Just a little note to keep you informed. While I am not saying to do this, my wife, The Handmaiden, just told me, before she went out the door to pick Blueberries, that an elderly couple here in our village get a flu shot every year and every year they catch the flu . On the other end of the spectrum, she and I never get a flu shot and never catch the flu. Is something trying to get through to me?
Michael
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
SHORT TUESDAY
Thinking about a platform on which to build your new world lifestyle. Actually I am thinking about the rules and precepts you will use to make your way forward from the wreck of this nation. A fairly important subject for all thinkers.
I think, for the sake of brevity, that you could be led to fashion your code of civic conduct by basing it on the same principles as you used to prepare for the calamity. Preppers have a non-reputation for their philosophy. And that philosophy is based on love. Love of themselves. Love of their families. Love of their friends and fellow Clan members. Outsiders of the survival movement see preppers as people in fear, or people in rejection of society, or social malcontents without many redeeming qualities. And nothing could be further from the truth in most cases. We love our mates and our kids and other relatives. We try to get them to join with us in our quest to survive the calamity. Most don't, but that doesn't mean we didn't try. And generally tried on numerous occasions. More on this later.
I got a heads up from Jim Haddix concerning an article in the Los Angeles Times. Indiana actually got mentioned in the Times. It is because our legislature cannot make up it's mind on the budget. We have money! 1.3 billion dollars in a 'rainy day fund.' But Indianapolis wants us to give them the money to pay for all the sports venues they have gone into debt for. The meter is running right now and the fee is looking like 47 million dollars. Lots of legislators do not want to pay for this bill that Indy has run up.Can't say as I blame them.
The news is mostly just a bunch of hot air these days, since the government does not want to tell us what is going on but would rather feed us propaganda a and lies. You have to read the financial blogs to get an inkling of the truth. Just do not forget that the machine is breaking down. Do not put your faith and your life in the hands of this economy. Get out while you can.
Short post today. Hope you have a good day and stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
I think, for the sake of brevity, that you could be led to fashion your code of civic conduct by basing it on the same principles as you used to prepare for the calamity. Preppers have a non-reputation for their philosophy. And that philosophy is based on love. Love of themselves. Love of their families. Love of their friends and fellow Clan members. Outsiders of the survival movement see preppers as people in fear, or people in rejection of society, or social malcontents without many redeeming qualities. And nothing could be further from the truth in most cases. We love our mates and our kids and other relatives. We try to get them to join with us in our quest to survive the calamity. Most don't, but that doesn't mean we didn't try. And generally tried on numerous occasions. More on this later.
I got a heads up from Jim Haddix concerning an article in the Los Angeles Times. Indiana actually got mentioned in the Times. It is because our legislature cannot make up it's mind on the budget. We have money! 1.3 billion dollars in a 'rainy day fund.' But Indianapolis wants us to give them the money to pay for all the sports venues they have gone into debt for. The meter is running right now and the fee is looking like 47 million dollars. Lots of legislators do not want to pay for this bill that Indy has run up.Can't say as I blame them.
The news is mostly just a bunch of hot air these days, since the government does not want to tell us what is going on but would rather feed us propaganda a and lies. You have to read the financial blogs to get an inkling of the truth. Just do not forget that the machine is breaking down. Do not put your faith and your life in the hands of this economy. Get out while you can.
Short post today. Hope you have a good day and stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Monday, June 29, 2009
GOITER AND PROTEIN
Just looking at the trees and the grass and the crops and whatnot from my porch. So much 0of a bounty in this place. Of course only about 13 or 14 percent of it is tillable but that beats the hell out of nothing! There is much to be done with our fields and our creeks but we have not pursued agriculture to any great degree. We have concentrated on MONEY. Ah yes. Good old money. Just take you a handful and stuff it into your mouth and see how good it tastes and how much it does for your body. And you know that last statement was a shuck from the very beginning. You can't eat money. You have to eat what we call FOOD. Food generally consists of vegetables and meat, with a rock thrown in call salt. The salt is ground up very fine so it will easily come out of salt shakers. Salt is also supposed to have Iodine bonded with it. Not is a noticeable amount but just enough to keep you from getting a Goiter. A Goiter is an enlargement of your Thyroid gland. Most Goiters were caused by Iodine deficiency. Now days we get plenty of Iodine in our Salt and goiter is nowhere around, like it used to be. Where I live in southern Indiana used to be called the Goiter Belt. Morton Iodized Salt stopped all of that. There are maybe a couple very minor causes of Goiter that will involve a doctor and more knowledge than I have, but a prepper, a person getting prepared, should stock up on Iodized Salt or Sea Salt. The salt from the ocean has Iodine in it. But anyhow, do not fail to get salt for your retreat. It is essential to life and it has the necessary Iodine to keep your Thyroid healthy. Ain't much sense buying salt with no Iodine except to melt snow or tan hides.
