tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post2800156679848101357..comments2024-03-28T16:03:02.583-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: You won't read about this in US news media...Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-6084246471904514712022-08-03T13:13:06.875-05:002022-08-03T13:13:06.875-05:00The news reports this coming winter for Germany ar...The news reports this coming winter for Germany are not going to be good. There will be a lot of pressure to bail them out somehow.lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02128816434613836735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-53612818091930314682022-08-03T07:56:52.031-05:002022-08-03T07:56:52.031-05:00Always need to fact check Yon - I recall following...Always need to fact check Yon - I recall following him when he was a war correspondent and thinking that I was now getting the "real" story. Then he bought into the gun-walking theory hook line and sinker - it brought all of his prior reporting into question for me (along with all of his reporting since then). After all, if he is willing to run with the gun walking story without checking it out, what else is he fabricating or not fact checking.<br /><br />In this story, he says that Russia is blamed for the lack of gas, but then says that isn't true - but gives no basis for WHY it isn't true. Well, it isn't true only if you blame Russia for cutting off the gas supplies in reaction to Germany participating in the economic sanctions. So yeah - Germany doesn't have a ready supply of gas because Russia is reducing the amount that they are sending through the pipeline.pjkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03684606070855590599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-90447810589944357472022-08-03T03:44:49.403-05:002022-08-03T03:44:49.403-05:00A curious thing....
I found a crime-stats map for ...A curious thing....<br />I found a crime-stats map for this area. We're still in a dark-green patch, among the mostly-green countryside. Parts of the cities are various shades of red, especially the tourist zones.<br />Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one huge blob of dark red. Wut? I'm guessing that it's based on crimes per 100K population, and the population of the park is zero, so it's all one divide-by-zero statistical zone.Eric Wilnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04351991168469225129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-45483496085135570292022-08-02T22:32:22.192-05:002022-08-02T22:32:22.192-05:00When looking at crime statistics, also pay attenti...When looking at crime statistics, also pay attention to the changing demographics, especially if you are moving to escae crime. Many times the demographics change rapidly as the FedGov moves people from bad areas to good ones to dilute the crime...and they might just move crime to the area you live or are moving to.<br /><br />B https://www.blogger.com/profile/10586046436233366155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-59524971908885481312022-08-02T18:10:08.504-05:002022-08-02T18:10:08.504-05:00Seven years of feast, seven years of famine. Excep...Seven years of feast, seven years of famine. Except for this time, people think gardens are something you grow in containers or wall decorations on the patio. They have no concept of how to do without things, like cable TV, streaming services and the Internet. A lot of them can't cook a meal from ingredients. Lord help them if the power goes out for a few days, let alone a few weeks. <br /><br />This is not going to be fun. Not for anyone.The Freeholderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09989697995675652792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-46834082768209606492022-08-02T17:42:46.137-05:002022-08-02T17:42:46.137-05:00Someone I know bought a new $2M "McMansion&qu...Someone I know bought a new $2M "McMansion" back in '04 in San Jose CA. The builders (big project, 600+ units) hired only Spanish speaking workers, paid $5/hour. Their electricians were paid $8/hour. All temps from Mexico. PG&E electrician told us that when he turned on power to their temporary power pole at each site, it was 50/50 if it exploded. The builder went bust, I think due to warrantee claims. (A few years later, houses on his street were listed for $600k.) Lots of problems in that house. He's still dealing with them. <br /><br />Yep, been working on Third World Country status for some time now. Welcome to the future!Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722792638246578812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-40409991096467710242022-08-02T13:50:00.944-05:002022-08-02T13:50:00.944-05:00We're living in a Third World country now. Yo...We're living in a Third World country now. You have Third World Quality standards and Third World customer service. But labor is cheap and good for Short-term profits.Skyler the Weirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00864477803127012834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-38726931421421069562022-08-02T13:15:33.054-05:002022-08-02T13:15:33.054-05:00Still shopping sales and canning what is cheap,in ...Still shopping sales and canning what is cheap,in terms of meat. Jars are a problem, I found a store in a very small grocery chain that gets some in now and then. Canned meat doesn't need electricity. I don't like canned vegetables so I am going back to drying them for long term storage. I think we have at least 2 years of hell coming and I am putting away as much as I can. My precious metal dealer is buying a lot as people need money for daily living, how long can people run at a deficit?Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05993938643115716912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-5701861523877535282022-08-02T12:18:35.696-05:002022-08-02T12:18:35.696-05:00Things don't seem to have hit us too bad way u...Things don't seem to have hit us too bad way up in my AO. They haven't be flying illegals up here and there are a couple boarders that are actually enforced between us and them (at least some countries are enforcing their boarders). Food prices are going up, meat is about twice what it was two years ago but availability is still good.<br /><br />One thing I've noticed over the last few months is CostCo's monthly discounts are including far less food items then they did in the past. JNorthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01701578500596164529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-70926260139591105202022-08-02T10:39:36.944-05:002022-08-02T10:39:36.944-05:00Sign of the times - The rural Midwest county to wh...Sign of the times - The rural Midwest county to which I moved a couple years ago hadn't had a murder in the previous ten years. There have been five so far this year.McChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192934741632433007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-1490290510742522052022-08-02T10:17:49.702-05:002022-08-02T10:17:49.702-05:00"What does that say about the security of you..."What does that say about the security of your current employment? Do you need to start looking for alternative employment or re-training now, to beat the rush?"<br /><br />Well... from where I'm sitting, it looks like there should be plenty of ongoing opportunities in the skilled trades, as the supply of tradesmen appears to have evaporated.<br /><br />Hire a licensed contractor for a building project, and he'll hire a Spanish-speaking foreman, who'll round up a bunch of hard-working but unskilled day laborers and drop them off with minimal supervision.<br /><br />Some of this is the result of contractors trying to do things on the cheap - the unskilled workers don't get paid a lot per hour, but on the other hand it takes them a lot of hours to get the job done. But you'd think there would be contractors with their own stables of skilled workers; maybe they only cater to the very wealthy? Or have all the workers retired / died / burned out / moved to Fiji?<br /><br />Is this perhaps an example of Gresham's Law applying to labor, and to labor-intensive businesses?<br /><br />(This, by the way, is a horrible time to have a home built. Aside from the costs of building materials, the quality you get may make you wish you'd hired the Three Stooges to do the job. Some of these "builders" are worse at basic masonry than I am, which is saying something.)Eric Wilnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04351991168469225129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-68715337878168586062022-08-02T09:44:59.050-05:002022-08-02T09:44:59.050-05:00Yon wrote: "the fertilizer generated from the...Yon wrote: "the fertilizer generated from the Haber-Bosch Process materially contributes to the population explosion that sustains billions of people who never would have been born."<br /><br />That, according to Deep Ecology is the whole problem.(This thinking was once an extreme fringe of the environmental movement but its seductive and poisonous doctrines have been propagated from the fringes of the environmental movement and merged with critical race and gender theory, so that there is what amounts to critical environmental theory. The "natural carrying capacity" of the Earth, over and above which humanity becomes a cancer polluting the environment, is said to be under a billion people. To restore the planet those "billions who [otherwise] never would have been born have got to go. <br /><br />Because immiserating and then killing off the proles seems like a good idea to the global elites anyway, the Deep Green death cult has captured the minds and hearts of some of the wealthiest and most influential people on the planet and is a key part of their new transhumanist religion. <br /><br />Basically for Deep Green, famine and plague would be better for the planet than nuclear war, but nuclear war is less bad for the environment than too many human beings Peter Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15122781534685443942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-74422606197208436372022-08-02T09:29:35.633-05:002022-08-02T09:29:35.633-05:00The ranches near me are running the smallest herds...The ranches near me are running the smallest herds they can survive with.<br />The county DA lost the primary to someone who has been run out of 3 other counties for misconduct because he isn't prosecuting crime.<br />The sheriff is likely to lose the general election for the same reason.<br />Even out here there is a mood for change and a push back against lax enforcement.Jonathan Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10476185257203343474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-51511980157502017232022-08-02T09:09:37.288-05:002022-08-02T09:09:37.288-05:00And the long term effects of NOT having fertilizer...And the long term effects of NOT having fertilizer for the next years will have a global impact due to selling the natural gas.Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.com