09:49 – Since we moved up to the Sparta area, Barbara and I have remarked several times that Alleghany County must have as many cows as people. Last night, I looked it up. It turns out that Alleghany County has just over 11,000 total population, about 47 people per square mile, and more than 23,000 beef and dairy cattle, about 100 per square mile. Forsyth County, where we used to live, has a population density of about 900 people per square mile. According to the most recent USDA numbers, Forsyth County has 3,843 cattle, or just over 9 per square mile. So, Forsyth County has about one cow for every 100 people, while Allegheny County has about two cows per person. I much prefer the latter.
We have a pretty full day planned. Barbara is cleaning house right now. After that, we’ll build kits and get to work on more subassemblies for yet more kits.
Almost always better to have more cows than peeps. We’ve got about one cow per person up here, 45,000, give or take a few cows or peeps, and the number of cows and dairy farms has been dropping over the years. About 3/4 of the peeps in this county are classified as rural; the remainder as “urban,” which is a laugh, as the “urban” is Saint Albans “City,”, pop. about 7,000.
Looks like steady rain today; we’ll probably work on the back porch and I’ll do some other odds and ends.
Our only urban center is Sparta, with a population under 2,000.
Yup, Saint Albans started as a commercial maritime port and then moved inland when the railroads came; its nickname is “Rail City.” So it’s got the trains and manufacturing going on in addition to the agricultural economy. And down here in the bay village we’ve got nada, other than the Shell Station/Bay Store, and the pub, surrounded on three sides by farms and on the fourth side by a lotta wotta.
I envy y’all. When I was just a kid Bakersfield in the fifties it was only about 50k population and you could drive across town in 10 minutes. It’s about 10 times that now with a much different demographic.
Yesterday at 3:00 it was showing 106° and showing feels like 108° on my phone. Today’s forecast has been downgraded to a balmy 101°.
So much for the “Bakersfield Sound” now, eh?
IIRC, the highest temp we ever got here in northern VT was in the low 90s, for maybe a day or two over the last five years. It was HORRIBLE! The lowest would typically be 20 or 30 below zero with “chill factor” down to 50-60 below. A few days of that and when it gets back up to say, zero, or single digits, you see peeps around here in shorts and tee shirts, no exaggeration.
Does Bakersfield still have the largest Basque population in the states?
I haven’t been there in over a decade, but if it went the way of the rest of Cali, it’s a mexican and OTM shithole. It wasn’t a garden spot 14 years ago either…
nick
Yes Basques remain a major influence though not as sheepherders or gardeners like they use to be. Better chance a sheepherder will be from South America and if you can find a non-hispanic gardener good luck.
OTH the food remains a lasting legacy. It’s not really Basque but boarding house fare influenced by them when many of sheepherders lived in them part of the year. Back in the sixties full dinner at Woolgrowers was $2.50. Now it’s more like $25.00. There’s that 10 times thing again.
Bakersfield sound. Not so much. Some say you can blame MADD for killing the honkey-tonk.
I blame MADD and the ‘war on [some] drugs’ for a lot of the rise in unconstitutional policing. Roadblocks, random sobriety checks, deceitful tactics on the part of police, are all the result of MADD. And despite the increase in use of force against citizens, and the blatant unconstitutionality of the searches and seizures, have deaths from DWI per capita decreased? (and how much of any increase is related to better auto design and better trauma care vs reduction in drinking and driving?)
Same goes for the ridiculous restrictions on over the counter drugs used by meth cookers. Has there been ANY reduction in meth manufacture due to me not being able to buy a month’s worth of decongestant at a time?
I’d bet money there is no funding for researchers with those questions.
nick
Bunch of do-gooder asswipes over the decades with direct cultural ties to my Calvinist/Puritan ancestors. As much enemies allegedly trying to “do good” and what is “good” for the rest of us as the more overt bastards trying to rape and/or kill us all. It’s the former who’ve opened the gates and let the latter IN!