But I am not going to spend the afternoon talking about Salt and Goiters. I want to talk about food. You need Protein and vitamins and minerals. You need fiber. And of course, you need water. My garden efforts are mainly focused on Crops and not salads, but I love salads. My wife cuts up a little meat and cheese with my salad greens and that makes a meal. to my way of thinking. But I am of the school of thought that says you gotta eat protein. I am in no way a vegetarian. I eat all kinds of meat and I think it is good for me. But if I run low on meat I know that I can make it on a mixture of grain and legumes. Grain is Rice or Corn or Wheat. A legume is beans and peas and lentils. Or maybe lentils are beans. I can't remember but I know the wife can. Those people down in Louisiana scarfing down all those meals of Red Beans and Rice are getting their protein. But the food does not have to be southern spiced beans and rice. It can be Great Northern beans mixed with some rice, or served with some cornbread. I enjoy eating Hominy. Love the stuff. If someone has a good method of making Hominy I would really appreciate you sending it to me. A bowl of Hominy and a bowl of beans sitting side by side in front of me at the table would crank me right up! And do not forget about putting a little meat in your bean pot. All those cute little Tweety birds flitting about over the local landscape will cook up just fine in your beans as they cook soft. Red Birds, Black Birds, Blue Birds, Boattailed Grackles, Robins, Sparrows, Wrens, and all kinds of seed eaters will do you up just fine. I would avoid the scavengers and the carrion eaters. Of course, Ducks and Geese are the creme de la creme and you might not want to just cook them in your beans. But those other birds can be cleaned and tossed in the bean pot to cook for a while and studies have shown that it really increases you protein uptake. You ought to use every trick in the book to get your protein allotment. It is necessary for survival.
You ought to really consider growing chickens for both meat and eggs. Keeping a few sows and a boar will keep you in some good sausage and pork chops. Just remember that the bigger the animal the more meat you will have to deal with. Butchering a 600 pound calf makes more meat than a little nuclear family can handle without a lot of preservation. Cattle, meat goats, sheep and hogs carry a significant amount of meat on them and you must be prepared AHEAD OF TIME to deal with it. One of the tell-tale signs of raiders being in your area is discovering dead animals with only the choice parts eaten and the rest left to rot. There are many ways to preserve food and a prepper will know all about them. The wife and I have acquired a pretty big library on how to preserve certain things we eat. The electricity may not be flowing through the wires one of these days and food will require more attention than we are used to giving it. You can't just throw something in the fridge or the freezer if the juice ain't running.
I am a fan of dried vegetables, if they are the kind that dry and store like you need them to be. Beans and Peas and Grains all store very well if you get them dried. And drying IS A METHOD OF PRESERVATION. And while I am on this subject I would like to make a few points for your edification. For the sake of brevity let us say that the garden is done on October the first. I don't know where you live so I am just setting that time as a reckoning point. So on that date your fresh vegetables are history until the next year. So you now have until the middle of next Spring to deal with a vegetable drought unless you have PRESERVED enough to get you through. And I know there are tricks for the learned to do, such as cold weather crops and all of that. But unless you have the means to get the seed to grow cold weather crops you are out of luck. You have either preserved the food to get you through or you will do without. And doing without can be a real drag. A nagging belly and health problems and other folks complaining can make your life miserable. But you can preserve your food! Canning, drying, smoking, even freezing if you have the electricity. Otherwise you go half a year with no vegetables. And that can mess you up. You can preserve your meat on the hoof and claw it gets around on. Basically if you don't kill it, it doesn't rot. You can butcher a chicken and eat it just about any time of the year. If you have the food and water to keep it alive until you are ready for it. What I am really getting at is no matter how well you have prepped, the day is coming when your preps will run out. That is the day you are made or undone. For the initial crash I am all for having canned food to get you through. I am doing it myself. So would anyone with any kind of a brain. But it will run out and you will need to produce and preserve your own food. It is a fact of life. If you want you and yours to continue walking around on this planet then you better be able to feed yourself and your family and your friends. That means you must have livestock and non-hybrid seed. And you have to manage all of it. It is literally a lifestyle. It's a job. It is a career. And it is much easier if you have help. That is why I make such a clamor and din about a Clan. If there is a lot of work to do and not enough hands to accomplish it then something is not going to get done. It's a law of nature. Our ancestors lived in Clans and we will be getting back to that in the near future. Think! Figure it out ahead of time. Don't go into the future with your eyes closed. And stay alive.
