With California and the Feds going through the back door to "dis-arm the masses",regulating ammo sales is their best bet. That way it isn't gun control/ You ain't got ammo all you have then is an expensive stick or metal rock! Re-loading can/is also expensive for those on a tight shoe string but there one company that make an inexpensive re-loading kit. Now I have never used this product, don't know them but in talking to folks that re-load it works and it is easy. Here the link to Lee Precision. I just thought it could be something to stash in your BOB just in case. Check 'em and make up your mind. http://www.leeprecision.com/cgi/catalog/browse.cgi?1231039417.4324=/html/catalog/cleeloader.html

Loco Gato
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M.D. Creekmore has offered this e-book free of charge. You can access it it here

MD has a great blog on all thing relating to survival at
http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net

Very worth the time to visit once a day as I and many others do.
The book has some stuff this is perfect for those of you new to prepping as well as the more experienced. Basic ideas to get you started on the path. Check it out.

Loco Gato
Be safe,be free

A Bug out bag is basically a big survival kit that contains all of the items you would require to survive after a disaster. A Bug Out Bag allows you to grab what you need quickly and evacuate should a disaster happen.


Most experts suggest that your BOB should contain enough supplies to last for at least seventy two hours. Since most major disasters can disrupt services and normal life for longer than 72 hours. Make sure your Bag is built to fit your needs. When putting your bag together take into consideration any special needs or items that you or your family might need.

These are photos of my wife’s bag. I choose a full frame backpack with an adjustable hip belt for her because of the distance she would have to walk if there were another earthquake and the freeways are shut down again.  This bag is designed with the idea that she walks to a friends house one day, another friends house another day, and on the third day walk home.  The car always has a case of water and she will add that to the pack before she begins to head home.


The bag includes:

Walking shoes and extra socks

Pair of Pants

2 First aid kits with extra bandages, tape, tylenol, and feminine personal hygiene items.

Ponch
Pocket knife

3 Flashlights, extra batteries

Matches and a lighter

Toilet tissue

Moist wipes

Big trash bag

Bite and Sting Kit

Protein bars and drinks

Oatmeal

Can of soup (can to used to boil water for tea)

Spoons and forks

Extra hat

Gloves

Rope

550 cord

Ammo

Fireworks

Fuel siphon pump

Road maps

Face Masks

Deck of playing cards

Soap and Towel

Small Blanket

Road maps
Toothbrush

Duct tape

Hand Sanitizer

Gold Bond Foot cream

Sleeping bag


Every BOB will be different so pack one according to what your immediate needs will be.  With the change in the seasons, you should update and rotate your BOB items.  I usually update hers when I change the water filters in the refrigerator.


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Emergencies and disaster here in the Golden state can come many different types and form. even a friggin tornado or 2! Who wodda thunk it?!? I always thought those nasty critters were reserved for the mid west! anyway, the link below will send out an emergency notification to your e-mail, cell blackberry or fax. Your local emergency service group also uses this service but it lags sometimes in getting word out to the general public. Now you can have up to date alerts and get a head start in preparing yourself and family before the life gets to funky. Check it out, only takes a minute to sign up.

Loco Gato
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http://www.emergencyemail.org/

 From the National Weather Service

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http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ034&warncounty=CAC079&firewxzone=CAZ234&local_place1=5+Miles+NNW+San+Luis+Obispo+CA&product1=Hydrologic+Outlook

Hydrologic Outlook

HYDROLOGIC OUTLOOK
CAZ034>041-044>046-051>054-059-087-088-547-548-191400-

HYDROLOGIC OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA
415 PM PST MON JAN 18 2010

...EXTENDED PERIOD OF SIGNIFICANT RAIN AND MOUNTAIN SNOW THROUGH
THIS WEEK FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA...

A VERY POWERFUL WEST TO EAST JET STREAM WILL ALLOW A SERIES OF
STRONG STORM SYSTEMS TO CONTINUE TRACKING INTO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
THIS WEEK....BRINGING THE THREAT OF SIGNIFICANT AND POSSIBLY
EXCESSIVE RAINFALL TO THE REGION.

