It is still dark outside as I type this. The mornings are getting longer as we progress into Fall. Happens every year. And it is still dark in outer society. The light of truth does not shine much at all, if any. The media has not told the public the truth about what is happening in the world. The media has sold out to the moneyed interests and the politicians. They have become whores, just shills for the establishment. Like Gerald Celente says, we don't have a recovery, we have a cover-up. One of my commenters yesterday said he knew people still believed the fedgov was bringing us out of this mess. The only point of fact missing from the social equation was that the system CAN'T be brought out of the mess it is in. It has to collapse and build itself back up. The days of unlimited growth are over. The resource and the need are both lacking. China is trying to stimulate itself into maintaining prosperity but there are some surprises in store for them. Japan is casting about for a solution to it's personal misfortune and is getting ready to join up with China. Japan has been in the tank for 20 years and cannot get the handle to restore it's former financial glory. Europe is having trouble with it's old ways and the new standards. Iceland is completely in the tank and the Baltic countries are not far behind. Italy and Spain are next to go and then it will probably be England, France, and Germany. Russia is still beating the drum and signaling it is still a superpower, but I have my doubts. They were pretty super when they got $147 a barrel for their oil but at $70 dollars a barrel they are not doing so well. The USA has got all of it's Gulf of Mexico oil wells capped and non-productive. Ain't enough money to be made to warrant keeping the open. And I have been sitting on my ass and not getting much accomplished either. Gotta work on that today. After breakfast. And as soon as I get the word on planting Fall garlic. I'll need the garlic no matter what the oil market does. Some decisions are just that cut and dried. I am losing weight at a very nice pace and I need to keep my immune system built up. That would be a good formula for Obama to use on the US economy. Lose weight and build up it's immune system. Not likely, however.
Not much in the news, of course. It is a holiday and there is no action being taken that the media thinks is worthy of our attention. That means we are getting screwed behind closed doors. We peons are the last to know. But given a chance to discuss and debate the intentions of the fedgov usually ends up being a negative experience for our political class. And good show, I say. I talked to my friend Charles Bell this morning and he is in about the same place I am. He has made up his mind that we are about to suffer a bad nasty and he has done all he can to prep for it and now he just has to wait it out. But it has exhausted him. He is tired and lustless. But he keeps waking up at 0400 hrs every morning and not being very successful going back to sleep. I am having attacks of the same virus. I wake up somewhere between 3:30 and 4:30 most mornings and don't feel like trying to go back to sleep. I would not find it difficult to imagine that quite a few preppers are going through the same thing. All I can tell you is hang on and keep the faith. Develop what skills you can and accomplish what preps you can. You will be glad you did.
The Handmaiden just got back from the garden and brought me a very large RED Cayenne Pepper. I am hoping we have something for supper tonight that calls for a little extra vigor in it's flavoring. I will be cutting up my pepper to handle the call. The Handmaiden brought back several bags of Roma tomatoes and is now engaged in slicing them up and putting them on her dehydrator trays. We are getting a huge investment involved in dried fruits and vegetables. It should work for us and we think it will. She seasons the tomato quarters with Salt, Oregano, and Garlic powder and then dries them. Delicious. Not too strong but very tasty. She also told me that the Cranberry beans MUST come out of the garden or we will not be able to find them when the are ready. If they are too moist to shell out properly then we will just have to dry them on the porch for a couple days. It will give the cats something to bitch about. So Romas are getting dried and all is well in our household. Life ain't too bad when you can taste fresh tomatoes out of a plastic bag! And dried at that. I also had her bring me out another bag of beef jerky. She didn't refuse or throw a fuss but I could tell she was having evil thoughts about it and I said as much. She told me that the jerky is supposed to be packed away and I told her I was packing it away at a fairly good clip. She didn't see the humor in that remark to the extent I did, but she went along with the program. I suspect I will be buying more beef soon enough. A big Butternut Squash just went into the oven for the making of our supper. I love Butternut Squash. Butter, salt, and pepper and you are in for some good eating.
Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
HOPE AND OBSERVATIONS
Up and getting ready to get after it. I am thinking about planting some Fall garlic. You can Google the ordeal and get some fine instruction if you pick this video to watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYfcb3LAoX4. My dream of planting Fall garlic has always been thwarted by some damn thing that made me fear it would get tilled under. But that row under my balcony is just the place. Good soil and easily guarded. Besides, ain't anybody going to get a tiller on that slope. I know where a pine grove is that is right next to the road and will provide lots of free mulch. Watching that video I found that 73% of all the garlic consumed in this country is from China. I think I will prefer the locally grown. The wife buys bulbs of garlic from the Amish and I am sure they will germinate and give me some produce. Garlic is a survival food and pretty necessary to good health, if you are interested in that sort of thing. Eat lots of garlic and onions and echinacea and you will go a long way toward keeping the flu off your back. There are other things if you are interested. Go to my wife's blog, The Handmaidens Kitchen, and she will tell you about flu fighting herbs and food. She is at http://handmaidenkitchen.blogspot.com/ and you can score her e-mail address on the right side of the page is a column "ABOUT ME". Good luck on fighting the flu and eating good food. You will need to keep healthy in the future without having to resort to the medical system. They will be swamped and if Obamacare goes through they will be then they will be even more swamped.
The inclination of the human family is to use whatever is free and use it to the fullest. We used to have big tanks of gasoline that was free to the villagers. And gasoline was 30 cents a gallon back then. One crazy guy burned 3 or 4 tanks every weekend driving around is some old wreck he acquired that didn't get very good mileage. But when gasoline went to $1+ a gallon, that all had to stop. The cars of those who worked in the business every day were kept fueled but the extra cars were held back. When health care goes into effect, if it ever does, everyone and their maiden aunt will be gong after it. Even the homeless will be using it. Come in and complain of chest pains and you will get three hots and a cot pretty easily. I reckon that beats going to jail for loitering or illegal hanging out. But it will get used like free beer at a July picnic. I mean to tell you that free medical care will be like offering candy to little kids. It is gonna get used like there is no tomorrow. Doctors offices, clinics, hospitals, all of them, will be doing business like never before. If it becomes law then you can tally it up. And maybe we ought to have it. Beats the hell out of fighting wars and ripping off other countries and all the other things America is noted for. But our idiot gov't won't stop their adventure in overseas lands in order to benefit the people. War is too popular to give up. Profitable too.
We are getting a pretty good rain right now. Plenty of thunder to go with it. It's been going about 2 hours so far and everything is pretty well soaked.
The row I have to plant my garlic in is about 150 feet long. Plenty long enough for a garlic growing experience. Hell, it ought to produce al the garlic in the world! And it will be easy to plant. But there is a section that is shaded by a Walnut and I have been told that plants do not grow well under a Walnut tree. Anybody got anything on that? You hear all kinds of stuff but you never get a message from someone who knows, unless you are a survival blogger. Preppers will help you out! But we have good locally grown garlic and we should be able to get a crop. Crops that are from your area should give you the best results. They are already proven to be genetically suited for your weather and climate. And I am here to tell you that counts! Those humble Cranberry beans are just growing like gangbusters. I am going to give some away to the lady who runs the greasy spoon where my BIL and I eat every Saturday morning. She kinda made me a friend this weekend when she told me that she is teaching 3 young girls how to can. She learned canning from her mother and grandmother and now she is passing it on. Damn! This country needs a ton of people like that! Most folks don't know one end of a canning jar from another. Ignorant, out-of-touch people. And they can get mighty hungry this Winter and next Spring. Wife is loading up a baking pan with some BIG beef bones in preparation to making some stock for soups and such. Naturally she chunks up a couple onions to put in there with the bones to make sure it is delicious. And how many young people know to do that? How many know how to make ANY kind of stock for soups and stews and what not? Does any girl or boy know they can take the bones from fried chicken and make stock from them? Works like a charm. Make you up a cheap batch of noodles and simmer them is chickenstock and you won't need much chicken meat to have a delicious meal. And good food makes good morale. People that eat regular will work to keep things functioning.
I just read a couple of articles by a well known gun scribe, Mas Ayoob. He was giving pointers on preparing for this Fall's hunt. You can find the article on http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/ayoob119.html. There is also a pretty good article by Claire Wolfe on handling any breakdowns in society. Claire is an old rebel and is still in the game. Just go to Backwoods Country Home and look for her. She is a regular and will be fairly prominent in the listings of stories.
The wife is preparing a Zucchini and Hamburger casserole and it is about ready to go into the oven. Man! I like a good casserole! And this one is loaded with Cheddar Cheese and meat and other goodies and I am getting hungry just watching it being assembled.
I think I am running out of things to write about for today so I will bid you a fond farewell. Take care and stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
The inclination of the human family is to use whatever is free and use it to the fullest. We used to have big tanks of gasoline that was free to the villagers. And gasoline was 30 cents a gallon back then. One crazy guy burned 3 or 4 tanks every weekend driving around is some old wreck he acquired that didn't get very good mileage. But when gasoline went to $1+ a gallon, that all had to stop. The cars of those who worked in the business every day were kept fueled but the extra cars were held back. When health care goes into effect, if it ever does, everyone and their maiden aunt will be gong after it. Even the homeless will be using it. Come in and complain of chest pains and you will get three hots and a cot pretty easily. I reckon that beats going to jail for loitering or illegal hanging out. But it will get used like free beer at a July picnic. I mean to tell you that free medical care will be like offering candy to little kids. It is gonna get used like there is no tomorrow. Doctors offices, clinics, hospitals, all of them, will be doing business like never before. If it becomes law then you can tally it up. And maybe we ought to have it. Beats the hell out of fighting wars and ripping off other countries and all the other things America is noted for. But our idiot gov't won't stop their adventure in overseas lands in order to benefit the people. War is too popular to give up. Profitable too.