But I am not going to spend the afternoon talking about Salt and Goiters. I want to talk about food. You need Protein and vitamins and minerals. You need fiber. And of course, you need water. My garden efforts are mainly focused on Crops and not salads, but I love salads. My wife cuts up a little meat and cheese with my salad greens and that makes a meal. to my way of thinking. But I am of the school of thought that says you gotta eat protein. I am in no way a vegetarian. I eat all kinds of meat and I think it is good for me. But if I run low on meat I know that I can make it on a mixture of grain and legumes. Grain is Rice or Corn or Wheat. A legume is beans and peas and lentils. Or maybe lentils are beans. I can't remember but I know the wife can. Those people down in Louisiana scarfing down all those meals of Red Beans and Rice are getting their protein. But the food does not have to be southern spiced beans and rice. It can be Great Northern beans mixed with some rice, or served with some cornbread. I enjoy eating Hominy. Love the stuff. If someone has a good method of making Hominy I would really appreciate you sending it to me. A bowl of Hominy and a bowl of beans sitting side by side in front of me at the table would crank me right up! And do not forget about putting a little meat in your bean pot. All those cute little Tweety birds flitting about over the local landscape will cook up just fine in your beans as they cook soft. Red Birds, Black Birds, Blue Birds, Boattailed Grackles, Robins, Sparrows, Wrens, and all kinds of seed eaters will do you up just fine. I would avoid the scavengers and the carrion eaters. Of course, Ducks and Geese are the creme de la creme and you might not want to just cook them in your beans. But those other birds can be cleaned and tossed in the bean pot to cook for a while and studies have shown that it really increases you protein uptake. You ought to use every trick in the book to get your protein allotment. It is necessary for survival.
You ought to really consider growing chickens for both meat and eggs. Keeping a few sows and a boar will keep you in some good sausage and pork chops. Just remember that the bigger the animal the more meat you will have to deal with. Butchering a 600 pound calf makes more meat than a little nuclear family can handle without a lot of preservation. Cattle, meat goats, sheep and hogs carry a significant amount of meat on them and you must be prepared AHEAD OF TIME to deal with it. One of the tell-tale signs of raiders being in your area is discovering dead animals with only the choice parts eaten and the rest left to rot. There are many ways to preserve food and a prepper will know all about them. The wife and I have acquired a pretty big library on how to preserve certain things we eat. The electricity may not be flowing through the wires one of these days and food will require more attention than we are used to giving it. You can't just throw something in the fridge or the freezer if the juice ain't running.
I am a fan of dried vegetables, if they are the kind that dry and store like you need them to be. Beans and Peas and Grains all store very well if you get them dried. And drying IS A METHOD OF PRESERVATION. And while I am on this subject I would like to make a few points for your edification. For the sake of brevity let us say that the garden is done on October the first. I don't know where you live so I am just setting that time as a reckoning point. So on that date your fresh vegetables are history until the next year. So you now have until the middle of next Spring to deal with a vegetable drought unless you have PRESERVED enough to get you through. And I know there are tricks for the learned to do, such as cold weather crops and all of that. But unless you have the means to get the seed to grow cold weather crops you are out of luck. You have either preserved the food to get you through or you will do without. And doing without can be a real drag. A nagging belly and health problems and other folks complaining can make your life miserable. But you can preserve your food! Canning, drying, smoking, even freezing if you have the electricity. Otherwise you go half a year with no vegetables. And that can mess you up. You can preserve your meat on the hoof and claw it gets around on. Basically if you don't kill it, it doesn't rot. You can butcher a chicken and eat it just about any time of the year. If you have the food and water to keep it alive until you are ready for it. What I am really getting at is no matter how well you have prepped, the day is coming when your preps will run out. That is the day you are made or undone. For the initial crash I am all for having canned food to get you through. I am doing it myself. So would anyone with any kind of a brain. But it will run out and you will need to produce and preserve your own food. It is a fact of life. If you want you and yours to continue walking around on this planet then you better be able to feed yourself and your family and your friends. That means you must have livestock and non-hybrid seed. And you have to manage all of it. It is literally a lifestyle. It's a job. It is a career. And it is much easier if you have help. That is why I make such a clamor and din about a Clan. If there is a lot of work to do and not enough hands to accomplish it then something is not going to get done. It's a law of nature. Our ancestors lived in Clans and we will be getting back to that in the near future. Think! Figure it out ahead of time. Don't go into the future with your eyes closed. And stay alive.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
GET READY!
