bunch of hog crap. It's all about power and money and control of us little guys who dwell way down the totem poll of the Powers That Be. But the good God in his infinite mercy has let a bunch of us communicate and compare notes and we know something about what is going on. And it might be for the saving of a few of us. We are armed and loaded up on food and first aid and any goodies we can think of or afford. We also have attitudes and they count for a bunch.

The NWO has us where they where they think they want us. The banks and all their loans will be the main factor in deciding this. They will say that all loans will have to be paid off. I say they can rot in hell! None of us made the decision to print and loan that money. None of us made the decision as to who GOT the money. And really this is all smoke and mirrors because the money is ours to begin with. Our printing presses were used. Our Treasury made out the notes. Our central bank, the (not) federal reserve, has given all of our enemies in the banking class all that money at no interest. They in turn loan it out to the owners of the money at a higher rate of interest. They have it rigged to get you coming and going. You owe and your government owes. They hold the I.O.U. for both parties. We are all supposed to get in line and march as we are told. What a plan!

But it ain't gonna work because we ain't gonna pay! How about that, banksters? You are going to fail in your mission of enslavement. The victims are going to run out on you. You will be left holding a worthless bag of paper. It will at least make a firestarter for us to use as we burn your buildings down, like they did over in Greece. When the people get pissed it is too bad for you! And the people are going to get very pissed off. I could go so far as to say EXTREMELY pissed off. If you fedgov trolls bother to read the comments on my blog you will note that there are in fact some angry people out there in fly-over country. And like I said, we are armed and have food and medical. We have water and gardens. We ain't looking for trouble so much as promising to NOT AVOID it. The only thing I will avoid is your bullets. I will be behind a large hardwood tree. Very tough to shoot through. You will not know where I am but I will know where you are and I will make your life very miserable, until it ends. The Greeks are burning Athens. The cops are catching hell on a daily basis. The cops are going to get tired of taking the fires and bricks pretty soon. But I think there will be a lot more burning of government buildings and banks before it is all over. You see, we know too much now and you are going to pay for all the shenanigans. It will come to America pretty damn soon. Obama is trying to get ready, if he can take care of the other fires licking at his hindquarters at the moment. He really does not have too many friends in this ol' world. His actions and the actions of past presidents have left a bad taste in the world's mouth. And I am the mouthwash. Step right up and get your bad taste removed! "Forget all you troubles, forget all your cares and go out of town, things will be great when you're out of town!" Thank you Pet Clarke. My my, it seems these days we always get back to starving the beast. Mayberry is right about that. Right on the money. They tell me that a big portion of the people are into the "black" economy these days. Whatever would possess a people to do that? Why, it's illegal. Taxes are not being paid. Don't you support the fedgov? HAH!

I think that La Violencia will pay us a visit within a month. How long it stays to visit is another matter. Not that I give a damn. Better to be a casualty than a slave. It's all coming our way folks and you had better get ready for it. And stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

LOOKING AT THE FUTURE

2010-05-08T05:02:00.000-07:00

I just re-read The Coming Economic Depression again this morning. The Economic Analyst had a long list of guys who predicted that this year will be the collapse . Start looking to see violence breaking out. About six million people are going to run out of unemployment benefits pretty quick and they are going to be hard pressed to make it. Hard pressed as in Impossible. It is hard to imagine that this is happening to America. But our money is no good and our credit is no good and our manufacturing machine needs to be patched up and grown a bit. We don't need to be fighting all over the place like we are now either so we could save a bunch of money if we brought the troops home. Of course we would have to put them on unemployment once they got home, but that is cheaper than keeping them overseas.

Your net worth in the future will be determined by how close you live to your food source. A well off man will live at his food source. Poor people will live a long way from their food source. I am trying to tell you something here. And that something is you had better be able to produce your own food. And you produce food on ground, not on concrete or asphalt. It kinda helps if you don't have real close neighbors to steal your crops from you, also. And your crops will damn sure get taken. Don't think they won't. Those people who ridiculed us, and who still do, will take your food and not think a thing about it. You got it and they need it. Pretty simple thing in their mind. Sorta goes back to the "profits are personal and losses are public" sort of thing. The wife went to buy some vegetables at a cheapo version of Krogers today and the Zucchini was $3 a pound. Brussel Sprouts were $4 a pound. You toucha my squash and I breaka your face! She did not even bother to check the prices of tomatoes, but she will go back in a couple days and get those prices. Cliff in Georgia will have the lowdown on that I would imagine. I'll hear from him in a day or two. I remember last Fall when one of the Rothschild family said they were going to get into buying vegetables in India this year. They will resell them into Europe and make a fortune. Funny how guys like that always seem to know how the market is going to run. You don't suppose that...naw... couldn't be. I reckon that the environmentalists who shut down that big vegetable growing valley in California are happy now. Bastards. But, like Ilargi was putting up on her Automatic Earth blog, the major things going bad are the direct fault of man and not nature.

I am thinking about the genetics of certain people. I look at the credit default swaps that are going to completely bankrupt the world. Now they can't bankrupt me because I went through my financial shaking a couple of years ago and am now pretty clear. I get some nasty phone calls but they don't seem to bother me. If they are a collection agency then I just hang up. I sort of enjoy it. Wife refuses to answer the phone so it falls to me. But laying that aside, who would formulate a plant to enslave their brother? Because that is what has been done. The banksters aim to enslave us all for the rests of our lives. And they will try to get their hands on what our kids and grandkids make, if they can. And this is what makes me wonder about these people. Taking a persons sustenance is like murder. These people are killers. And there is a guy in the Bible who is called a killer from the beginning. And if it is from the beginning then the blood line goes back quite a long ways. Not pointing any fingers you understand, but just noticing things. I was reading an article on RENSE today and it was talking about the Ashkenazi Jews. It would seem that they are not related to the Jews of historical Israel at all. They were sort of coerced into becoming Jews sometime after 700 a.d. and have been trouble ever since. Every Premier of Israel has been one of these Ashkenazi guys. I mean, I'm just saying. I don't know what it all means, but it will come out in the wash. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

THE COLLAPSE

2010-05-07T07:20:00.000-07:00

Looks like the makings of another beautiful day here in southern Indiana. I've been told it will rain this afternoon but I don't care. Our steady-eddie puddle down on the lane will get a good refreshing. And that will keep the dust down. I just checked the market and the DJIA is down about $180 at 10:50 a.m. If this keeps up I am going to call "COLLAPSE" and drink a beer. A little celebration will be in order for the good guys! And things can get real rough and I know it and I don't look forward to any of my friends going through hard times or getting hurt, but I am also sick of the people who cried out it will be over soon and everything will be back to normal. As Mayberry would say, "Morons!" This ain't no blip on the screen, this is a full scale unraveling of the system under which we live. And I have earnestly sought it for 45 years. Hell I knew the system was crooked when I was still wet behind the ears. All it has done has been to spread the ugliness around the globe so that all of our imitators could get a dose of the same reality we are about to get. Welcome to the party, suckers! We all go down the drain together! But the prepper may not be so bad off as you who believed it could not happen. IT CAN HAPPEN! By the way I just checked the market and it is only $19 down, Going back it was $90 some dollars down. This could get wild. The wife is bringing home a twelve pack of Miller Lite and she and I and the brother-in-law will sit out on the porch and have a Bonfire of the Vanities party this evening. I thought that was an appropriate name.

But to get away from the DJIA for a while, the brother-in-law planted a plot of Sunflowers this morning, right outside his door. We can eat the things or the wife can grind the seeds and make flour for bread. It is a good substitute if you can't grow wheat or you are allergic to it.

It is now the dark early hours of Saturday morning, May 8, 2010. The market dumped about half a trillion dollars on Thursday and Friday this week. The collapse is on! Don't doubt it. And don't expect the media to tell you about it. And for God's sake don't believe anything a politician says. We are staring at the Wrath of God right now. Your time to do anything is limited. If you have already started to prepare then you have something to build on. If you have not started to prepare then you are between a rock and a hard place. Get busy.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

ARMED AND READY

2010-05-06T06:25:00.000-07:00

It's another beautiful morning here at at the homeplace. The air is so clear that there cannot be any humidity. If I could only schedule these kind of days for July and August. We all slept like rocks last night. My wife and brother-in-law are going to the garden shortly to throw rocks out of the dirt. The rocks are not all that much trouble but they are both well rested and full of hope for the future of food production and so they will be off to the dirt post haste. I give them my blessing. It beats having them be the kind of people who would sit around with a crack pipe and do nothing all day. But they are not the kind of folks to do nothing. Guaranteed. I loaned my brother-in-law an 870 Wingmaster this morning. Gave him some 00 Buck and a box of #8 shot to play with. He knows what to do and I feel better with him armed. I should have armed him months ago but my mind was not on the subject but I have taken care of it now. It is a good gun and works fine. It has an extended tube and holds 6 shots counting one in the chamber. You can hose down an area mighty quick with that devil. Neither one of us wants to have trouble but we are not backing down from any. Savvy?

I just checked the DJIA and it is down 83 points at 11:30 a.m. I don't know about all of this down market we are having. A voice said the market would go back up and then collapse. Has it gone back up all it will manage? Hard to say. But if this thing keeps dropping then you all had better get your butts in gear for survival preps as best you can. I am afraid that when this thing goes it will hurt this country like it has never been hurt before. Pete Smith better get the hell out of California if it blows. I worry about him. But whatever happens I now he will be prepared and that COUNTS. Cash will be King for a while after the system collapses and then it will be whatever anyone will take for whatever you want to buy. I think that will be called BARTER.

I got me some more Beta Blockers yesterday. Glad to see those little devils added to my stash. Medicine will be a very nice thing to have in the coming bad times. The Handmaiden will be gathering herbs and such as fast as she can pick 'em. Those free greens are loaded with things that will do you a world of good. We have had nettles and dandelion greens already this Spring. Lambs Quarters will be coming on line real soon too. Besides having lots of good fiber these plants have some great nutritional benefits to go along with plain old gut packing. If you read Lew Rockwell dot com you will find he has a health article about every day, six days a week. I have found some very good stuff on that site. Very good indeed. Unless my friend from Maryland gets back here pretty soon I am about where I am going to be for ammo. But I will manage. On account of I HAVE to manage. I think it is pertinent to the discussion that I say that I am not telling you these things just to make a word count on a post. I don't play that game. I am doing it to let you know that I am serious about prepping and that I do it every day I possibly can. The wife has salad vegetables growing just below our porch and I can keep them covered with my shotgun at all times I am awake. #8 shot will do the job quite handily. The garden, while not guarded, does have a solar powered fence around it. Actually, it has TWO solar chargers keeping the fence hot. Two wires, two chargers. It helps to take a leak down there once in a while. A lot of animals are really bummed out by the smell of human urine. If you try this technique, do not urinate on the hot wires. Not good.

I just checked the market again and gold is almost $1200 an ounce and the DJIA is falling. Almost classic collapse conditions. I may be ahead of the game but it sure is getting interesting. And it is good to see it right now because I think when this thing falls it is going to hit like a thunderclap and we won't get a whole lot of warning. God is merciful, however, and may give us some time to do some more prepping. Always keep prepping, What you have on hand now you won't have to search for in a few weeks. Life will be easier that way. And don't forget clothes and feminine products and things like that. Your tooth paste and dental floss and all that stuff you will be wanting. If it goes so far down that the trucks have to stop running then you are in a world of hurt. Stay live.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

STRANGE DANGER

2010-05-05T04:11:00.000-07:00

It's a beautiful morning. Clouds going overhead slowly like strange ships of the air. Supposed to get into the 80's today. I think the ground is warming up and the garden should get a good start next Monday. The kids are walking sooo slowly to the bus in the morning. And they will be going to school up into June this year. Too many snow days this last Winter. I feel sorry for them. Who would want to spend these beautiful Spring days in NWO propaganda classes? It must seem like a real waste of time. And that is mostly what school is all about. You learn your social rules and how to behave and what is expected of you and then you are turned loose to make a living. No wonder we have such an unsettled group of youth in this country. But we ain't seen the half of it yet. When they finally realize how much they have been lied to they will be furious. Might not do them any good though, if they are too weak from hunger to do anything about it. Or their minds are not functioning properly because of protein deficiency. I hate this society. But people bought into the game and now they get the prize. No sense beating a dead horse. And it looks like it is a dead horse, for sure. Look at what is being done to the people and they are not doing jack shit about it. They are under surveillance every where they go. Their emails and their blogs are read all the time. Their money and their country are being stolen at a rapid rate by the greedy ones. And they sit in front of their TV's and listen to the media tell them that everything is getting better and that it is onward and upward. What a bunch of duds. A dud is a round that never went off. It's a misfire, a defective piece of crap. Better to have not even got into the chamber.

I hear tell we had a primarily election yesterday here in the great state of Indiana. Ol' Dan Coats won the Republican primary and will run for the US Senate. I can guarantee you that I will not vote for him. He is part of the Washington machine. He has been making his living off of who he knows for a long time. He retired from the Senate because Evan Bayh decide to run and he knew he would get his ass whipped to a bloody froth if he tried to beat Evan. But Evan is retiring and the miserable Coats smells opportunity. Look out! Another sell out is on the way to power! Don't you just love the way this country is run? Anything Obama and his minions want to enact, as long as it will help Coats and his big business buddies, will get Coats' vote. But that is the way the voters have decided and that is the way it shall be. That the voters are suicidal means nothing. Coats ran on the motto "Hoosier Values." Ain't no value this Hoosier ever claimed.

In reading articles and stories, from time to time I feel like I am not part of the main body of humanity. I am not part of the herd of humans who populate this country and this world. It brings to mind a passage of scripture that talks about being in the world but not of the world. I am standing on the planet along with the rest of you but I don't seem to see things like the rest of the world sees them. Do you ever feel that way? Could it be an indication of the origin of your soul? Is it a clue to your real identity? Does it tie you in with a whole new family? Why can't you just roll over and accept what is dished out to you by the Powers That Be? Why are you so damned different from the mass of humanity? You have probably used the word 'masses' before but this might give you a better understanding of what you are really saying.

You know, we have suffered ridicule and hatefulness because of our stand in the way of the world. We see it as being in a terrific state of peril. And it is in peril. Peril as has never been seen before. More peril that has ever been wrought by any army of history. A peril that will destroy maybe billions of our fellow man. We talk about it but we are ignored, passed off as crazy folks who haven't got it together. So we continue to be in the world but not of the world. But we are surrounded by folks who cannot see the trees because of the leaves. And these people are of this world. These people will become our enemies in the days ahead. And I didn't make it that way but I have to live with it just like you. Be careful and stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

THE RIP-OFF

2010-05-04T06:35:00.000-07:00

No rain this week was the forecast. So we had Thundershowers all night. Thus another example of the forecasters art. But we are to see the 80's this week so things should dry out okay. We are supposed to put in our garden starting next Monday. I dread the work but I relish the thought of all of those great preps we will get out of the deal. Not much doubt about what is in the food if you grew it yourself. And the ingredients are what count. Your health and well being are of great importance in the coming bad times and you should do your best to keep them in top shape. You can only be of help if you are strong and healthy.

I have decided that I do not like taxes. They are a rip-off and we have very little to do with how they are spent. It is like having a crazy King to whom you give money and he turns around and puts you in prison because he doesn't like the color of your hair. Or he makes a bunch of his buddies rich with your money. It's insane. And the more of the insanity I see the more I think STARVE THE BEAST is the way to go. It is not an easy road to travel but it can be done. It takes discipline. You just have to say NO to things you now say YES to. Buy as little stuff that requires sales tax as you can possibly do without. Pay everything as late as you can pay it. Paying on time makes THEIR SYSTEM run better, not necessarily your system. Be real cagey about this because you don't want to pay them a bunch of late fees that will swell their bottom line. STAY OUT OF COURT. Going to court puts you in the heart of the beast and costs you money. Grow as much of your food as you can. Get a garden in and load it up with stuff that you can store for a long time. And do not store food in freezers! Costs like hell and will go up in cost. I know a man who is a leader of a people on Georgia. He has a small church on several acres and he has let his people build homes on the property. This year he put in a 15 acre garden. He's about 75 or 80 so he didn't do much of the work but he sure got them younger ones out there to hit it. But this is a man who plans for the future. A future he does not look at with fondness at this point. At least not from a human outlook. He has always invested in land and built lakes and bought cattle. Don't know that they ever made much money off of the cattle and land but it sure is looking good now! They have a place to live and beef on the hoof and fish in the lakes and fish in the river that flows through the property. That 15 acre garden is sure going to put a big dent in their grocery bill. But they will eat and have a roof over their head and make out okay and they will NOT BE FEEDING THE BEAST. He has told his people that they can only put HALF of their garden in the freezer this year. The rest goes into glass jars. The back of his church is a big kitchen where they can all eat. Lots of stoves and freezers and shelves and stainless steel sinks and all that paraphernalia plus a lot of tables and chairs. But if the electricity goes out they can cook outside just fine and dandy.

To make things a little interesting I was looking at story on Prison Planet this evening. It was about the $140 billion bailout of Greece, of which the USA is contributing $8 billion dollars. Eight billion bucks we are gonna put in the pot for Greek to get out of the hole and just have one loan to pay off. But if you read the story you find that the money is going to pay off the banks who own the bonds that Grcece has been coasting along on. That $140 billion is going to the banksters! They will not lose a cent! And Goldman-Sachs will have another record breaking bonus this next quarter. I am sure the banks will toast us with fine Champagne for our generosity. And that money was originally from our taxes or debt to be paid for with our taxes. We have got to starve this beast. It has gone insane. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

OIL AND SUCH

2010-05-03T06:21:00.000-07:00

Hot weekend for news. TWO Internet publications put out the story on the North Koreans using a mini-submarine to blow the oil rig in the Gulf to smithereens. But one is just a re-write of the other and it is a little hard to tell who is right and who blowing smoke. Mighty interesting story. The plot of the story is that Obama has put a block on any news going out about the incident. Top secret hush-hush type of thing. We are supposed to go along with some sort of mechanical failure story and Obama has a posse of minions trying to solve the problem of the leaking oil well. If the story is true I would say that Obama's ass ain't worth the powder to blow it up. If the story is true then South Korea should become an island. But, a big old nuclear non-proliferation conference is scheduled to start today at the UN. Obama will give a pretty speech to the general assembly and receive thunderous applause. He likes that. I remember that Joe Biden said that Obama would be tested and maybe the test is on. There are a lot of nasty bastards out there who would like to successfully test Mr. Obama. But this is the long anticipated month of May and who the hell knows what is in the cards at this point in the game. The web-bot guys are saying there is a rising tension in the linguistics coming up and it will build for quite a while. We may get worn out from too many emergencies. A non-prepper female told my wife that she is about to buy some storage food. She is a stubborn chick but she is pretty damn smart. I think she will be okay. She will do it right.