So in the case of the DUI stuff, we still see DUI arrests up here weekly, if not daily, in a largely rural state, and we’re still seeing roughly 50k vehicle fatalities per year nationally, IIRC. So much for the aggressive police crap and unconstitutionality of same. And we all know about the wunnerful continued successes of our valiant War Against Some Drugs.
“Hi, we’re from the State and we’re here to help you, whether you want or need it or not.”
By the time they’re done with you, your life and your childrens’ lives are forfeit to them along with your property and you face internal and external enemies that you would otherwise not have had at all.
Rain showers continuing, temps in the high 60s, wife off to mess with the hoss and I’m just puttering around the house.
re MADD and the WO(S)D, what I hear you saying is that every time you’re caught in one of those blatantly unConstitutional “sobriety checkpoints”, you should kill all of the stupid pigs there, then get a count of them, then kill an equal number of MADD women.
I can’t say I see anything wrong with any of that. Just make sure to wear rubber gloves when you’re killing the MADD cows. There’s obviously something wrong with their brains, and you don’t want to get it on you.
I forgot to mention AA and their funding model that depends on a steady flow of people caught in the unconstitutional sweeps.
If AA worked for you, I’m glad, but there is pretty damning evidence that it doesn’t work nearly as well as other strategies, but it’s the one the state imposes.
nick
In other news, OMFGG!!!!!!!11!1 the world is ending again!1!111! east and west coast elites and news organizations are going to experience WEATHER!
Expect the french toast people to denude store shelves and whine about the unfairness of it all, and the incompetence of emergency management planners…….
nick
Two good articles that for us are ‘preaching to the choir’ but might be good to share with acquaintances.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-05/8-lessons-we-can-learn-economic-meltdown-venezuela
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-04/grasshopper-nation-planning-those-who-arent-prepared
nick
“If AA worked for you, I’m glad, but there is pretty damning evidence that it doesn’t work nearly as well as other strategies, but it’s the one the state imposes.”
I went to meetings for a few months right after I de-toxed 6 1/2 years ago and several of the stories peeps told have been a help to me, in the sense that they’ve been more or less constant reminders how easy it is to fall again and be totally effed. But what turned me off just a tad was the additional sense that “Hey it’s OK to fail/fall! Don’t worry about it! Just get back on it and go!” No, it’s mos def NOT OK to fail at this; not after all the effort and denial and the chit you go through when de-toxing and almost dying. Why not just slug down some fucking Drano or jump off a building? But yeah, I still remember a couple of stories in particular and they’ve been my hovering little angels telling me, no, Dave, not a good idea to ever start again or have “just one or two beers” with the fellas after the ball game or shooting match.
The other thing that was a turn-off is that it becomes a sort of cult, with its own little clique of peeps and rules and sponsors and the “Twelve-Step Program” and their “good book,” etc., basically taking the place of, or serving as a secular accessory, to organized religions. So I stopped going and found that attending mass and being involved with that was just as good if not better than messing around with their “Higher Power.” But as always, YMMV, and if it helps a minority of drunks in the long run, by all means, have at it.
“… you should kill all of the stupid pigs there…”
Tricky these days; it can be done, but there’s also the thing where their default setting is lethal force immediately if you look at them cross-eyed or mouth off or by your movements put them “in fear for their lives.” What’s actually needed is the continued ID of the judges and prosecutors and officials who promulgate this stuff; I’d target them first.
“Expect the french toast people to denude store shelves and whine about the unfairness of it all, and the incompetence of emergency management planners…….”
I like that! We have “SJW,” “FSA,” and “BLM;” but “FTP” works nicely when discussing the type of people a couple of economic levels down from “limousine libtards,” the subjects of a book by noted RINO tee-vee pundit David Brooks sixteen years ago:
http://www.amazon.com/Bobos-Paradise-Upper-Class-There/dp/0684853787
French Toast People. I kinda like French toast, though; side of bacon or ham, VT Grade B maple syrup, home fries, etc.
Even wealthy people rush out to buy bread, eggs, and milk when there’s an emergency.
“…but might be good to share with acquaintances.”
