tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post120966661382371848..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: July 24 2009: Whitewashed windows and vacant storesIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-61319538266019181472009-07-26T00:01:28.751-04:002009-07-26T00:01:28.751-04:00Caith @ 4:03
This is an excellent question, one I...Caith @ 4:03<br /><br />This is an excellent question, one I have always pondered and have never seen raised in my readings and conversations - what is the endgame for the elites if they are successful? Related to that is what are they doing with all this money? Once you have 17 estates, 112 vehicles, 4 yachts, a helicopter and jet, "x" tons of gold and precious metals, etc., then Jimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-91790358460861326992009-07-25T23:41:44.675-04:002009-07-25T23:41:44.675-04:00Guns will be king, and will determine all ownershi...<i>Guns will be king, and will determine all ownership, once TSHTF.</i><br /><br />No no, Starcade a gun is dandy but a KNIFE is more handy. Anyway I don't think you are the kind of person that likes guns or knives, and, to state what is more than obvious to me is that if there is no place in this world for you and your friend unarmed, it is a shabby place full of bullies and self important Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-92006483965137731922009-07-25T23:38:50.905-04:002009-07-25T23:38:50.905-04:00I wanted to close this thread with my most sincere...I wanted to close this thread with my most sincere appreciation for Ilargi's post. Somehow, someway he is able to put into words the things that really matter in a visceral sense. All my best.EconomicDisconnecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802078645713106743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-36671386265849815952009-07-25T23:29:18.237-04:002009-07-25T23:29:18.237-04:00"Whatever you do, whatever pulls your crank, ..."Whatever you do, whatever pulls your crank, make sure something can still touch your heart. If not, you've gone the way of the Norwegian blue."<br /><br />I believe the Norwegian blue reference is to the Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch.<br /><br />It's not dead, it's just pining for the Fiords.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-48301816849031195832009-07-25T23:27:36.468-04:002009-07-25T23:27:36.468-04:00dark_matter --
Well done! Hmm, there is a wild h...dark_matter --<br /><br />Well done! Hmm, there is a wild hillside near a local school here...<br /><br />ElizaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-29331025137099623072009-07-25T23:18:36.132-04:002009-07-25T23:18:36.132-04:00el gal said:
"These are very good questions ...el gal said:<br /><br />"These are very good questions and I really don't have the answers, despite thinking about it quite a bit. In a way it's part of my "evil project." Which is trying to fathom why so many humans commit acts of great superfluous cruelty and evil. I still find it mysterious."<br /><br />It's sociopathic behaviour, no? Survival of the fittest Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-24134288875560016542009-07-25T22:37:45.757-04:002009-07-25T22:37:45.757-04:00Most excellent intro!
Thank you, Ilargi.Most excellent intro!<br />Thank you, Ilargi.Persephonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16990525279110502147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-41877437409740038102009-07-25T22:24:47.426-04:002009-07-25T22:24:47.426-04:00I recently made a foray into guerrilla gardening. ...I recently made a foray into guerrilla gardening. Near our house is a park and a school and between them is a gentle slope with a 50 by 100 foot swath of blackberries. With my daughters' help we hacked a circular path in the blackberries and planted 4 dwarf pear trees. <br /><br />We go there every few days to water the trees and keep the blackberries at bay. The fact that it is technically dark_matternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-10192025546322778892009-07-25T21:11:52.129-04:002009-07-25T21:11:52.129-04:00@Caith
"So, assuming GS are setting us all u...@Caith<br /><br />"So, assuming GS are setting us all up for another stock market crash in the fall, where they win and we lose, what's their plan for afterwards? If they've got all the money then we're going to have to come up with systems that don't rely on money, and then their wealth suddenly turns to dust."<br /><br />These are very good questions and I really don&#el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58977319007104681462009-07-25T20:21:40.529-04:002009-07-25T20:21:40.529-04:00snuffy: I don't think it's going to be th...snuffy: I don't think it's going to be the fringe to bring Hell 2.0 -- 3.0, maybe (or 2.1), but 2.0 is going to come from those whom (including at least one person very close to me) has nothing left to lose.<br /><br />Take one's life, and then their last real chance at sanity, and something bad is going to happen real damned soon.<br /><br />I truly, as I have said, believe I am a Starcadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09226367306835781483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-71822977999263412222009-07-25T20:14:11.476-04:002009-07-25T20:14:11.476-04:00Ahimsa: Right now, I'd be putting a real chan...Ahimsa: Right now, I'd be putting a real chance at unrest in Cali at about September 1's scheduled checks, when the cuts start hitting home.Starcadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09226367306835781483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-46368095225159425622009-07-25T20:12:33.350-04:002009-07-25T20:12:33.350-04:00Greenpa, "There is no short term".