The oilslick grows and men can't stop it. They will try and they might get it and they may not. But it will play havoc with the Gulf Coast. Lotsa money will be lost down there. Shrimp ain't that big a deal. Indiana has plenty of shrimp. We raise 'em right here. You want shrimp, we got 'em. Lots of other places raise shrimp these days. We import a bunch from Southeast Asia. This came about when a bunch of hurricanes stomped all over the shrimp grounds in the Gulf and business men had to look elsewhere for a product. Times change and so did the shrimp business. But a lot of things are going to change in the next short amount of years.

The last time I checked the DJIA was up a bunch and looks to be gaining back what it lost last week. Fine with me. I just hope none of my friends and readers are tied up in that ball of worms. You need to be investing in things that can make you a living in a much less complex society. Something that can keep you alive. Think on that!

The change that is coming will be unlike any change we have ever experienced. It will be devastating. Mind boggling. We can only hold on tight and hope we make it. The scum of the earth will come out and attempt to rule us. They will have force and brutality to back their play. They will be trying to enslave us and we will be trying to feed ourselves and raise our children properly. Not exactly a good fit. Two different outlooks that are not compatible. It is not the nature of intelligent people to submit to slavery. It is a thankless and degrading way to live. But you can buy yourself some freedom if you prepare. You can store up food so you don't have to go into town and pass through checkpoints on the way to some government store. It's hard to grab you if you ain't there. Live out in the country where there are miles and miles between you and the cities. Get some guns and ammo so you can defend yourself and those friends who will be on the trip with you. There will not be a lot of pressure brought to bear on those who are a guaranteed casualty maker out in the farm and forest land. You just have to make it stick. EVERYBODY has to make it stick. When it comes your time to resist then get your ass to resisting. Win or lose they have to know that we will make them pay and pay dearly. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

DRUGS AND LAW

2010-05-02T05:18:00.000-07:00

It has rained like crazy all night The road is flooded and the fields are flooded and the creek is flooded. It is wet outside! But that is how it is when Spring is here. But I am about to change my mind about the weather this coming Summer. I am thinking of going with wet and cool this year. Probably not much up in the 80's ought to get it. I remember 2003 when the hottest it got was 89.

In trying to put together a reasonable bit of thinking on the actions of the American public I have come to the conclusion that the medications and dope the citizens are ingesting has taken away their ability to reason and be logical. I think if someone gets up tight about how things are going they just go to the doctor and get their prescription increased and go right back into their little world of confidence. Mother's little helper will make it all okay again. And when you stop and think about it, this being the most medicated nation on the globe, what is keeping the people in check and "orderly"? 60-some percent of the mood altering drugs consumed on the planet are taken right here in the gold old USA. And that is just the legal stuff. How much illegal stuff is being eaten and smoked? Tons of it, my friends, tons of it. Is this how the public manages to ignore the necessity of getting ready for the bad times ahead? ARE THEY JUST TOO STONED TO GET IT? I am thinking they might just be. What other reason could it be? The facts are out there if you have half a care to look. And if you had the care of a normal human being you would be looking. The citizens are abnormal. Their God is their Television. What ever it says they believe. And do not think for a moment that the politicians in Washington do not know all about this. Of course they know about it. And they are using it to get their agenda across to the people in a pleasing manner.

I got a gang mail e-mail last Saturday night from Big John's seed company. He is selling the last of his seed and closing the doors on the business. This is the sickest thing I have ever heard. The big seed dealer, the seed that you can plant for years, is leaving the field. But if that is the way it is then I wish Big John a lot of luck in whatever he is doing. I have some pissed off things to say but I won't. John has helped a lot of people and gotten the idea of non-hybrid seed out to the public.

The next big thing on the legal horizon is the States versus the Federal Government. There is some question as to what the fedgov has the right to do and what they DO NOT have the right to do. The old fashioned guys say the the fedgov is merely an agent of the states and not the boss of the states. The fedgov disagrees with this idea. As it stands right now the final say in the matter is the Supreme Court. Some folks are questioning the truthfullness of this situation. The Supreme Court is a part of the fedgov. How can they look at anything in such a manner as to make the fedgov back off from the states? Seems like it would be a cold day in hell when the fedgov would limit themselves. The fedgov can lock us all into huge amount of debt and we have to pay it. Don't seem right. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

GOLD

2010-05-01T07:10:00.000-07:00

I feel like doing a little writing this morning. I got inspired by the recent gains that gold has made in the market place. It closed yesterday at $1180 an ounce. That is near and dear to my heart. That means the stock guys are going to the stock window and selling their stock and going down a ways to the gold window and buying. The stock market got hit hard this week. A little down on Monday. A big hammering on Tuesday and a gigantic hit on Friday. I love to see the bad guys get it.

One of the most impressive things about the price of gold rising is the fact that it means the value of the dollar is lowering. Gold cannot have calves or puppies. You cannot take little grains of gold and plant them and expect to get full sized ounces at harvest time. Gold just sits there. Unaffected by most things. So when the price of gold goes up in dollars it means that the dollar is really devaluing. Gold didn't do a thing, the dollar did. The old con game, the old paper money trip, is failing. It didn't used to be a con game. We had money backed by gold. There was a saying in America that something was "sound as a dollar." You don't hear THAT any more. Our money was so good that it was the reserve currency of the world. The dollar had to be taken in payment of international debt. Other local currencies did NOT have to be taken. Between WW II and 1950 we amassed 21,000 tons of gold in our treasury. We were the stone cold envy of the world, including central bankers in most countries. Now days we don't know how many tons of gold we have stashed because the fedov says we are not on the gold standard any more and they don't inventory it any longer. Hell, we might not have ANY gold in Fort Knox. Richard Nixon was president when we went off the gold standard for good. It's been a bit over 35 years since we had good money. And now the chickens are coming home to roost.

We heart of a currency collapse coming. An economic collapse. That used to mean the roof might cave in at the depository at Fort Knox. Now days it means that you have lots of money in circulation and nothing worth buying to support it. I can remember back in 1960 when 20 cents or less would get you a can of Campbell's Soup at the grocery. Now days it's a dollar and maybe a few pennies for a can of it. But the fedgov has decided in it's infinite wisdom to not tell us how inflation is effecting our ability to buy food. The soup has gone up 500% but we are not supposed to count that because food is so volatile. You are the mushroom people. You are fed shit and kept in the dark. But this raising of the gold price may be the light about to shine on all things so that we might see.

I am not a gold bug. I don't buy it or sell it or store it. It makes no difference to me but what it can tell me about other things. And gold going up means that the dollar is going down. And the stock market will be coming along right behind it. You know, it would not make a whole hell of a lot of anything if we still were an agrarian nation and people could grow their own food. But we are not and it is going to hurt us something fierce in the future. People in the cities are lost, folks. They do not know from Adam how to plant and grow a damn thing. They can't even plant beans and corn and that is about the easiest I know about. And they can't get non-hybrid seed from many places, though I hear that the seed companies, at least some of them, are changing their policies on that a bit. You can't eat gold but you can eat food. If there is nothing in the store to buy then where are you going to get your food? I'll tell you my good friends, we are the lawn mowingest people on the planet. My brother-in-law was telling me the other day that he used to work six days a week at a pretty burdensome job and on his one day off he mowed the lawn. I'd like to make a point right here. Those ignorant settlers of 150 to 200 years ago, who could not program a VCR to give the the right date, had enough sense to plant their food for THEMSELVES right up close to the house. The dog or a pair of eyes would tell them if anything was getting into their food supply. They could defend their food supply quite handily. Hell, if the marauder was a deer or a bunny rabbit they ate the marauder! But they did not plant grass to mow! Most foolish thing there is in times of stress is a damn lawn to mow. If you have one, plow it up and plant beans and corn and may a few squash and tomatoes. Act like you have a brain.

The signs are saying the economy is headed South. I believe the signs. I think this very month of May will bring big disturbances on our populace. Get your brain together and your preps ready because it is going to be a time! Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

STRUGGLE

2010-04-30T05:38:00.000-07:00

I'm still hangin' in there. Through some of the most depressing times I have ever seen. The scripture says that oppression maketh a wise man mad. That is mad like "crazy'. We are tortured daily with the mechanism of the elitist pigs taking a bite out of our ass and looking for more. Those ass biters could get a little gas with their meal too. Shows you what I think of them!. They play a game in the media. They throw stuff out there and see how we will react to it. If it looks a little bad then they back off for a while. But the thing I feel is the relentless pressure on my life and well being. For God's sake let me alone. Let me have some peace. I don't go about bothering the government and I wish they would afford me the same courtesy. I have been amazed by the variety of attacks on our personal liberty for many years. Where do they get all the ideas? They get them from scum bag radicals they hire, that's where. How much is the Whitehouse budget every year? Fifty million dollars? A hundred million dollars? Or is it just however much the President wants? And who sets his agenda. His daughter Malia wants to know what her Dad is doing for Tigers/ I want to know what he is doing to promote jobs in this country. People are out of work, losing their homes, and I want to know what Obama is doing about it. I don't want him doing anything else but trying to get people hired in this country. The homies come first. Tigers can go to hell for all I care. Forty million people on food stamps in this country and that is what I want Obama working on. We have a military that is supposed to be watching out for national security and that should leave Obama with plenty of room to look for jobs for the people. This country is hurting like crazy and we need all the push we can get to open up jobs. We need ten million jobs RIGHT NOW. And not fedgov jobs. Those are just a drag on the taxpayers. But we seem to be blessed with these simple minded leftist morons who want to get their agendas through and made into law RIGHT NOW. Form over substance is how I see it. It is like people who want to eat but will not work in the garden. Could be rough in the year ahead, if you catch my drift. I ain't working myself and my wife and brother-in-law for a bunch of slackers who will not turn a hand. Let them eat the dope and TV and movies they watch. See if they can find nourishment in THAT.

I have been scouting around looking for helpers for the garden this year. And it is a thankless and unrewarding task. I actually had a woman tell me this week that she had done nothing as far as prepping was concerned but she thought she would just come to my place and wondered if that would be all right. I said something to the effect of "See ya' later." and left the scene. These people are all concerned with making money. Money, money, money. And then they go out to dine and drive multiple vehicles and have nice drinks at home on the weekend and I haven't seen a damn dime to help get this thing together. I am having thoughts that I may not have a damn thing for them when the shit hits the fan. I have told the whole village that bad times are on the way and that they had better get ready. I feel like the cartoon guy who walks around the streets of the city with the sign that reads "THE END IS COMING". More the butt of jokes than someone who should be listened to. But hunger may come upon the land very soon and very quickly. What are these unheeding people going to do? I read an article about what this country would face if the grid went down and it was not very pretty. Our system would fold so fast it will make your head spin. Nothing would get done and nothing would get hauled and perishables would rot in the stores. And who knows about what is going on at such a time? You can't turn on the TV or your computer and find out. You are in the dark my friend. Got your mind made up as to what you will do? Got your weapons to protect you from the "late preppers"? You must have a plan and you must stick to it. It will be the only known answer to your problems. Everything else will just be spur of the moment bullshit. And I am not saying you shouldn't be prepared to think of your feet because you should, but your basic plan must be in place. If you haven't got a plan then you had better sit down and think it through.

I just quit writing and took a nap. The words were not flowing like they usually do but were difficult and straining. So now I am rested and feel just fine but the words are not there, as has been the case for a couple of days. I don't now what it is. I don't think it is permanent. It has to do with the coming bad days and I know it. But I cannot express it. So read what is here and enjoy it and maybe even get some good out of it. We have many troubles we will have to get through in the coming times. Lots of distractions are on the way. I hope it is an easy transition for all of you.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

NOT MUCH

2010-04-29T06:36:00.000-07:00

Such a boring morning on the blogs. Maybe a half dozen had something to say. And there is a lot of flak being tossed at the slackers. It IS a hassle to go to 40 or 50 sites and maybe find six that have something to say. My browser is getting surfing fatigue. Let's get it together brothers and sisters and start producing. We need to keep the ball rolling. We are the last of the Mohicans in the news and opinion world. We are the final line in the sand to tell people how it is done and how to go about it. We are about the living and the vigorous, not the brain dead types who are going along with all of this shit. If you can't think of anything new to say then rehash some of your old thoughts. Lots of people have not the slightest idea of what you know and how you take care of things. Print it up and let it roll. We need to know that everybody is alive and well.

I got to reading George Ure this morning and he had the good news that the new Treasury Regulations are going to force me to go to electronic money. Man! I don't know about that! I like to lay my money down and get what I want and I don't want an electronic trail of everywhere I have been and what I did there. I'll take the cash if you please. If this spreads to other segments of the economy then we will never know jack shit about our currency and that leads me to think they don't WANT us to now about our currency. They do not want us to have the freedom to roam about the country as we damn well please. STAY IN YOUR CUBICLE AND CONSUME. I don't have much money and that is fine. I can live in my world. But woe be onto those who would fool with it. I do not trust the fedgov and I don't want them stepping into the management area of my money. The fedgov cannot manage it's way out of a wet paper bag so why should I trust their little scheme to take my check away. But I was told I have three years left so maybe we can get that bullshit stopped. Not that I think Social Security will last that long or the fedgov's money to have any value for that long. I just don't like them telling me what to do or how to do it. I am going for a ride with my brother-in-law and will be back to finish this later. If I can see it! HAH!

I was reading about Little Timmy Geithner this week and he had an interview where he said he had not ever had a real job. But you understand that a man who has never had to work for a living is qualified to lead a responsible part of the nation's government in times of great stress. Atileast that is what Obama is telling us. Dear Little Tim. His name is pronounced Guytner. Like guy with a 't' on the end of it and followed by a "ner". Words cannot describe the contempt I have for him. Nope much else to say this morning. Just read the news. It will give you lots of stuff to question. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

I GOT A WARNING

2010-04-28T06:54:00.000-07:00

Helluva morning. I feel fine and all of that but the last half a day has been interesting, to say the least. I got a message last night from a friend who has an ex-CIA buddy. The CIA type said that in June or July we will have a shut down in the power grid most likely from an EMP explosion or a keystroke from a Chinese location. It will occur in a manner to cover up a collapsed economy around the globe but mainly here in the USA. Far out! I'll be buying candles today! My neighbor said he had fishing tackle to last 5 years, fish traps, animal traps, and lots of hunting guns and ammo. And I mean LOTS of guns and ammo. Not much military stuff but enough to put a lot of lead in the air. He asked if I had garden seed for three years and I said yes. He then said we had our asses covered. If nothing else, we eat. Whew. Glad of that. We have kids around here and they need their protein and minerals. Looks like they will be getting them. I am thinking about buying a substantial amount of lead. Lead is good. It is used for sinkers and bullets and both of these items are going to be in short supply. You first have to take care of the home team and then you might be able to barter with some left over.

And taking care of the home team is looking to be mighty important in the soon coming days ahead. There will be people to feed and defend. That in itself will be an amazing accomplishment to behold. There will be THOUSANDS, MAYBE MILLIONS of people out looking for safety and sanctuary. It looks like the fedgov will try to move people out of the towns and cities and get them to God-only-knows where. Maybe FEMA camps. Maybe labor camps. Maybe just get them out of the way of what they have in mind to do. But those folks will be out there and they will be looking to accomplish quickly what you have devoted long hours and hard earned money to do over a much longer period of time. They will want to become instant preparedness people. How cool! They will want good housing and good food, well cooked, lots of free beer, and a band on Saturday night. Lots of luck, you idiots. I ain't forgetting the sly looks or the hurtful remarks as I preached the salvation of the new day to come. And so many did not heed my message. And they can fall by the side of the road and die at this point. The lines are long and the resource is limited. If you have helped, then you may receive help. If you have not helped then get ready for a rough hard life. That is pretty blunt and non-forgiving, I know, but that is the way it is going to be. Life is about to get difficult and that is a fact. Don't delay getting what you need to live and don't forget that when the SHTF what you have is what you got. Be very thoughtful as to what you spend your money for these last few days or weeks. Play no financial games like the stock market or the commodities market. Get real serious and prayerful.

I get so fed up with the treachery of our government and the governments overseas. They are lying, cheating bastards and they will not tell us the truth so help them. The problems we face could all have been settled and the country going forward, if we had been told the truth and the facts allowed to play out like they were dealt. Yeah, some rich bastards would have been sent up the river but who the hell cares. The only rich person to fall to the fedgov has been Martha Stewart and that was such a travesty that I try to buy her stuff whenever I can. Not that she needs the money but because she is a fellow rebel toward federal prosecution. But the fedgov goes marching on with it's fake prosecution of Goldman-Sachs and it's prosecution of the Hutaree. I ain't forgot about the Hutaree. They might be a little crazy but that ain't a crime. The fedgov is wrong in prosecuting them and we may have to go bail them out. In whatever fashion that works I reckon.

I think this will be all for today. Please prepare and stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

WAR OUR SAVIOR?

2010-04-27T06:09:00.000-07:00

Good morning to you, or good evening , depending on your time of reading. It is a bit chilly outside. Of course, any chill is magnified by moisture in the air. It's that old bugaboo WET COLD again. I hated wet cold as a kid, I hated it as a working man and I hate it as an old man. I just plain don't like the stuff.

A lot of people are making declarations and voicing opinions as to the quantities and qualities of preps and so forth and so on. Good things. People are showing a little gumption, a little resolve. And we will need both is large amounts in a few months.

I thought a lot about the fedgov going after the Hutaree and the barrage of anti-opposition rhetoric emanating from the same source. Too many innocent people are being labeled as possible terrorists. Too many people are being called possible heirs to the legacy of Timothy McVeigh. I mulled this over for a while and it dawned on me that this anti-opposition talk was the beginning of a possible war between Americans and their government. If you want to go to war then you must first prepare your people for the conflict. You must demonize the enemy and make them out to be monsters in the eyes of the beholders. I am not saying, mind you, that the beholders have the slightest clue as to what they are seeing but they do have the message from the creators of the message.

