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Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook

http://depositfiles.com/en/files/gcl0opjvg

I have this book, and can't recommend it enough. It's really useful. I use things like the sourdough recipe, the sprouting guide and the shelf life of various foodstuff charts all the time.

Just got a pissed off call from my pops. I guess etrade is the latest in rate hikers. It pissed him off enough so that he wants me to bring him a webcam, so he can rant about it on the Internet. He hasn't even cared much about the Internet to date. I think he probably has a romantic notion of making a youtube video that the country rallies behind, since Internet videos actually get on TV and all nowadays.

He was really on a tangent too boy. Mentioned that his credit score is 750. When people with 750 FICO scores get rate hikes to 29% ... it's safe to say that is a very bad, bad sign of things to come.

Glad I have only like $300 bucks outstanding on a Discover card at the moment.

C'Mon commies. I know you bugged that meeting. The board of Government Sachs and Hank Paulson, in a Russian hotel? Hook us up with some audio.

http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=atqAsBpkiQZE

If Dodd, and Co. are stupid enough to offer an $8k credit to anyone buying a home, and Obama is stupid enough to sign the bill ... we are buying each other's houses.

Free markets, no matter what you do the humans involved will be one step ahead, instinctively.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2009-10-15-homebuyer-tax-credit_N.htm

Mises wrote about this. By acting to suppress the freedom of others, these 20 protesters affirm the natural existence of freedoms.

♫ You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. ♫

Looks like I am going to see how well watermelons grow straight out of compost. It's late in the year, but I think I can grow them before it gets too cold, and it will be interesting to see how fast they grow directly in nute-rich compost pile.

Evidently, someone (likely at a party a couple weeks ago) threw all the watermelon scraps into the compost pile seeds and all. There are like 100 seedlings that came up, and they look like watermelon seedlings. I thinned them down to like 15 vines, which is going to be tight, but the pile is going to be feeding them fine as long as they don't choke out. Should be interesting. If I grow giant watermelons, I'll put a pic up. Promise this time. heh.

I don't smoke pot. I'm from the hood though. Moved out, grew up, etc. Don't read much into this, I think pot is A-OK. I just don't smoke. Risk-reward not favorable in my own subjective preference choices. Jail sucks.

Anyway ... Riding bikes the other day, my son saw a friend playing in a yard. He didn't know the kid lived there, so we went ahead and knocked on the door to invite the child and the mom to the upcoming birthday party for said son. They came, they left, good time had by all.

The next week, mom called and wondered if the kids should hang out again, and I invited the kid over. Mom left, I set the kids up with some slip and slide, then they came in and colored.

My kid drew a bathtub with a purple shower and a "scared Coraline" inside.

The other kid drew a big glass bubbler and said "pipes are made of pretty glass with lots of colors".

I told the kid how nice the pipe looked, and brought it in to laugh my ass off with the wife about how lucky mom was they weren't drawing that in school. i assum the kid goes to a public school now, they were in day care together.

I think I cost my kid a friend, because they haven't called in 3 weeks and don't pick up when we call. I tried to be helpful, but it spooked the mom I suppose. I told her what the kid drew (let them bring thier "art" home), and told her don't worry, that even though I don't smoke I am against the war on drugs, and just thought she should figure out some way to talk to a 6 year old so they don't draw that in school or something and cause an issue.

End the Drug War. It's a war on us, the people.

"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

This one is for you, fearless leader. Enjoy the Nobel Prize. "May all your interventions be, humanitarian".



Four more years of War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength and Slavery is Freedom.
Four more. May all your interventions be "Humanitarian".
Four more years of pay-to-play politics, power and influence.
Four more years of legalized bribery and served corporate interests.

Vote for tweedle-dum or tweedle-dee
And a framework of debate narrowed for you courtesy
Of the ultra-rich and a media that filters
But any voice that challenges their power
(like Nader bounced in Boston by state-troppers
Cos he don't speak for oil tycoons and bankers, oh yeah
Whose pursuit of happiness and liberty
Demands a rhetoric of fear to be
The litmus test for viable heirs to ...
The phony drug-wars, the trumped-up rogue-states, the permance of a war-economy).

I feel less hopeful and less human
As I'm reduced to nothing more than
Cheering on embassy bombings
As the liars pave their way through

Four more years of War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength and Slavery is Freedom.
Four more. May all your interventions be "Humanitarian".
Four more years of pay-to-play politics, power and influence.
Four more years of legalized bribery and served corporate interests.

Open directory. Boobs. Nuff said.

http://cdn03.foxwhisper.co.uk/Porn/

... and evidently every thing else that isn't porn:

http://media.foxwhisper.co.uk/

PDF Warning:

http://omploader.org/vMmo0cA/Popular%20Mechanics%202009-10.pdf

There is certainly more potential in livestock for profit. ;)

In my continuing quest to grow the highest yielding, easy to grow food, I have found a new winner. My pops gave it to me a few weeks back, with the warning I have never seen anything like it, and the 3 foot vine I was looking at covering his back fence was a single 4 inch cutting 3 weeks prior. The University of Florida extension page says:

Two vines are sufficient to supply a small family all summer and fall.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MV138

I have to say, this is not hyperbole. The plant is now 4 weeks old, from a single cutting at an Asian market. I've replanted cuttings as I ate, and now, NO BULLSHIT, could literally be pulling a 5 gallon bucket of spinach a day. The rabbits have been eating it almost full time, with a small bowl of store bought feed every other day for some balance. I've eaten pounds of the stuff at this point, and can say without a doubt it is the fastest growing edible I've ever seen ... and what's more *IT IS TASTY*.

