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Prepping: Public And Private Perspectives (April 27, 2015)

Posted in Bail In, Bailout/Bribe, Bankruptcy, Banks and Banking System, Collapse, Debt/Deficits, Depression, Economics, Global Climate Change, Guns, Population, Recession on April 27, 2015 by e-commentary.org

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C “A system that cannot go on forever will not go on forever. The System in its current incarnation cannot go on forever. Thus, the debate shifts fundamentally from ‘if’ to ‘when.’ The syllogism suggests that fundamental change is in store. Do we have the stores?”

D “‘When’ not ‘if’ and also ‘what.’ Plan B is by definition less desirable than Plan A or presumably it would be Plan A. The most desirable plan is failing. What is Plan B?”

C “The other systemic challenge is weather. That problem like the financial machinations is also substantially man-made and man-modified. Mother Nature allocates every region a specially-tailored natural catastrophe. Florida and the Southeast get hurricanes, the Midwest gets tornadoes, the West Coast gets earthquakes, other regions get typhoons and cyclones. And Mother Nature is shifting the script so that some areas get floods and some get drought. The jet streams and the gulf streams are working in tandem to change things on the ground.”

D “Leaves you wondering what is Plan B?”

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C “The script never varies. The public Emergency Preparedness offices provide detailed lists of necessary supplies and valuable advice yet always unfailingly avoid even hinting that a gun, even one for hunting squirrels or pigeons, is a wise and prudent investment. Some of them are reluctant even to mention acquiring a knife other than a pocket knife or perhaps a scalpel.”

D “And the private sector prepper sites go to the other extreme and focus the entire discussion around guns and ammo and ammo and guns and guns and ammo. The alpha, the bravo, the charlie and the delta of preparation for the Great Omega.”

C “Get a gun. We have a moral duty to protect our family and friends. And get an LED flashlight. And extra batteries.”

D “And beans and bullets. My personal Plan B combines public and private sector suggestions.”

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C “Going it alone is a failure from the start, yet desperately few humans have the intellectual and emotional software to engage others cooperatively. Finding others who have resources, skills and tools is not promising.”

D “At heart, the most prudent preparation is to restrain the dragons in our soul to free our mind.”

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[And this past weekend, earthquakes in Nepal.]

[National PrepareAthon! Day on April 30 is a grassroots campaign for action to increase community preparedness and resilience.]

[See the e-commentary at Beans and Bullets (April 6, 2009), We Ain’t Ants; We Are Grasshoppers (April 9, 2012), On Community (June 3, 2013) and On Roiling And Rolling Collapse (March 9, 2015).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Get a garden rake, get a gun, get a grip

“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself; if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.” Attributed by some to Lao Tzu, but who knows.

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Monitoring The Masses: The Card And The Chip (January 12, 2015)

Posted in Banks and Banking System, Boycott Series, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Crime/Punishment, Cyberactivities, First Amendment, Freedom / Liberty, Gold, Guns, Our Future?, Plastic, Pogo Plight, Police, Privacy, Silver, Society, Technology, Terrorism on January 12, 2015 by e-commentary.org

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X “Failure to present The Card, even when there is no cause or provocation, will result in immediate incarceration and summary disposition. If The Card is not physically maintained within a fathom of The Chip, The Chip will transmit a warning signal to Headquarters and trigger an unwelcome visit.”

Z “I hear you. Coming to a country near you. Everyone is now familiar with a credit, a debit or an EBT card, so the transition will be unnoticed and unchallenged. All movement, travel, purchases and sales will be monitored at all times by The Chip implanted at birth without permission. Cash will be non-existent and free movement only a memory. A few rebels may barter surreptitiously, yet bartering will be more than a mere failure to report income and will also result in immediate summary disposition. Possession of any precious metals such as Fe, Pb, Au or Ag will be strictly prohibited and swiftly prosecuted.”