The creators of the message are the smart guys. They are the bearers of the Masters Degrees in marketing. They are the Doctors of Psychiatry in human behavior. They have all the goodies in their little minds to cause you to believe in the evil of the governments latest victim. The politicians point their fingers and the smart guys get to it. And it has worked that way for hundreds of years. The profession of Accounting was first populated by the guys who kept up with the supplies the King could count on when he went to war. If the King wished to go to war then the number guys told him what he had to do it with. They knew how much food he had and how many weapons. They knew how much gold was in the royal treasury. All this data was presented to the king and he said yes or no to going to war.

Now days we have a propaganda machine set up ready to churn out the message as to who and why and when we will go to war. Pretty slick operation. And it is very effective. And it is effective because most people are DEfective in their minds. Not many people have the mental capacity to dig a little deeper than what the boob tube tells them about life. But you can see how it is done. Be thankful .

All of this government mind machinery is aimed at getting YOU prepared for war, for violence. As we look at it we can come to the conclusion that our government is getting ready to make war on US! This is a bit disconcerting, to say the least. I haven't done a damn thing to provoke the government to make war against me and my kind. Therefore I can only surmise that the government is afraid. It has had it's cage rattled. It is ready to lash out and quell any rebellion. And why would this be so? Is it because the government is guilty of something really evil? I think it IS guilty and I think we don't know the half of it. Treachery in high places does not take guilt from any one's mind. It may in fact make it more painful, It can eat on a man to stand up and say "God Bless America" when he knows he is ripping it off and selling it down the river. Even a beast can fear God.

My next conclusion has lead me to the place where I think the only thing that can save us is a bigger issue that a few malcontents who really are not bothering anyone. How about the issue of an atomic war in the Mideast? Could this take away the threat posed by the disgruntled? I think it would. In fact I am sure it would. So let us hope that the Middle East will come to our rescue and bring the attention of the beast to bear elsewhere. I'll get more time to prep that way, I think.

The garden plans have been altered to include more corn this year. We are going to harvest our beans on the basis of time. We will not worry about the moisture this year we will just pick the damn things when it is time and forget about it. Since we already have plenty of beans I will get to plant corn this year with a little more attention to volume. Just gonna do the best we can! Stay alive and prep like crazy.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

WAR

2010-04-26T05:36:00.000-07:00

It's Monday as I type my Tuesday blog post. Pretty much standard procedure. I can see why folks got upset with me not posting for about a week. The survival blogs are dead as hell. Maybe people are getting tired of the trip. Maybe there are a few folks into it that are not supposed to make it. It really does require a lot of dedication on an individuals part to stay with the program. I went to http://www.halfpasthuman.com/ and read Cliff High's stuff this weekend. Man! Is he ever taking a long walk off of a short pier. If we don't have a nuclear war by this late Fall or early Winter Cliff is going to be a failed prophet, because he is surely saying it will happen. Not many people will come out that boldly and say what Cliff is saying. His business would most likely fail if his predictions don't come true, so he is risking quite a lot. George Ure is backing him all the way and I reckon that is what friends are for. But you see the connection, right? Say something like that and if it doesn't come true you are up shit creek without a paddle. I do not have anything on any war at this time and except for Cliff High I don't know anyone that DOES have anything on a coming war. It is all supposition as far as I am concerned. But that does not make him wrong. Not in the least. Time will prove him right or wrong.

I have been thinking about writing a piece on what I would like to have. You know, things that are above my financial grasp but I would still like to have. And leading off the parade is a bolt action 45-70 rifle with a 1000 rounds of ammo. Pretty expensive little toy but it would sure take out an engine block at a modest distance. A big ol' piece of lead running out that barrel! I probably will never see it but it is something I think about. It will hammer anything on the continent, bear, bison, you name it. Just a fantasy of mine. The other dream is a 1-ton Ford Diesel crew cab with a full length 8' bed in it. You know, the tricked out non-electronic Diesel, Four Wheel Drive with heavy duty transmission, manual windows and seats, air-conditoning, heater and defroster. Sure would be a nice thing to have if the SHTF. A big fancy hauler that is EMP proof. I sure would get some admiring glances at the drive-in from the ladies. Especially if they had to walk or ride bicycles to get to the joint. But that is it for my wish list this morning. A monster bolt action rifle and a monster pick-up truck. High class for a guy living back in the hills.

My next topic of discussion is the plane crash in Russia that wiped out the Polish government. I don't hear about that any more. And I can't find anyone who does not think it was a set-up, a murder, if you please. One little crash and the whole Polish government is wiped out from top to bottom. The media showed us some pictures of flowers piled up as a memorial and that was about it. I ain't going for the accident story. I think it was murder. You can think what you want but you know where my vote goes!

I laid in bed last night and tried to pin down who would attack us and it came up RUSSIA. Russia is probably the most heavily armed country in the world outside of the USA. They never stop preparing for war. And every major arming they do is always blamed on something the USA is doing to destroy the balance of power. But they go on 24 by 7 to keep their armaments up to snuff and ready to go. They are arming other people all over the world. Iran, Venezuela, etc. They do not get into big infrastructure projects like other countries seem to do. You will not find any THREE RIVERS GORGE projects going in Russia. Those big dams are stationary targets and not liked by the Russian high command. The Russian military likes things it can move out of harms way. And they have the equipment to fight a major war. They are especially good at missile technology. Those Sunburn missiles that Iran will use to sink our carriers to the bottom of the Persian Gulf are Russian made.

Russia has the oil to make all the energy it wants. They are the worlds leading exporter of oil. No one can touch Russia for oil production. The same goes for natural gas. They basically supply Europe and can cut them off at a moments notice. Europe would freeze to death in the Winter if not for Russian natural gas. So there they are, the biggest producers of energy and the main competition for the USA as the leading arms dealer in the world. And they are stockpiling. They will have plenty of bombs and guns to fire at us when the time comes. They were a big supplier of Saddam when he ruled Iraq. They are very matter of fact in their thinking and they are thinking of blowing us up. The de facto ruler of Russia is a man named Putin. He was head of what we used to call the KGB and then he got into the big time. He is as cold blooded as a snake. If it is time to pull the trigger he will do it and do it promptly. Don't look for mercy from a Russian. It ain't there. You don't get into the top echelons of Russian politics by being merciful.

All of this war talk and arms build up are making me want to prep even more than I have. I want more food and more ammunition. I want more water filters. I want more medications. I want more trigger fingers around to help out. I want huge gardens full of things we can eat all the year round. I want hogs and chickens and cattle. I want, I want, I want. I suppose God gets tired of hearing about my wants. But we are so few and the enemy is so vast and we are tuned in enough to know it and we know we need HELP. Good old fashioned HELP. But we will get what we need and that is a fact. But the old song says "He has answered every problem before we ask or even think," Take care and stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

WE STARTED OUT

2010-04-25T05:10:00.000-07:00

The smell of freedom and enslavement are both in the air this morning. The usual suspects who want to be left alone and not bothered are taking their normal stance. The "slavers" are wanting us to jump joyfully into our chains and get into lockstep, with the NWO calling the cadence. And then there is a whiff of another animal, an animal we shall call a prepper. This prepper person is not wanting to join with many people at all. And this is for the simple reason that not many are preppers. Preppers realize the importance of what they do and are not interested in stupid, misplaced interests. "You aren't prepping? See ya around." In checking my list of possible catastrophes I find so many that there is not time discuss much anymore. The time remaining is to be used very carefully and constructively. Your money and your time are big bullets to fire in this engagement. Frivolity is not in the mix anymore. Not saying you can't enjoy life but rather that a move must be thought out and followed through. And preppers follow through.

Remember when we first got started on this mission? We thought a good supply of beans and rice would take us anywhere we wanted to go. So in came the rice and beans. And then we got into storing them. Remember when we learned about vermin? I figured it out that vermin was just added protein but I can't get anyone to go along with cultivating it in our stash. So we learned the three day freezing technique and the Bay Leaf technique and then the diatomaceous earth technique. I remember Charli Gribble telling me about freezing my stuff to kill off the vermin. There have been others along the way who came up with great tips to help our survival thrust. Thank you all!

Then we found out that variety was a big thing in storing up your food. We had to get into variety mode and do it in a hurry. Man! Did we ever get into variety. Variety released us from the bondage of a rice and bean diet. We now had an assortment of things to eat. And that was good. Then we had to learn about nutrition. Some things are just better for you than others. And you want the best nutrition you can afford. Nutrition means health and health means you are staying alive and that is what the whole damn thing is about. About that time we got into "shelf life" and that meant an entire new study was underway. So confusing! And after almost three years I get to the point where I read on Preparedness Pro that the "use by" dates and all of that are strictly a mode of the people who can the food. The fedgov does not give a damn about anything getting too old on the market except baby formula and some baby foods. The rest of the dates and use-bys are just propaganda. Who would have thought?

We got into spices and things to make our food taste better. We bought a lot of canned meat. I had picked up on the fact that minus the water, the remainder of the human body is formed up 70% protein. With the rice and beans and the canned meat products I figure we will be okay for a while. Our spices will go a long way toward making the protein acceptable day in and day out. Our next big swing through the grocery was for canned vegetables. Get the vegetables you like and get ready to eat them when the time comes. A lot of vegetables are loaded with fiber and fiber is what you need to take a bowel movement on some sort of a schedule. Vegetables also have great nutrition, if you remember to serve them in the juice they come in. The canning process puts a lot of the nutrients in the water so be sure and get the water down the old tube.

Nest we got into non-hybrid garden seed. Even I knew that we would need to save seed and that hybrid stuff was not going to get the entire job done. Then I met Big John Lipscomb and a lot of the guess work was removed, You get non-hybrid seed and you buy a book that tells you how to SAVE seed and you are at the top of the game. You get a crop to feed you and to preserve for the Winter and you get some seeds to plant the next year. Is this the way things should be or what? No more Monsanto frankenfood. Just good old heirloom vegetables that will keep you alive the way you are supposed to be kept alive.

Then we got into harder things. We got into a shortwave receiver with an antenna from Pete Smith over at http://www.patriotsagainstthenwo.blogspot.com/. Now we can get the news even if the bastards shut down the Internet, which they will do and don't ever doubt that. The system wants you to be as ignorant as dirt. They do not want their plans and schemes exposed to the light of day. They want them sprung on us with no warning and no recourse. We also got a NOAA weather band radio with it's own solar charger and hand crank. Supposedly this will not only give you the weather but it will broadcast emergency news from the Whitehouse in the event of a national emergency. These radios were preceded in acquisition by the Handmaiden's dehydrator. I'm still eating my nightly fruit snack from that dehydrator. Every now and then we start to run low on the nightly snack and the Handmaiden will get out several baggies of dried fruit and put it in water and our stock of snacks get replenished. Blueberries, apples, cherries, strawberries and I don't know what all. But I know if you put it in a bowl with some good Amish milk that is loaded with cream it sure days taste good. And I ain't been sick this Winter. That is enough for today. Stay healthy and stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

THINGS WE FACE

2010-04-24T07:33:00.000-07:00

Just sitting here reading the blogs and taking it all in. I read a post from THE COMING ECONOMIC DEPRESSION and scarfed up on the comments. Excellent! I especially noted one that said Americans were a bunch of spoiled brats who can not work and who think everything should be given to them. How true it is. "Let someone else do the work and the thinking and let me have the cash!" How true it is. And so we have become a nation of pansies. The gun people are talking about 3% of the people willing to stand on their on two feet and protect what they have. I say they have inflated the numbers a little bit. Maybe not but I don't feel too secure outside my own perimeter. People are chasing dollars and rainbows but they are not getting prepared for the test to come. And it will be a severe test folks. More severe than anything this nation has ever been through. And there is not going to be anyone coming in to save us. We are the song of the drunkard these days. We are belittled and mocked. And the scraggly ass few of us that ARE trying to get ready are scoffed and made fun of. Looks like damned if you do and damned if you don't to me! Everything is bass ackwards to what it should be.

I can tell you of a vision another man had several years ago. Off of the East Coast of America there was seen to be fish coming out of the water and turning into missiles and flying on into our country. A missile attack on our very shores. And the fish came on in and did their business. Are you ready for that action, America? The economic collapse is just around the corner and the "hit them when they are weak" formula will take over very rapidly after that.

This is just the ramblings of a concerned man living in the hills of southern Indiana. I like my home and my friends. I like the beautiful trees and the ponds and the fields. I worked like a dog to pay for them. And I will defend them if called upon to do so. You have to take a stand somewhere and this is my place to do it. I just get so tired of the bullshit moves being used to take our liberties from us. And I get double tired of the populace taking it twixt the cheeks and letting the rich roll right on over us. We have had our country stolen from us and we will have to fight to get it back I'm afraid. God did not intend for me to be a slave and I ain't gonna go for it. To hell with the banksters and their loyal minions the politicians. There will be an open season declared on them soon enough. And it is totally justified.

I do not want war. I got into the blog thing because I felt the economy crashing and we were not ready for it. But we have no friends anymore. We have managed to alienate the world. What an accomplishment. And I feel there are those in the world who would love to take us down. I feel they are just looking for the right moment to take the shot. And the time will come, my friends. The time will come when we will wish we had been closer together than we are now. We will wish we had three or four states joined together that we could move around in. You know, we Americans are used to going where we damn well please, if we have the money to pay the freight. Well, we ain't gonna have the money and we will not be able to move around like we once did. I hope you all have somebody around you who is interesting and all of that, otherwise it could get lonely out there. Dying of boredom is a slow death. Dying from a bullet is a much quicker way to go. But I have a little clan already and I will survive. Will you?

I have been reading a lot about the violence down on the US/Mexican border. This is a pool of gasoline waiting for a match. There is so much potential for violence it takes your breath. On the one hand we have the very powerful Mexican drug gangs. They are vicious and they are determined to take control of the market access to the rich American drug users. The way to prosperity is through selling the rich gringos dope. Americans are the most medicated, sedated, and stoned people on earth. For millions it is a way of life. Lots of Americans roll a doobie and get loaded on the way to work in the morning. Just business as usual. Of course, it all does not stop there. After the stoned out worker finds himself out of a job due to the economy, he turns to other means of making a living. Phoenix, Arizona, is the number 1 or number 2 kidnapping capital in the world. Right up there with Mexico City. The average Mexican does not have a damn thing. A couple of hundred rich families own most of Mexico. Sort of like what we have here in the USA. So people get grabbed and held for ransom. Then we have the folks who want our Southwest to become part of Mexico again. I don't know who owned Mexico before the Mexicans took it but I 'll bet they were damned pissed off to lose it. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

A POST FOR SATURDAY

2010-04-23T16:15:00.000-07:00

The times are not a changin'. The dumbasses in Washington are still sticking it to us. I wonder if they can feel the razor blades as yet. Some mangled flesh should come out of this little national rip-off. Very mangled flesh. Shredded flesh if you please. Ahh, sweet revenge. And revenge is the Lord's but that don't mean I can't cheer for it and give thanks. The bill to reform the financial world has passed the Senate and it is just a big smelly piece of shit. Unlimited bail out money for the banksters. How in the name of all that is Holy can they do this to us and say they are making things right? Ain't gonna happen. Can't happen. The greed and theft continue unabated. And Chris Dodd has $6 million dollars in his re-election campaign chest and he is not running for re-election. Inquiring minds want to know what is going to happen to this money? Do you think he will donate it to widows of servicemen killed in the Mideast? Do you think he will use it to promote business in a down-trodden area? Will he make the first years health insurance payment for a large group of poor folks? Or will he pack up with some young tender sweetie and head down to the islands for a long extended vacation? Who knows?

The Handmaiden is making up some survival bags. Three of the muthas. Today we got in three new Firesteel Rangers with strikers and three bundles of 50' lengths of 550 Paracord. We got 'em from Survival Topics dot com. Ron Fontaine runs a classy little operation over there and that is where we buy our Firesteels. We have a bunch but you can't have too many. These bags she is fixing up are not Get Out Of Dodge bags or Get Home Bags or Every Day Carry bags, they are just survival bags. Don't know what she will put in them but it will be interesting to see how she works it.

Garden time is approaching and it will be time to plant. The garden is all tilled and ready to go. I have to get a new hoe and that is about it for me. I be ready. Going for Beans and Squash this year, I think. We have salad garden here at the house that should do us quite well but it can in no way build up our survival stash. That takes a little bit of land. I got word from Georgia that folks are stealing garden produce quite frequently. Seems too be a lot of hungry people out there. Hungry enough to risk a load of buckshot in the dead of night. Could be some surprising headlines this Spring and Summer. I got told that lots of older folks won't even plant because of all the thieving. It's turning into a sick world out there. When your garden is not safe then times are tough. Be advised to be on the lookout.

The numbers I get from the media are very crippled and lame these days. Those folks can't tell the truth if their lives depended on it. Employment numbers are always getting revised. "Last week we stated that 570,000 people applied for unemployment but a revision of the figures says that only 540,000 really did apply. This is a sign that things are getting better!" To me it is a sign that things were not as had as they first seemed but they are still bad enough. One of my friends said there were jobs out there if a person wanted to work. But they are not full time jobs. People do not get hired for 40 hours a week anymore. 40 hours means you get benefits and all that stuff so the companies are only hiring people for 32 or 35 hour a week. I know a woman who has a full time job where she works because she is a supervisor. She had to take over a completely different department plus the one she is responsible for and she got the great some of a 38 cent an hour raise. Double the responsibility for 38 cents an hour. What a great life. But someone is always out to kick your ass wherever you are.