This stuff is like the unknown secret of Earth, it has to be. This shit could end world hunger tomorrow, no doubt about it. A field an acre in size could probably feed an entire battalion, and literally replace itself each day. It grows like nothing I've ever seen. I have now grow it inside, in a houseplant bowl that yeilds about a salad and a half a day (from a 2 quart herb pot), and outside, I could feed my family and the rabbits on this plant alone, no doubt in my mind. Round off with some small portions of other food for balance, and this is the stuff that can keep bellies full to the brim.

It is called Malabar Spinach, Vietnamese spinach or "flowing water vine". You can find a cutting at your nearest Asian market. it is sold on the vine, in cuttings for stir fry. Stick a cutting or 3 in the ground, and watch it go nuts. In three weeks, you'll have more greens than a golf course. Eat raw, or stir fry it with other stuff and it makes it's own thickening gravy.

I Googled the name, looking for a pic for everyone (since I only occasionally do the picture thing online) and this lady's blog entry is spot on, in my experience:

http://persephoneinbloom.blogspot.com/2009/07/malabar-spinach-should-be-renamed-at.html

This is a video of Joe Mauer tipping signs. I mean, I can't believe the Tigers didn't work harder to prevent this, I think they were just in shock. It almost never happens. The reason why the video is interesting, and worth watching, is the intangibles in baseball. This sign tipping never happens (especially by a catcher who should "know better") because retaliation for this is going to be *extremely* severe. What Mauer does here, trying to keep his team in the race, is literally put himself on the line. It's pretty brave, since people have had careers ended with a fastball to the dome for far less blatant action than this. He didn't do it once. This dude pretty much stood there and gave everyone on the Tigers about as extreme a disrespect as can happen in pro sports. Once again, legal ... but Mauer is a hunted man. Perhaps the Tigers bounce one off his dome in today's game. Baseball Tonight is a must watch tonight, heh.

Though I have to say, as an American, it is odd to see people do this and not be beaten and arrested. In any case, it's a very beautiful thing what happened in this video. Truly beautiful.

I won't make light of such an event, but I will say that it isn't entirely unexpected. It's either a false flag by a True Believer (remember the backwards letter carving Obama supporter) ... or a legitimate lashing out against perceived intrusion of the federal census, whether it's Acorn backlash or authority backlash. Either way, not completely unexpected. It's certainly going to change the way you are approached for your information ...

I lied when I said I wouldn't make light of things ... I'm pretty sure he was killed by a kind-hearted progressive. I don't think an anti-government revolutionary type would have "Fed" the government worker a last meal. That is clearly what the writing on the on the body of the deceased indicates, they were fed a hearty last meal.

Heh ... Too soon?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090923/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_census_worker_hanged

South Korea is planning to raise tens of millions of dollars by selling vintage US combat rifles to gun enthusiasts in the United States.

The ageing M1 and carbine rifles were used by US troops in the Korean and Vietnam wars before being donated to the South Korean military.

The rifles have been mothballed for years in military warehouses, but were occasionally used in drills by reserve soldiers.

The defence ministry in Seoul says it has won approval to sell more than 100,000 rifles.

The sale is expected to raise more than $120 million.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/24/2694817.htm

Of course, that's some fancy Korean math there. They should expect to raise closer to 20 million, especially with the rifles being the less collectible (but equally shootable) import mark bearing Garands not sold through CMP.

Man. I'll tell you what, agree or disagree, it takes brass balls to say this. The reality is truthers were a cash cow for Ron Paul, and Schiff just repudiated the entire notion of them (or apologists, presumably me) "hijacking" his campaign. The account is really Peter, I verified it myself with the reddit administrator before his reddit interview a couple months back.

I already spoke with my uncle, and I'll be in CT staying with my uncle to help Schiff before the primary.






In a more distressing moment from this morning, I ran across a guy or gal who advocates the "head in sand" method of economic prosperity. I'll never understand this sentiment:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/9lc6k/ron_pauls_bill_to_audit_the_fed_is_now_vetoproof/c0d96m3

"Eurodollar" presented to world leaders for inspection at the G8 meeting.

I follow finance and economics fairly closely, and still managed to miss that. Instead of various conspiracy sites discussing it, here is the link from the (whatever word for intl currency group you choose). This isn't some "maybe" conspiracy, it's right there on their own page. I read further, and there is a planned "test run" at the Milan World Fair Expo, where the currency will be used for commerce there (presumably at some undetermined exchange rate).

http://www.futureworldcurrency.com/Documents.asp?DocumentAreaID=47&DocumentID=204




Buy your metal now, in cash. Preferably with a hat on, and non-functional eyeglasses or something, heh.

So reddit has completed shooting of, and put online the Ron Paul interview that I posted about a while back. Dr. Paul answered my question regarding evolution. I wanted to point out again that this is not something I was personally overly concerned with getting an answer to, but reddit is a very large site (top 500 in the world), and a lot of the people there are interested in this question, so I asked it.

I liked the answer immensely. Timestamped link which jumps right to the question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiVy2NbWcgo#t=3m50s

Or jump ahead to 3m50s here in the embed: