I finally got my copy of PATRIOTS by Jim Rawles. yesterday afternoon. W screwed up and ordered our copy the day after the book bomb day and so our copy didn't get here until May, 6.
But I am half way through it today and I like it. I am at the point where they are going to a Barter Faire in a neighboring town. Local trading going on and people to meet and all that stuff.
Rawles wrote the first few chapters in sort of a robotic fashion, not much human feeling in them but he is rolling along quite nicely and in a believable fashion.
I'll write more tomorrow.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
PROBLEMS
Happy wet, drizzly, Wednesday, everybody. It's gonna be like last year and stay wet until June, probably. Don't bother me! I will survive as a human until God calls me and that is that. Lots of problems in the world today. If you ain't got any problems, just get in touch with the world and you can have all you want.
One of the big problems bothering some folks is where they will put the prisoners from Guantanamo when they shut it down. Seems like no one wants the prisoners to be transferred to their neighborhood! I do not know the facts about these guys so I can't tell you how trustworthy they are. And it is one of those things where we citizens inherit the sins of our government and all of a sudden we are left to deal with it. Seems like when these guys were big in the world news, having them in prison was a definite advantage for the Republican National Committee. Highly profitable for Bush and his buddies.
But now days the advantage is gone from the Middle Eastern prisoners. The torture thing has ruined it. Some folks can't see pressing criminal charges for terrorism against guys you have been torturing for years. And that might make some sense. But the profit from Arab prisoners is almost all gone and now the loses are being transferred to the public sector, like always. We inherit the bummers and the politicians get all the good deals. They need 'em for re-election.
There is some sort of fabulous new jail up in Montana that has never been used and the guy who has been hired to run it has made a statement about using it to store prisoners from Guantanamo. He wants to store SOMETHING in the damn place because he is getting paid and he knows that cannot last if there ain't any prisoners in the jail. None of the Montana politicians want to have anything to do with the new jail. Until this is settled, we now have a multibillion dollar white elephant sitting up in Montana with the fedgov holding the tab for it. Too bad.
And what are you going to do when the SHTF and you have big jails or even prisons in your neighborhood? You do realize the guards will turn them all loose if there is a problem with the infrastructure don''t you? They will not let them stay locked in the jail and die of starvation should the system go down. There have been instances of prisoners rioting and taking over a prison and then killing all the bad prisoner and then giving up the riot. It has happened in my lifetime. But if there is not time to take care of those things when the SHTF then we must be prepared to handle it on the outside when the fellas come around looking for a place to stay. Some of them are fine men and are not guilty of any perversions. God might not care if they killed a cop or a tax collector or robbed a bank. And if God ain't bothered by it where can I get off by letting it disturb me? Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
One of the big problems bothering some folks is where they will put the prisoners from Guantanamo when they shut it down. Seems like no one wants the prisoners to be transferred to their neighborhood! I do not know the facts about these guys so I can't tell you how trustworthy they are. And it is one of those things where we citizens inherit the sins of our government and all of a sudden we are left to deal with it. Seems like when these guys were big in the world news, having them in prison was a definite advantage for the Republican National Committee. Highly profitable for Bush and his buddies.
But now days the advantage is gone from the Middle Eastern prisoners. The torture thing has ruined it. Some folks can't see pressing criminal charges for terrorism against guys you have been torturing for years. And that might make some sense. But the profit from Arab prisoners is almost all gone and now the loses are being transferred to the public sector, like always. We inherit the bummers and the politicians get all the good deals. They need 'em for re-election.
There is some sort of fabulous new jail up in Montana that has never been used and the guy who has been hired to run it has made a statement about using it to store prisoners from Guantanamo. He wants to store SOMETHING in the damn place because he is getting paid and he knows that cannot last if there ain't any prisoners in the jail. None of the Montana politicians want to have anything to do with the new jail. Until this is settled, we now have a multibillion dollar white elephant sitting up in Montana with the fedgov holding the tab for it. Too bad.