It does not look like there is going to be an armed insurrection in this country. People are scared of their government. Something is dreadful wrong for I feel a deep burning pain in my ass. No matter. I will stand my ground, Lord willing. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

TIME OUT

2010-04-18T05:02:00.001-07:00

It's Sunday morning and I am typing to tell you that I will not be blogging regularly. For how long I cannot say. But I can tell you that my peace has left me and that is a bad sign. I am not getting anything from God and I called some spiritual people around the country and they are not getting anything either. This must be a time of watching and waiting and prayer and meditation. God will move when he decides it is best. But my peace leaving me is the main thing in my current feelings. I know more than the average ape when it comes to world events and dwelling on the events of today is not doing me any good. I will be gardening and prepping and enjoying life instead of being ate up and angry. I have made some good friends out there in bloggerland and I will continue to email and correspond. But I am tired of not enjoying what I am doing and that is that. I want to live to see some new life on this darkened old planet and I will not make it if I don't get my peace back. All the folks who email and comment are welcome to write to me and can expect a reply. I will be working dirt today.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

SERIOUS

2010-04-16T16:02:00.000-07:00

I am writing this post on Friday night. The last couple of days I have just typed a short post in the morning and that was that. My head is in a strange place tonight. I cannot get used to the idea that we might have WW III this Fall. What a kick in the butt. There is a BUNCH of stuff to do to get ready get ready for a nuclear war. Nuclear war is a SERIOUS MATTER. I just don't know where to begin to prep for such a thing. I suppose I should get me some good picks and some sharp shovels. I want to be very far underground when the nukes arrive. I have read the stuff on the internet about Alpha, Beta, and Gamma rays. Alpha and Beta particles can be blocked with a handkerchief. Gamma particles are the bad muthas. It takes massive amounts of concrete and dirt to stop those little buggers. Five feet in thickness is where you start felling at ease about being safe. You get into a concrete bunker with five feet of solid soil over you and you have a chance. If you are at ground zero when a nuke goes off just give your soul to God because your ass belongs to a thermonuclear explosion. Church has let out for you. You are on your way to glory and are not involved in this melee any longer. But I have not planned on this little event like I wish to hell I had.

The God of heaven told us at a meeting one night twenty some years ago to "Dig In!" And we ain't done it. There is no tunnel under the big sandstone hills for me to enter with my friends and family and reside safely after a nuke attack. And for that reason I think the WW III trip may be a bit inaccurate. Now I ain't saying that some bunch of maniacs won't set a nuke off somewhere. God knows we have some of the craziest people in positions of power around this globe that anyone could imagine. But I believe that God would give another warning to us before he would allow such a thing to happen on a planet wide scale. And maybe give us the funds to accomplish the task of digging in. So I am not going to get too upset about this WW III stuff until I get something from God. There are too many people who have to get a message before he will turn the insane loose up the face of the earth. And that is biblical.

I am going to continue to prep for the economic mayhem that is before us. I believe that will have a severe effect on humanity as it is. Millions of people starving to death is enough of a burden to start the ball rolling. That will bring down governments and such things quite handily. We may get to string up a bunch of banksters yet! And Goldman Sachs has been sued for fraud by the SEC but I will believe the effect of it when I see it. I am skeptical of the SEC's power to bring Goldman Sachs to it's knees and send the big boys to the slammer. They certainly deserve it and I agree with the SEC that they did commit fraud. I just ain't seen any signs of real hope on the issue. Goldman Sachs is going into that courtroom with the best legal representation that money can buy. The SEC is going in with the best they can get for what they can pay. It ain't gonna be pretty. But it ain't over yet so we can always hope. Maybe Goldman will have to present a couple of sacrificial lambs to pacify everyone. We'll see.

That is about it for today. Surprise me and comment! Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

CONSENSUS

2010-04-16T04:05:00.000-07:00

I was simply amazed at the comments and replies I got in response to yesterdays blog. I would have to say that most preppers seem very cognizant of the dangers headed our way and are prepared or getting there. No one seemed a bit rattled at the thought of a nuclear war headed for our shores. In fact they seem to expect it. Amazing. I was proud to be among you.

My reading of yesterday has led me further down the path toward disaster reckoning. At this time I am convinced that the S is going to HTF. But I am not laying down in a corner, curled up in the fetal position, holding a baby bottle of milk and nursing from it. I am making plans and preparations. There is always something else to get. And it looks like we will have time for a garden as yet. More food.

I got several emails showing how the Obama people are going to postpone the coming national elections. How sweet. Everybody who has ripped us off and and lied to us and stolen our country will be secure in their position. The banksters will be holding secure places in the up- coming New World Order. We, of course, will be offered a choice of a FEMA camp or slavery, not that I see much difference between the two. There is a third alternative but it is not getting too much mention. That is the alternative to say "Hell no!" Then we sorta bunch up as best we can and start shooting back at the bastards. God willing, I intend to be on the firing line with the rest of you crazy muthas. Can't be letting you guys out crazy me!

It is going to be one hell of a fight and I reckon you guys know that. It is not going to be easy. And no one ever said it would be. And we will have radiation to contend with and armed troops trying to tell us what to do and maybe an invasion right here on our own land. Sure does sound exciting. Get your clans together and all the joiners worth having around. Make everyone equal in the sharing of the goods. Get your butts out there and "salvage" what you can after the SHTF. God bless you all and keep up the good work. And STAY ALIVE!

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

LOOK AWAY

2010-04-15T03:29:00.000-07:00

This will probably be a short blog post. I did not type it in advance. I generally stay about 24 hours ahead of post time. But I was not going to post today. So many are taking days or a week off anymore I figure I can lazy off a bit myself.

My thoughts are on how adroit the politicians are on working the "Don't look over there, look over here!" little trick they use. Things are not looking up in this world economy and that is a fact. But the media is acting like it is all over, merely a note in history. Screw them. They are a bunch of liars. It is in the tank and we are not being told the truth by our politicians nor our media. For this cause should the politicians be voted out of office and the media ignored to the point they go out of business.

It's like all the news about the Hutaree Militia. All that shit being said is merely what the prosecution is saying at bond hearings. It is stuff being cast out there to get the court to deny bail for these poor fish. Little or no proof is required. But they want you to look that direction and they will bend and twist their news headlines to get you to look. And as per usual it is so you will not look at something they do not want you to look at. They do not want you to know that we have almost twenty million empty houses in this country. They do not want you to know how much money they have loaned the banks and what banks they have loaned the money to. They are fighting in the courts to keep that information from you. They do not want you to know! Just another example of the federal reserve bank asserting it's authority over the country. "Shut up peasants. This is secret stuff we do behind closed doors that affects the whole global economy and we don't want you in on the deal." They don't want us to know where the trillions of dollars were sent to bail out the banksters. Well, they sure as hell didn't sent it to my house! Over forty million people in this country on food stamps now and the banks get trillions. What is wrong with this picture? I think I will get on food stamps myself. I sure as hell qualify.

That is all I am going to write today. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

STUFF

2010-04-13T06:54:00.000-07:00

It's a beautiful morning. Supposed to get up to 85 degrees today. That is warm as hell for April. The weather people say El Nino is about gone and that means a drier Summer, I can dig having a drier Summer. Last year was a bitch for weeds. The rain would not quit and it was great trouble to get into the wet garden to weed and cultivate. I lost a ton of beans because they were just too damn wet! "Sprouting in the pod" kind of wet. I have plenty of beans though and plenty of seed. We will go back in and get more beans this year. I have not checked rice prices lately but I have heard they are going up. Pain and suffering. We need a grain to go with our beans. But we have quite a bit of rice as it is so we don't worry too much about the supply. We just inspect the bean and rice supply now and them and look for traces of vermin. Vermin seem to stay away from our dried grains and beans. We freeze them for three days and it knocks the hell out of the vermin. The Handmaiden also puts a pinch of diatomaceus in every bag and that kills the ones the freezing misses. Or vice versa. That stuff is also good for humans too. Kills any parasites that might be around in your intestines. You can worm your dog or your cat the same way. But dry weather coming means a bean crop that will make it all the way through the process. I hate doing shell-outs with a wet bean. I am already proclaiming this to be a bean year.

The economic news is not very good. It's hard as hell to get accurate news of the market these says. Makes you think there is some hanky panky going on. And there is. These are the crookedest markets on the planet as far as I know. One little tidbit that came out just the other day was that market volume, that is shares that are bought or sold, is down 25%. Less volume of shares, the easier it is to manipulate. The trading going on is basically being done by computer. Our market is being driven by what computers tell it to do. So who owns the trading computers? Well, Goldman-Sachs owns a big one. Fast and powerful. Makes a trade so fast you cannot even tell it happened until the market ticker brings it to light. And that could be 15 minutes later. This whole stock market thing is completely out of the hands of us common folks. We don't know and we ain't supposed to know. And when the market starts to crash the big boys will have everything sold short and clean up another box car load of money. They figure to get us coming and going. Pretty clever. Just one mistake. If they think they are going to get a freaking DIME off of me they are mistaken. I am starving the beast as much as possible. I have nothing they can get their hands on. The property is paid for and all we have to do is make the taxes, which is a bunch of money these days. But I can live and live fairly decently on little or nothing. We have game and fish and gardens and plenty of wood to heat and cook with. We can make it! Screw Obama and his Marxist plot to take over America. I don't believe in him and I have never believed in him. I didn't vote for him and I didn't vote for McCain. I thought they were both highly suspect and I still do. It is good to not have my vote invested in either one of these guys. And McCain may get his ass beat in the primary out in Arizona. I hear he is in trouble. Sounds good to me.

Short blog today. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

LEFTISTS, MEDS, SEEDS, GOOD WRITING AND IDIOTS

2010-04-12T07:26:00.000-07:00

Just doing my normal thing for the morning, reading the blogs and thinking about things. The thing I seem to be thinking is that the Left in this country is nuts. And I mean crazy as hell! Deranged. Bonkers. Out of touch. I am amazed at their inability to fathom the human nature. I am amazed at their trust in things written on paper. And their trust leads them into thinking that will get them killed. And countless others killed. including their kids and mates and good friends. But I did say they were crazy, didn't I? They don't have lives of their own. They are devoted to their 'card', which is the group they support politically, or their children, or their job. They are seldom involved in any religious endeavors. They are the most 'led' people on the planet. They do not fight. They do not wish to have lots of children. They do not live outside of town on farms. They are urban to the core. And they are helpless in the face of a politically opposing force. Let someone of a different political persuasion gain power and they are lost. They cannot conceive of anyone failing to comprehend and to agree with their twisted thinking. It makes you an enemy of the people of the earth if you disagree with them. Their main love in life is YOUR money. They will solve all of the ills of humanity with YOUR money. They will relieve all pains with YOUR money. All goodness flows through the government as far as they are concerned. And generally their paycheck comes from the government also. They dislike working out in the marketplace and likely refuse to do so. The state is all and they are the state. How convenient for them. But it is all done with YOUR money. They will throw YOUR money at any and all things they judge to be unfair. They are like little spoiled babies unless they get YOUR money. They are your garden variety sociopath. We must relieve these people of any responsibility within our country's leadership. We cannot afford them.

Yesterday I got on a bit of a refresher course in preparedness. I wrote about guns and food. Today I will finish it up with thoughts on medical preps and garden seed.

Medical preps are standard and yet individualistic. People have different ailments they treat constantly. Heart meds, insulin, blood pressure meds, etc. And there are the general run-of-the-mill first aid stuff. So whatever your individualistic needs are you had better take care of them. You can store insulin. And there is a cry of "Oh no you can't!" from the disbelievers. But you can. As long as the insulin is kept cool. not frozen, and that membrane on top of the vial is not punctured, you can store it up. I know a guy who keeps his insulin stash in a plastic bag he lowers down a well casing on a little rope. He has used one year old insulin with no problem. But the instant you puncture that membrane your insulin is on the clock. It will go bad in about the time they tell you it will go bad. Boniface has the scoop on this and he got it from my friend Mike Kemp. Heart and blood pressure meds should keep for a while. I have used blood presure meds that were almost six months old and they worked just fine. Your best bet is to talk to a lot of people who use these medicines and see what they have to say. But you CAN stock them up.

The standard first aid stuff is all over the place and readily available. Bandages, tape, gauze, anti-biotic creams, Iodine, Merthiolate, and you can go to the farm coop and get all the anti-biotics your little heart desires. You can buy scalpels and stuff to sew you up with and on and on and on. You can buy injectable numbing stuff to make the stitches painless. It's all out there. You CAN take care of yourself. The AMA has not taken over the whole system as yet though they are trying like hell to do it. And there are over the counter meds that are as good as what you can get from your doctor. For upset stomach you can't hardly beat old Pepto-Bismal. Even Bill Sardi, the guy who writes health columns for Lew Rockwell, will tell you to get Pepto-Bismal for your preppers medical kit. And on and on. Get on Lew Rockwell.com and look up Bill Sardi's recent articles. He is very good, folks. I am especially anxious about having BIG bandages. Little cuts and whatnot can be taken care of easily but BIG cuts are a whole different ball game. They have stuff now days that will stop bleeding real fast. I have never seem it or used it but other folks, especially troops in battle, swear by it. Get some if you can. You just never know.

The last thing in this little refresher course is garden seed. There is a lot of hype about garden seed and that is to be expected. There is a lot of fear in the world right now and the fear of going hungry is a major fear. Now being a dumb old country boy I KNEW that being able to save your seed from your garden from year to year was the way to go. You just gotta know how to so it. They make lots of good books that will tell you how it's done. These seeds are called non-hybrid seed or heirloom seed. They are generally from stock that has stood the test of time and helped man survive. Because most of them are from a time when man had to have the seed for nest years crop and he could not go to Walmart to buy them. You did not screw around with your plant seed. I use Big John Lipscombs seed and it does just fine by me. His website will give you the lowdown on gardening with saved seed. John is a fine example of bravado but he generally backs it up 100% on his gardening. Try him out.

I want to take a little time and let you know there is some good reading at http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/. They have a post up called the Dorthy Theory. And right within its words is an explanation and analysis of what the hell we are looking at economically. Some of the best writing on the subject I have ever read. Ilargi wrote this piece and it is a good one. Even an old country guy like me can understand it.

I got to reading Grumpy Unk this morning and he was complaining about the Zombies that come into the Emergency room on the weekend where he works. Then I got a comment on yesterday's post from Urban Dan and he talked about a young woman at the donut shop this morning. A petulant little bitch she was. And I got to thinking about trying to help anyone in this time of calamity we live in. There are just MILLIONS of worthless idiots out there and I would be remiss to try and save them. The gene pool needs a good cleaning. But it ain't up to me. So try to stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

FOOD AND GUNS

2010-04-11T06:06:00.000-07:00

It is showing signs of being a beautiful Sunday morning, as I write my Monday post. The sky is pretty as a picture. The blogs were fine this morning. Everyone is mellowed out and calm. Someone had a post about COSTCO having a years supply of freeze dried food for sale at the cheap price of $800, delivered to your home. That ain't a bad deal at all, considering today's prices. Of course that is just for one person but it is a good start on a stash if you have the funds. And I believe in having a stash of food. I've been working on mine for over two years and I never seem to get quite enough. I was reading a blog this morning, I think it was Jim Rawles, and there was a link to COSTCO and their one year supply of freeze dried food for one person for $800. That is a super price. With a deal like this going on around the country there is no excuse for anyone to not be prepared. We are going into garden season here real soon and I intend to get some of that "inexpensive" storage food. It looks like it will be another year for beans. They grow like gang busters and they taste very good and my wife and BIL like them so it looks like beans in the forecast. If you do like me you had better get to your dollar store and get plenty of spices for your beans. Spices sure do keep them from being so monotonous. But they fill you up and they are nutritious. A little cornbread and you have it made. Just do not forget to have something to flavor them. Jowl bacon is good if you can keep a supply of it. But just do the best you can and get the stuff stored away. You might buy some non-hybrid seed while you are at it. It is nice to be able to go back the next year and plant without buying seed. Hybrid seed is just another trick to make you buy every year. It makes you a slave to the seed companies and you will pay what they ask when the times get tough. And the times are going to get tough and the price of seed will go to the moon. Be alert to this. I am not joking one little bit. This food thing can get really severe in a bad economy and bad weather. Buy and store. Grow and store. Dry and store. I hope I am making myself clear. This is not a game. It is in all seriousness. You might do like I did last year and buy lots of Cayenne Pepper plants. String 'em up when the season is over and hang them where you will. Just don't put them in a damp place. You want these little darlings to dry and make you a good pepper powder come Winter. I want to get the squash thing going this year. The ones the Handmaiden planted stored very well and were tasty as all get out.

We may as well talk about a dehydrator while we are at it. The Handmaiden used one to great success last year and we still have dried food left. The machine was especially good for preserving 'flavors' to season the rest of our food. Onions and Bell Peppers and a host of other things you can grow to flavor your food. We have had night time snacks of reconstituted fruit with high cream content Amish milk all Winter and into this Spring. Sure is a nice way to end the day. You can freeze berries for the same purpose if you want to take the chance of being able to afford electricity after Obama gets our rates raise up to the ceiling. He needs a lot of money to convert us all to nice little Marxist slaves. But while you can use your dehydrator you may as well dry all you can. And speaking of canning, that is another way to store food for long term. You can can just about anything you can eat. We have canned tomatoes and butter and I don't know what else. You get that Blue Book and follow the directions. If you have a friend who has done it then have them over to show you things. The canned goods you buy in the store are 'canned' and they are safe and delicious. So are the things you can at home if you follow the directions. I cannot stress the following of the book's instructions too much. If you do things properly you will have advanced quite a bit in the food storage scheme. And you can't have too much stored food.

