September 15, 2008
Financial Tip
Now would be a good time to invest in companies that manufacture domestically sold ammunition and packaged vegetable seeds.
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Now would be a good time to invest in companies that manufacture domestically sold ammunition and packaged vegetable seeds.
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and fairy dust.
I went to Sears this morning to get a chain for my chainsaw. A lot of trees went down during yesterday’s storm. 250,000 people in metro Dayton are without power. In Ohio. My place of employment was closed today due to the outage. Kathy’s, too.
There was a line outside of Sears waiting for the store to open. Everybody wanted to buy a chainsaw. One guy had a generator. I’m glad I just needed a chain — I bought two of them.
I stopped at Wal-Mart to get some cough medicine for Andrew. Many, many people were buying ice. It was as busy as a Saturday afternoon. The peripheral restaurants were packed (if you consider Bob Evans and Sonic restaurants) and the gas station was jammed. Many local gas stations are closed because of no power or no gas deliveries. Gas jumped fifty cents this week because of Ike, even though oil is down per barrel.
After cutting up a bunch of fallen trees, I shopped online for a generator. Little bit of wind, and social order around here (such as it is) nearly broke down.
I says to Kathy, I says, if McCain is elected I’m buying a generator, and some live ammo for the Ruger.
Fuck my 401k; I’m burying some cash in a jar in my backyard, too.
After the November election, call before you drop by. Just to let me know it’s you.
I know what you mean MGS. I remembered being ten years old during the Cuban missle crisis. I was terriified when my mother took me to the grocery store and people were raking things from the shelves into baskets and even leaving without paying any of it.
Did you ever read that novel by Pat Frank–Alas Babylon? It was big at the time, and it brought out the survival instinct all around.
Don’t you love it when the people who always cried out for “less government” suddenly want it in a big way when things go bad for them?
Ah, the apocalypse approaches. Each hurricane season, I like to watch the the suburban theatrics of faux self-reliance unfold. Buy a generator to power the electrical appliances…better pick up some more ravioli and fill up the tank on the van!
Should an changes come that require ammunition and gold currency, most preparations will be rendered moot. It’s not like large-scale, local farming could be ramped up overnight. Who would sell the seeds and shovels? Who will fix the tools when they break? Where would the landlocked states get…salt?
No, that apocalypse won’t come. Just as fascism will come with flag and bible, the apocalypse will come with Jumbo-sized fries and 24-hour cable television for all. How happy we will be as we slowly give ourselves over to the new feudalism.
Daryl, I have not read that book, but I read Lord of the Flies. If I had a generator on that island I would have been king.
We are all post-mid-apocalyptic, Mike, even as the ink is drying on our computer screens. Right now. There are fortunes to be made selling plywood, bibles, and candles. The only available positions are entry level.