I'm in kind of a strange mood today. My leading is to tell everyone to forsake this guy Obama and get to prepping. But I have already said a lot of that message. And yet, you never know who will read your writings so you write again. Our survival effort was done by the wife today. She dried a couple pounds of Cherries down to what looked to be a baggy about the size of a pound of breakfast sausage that you get at the store. Pretty well shrunk the hell outta them. Now she has the drier loaded with Apples and Blueberries. Socking that stuff away, by God! And every little bit helps. We are not going to have much garden in this year so we are doing all we can on other fronts. More than likely we will have plenty of Walnuts and Persimmons this Fall and we can always buy fruit and vegetables in season from the Amish. But I still have all the seed Big John gave me and it will be on hand for the onset of garden time next year. You can buy stuff and dry stuff and grow and can stuff and freeze stuff and all kinds of things. But the end result is that you have food no matter what happens to the rest of the country. And that will be a good thing in the days ahead. This damn government will not tell us the truth of what is going on and a lot of people will not have enough food to make it. And I know that is a funny damn thing to say about America the bountiful, cause she has always produced whatever was needed. But I do not see her producing like she did for a long, long time, if ever. And for those of you who study economics and the politics of the world, you know exactly what I am talking about. It's going down, folks. About the only thing that will function will be the big war machines. They will get all the fuel they need to the exception of the rest of us. They will fight each other and that will cause such human misery, here as well as other places, as to cause a complete upheaval to what we have known and loved. Gather you a Clan and get ready for the big dance because it is damn well coming!
I hate to be a Prophet of Doom but with the way things are now it is a hopeless task to be anything else. My inclination is to look for life and the living thereof. Keeps me in a much better frame of mind. My problem is that I don't see any thing to do but PREPARE! And that is about it. If you have your head into the hopes of this world you have your head up your ass. And that is crude but it gets the point across. It is going down folks and there ain't anything anybody can do about it. Get used to making on the tough because that is what I see. Get out of town and into the countryside. Get some building built and some fields under cultivation. Get your garden in, in due season. Get your Clan in there and get them to building homes and a big dining hall. You won't want to have all your land cleared because the woods will afford you fuel and fuel is nice, even a primitive time and setting. You can also use certain trees for building log cabins. The old Tulip Poplar comes to mind. But get your ground, your water, and your home in order. Without shelter and water you ain't got much.
At this point your are ready to start stocking your new lifestyle. Stocking it with the things you will need to make a year or so, when the trouble hits. Enough to make it two or three years might be better. Just make damn sure you do the best you can. Buy your canned goods and buy them quick. Monsanto is making deals all over the place to grow Frankenfood for this country. They just made a deal with Dole to start producing seed for Broccoli and Cauliflower and other things. Your food supply is getting fooled with and your gotta figure out how to escape the evil bastards. The best way is to have a field surrounded thick woods. That will keep their sick pollen from coming in and tainting your seed. And that method is not always possible but do the best you can. That is why the bigger your block of land is the more you have going for you to keep out the bad nasties manufactured by the ghouls. Those people are my enemies. I pledge to fight them all of my days. Sugar is also a Monsanto area now. All the sugar beet seed is now from Monsanto. Don't that just warm our heart? I don't know who those people are, those folks from Monsanto, but I think I smell a rat with a name like Rothschild. They are getting ready to take over the produce industry in India and use it to put the European food producers out of business. Then the prices will go up. When you have blocks of billions of people to feed, then anything like a monopoly will be worth more than gold. The point I am trying to get across, in my own confusing way, is for you to be very careful what you buy for storage. If you can can your own stuff from non-hybrid seed then you are doing as well as can be done. And I will say this: If you are in a position where you absolutely have to buy whatever is on the market to live, then you do it. We make no suicide pact on storage food or anything else. While there is still a market and you can still pick and choose what you will buy, then buy the best you can as far as what kind of seed was used. If push comes to shove then buy what you can. Hungry men, women and children are not pleasant to be around. I know I wouldn't be pleasant under those circumstances.
You can read a short novel at http://azarowny.tripod.com/. It ain't bad but it's better than the drivel you will find out in society. Stay alive!
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
I hate to be a Prophet of Doom but with the way things are now it is a hopeless task to be anything else. My inclination is to look for life and the living thereof. Keeps me in a much better frame of mind. My problem is that I don't see any thing to do but PREPARE! And that is about it. If you have your head into the hopes of this world you have your head up your ass. And that is crude but it gets the point across. It is going down folks and there ain't anything anybody can do about it. Get used to making on the tough because that is what I see. Get out of town and into the countryside. Get some building built and some fields under cultivation. Get your garden in, in due season. Get your Clan in there and get them to building homes and a big dining hall. You won't want to have all your land cleared because the woods will afford you fuel and fuel is nice, even a primitive time and setting. You can also use certain trees for building log cabins. The old Tulip Poplar comes to mind. But get your ground, your water, and your home in order. Without shelter and water you ain't got much.