X “Plastic cards have encouraged excessive over-consumption to date, yet they could also be used to ration scarce resources in the future. Market the idea to the public with unrelenting fear. ‘We’ need to adopt the system to protect us from The Terrorists.”

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Bumper stickers of the week:

Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.

Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s political and economic fact.

Are your papers in order? Is your plastic in order?

When the big boys make a run on the bank and demand a repatriation of their gold, should the little guys make a run on the bank and demand a return of their fiat dollars?

Nous sommes Charlie? Is the concern freedom of expression for all or only for some?

Boycott TurboTax: See Internet

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Watertown? Ferguson? Your Town? Your Son? Will They Allow It In Laramie? (August 11, 2014)

Posted in Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Ferguson, Guns, Military, Oath Keepers, Police, Race on August 11, 2014 by e-commentary.org

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K “The official response to the Boston Marathon bombing provided a convenient beta test for the imposition of martial law in America. Systematic house-to-house raids in locked-down Watertown, Massachusetts gave us a glimpse of the future.”

J “They did not even look like cops. They did not look like a para-military. They looked like the military on a mission to search and destroy. They dress in riot gear and expect to chaperon a cotillion?”

K “They are now roaming Ferguson as if it is Fallujah. The foreign policy doctrine that ‘It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it’ may now be a doctrine of American domestic policy.”

J “A few ordinary citizens in Watertown obtained a few seconds of furtive images on cell phones that were avoided by the major television networks and archived on YouTube. You too can view and decide.”

K “In a crisis, the Internet and cell phones in an area could be disabled by the authorities. Someone may need to capture an event with a Polaroid and celluloid and communicate with cans and a string.”

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K “Too many citizens think they will make their last stand with their gun in hand. The authorities will simply vaporize someone who is inconvenient.”

J “Some folks are fooling themselves. Any citizen who resists will be secreted away at night or exterminated without seeing the light of day.”

K “One of the recent challenges is a failure. The public response by some at the Cliven Bundy Ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada was misplaced and misdirected. Bundy is a racist deadbeat who owes money to all of us for exploiting our land for years. The public must fight the right fight.”

J “When you loot a local business, you lose a local business.”

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J “Nixon asked if it would play in Peoria to gauge whether Middle America would allow it.”

K “Some say they may have tolerated it in Massachusetts because the state has strict gun control laws.”

J “Will they allow it in Laramie?”

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[See the e-commentary titled “Men In Pink: Today’s Sensitive New SWAT Togs (August 20, 2012).”]

Bumper stickers of the week:

The folks in Ferguson, Missouri appear not to yearn to allow it

De-militarize the police; police the military

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On Community (June 3, 2013)

Posted in Community, Guns, Pogo Plight, Society on June 3, 2013 by e-commentary.org

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A “Seems that you have the ‘guns and ammo’ crowd and the ‘beans and band aids’ folks.”

B “The ‘bullets and bandoliers’ boys and the ‘kumbaya and jambalaya’ community.”

A “The ‘whole wheat set’ espouses something called ‘community’ that sounds good but is far more elusive to achieve. My long-term study of the ‘community clan’ continues. ‘Develop community’ is a more mature and rational response to the challenges ahead, but most of the adherents would not respond that way in a pinch.”

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A “I wonder if we are too late and too far gone.”

B “We may be too self-indulgent, self-absorbed and selfish to take care of anyone but ourselves.”

A “We have been acculturated to behave as a self-interested consumer consumed with our self and our interests and our own consumption. We collect stuff but are certain that our stuff is better stuff than the next guy’s stuff, so everything is righteous.”

B “When we are really challenged, we will need to fundamentally retool our soul and learn to use hand tools. The transition will be wrenching and will require us to use wrenches.”

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[See the “e-ssay” titled “Beans and Bullets (April 6, 2009).”]

Bumper sticker of the week:

It’s all about me

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The Bubble Is Inflating? (May 20, 2013)

Posted in Guns, Stock Market on May 20, 2013 by e-commentary.org

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1 “I am a financial genius; you are a financial genius; he is a financial genius; she is a financial genius.”