While we are on the matter of storing things, it would behoove everyone to get some form of weapons to protect themselves and their friends and families. I prefer guns and knives but your tastes in weapons might very from that. A gun is a very efficient machine for self defense. Shoot what you have and get plenty of extra ammo. The common thread of survival gun writings are a pistol, a shotgun, and a battle rifle. The guns are to be what you can shoot and hit with. I prefer a 30 caliber rifle for my main battle gun. There are those who don't like it so much, and that is fine. It's your ass that's on the line. But I cannot fault someone who is shooting what they can hit with and they can afford. As long as you can get some lead headed down range with some sort of accuracy you are better off than having nothing. Believe it. For close in work I like a 12 gauge shotgun. I am a large person and the recoil does not bother me in the least. I have a Colt 45 acp in a commander set-up. It ain't a huntin' gun. It is for making holes in threatening creatures at short range. But if it only a .22 it is better than nothing. Shot placement counts. Put it where it needs to go and let nature take it's course. Keep shooting until the target goes DOWN. That is very important. When you shoot a deer from a blind you don't go down to check your prey if you shoot and it falls. You sit right where you are, jack another round in the chamber, and wait and see if that devil starts to get up. The same goes for shooting two legged critters. Only you don't stop shooting to see the effect of your first shot, you keep shooting until the hombre is down and stays down. If you have a shot gun, figure on it being used to defend your home site. I can hit with 00 Buck at 60 yards with no problem. Once you light an area up with your shotgun make sure your opponent is down and not getting up. And look for any helpers that might be with him. Burn their asses up too! That will be all for today. But there is more, lots more. Stay alive. And do the best you can.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

WAITING

2010-04-10T06:08:00.000-07:00

It is Saturday as I write my Sunday post. It will be a slow day on the Internet. I think everyone is out stocking up for next week. I hope you are getting preps too! I don't like Saturday much. No one comments or writes an opinion on Saturday. Saturday would be a good day to attack this country because most people are in to other things on this day. And I didn't make it this way. It is just the way things work out. The Handmaiden and my BIL are over in Amishland getting eggs and supplies so they are gone for a few hours. I'm telling you, things are dead on Saturday. But maybe people are tired. You can get tired of waiting. And that is what we do. We wait for the call to arms. We wait for the blinding flash from a nuke. We wait for the news that the dollar is no long accepted in the world marketplace. We just wait for all kinds of stuff and we get short tempered and grouchy to our families and just generally worn out. Maybe we need a Saturday break in the routine. Don't seem like it would hurt to get a little refreshed once in a while. But we go on, doing what we have to do and keeping a watch for the enemy. And that is the way I look at it. I'm full time. I am into survivalism and that is that. Anything else is suicidal as far as I am concerned. And I am a little crazy that way. All I generally need is a good nights sleep though, and I am fit as a fiddle, ready to strike up a few chords for the dance. And the coming dance is what I am about.

There are many things threatening to plague us here on earth. There are natural disasters like hurricanes. We have a bunch of hurricanes predicted to hit our shores this coming season. It appears that El Nino is fading out completely and the conditions for the big winds and high water are very strong. We can brace ourselves for the coming thrills. We don't get hurricanes here in southern Indiana but we get the after effects and we are just south of tornado land. We get a tornado once in a while, every five years or so, but it is generally following a major river to the south of us. But they can still hurt people in a major way and folks need to be cautious when one of those devils is in the area. The major thing is that a tornado does not hang around very long. Maybe some have in the past, I don't know, but they seem to come and go in a hurry. My thoughts on surviving a tornado always come to the point: GET YOUR ASS UNDERGROUND AND COVERED BY CONCRETE. Best way I know to avoid getting beat to death by the spinning monsters. You can't stomp 'em out or shoot 'em down. Avoidance is the way to go with these things. Get away!

The other major thing for around here is the coming financial collapse. That is going top be quite a show. The banksters and the politicians are going to burn this country and we are going to be left holding the ashes. It will not be pretty. A collapsed system and hungry people are never easy on the eyes. There will be blood. It is unavoidable. The fedgov knows this and is getting ready as best they can to control us. This will not work, at least for very long. I cannot predict the level of violence in the big cities but I would not want to be anywhere around them. That will be some ugly real estate. You see, the collapse will fall on the middle class as well as us poor folks and those folks are going to feel anger unmatched in this country in a long time. The middle class plays by the rules and when they get their butts ripped open they are going to be stomping the hell out of somebody for changing the rules and not telling the rest of us. Their revenge could be completely remorseless. And I can't say that I blame. They have gotten educated and they have played the game at the office and they are educating their children and the rug is getting pulled out from under them. They are not going to be happy campers. But they will be good troops on the line. They will not flinch and they will not run. They will be pissed off. They are going to have a lifetime of work and investment taken from them and it will be a sad day for whoever takes it. You government lurkers out there may as well get out of the country because your asses aren't worth a plug nickel hanging around here.

The President of Poland, his wife, and almost a 100 people died in a plane crash in Western Russia. They were flying in to Russia to hold an annual memorial service at a small little town in the countryside where the Russian NKVD executed 22,000 Polish military men during the very early 1940's. Most of Poland's mind pool was on the plane. The heads of practically everything they had to run the country was aboard. They were the only country in Europe last year to show any growth. Now it is all in a pile of twisted metal in some Russian scrub woods. There are no accidents. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

TROOPS

2010-04-09T07:17:00.000-07:00

It's a great day "to go to the tavern and talk a little treason." I got that line from "The Quiet Man" starring John Wayne and a cast of great actors. And I am in love with the concept. Like I was telling Remus this morning, I am not a member of any country who has laws against thought crimes. I think I can talk about any goddamn thing I want to and that is the end of the matter. I can say what I want, write what I want, make a movie of what I want, and act out on stage anything I want. And if the fedgov does not like that they can get close enough so that I might spit in their faces.

Like I was saying yesterday, we must get prepared to get out in the streets this Summer. It is going to be one hell of a show as we battle Obama and the New World Order for the rights and well being of the people of this country. They wish to enslave us and we wish to remain a free people, so there is this rub. Me, I like that freedom stuff and I think I will take that side of the contest. And my God, it is going to be tough. Tough as hell. The enemy is not going to give up without a helluva fight. They will bring troops in from where ever they can get them so be ready to face folks you don't know. There will be US troops but maybe not all that many. But Canada might put some in here and Mexico could do the same. Don't know about England, Europe and Russia and China and some others. But there are a lot of backstabbers in this world and it may be an ideal time to get rid of a bunch of them. They compost, don't ya' know. Hah!

But it is going to take hundreds of thousands of us. We cannot go into this with a handful of guys and expect to come away with the win. It ain't gonna work thataway. And the more guys you can put into the fray at the beginning the shorter the battle will be. Hit 'em big right from the first and don't let up. Take all the weapons and ammo you can carry off the battle field. The enemy has some neat stuff and there is no sense letting it lie around useless. Those Barrett 50 calibers are some hard hitting muthas and are particularly usefull. Any hand held missiles will make a big difference also. Don't be afraid to take command of any drones that come across your path. Those suckers can wreck havoc from the sky. If you don't have anyone who can use them you may as well destroy them so they can't be used against you later. Don't leave them behind, what ever you do.

I am thinking of getting a back pack to carry a few things in case I am engaged against the enemy. An old guy with a bad heart can use a few creature comforts during a lull in the battle. A rope and a couple tarps and a change of clothes and some food would be a nice little stash to have with you. A couple blankets would be good. A fire steel would be nice to have along. Some tinder seems like a good idea. And of course that old favorite, an army mess kit, will be necessary for food and beverages. The Handmaiden just informed me that she is getting us all some larger personal firesteels with a striker on the cord with them. I informed the Handmaiden that SHE is not going with me to do any fighting. She agrees with this but thinks an escape bag would be nice. The bag is going to be a backpack. 'Nuff said.

The point I wish to emphasize most strongly is to get your ass out of the house and get to the party. This time it will not be a matter of waiting to see who goes first. YOU GO FIRST. I'll be coming in from another road to join you. And we have to go! If we don't show a strong resolve we will just get put on trucks and put into camps. When it happens, GO, GO, GO! This is how we will win and be able to face our grandkids. Hundreds of thousands of us must show up for the festivities. We cannot back down. We can not stay at home and expect Ol' Luke and Joe Bob to handle it. You and me have to go and give a hand in this reckoning of our future. It is mandatory if we want to be free, if we want our self respect, if we want to be considered as men.

And this must be take place all over this broad land of ours. We are too damn many for them to whip us if we get on with the fight. We have them out numbered by a terrible margin. If we all show up they are on a suicide mission. They can't whip all of us! No goddamn way! The answer lies in us getting off our butts and going to the battle. When you get the word that it is going to happen near you, get up and go! Bring other folks if need be. Just don't neglect to come yourself. We can't win without you. Coast to coast should show us fielding an army of about three million people, armed and on the field ready to fight. There ain't an army in the fucking world that can match that! We have the victory if we will but get off of our asses and get to the battle. Hope to see you there. And stay alive!

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

THE MESS

2010-04-08T07:01:00.000-07:00

Good morning out there in the blogosphere. It is kinda soggy from where this is originating. It rained to beat skin hell last night. The big field across the road is flooded to the max. The spillway from the pond is working overtime. It's wet, I tell ya, wet. The temperature is going to stay in the 50's today. Fine by me. I have no crops in the ground. The BIL is downstairs doing some type of woodwork, the wife is down cooking the 82 year old friend his breakfast and I am mostly by myself except for Mia, the Pit Bull. Mia thinks she is a human being and is taking her morning snooze. I think it is in her contract that she gets a morning snooze. She was out on the porch this morning try to make friends with the cats. The cats were having none of it. Mia is just too big a hulking monster for the cats to feel good about. She belongs to my son who has trained her very well. Excellent watchdog and very obedient. We all love her. He is going on a fishing trip and does not want to take her so we are watching her. She likes that just fine. Probably because we spoil her.

I was reading a post today about the Obamacare bill and the guy writing it said that there is provisions in it for putting a chip in a patients drivers license so that the patient can be identified in the future. Or even under their skin. Ain't that sweet! In order to get our medical care, which we will pay for, we will get chipped. I swear I don't want this damn chip business. I have made it 65 years without a chip and I can make it the rest of the way, thank you very much. These political people are so into control it is amazing! You think they are passing a bill to get you medical insurance and then you find out they want to chip you. I come from a time when there was no picture on a drivers license. How did we make it? Well, we made it just fine. We did not need pictures and RFID chips and all of that. But the PTB want us to have those things. And it is for control. You get an RFID chip in your drivers license and they can go by you with a detector and read who you are without you even knowing it. And if you are trying to get away from the police because of some action involving you protesting the actions of your government then you are just out of luck. Unless you subject your license to some microwaves generated in your kitchen. Microwaves will kill the chip. Let's have a big round of applause for microwaves! You can also make a shield for your wallet out of metal and that might not be penetrable by a chip reader. And of course, you can make a metal covering for your license itself and put it in your metal covered wallet. If they put a chip under your skin you will have to either get it cut out or devise some sort of shield to cover it. Screw the nosey bastards.

I, probably like you, have been reading about the unpaid pension funds out in California and now General Motors. I don't know if my spelling is any too good but I seem to be seeing the words "fiduciary malfeasance" coming into my brain. Someone should be doing a little time in a federal slammer for this. For any kind of fund or pension fund, there is a person or group of persons who are to be the watch dogs for the fund. If something is not right they are supposed to scream bloody murder. The way I have seen the courts work, this is the law. If you don't scream the alarm then you are just as guilty as the people who stole the money. And there ain't anybody gonna tell me that there has been no glimmer of the day arriving when three pension funds for California government workers would come up short a half a trillion dollars. That's right. FIVE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS. What the hell is going on? Are people so stupid that they can't realize that this money has not been paid as directed? That it has gone elsewhere? I realize that California has gone way up around the bend on their pension promises and all of that but where is the money that should have been in there in the first place? It hasn't been paid. And if it does get paid, even at just a percentage of what is supposed to be paid, who do you think is going to get stuck with the tab? John Q. Citizen, that's who. Folks who were never in on the deal. People who were not involved in any of the shenanigans. But the money has been spent elsewhere and you and I are going to have to make it up, if it ever does get made up. The winning is private but the losing is public. What a gigantic scam.

And I really ought to get off of this rant and just say a few things. Someone wrote a book awhile back called A Nation of Cowards and I am half tempted to believe it. And I am tired of it. We will hit the streets this Summer and get it on, people. We will take back our freedom and our country. We will kick the asses off the PTB. And we have to do this! If we don't we are going to end up as nothing more than field slaves for the boys in Washington. They are passing laws that we have no idea of the content. Who the hell reads a 2000 page exercise in legalese? And why are the bills being written this way unless it is just for the reason that no one will read them. This country is being stolen on a 24 X 7 basis. Every minute of every hour of every day is the witness to the theft of our national strength. It is going to banksters, politicians, lobbyists and so forth. But you have heard all of this and more and I know that you are ready to man the barricades and stop the degradation of we the people. It must be stopped and it will be stopped. There ain't anyone with the right to steal us blind. There ain't anyone with the authority to enslave us. See you out on the streets! And stay alive!

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

THINGS ARE HAPPENING

2010-04-07T07:22:00.000-07:00

A very pleasant morning here at home but I am afraid we have some rain in our future. And that does not bother me because I do not have to work in a garden as yet. And old friend who I have known for many years sent me a message yesterday to tell me that we would have another freeze yet this Spring. I believe him to the maximum. There is no way it is Summer already. And the other three seasons will give you a good frost at any time. Simple explanation of the seasons. At least for around here.

The Obama administration is still trying to make a positive change in this country. I want to wish them a lot of luck. So far I haven't heard a damn thing from them that was going to be beneficial to us poor peons. You know, my mentor told me after the Berlin Wall came down that since the government didn't have a big bad communist enemy to fight any more they would turn on their own citizens and we would all end up being like Mexican peons. That old man sure did know what he was talking about. This country is becoming so degraded as to be unrecognizable. And we have not gotten to the CAP AND TRADE end of things as yet. Now there is huge talk of a VAT tax, commonly known as a Value Added Tax. Sorta like a super sales tax. Here we are, working our butts off and trying to survive, and this moron of a president wants to heap on the taxes. Kinda shows you what he thinks of us.

Over in Kyrgyzstan they have kicked out the government and he has left the capital. A coalition of politicians (yuck) have formed a new government. They have agreed on a new Prime Minister, a new Minister of the Interior, and a new head of security. So the Kyrgyz's get a new ruler. I wonder if he has the good of the people at heart or if he will be another tyrant. Time will tell. But it looks like the Kyrgyz's have an idea of how to handle a tyrant. We might find ourselves kicking someone's ass out of office one day. It's a tough job but someone has to do it. Times are headed in a rough direction right now and unpopular politicians are finding things to be precarious. Like in this country, if we can kick out the pack of coyotes we have in there now we might get a group that will serve us, instead of the banksters and the big corporations and the lobbyists. I think that is what the Tea Party people are all about. I don't know much about the Tea Party folks but I know the democrat party does not like them at all. There are some common, ordinary democrats who like the Tea Party but the big wheels don't think much of them. I think it is because the big wheels will have to roll out of town if the Tea Party gets their way. Too bad for those Big Wheels. We have to turn this country upside down to get it right side up again. I think there is a scripture to that effect in the Book of Acts. You might look at it like the Ark getting turned upside down. The Beasts were then on top, the workers were in the middle and the anointed of God were on the bottom. Not too good a place for the human race.

I am going to have to postpone my wood stove installation for a week and a half. I thought I could use some existing chimney pipes but I can't. It would burn the building down. Terrance Maddox is coming weekend after next to boss this thing for my BIL and I. It is always good to have someone who has really done it successfully on site to make sure things are moving properly. And chimney installation has to be done properly.

We are being buffeted by a solar storm right now. People who know about such things say it has a very small chance of being harmful to us. A picture of it's power is at the top of this blog post. I will tell you true, I do not know if these things have any effect on our planet. And by that I mean earthquakes, huge hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, and all those other invasive things that can happen to Earth. Some people believe is can mess with us. And maybe it can. But we are in this storm right now and who knows where the ride will take us. I'm just a prepper in southern Indiana, trying to keep family and friends united and safe. This other stuff is in the hands of God and he don't ask my permission. Those lights you see in the top picture are over Antarctica. Those are southern lights, not northern lights. Stay alive

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

EL CENTRO AND WATER

2010-04-06T07:50:00.000-07:00

It's a lovely day outside. It may be too hot except for a very nice breeze on the porch. But it is sunny and pretty and I like it.

I was reading George Ure this morning and found out the El Centro, California is actually 50 feet below sea level. If you live in the Imperial Valley I would get the hell out of there. All those after shocks from the Baja Ure-thquake have produced gurgling sounds under the surface of the soil. Could be the "Fountains of the Earth" are about to open up and get things a bit wet out in sunny California. But it is okay with me. That will protect land in Arizona from being invaded so easily. Things just seem to work out. Ure had a writer tell of a very vivid color dream of a mass evacuation from southern California. Same old stuff: bumper to bumper traffic. Lots of wrecks and burning vehicles. Devastation. Black clouds in the sky. You now what I mean. All the lovely things we have talked and read about for the last few years. And I am starting to believe in them more than ever. I know certain things that others don't. I have the clues to what is meaningful and what may not be meaningful. And some of these reports I hear of dreams scare the hell out of me. Actually they don't scare me at all. I think I will make it through just fine. And I think people like Pete Smith and Mayberry and others will cruise through will little problem. I also have friends like Pale Rider and Terrance Maddox to come on and move in here. Pretty stout hearted men. Make wonderful allies but fearsome enemies.

The new water filter with the Black Berkey filters is being completed this morning. Looking at lots of good clean drinking water in the future. I finally got the dope on the Primer system. It's a piece of cake and is really simple if they will just explain it. The Handmaiden is going to buy 4 more filters a.s.a.p. Tomorrow we are to start the actual installation of our wood cook stove. Just getting too damn close to Cap and Trade for me to let it go any longer. I told my neighbor I had the stove to cook with and he said he had the wood. Sounds like a match made in heaven to me! Terrance Maddox cautioned me to get the wood stove hooked up for emergencies and for outrageous utility cost raises. We should get on that tomorrow while my brother-in-law still can use his battery driven drill to get the stove pipe screwed together. You just never know when this crazy bunch in Washington is going to pull some sort of crap that will ruin things for the rest of us. I went to my BIL and saw the water filter first hand. It's working like a champ. Lots of clean water in our future. and clean water is VERY important. And tomorrow we DO install the new cook stove. That will get Maddox off of my back. And things are coming together. I am missing my friend Charles Bell right now. I believe he is out of the country and I will be glad when he returns. He and I think a lot on the same topics. He is a prepper to the max.