At this point your are ready to start stocking your new lifestyle. Stocking it with the things you will need to make a year or so, when the trouble hits. Enough to make it two or three years might be better. Just make damn sure you do the best you can. Buy your canned goods and buy them quick. Monsanto is making deals all over the place to grow Frankenfood for this country. They just made a deal with Dole to start producing seed for Broccoli and Cauliflower and other things. Your food supply is getting fooled with and your gotta figure out how to escape the evil bastards. The best way is to have a field surrounded thick woods. That will keep their sick pollen from coming in and tainting your seed. And that method is not always possible but do the best you can. That is why the bigger your block of land is the more you have going for you to keep out the bad nasties manufactured by the ghouls. Those people are my enemies. I pledge to fight them all of my days. Sugar is also a Monsanto area now. All the sugar beet seed is now from Monsanto. Don't that just warm our heart? I don't know who those people are, those folks from Monsanto, but I think I smell a rat with a name like Rothschild. They are getting ready to take over the produce industry in India and use it to put the European food producers out of business. Then the prices will go up. When you have blocks of billions of people to feed, then anything like a monopoly will be worth more than gold. The point I am trying to get across, in my own confusing way, is for you to be very careful what you buy for storage. If you can can your own stuff from non-hybrid seed then you are doing as well as can be done. And I will say this: If you are in a position where you absolutely have to buy whatever is on the market to live, then you do it. We make no suicide pact on storage food or anything else. While there is still a market and you can still pick and choose what you will buy, then buy the best you can as far as what kind of seed was used. If push comes to shove then buy what you can. Hungry men, women and children are not pleasant to be around. I know I wouldn't be pleasant under those circumstances.
You can read a short novel at http://azarowny.tripod.com/. It ain't bad but it's better than the drivel you will find out in society. Stay alive!
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Saturday, June 27, 2009
POLITICS AND SURVIVAL
Just a moment here while I type this garbage onto my computer. I just read and article that says the House of Representatives has voted itself almost $4 billion dollars for expenses. That is 6.9 million dollar$ per Congre$$critter. Man! These guys really know how to live. I am so sick of these guys and their stealing and robbing and chicanery that anger is starting to dwell in my heart. This country is falling apart at the seams, with millions homeless and out of work, and these guys are taking a bigger cut of the pie. Have they no scruples? Have they no sense of decency? Or are they merely hogs swilling at the trough? We make jokes and wisecracks all the time about our congressmen, but this is a serious breach of the public trust. I just got a good taste of the Obama "Cap and Trade" bill that will increase our annual electric bill $700 minimum. I can't afford that kind of electricity. What are these fools doing? Don't they know that a national economic calamity is the absolute WORST time to increase taxes? The people have all they can stand. Our politicians should be doing things to cut our burden not increase it. The expense data can be found at http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2009/06/soooee-sooeee-calling-all-porkers.html. Naturally it is another blogger who spilled the beans. But we need those kind of people. Need 'em all over the place. The only way we will ever get this bullshit stopped is for the people to hear about it while they are in great tribulation. If they are comfortable it will go in one ear and out the other. Our citizens are too domesticated, too accepting of government transgressions, to pay any attention to this unless they are under the gun financially. I heard an old mafia guy give a talk about getting a message across to someone who was troubling them. He said the first thing you do is hurt them, and hurt them hard. After they have experienced pain THEN you deliver your message. They will remember it that way. So the citizens are feeling their pain right now and they can listen and comprehend. Maybe there is a blessing in this catastrophe after all. It sure is going to get a lot of folks attention.
And people need to pay attention these days. There are hard times across the land. And we have a leader who is not a man of the people but rather a man of outlanders who do not have our ways. It may cripple us. He started with a run of 48 months and now he is down to less that 43. The problem here is that the other party is as conniving as he is. My intellect says the best thing we have going for us is the prospect of a third party. Maybe the God of Heaven will give us something we can use to our survival. He can do it, you know. But if the people do not wake up then I am afraid he will let the whole thing go down the drain. And it would be what they deserve. You can read all about the whys and wherefores of this debacle at http://conservativesoapbox.wordpress.com/. Again, it is another blogger. But the stories are out of the mainstream media. Read at least half the page an get your belly full of this contemptible crap. You owe it to yourself and those you love to be in the know about what these bastards are doing. It is the only way you can be prepared. But I think I see a woodstove in my future. Some things are just gonna have to be. If they start trying to freeze out people who cannot afford electric heat any more by not allowing them to burn wood, well, it's revolt time. And it has to be! This Democrat Party has lost touch with reality. They have lost touch with the people. They are some sick bastards if you ask me. They have become the party of the Twisto's. Human freaks who have no concept of life on this planet and how it is sustained.