2 “We all are financial geniuses today. But for how long.”

1 “Think 2000 – 2001. Price–earnings ratios are still one of the most concrete touchstones. The time-honored ratio expresses a timeless relationship between investment and return. The ratios are akin to shotgun gauges. Ten is tenable. Twelve is desirable. Sixteen is acceptable. Twenty is workable. Twenty Eight is tolerable. However, Four Hundred Ten is unsustainable. If you gauge it correctly, you might have a shot. Yet today’s returns are getting unreasonable.”

2 “Treasury instruments are providing a paltry return on investment of about four hundred and fifty eight or worse. That is not attractive and is not attracting money. The stock market is the only game in town.”

1 “The players make us play it. When will we do what we know we are all scheming to do and try to be the last fool out at the top.”

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Bumper stickers of the week:

Financial genius on board

A skyscraper built on sand

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O’Bama. Part Deux. (January 21, 2013)

Posted in Foreign Policy, Global Climate Change, Global Warming, Guns, Immigration, Locke Gary, Military, O'Bama, Presidency, Supreme Court on January 21, 2013 by e-commentary.org

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A “Cope not hope this go around.”

B “Not as cold this time. And a different climate than four years ago.”

A “Sounds like he is moving from the right to the center.”

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B “Chuck Hagel is a great move. The first enlisted man who actually saw combat as an NCO (“no chance officer”) and was not promoted to the officer corps now gets nominated to order and oversee the officers.”

A “Amazing thing in America that those who go to war and reflect on the experience become Democrats. Those who dodge the draft and never see combat become Republican chickenhawks.”

B “Hagel was never a butter bar and now he is tasked with reducing the fat in the Defense budget.”

A “The best place to start is with the Offense Department of the Department of Defense. Hagel is the most qualified player to oversee that transition to a sustainable defense in a complex and dangerous world.”

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B “Jack Lew is a weak move.”

A “William Black for Treasury would move us into the black.”

B “The Owners will not allow O’Bama to make that selection.”

A “Someone must start the process of downsizing too-big-to-fail banks so that they are the right size to succeed.”

B “Financial reform may not be part of his legacy.”

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A “We must force him to address his increased use of drones. If Bush had undertaken the current level of drone attacks on foreign soil and homes, he would have been leveled in some salons.”

B “Now drones can fill the skies in America. In the near future, there will be news reports of mid-air collisions between the ‘Fillmore County police drone’ and the ‘state troopers drone.’ Fly the friendly skies of United States of America.”

A “I suspect that some opposition to gun control in some quarters may be supported by a scintilla of rationality. A few individuals recognize that these violations of privacy are getting out of hand, so they want something in hand even if it is likely to be deadly, futile and counterproductive.”

B “They are impinging on our fundamental right to sit in my back yard and scratch body parts without being scrutinized.”

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A “He has followed the nation’s emerging notions of gay rights and now is in lockstep with the public while the other legislature on Jenkins Hill – the Supreme Court – has elected to decide whether to take a step backward.”

B “The Supreme Court Legislature is as partisan and divisive as the real Congress legislature.”

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B “And he mentioned climate change even though the climate changed in the scientific community many years ago.”

A “His comments were not warmly received.”

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A “Immigration.”

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B “And the most important appointment of the last decade – Gary Locke – may just stay on the job for four more years.”

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[See the “e-ssay” titled O’Bama Arming Industry (November 22, 2010).]

[See the essay at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/opinion/confessions-of-a-liberal-gun-owner.html.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

No country is exceptional; no country is evil.

provide for the common defense

In order to serve as many customers as possible, all ammunition sales are limited to three boxes per customer per day.

Because of extraordinarily high demand for ammunition and limited . . . .