And what are you going to do when the SHTF and you have big jails or even prisons in your neighborhood? You do realize the guards will turn them all loose if there is a problem with the infrastructure don''t you? They will not let them stay locked in the jail and die of starvation should the system go down. There have been instances of prisoners rioting and taking over a prison and then killing all the bad prisoner and then giving up the riot. It has happened in my lifetime. But if there is not time to take care of those things when the SHTF then we must be prepared to handle it on the outside when the fellas come around looking for a place to stay. Some of them are fine men and are not guilty of any perversions. God might not care if they killed a cop or a tax collector or robbed a bank. And if God ain't bothered by it where can I get off by letting it disturb me? Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
LAWS AND MORE LAWS
I got up and read my email this morning. It said the ammo was in short supply in this country. CNN had the report. Can you imagine such a thing? This ammo shortage is a good six months old and CNN is getting around to reporting it? Heaven help us! The next thing you know they will say it is a shining star in the mud of the economy. We bought one and a half billion rounds of ammo in December of 2008 and CNN never said a damn thing. Since then January, February, March and April have gone by and still not much ammo. I'll tell you a little something, CNN, there are billions of rounds of ammo in this country. Reality is when you stop believing in something, it still does not go away. No matter what the left wing agenda is in this country. We CITIZENS have access to all kinds of ammo. BATHTUBS FULL OF AMMO. And the ammo makers are gearing up to make even more of it. Plants are running 24 X 7. Manufacturing expansion is taking place. We know crime is going to go up. We suspect Martial Law is going into effect. We positively look forward to foreign troops on our soil telling us what to do. You corrupt media bastards don't understand! We are tired of your shit and so now, let's get it on! We know what is coming! Our favorite trend watchers are people like Mr. Roubini and Mr. Celente. Mr. Bonner chimes in with a word of encouragement every now and then. It would appear that we are being attacked by ravenous Fascist Pigs and it is sink or swim time. Methinks the Pigs need to sink and us good folks swim to safety.
The guns supply got a little better recently. In fact, there are guns practically everywhere you look to buy them. The prices are not reported to be going down but the supply is strengthening. And it is good that the gun thing is catching up with itself. We have other things to acquire besides guns and ammo. We also count value in Beans and Band-aids.
The State of Montana has passed and signed into law a statute that says any gun made in Montana and sold with the intention of not leaving Montana does not have to conform to any federal firearms laws. This is a push, because the commerce clause of the constitution says there ain't any regulation of anything that does not cross the state boundaries, at least by federal law with permission of the constitution. About 5 or 6 years ago the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals out of San Francisco ruled in this very manner but it got no publicity. Some guy was making a machine gun out at his house in the dessert of Arizona and the BATFE got wind of it and busted him. The appeal of his conviction was mostly overturned because the fedgov had failed to prove the man was going to engage in Interstate Commerce with the gun and failing that, a lot of the case was thrown out. They got him on some nickel-dime violation and he got a few years but nothing like they were trying for.
But if Montana can manufacture guns with MADE IN MONTANA stamped on the receiver, then a citizen of Montana can buy one of those guns and not fill out any federal paperwork. Happy days will be here again. Texas will probably be next to enact such a thing and Indiana will fall in line soon enough. Man! Just think. I could own a gun that didn't have the federal government breathing down my neck all the time. I wonder if that would apply to beer and wine and hard liquor. Sure would be nice to get the government out of my beer cooler! Tobacco products could use a little relief also. In fact, a lot of things could use a little less attention from the fedgov. Hell, this move by Montana could be the start of things getting back to the way they're supposed to be in this country. I know. Fat chance. But allow me to have my little dash of escapism once in a while. Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
The guns supply got a little better recently. In fact, there are guns practically everywhere you look to buy them. The prices are not reported to be going down but the supply is strengthening. And it is good that the gun thing is catching up with itself. We have other things to acquire besides guns and ammo. We also count value in Beans and Band-aids.