We are getting a pretty good rain right now. Plenty of thunder to go with it. It's been going about 2 hours so far and everything is pretty well soaked.
The row I have to plant my garlic in is about 150 feet long. Plenty long enough for a garlic growing experience. Hell, it ought to produce al the garlic in the world! And it will be easy to plant. But there is a section that is shaded by a Walnut and I have been told that plants do not grow well under a Walnut tree. Anybody got anything on that? You hear all kinds of stuff but you never get a message from someone who knows, unless you are a survival blogger. Preppers will help you out! But we have good locally grown garlic and we should be able to get a crop. Crops that are from your area should give you the best results. They are already proven to be genetically suited for your weather and climate. And I am here to tell you that counts! Those humble Cranberry beans are just growing like gangbusters. I am going to give some away to the lady who runs the greasy spoon where my BIL and I eat every Saturday morning. She kinda made me a friend this weekend when she told me that she is teaching 3 young girls how to can. She learned canning from her mother and grandmother and now she is passing it on. Damn! This country needs a ton of people like that! Most folks don't know one end of a canning jar from another. Ignorant, out-of-touch people. And they can get mighty hungry this Winter and next Spring. Wife is loading up a baking pan with some BIG beef bones in preparation to making some stock for soups and such. Naturally she chunks up a couple onions to put in there with the bones to make sure it is delicious. And how many young people know to do that? How many know how to make ANY kind of stock for soups and stews and what not? Does any girl or boy know they can take the bones from fried chicken and make stock from them? Works like a charm. Make you up a cheap batch of noodles and simmer them is chickenstock and you won't need much chicken meat to have a delicious meal. And good food makes good morale. People that eat regular will work to keep things functioning.
I just read a couple of articles by a well known gun scribe, Mas Ayoob. He was giving pointers on preparing for this Fall's hunt. You can find the article on http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/ayoob119.html. There is also a pretty good article by Claire Wolfe on handling any breakdowns in society. Claire is an old rebel and is still in the game. Just go to Backwoods Country Home and look for her. She is a regular and will be fairly prominent in the listings of stories.
The wife is preparing a Zucchini and Hamburger casserole and it is about ready to go into the oven. Man! I like a good casserole! And this one is loaded with Cheddar Cheese and meat and other goodies and I am getting hungry just watching it being assembled.
I think I am running out of things to write about for today so I will bid you a fond farewell. Take care and stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Sunday, September 6, 2009
MEMORIES AND GOOD TIMES
I am sitting in our technicolor kitchen. We are starting to accumulate ristras of Cayenne Peppers in our window. A beautiful bright red. Tomorrow I have to get down to the garden and check for more of the little darlings. The ones I have up so far are healthy nourishing food. Loaded with Vitamin C. And they make other foods taste well also. Cut off a little piece and chew it with your fresh beans, Delicious! It is such a rewarding thing to have your own food, grown on your own land, prepared by your own wife. Sorta like the ways things ought to be. To hell with restaurant food and take out food and all that other malarkey. When you get out of the hustle and bustle of business and eating lunch at greasy spoons and that type of life, you really come to enjoy proper cooking again. You can take your time and savor it a bit. You can taste something and it will bring back memories of pleasant times. I think that is missed these days. The family used to live on a farm and eat together and work together and play together. And I am sure there were some assholes around who made life uncomfortable for their families. But they must have been in the minority cause most tales are happy tales. And the joy of looking around your home and seeing ristras of peppers hanging in front of the window and going to the food storage and seeing your stored food and opening the 3-gallon cans that hold all of your dehydrated goodies is a great memory. It is good to know that my friends are going to be taken care of with this food. It is good to know that they have a chance to stay healthy and up to snuff because their diet is adequate. Good times! Good memories and pleasant dreams.
A lot of my childhood was a disaster. But there were things that really made me happy even in those times. And so it is today. Life in America is turning into a disaster but we find happiness amidst the calamity. Funny how that works. Even my wife is happy seeing her ristras hanging in the sunlight. We face a disaster here on our native soil but we can make it and we can find some happiness. We have a family and we belong to a clan and we will get stronger as the days go by. I hope to God you have the same set-up going for you. The family and the clan are the big motivators in our ancestral history. You went with those folks through the mud and the blood and the beer. Your ancestors knew who was smart and who was stupid. They knew who they could trust and who they couldn't. And life was just that way. Living with someone is a great eye opener. You know them. You watch them. You listen to them. And after a while you begin to understand them. It's not rocket science, it is experience. Stay close to the wise and the smart. Those folks can save you a lot of wasted motion. There are a lot of people I think the world of, running around this country, but I have to go with those who God brings to me to go with. You don't want to leave any of them behind but you don't have the power to bring them in so you go on. You maybe say a little prayer for them and ask God to watch over them but you cannot change life. You cannot change what is going on. And you have to look out for those the good God has given you. My kitchen smells so very good right now. Not only do I have the peppers hanging down but the wife has country ribs in the oven. And I would like to share this coming meal with lots of folks, but I can't. So I go on doing the best I can and hoping for the best. That is sort of the way preppers are. We did not make this mess and we don't want the mess, but it is going to come about and we want to make it through. And we would like to take as many decent people with us as can go.