I’ve got one sibling who might care; other than that, nobody. Meanwhile I keep hearing how we gotta have family, friends and neighbors all teamed up and tooled up together in order to face all the enemies surrounding us, and potential SHTF scenarios that will come crashing down on our heads any second now, but here’s the thing: Nobody gives a fuck.
Sure, they’re a little worried about the economy, jobs, the latest influx of musloids or failed state narcotrafficantes, but hey, the tee-vee is still on twelve hours a day, no one reads anymore, and the net is still up and the Price Chopper and Wallmut are still open with a cornucopia of goodies. Gasoline is cheap and hey, if stuff really does get heavy, not to worry, Uncle will fix it, eventually, and take care of us.
Except some of us have had previous experience with Uncle taking care of us and fixing things.
I love french toast, but I don’t need to head to the store when the rain starts and buy bread, milk, and eggs….the first things that run out.
FWIW, if you are reading this and wondering what you should buy on your ‘french toast run’, you might want something more substantial than milk and bread.
5 pounds of rice, flat of chunky soup, flat of chili, couple cans of ham, expand as needed for number of mouths….
You can eat all of those without cooking them first (even the rice, just soak it.) and you can combine it with the rice.
Water is still coming out of your tap- no need to panic if the bottled water is gone. Get a couple of buckets and fill them. If the buckets are gone get some trash bags to line your trash cans and fill them. (waste paper basket sized, not you big can) Buy some apple juice, it works on cereal and you can reuse the bottle. Heck buy 2L bottles of generic soda, dump that nastiness on the ground and fill them with water. It’s probably cheaper than bottled….
The best plan though is to already have food and water stored so you can avoid the crazy at the store and on the roads entirely.
nick
I’ve never seen anyone make french toast in an emergency. Besides, it’s not french toast without the cinnamon and vanilla and some decent syrup. Not to mention, it needs a side of bacon.
“5 pounds of rice, flat of chunky soup, flat of chili, couple cans of ham, expand as needed for number of mouths….”
Know wot? Ima just gon do dat anyway, for us two mouths, in case we get a week or two w/o any power and don’t wanna mess wid store and road insanity, not as likely up here as it might be in whichever megalopolis.
We DO, in fact, have probably a month or two of stuff on hand, but it would be cool to have a pile sitting ready-to-go when we break out the FLASHLIGHTS and candles and suchlike. And I took myself to task for not having a pile of the lights and batteries sited ready at hand when the lights went out here last week, so that is fixed now. Very easy to focus on piling up ammo (also a very good idea) and tuning in the SW and ham bands and forget about other chit momentarily.
And HAHD to convince spouse of need for three to six months of stuff, let alone years.
My strategy for food and reluctant spouse:
Keep your cabinets and pantry in the kitchen stocked, with normal usage items, one or 2 each.
Have a second area you can use as a ‘store’ and shop from your preps. For me, this is shelves just inside the garage door, just outside the kitchen, and the shelves have the normal kitchen food items (and stuff like baggies, cleaner, foil) stacked a few deep, with faces like a store shelf. There are a few less frequently used items too. The key is it looks like store shelves so when you open the last one in the kitchen, or run out, you look on the shelf for the item before running to the store.
THEN I have a shelf area further in the garage, out of sight, with my mid and long term food. This is my system made up of cardboard flats from costco, each with a month of meat, canned veg, fruit, etc. I restock my “store” shelves from here. This is also where my mid-term shelf stable lives, all the Mountain House, and Compleats (TM). It also happens to be where my bulk water and filters sit.
Over to one side I have some bulk in buckets, but not much.
In a secondary location, I’ve got stacks of cases of cans, and hundreds of pounds of bulk. You could use a closet sized storage unit for this or some other property you control. This is insurance against the tornado wiping out your house and all your preps.
As a side benefit, it’s not immediately apparent to my wife, just how much food is stored.
nick
I should add that my wife is onboard with prepping. She sees how important it is to ME, and she has seen the value first hand during a number of local and regional disasters. She doesn’t need to be convinced of the need for food security, but she might have issues with the scale.
nick
She is very much of the opinion that it should never negatively impact our lives to prep.