I was reading a post about Rick Santelli this afternoon and he is forecasting $150 a barrel oil this Summer. This is a maximum bummer. But maybe it is what is needed to get America to pull it's head out of it's ass. Some folks must feel the pain before they even know a fight is in progress. We humans are sorta slow on the uptake at times. Someone has to get it though their little pointed heads that we are about to go down the tubes. Ain't no joke, Baby! Times are going to get tough. The economy is going to be hard to deal with. There will not be the volume nor the variety that America has been used to. Got any of Big John's non-hybrid seed? Beats the hell out of going hungry. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

CME'S AND SOCIALISTS

2010-04-05T06:35:00.000-07:00

Here I am, sitting at a computer on Monday morning typing my Tuesday morning blog post. Not exactly hot off the grill stuff but it is what I can do. We have had a Coronal Mass Ejection headed our way since Saturday morning and no one knows what the hell it will do. But a good stiff CME can really screw things up on good old Earth. Maybe we will be lucky with this one and escape planet wide disruption. Then there is always the chance we WON'T escape. Then it will be time to fire up the wood stove and start eating the preps. May as well start eating them now as to wait, I reckon. One minor point in this discussion is that IF the CME is powerful enough then you will start seeing those transformers on you power poles blow up. They can set the poles on fire. We will be plunged into electrical darkness. You will cook your food on anything except your electric range. It will be a bitch of the highest magnitude. Should we get hit with reverse polarity then nothing will work, period. But reverse polarity is something that we can recover from. It should take anywhere from a couple days to two weeks. The planet itself will, or at least should, restore polarity. It will be something like 1800 until polarity is restored. I am tired of this CME, Ure-thquake stuff. But if it has to be then let 'er rip. If any of you have been out of the loop, we are going to get earthquakes, CME's, and nukes for a certainty in the near future. And I hate to be the one to tell you this but I believe you can count on it. Got preps? Dragon has not sent me an email telling me good bye as yet so I think he still feels it is safe enough. Your definition of safe may vary with his.

The closed meeting of the federal reserve is this very Monday morning. I would assume that Herr Rothschild has issued his instructions and they will be followed to the letter. The bankers have the deck right now and are dealing however they wish. But they have not encountered many rednecks at the federal reserve board meetings. Those friendships will come at a later time. Got rope? It is a shame this mess has to drag out like it is. People get so fed up with no action that they start to let things go in their normal pursuit of life. But Obama will start on Cap and Trade or some other dumbass thing and we will be in high gear once again. The last thing anyone with half a brain would do is raise taxes in a depression. It's insane. Only a mortal enemy would do such a thing. Keep that thought in your little thinking machine for the next few months. If Obama tries to raise our taxes he is proving his non-love for the people of this country. And Cap and Trade is the biggest single revenue bill to ever come up in this country. Obama is fixing to bleed us like a stuck hog. But he is a Socialist and that is the way they believe things ought to be. Your electric bill is about to double or triple and it won't matter to Obama one damn bit. Pay up slave! The people who voted for him wanted change and they are damn sure gonna get it. He is gonna change their money from their wallet to the fedgov Treasury in one Cap and Trade bill. A Master Stroke of a good Commie. Don't you just love how they want to control your life? Get to work you ignorant serfs! Too much.

Nothing coming out of Washington is going to do you a damn bit of good. They don't make anything in Washington. They merely write checks on YOUR MONEY. All they do is spend money. And they are gobbling up control of our nations businesses as hard and fast as they can go. And so are the banksters. All of these banks that are being take over every Friday are going to bigger banks who will consolidate and become part of even bigger banks. Hell, we don't need all of these local banks when a half dozen big boys on Wall Street can handle the action. By the time the consolidation is over they will own practically all of America anyhow. They will own your mortgage and thus your living quarters. And you give them any shit and they will call your mortgage due and what the hell are you going to do about it? Nothing! You balk at their orders and a squad of cop cars will be headed your way very quickly. Sound ugly? Well, Brothers and Sisters, it is ugly. It is called tyranny and suppression. You be scheduled for the bottom of this particular heap. Sorry about that. But it is the Socialist way, don't ya' know. Mao used these techniques, Stalin used these techniques, the dweeb over in England, the Prime Minister don't ya know, is trying to use these techniques. The rope is getting shorter and we have less room to roam. And everywhere you turn there are those who are trying to make the rope even shorter. It is turning into a "no fun" world. But preppers like to have fun and we ain't gonna let these bastards spoil the party. We will get a truce or something every now and then and just party like monsters. With proper security on duty of course. Socialists do not go into the market place to work for their daily bread. They work for the state. You rednecks work at the mines and make the living for the folks working for the government. Obama made his living as a Community Organizer. What does a Community Organizer make, condoms for termites? This system is getting out of hand and needs to be reined in. Pull back hard and stay alive!

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

DEFENSE AND FOOD

2010-04-04T07:13:00.000-07:00

Nothing much to write about this morning. The PTB are still firmly entrenched and suffocating our freedoms as fast as they can go. Gardening time is fast approaching and I am going to get into it this year, I think. Beats the hell out of reading the news. We either collapse or we grow garden. Actually, we grow garden either way. The need to eat does not go way just because we have a global meltdown.

I would like to stress group defense as much as possible. The lone wolf approach to living ain't gonna cut it. One shot and you are out of the picture. Your wife is raped and your kids are turned into slaves. Get with some FRIENDS. Get with some people you trust. And I know that is a tall order in a lot of cases but you better make it happen. Learn where the choke points are on the road to your retreat. That is where you stop the Zombies from getting any closer. Make your stand as far from the retreat base as you can. You do not want the battle at your home. Learn where you can drop a tree or three and make the road impassable. KEEP THE ZOMBIES AWAY AS FAR AS POSSIBLE. These people will not do you any good except for target practice and they might be the kind of target that shoots back. Practice your shooting. It can save your life and the lives of your family and friends. If you have game in the area it will also put food on the table. BUT DO NOT NEGLECT YOUR DEFENSE. Drive up and down the road looking SERIOUSLY for things that will be an advantage for you. There ain't any war right now and you can scout as much as your little heart desires. And some day you will be glad you did. There are people who like to hide in the shadows and attack you. I figured out a long time ago that my best bet was to get to the shadows FIRST. When they come sneaking in to the hiding place you can just shove a long knife up their ass. FUN! But I hope I am getting through to you that you need to be ready to fight. And you need to plan so that you will WIN. Winning is much more fun that losing. Ask any loser.

I am going to compost my garden this year, God willing. A few bags of commercial compost will be put on the soil before tilling. Since I have grown a horrendous amount of beans the last couple years I doubt that I need any Nitrogen but there are other things getting used up that will need to be replaced. Just taking steps to win the garden battle. And we will not refuse any food grown by someone else. Keep an eye on folks who grow but do not harvest thoroughly. They will give a ton of stuff away. Especially things like squash and turnips and such. They get big ideas in the Spring, as we all do, and when eating time comes around they just are not that hungry. This set of circumstances can increase your Winter stash to a great degree. We had squash up until a couple of days ago from last years garden ventures. They were given to us. We are the eccentric preppers you know, and we have the reputation for keeping stuff over the Winter. We also get offered a lot of tomatoes. People plant a lot and don't have the capacity to can them or eat all of them so we get the call. Poor us. But it is all food and it is food we don't have to buy and we store it and eat it. The Handmaiden is very good at this. A lot of our grocery money goes for meat. We can generally scrape through on the other stuff, unless the wife wants to get fancy or has a deep craving. We go organic as much as we can and we go commercial when we have to. But we are always looking for the best quality we can find. We have hundreds of acres here that are not planted in a damn thing. Too steep, too rocky, too whatever. But that is the ground that grows FREE food and the Handmaiden is getting to be quite adept at gathering it for us. We have already started eating the free food that God has given us. It is amazingly nutritious and quite tasty. It is for people who eat to live and not live to eat. You know, there are foragers in Nu Yawk Sity. Right in the heart of the beast system is free food if you know what to look for. And out here in southern Indiana there are tons of great vegetables growing all over the place. People don't even see it. It's invisible. It is hid right out on the open where no one can see it. America doesn't see food unless there are golden arches up in the air. What a joke! Some of the best food on the planet and people drive right by it to eat to McDonald's. Someone had better get the word out to all of the homeless people that there is free food, more than they could ever eat, just off of that stinking highway. Just don't eat where they spray for weeds. Be sure to bring a pot to cook it in!

I have had a couple comments about shooting at helicopters. Very interesting stuff to read but so far no mention of drones. Those bastards can spot you from so far away that you don't even know they are around. We gotta work on those drone things. They can put a permanent hurt on your ass and you not know it until it is all over and you are headed to glory. That's all for now. Just stay alive!

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

WEEKEND THIS AND THAT

2010-04-03T06:41:00.000-07:00

Busy day yesterday and today is slower than my grandmother today. Besides that it is gonna be 15 degrees cooler and it is raining. If you don't like Indiana weather then just wait three days and it will change. I've heard that all of my life and it seems to be pretty accurate.

Got to talking war yesterday and found out a few things. The first thing is that we preppers will have to be on the lookout for sleazebags more than anyone else. These are people who have some contact, no matter how slight, with a prepper and know that food and other goodies are in the vicinity. You may actually know some of them. Their big wish is that you feed them while others are starving. In fact they may just try to kill you and take what food you have so you won't have to bother feeding yourself. Whew. That's a load off of my mind. Thought I was going to have to be responsible there for a while. But that is the way it is supposed to turn out. We won't have to worry much about National Guard and so forth, we will have to worry about folks living close to us. There has to be some sort of great lesson in all of this but the one I am getting is that I had better have my ass ready to do some shooting. I reckon we bought these guns for something, eh? Hunting comes to mind in all of this gun acquisition but I can see other uses for the sweet little things. Saving my own precious ass comes to the front with no prompting. And there are others who I will defend should the need arise. Friends and family. "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." Pretty sound reasoning. Our wives have followed us all through this great task of prepping and learning. Their help has been very great. Our children didn't come onto this era of time through any fault of their own but they are here and most will try to be a benefit. Our friends, the real ones and not the guys who we meet at the bar, will be getting our back as we strive to cover theirs. These are the kind of people we will lay it all down for. You pay your money and you take your chances. Life can be a bit of a crap-shoot. So be it.

And talking about a crap shoot, if you have been paying attention you will have noticed that the federal reserve is holding an emergency meeting this coming Monday. It would seem that the precious metals scam is about to catch up with the banksters. All these people investing in Electronically Transferred Funds on the precious metals market are dabbling in sheer idiocy. The Gold and Silver do not exist! It is a fig-newton of their imagination. It ain't real! And if you are in it, get the hell out! Don't buy a goddamn thing you can't hold in your hand. The so called bullion banks are J.P. Morgan Chase and the American branch of HSBC. These folks are not to be trusted. They will leave you in the lurch so fast it will make your head spin. If you want Gold or Silver, fine. Just be sure you have it in your hand. If it is on paper then you are screwed. Preppers have been told for years to concentrate on tangibles and if you haven't done that you are missing the boat. We have to look out for each other and this is just part of it. I was reading a post by a banker this morning and he was looking for some good food producing land to buy and live on. Does this tell you anything? Am I getting through to you? All this talk about an economic collapse is ABOUT SOMETHING. And it is no game. No game at all. This situation is serious as a heart attack. If you are spread out in your situation then you had better get concentrated pretty fast. Get rid of what you don't need or what you can't hold in your hand and get stuff that is needed and you can handle. The day of the fedgov promise being any good is over. The day of self controlled existence is upon us. The day is in your hands so take good care of it. And stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

CHECKIN' IT OUT

2010-04-02T07:45:00.000-07:00

Lots of people prepping and getting it right. It's not all fun and games but it is valuable and effective. Today I have a friend coming to visit. He is ex-Special Forces and knows a thing or three. We will palaver and then maybe go look at some possible sites for defense of our property. The road is narrow and full of turns. We will see what pops up on the defensive area. I don't think you can get too familiar with your home ground. I sorta follow the guy who says to NOT defend your home site but defend a few miles up the road from your home site. You don't want to be fighting around the women and kids if you can help it. Makes sense to me and thus I will operate on that principle. We are not big into suicide bombers and that sort of thing so we will try and protect as many of our people as we can. No movement of martyrs around here. We be preppers, not suicides.

Just got back from looking over the terrain with my Special Forces friend. He knows what he is talking about. We looked at choke points and things like that. An interesting point he made was that any civil war fought in the US is going to be a quarter mile to a half mile war. Long shots. Not expected to be a "carbine" war at all. .308 shooters will appreciate this information. I think you defensive minded guys out there will know of what I speak. If I am not clear enough email me privately for greater detail.

Things are looking to get rough, I think and those who are prepared for that sort of thing will probably come out on top. I keep getting "Autosave Failed" notices while I type this. I ain't getting paranoid or nothin' but it does make a fella wonder. Now it is telling me that Blogger.com cannot be contacted. That means I can't publish or save. Lookin' bad for the home team. I heard a company makes a 52 caliber black powder rifle with rifling in the bore. Sure is an interesting concept to dwell upon. Huge glob of lead. It could make life HELL for a helicopter.

But like I was saying, things are looking a little rough for the citizenry right now. This Obama creature does not want to be the guy who has the country slip out of control on his watch. And I can see that. No one wants to fail at their job and responsibility. But some of us would consider him having a failure as being a great success for us, at least in the area of prepping and Obamacare. But a lot of folks I talk to think there is gong to be big trouble in this country and it will take .30 caliber ammo to take care of it. My latest estimate says that our real danger is from people coming in to take your food and what ever else you have. They will come in between three and six in the morning, the time when the earth is deeply asleep. It is also the time the bars let out in some places. Stop them at a choke point and wipe them out. Stop the advance and pour it on them. Don't let them get past you and get to your living area. You are in deep trouble if you do. That is all for today. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

UGLY GOVERNMENT

2010-04-01T04:22:00.000-07:00

An interesting morning, reading the blogs. Remus, over at the Woodpile Report, got into the fact that Muslims are exempt from having to buy health insurance under the new Obamacare we now have on the books. Muslims consider insurance to be against God so they get a pass on this one. But they get their medical free just the same. How nice. Remus also went on to mention John Galt telling everyone that if they can get out of the country they had better do it NOW. It seems we have currency controls now and you can't take U.S. money out of the country. John Galt gives us a time frame to 90 to 180 days before something ugly is going to happen here on our shores. This sure is a wonderment to me. Of course, I am still wonderingn why Los Angeles didn't have an URE-thquake yesterday. But we will have our day and there is nothing to stop it. Just follow the bouncing ball and sing along with the music. My trouble is I don't know a good funeral dirge. That would be most appropriate. The little Marxist we have in the Whitehouse will learn some good ones though.

I had some grave misgivings this morning about what the fedgov has in mind for us peons to experience in the near future. Something dark and troublesome I am sure. Obama is intent on working us to death. We get all the debt he can rack up. We will get pennies on the dollar for our labor. The rest of the cash will go to the banksters, multinational businesses, and our favorite government workers. And in the bill the Senate sent to the fedgov and Obama signed, there is a stipulation that two and a half billion dollars will be given to black universities and community colleges. This is racism in a pure form. You don't help only black universities you help all universities. But America ain't the country I was raised in any more so why am I startled by this. I suspect we have just scratched the surface of the degradation and horror to be brought us in the near future, if any of you are planning on a future of any meaning. I am wondering why, with the American Dollar being the reserve currncy of the world, it cannnot be transported out of the country to where ever we wish to do business. Seems like there is a legal violation here on the part of our fedgov and no one is crying out because of it. Just those troublesome bloggers again. They are gonna shut us down pretty soon and we will not have each other to lean on like we do now. We have too much power and ability for a tyranical government to tolerate us blowing off at the mouth like we do.

But we have gained some valuable lessons. We know to prepare and to get ready for the hard times. We know to have food stored up clear to the ceiling. We know to have our shortwave radios hooked up and running. We have our guns and ammo piled deep and cheap. We have our medical covered and stored up. Most of us can grow food and feed ourselves. We have gotten out of town as best we can. But we have not run and we ain't gonna run. This is our country and we intend to keep it. Screw the politicians and their pet businesses. We will have an alternate economy set up before the fedgov knows what happened. And if the fedgov tries to run us over they will pay a hell of a price. We ain't backin' down. No way.

I was reading Pete Smith over on Patriots Against the New World Order this morning, as is my normal routine, and I sensed a great determination in his soul to resist the coming crud and corruption headed our way. I just want him to know that he is more than welcome to come get back to back with me! In fact, if the whole thing goes down a whole bunch of you are welcome here. We will all need each other. I guess that is just recognition of the last step in successful prepping, the massing of the preppers. The bringing together of the clan of people who have the will to live and the guts to see to it. And what a force we will be!

I got on some news site this morning that was from a British tabloid and the stories are about people living on another planet. Famous people on vacation. Famous people shopping. Famous people out with their little kids. Famous people out for an evening of clubs and partying. It's like they are completely detached from the real world. It is like they are not part of the rest of humanity. And this sells? The human need for escape is so great that they will support these "Stars" so they can read about them and see their pictures? I know that Gerald Celente forecasted this but it is still amazing to see. Sick. I still haven't seeen a "Star" come out and tell people to prep. Not part of their reality I guess. Oh well. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

URE-THQUAKE, ETC.

2010-03-31T06:32:00.000-07:00

Well, merrily we roll along toward our individual destinies and there ain't much we can do about that and I don't know that I would change any of it. Besides, the man in charge of that is way smarter than me and I'll just trust him. I acknowledge and accept his divine plan. It seems to be the way to go. There surely is no better road.

I have surfed the Internet this morning and found no word on the URE-thquake out in Los Angeles. But the day is young and you just never know. We do know that every day that has passed is taking us closer to the next big quake. If the New Madrid Fault ever goes ballistic I might feel some tremors from that but then again I may not. The first floor of our building is rock with steel inside of it and it is pretty solid. No great wind has ever made it shake.

We got all the garden seed out last night and still do not have our minds made up as to what to plant. There is SOOOO much stuff to get into the ground. But it will be a month and ten days before frost date and we have plenty of ruminating time in front of us. My Garlic out on the hillside to the South of us is doing well and I will have my first ever garlic harvest, God willing. I have never grown Garlic and since I have found it's wonderful medicinal properties I think it wise to plant this stuff. It is pretty simple. You just go out to your presumed Garlic bed in the Fall and you put the Garlic cloves in the ground with the proper end pointing up. You plant so that the cloves are about one inch from the surface. Then you just forget about them because they will do their thing and they don't need you. But this is how you get a bulb of Garlic from your plant. I just used Garlic my wife got from the Amish and it is coming along very well.

It is supposed to be in the 70's for the next five days of our weather forecast. Fantastic. Five days in the 70's will warm up the ground and get it ready for planting, if you can wait until May 10th. I have lived in this Valley for 39+ years and I have only seen it frost once at a later date. Pretty good marker on the road to food production if you ask me. I think this Summer is going to be a scorcher. Some global warming guy and a journalist froze to death in the Antarctic. Should have been somewhere else, I reckon. Well the global warming guys can go totally crazy with their predictions of earth heating up and cooking all of us. When we had our last Global warming trip about a thousand years ago, England became a grape growing center. I can hardly imagine grapes being a big crop in Britain but the records say it is true. It might be nice to have it that warm again. Extended growing seasons would sure help the food supply. We be getting quite a large crowd on this planet. It will get purged but that ain't up to me. Way above my pay grade.

I just checked the news for any rumblings of an Ure-thquake out in California. Nothing as yet. But do not give up on it as yet because the day isn't half over. George Ure has a marvelous way of expressing things like his prediction of an LA quake. If he hits the thing right, he is a world beater. If he gets it wrong then he is just fatigued by all the emails he gets about the subject. Also, as the Handmaiden pointed out, the vision said Wednesday but not which Wednesday. But if George hits on this one he will be financially taken care of for the rest of his life. Nice gig for a goat herder and professional typist in Eastern Texas. I enjoy his writing and wish him well. Odd ducks like George Ure and Cliff High have always interested me. These are the kind of guys that get strange thoughts from SOMEWHERE and they look at life a little different. They can stumble on to the damnedest things. I pay attention.

As a note to prepper/foragers, our Dandelions are up. We can't get enough of them. I love the blossoms floured and dosed with salt and pepper and fried in hot butter. Just right next to fried mushrooms on the taste scale. We also eat a lot of the greens. They are nutritious as all get out and taste mighty good. The Handmaiden uses the roots for some sort of healing stuff I don't know anything about but she swears by. Pretty valuable plant if you ask me. And it is just a weed. The Handmaiden just got in with a sack of Dandelions, chickweed, wintercress and wild onions. We be eating good now!

Not much on the economic news front that you probably don't already know. Ireland is going to bail out it's banks and save the economy. Man! What a unique idea! That reminds me that there is nothing new under the Sun. It's a case of Same Shit, Different Day.

One more thing to add. We are not pumping any oil out of our Gulf oil rigs and have not pumpered out of them for almost a year. The oil leases of Obama are just another hoax to act like the mental dwarf is trying to do something for us. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

DAYS OF CHANGE

2010-03-30T08:17:00.000-07:00

The winds of change are blowing across the land and we are witnesses to the effect. I am now reading about the Hutaree militia and am witnessing their crucifixion in the mainstream media. They are getting the full treatment. Guilty by virtue of the media! Guilty by virtue of the federal prosecutor's opinions. Guilty by virtue of the sold out militiamen in their own state. Guilty by virtue of Big Sis and her minions. What a bunch of crap! The way I read the law the militiamen get a trial of their peers. They get a defense. They get to question potential jury members before the trial. The way things are set up in our legal system there is a very good chance that the militiamen will get acquitted. They just need some very good and very fearless defense lawyers. That might be the rub in the whole affair. You get the legal defense you can pay for. O.J. Simpson had a legal dreamteam and got acquitted. Will the Hutaree Militiamen get the same deal? Somebody better be ready to cough up a lot of FRN's to get them off. I hate to say that, ya know. Money should not have a damn thing to do with your innocence or guilt, but it does. It is in the hands of God at this point.

I was accused of being a Christian in a comment earlier in the week and nothing could be further from the truth. I serve God and NO CHURCH. I am a member of no denomination. I give no money to any earthly religious organization. And as far as Christians go I like them fried along with my eggs in the morning, except my God does not approve of eating human flesh and thus it is denied me. My background is of the Bible and the truth contained therein, plus additional information received from God. God is not dead and has seen to it that I have gotten the latest part of his plan. At least I think he has. You know how we humans are. We are always positive we have the mind of God on a matter and that ain't always the way it goes. But we do the best we can and at least let it be said we stayed within a multitude of counselors and tried our damnedest to walk in the light we had. Selah.

I read a very interesting report on http://www.urbansurvival.com/ this morning about something George Ure saw Monday morning, if I got that part of it right. He had been thinking and dreaming about earthquakes and as he stared to wake up he saw a sign that read: Wednesday Los Angeles. Wow. That really does impress me and I shall be doubly impressed if it comes true. The pandemonium in our economics will be out of this world! California is in trouble with it's finances right now and an earthquake of major proportions will just push it over the edge very quickly. It is going to happen any way but the misery of the quake will make things twice as bad, or more. I can make a lot of comments about the people running California's finances these days but I wish the people no harm. They want to live the same as I do.

I think of Pete Smith, living out in California, and the antenna I have just started using today on my new Grundig radio. The antenna works like a charm but I am not getting much shortwave right now. Brother-in-law and I will start playing with the shortwave reception this evening after supper. Evening seems to be the time to hear it. It is Tuesday as I write this post and day after tomorrow will bring the first day of April. Spring is coming on! But I have my new radio working and we will see if we have the antenna set the way it should be. The slinkys are pretty versatile in how you can set them up. I really like it. But what I really want is for all the great preppers out in California to be okay. Guys like Pete Smith and Catman have tried to help a lot of people. They deserve all the help our thoughts can bring to them.

I just called Pale Rider and told him how to get to George Ure's site so he could read the message about the possible earthquake in L.A. I will get his response and we will put it up on the blog.

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His response was that his import season is just getting underway and Long Beach is the place where it comes in. Bummer. The stuff going to the coast for shipment can go to Seattle or Tacoma and make it's voyage without too much trouble. But something as powerful as a major earthquake has ramifications all over the country. Even all over the world. What kind of world are we facing? Sounds like a bitch to me!

The days of trouble are coming on us and we must be prepared. While chaos and mayhem exist on the earth let us pray that our little portion of preparedness is blessed and safe. It is what we have prepped for and longed for. We have given our work and sweat and what little money we have to our continuity. I hope it is enough.. There are those who would enslave us and try to make us serfs in their twisted little world view but I do not intend to be in their plan. My God has talked about Liberty and I find myself in agreement with Him. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

REBELLION AND WAR

2010-03-29T06:29:00.000-07:00

The weather forecast says it is going to warm up in a big way this week. One day we are supposed to hit 76 degrees. Could be a trick of nature before we get a Spring snow, or it could be a scorcher off a Summer on the way. It's been a while since we had a scorcher but it can still happen!

I talked with Pale Rider this morning and he is maybe getting us some extra help for building a chicken coop. Good show, Pale Rider. He also said his business was picking up and he is taking on more drivers for his freight hauling. But he is telling them to hold on to their money and not act like things are good again because things are NOT good. It is a false start and will not last. He asked his guys to not be deceived but he thinks some of them will be nevertheless. I tend to agree with him 100%. The economy is not there and you had better not act like it is there.

I was wondering what would be said if about 2000 militiamen arrived unannounced at a jail up North where they are holding the Hutaree militia people and announced that the jailers had 3 minutes to release the detained men or the jail would be leveled. Then they blow the utility entrance to the building. It could be a welcome reunion for all involved.

We are a nation of law. We are raised that way. But Freedom Day, April 19th, is coming up very soon and it has no basis for obeying the law. King George's men were looking to take away the cannon and powder and shot that the men of this country has accumulated in preparation to defending themselves from the Brits. And that act in and of itself was illegal. But John Hancock, noted smuggler, had busted ass getting that stuff to the rebels and they knew it and did not want to waste the effort. So they hid behind trees and rocks and brush ands shot the British to shreds all the way back to Boston. No cannon were discovered and siezed, The arms of the rebels were safe. And the rebels were law breakers. Nasty criminals. However, it is seldom pointed out that the Powers That Be are the ones making the laws. No matter how corrupt and degenerate they might be. And if you are disgusted with the PTB then what are you going to do about their laws, or laws in general? Well, you might start off by breaking their laws. You do not believe in them anyway so what is the difference. You might even copy out your NEW law and nail it up on a post somewhere so that everyone can read it. That is what the PTB do, in a sense. If you are intent on rebeling against them you may as well announce your presence. For we are a nation of people who fight against unjust laws. We just run rough shod over tyrants and idiots. Serves them right. And every now and them we have to have a Concord and Lexington to show the bastards that we mean business. No big deal. It has been done hundreds of times in history. It is going on around the globe right now as a matter of fact. After the initial blowout we will have a war. And that happens every day of the week. War is ugly but necessary to a cleansing of the air. It can remove warts and blemishes from the face of humanity. Just be sure you are on the right side and that you don't give up. When a revolution starts the PTB have an advantage. They have the media and the army. They have most of the control of things. Your job, as a rebel, is to start the cutting back. the prunning if you will, of their power base. A little here and a little there and before you know it you may even get invited to talk about the whole thing by the other side. Don't do it. Keep kicking their ass. Get their banks and their political parties and their religions and SHUT THEM DOWN. Whip their troops. Do all kinds of nasty shit in the name of freedom. They do what they want with impunity now so you may as well do likewise. You get shown no respect so why should you respect them? They make no laws abridging their own power so don't you it either. REMEMBER, THE CONSTITUTION WAS WRITTEN TO CLEARLY DEFINE THE POWER OF THE GOVERNMENT, NOT AS A METHOD OF LIMITING THE COMMON CITIZEN. THE GOVERNMENT HAS LIMITED POWER, NOT YOU!

I was raised by a religeous and political rebel. He was a most brilliant man and he served a wonderful God. And God spoke to the man. Talked to him. Incredible. But what they shared in their talking to each other will be passed on to humanity. Don't doubt it. The scripture says to render unto her DOUBLE. Hell, I 'm ready. Are you? Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

MILITIAS AND WAR

2010-03-28T10:51:00.000-07:00

Rainy old day today. No sunshine and lots of moisture falling down to the ground. But we will make it. The wife is making some Duck Soup and the aroma is about to drive me mad. It pulls you in like quicksand. She said there was a lot of sales for the weekend, some holiday or whatever, and the duck was cheaper than usual and she bought it. She will get at least three meals from it. Sure is good eating.

The Interweb is full of the hustle and bustle of the FBI getting it on with militia types in SE Michigan, NW Ohio and northern Indiana. I don't think this amounts to much. The story out at this point is that a few people were making and selling pipe bombs. And that is what the report said, "Making and Selling" . Couldn't come up with a better plan to get an all expense paid trip to the federal penitentiary if I tried my damnedest. Making and Selling? For Christ's sake! If the report is true they ought to get off for being retarded. But you don't ever get the details in the first report. That all comes later. All you get at first is THE MILITIA IS BEING ARRESTED BY THE FBI and you are supposed to live your life with that data. I can think of better ways to spend my time. This militia thing is not public as it once was and if you see someone trying to represent a militia for the benefit of the media then shut it off. The real guys are not going to be talking, I don't think. 20 years ago the militia was infiltrated by the FBI to the extent that their dues money was supporting the thing. Lessons were learned and things have changed. The real militia is not talking and will act when it is ready. Period.

Obama is in Afghanistan today on a surprise visit in Air Force One. He is going to tell the leader of the Afghans's to get rid of corruption and bad things and I know the Afghan leader will do it. But that is what the news media is wanting us to hear about and talk about. So look elsewhere for what is really happening. That is a little trick you pick up after years of listening to these wretched muthas. But at least you can figure out where NOT to look.

We might get to steal a march of the frost date this year. It is to get up into the 70's this week. First week of April and we are getting 70 degree temperatures? I predicted a hot Summer on account of the cold Winter but I did not think it would come on THIS STRONG. We shall see.

Still not new info on the militia up North. Things are looking like they are on hold. Now, if some group of really pissed off rebels decided they were not going to jail on those charges and started blowing up FBI cars and offices things would get serious in a hurry. But I don't think it is time for that. Maybe at the beginning of Summer. People do not like to war in cold rainy weather. I was so afraid things would break out in January. I was really up tight about that. I would do it if I had to but if I had my druthers I'd wait until warmer weather. I don't want to seem to be a Sunshine Soldier and a Summer Patriot cause I will fight no matter what the temperature. But my old bones could use a little warmth while laying in wait for the enemy to make an appearance. I reckon I will get spared flies and ticks if the weather is cold however and that makes me feel better. Can't stand those damned ticks. I go to a lot of trouble to kill those little bastards if I catch sight of them. But war is not made to be pleasant in any event.

And speaking of war, I am getting tired of the Tea Party bullshit that goes on in this country. The media acts like the sorely pissed off in this country are in the Tea Party movement. Man, did they ever miss the boat. The sorely pissed off in this country have dirt under their fingernails from grubbing in the garden. They have a lack of cash because they have spent their money on preps. And they have bad attitudes because they have watched this country taken down by a bunch of banksters and crooked politicians. Tea Party my ass. Tar and Feather party is more like it! Necktie party with a good rope will work just fine. We don't need any kiddie party to get what we want from this old earth. We need to get to work and to be left the hell alone by the rats in Washington D.C. All debts need to be forgiven and people allowed to walk with their heads up in the light of day. There are fifteen or twenty million empty houses in this country. Put the poor with kids in them for no money and let us get on with life. The undeserving will soon establish their identity among their neighbors and the problems can be handled locally. The way it should have been all along. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

JUDAS GOATS

2010-03-27T05:41:00.000-07:00

It's quiet in the house. The next door neighbors are away on a fishing trip and the wife and brother-in-law have gone to Amishland for eggs and what not. I am holding down the fort and writing. Writing is good. It gives a person a purpose and a goal. Both important things. The brother-in-law is going to get me some gadgets that will hold my antenna wire up away from everybody so it does not get torn down. The antenna is fine but the wire I am going to run to the radio antenna is not secured as yet. But all good things in their season and it will probably be finished today. Then it is shortwave city! Jim Haddix has sent me a copy of an article from Jim Rawles' blog post of March 7, 2010 called Radio Communications for Retreat Intelligence Gathering, by R.Y. And it is a huge repository of data for the novice shortwave seeker. I could not believe the stations that it lists. That location is SurvivalBlog.com, by the way. But it is a home run at this stage of the game and that is what we will be needing in the future. I am thinking this is gonna be some good preps. Rawles did a good job, again. Jim Rawles and Big John Lipscomb are two of my absolute favorites in the prepping world. They are worlds apart in their approach to life but they are on the same path. I like them both and I feel that you should too. We cannot stand too much division among ourselves in this hour in which we live. There is too much at stake. We have too much to lose if we fight and disagree. Let time and circumstances smooth over our differences as we make our way down this busted up old road called survivalism and prepping. I like Remus's attitude over at the Woodpile Report. He is a friend to those who make him a friend and he writes some damn fine stuff. Mayberry and Dragon kinda round things out for me. And we can all get along. We have to.

I am noticing a schism is society. It is more and more becoming a divided camp. There are those who will tell you that things are getting better and stay with the system and Obama and a lot of other things. Then there are those who say the message of hope and change is a phony collection of bullshit and we had better prepare for bad times. I am firmly standing in the latter camp. And I cannot lose. All the prepping I have done over the last two and a half years is usable even if the collapse does not come. I won't lose a cent. But the Change and Hope guys can lose their asses. Literally. I guess they never see that aspect. And the media is not telling them this little clue to what is what. Media should be telling them to plant gardens and store canned goods. Media should be telling them that being armed may save their lives in the collapse. Media should be telling them that they should have plenty of medication stored up in case of a medicine drought. But it is not happening. And a lot of innocent blood will be on their hands when the die off comes. The one camp is non-functional as to being prepared and the other camp is getting ready come hell or high water. It is with great happiness that I read of Main Stream Media having difficulties staying afloat financially. Financial ruin is what they deserve. Our response has been in direct opposition to what they tell us and we are looking better every day. May they rot in the hell they produce. And millions of people will enter hell because they believed in Hope and Change. They are sheep following Judas Goats. When the sheep go to the packing house they have a goat that leads the sheep to the slaughter floor. The goat gets them started and then is let out a side door and goes back outside. The sheep go on in to become meat for the table. This is necessary for control at the packing house but it ain't my idea of a good future for me and mine. Kick that old goat on into the slaughter floor and me and mine will slip on back outside. Yes.

One thing we cannot do is let the perverts of society bring dissension within the midst of those who would live on through the calamity. They are the Judas Goats we need to be aware of in our lives. They would bring dishonor and shame to every prepper in the country, if they could. Their masters expect it of them. With our cries of get out of town and get out of debt we bring people closer to freedom. And freedom is a fight, not a retirement plan. You will fight like hell to retain your freedom, if you get a chance to keep it. And your kids and grandkids will fight also. There is a battle on this planet for our very souls. The money boys want to rule it all and they want you in debt and sold out! Damn right! Their look at the future has you buying a house you will never be able to pay for from a bank that will never let you alone. They aim to make you keep on paying through the nose FOREVER. And the government will back them and keep you working your ass off paying them taxes for their wondrous salaries and retirement plans. You talk about a stacked deck! So get ready to fight with everything you have. Be wise as a serpent and harmless ass a dove but don't let them win, at any cost! This is the most perverse attempt at controlling the world that we have ever witnessed. These people have accomplished more than any other gang of thieves in history. DO NOT LET THEM WIN!

There is a newspaper that we read at our house called The Idaho Observer. It is actually a national paper. It ain't as big and ritzy as USA TODAY but it gets the job done. It comes out once a month and has some very good stuff in it. They have a website at http://www.idaho-observer.com/ and you can subscribe from them at that point of contact. Very good people with a message of "KEEP OFF OUR BACKS" going out to the fedgov and other clowns. Ingri Cassel heads it up and she has a very fine staff helping her. There is no big "I" and little "u" in their attitude. They try to tell it like it is. If you have any money left after prepping give them a shot. They have been at it for years and I thought they should have some recognition. They just don't give up. Stubborn folks. You will like them.