Yes ...Greenpa, "There is no short term".<br /><br />Yes and no. Cambridge isn't secure against serious sea level rise, but I'm not expecting it to be abandoned in my lifetime. It's a fair way inland. The child may have to move on eventually. But if I don't get us through the next decade she doesn't get that option, and beyond decades there's too much uncertainty toCaithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-8237357117668978482009-07-25T20:11:17.915-04:002009-07-25T20:11:17.915-04:00The reason I disagree with the goldbugs is the con...The reason I disagree with the goldbugs is the confiscation which we all should know is coming.<br /><br />The reason I disagree with "Cash is King" is the question of whether you'll get shot for what you have...<br /><br />Guns will be king, and will determine all ownership, once TSHTF.Starcadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09226367306835781483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17453133870191129382009-07-25T20:04:49.089-04:002009-07-25T20:04:49.089-04:00Anonymous Anonymous said...
ogardener,
A...<b>Anonymous Anonymous said...</b><br /><br /><i> ogardener,</i><br /><br /> <i> As a lifelong but now near past miscreant of the first order, where you say:</i><br /><br /> You mean the LaBatts Blue? It's fine like always :-)<br /><br /><i> I beg you to move over to the small-brewery side and life, there is nothing but heartache and headache with those large chemical plants like ogardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062788838505530416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-23790186975453474032009-07-25T19:56:49.138-04:002009-07-25T19:56:49.138-04:00Ed Gorey
When I taught science at this alternativ...Ed Gorey<br /><br />When I taught science at this alternative school, we had a very good lead English teacher. She would tell the kids, "The first thing you ask yourself when writing an essay, is who is your audience.?" Well, I never quite learned that lesson. My friend in Mexico replied, "Don't send me anymore of your rants. It just stresses me." OTOH, she is el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-74940984057639022452009-07-25T19:34:03.336-04:002009-07-25T19:34:03.336-04:00re: above the flood line
Keep in mind that those ...re: above the flood line<br /><br />Keep in mind that those dikes, dams, flood controls, etc. that make those wonderful farms productive will not be sustainable when and if those structures cannot be maintained or rebuilt.<br /><br />i love the fact that I do not have black flies and mosquitoes in an urban area.<br />It's not so good near the river and marsh land.<br /><br />Nope! ... I do jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-37171757004619682452009-07-25T19:24:55.333-04:002009-07-25T19:24:55.333-04:00I'm poor and not much of it is a choice for re...I'm poor and not much of it is a choice for reasons that mostly have to do with geography and disability.<br />But 50% of the neighbors are far worse off and 50% {on my block} are doing very well. But they aren't millionaires. So I feel good despite the poverty.<br />Miraculously, I have a very direct line to much of the incoming higher level capital that the wealthy spread around here, RCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-4784854657980764052009-07-25T19:23:31.005-04:002009-07-25T19:23:31.005-04:00That is sort of neat I repeated 'day fast'...That is sort of neat I repeated 'day fast' above. It might have something to do with thinking ahead to what one is saying next while holding the end of what was said.<br /><br />or of course it could be alzheimers setting in:(<br /><br />-mudlark-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-26175931430586880302009-07-25T19:16:31.312-04:002009-07-25T19:16:31.312-04:00Greenpa said: ... I live in "flamboyant pove...Greenpa said: <i> ... I live in "flamboyant poverty". Which means, of course, it's a choice I make, not a condition thrust upon me.</i><br /><br />On a similar vein, Baba Ram Das (Richard Alpert) used to tell a story about the difference between starving and fasting that was along the line of, not telling a person who's money has run out half way through the month the same thingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-1384495779386182342009-07-25T19:05:22.144-04:002009-07-25T19:05:22.144-04:00@ El G.
Great letters! Funny as always. I'm...@ El G.<br /><br />Great letters! Funny as always. I'm always trying to figure out new ways to gently describe our predicament to friends/family. I never manage to get more than a few sentences past the word "collapse." The population has been conditioned to reject apocalyptic prophecy. Gloomy Gus is easy to parody:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hJQ18S6aagErin Winthropehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17535747338165517395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-73575855000035727142009-07-25T19:02:43.177-04:002009-07-25T19:02:43.177-04:00I-
Your writing is only surpassed by your ability ...I-<br />Your writing is only surpassed by your ability to select music. Too often the songs here make me cry. Keep them coming just the same. Thank you.<br />As for the lap child, the mature child offers as big a challenge when trying to figure out how to prepare for what lies ahead.K.M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10478637092861996386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-49632317617187384392009-07-25T18:44:16.666-04:002009-07-25T18:44:16.666-04:00Thanks, Snuffy. A field trip is in order.
ElizaThanks, Snuffy. A field trip is in order.<br /><br />ElizaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-49719671075738972812009-07-25T18:43:46.255-04:002009-07-25T18:43:46.255-04:00Chief: "Because you are poor."
Sigh. Y...Chief: "Because you are poor."<br /><br />Sigh. You have me there. Actually, I'm personally familiar.<br /><br />Yesterday someone was commenting they now expected to live in "abject poverty" for the rest of time. I didn't respond (no time). But I will now.<br /><br />Some years ago I was a little startled to learn that a close friend and subordinate in the Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-31511277318221611662009-07-25T18:36:24.930-04:002009-07-25T18:36:24.930-04:00Why would you invest time and energy in something ...<i>Why would you invest time and energy in something you know you're going to have to re-do at some point?</i><br /><br />Because you are poor.Chief Josephnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-81718246507459033072009-07-25T18:32:40.680-04:002009-07-25T18:32:40.680-04:00Jal: "Yes, as a long term option, above flood...Jal: "Yes, as a long term option, above flood lines is best."<br /><br />Get used to it: THERE IS NO SHORT TERM.<br /><br />In my world. I once stated baldly to an audience of professors and heavy greenies, "When you hear someone say: "Sure, it's not a final solution, but there are great short term benefits." - THOSE PEOPLE SHOULD BE KILLED IMMEDIATELY.<br /><br />I Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.com