“Keep your cabinets and pantry in the kitchen stocked, with normal usage items, one or 2 each.”
Check.
“Have a second area you can use as a ‘store’ and shop from your preps.”
Check. In the cellar.
“THEN I have a shelf area further in the garage, out of sight…”
Check. Sort of. Corners of cellar where no one but me ever goes; no garage here.
“Over to one side I have some bulk in buckets, but not much.”
I’ll simply HAVE to use the cellar and shelving down there for this stuff and I’ll have to also make the stuff she likes to eat front-and-center with obvious standard regular supplies. I also wanna store root veggies down there in the manner of a root cellar and I may be able to convince her of that.
“In a secondary location, I’ve got stacks of cases of cans, and hundreds of pounds of bulk. You could use a closet sized storage unit for this or some other property you control. This is insurance against the tornado wiping out your house and all your preps.”
Excellent idea. I’ll look into that; a concern is access to it if the power’s out and also what sorta security it has, i.e., fences, gates, lights, cameras, alarms, etc.
“…it should never negatively impact our lives to prep.”
This is a thing; it takes money away from other bills and taxes, plus the kid in college plus the ongoing car repairs plus the horse expenses plus, get this, an upcoming trip to Ireland in late August/early September, where I MIGHT be able to go with her, but so far that sorta thing ain’t worked out all this year. Princess will be back there by then and wife has been looking at horse riding stuff on this box lately.
Their attitude and behavior is all about the here-and-now and any future stuff is for FUN! Sibling spouses ditto, only much more so. My wife actually is aware of the weather potentials and the ongoing crime in the AO up here. (as nothing compared to megalopolis but still troubling).
Yep, I’m looking for one OUTSIDE the most logical cordons too. The ring roads around houston for a natural, if massively long, cordon. I can imagine a scenario where people might be allowed to pass with very little, but not with a car full of supplies… or a case where someone might have to sneak past the cordon, and THEN stock up….
If I was rich, I’d load a BOV and store it outside the likely cordon, just as a backup. If I was rich, I’d have a bug out location. IIWR, I’d have a lot of things. But I don’t, so I won’t. Just have to muddle on like I’ve been.
nick
If AA worked for you, I’m glad, but there is pretty damning evidence that it doesn’t work nearly as well as other strategies, but it’s the one the state imposes.
A former friend who’s an AA member informed me that the success rate is only 3%. He also told me that if his life went really sour he planned to drink himself to death, this despite at least a decade of sobriety.
I’d be very surprised if AA came anywhere near 3% success. I’d guess more like 0.0% to a close approximation.
A Guaranteed Income for Every American
What could possibly go wrong? Seriously, I’ve no doubt that the majority of the readers of this blog can rattle off numerous ways of fscking up Murray’s proposal without breaking a sweat.
(It’s the WSJ, so if you’re not allowed to read the entire article at the link above, google the title.)
I haven’t had a drink in 8 years, but never went to meetings. Like most life changes, you have to REALLY want it, and change your habits. Sometimes that means changing your location and friends too.
nick
Added- You have to KEEP wanting it too.
Also added- going to meetings as an addiction is a productive substitute for drinking/snorting/shooting yourself to death, but it is still addictive behaviour, just channeled to be less selfdestructive.
Holy crap that UBI guy is an idiot. May be smart, still an idiot.
In the first couple inches he tells us why it could never work. After that, it’s all just mental masturbation.
nick
AND the Swiss voted NO didn’t they?
I’m on record as supporting this, although I’d set the amount higher and have no means testing at all. I’d make it $20K to $24K tax-free per adult citizen per year, which takes the place of ALL other government payments incuding welfare, SS, retirement, Medicare/caid, salaries for any government job, etc., etc.
I hate it philosophically, but it’s the only alternative I can see in a post-employment economy.
I guess I must be an idiot, too, then, even though my IQ tests at 5.75 sigmas above the mean.