That's about it for today. Stay healthy and stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

RADIOS, CONNECTIONS, AND ELECTIONS

2010-03-26T05:19:00.000-07:00

Things are looking okay for us preppers right now. But don't fall asleep because that can change in a heartbeat. But we don't have a new war and we don't have Martial Law and the money is still good at the store. Keep your eyes open and prep on. I got a favorable comment about the Grundig radio and that has bolstered my feelings quite a bit. Nothing succeeds like success. Now comes the idea that we will need a list of stations that have good news. Should not be too hard to handle once the stations are discovered. My brother-in-law brought me part of a spool of 18 gauge speaker wire this morning for getting my radio hooked up to my antenna. It is insulated and has two wires in it which be split in two lengthwise. Then it will be search and discover time. I really think this shortwave thing may have some benefit to us doomers. A friend of mine in Ohio will be up and running this weekend, I believe. I have no other details to report other than that. No one has broken the broadcast barrier that I am aware of. But should it happen and I find out about it the readers of this blog will know the details as soon as I do. It would be very cool to have a broadcast network to pass news along to friends and preppers. Very cool indeed. We will have to have codes and things to say stuff we don't want the fedgov to get but other than that it will be a benefit. Good for us, I say. And those with a spirit gift can share their nuggets with the rest of us. You never know what some one may receive. God is pretty merciful.

I think I should add that anyone wanting to contact me personally should use the email address I provide at the end of most of my posts. I read all comments and seldom comment in return. The comment section usually belongs to the commenter's and not to me. We ALL read the blog.

I read some consternation concerning non-hybrid seed in an email this morning and I thought to address that subject. I beg to differ with the idea that non-hybrid seed are readily available at all local feed and seed stores. I know one place in my area that sells Cranberry Bean seed and another place that sells some Golden Bantam Corn seed that is non-hybrid. Beyond that it is a dry well. I am not saying there are no other seeds available but I am not into driving around looking for them. I went to one other place and struck out. The point I have to make is that what is genetically inclined to grow where you live is what you should plant. I live in a fairly northern climate and things grown in the northern climes should have a tendency to do well here. My Cranberry Beans just really get with it and the crop yield is terrific. The person who emailed me said that seeds from Europe are acclimated to our more northern climate and I am willing to go along with that, as long as they produce the first year. Vegetables that I grow and save the seed are a sure thing. They are already acclimated to this soil and climate. They are producers or they would not be planted a second time anyhow. But heirloom, non-hybrid is no guarantee that you will get a good crop. If your plants are acclimated to the desert you might not have much of a success story to tell the next Fall. Then again you might really get a super yield because desert plants normally take of like rocker ships if they get plenty of water. You experiment and you decide what is good for you and your family. I think along the lines of growing a CROP and not a salad bar. When I have planted Cranberry Beans I have planted LOTS of them. Thirty gallons of dried product are nothing unusual. I have one 35 gallon metal trash can that has so many beans in it you can hardly pick it up. The Handmaiden puts Diatomaceus earth in every package and they are frozen for two or three days before their storing is complete. Works like a charm.

We don't just store Cranberry Beans. We have Pinto Beans and Black Beans and Split Peas and other goodies. We also have plenty of spices to make things interesting. Do not forget to store spices. Eating bland food every day can get old in a hurry. We also have a LOT of rice. I love to eat rice. Our canned butter will make it just to my liking. Naturally I have plenty of salt.

In watching the news I see the MSM talking a lot about Sarah Palin the ex-governor of Alaska. My guess is that she is to be groomed as the heir apparent of the Republican party and get the nomination for president in the 2012 election. What a travesty that would be! This country needs a real strong person who has some love of country in their heart and the Republican PTB want to give us Sarah Palin. She is strictly a party hack and has not had an original idea in her political career. No matter what your party affiliation is, fight like hell to keep party hacks off the ballot. This country needs a lot more than some dumbass servant of the PTB to lead it. We do not want to make peace or friends with the PTB. We want to stomp their asses in the ground. We want to say NO WAY to all of the banksters and all of the debt. You DO realize that if everything collapses, as it is sure to do, the banks will foreclose on every home in the country and we will all be paying rent to the federal reserve. Then you will obey as a good slave or you will face eviction and you know you aren't going to find another bank to sell you a house. Or give you a mortgage. You will be ruined. Head for the overpass out on the Interstate. The next two years are going to see some very heavy duty political decisions being made in this country, if there is still a country to make them. If you have anything to do with the process do NOT let the PTB pick the candidates. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

GOD, SHORTWAVE, ETC.

2010-03-25T05:17:00.000-07:00

The things that are in play right now, in this nation and the rest of the world, are not the mind of a man or a group of men. Whoever thinks that men could concoct this scene are very wrong. And we do not need to worry or stew about who is with us or not. Everybody will be in this little game. There is no way out of it. The plan is in motion and everyone is hell bent for entry into the next big thing. Ain't no escaping it. Because the BIG GUY up in heaven is running the show and always has run the show. Something this big and this important is not going to be left up to the fragile feelings of mere mortal men. That ain't the way things happen. Men are craven cowards, liars and thieves, lazy and changeable. No way in hell are they going to be left in charge of this affair. You may not feel the spirit moving in all of this but that is exactly what is going on. There is an Army in the invisible that is moving into place and it is not quick but it is very accurate. And some folks will not like to look at the work underway and consider that the BIG GUY is setting it all up, but he is, so get used to it. We are headed toward a period of the little "i" and the big "HIM". He gets the credit. Nothing will transpire without the approval of the authority of Him who dwells on high. This thing is laid out from front to back and it will go as planned. Don't ever doubt it. Don't ever doubt that when actors are needed on the stage they will be waiting in the wings, eager to burst upon the scene.

I write this for anyone who may think that this is going to fail. That the collapse will not come. That the morons of present day governments will somehow come out on top and we will be screwed even worse than we are now. It ain't gonna be like that at all. The stench of man's inhumanity toward his fellow man has reached up to heaven and it is going to get blown away by the winds of change. And we all know, or should know, who is in charge of change on this forlorn old planet. Those who lack faith must trust in waiting for the events to transpire. They will transpire. Those who have faith will sleep easier at night knowing that the plan cannot fail. But which ever group you are a member, be ready for your feet to hit the ground running to the battle. If he is gonna need you, if you have a part to play, get ready to go on stage. The momentum is building and the earth is shaking with the dread of the coming calamity. Don't be afraid. Care not for tomorrow for the evil of today is sufficient thereof. You have done what you needed to get done, so stand your ground and wait. And there is always more to do! Prepping never ends. God knows of our impatience. So busy yourselves in what will benefit you and others in times of need. This thing is not on OUR schedule. It follows the dictates of him with whom we have to do. So be ready.

I have my Pete Smith Slinky Antenna strung up on the porch out of the reach of my cats and sometime today I will become a Shortwave Radio Listener. It will be a minor miracle if it works because I am not a radio person. But from everything I have read the slinky is way up at the top of the list for those of us wanting good reception. And we don't have to be Electrical Engineers to get the job done. You don't have to go to the bookstore and buy Antennas for Dummies. This thing is gonna work. A guy I know took one look at it and said it was great. A great design and a great idea. Pete Smith has done us a favor. You can see and buy a slinky from Pete at his website, http://patriotsagainstthenwo.blogspot.com/ . The man puts in a daily effort to help people get prepared and he helped me by inventing this slinky. Can't say enough good things about him. I am doing this thing with the shortwave radio my Handmaiden bought for me because I want to hear what is going on in the world after the SHTF. And I do not trust the corporate media for an instant. They are sold out, controlled, and dictated to by the Powers That Be and only tell us what we are supposed to hear. They are essentially the Voice Of The Enemy. You can shorten that by just saying VOTE. Voting got us into this mess and ain't likely to get us out of it. But I will trust the rebels before I will trust the PTB. Just like I do now with the bloggers. The news from the blogs is so superior to the stuff from the MSM that there is really no comparison. Let me read those preppers any day of the week before I read the MSM. After the fedgov shuts down the Internet we will have to rely on shortwave. They do not want us communicating. They do not want us encouraging each other. They want us silenced. Well, they are not going to silence world wide shortwave very easily. Too many smart guys are out there with mobile set-ups that are very hard to track. It would cost ten million dollars a night to police the national airwaves and even then a lot of stuff will get through. And a few crazy muthas will come up with 50,000 watts of power to broadcast nationally. That should give the PTB stomach cancer of the highest order. God bless the radio guys. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

CME, ETC.

2010-03-24T07:25:00.000-07:00

Ive seen a little sunlight already this morning. It won't be so welcome once the Summer MUG is here but it is nice to have around now!

I'm thinking about Coronal Mass Ejection this morning, more commonly referred to as CME. We get lucky most times and don't take a big hit from the Sun. But it has happened. Back around 1860 or so we got hit with a big CME and it shut down the telegraph system in this country. And that was the days of stupid electricity. No chips handling things, no complicated switching gear, just Brute Force Stupid Electricity. And the CME shut her down. Powerful stuff these CME's. If one would hit full force I would estimate we would be living in the 1850's real quick. A hand pump in your well would be a nice thing. A flowing Spring would be pretty cool also. I have no idea if it would reverse the planetary polarity or not. Higher pay grades than me would be having to handle that task if it came about. National defense systems would crash in a heartbeat. Any plane in the air would be instantly converted into a glider, if it could glide. Most modern planes glide like a rock. You can forget about any kind of phone working. It won't happen for while. Your lights will not turn on and your pump won't work, The whole country, cities and countryside, will suddenly go on restricted water usage, enforced by physics beyond our capacity to duplicate or at least control. Most assuredly beyond out capacity to control. Planes will fall from the sky quickly and silently. If the system goes down suddenly, cast your eyes to the heavens and watch for silently falling machines. None of this downcast lowering of the eyes allowed. Your car will not work, more than likely, so you can forget about running any last minute errands. But you are a prepper and should not have any trouble with that.

Should a plane go down in your area, don't go trying to help anyone without a hammer to break windows and stuff. Bolt cutters or Jaws Of Life would be nice but then we would have to develop CMEPR Bags. That is Coronal Mass Ejection Plane Rescue Bag. Too much. Way beyond our expected needs. Of course if you did need such a commodity and you happened to have one you would get a kiss from the Fairy Princess for having rescued her. I ain't placing any bets on this one, however. A small fire extinguisher would make a nice addition to any attempted plane rescue mission.

I have no idea of the effect a CME would have on a person, but I don't think it would be a positive thing. If there is any Gamma radiation involved in the onslaught you would be toast. But I don't think that would happen. At least I have read NO EVIDENCE OF IT HISTORICALLY. But I will stay inside anyhow. I will err on the side of caution.

And all of this discussion is what we can expect from an EMP burst in our area. The potential foes of our people will have very efficient EMP bombs to detonate and shut us down. Nothing is sacred in a war. They will kill who they can kill. Rules of war be damned.

I have some money on the kitchen table for my wife to spend on candles from Big Lots. As long as they are not scented she will buy them. I want a bunch of candles. I do not like scented candles and neither does the Handmaiden. If you can smell them that means they are releasing a gas and I don't like breathing any gas I don't have to. We will also buy another mechanical can opener. Imagine having a ton of canned goods and no can opener. How humiliating!

I just read a Gary North article on the death of Detroit. A city of once 1.8 million people has been reduced to half of that. You can buy a house for under $10,000 very easily. The town is dead. D-E-A-D. But it is not talked about, as Gary North so eloquently notices. You don't hear the mass media crying about the loss of Detroit. It is ignored. It doesn't even exist. How soon before this happens to some other big cities here in America. The country is broke. The fedgov is broke. Everybody except some huge banks and some Wall Street firms are broke. There are some huge multinational corporations headquartered here but the money ain't going to Joe and Julie Sixpack. That just ain't the way the game is played these days. That thing about "Am I my brothers keeper?" is being answered with a resounding NO! But there are some mean ass men in this country that are on our side. Men who can kill and get away to kill again. And they are here in a crowd, not just a bunch of lone wolves. They know how to stop tanks and jet planes and all kinds of good things. They will need food and medical help. Be prepared to give it to them. You might even go out on patrol with them. Stranger things have happened. But what ever you do, stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

TALKIN" ABOUT THINGS

2010-03-23T06:35:00.000-07:00

Ain't really seen the Sun for a while. Maybe it will break through today. A lot of people get real low emotionally when the Sun does not shine. The light seems to lift their spirits. I can understand that, the lifting part, but I do not give too much credence to becoming of a low mood when it doesn't shine. You just have to accept that and go on. But the whole population is not like me and that is a fact, and we are probably better off that way.

There is a dichotomy in the debate on the Healthcare bill. On the one hand we have constitutional law and on the other hand we have "Am I my brothers keeper?" The constitution is a good document but it does not have all the ingredients of being a brother keeper in it. It is like living with two sets of laws and one of them is of a higher order than the other. But the lower ranking law is in effect and the higher ranking law is mostly a personal feeling. The lower ranking law is of men and the higher ranking law is of God. I personally feel that the higher ranking law is the one to rule your life. But we all do the best we can. And the fedgov will do it's best to screw us with the Healthcare bill. That is an indication of their lineage I reckon. We bear the burden and they keep the rewards. But time is running out for those bastards. The American Revolution II is on the way and those in power had better find some deep holes to hide in. The people have just had enough. The shit is so deep we can no longer breath decent air. And the air is not getting any better! Something must be done or we will suffocate. We will have to break out of these prison walls.

http://www.desgringueler.com/degringolade has an interesting twist in the action of the day in an article called WHERE ARE YOU. He postulates that a young man of maybe 25 or 30 years old is going to get an idea of how to trigger this thing off and we will all be jealous as hell because we didn't think of it. To hell with jealousy. Let this dude come on with it! I was disappointed by some of the comments though. I would gladly follow one enlightened guy. But to call for 535 of them to send to Washington is just a waste of brain power. But we have a major amount of souls in this country who do not believe in a new world a comin'. And they will be trying to rebuild this poor old beat down system for a hundred years. Hell, let it go and die an honorable death. Let the new guy have room to operate. We know who will be sending him and for that sake let us not saddle him with a committee. But there will be more than one. There will be seven. That is a promise we have been given. Believe it. Degringolade leave the article with the thought that we will have less under the justice the new guy will be forced to administer but that will be better than the nothing we would have otherwise.

I have been reading one of my favorite blogs, THE COMING ECONOMIC DEPRESSION, and I am seeing the collapse coming along nicely. Housing is totally screwed. Manufacturing is out of here. State budgets are being cut with a blowtorch. After three years of preaching of this impending doom it is finally going to happen. But because I keep them informed on things, my brother-in-law and my wife can sit out on the porch and not freak out when I talk about what is coming up. They can read Cliff High and sleep at night. They have prepared along with me and they are happy they did. I am putting in an order for Ravioli and Lasagna. Good additions to a survival stash. And my son loves Ravioli. Stay alive.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net

A RANT

2010-03-22T05:17:00.000-07:00

I am tired of reading government propaganda. We make our own propaganda down here in southern Indiana and we don't need to read anyone else. Our homegrown variety does just fine. We get our ideas from the bloggers and go on from there. And if you have been paying attention you will have noticed that the bloggers are where it is at, as far as the truth is concerned. Like anyone else whose IQ is above room temperature I want to know what the hell is going on. And trying to find out the truth of what is going on is getting harder by the minute. Obama and his promises of openness in government is nothing but a lie. This is a most secretive bunch of folks in D.C. This Obamacare is another one of those 2000 page bills that no one has ever read. But like I said, we write our own propaganda around these parts. And like any other form of propaganda, you read at your own risk. But at least it is homegrown and has all natural ingredients. If you have anything wrong with you I would advise getting it fixed before the collapse comes. This only happens once in a couple centuries. Go lightly on the medications and more on the surgery. They train pretty good mechanics at medical schools these days.

It would seem that the European guys are NOT getting it done for Greece. The talk is there but the walk is lacking. So who gives a shit? Greece made it's own bed and now it will get the opportunity to sleep in it. I would care but I have too many things to watch on my own economic front. I know too many people who are not prepared and who will need help, help they will not get from Obama. It will be up to us, the nasty preppers, to feed whom the good God brings our way. We are mocked now but maybe pretty soon we will at least be liked. And that is low compensation for what we have to do. All I can say for those who might be thinking of coming this way is to bring your Beans, Bullets and Bandaids with you in your travel trailer, We ain't got any room here and most likely will not have any room until the country is well into complete collapse. I ain't saying that is wrong but I am saying that is how it looks from my chair. Pale Rider and I will try to get at least one chicken coop built for eggs this Summer. I will try to enlist others as I find them. Pale Rider doesn't seem to be a flashy kind of guy. He seems like the kind of guy who lowers his shoulder and the dirt starts getting moved and not a lot of talk is necessary. Good man.

It is a good day for contemplating the life of a prepper. In fact a lot of preppers seem to be doing just that. A few of them are swearing off of most everything else and going at their preparations full time and with a vengeance. I can back that 100%. The days are getting longer and the time is getting shorter so we may as well make the best of it. This collapse is looking like a huge bomb about to go off in our midst and Obama is not the guy to make it better. Not at all. The latest data I have seen says that there are only ten and a half million people involved in manufacturing in this country. And we have twenty-two million people working for the fedgov. Anyone with half a brain will know that this cannot go on any longer. We have been screwed rude and soon will be tattooed. At least if they can catch us. If you reach out to grab some of these guys you might see your arm vaporize before your very eyes. Sounds like a bad deal for the reacher. But people are getting pissed off and that is a fact. And they are not going to be pushed anymore, at least not the 3% who are aiming to fight. And if my history book is close to being right, that 3% turned into 20% before the war was over. And with 20% we get the whole enchilada. And that is just simple math. The 20% are the people who make the country run anyway so what is the difference? It may get split up into a few smaller countries and whatnot but no one with any brains will try us out or they will get their asses tore off. We will be in no mood to negotiate with any would-be tyrants. Fighting tyranny is what this whole thing is all about. The tyranny of the banks and the fedgov have conspired to enslave us all for generations. Ain't gonna happen. We are gonna write that debt yoke off with the stroke of a buttstroke. Eat teeth, bastards. Ain't anyone with any brains gonna feel guilty about kicking your ass so you can forget about mercy. Mercy belongs to the household of faith, not to a bunch of slobbering dogs. You have done your best to make us all feel guilty and it has failed, you dumbasses. The truth got out and your asses are cooked. And you deserve the blowtorch of humanity on your balls. I am so close to cursing you bastards I can hardly restrain myself. The spirit gets on me and and I can barely keep my seat. Beware ye sons of Hell! Your time approaches.

Michael

mboone@rtccom.net