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Sports Writers: 1 – 0 (January 14, 2013)

Posted in Awards / Incentives, Courts, Economics Nobel, Federal Reserve, Guns, Journalism, Law, Newspapers, Perjury, Perjury/Dishonesty, Sports, Taxation on January 14, 2013 by e-commentary.org

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A “A mixed group of informed individuals acting individually issued a profound collective indictment.”

1 “In court, the government only determines whether a person is guilty or not guilty, a court does not determine whether a person is innocent. Yet when you look carefully, far too many courts have found far too many innocent individuals to be guilty.”

A “Still not a great idea to be Black or Brown and get mixed up in the American judicial system.”

1 “It is to be eschewed. The government is not and should not be allowed to deprive someone of his or her liberty without proof beyond a reasonable doubt. The court of public opinion does not need to meet that high threshold when considering those who play on the court or field or pitch.”

A “The sports writers are akin to an informed group of jurors from all ages, albeit a little older, and backgrounds, albeit a shade White, and world views from different parts of the country.”

1 “On the uniforms, they sport the initials MLB not MDL – the Major Dopers League.”

A “They can get their own hall of fame, the Hall of Shame.”

1 “I might waive the character requirement and support a scoundrel if he played clean against others who played clean.”

A “They may also be atoning for the great oversight in the late 1990s when any honest person realized that the guys were juiced and few said anything. Finding the individual who was not juiced or was not juiced much will be a challenge. The brush could be too broadly brushed.”

1 “This is a promising start. Now if we can get the Norwegian suits to follow suit and not award the Nobel in e-con-omics unless they award it to someone who understands eco-nomics.”

A “Everyone from Roberts on the Supreme Court to players on the courts succeeds by lyin’ and cheatin’.”

1 “He’s a lawyer-type. He said that he would call balls and strikes, but keep this in mind. He never ever said that he would call a ‘ball’ a ‘ball’ only that he would call balls and strikes.”

A “He and Alito and Thomas and Scalia are having a ball.”

1 “Dishonesty and hypocrisy are so American.”

A “So human really. We don’t have a monopoly on it.”

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[See http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/opinion/australia-banned-assault-weapons-america-can-too.html?hp for some international perspective on gun restrictions.]

[See the “e-ssay” titled “Why Johnny And Roger? (April 30, 2012)” and the recent article on the deliberations of the Federal Reserve at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/opinion/the-new-tell-all-fed.html?hp&_r=1& and the “e-ssay” at The Kids (At The Fed) Are Not Alright (January 30, 2012).]

Bumper sticker of the week:

Play ball!

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Tax Bullets (January 7, 2013)

Posted in Guns, Pogo Plight, Taxation on January 7, 2013 by e-commentary.org

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GO1 “I have visited a gun store every few days. They are flying off the shelves. And not guns for personal protection, target shooting or hunting.”

GO2 “The NRA is a terrorist organization that lobbies for gun manufacturers and terrorizes legislators. We need a new organization, the NGO, the National Gun Owners organization, to represent gun owners not gun manufacturers and to keep guns in the hands of normal persons and out of the hands of psychos.”

GO1 “With a one hundred year supply of guns and a five year supply of bullets, restrict access to bullets. We subsidize what we like and tax what we don’t like. Others have noted that we should tax bullets.”

GO2 “The Constitution does not recognize any underlying right to keep and bear bullets or limit the governments’ ability to restrict access to bullets. And Congress has almost unfettered authority to tax.”

GO1 “The government should place a huge tax on .223s that are used in assault rifles, a moderate tax on other calibers, and no tax on .22s. I have shot over 20,000 rounds of .22s and about 500 rounds of other than .22 caliber rounds. Almost all indoor and outdoor target rifles and pistols use .22s. Most automatic pistols can be modified to shoot .22s so that a person can practice with the pistol using a cheaper round.”

GO2 “Sounds reasonable.”

GO1 “Won’t go anywhere, but it is worth a shot.”

. . .

GO2 “The gun buyback programs should set up a review process so that any gun that is rare, novel or historical is made available for purchase by individuals who pass background checks.”