The State of Montana has passed and signed into law a statute that says any gun made in Montana and sold with the intention of not leaving Montana does not have to conform to any federal firearms laws. This is a push, because the commerce clause of the constitution says there ain't any regulation of anything that does not cross the state boundaries, at least by federal law with permission of the constitution. About 5 or 6 years ago the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals out of San Francisco ruled in this very manner but it got no publicity. Some guy was making a machine gun out at his house in the dessert of Arizona and the BATFE got wind of it and busted him. The appeal of his conviction was mostly overturned because the fedgov had failed to prove the man was going to engage in Interstate Commerce with the gun and failing that, a lot of the case was thrown out. They got him on some nickel-dime violation and he got a few years but nothing like they were trying for.
But if Montana can manufacture guns with MADE IN MONTANA stamped on the receiver, then a citizen of Montana can buy one of those guns and not fill out any federal paperwork. Happy days will be here again. Texas will probably be next to enact such a thing and Indiana will fall in line soon enough. Man! Just think. I could own a gun that didn't have the federal government breathing down my neck all the time. I wonder if that would apply to beer and wine and hard liquor. Sure would be nice to get the government out of my beer cooler! Tobacco products could use a little relief also. In fact, a lot of things could use a little less attention from the fedgov. Hell, this move by Montana could be the start of things getting back to the way they're supposed to be in this country. I know. Fat chance. But allow me to have my little dash of escapism once in a while. Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Monday, May 4, 2009
THIS AND THAT
Still getting some rain about every day. The rain puddles in the road don't ever seem to go away. But I don't care because I can put the garden in come June just as well as in May. Everybody gets in a great emotional hurry come Spring and it is a cumbersome waste of time. You can grow vegetables just fine in June! So to hell with the rain. I will not worry about it. I have already gotten the nuggets on how to plant my tomatoes from seed right directly into the ground and I am ready to rock. Look at the comments on the preceding post for the data.
Starting to get a mixed signal on food production. Jim Haddix just drove from northern Indiana to Florida and right back and said he didn't see much in the way of gardening in the homes he could see from the Interstate. Jim is an old farm guy from Indiana and he knows what a garden is. Said he didn't see much. Could the media be leading us astray once again? We get that warm fuzzy feeling reading about folks who are prepping with us and maybe it ain't true. The media lies more than it tells the truth so why should I believe them now?
The Handmaiden brought home a book from the library titled GARDENING WHEN IT COUNTS. It was written by Steve Solomon and is a Mother Earth News book. I have been gnawing around the edges of it and it ain't bad. Ain't bad at all. It makes a very good point about intensive gardening being intensive everything else. The author makes the point of saying that spacing your plants out and giving them room to grow costs less money and requires less fertilizer and compost and all that good stuff. The author, Steve Solomon, makes a lot of sense.
My friend Charles Bell told me about an interesting web page called www.growfish.com. Pretty interesting concept those people are working with right there.
But Spring is in the air and we are having Black Bean Burritos tonight. Loaded with good ground venison. It don't get much better than that. You all take care and I will see you tomorrow, God willing. Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Starting to get a mixed signal on food production. Jim Haddix just drove from northern Indiana to Florida and right back and said he didn't see much in the way of gardening in the homes he could see from the Interstate. Jim is an old farm guy from Indiana and he knows what a garden is. Said he didn't see much. Could the media be leading us astray once again? We get that warm fuzzy feeling reading about folks who are prepping with us and maybe it ain't true. The media lies more than it tells the truth so why should I believe them now?
The Handmaiden brought home a book from the library titled GARDENING WHEN IT COUNTS. It was written by Steve Solomon and is a Mother Earth News book. I have been gnawing around the edges of it and it ain't bad. Ain't bad at all. It makes a very good point about intensive gardening being intensive everything else. The author makes the point of saying that spacing your plants out and giving them room to grow costs less money and requires less fertilizer and compost and all that good stuff. The author, Steve Solomon, makes a lot of sense.
My friend Charles Bell told me about an interesting web page called www.growfish.com. Pretty interesting concept those people are working with right there.