Therefore I must say that the creation of Clans is the wave of the future. People grouping together for protection and an easier workload. It is going to come to that, my friends. Until some righteous, brilliant, crazy guys come up with a whole new system of power production so that we can tell Cap and Trade to take a hike, we will have to get by on mainstrength and ignorance. I guess that worked for my prehistoric ancestors so I guess it can work for me. It stands to reason that no matter how far you go back in my ancestral line you will meet an unbroken line of males who made it, at least until they had sired a son.
The Clan has strength. It forms a mind pool of thinking that can be used for many things. A Clan of 150 to 200 people can get a lot of things accomplished. Food production, security from invaders, the building of housing, crafts and trades we all can us such as blacksmithing,.shoe making, horse training, etc. etc. This is what you can accomplish with a Clan. Maybe you will have flocks and herds of animals and you will have to learn to be shepherds. Maybe you will raise horses for trade and you will need someone familiar with the technology of raising them and training them. It all doesn't happen miraculously you know. Maybe you will be among a people who can preserve food for several months or even longer. Pretty nice when the cold weather comes and nothing is growing in the garden. Local Clans will be willing to trade for your food. They will also be rearing the children you will have to have to keep fresh genes among your people. In-breeding can lead to some horrible problems. You might get a cripple, or you might get a genius. Wanna chance it? Or do you want to play it smart and keep fresh genes around for the strength of your people. So keep your strength up and stay alive!
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
And people need to pay attention these days. There are hard times across the land. And we have a leader who is not a man of the people but rather a man of outlanders who do not have our ways. It may cripple us. He started with a run of 48 months and now he is down to less that 43. The problem here is that the other party is as conniving as he is. My intellect says the best thing we have going for us is the prospect of a third party. Maybe the God of Heaven will give us something we can use to our survival. He can do it, you know. But if the people do not wake up then I am afraid he will let the whole thing go down the drain. And it would be what they deserve. You can read all about the whys and wherefores of this debacle at http://conservativesoapbox.wordpress.com/. Again, it is another blogger. But the stories are out of the mainstream media. Read at least half the page an get your belly full of this contemptible crap. You owe it to yourself and those you love to be in the know about what these bastards are doing. It is the only way you can be prepared. But I think I see a woodstove in my future. Some things are just gonna have to be. If they start trying to freeze out people who cannot afford electric heat any more by not allowing them to burn wood, well, it's revolt time. And it has to be! This Democrat Party has lost touch with reality. They have lost touch with the people. They are some sick bastards if you ask me. They have become the party of the Twisto's. Human freaks who have no concept of life on this planet and how it is sustained.
Therefore I must say that the creation of Clans is the wave of the future. People grouping together for protection and an easier workload. It is going to come to that, my friends. Until some righteous, brilliant, crazy guys come up with a whole new system of power production so that we can tell Cap and Trade to take a hike, we will have to get by on mainstrength and ignorance. I guess that worked for my prehistoric ancestors so I guess it can work for me. It stands to reason that no matter how far you go back in my ancestral line you will meet an unbroken line of males who made it, at least until they had sired a son.
The Clan has strength. It forms a mind pool of thinking that can be used for many things. A Clan of 150 to 200 people can get a lot of things accomplished. Food production, security from invaders, the building of housing, crafts and trades we all can us such as blacksmithing,.shoe making, horse training, etc. etc. This is what you can accomplish with a Clan. Maybe you will have flocks and herds of animals and you will have to learn to be shepherds. Maybe you will raise horses for trade and you will need someone familiar with the technology of raising them and training them. It all doesn't happen miraculously you know. Maybe you will be among a people who can preserve food for several months or even longer. Pretty nice when the cold weather comes and nothing is growing in the garden. Local Clans will be willing to trade for your food. They will also be rearing the children you will have to have to keep fresh genes among your people. In-breeding can lead to some horrible problems. You might get a cripple, or you might get a genius. Wanna chance it? Or do you want to play it smart and keep fresh genes around for the strength of your people. So keep your strength up and stay alive!
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Friday, June 26, 2009
RAIN AND SURVIVALISM
Rained like crazy again last night. Big water. The lake is muddy from mud being wash into it because of rapid runoff. The cats were a little slow on the trigger this morning because they were kept up by the hated thunder and lightning. The power must have gotten knocked out for a while because my modem was screwy this morning. I had to shut it off for a while and go through all that start up bullshit to be able to access the 'net. My broadband router for my wife's wireless hook-up was just fine. It better be! That little rascal cost us $65. But since we already had an external modem for our DSL fast connection it was easy to use a wireless router in our mix of equipment.