GO1 “Finding volunteers who know the history of guns would be easy.”

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[GO1 = Gun Owner 1; GO2 = . . . ]

[See the “e-ssays” titled A Taxing Explanation (August 22, 2011) for some perspective on the current tax challenges, O’Bama Arming Industry (November 22, 2010) on gun purchases and One Gun Per White Adult Male? A Flintlock Musket? The “One Man, One Gun” Decision (October 4, 2010) on the legal framework of gun regulation.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

If you need ten rounds to kill a deer, take up tiddlywinks

You know, cigarettes are getting so expensive that I just might have to give them up.

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Guns. Again. (December 17, 2012)

Posted in Constitution, Guns, Law on December 17, 2012 by e-commentary.org

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[See the “e-ssays” titled The “Gun Show Loophole” (February 6, 2012), On Magazines (February 21, 2011) and One Gun Per White Adult Male? A Flintlock Musket? The “One Man, One Gun” Decision (October 4, 2010) and the dozen other related “e-ssays” posted in the “Guns” Category.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

We regulate dogs, diapers, fireworks, automobiles, . . .

When a psycho shoots up a gun show, should Americans show any interest in sound gun restrictions?

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The “Gun Show Loophole” (February 6, 2012)

Posted in Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Guns, Iran, Law, Less Government Regulation Series, National Defense Authorization Act / FY 2012, USA PATRIOT Act on February 6, 2012 by e-commentary.org

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GO1 “Since her shooting, the overtly violent language has abated, yet the underlying violence is still there. In politics and in life.”

GO2 “Here’s a partial solution. There is no centralized or computerized list of gun owners or gun ownership in America.”

GO1 “Except the list of gun owners maintained by the National Rifle Association.”

GO2 “I am talking about the government. Look at the actual process. Before selling a gun, a gun dealer conducts a background check of an individual. If the individual passes the background check, the dealer makes the sale and keeps a record. The record is not sent anywhere and is not accessible and just sits in a file cabinet in the back room of the store. Only if a gun is used in a crime is an effort made to trace the purchase by using the serial number and contacting the manufacturer and then the dealer and then the purchaser. That is the most decentralized and non-computerized tracking scheme in America. The system only allows for the tracking of the ownership of an offending gun not of the names of owners of guns.”

GO1 “And the current system does not require us to surrender any fundamental rights. Look at the rights that have been surrendered in America by Americans without any resistance since 9/11. The USA PATRIOT Act, the detention provisions in the NDAA of 2012, and so on.”

GO2 “The problem is that a troubled soul can go to a gun show and buy a gun. Why arm the goons? Simply require the same background check for any sale at a gun show.”

GO1 “The mayors and the police chiefs know what needs to be done and support the closure of the gun show loophole. Congress should simply implement their sound and experienced judgment.”

GO2 “Gun sales in a back alley are still a problem. The most balanced policy may be to require all gun sales to be conducted by a gun dealer. Gun dealers are all private sector businesses in an industry at the retail level that is among the least monopolized in America. The gun dealers could compete to facilitate the sales and perhaps offer to handle the sale for free with a fifty dollar purchase of gear. That should address some of the problem and satisfy the critics.”

GO1 “Except for the insane irrationality of the NRA.”

GO2 “They are coming around. Institutions change, albeit slowly. Someone at the NRA may realize that adoption of rational and focused legislation undermines the effort to impose irrational and sweeping confiscation. We need to keep guns out of the hands of psychos to allow guns to be kept in the hands of law-abiding citizens.”

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[See the “e-ssays” titled “On Magazines (February 21, 2011),” “Incite, Sarah, Indict? (January 10, 2011),” “O’Bama Arming Industry (November 22, 2010)” and “Gun Control, NRA Style (January 9, 2006).” And “On The Vernal Equinox (March 21, 2011)”]

[February 4 – No War On Iran National Day of Action]

Bumper sticker of the week:

Citizens deserve guns; Psychos do not

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