THE FIRST STORM SYSTEM MOVED RAPIDLY THROUGH THE REGION TODAY
UNSTABLE AIR AND RESIDUAL MOISTURE BEHIND THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO
BRING ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA AT
TIMES THROUGH TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL THROUGH TONIGHT SHOULD BE
LESS THAN ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH FOR MOST AREAS...WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS
UP TO A THIRD OF AN INCH IN ANY HEAVIER SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS.
WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCAL HEAVY RAIN PERSISTING...A FLASH FLOOD
WATCH REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR THE 2008 AND 2009 BURN AREAS INCLUDING
THE MORRIS AND STATION BURN AREAS THROUGH LATE TONIGHT.

A WEAKER STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE REGION TUESDAY
AFTERNOON INTO TUESDAY NIGHT. THE THIRD AND MOST LIKELY STRONGEST
STORM SYSTEM OF THE WEEK IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON INTO
THURSDAY NIGHT. A COLD AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP A
THREAT OF SHOWERS ON FRIDAY.

FOR THE ENTIRE WEEK...RAINFALL TOTALS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES CAN BE
EXPECTED IN COASTAL AND VALLEY AREAS...AND 8 TO 16 INCHES IN THE
FOOTHILLS AND MOUNTAINS. LOCAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER 20 INCHES WILL
BE POSSIBLE ACROSS FAVORED SOUTH FACING COASTAL SLOPES. ACROSS THE
ANTELOPE VALLEY...RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED
THROUGH FRIDAY...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS IN THE FOOTHILLS. THIS
WILL LIKELY BE THE WETTEST WEEK SINCE EARLY 2005.

SNOW LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO FLUCTUATE BUT RANGE BETWEEN 4000 FEET
AND 6000 FEET THROUGH WEDNESDAY...THEN INCREASE TO ABOVE 7000 FEET
WEDNESDAY NIGHT BEFORE FALLING BACK TO 4500 TO 5000 FEET THURSDAY...
AND TO 3500 TO 4000 FEET ON FRIDAY.

THE CUMULATIVE EFFECT OF THESE STORM SYSTEMS MAY BRING FLOODING
THREATS TO THE REGION ON A SCALE THAT HAS NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE 2005.
LARGE AMOUNTS OF EXPECTED PRECIPITATION...AS WELL AS THE POTENTIAL
FOR HIGH INTENSITY RAINFALL...WILL BRING THE THREAT OF SIGNIFICANT
FLASH FLOODING AND POTENTIALLY DEADLY DEBRIS FLOWS...ESPECIALLY TO
THE RECENT BURN AREAS. THERE WILL ALSO BE A THREAT OF URBAN AND
SMALL STREAM FLOODING AND NUMEROUS ROCKSLIDES...ESPECIALLY LATER IN
THE WEEK AS SOILS BECOME MORE SATURATED. AS THE WEEK PROGRESSES...
MOST STREAMS AND NORMALLY DRY WASHES WILL BE FLOWING. IF THE STRONG
STORM MATERIALIZES FOR THE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY TIME
FRAME...THERE COULD ALSO BE SOME MAIN STEM RIVER FLOODING CONCERNS.

PERSONS LIVING IN AND CLOSE TO RECENTLY BURNED AREAS OR IN LOW-LYING
AREAS SUBJECT TO RIVER AND STREAM FLOODING SHOULD STAY TUNED FOR
LATER FORECASTS AND WARNINGS. LISTEN TO LOCAL NEWS MEDIA AND NOAA
WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES.

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SIRARD/BRUNO

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High Surf Advisory

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA
629 PM PST MON JAN 18 2010

...A COASTAL FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM LATE TONIGHT
THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR THE WEST FACING BEACHES OF SAN
LUIS OBISPO AND SANTA BARBARA COUNTIES...

...A COASTAL FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR THE WEST FACING BEACHES OF SANTA
BARBARA SOUTH COAST...AND THE WEST FACING BEACHES OF VENTURA AND
LOS ANGELES COUNTIES...

...A HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH 3 PM PST FRIDAY
FOR THE WEST FACING BEACHES OF SAN LUIS OBISPO AND SANTA BARBARA
COUNTIES...

...A HIGH SURF ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM 3 AM PST TUESDAY
THROUGH 11 AM PST FRIDAY FOR THE WEST FACING BEACHES OF SANTA
BARBARA SOUTH COAST...AND THE WEST FACING BEACHES OF VENTURA AND
LOS ANGELES COUNTIES...