But Spring is in the air and we are having Black Bean Burritos tonight. Loaded with good ground venison. It don't get much better than that. You all take care and I will see you tomorrow, God willing. Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Sunday, May 3, 2009
GARDENING THIS AND THAT
Well, Happy Sunday to you all! If you are like me you will take all the happiness you can find. The blogs are especially good today. So many people I read had good things to say today I cannot begin to single them all out for praise. But it seems to me that if you write about growing food and prepping, you will get a lot of favorable responses. More and more people are becoming amendable to the idea of surviving the bullshit we are going into deeper every day. A week from today will bring our frost date and we can get to planting. It certainly looks like we won't have any more frost this Spring but you never can tell. And I would hate to be the guy who got folks to planting early every year and then a late frost takes their crop when they cannot afford to lose it. I was reading about frost dates on Google yesterday and people who knew the score advised not violating them. So, forewarned is forearmed. And don't worry! You will get plenty of work this Summer! About the time I start getting able to touch the ground with my fingertips it will be time to sit down and start shelling beans. I could get weeks of long days shelling those devils this year. I'll take it! Those full gallon bags of Cranberry beans going up to the big cans just warms my heart something fierce.
You know, I used the advice of that crazed southern woman, Charli Gribble of Alabama last year, on preserving my beans. She said to bag them and then freeze them for a few days and they would do just fine. And she was right! I just froze them and let them thaw on the kitchen table and then took them to the big cans. And we thank you Charli Gribble for that very good tip. We also used her advice of putting Bay Leaves in the bag with the beans. Vermin critters don't like Bay Leaves. Makes them take off and go someplace else.
I gotta get tuned in on planting tomatoes by seed instead of transplanting. That transplanting of tomatoes came along about 50 years ago and no one knows how to plant them directly into the ground anymore. Robbed and enslaved again! Damn! You think we would learn. One of the stores in town had a tomato plant that actually had a couple of small fruit on it. The price tag read $15. This is ridiculous. I am going out and put my tomato seeds in the ground and try to grow tomatoes. Same with my cayenne peppers. The seeds are going in the ground and the peppers will be expected to show up as if they were supposed to be there. Anyone who knows how to do these things without buying transplants is surely welcome to tell me how it is done.
Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
You know, I used the advice of that crazed southern woman, Charli Gribble of Alabama last year, on preserving my beans. She said to bag them and then freeze them for a few days and they would do just fine. And she was right! I just froze them and let them thaw on the kitchen table and then took them to the big cans. And we thank you Charli Gribble for that very good tip. We also used her advice of putting Bay Leaves in the bag with the beans. Vermin critters don't like Bay Leaves. Makes them take off and go someplace else.
I gotta get tuned in on planting tomatoes by seed instead of transplanting. That transplanting of tomatoes came along about 50 years ago and no one knows how to plant them directly into the ground anymore. Robbed and enslaved again! Damn! You think we would learn. One of the stores in town had a tomato plant that actually had a couple of small fruit on it. The price tag read $15. This is ridiculous. I am going out and put my tomato seeds in the ground and try to grow tomatoes. Same with my cayenne peppers. The seeds are going in the ground and the peppers will be expected to show up as if they were supposed to be there. Anyone who knows how to do these things without buying transplants is surely welcome to tell me how it is done.
Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Saturday, May 2, 2009
SATURDAY PREPS
Looks like things will progress quite nicely for the garden this Spring. I might have a brother-in-law coming to stay early in June and he will be more than happy to work in the garden for two or three hours a day. I have another man in Maryland who is ready to saddle up and come here maybe yet this month. That should give us a great garden crew. There are three of us already here; myself, my wife, and my friend Walter. Five people should boil it all down to about 2 or maybe 3 hours per day. Love it. Everything can get done and folks don't get burnt out.