Here’s a cheery little tidbit that’ll make your day, OFD:
More than one-third of refugees in Vermont test positive for tuberculosis
“First, my big caveat: A UBI will do the good things I claim only if it replaces all other transfer payments and the bureaucracies that oversee them. If the guaranteed income is an add-on to the existing system, it will be as destructive as its critics fear. ”
Absolutely NO WAY the existing entrenched bureaucrats will do this. Accept that, and there’s no point in discussing it further.
Even if you could get a clean slate, how long before they started messing with it. After all, some pigs are more equal than others. They’d mess with the exemptions, they’d mess with bonuses, they can’t help themselves from trying to social engineer people with the tax and benefit system. Even the author is proposing it as a way to encourage the behaviours HE wants rewarded, despite his rhetoric that it’s no strings attached.
And then there’s this: “[it’s] the least damaging way for the government to transfer wealth from some citizens to others.” Who the fuck thinks this is the job of government? Not Americans. Our founding documents are very clear on the role of government.
And finally the cry of the communist and socialist “Either way, the UBI is an idea whose time has finally come, but it has to be done right. ” All the reasons why their schemes don’t work don’t matter to them because “it’s never been done RIGHT.” But they cry out “THIS TIME for sure!”
nick
and not much discussion about the effect on the productive TAXPAYER who is paying for all this, remember him? the one who’s wealth is being transferred?
@RBT, if you are unwilling to consider that this scheme would be run by PEOPLE who are not going to become saints, and practiced upon people who are not saints, then that is a particular and narrow idiocy, completely unrelated to your intelligence.
nick
For how this works in the real world, take a look at the middle eastern oil states. Their citizens get distributions that make work avoidable. They have had to import millions of essentially slave laborers, while the citizens take only jobs in .gov and .oil where they can MAKE MONEY while doing little. And too few of their citizens are even willing to do those jobs. There were posters everywhere I went begging citizens to come home and take jobs in .gov and .oil
“Here’s a cheery little tidbit that’ll make your day, OFD:”
Gee thanks. I’ll inform Mrs. OFD to brighten her day, too, lol. She’s been in public health care for over thirty years so we’ll see what her reaction to this is when she gets back, and I’ll post it here accordingly. And then there’s this kick in the ballz at the end:
“While Truman didn’t say how the Health Department was handling active TB cases among Vermont’s refugees, a single active TB case for a teacher at Charlotte Central School in 2015 led the department to test about 500 students and coworkers. Test results found that 19 children and two adults had become infected with latent TB.”
She didn’t say or the interlocutor didn’t bother asking her??? How IS the VHD handing active TB cases? I think I’ll give ’em a call on Monday. And how would a teacher get TB? Where is that teacher from and where has he/she been recently? Any tabs being kept on chit like that? Probably not. Meanwhile a bunch of kids and two more adults catch the latent form, but hey, so what; we’re DOING GOOD for poor desperate refugees! All ya gotta do is show some pics of them suffering and Bob’s yer uncle for more funding and even more refugees, fuck our own kids and adults here.
Charlotte, VT is a ritzy suburb on the lake just south of Burlap; a concentration of FTPs and limousine libtards.
“Absolutely NO WAY the existing entrenched bureaucrats will do this. Accept that, and there’s no point in discussing it further.”
Agreed. It merely gives the bastards even more leeway to steal our money, enslave our children, and run the country even faster down the toilet. They’ll loot the bejesus out of such a scheme and it will collapse in Epic Fail Syndrome just like this total clusterfuck of ObolaCARE is doing. Wife was just informed she can’t make another probably futile attempt to enroll in it up here until JANUARY. They screwed up; it’s THEIR mess, so wife is uninsured and we’re paying for her stuff out of pocket, in CASH. Even if we BOTH enrolled successfully, the monthly nut would be significantly MORE than our monthly mortgage. This is supposed to be the national public health care solution??? Lying, thieving cocksuckers.
Now extrapolate from this an even BIGGER money pile and distribution spoils system, by orders of magnitude.