.A SERIES OF STRONG PACIFIC STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN
AND CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COASTAL AREAS THIS WEEK. THIS WILL CAUSE A
SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THE WESTERLY SWELL...BRINGING DANGEROUS
SURF CONDITIONS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR COASTAL FLOODING ACROSS
WEST FACING BEACHES.

CAZ034-035-191300-
/O.CON.KLOX.SU.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-100122T2300Z/
/O.CON.KLOX.CF.A.0002.100119T1100Z-100121T1100Z/
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY CENTRAL COAST-
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY CENTRAL COAST-
629 PM PST MON JAN 18 2010

...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST FRIDAY...
...COASTAL FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM PST TUESDAY
THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT...

A HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST FRIDAY. A
COASTAL FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM PST TUESDAY
THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

HIGH SURF CONDITIONS WILL BUILD RAPIDLY TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY...
THEN PEAK TUESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY...WHEN BREAKERS COULD REACH
AS HIGH AS 25 FEET.

THE VERY LARGE SURF COMBINED WITH PERIODS OF STRONG WINDS COULD
RESULT IN COASTAL FLOODING ISSUES FOR LOW LYING AREAS OF THE
CENTRAL COAST. THE GREATEST THREAT OF SUBSTANTIAL COASTAL FLOODING
WILL OCCUR WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...WITH BEACH EROSION AND
PROPERTY DAMAGE POSSIBLE. ANY COASTAL FLOODING WOULD LIKELY OCCUR
NEAR THE TIMES OF HIGH TIDE.

HIGH TIDES FOR PORT SAN LUIS...
TUESDAY...4.4 FEET AT 1137 AM.
WEDNESDAY...4.4 FEET AT 108 AM AND 3.9 FEET AT 1221 PM.
THURSDAY...4.5 FEET AT 141 AM.

THERE WILL BE DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ON ALL AREA BEACHES THROUGH
MUCH OF THE WEEK AS WELL. EVEN THE MOST EXPERIENCED SWIMMERS
SHOULD STAY OUT OF THE WATER DURING THIS EVENT. ROCKS AND JETTIES
WILL BE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AS WAVES CAN UNEXPECTEDLY SWEEP
PERSONS INTO THE WATER.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A HIGH SURF ADVISORY MEANS THAT HIGH SURF WILL AFFECT BEACHES IN
THE ADVISORY AREA...PRODUCING RIP CURRENTS AND LOCALIZED BEACH
EROSION.

A COASTAL FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR
FLOODING ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. COASTAL RESIDENTS SHOULD BE
ALERT FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS...AND TAKE ACTION TO
PROTECT PROPERTY.

&&

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Fire Place Ashes -- Use wood ashes from your fire place to control any soft bodied bug such as pear slugs and regular slugs. Sprinkle the powder where ever these creatures travel. The powder dehydrates the slugs and they die.


Low-fat milk For Aphids -- To control aphids apply nonfat dried milk, mixed according to the box, onto the leaves of your plants. The aphids get stuck in the milky residue and perish.

Slug Terminator -- Spray slugs with a mix of 1 part vinegar and 1 part water to terminate your slugs. Mix vinegar and water into a trigger sprayer and spray directly onto the slug. They will die almost immediately. Also spray the ground around your plants and any hidden slugs will come out of the sprayed soil and die.

Drunken Slug -- Set a shallow pan of beer (the darker the better) out into the garden where the slugs hang out. They cannot resist the taste of beer and crawl in and drown.

Slug trap -- Use a plastic pop bottle to catch slugs. Remove the lid, cut the pop bottle just below the curve of the neck all the way around. Invert the neck piece and staple it inside of the main piece. Throw in some slug bait or some beer and set in the garden where the slugs are doing the damage. The slugs can crawl in but don't crawl out.

Slug Stopper -- Sprinkle a ring of moth crystals around the base of your plants to keep the slugs from eating your plants. The slugs as well as cats, dogs and raccoons will stay away from these plants.

Weather Forecasting Crickets-- You can tell the outside temperature in Fahrenheit by counting the number of chirps made by a cricket in 14 seconds then add 40 to it.

Earwig Catcher -- Earwigs like dark, tight places to hide in during the day. Lay some corrugated cardboard out in the garden where you have had earwig damage. The earwigs will climb into the cardboard to hide during the day. Collect the cardboard and burn it.