I am an idiot savant in the garden. I want to do one thing and do a lot of it. I had pretty good success with beans last year and should have success again this year. Now wouldn't it be nice if all I had to do was plant cranberry beans every year? Man! Could I ever be a success in the world! But I am going for beans and corn and tomatoes this year. The wife has informed me that cayenne pepper and some other things will be grown. That is fine with me as long as my main crops get grown. The cayenne will be hung from our kitchen ceiling in ristras for the Winter. Mighty pretty decoration in the gloominess of Winter. We got a catalogue from Johnny's Seeds today and the cover is a color shot of Cayenne and Garlic hanging down in profusion, along with some other things. Almost too much for me to look at. I love that stuff and I love what it does for me. Our kitchen ceiling is loaded with 8" by 8" beams running full width of the room on 2' centers. Acres of storage area for the peppers. I'm already storing the crop from this Summer. Counting chickens before the eggs are hatched. A typical human frailty.
The swine flu thing is still a little nuts but I think it will die down. People are scared. People are ignorant. With all the knowledge at their disposal it is amazing just how ignorant people are. In dealing with the flu just remember the words isolate and quarantine. Stay away from it and you will most likely be just fine. Things are looking good right now. Stay out of the stock market unless you are rich and have an extraordinary amount of knowledge as to how it is going to work. Invest in some out of the way land with limited access and easily defended positions. Keep the stores sold out of guns and ammo. It is sending a solid comment to the gun grabbers in Washington. Grow and buy food. Store it like a miser. Keep medical supplies up to high standards. There are all kinds of data bases to tell you what you will need for whatever degree of medical attention you wish to afford.
Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
I am an idiot savant in the garden. I want to do one thing and do a lot of it. I had pretty good success with beans last year and should have success again this year. Now wouldn't it be nice if all I had to do was plant cranberry beans every year? Man! Could I ever be a success in the world! But I am going for beans and corn and tomatoes this year. The wife has informed me that cayenne pepper and some other things will be grown. That is fine with me as long as my main crops get grown. The cayenne will be hung from our kitchen ceiling in ristras for the Winter. Mighty pretty decoration in the gloominess of Winter. We got a catalogue from Johnny's Seeds today and the cover is a color shot of Cayenne and Garlic hanging down in profusion, along with some other things. Almost too much for me to look at. I love that stuff and I love what it does for me. Our kitchen ceiling is loaded with 8" by 8" beams running full width of the room on 2' centers. Acres of storage area for the peppers. I'm already storing the crop from this Summer. Counting chickens before the eggs are hatched. A typical human frailty.
The swine flu thing is still a little nuts but I think it will die down. People are scared. People are ignorant. With all the knowledge at their disposal it is amazing just how ignorant people are. In dealing with the flu just remember the words isolate and quarantine. Stay away from it and you will most likely be just fine. Things are looking good right now. Stay out of the stock market unless you are rich and have an extraordinary amount of knowledge as to how it is going to work. Invest in some out of the way land with limited access and easily defended positions. Keep the stores sold out of guns and ammo. It is sending a solid comment to the gun grabbers in Washington. Grow and buy food. Store it like a miser. Keep medical supplies up to high standards. There are all kinds of data bases to tell you what you will need for whatever degree of medical attention you wish to afford.
Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Friday, May 1, 2009
FRIDAY ITEMS
Hey! Big news on the political front. The two AIPAC guys indicted for passing defense secrets to Israel are going to get their charges dropped and their case thrown out of court. Now the guy who gave them the secrets got over 12 years in his prison sentence but they get nothing for passing them on. People are getting tired of AIPAC and their ability to get this government to do anything they wish. I be getting a little tired of it myself. If I were King I might be tempted to tell Israel to cut the shit out or I let Iran stomp their ass! And Israel deserves it. I know there are a lot of pro-Israeli people in this country but that cannot help the fact that these people living over in the mideast are corrupt. And they will pay the price and I got that from God and it will happen and that is the end of the matter.
Getting ready to beef up the preps in the next few days. Gonna get a shitload of food. Staples, what we consider to be necessities. are going up all the time. Just the stuff you don't have to buy is still cheap. The stuff you use every day is going up in price. Bet on it. I can't tell you how much money I have made on paper with my food purchases of a year ago. Not that it matters except for bragging rights, which are as useless as tits on a boar. I intend to eat the food no matter what, so that is the profit for me. The wife said this morning that we have probably have 6 months worth of food counting our rice and beans. We should have a monstrous addition to that amount planted in the ground in a few weeks and that will boost us into the FEMA level. Not really, but they are the goal we all shoot for. God only knows how many millions of tons of food our government has stored for its future use.