Why the Swiss voted ‘No’ to a guaranteed basic income
Although I agree with Bob’s $20K to $24K tax-free per adult citizen per year, I’d add one thing to it; you take the money, you give up the right to vote. I don’t want the leech class to be able to vote themselves a raise every time an election comes up.
Sorry you might end up using the ER for health care Mr. OFD. Just do what the crimmigrants do and walk out without paying anything. They have to keep seeing you like that turd in TX who gets dialysis.
Why, why, why ?
Why would you write a book in the 2nd person?
http://www.amazon.com/Once-Upon-Apocalypse-Book-Journey/dp/0996869107
It is weird.
Might be a good idea, a little cowboy justice:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/58fc2315d488426ca2512fc9fc8d6427/philippine-president-elect-urges-public-kill-drug-dealers
Of course if he would legalize all drugs…
Second-person I could put up with; admitted preachiness makes the book unreadable.
“Might be a good idea, a little cowboy justice:”
On one of my forays to SEA, I had occasion to be watching local tee-vee and their version of the Six O’Clock Nooz in Manila at the “Transient Airmans’ Barracks.” Me and a few other guys were slugging some beers down and we noticed that there were four guys tied to chairs and then a firing squad blew their asses away, convicted dope dealers, live on tee-vee! This woulda been around 1974 on my way to the bases in northeast Thailand, where, crossing the border into Cambodia one fine morning we came upon a series of heads on posts by the Thai Border Patrol checkpoint. Smugglers, dope dealers, bandits, Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao, whatever.
If we did that sorta thing here in this country we’d have many tens of thousands of heads on display, and that’s not counting politicians, lawyers, bureaucrats, financial speculators, SJWs, progs, or English professors.
Second-person I could put up with; admitted preachiness makes the book unreadable.
This particular book or just in general ?
In general. JWR’s Patriots series is another example.
OK, there is rather serious problem with ethernet over power lines. When you ain’t got no power, you ain’t go no ethernet in the house.
We just went through a three hour power outage in our little subdivsion, around 500 homes or so. Even though I have four UPS’s in the house (note, I need a UPS for the DirecTV antenna, sigh).
These should all be rated TV-MA for objectionable religious content.
What is wrong with people? I was pushing my grocery cart out to my truck at HEB in the crosswalk and some woman flashed her headlights at me. I assume that I was slowing her down.
“I was pushing my grocery cart out to my truck at HEB in the crosswalk and some woman flashed her headlights at me.”
We do that up here when we’re being friendly and nice and chit to let someone else out first or cross in front of us first/next; same thing down there?
Wife was at the local supermarket and driving to a parking spot when some dirtbag yoot made a big show of trying to step out in front of her, not in any crosswalk, and she kept going, so he hollered “bitch” at her. Too bad I wasn’t in the car with her, but then again, maybe he wouldn’t have done it.
We’re seeing more of this ugliness and nastiness between peeps as things get dicier for many of us, and we Murkans have a bad rep along these lines worldwide anyway; remember “The Ugly American?” Fellow G.I. drones overseas would treat the local SEA peeps like dirt most of the time and had zero respect for any of them; I made an effort to learn the languages and eat with them and visit their villes and houses and they treated me like a friggin’ prince.
“When you ain’t got no power, you ain’t go no ethernet in the house.”
There it is. Of course when you have no power, you have no internet, period, like was our situation for a few hours last week. And horror of horrors, no tee-vee, either. Unless you hook it up something. But we had radios and FLASHLIGHTS and full bellies and a roof over our heads.
Wife and I conspiring and plotting now to get us our own med insurance as a small biz via one of the big player companies. I also got signed up for VA dental insurance, via Met Life.