Life is not a schmaltzy melodrama of canned laughs and commercial breaks. It is the daily grind we all participate in to earn our daily bread. And to eat a decent meal and to hold our loved ones to our bosom with love and affection. This is what it is all about. The living of life to a degree that you are happy as reasonable. It ain't gonna be all skipping down the road of life throwing flowers in our path and moving gaily as we go along. There will be hard times and there will be good times. Get used to both. I am a prepper and some folks look upon me as a strange mutant human. And I don't think I am very strange at all. I just think I am more focused on reality than the average American. And this is a point of discussion. You know, there are some guys who always say the same thing or close to it, especially when they talk about things like politics and economics. The simple reason for this repetitious line of talk is that they have not seen anything that has changed their minds about the current situation. They have an analysis and they will stick with it until the equation changes. That is why some men do not write daily about survivalism. They deliver their thinking in about a week and cannot bear to repeat themselves. So they stop writing. I used to get frustrated by this type of behavior, but not any more. I take what I can get and I give what pops up on my personal monitor everyday. Some things get repeated and some things are new. And it is all there to help people. Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
A lot of my childhood was a disaster. But there were things that really made me happy even in those times. And so it is today. Life in America is turning into a disaster but we find happiness amidst the calamity. Funny how that works. Even my wife is happy seeing her ristras hanging in the sunlight. We face a disaster here on our native soil but we can make it and we can find some happiness. We have a family and we belong to a clan and we will get stronger as the days go by. I hope to God you have the same set-up going for you. The family and the clan are the big motivators in our ancestral history. You went with those folks through the mud and the blood and the beer. Your ancestors knew who was smart and who was stupid. They knew who they could trust and who they couldn't. And life was just that way. Living with someone is a great eye opener. You know them. You watch them. You listen to them. And after a while you begin to understand them. It's not rocket science, it is experience. Stay close to the wise and the smart. Those folks can save you a lot of wasted motion. There are a lot of people I think the world of, running around this country, but I have to go with those who God brings to me to go with. You don't want to leave any of them behind but you don't have the power to bring them in so you go on. You maybe say a little prayer for them and ask God to watch over them but you cannot change life. You cannot change what is going on. And you have to look out for those the good God has given you. My kitchen smells so very good right now. Not only do I have the peppers hanging down but the wife has country ribs in the oven. And I would like to share this coming meal with lots of folks, but I can't. So I go on doing the best I can and hoping for the best. That is sort of the way preppers are. We did not make this mess and we don't want the mess, but it is going to come about and we want to make it through. And we would like to take as many decent people with us as can go.
Life is not a schmaltzy melodrama of canned laughs and commercial breaks. It is the daily grind we all participate in to earn our daily bread. And to eat a decent meal and to hold our loved ones to our bosom with love and affection. This is what it is all about. The living of life to a degree that you are happy as reasonable. It ain't gonna be all skipping down the road of life throwing flowers in our path and moving gaily as we go along. There will be hard times and there will be good times. Get used to both. I am a prepper and some folks look upon me as a strange mutant human. And I don't think I am very strange at all. I just think I am more focused on reality than the average American. And this is a point of discussion. You know, there are some guys who always say the same thing or close to it, especially when they talk about things like politics and economics. The simple reason for this repetitious line of talk is that they have not seen anything that has changed their minds about the current situation. They have an analysis and they will stick with it until the equation changes. That is why some men do not write daily about survivalism. They deliver their thinking in about a week and cannot bear to repeat themselves. So they stop writing. I used to get frustrated by this type of behavior, but not any more. I take what I can get and I give what pops up on my personal monitor everyday. Some things get repeated and some things are new. And it is all there to help people. Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Saturday, September 5, 2009
MORNING READING
It has been an interesting week, but dull as hell yesterday. But I did not know that we are having a four day Labor Day weekend! Now I can figure out why things are so boring. No one is doing anything but relaxing. Mayberry has to work but he can go through the day thinking about his new-to-him truck. It's a 3/4 ton Chevy with a V-8 motor. Mayberry will keep it on the road quite nicely. You can read about it at http://mayberry-keepitsimplestupid.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-ordeal.html. Mayberry is a mechanic and can work on pieces of plunder and make them run. If you can keep him out of a boat long enough to do it.
Dragon has plenty up this morning. You can read for quite a while. He has been busy keeping track of things. But he does that sort of stuff and will clobber you with data when you least expect it. He is at http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/. I think you will be well served to give him a look this morning.
Abraham's Blog over at http://hotdogjam.wordpress.com/ has some very good stuff about cops bullying people around the country. Bully cops are a very bad thing. Those guys are targets, if they don't know it. And times are too tough to be putting up with a bully.
I went over to Survival Blog and got this story of my Indiana Governor, Mitch Daniels. He says that state governments are about to reset with their finances. He talks like there is poverty creeping across the land and the states are going to have to live with it. They will have to deal with it. There ain't any more money in the well. You can read what Mitch had to say in the Wall Street Journal. It's at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204731804574390603114939642.html. Jim Rawles deserves a hearty congratulations for this story.
Maybe the best reading I had this morning was from a link provided by Jim Haddix from Northeastern Indiana. I have been on the case of the Chinese derivative default and this is what Jim sent me, http://thefundamentalview.blogspot.com/2009/09/china-and-buzz-of-pending-bank-default_03.html . A very well written article on a topic that is of major importance to people with money in the banks. It is also important to people who buy their groceries and gasoline and pay their rent with US Dollars. A Chinese default on derivatives could break some of those Too Big To Fail in Nu Yawk Sity. Goldman Sachs comes to mind here. The tab would come to about 15 billion dollars by the reporters estimate.
In dealing with the banks of this country it is imperative that you know that most banks are basically bankrupt. They have assets that are mispriced and worth far less than what they have on the books. That is all that is holding our financial sector together these days. Phony bookkeeping to make the figures spell out solvency. We are busted folks. And people overseas know it. And to expect them to cripple themselves to keep us afloat is folly on our part. It will be the shock of our lives when US citizens find out just how bad things really are. Of course, preppers will not be surprised. We figured it out long ago and started to get ready. We have food and security and medical preps ready to go and are just waiting on the collapse to hit. The first days of the collapse will be days of relaxation. Most of us know that stress will hit the populace like a sledgehammer between the eyes and we are ready to eat well for the first three days of collapse while we calm down and start thinking again. We can sit around and think about God allowing us to be warned and allowing us to prepare and thanking him for his mercy and care.
My BIL and I will be going to breakfast pretty soon. I reckon the little cafe we frequent on Saturday mornings will be open. Not too many places can afford to close for holidays any more. We will finish our morning picking tomatoes for the Handmaiden to dry and finishing our wood stove installation. Food and Raiment. Both proclaimed necessary by God. So you have a good day and get done what you can and what you will. We have almost two weeks yet to prep at the shortest, so don't worry too much about missing a day now. Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Dragon has plenty up this morning. You can read for quite a while. He has been busy keeping track of things. But he does that sort of stuff and will clobber you with data when you least expect it. He is at http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/. I think you will be well served to give him a look this morning.
Abraham's Blog over at http://hotdogjam.wordpress.com/ has some very good stuff about cops bullying people around the country. Bully cops are a very bad thing. Those guys are targets, if they don't know it. And times are too tough to be putting up with a bully.
I went over to Survival Blog and got this story of my Indiana Governor, Mitch Daniels. He says that state governments are about to reset with their finances. He talks like there is poverty creeping across the land and the states are going to have to live with it. They will have to deal with it. There ain't any more money in the well. You can read what Mitch had to say in the Wall Street Journal. It's at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204731804574390603114939642.html. Jim Rawles deserves a hearty congratulations for this story.
Maybe the best reading I had this morning was from a link provided by Jim Haddix from Northeastern Indiana. I have been on the case of the Chinese derivative default and this is what Jim sent me, http://thefundamentalview.blogspot.com/2009/09/china-and-buzz-of-pending-bank-default_03.html . A very well written article on a topic that is of major importance to people with money in the banks. It is also important to people who buy their groceries and gasoline and pay their rent with US Dollars. A Chinese default on derivatives could break some of those Too Big To Fail in Nu Yawk Sity. Goldman Sachs comes to mind here. The tab would come to about 15 billion dollars by the reporters estimate.
In dealing with the banks of this country it is imperative that you know that most banks are basically bankrupt. They have assets that are mispriced and worth far less than what they have on the books. That is all that is holding our financial sector together these days. Phony bookkeeping to make the figures spell out solvency. We are busted folks. And people overseas know it. And to expect them to cripple themselves to keep us afloat is folly on our part. It will be the shock of our lives when US citizens find out just how bad things really are. Of course, preppers will not be surprised. We figured it out long ago and started to get ready. We have food and security and medical preps ready to go and are just waiting on the collapse to hit. The first days of the collapse will be days of relaxation. Most of us know that stress will hit the populace like a sledgehammer between the eyes and we are ready to eat well for the first three days of collapse while we calm down and start thinking again. We can sit around and think about God allowing us to be warned and allowing us to prepare and thanking him for his mercy and care.
My BIL and I will be going to breakfast pretty soon. I reckon the little cafe we frequent on Saturday mornings will be open. Not too many places can afford to close for holidays any more. We will finish our morning picking tomatoes for the Handmaiden to dry and finishing our wood stove installation. Food and Raiment. Both proclaimed necessary by God. So you have a good day and get done what you can and what you will. We have almost two weeks yet to prep at the shortest, so don't worry too much about missing a day now. Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Friday, September 4, 2009
NO READY POST
I have no blog post today so this is being typed on the fly, so to speak. Please bear with me.
The economy is in grave danger of going in the tank on the 16th of this month. It may not unfold until the 18th but that is no big deal. The new Japanese government is going to dump the dollar and join with China using the RMB as their reserve currency. The Chinese have already bought 50 billion dollars worth of the new Special Drawing Rights from the International Monetary Fund. Funny how the organizations and countries we have supported can turn against us. But if they see the perilous future of the dollar and they save themselves who can blame them?
National friendship is not meant to be a suicide pact. The new government of Japan takes control of the country on the 16th of this month. Good luck.
We are getting everything out of our garden that we can and are processing it to keep over the Winter. We are not playing around with this but are pursuing it with all due haste and determination.
The new wood fired cooking stove is assembled down stairs and is ready for pipe. It is a handsome little devil. Four cooking plates on top. Solid cast iron. Hopefully it will give us many years of service by providing hot food and warm rooms. It is made by Germans up in Holland, Michigan. They surely do seem to know what they are doing! I think I need one more 3' section of stove pipe to seal the deal with the stove. We shall get it quickly, and maybe a couple extra ones. We have an adapter that will allow the 6" stove pipe to connect with the 8" chimney pipe. I would say an extra would be in order there, too.
Just getting ready. I hope you are doing the same dame thing. I have been waiting almost 40 years for this little event and I am getting popcorn and soda pop to amuse myself as I watch. You might do the same if you are already as prepared as you are going to be. I am having trouble finding bulk popcorn. They want to sell it to you in those microwave packages. Makes it awfully expensive.
Remember the Winter we have coming up. It could get wild. A nice firewood stash for your wood stove would be good. But if you are ass deep in snow the clones won't have the interest in coming to see you. We have a highway about 5 miles from the Valley that is an access point to a government weapons supply base and it will be kept open with all due haste. County roads be damned. Take care and stay alive.
Michael
mbbone@rtccom.net
The economy is in grave danger of going in the tank on the 16th of this month. It may not unfold until the 18th but that is no big deal. The new Japanese government is going to dump the dollar and join with China using the RMB as their reserve currency. The Chinese have already bought 50 billion dollars worth of the new Special Drawing Rights from the International Monetary Fund. Funny how the organizations and countries we have supported can turn against us. But if they see the perilous future of the dollar and they save themselves who can blame them?
National friendship is not meant to be a suicide pact. The new government of Japan takes control of the country on the 16th of this month. Good luck.
We are getting everything out of our garden that we can and are processing it to keep over the Winter. We are not playing around with this but are pursuing it with all due haste and determination.
The new wood fired cooking stove is assembled down stairs and is ready for pipe. It is a handsome little devil. Four cooking plates on top. Solid cast iron. Hopefully it will give us many years of service by providing hot food and warm rooms. It is made by Germans up in Holland, Michigan. They surely do seem to know what they are doing! I think I need one more 3' section of stove pipe to seal the deal with the stove. We shall get it quickly, and maybe a couple extra ones. We have an adapter that will allow the 6" stove pipe to connect with the 8" chimney pipe. I would say an extra would be in order there, too.
Just getting ready. I hope you are doing the same dame thing. I have been waiting almost 40 years for this little event and I am getting popcorn and soda pop to amuse myself as I watch. You might do the same if you are already as prepared as you are going to be. I am having trouble finding bulk popcorn. They want to sell it to you in those microwave packages. Makes it awfully expensive.
Remember the Winter we have coming up. It could get wild. A nice firewood stash for your wood stove would be good. But if you are ass deep in snow the clones won't have the interest in coming to see you. We have a highway about 5 miles from the Valley that is an access point to a government weapons supply base and it will be kept open with all due haste. County roads be damned. Take care and stay alive.
Michael
mbbone@rtccom.net
Thursday, September 3, 2009
TIME AND ACTION
I've been around the net this morning as per usual and the preppers are saying that an unprecedented number of people are getting ready for hard times. You are to assume that this means food storage, guns and ammo, medical supplies, etc. But nowhere in the mainstream media is there a word of this. What do you suppose is going on? Maybe the government is just trying to keep us calm, cool, and collected. They are doing this for our own good, you know. So we won't panic. Well, this household ain't gonna panic for most things. The house catching on fire might cause some hurried action but not a collapse reaction by the fedgov. That ain't gonna get the job done. We have achieved a certain amount of preparedness and we intend to go with the flow. I just hope there is no attempt to start some invasivness that could get a bit out of hand. Massachusetts is preparing a bill to force their citizenry to take Swine Flu vaccine. They can enter your home to inspect you and check your vaccination records and then give you the shot if you haven't had it before. I would consider that malicious trespass if they came to my house.