Further study of Roubini's writing of the other day shows it to be not as bad as I had thought. He has not given up on the next few years being really tough. I haven't heard from Gerald Cclente this week and I wonder what he has to say. I picked up a video from Some website and it basically was Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell and Judge Napolitano raking the federal government over the coals for for 10 minutes. There was a little whirlwind on account of "Wretha" getting an email or a letter from the feds on account of some 'maybe' misguided tax advice she gave someone or else her whole readership. Bloggers always want more readers and we send our blogs out all the time through good old Google and what have you. They are going to get scanned by the fedgov. Accept it or get off the blogosphere.
The wife took her brother to his car this morning and he is on his way to Michigan to see his daughter and grandson. The wife is now yard sailing about 8 milers from here and will be home soon, I hope. Everyone, including preppers, likes to go to yard sales. Sometimes you find some really needed things at a really low price at a yard sale. And the prices are generally cheaper than estate sails and places like that.
I'm still on the Atkins diet and still losing weight. My son cut out bread a couple months ago and he has lost 15 pounds. Somewhere along the line somebody told us that FAT makes you fat and it is a damned lie. Carbohydrates make you fat. And the American diet is loaded with carbohydrates. Bread, rolls, desserts, snacks, potatoes, rice, sweet drinks, and on and on are loaded with carbs. And they will fatten you like a Holiday Turkey. I have been riding into town with my brother-in-law these past two weeks and where ever we go I see terribly over weight people waddling around. I'm set on losing my weight! I suppose I started out weighing as much as Big John and I am only 6'1" or so. These damned preppers out here keep saying you have to keep your body in as good a shape as you possible can for handling the trouble that is coming down the road. I keep skipping over those parts of the blog posts. I figured I could always get a ride to the front lines! But that is all bullshit and I am going to pay attention to those good people who advise us to stay in shape. They are the people who have the right idea. We learn as we go through life, I reckon.
I have been thinking about losing my Social Security. It's all the money I get. And it ain't much. But if I wasn't living where I am I would be in deep doo doo. At the same time it makes me think of other folks I know who need someone thinking about them. People like EM Joe who needs a better retreat, I think. He is okay now but can he depend on his pension to last? I don't trust any pension these days. I think they are all going into the slop bucket. And you ain't seen anything until you see the dollar devalued on the world market. It will be hell for those not prepared. So get prepared! Don't wait around for this, that, and the other. Git 'er done. Set priorities in your life. Pay what has to be paid, as far as bills are concerned, and let the rest of it slide. I know you have worked years to get your credit rating built up and you did a real good job. But the day is coming when that ain't gonna matter a whole lot. Your ability to feed yourself, protect yourself, and find your own medicine out in the fields and woods are what is gonna matter. I write and plan and keep my eye on the ball as we go though life. My wife is learning herbs, both for medicine and for food. If I can lose some of this damn weight I will be much more advanced in my gardening. I KNOW what to do but doing it is another matter. I have to lose weight and get a lot more agile than I am now. If you are plagued by things like this then get busy and get in shape and in better health. This service economy is going underwater and drown. So what you need to get you and yours taken care of will come from you and your efforts. If you have a clan then you are better off.
Never forget the value of the clan. Think of "Many hands make light work." We'll go over that in a future post. Until then, stay alive!
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Further study of Roubini's writing of the other day shows it to be not as bad as I had thought. He has not given up on the next few years being really tough. I haven't heard from Gerald Cclente this week and I wonder what he has to say. I picked up a video from Some website and it basically was Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell and Judge Napolitano raking the federal government over the coals for for 10 minutes. There was a little whirlwind on account of "Wretha" getting an email or a letter from the feds on account of some 'maybe' misguided tax advice she gave someone or else her whole readership. Bloggers always want more readers and we send our blogs out all the time through good old Google and what have you. They are going to get scanned by the fedgov. Accept it or get off the blogosphere.
The wife took her brother to his car this morning and he is on his way to Michigan to see his daughter and grandson. The wife is now yard sailing about 8 milers from here and will be home soon, I hope. Everyone, including preppers, likes to go to yard sales. Sometimes you find some really needed things at a really low price at a yard sale. And the prices are generally cheaper than estate sails and places like that.