Codling Moth Broth -- To catch codling moths, use a mixture of 2 parts vinegar and one part molasses. Place this mixture in a tin can and hang it in the apple tree. Clean out the moths and place more mix in the can when needed.

Fly Catcher -- To catch flies, place a piece of meat in a jar. Using a quart jar, place a small piece of meat and ½ inch of water into the jar. Punch a few holes big enough for the flies to crawl in, into the lid of the jar. Screw on the lid and set in a good fly location. When the fly crawls in, it can't get out. Clean out the jar when the smell gets to strong or it gets full of flies.

Yellow Sticky Traps -- To catch white flies, gnats and aphids use STP motor oil treatment or honey. Smear motor oil treatment or honey onto bright yellow plastic and place it amongst your plants with bugs. When the plastic gets full of bugs, wipe them off and reapply STP motor oil treatment or honey and set the trap out again.

How to Get the Skunk Smell off of Your Dog -- 1 quart 3% Hydrogen Peroxide, 1/4 cup baking soda, 2 teaspoons baby shampoo, Mix up solution. Thoroughly wet dog and shampoo in. Let sit for 5 minutes then rinse. Be sure not to get the solution in the dog’s eyes. The percentage of Hydrogen Peroxide is not strong enough to bleach the dog’s hair.

Protect Your Grapes from the Birds --, just before your grapes ripen when the birds start to get into them protect your crop with plastic grocery bags. Punch each bag full of air holes. Slip a bag around each bundle of grapes and staple to hold bag in place.

Spank Your Fruit Trees -- For more fruit production, take a rolled up newspaper and spank the day lights out of the trunk of your fruit trees. This action loosens the cambium layer and more sap will flow up to the tree producing more fruit. This is for more fruit the following year.

Mini Greenhouses -- When you first place your seedlings out you will want to protect them from too much wind, sun or frost. A gallon milk jug with the bottom cut out and the lid off is the perfect mini green house for setting out your plants. If it is going to frost, just put the lid on for the night. If the jug keeps blowing off, cut off the top of the handle. Next run a stick through the handle, this will secure the jug to the stick. Push the stick down into the ground to anchor it. The wind will not pick it up now.

Mini Shade House -- When first setting out seedling the can be wind burned or sunburned. To help them acclimate your plants to the great outdoors you can protect them with a mini shade house. Cut out a 18 inch by 24 inch piece of woven fence material, being sure to leave the extra wire that sticks out when you cut it. Bend it into the shape of an arch. Cut a piece of burlap 20 inches by 26 inches. Hook the burlap over the ends of the fence material. Set the whole unit over your transplanted seedlings. Leave this over them for a week to harden off your plants. This is great for working people because you never build up heat under this covering so you don't have to take it off during the day if the sun shines to hot.

Dress up Your Garden --Use old panty hose for tying up your plants. The panty hose are strong and will not cut into the tender stems. Another use for old panty hose is to place them over the heads of your cabbage. As your cabbage grows the panty hose will stretch.

Canned Corn -- To keep birds and squirrels from eating your corn, place aluminum pop or beer cans on your corn ear. Prepare the cans by cutting off the tab end. Next punch air holes all the way around the can. When you see birds or squirrels getting into your corn, slip a can over each ear until it is ripe.

Eggshell Planters --Eggshells make great plant starters. When you crack your egg, just take off the tip of one end. Rinse out the shell and poke a small drain hole into the bottom of the shell while it is still wet. Fill shell 3/4 full of potting soil and plant seeds. When it is time to plant out just crush the egg shell and plant into the ground. The egg shell adds lime to help feed the soil and plant.

Mildew on Your Peonies -- Sprinkle your peonies with cinnamon to stop molds and fungi. Tokyo researchers have found that fungi will not grow in the presence of cinnamon.

Clothespin for Roses -- To avoid being stuck when working with roses, use a spring type clothes pin to hold the stem instead of your fingers.

Baking Soda Spray -- Use baking soda to control fungal diseases, especially black spot on roses. Dissolve 1 t baking soda in 1 quart of water, add 1t liquid soap. Spray entire leaf surfaces of plants every 3 days for 21 days. Reapply after every rain.

No Room for a Garden? -- If you want to grow a tomato plant or a cucumber plant and you have no room. Get a bale of straw, poke some holes in it and pour compost into the holes. Plant your vegetables right into the bale. Water when needed. The decomposing bale will feed your vegetables all season.

Soak Your Feet or Feed Your Tomatoes -- Epsom salt is great for getting your tomato plants to produce large crops of tomatoes. It also helps to prevent blossom end rot. Use 1/4 cup around the base of each tomato plant every year. Sowing of Small Seeds

Season salt or spice shakers are great to use to sow small seeds. -- Place your tiny seeds in the shakers with some fine sand and shake away. The sand helps to evenly distribute your seeds so they don't end up in one pile.

Quick Sprout Carrots -- Soak your carrot seeds in a glass of warm water for 24 hours. Drain off water and place carrot seeds evenly on several wet paper towels. About ½ inches apart. Layer the paper towels in a glass baking dish. Place a sheet of plastic wrap between the layers. Cover the whole dish with plastic wrap. Place in a warm location for about a week. When you start to see little white sprout coming out of the end of the carrot seed it is time to plant them. Place the paper towel in the garden row. Cover lightly with soil and water lightly. Your carrots should be up in a few days.

Rid Your Sidewalks of Weeds and Grass -- To kill weeds and grass in unwanted places such as the cracks in your sidewalks, pour boiling salt water directly onto the weeds or grass for an instant kill.

Hammer Those Tough Weeds -- For those hard to pull weeds, hook them with the claw end of a hammer and pull.

Pickle Those Weeds -- To kill weeds in areas that you don't plan to plant anything you can use a solution of vinegar and salt. 1/4 cup vinegar, 2 t salt, 1 quart water, Spray weed until soaked. Heat of the day is best.


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Note: This is a repost from Catman's Litterbox at the request of LocoGato. I'm hoping to be able to start actively participating on this blog again soon. Thanks for reading!

Catman


Many people are talking openly about revolution. I'm one of them.

There's nothing to be ashamed of in decrying the woeful state of affairs in this land and calling for an alteration in the course this nation has taken. On the contrary, to remain silent, and accept the "hope and change" that is being foisted upon you is shameful.

It is my fervent prayer that the scent of blood and gunpowder never fill the streets of America again. That violence will be the final argument made by Americans demanding the restoration of their rights, freedoms, and lawful government.

Fighting a revolution does not mean that you have to take up arms and head off to engage in combat with the forces sent to assure your continued servitude. Not all of us can take another human being's life. Some of us, for reasons of conscience, will not engage in violence. Not all of us are physically capable of taking the punishment of a life of privation, and asperity.

But we all must do something to impede the progress of the enemy.

It is my belief that most of us are engaged in an epic struggle against the forces who would extinguish the light of Liberty forever. To turn this world into a vast feudal state where most are serfs, doomed to toil for the few at the top. Some of us may not even realize that we have joined the struggle. The thought that many of us are fighting a low intensity revolution has not come to the minds of people everywhere.

We must foster this idea, low intensity revolution, and spread it. It will give hope to those who feel hopeless. It will give direction to those who know not what to do. It will give those who want to fight a purpose, a mission. A way to strike back without exposing themselves to undue risk.

Already people march and display signs threatening the livelihood of politicians. The politician's next meal comes at your discretion. If you put him/her out of office, and treat him/her and their family as pariahs within their home districts, the message will be loud and clear. You ignore us at your peril.

This is low intensity revolution. We have already won a small victory as those in who sit in our capitols are starting to fear for their jobs. It will be a larger victory when they start doing what we tell them.


Already the fear on The Hill and within the corridors of state capitols is palpable. It is so bad that these fools are willing to risk further backlash from Americans as they once again take up the subject of amnesty for illegal aliens. The Democrats are pushing hard for this legislation, as they hope the additional estimated THIRTY MILLION VOTES will offset the loss of votes from angry Americans. They hope these votes will be enough to keep them in power. Don't think its just the Democrats, the Republicans are eyeing that block of votes hoping it will be enough to put them back in power.

We must do more.

Napoleon Bonaparte is thought to have once said "An army travels on its stomach."

The foe we face travels on its wallet. And we can deny them the sustenance that allows them to make further incursions on our freedoms.

People have cut back severely on their buying. Everything from big ticket items, to the small luxuries. The loss in sales has hurt government in an unprecedented manner as tax revenues have failed to materialize.