According to the old story, our ancestor Joseph saved all that grain in Egypt for the benefit of Pharaoh. When the famine hit Egypt the people could buy food from Pharaoh, until they ran out of money, of course. Then they had to sell themselves and their families in order to eat. You became the personal property of Pharaoh or you starved to death. It will be done a little differently this time as our modern day Pharaoh has microchip technology he can put into place. You go get your implant and you are on the way to doing Pharaoh's bidding for the rest of your natural life. I would suggest that you garner some strong friends who will fight to the end if necessary and who will grow food not owned by Pharaoh. I have already told you about the three and a half MILLION guns sold in America during last October, November, and December. There was a BILLION AND A HALF ROUNDS OF AMMO sold but I neglected to tell you that that total is for the month of December alone. A BILLION AND A HALF ROUNDS in one month! Wish ol' Pharaoh luck in any micro chipping he may do because he will surely need it. He may just get his ass shot off. And the buying and storing is still going on. The steam roller is getting fueled up folks and it is not going to be denied. Look out Pharaoh! The train is coming through. And you can't do a damn thing about it.
For those of understanding, you might consider that the two witnesses are standing on their feet once again. And great fear will befall them who behold the witnesses. For those unencumbered with knowledge you mighty know that the two witnesses are the Father and Son. We are starting to depart from the days of love and tenderness and forgiveness and get back to the old time of rule by God. The time of the Lamb has happened and I am glad it did. But now it is time to return to Daddy. Daddy is a little more stern than the Son.
Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Getting ready to beef up the preps in the next few days. Gonna get a shitload of food. Staples, what we consider to be necessities. are going up all the time. Just the stuff you don't have to buy is still cheap. The stuff you use every day is going up in price. Bet on it. I can't tell you how much money I have made on paper with my food purchases of a year ago. Not that it matters except for bragging rights, which are as useless as tits on a boar. I intend to eat the food no matter what, so that is the profit for me. The wife said this morning that we have probably have 6 months worth of food counting our rice and beans. We should have a monstrous addition to that amount planted in the ground in a few weeks and that will boost us into the FEMA level. Not really, but they are the goal we all shoot for. God only knows how many millions of tons of food our government has stored for its future use.
According to the old story, our ancestor Joseph saved all that grain in Egypt for the benefit of Pharaoh. When the famine hit Egypt the people could buy food from Pharaoh, until they ran out of money, of course. Then they had to sell themselves and their families in order to eat. You became the personal property of Pharaoh or you starved to death. It will be done a little differently this time as our modern day Pharaoh has microchip technology he can put into place. You go get your implant and you are on the way to doing Pharaoh's bidding for the rest of your natural life. I would suggest that you garner some strong friends who will fight to the end if necessary and who will grow food not owned by Pharaoh. I have already told you about the three and a half MILLION guns sold in America during last October, November, and December. There was a BILLION AND A HALF ROUNDS OF AMMO sold but I neglected to tell you that that total is for the month of December alone. A BILLION AND A HALF ROUNDS in one month! Wish ol' Pharaoh luck in any micro chipping he may do because he will surely need it. He may just get his ass shot off. And the buying and storing is still going on. The steam roller is getting fueled up folks and it is not going to be denied. Look out Pharaoh! The train is coming through. And you can't do a damn thing about it.
For those of understanding, you might consider that the two witnesses are standing on their feet once again. And great fear will befall them who behold the witnesses. For those unencumbered with knowledge you mighty know that the two witnesses are the Father and Son. We are starting to depart from the days of love and tenderness and forgiveness and get back to the old time of rule by God. The time of the Lamb has happened and I am glad it did. But now it is time to return to Daddy. Daddy is a little more stern than the Son.
Stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
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