I got a link off of Survival Blog this morning that has the Farmers Almanac forecast of the coming Winter. Looks like everything between the Rockies and the Alleghenies are going to get a full measure of Winter. Treesong and Sweetie had better have their act together up in the U. P. But people who live up there are used to bitter Winters and they will probably be okay. Mayberry will have colder than normal temperatures along with plenty of rain. The rest of us between the mountains are going to get our asses froze off and buried in snow. Even Kemp in southern Mississippi is supposed to have some extra cold this Winter. Dragon, over by Pittsburgh, looks to have about an average time of it this year. Scoutinlife over in Ohio could go either way. More that likely a lot of snow. You can check it yourself pretty easily at http://www.farmersalmanac.com/weather/a/frigid-2010-forecast-how-cold-will-the-winter-weather-be. Give them a shot. You can get links to some more stuff over at Survival Blog and it is quite interesting today. Rawles is right on target today.
You can get on over to http://www.prisonplanet.com/russian-professor-collapse-of-america-could-begin-in-two-months.html and start reading about the Russian Professor who has predicted the downfall of America in 2010. This guy is on the level and has a pretty high position in the Russian government. But we know by now that having a high position in government does not make you right. Look at our government big wigs who are falling all over themselves making mistakes. And we know that we are facing collapse, as does everyone else in the world with at least half a brain. A couple days ago I printed the article about the Chinese government giving it's state owned companies the power to default on their derivative bets. That is going to be a major attraction for world governments in the coming days. Does China mean it? Will they really go through with it? Will it cause the crash of Western finances? Hell, our pensions will be gone in short order and Social Security will not be far behind in failing, so what difference does sit make? Crash on, and see if I give shit. Peter Schiff and Gerald Celente and Ron Paul should maybe take long look at running for office. There may not be a country to govern. And I am serious about that. Why beat a dead horse? Get out of the cities and the East Coast region and buy a farm and start prepping like crazy. There still is some time, you know.
Getting back to the weather for a minute, I can now recall that I saw Yellow Jackets up on our balcony in late August. Yellow Jackets don't start bothering humans until just before a frost, if I remember correctly. Normally they appear in mid-to-late September around here, maybe early October. And I know those evil little bests KNOW what is coming. They know their food supply is gonna be cut to nothing. They know the temperature is going to be way below their ability to withstand. And so they go about their normal Fall hysteria, eating anything they can in a futile attempt to avoid the inevitable. We are doing the same damn thing. Gettin' ready for the bad times.
Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
I got a link off of Survival Blog this morning that has the Farmers Almanac forecast of the coming Winter. Looks like everything between the Rockies and the Alleghenies are going to get a full measure of Winter. Treesong and Sweetie had better have their act together up in the U. P. But people who live up there are used to bitter Winters and they will probably be okay. Mayberry will have colder than normal temperatures along with plenty of rain. The rest of us between the mountains are going to get our asses froze off and buried in snow. Even Kemp in southern Mississippi is supposed to have some extra cold this Winter. Dragon, over by Pittsburgh, looks to have about an average time of it this year. Scoutinlife over in Ohio could go either way. More that likely a lot of snow. You can check it yourself pretty easily at http://www.farmersalmanac.com/weather/a/frigid-2010-forecast-how-cold-will-the-winter-weather-be. Give them a shot. You can get links to some more stuff over at Survival Blog and it is quite interesting today. Rawles is right on target today.
You can get on over to http://www.prisonplanet.com/russian-professor-collapse-of-america-could-begin-in-two-months.html and start reading about the Russian Professor who has predicted the downfall of America in 2010. This guy is on the level and has a pretty high position in the Russian government. But we know by now that having a high position in government does not make you right. Look at our government big wigs who are falling all over themselves making mistakes. And we know that we are facing collapse, as does everyone else in the world with at least half a brain. A couple days ago I printed the article about the Chinese government giving it's state owned companies the power to default on their derivative bets. That is going to be a major attraction for world governments in the coming days. Does China mean it? Will they really go through with it? Will it cause the crash of Western finances? Hell, our pensions will be gone in short order and Social Security will not be far behind in failing, so what difference does sit make? Crash on, and see if I give shit. Peter Schiff and Gerald Celente and Ron Paul should maybe take long look at running for office. There may not be a country to govern. And I am serious about that. Why beat a dead horse? Get out of the cities and the East Coast region and buy a farm and start prepping like crazy. There still is some time, you know.
Getting back to the weather for a minute, I can now recall that I saw Yellow Jackets up on our balcony in late August. Yellow Jackets don't start bothering humans until just before a frost, if I remember correctly. Normally they appear in mid-to-late September around here, maybe early October. And I know those evil little bests KNOW what is coming. They know their food supply is gonna be cut to nothing. They know the temperature is going to be way below their ability to withstand. And so they go about their normal Fall hysteria, eating anything they can in a futile attempt to avoid the inevitable. We are doing the same damn thing. Gettin' ready for the bad times.
Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
GUNS AND DOGS
Just one of those days. One of those days when I feel like shooting guns and following the sounds of hunting dogs. Others will be with me. We will be looking for bankers and politicians. The bankers will probably want to argue and whine and cause a verbal ruckus, but the politicians will piss themselves, and maybe worse. The stench will be powerful. But the job will get done and the dancing in the air will commence, to be followed by stillness as the events wind down. All good things must end. But we will go home and get some much needed rest and wait until the news comes of more game to hunt. You can't really give up the game. It is too powerful a force to just lightly pass on to others. The responsibility is too great to slough off. This morning is cold and damp. Not good for my peppers and beans. But the beans are finishing and I have been told my Cayenne peppers will turn red even if I pick them green. The kitchen is starting to turn a friendly sort of red as my wife's ristras get hung about to dry. We already have as much as we had last year and will have more, God willing. The beans are finishing at a rapid pace and I like that. I want to devote the Fall to getting a chicken coop built and having some layers to produce us some fine home grown eggs. Then maybe a small steel dog pen converted to a hog pen for just a couple of hogs. They will be for next years grinding. Sausage and eggs. It don't get any better than that.
That word I got at meeting Sunday night was received in the spirit. When ever it was heard, which was not given to me. The words heard were that the economy was going up and then collapse. That has been figured on by several people. I take it to mean that the banksters are going to take one more slice of the pie before the collapse is allowed to transpire. The collapse will be rough on a lot of folks. I will have my chicken coop built and my hens laying eggs not too long before or after the collapse. My stove has to get installed pretty soon. No cooking if the electricity is cut off. No heat either. We will have to do something about getting some firewood pretty soon. Eggs and a cookstove will just about keep us alive, I think. I need to start saving newspapers and tinder to help me build fires in my stove. But things will get done and life will go on. It will be something to watch America go through the fire of a financial collapse. They ain't ready. A lot of them will never be ready. And what can I say about that? I have tried to warn as many as possible. I have posted over a thousand posts in the last year and a half. And think of the others who have done the same! Think of the YouTube videos by Peter Schiff and Gerald Celente and Ron Paul. The word has gone out! Now the damage can get done. Those who have not been alert will pay dearly for their laziness. Those who have been wasteful and extravagant will pay big time. And that will cause some real live misery for a large percentage of our population that is in no way accustomed to it. Our people in this country are not used to going without. They can't fathom it. They have never put up with horrendous crime rates and things of that order. America does not prepare and they will suffer greatly for it. My heart goes out to those who will suffer so greatly, mainly for the rip-off by the politicians and the banksters. It has been the human use of human beings. No upside to it. A rip-off from beginning to end. But those of the rip-off class who don't make it out of the country will pay hugely when the people get after them.
I got an e-mail from a lady who lives close by who wants to know about expiration dates on canned food. Apparently she is going to stock up a bit. I'll tell you, I was so very happy to hear that she is going to try and stock up. She is a gifted, feminine lady who reaches at a small university near by. Years ago she taught my three children in elementary school. She taught them to read, for chrissake. Where can your kids go if they can't read? But it made me very happy that she is going to prepare.
Stay alive.
Michael]
mboone@rtccom.net
That word I got at meeting Sunday night was received in the spirit. When ever it was heard, which was not given to me. The words heard were that the economy was going up and then collapse. That has been figured on by several people. I take it to mean that the banksters are going to take one more slice of the pie before the collapse is allowed to transpire. The collapse will be rough on a lot of folks. I will have my chicken coop built and my hens laying eggs not too long before or after the collapse. My stove has to get installed pretty soon. No cooking if the electricity is cut off. No heat either. We will have to do something about getting some firewood pretty soon. Eggs and a cookstove will just about keep us alive, I think. I need to start saving newspapers and tinder to help me build fires in my stove. But things will get done and life will go on. It will be something to watch America go through the fire of a financial collapse. They ain't ready. A lot of them will never be ready. And what can I say about that? I have tried to warn as many as possible. I have posted over a thousand posts in the last year and a half. And think of the others who have done the same! Think of the YouTube videos by Peter Schiff and Gerald Celente and Ron Paul. The word has gone out! Now the damage can get done. Those who have not been alert will pay dearly for their laziness. Those who have been wasteful and extravagant will pay big time. And that will cause some real live misery for a large percentage of our population that is in no way accustomed to it. Our people in this country are not used to going without. They can't fathom it. They have never put up with horrendous crime rates and things of that order. America does not prepare and they will suffer greatly for it. My heart goes out to those who will suffer so greatly, mainly for the rip-off by the politicians and the banksters. It has been the human use of human beings. No upside to it. A rip-off from beginning to end. But those of the rip-off class who don't make it out of the country will pay hugely when the people get after them.
I got an e-mail from a lady who lives close by who wants to know about expiration dates on canned food. Apparently she is going to stock up a bit. I'll tell you, I was so very happy to hear that she is going to try and stock up. She is a gifted, feminine lady who reaches at a small university near by. Years ago she taught my three children in elementary school. She taught them to read, for chrissake. Where can your kids go if they can't read? But it made me very happy that she is going to prepare.
Stay alive.
Michael]
mboone@rtccom.net
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