Our enemy pays its fickle dogs of war from the monies extorted from you through fines, taxes, fees, levies, and assessments.

Even now, as states and municipalities contemplate raising tax rates to mollify special interest groups suffering from long overdue cuts in their budgets, police forces whine about changes in their compensation plans. Consider Cleveland's public employee unions cutting their own throat. This isn't an isolated incident. More of these scenarios are playing out across this nation.

Hey Mr. Policeman, you forgot who you worked for, and now you're going to lose your job and everything that job bought. That's right, you snickered when we told you we paid your salaries as you routinely lied and violated our rights. You forgot the cardinal rule, "He who pays the piper calls the tune." It wasn't your supervisors, or even the city council who paid the piper. It was us, and we're not paying anymore.

I look forward to seeing you at the freeway onramp standing around in your black SS uniform with a sign that says, "Will intimidate citizens for food."

As tax revenues continue to fall, it is incumbent upon all of us to ensure that the revenues continue to dry up no matter how high they raise the tax rate. The reason? The faceless, unaccountable bureaucrats at every level of government will lose their jobs at an accelerated rate. Without them to implement and oversee the myriad of useless laws and regulations, the house of cards will fall. Already they are being furloughed and laid off. Let's help them begin a new life in 2010 by becoming productive people instead of just unthinking leeches.

How can we do this?

Don't buy new unless you absolutely have to. Barter, trade, exchange with like minded people in your communities. Start a neighborhood co-op this spring. It isn't too early to begin planning your spring and summer gardens. Work with your friends and neighbors to create a wide variety of available fresh vegetables and fruits. Trade within your circle. If you're not spending it, they can't tax it.

Obey the speed limit and other traffic laws. It sounds stupid, but it keeps your insurance rates down, and keeps the revenue from fines out of their pockets. Help the guy who may be a few minutes late getting back to the parking meter by dropping in a nickel. It'll keep the fines out of the local coffers.

Get a used bicycle to make your local neighborhood trips, and skip using the car. Don't use gasoline, and screw the Arabs.

Use your imagination to develop ways to keep your own money and avoid giving it to the government.

The Powers That Be, PTB, have tried to cajole us into taking on further debt to jump start the economy. Most of us ain't buying that crap as million dollar bonuses are paid out to corporate heads as they lay off the rank and file. Banks charge up to 80% interest on credit cards, while paying you 2% on your savings account.

This is theft, and it has to end.

Speaking of theft. How many of you wanted to be a pirate when you were a kid? Well, never forget International Talk Like A Pirate Day. And realize its not too late to become a real life pirate.

Pirate everything you can. Music, books, movies. Go crazy.

Why?

Simple, the corporations and the artists who created these works donated millions of dollars to put some of the worst offenders into public office. Now, its payback time.

If you don't give them your money, the government can't collect sales taxes, and the artists and corporations can't throw money at the politicians. Nice how that works out, and you still get to enjoy some first rate entertainment!

I'll put up a post in the next day or two on pirating made easy.

The PTB have thrown trillions of dollars out there to places that wasted it, didn't need it, didn't use it, or absconded with it by throwing lavish parties and allowing privileged people to walk away with what amounted to bags of cash.

All that has done is dilute the money supply and drive up inflation, and lower the value of the currency.

We shouldn't care. We should bite the bullet and take the hit, and allow the mighty to fall. We have little, and little to lose. The wealthy have much and a lot to lose. I would willingly sacrifice what I have to ensure my children have a better world to grow up in.

How?

Simple. If you have a lowly dollar bill in your wallet, and that's all you have, and tomorrow it is worth a penny, what will happen? Chances are you'll just go on and shrug it off. Think about the people who have millions of dollars and will see the value of it decrease by 99%.

How will they manage? How will they cope? What will it do to the world economy? See, that's why the PTBs are trying to establish an alternative reserve currency, because ultimately that is what is going to happen. If they get another currency established, they will be able to preserve their own wealth, while destroying what is left of ours.

We need to make sure it crashes before they can get out.

By that point we should be in a position to seize control of our government. We'll just repudiate any foreign debt, claim that the whole system is illegal, offer up Bernanke and all of the others to the Chinese to place on trial and execute.

The people of Iceland have already done this, and we should follow suit. God bless them!

And watch the world crumble.

I think it will be cool when Bernanke has to pay for the bullet the Chinese will execute him with.