Off tomorrow night to a beginner bike clinic thing at a hippie-type joint down in Burlap:
http://www.oldspokeshome.com/
Depending how it goes, I may take their months-long course in bicycle maintenance and repair. Haven’t ridden one in thirty-plus years but this is a great AO for that sorta thang. Mostly flat or gently rolling, for an old senile bastid like me, but with hills and mountains nearby if I ever get up to speed like that. Good though, to have a hands-on meatspace skill, as with the firearms and radios.
nick wrote:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-05/8-lessons-we-can-learn-economic-meltdown-venezuela
From the article…
“At this point, even Coca-Cola has shut down production due to a severe shortage of sugar.”
Maybe they could ask the US for some of the sugar mountains it has, as a result of farm bill subsidies.
“We do that up here when we’re being friendly and nice and chit to let someone else out first or cross in front of us first/next; same thing down there?”
Not “nice” IMHO and on my final day will be met with a few shots to the center right side of the windshield.
BTW, I am in a cranky mood this morning. I think I had better stay in the house.
Agreed, DadCooks. You should stay in the house. And chew on coffee beans. And eat lots of sugar. (Or rice, which has a glycemic index near 100.) And then, when the door-to-door evangelist knocks, you’ll be in the mood for an appropriate response.
“You should stay in the house. And chew on coffee beans. And eat lots of sugar.”
Well, that’s if he wants to go the “natural” route. Then there’s simply cooking up a nice batch of crystal and getting really wired up. Speaking of which, Mrs. OFD has had a couple of gigs out in Albuquerque and saw stores there selling candy made to look like the blue “ice” featured in the “Breaking Bad” narcotics soap opera.
OFD wrote:
“…crossing the border into Cambodia one fine morning we came upon a series of heads on posts by the Thai Border Patrol checkpoint. Smugglers, dope dealers, bandits, Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao, whatever. ”
Jane Fonda? (One can always hope.)
No such ruck.
These should all be rated TV-MA for objectionable religious content.
You do realize that goes against all Libertarian concepts?
After labeling all books for their content, there will not be any room left for a title, much less the author’s name. Just wait until the LGBTXYZABC crowd goes wild on books and other forms of entertainment. You will think that Tipper Gore was just a quiet little church lady compared to them.
There’s nothing there that’s anti-libertarian. Religious tracts should not be masquerading as prepping novels. Geez, JWR sometimes went on for pages at a time of religious crap. It’s in a novelist’s best interests to warn people, as did that one you mentioned yesterday. He’s right up-front about the fact that he polluted his prepping novel with religious gubbage.
Note that I don’t mind reasonable amounts of that stuff. Having people attending church or other religious services isn’t offensive, as long as it’s done in passing without going on at length about the gory details. People praying at meals is fine; some people do that. But religious porn goes beyond the pale.
No such ruck.
Rayciss! H8tr! 50 with the “noodle”.
@SteveF: “You should stay in the house. And chew on coffee beans. And eat lots of sugar. (Or rice, which has a glycemic index near 100.) And then, when the door-to-door evangelist knocks, you’ll be in the mood for an appropriate response.”
@SteveF — Sounds like a winner, except for the “door-to-door evangelist” part goes. There is a Jehovah’s Witness who regularly stops by with the latest Watchtower. We enjoy discussing the “subject” of the month, no pressure. I also welcome the Mormon Missionaries as they are good conversationalists too. This grumpy opinionated old man enjoys a good argument/debate/exchange of ideas.
Yes, @OFD I’m going the “natural route”.
BTW, the bean of choice today is from the San Francisco Bay Coffee Company, Organic (if you believe that…) Rain Forest Blend (from Costco of course). Caffeine and fiber, you can’t beat it. 😉
http://www.costco.com/San-Francisco-Bay-Organic-Rain-Forest-Blend-Whole-Bean-Coffee-3-lb.-Bag-2-pack.product.100039920.html
Religious tracts should not be masquerading as prepping novels.
Caveat Emptor is one of the foundations of Libertarianism.
On the gripping hand, I do have to admit that the author seems to go overboard a little bit. I am in the 3rd chapter (I am reading this book simultaneously with a Jean Johnson book for some weird reason) and it seems that the female protagonist is praying constantly. But, in a review of my life, I pray daily and sometimes several times per day in bad times or tough decisions.