I'm still on the Atkins diet and still losing weight. My son cut out bread a couple months ago and he has lost 15 pounds. Somewhere along the line somebody told us that FAT makes you fat and it is a damned lie. Carbohydrates make you fat. And the American diet is loaded with carbohydrates. Bread, rolls, desserts, snacks, potatoes, rice, sweet drinks, and on and on are loaded with carbs. And they will fatten you like a Holiday Turkey. I have been riding into town with my brother-in-law these past two weeks and where ever we go I see terribly over weight people waddling around. I'm set on losing my weight! I suppose I started out weighing as much as Big John and I am only 6'1" or so. These damned preppers out here keep saying you have to keep your body in as good a shape as you possible can for handling the trouble that is coming down the road. I keep skipping over those parts of the blog posts. I figured I could always get a ride to the front lines! But that is all bullshit and I am going to pay attention to those good people who advise us to stay in shape. They are the people who have the right idea. We learn as we go through life, I reckon.
I have been thinking about losing my Social Security. It's all the money I get. And it ain't much. But if I wasn't living where I am I would be in deep doo doo. At the same time it makes me think of other folks I know who need someone thinking about them. People like EM Joe who needs a better retreat, I think. He is okay now but can he depend on his pension to last? I don't trust any pension these days. I think they are all going into the slop bucket. And you ain't seen anything until you see the dollar devalued on the world market. It will be hell for those not prepared. So get prepared! Don't wait around for this, that, and the other. Git 'er done. Set priorities in your life. Pay what has to be paid, as far as bills are concerned, and let the rest of it slide. I know you have worked years to get your credit rating built up and you did a real good job. But the day is coming when that ain't gonna matter a whole lot. Your ability to feed yourself, protect yourself, and find your own medicine out in the fields and woods are what is gonna matter. I write and plan and keep my eye on the ball as we go though life. My wife is learning herbs, both for medicine and for food. If I can lose some of this damn weight I will be much more advanced in my gardening. I KNOW what to do but doing it is another matter. I have to lose weight and get a lot more agile than I am now. If you are plagued by things like this then get busy and get in shape and in better health. This service economy is going underwater and drown. So what you need to get you and yours taken care of will come from you and your efforts. If you have a clan then you are better off.
Never forget the value of the clan. Think of "Many hands make light work." We'll go over that in a future post. Until then, stay alive!
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
Thursday, June 25, 2009
BLUE SKY THURSDAY
It's a beautiful day here in southern Indiana. Blue skies in all directions. A bit hot but what can you expect. If I get no rain between now and tomorrow morning I plant corn tomorrow. Even if I don't get much in it will serve to increase my supply of seed for next year. Gardening is a simple task. At the beginning of the season you till or plow and disk your ground. Then you make rows and put your seed in the ground at the prescribed depth. AFTER the seed is in you water or pray for rain. This will boost your garden a whole bunch. But if it is like this year, you may have some trouble getting on the dirt because of the rain. Some folks waited a long time before they could plant. Last year a lot of folks got flooded out. It is not a forgone conclusion that you will have a victory with every garden season. Some times you hope for a draw and sometimes you just get your ass kicked. Such is life. You weed when you can and when you feel like it. You will not feel like it very often so you find yourself in "will worship" to the task and you make yourself do it. Making your rows a little wider apart and having a rotary tiller to do your weeding for you is a marvelous advantage. Going out in the Spring with a shovel and breaking your ground with it is a drag. Pray for power tools! But don't forget that you can get by without them. It's hard labor but it will produce food. A shovel and a sturdy rake will get your ground prepared very well. But it will put muscles in your feces!
The economic news today is that Nouriel Roubini has said the economy will now recover due to the kindly ministrations of Timothy Geithner, our illustrious Secretary of the Treasury. This is what is known as horseshit. It is far better used on your garden plot in the Fall then to be allowed to to fertilize your mind. After they have done all they can do and have stolen all they can steal then they produce positive propaganda and you are to fall for it and go meekly back to your old ways. But it ain't gonna happen this time. It is too messed up and too much in debt. Say goodbye to the economy.
Got an email today from a reader in Texas saying there was still an ammo shortage down there but the guns supply was looking good. Same with Indiana. Black guns are back in the racks but you won't get any invitation to stock up on ammo. A word to the wise is sufficient. So go forth and stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
The economic news today is that Nouriel Roubini has said the economy will now recover due to the kindly ministrations of Timothy Geithner, our illustrious Secretary of the Treasury. This is what is known as horseshit. It is far better used on your garden plot in the Fall then to be allowed to to fertilize your mind. After they have done all they can do and have stolen all they can steal then they produce positive propaganda and you are to fall for it and go meekly back to your old ways. But it ain't gonna happen this time. It is too messed up and too much in debt. Say goodbye to the economy.
Got an email today from a reader in Texas saying there was still an ammo shortage down there but the guns supply was looking good. Same with Indiana. Black guns are back in the racks but you won't get any invitation to stock up on ammo. A word to the wise is sufficient. So go forth and stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
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