Home again, 10.8.15; About the move out west

• With respect to the timetable:  It may be more risky to do this, but I am really anxious to get out there.  So, in order to satisfy that, the move will be set to the end of March, or possibly about 6 months later.  No later than the fall of 2016.  No earlier than the end of March 2016.
• If I stay in Houston until the fall of next year, it will be as an Uber driver.  Delivery driving may be too tough for me now.  It's not a tough job, per se.  I'm just getting a bit too old for this.
• The van doesn't have to be converted any time soon.  My move out there will be to an apartment, as opposed to directly out to the property.  One step at a time.
• It's okay to make plans for converting the van, but those are all tentative.
• I need to start thinking about the specifics of the move itself.  That's in terms of the actual moving of the stuff.  What stuff do I want to keep, and what should be thrown out?

Over all, I have decided to go ahead with the move.  It's a big deal to do this.  Not anyone amongst the relations likes this idea.

But it has come to mean a bit more to me than just a place to park my vehicles.

Obligatory, 10.8.15; What's going on?

The world is probably headed for a single government of some kind.  The impetus is coming from several directions.

• The so-called right wing wants a world united in capitalistic corporatism
• The left wants what it couldn't take during the Cold War.  For communism to succeed, it must be world wide.  ( That's so nobody can realize how bad off they are since comparisons can't be made. )
• Muslims want to impose sharia on the entire world.
• China has believed that it is the "Middle Kingdom" that has dominated the world in the past and will do so once again.

The key country involved in this struggle is the United States.  Whoever controls the United States will control the world.  Currently, there is a leftist president in the United States, and an attempted bloodless coup is underway.  The struggle over guns is necessary for the left.  If the Americans can be disarmed, nothing will stand in their way.  They are very close to success.

Supposedly stopping this is the so-called right.  Embedded within the conservatives are the globalists who want to incorporate the entire world.  Their goals are hardly much different from the left, but the difference is that they pretend to defend traditional American values.  Their calculus is that they can buy off the opposition, but a miscalculation could backfire.  It could backfire since their bribery is only funding the enemy and making him stronger.  If they truly supported traditional American values, they would support a smaller government and more self-reliance amongst the public.

Big government is supported by the left because it is their pathway to power.  But the left needs help, and is appealing to hostile forces against the West in order to carry out their plans.

Islam is needed in order to destabilize nations.  If nuclear energy had been adopted in the seventies, with the molten-salt reactor, Islam would still be a backwater region of the world.  Now it is a major player and growing stronger through the reliance upon their oil.  The globalists believe they can "win hearts and minds" with bribery, but this won't work amongst the fanatics.  The rise of Islam only proves the fallacy of globalism.  The left will block nuclear energy because they know full well this fact.  They know the end of the oil addiction will end any help they could get from the Islamists.

The same old tired tactic has been applied to China.  Supposedly, if China could prosper, and become rich, they would drop their communism.  This really hasn't happened yet, nor is it likely.  Another spectacular failure of the globalists.  It ignores history, as China gets stronger, its nationalist pride will begin showing.

Globalism is stirring up this witches' brew throughout the world.  As the world seemingly gets richer, it also gets more unstable.  A major war could erupt at any time.  The pact with Iran underscores the failure.  As Iran gets the bomb, as it most certainly will, a nuclear war is all but inevitable.  Evidently, the globalists believe they can bribe the Iranians.  Make them rich, and they will become peaceful.  Except for one thing--- they really do believe in their Prophet.  The globalists, who believe in nothing, are mistaken that the whole world thinks as they do.

The so-called right needs to separate itself from the globalists.  If they can, they can become a real opposition to them and perhaps we can avoid the slide into world war.

We can avoid it through a realistic assessment of the enemy.  The enemy cannot be bought off.  It must be defeated.  It can be defeated the same way the Soviet Union was defeated--- without a shot.  Through the same method that Reagan won the Cold War.  Master the oil problem and attain military superiority across the board.

Unless the so-called right gets a clue, we are sunk.

Update:

I think that it explains the Trump phenomenon, too.  The global-corporate interests don't like Trump because he cannot be controlled easily.   Trump may be the only hope the conservatives have, yet they don't seem to recognize it.

AGW in the news

via Free Republic there's a story that debunks the effect that carbon dioxide has upon the climate.

Ya don't say!

Oh, but I did say.

He's got the math to show it, he says.

Review continued

There has been something of a review going on lately.  Reviewed the blog, and now it is time for a bit of a review of my preparations for the move out West.

In keeping with that, I've been going over a few things here at the apartment.

It seems that the shower device will require at least one gallon of water to do the most basic of cleaning.  In order to fully clean, it may take much more.  This isn't new, but it is worth reviewing.  I used it for a quick cleanup just now.  The battery needed recharging.  So, the batteries that I have around need to be reviewed as well.

Battery inventory:

• 1 35 amp hour 12 volt battery.  Status: recently checked
• 1 jump starter recharger type battery.  Capacity not known.  Currently regularly used.
• 2 batteries for electric scooter.  Capacity: somewhat less than the 35 amp hr battery above.  Status: unchecked for weeks.
• various other batteries for devices that are contained within their devices.  Amongst these are some used phones.  The batteries should still be good.

Besides the batteries, I checked my sleeping bag.  I simulated a preparation for sleep, and then rolled it back up.  It can keep you warm down to 40 degrees Farenheit, it says.  I'd say that is accurate based upon my trip.

While checking the bag, I deployed the chair like I was going to sleep in it.  This is the system that plan on using for sleep.  Since 40 degrees has been tested, what about lower temps?  Must have a plan for that, too.  Thinking of using an electric blanket.  The downside of that is the battery drain.  Still is quite demanding on electricity use even though it should be a lot less than a space heater.

There is a 2 cycle gas powered electric generator that has never been used.  It could possibly run a 500 watt space heater.  This might be handy on a really cold night on the property.

Plans should include a wall that faces north so as to block the cold north wind.  This is a part of the plan of construction of the "quadrangle".

There's a general outline of the plans in the Table of Contents for the entire series, as well as subseries that includes

• Water
• Food
• Construction
• Power
• General topics

There are just under six months left for the earliest possible departure date.  This date is unlikely though.  Much is still to be done.

While I review that, I can also review my reasons for doing this.  It appears that it won't be the best option for me if the idea is to live as cheaply as possible.  There is another way.  But somehow, the cheaper way doesn't do it for me.  I am sticking with this even if it is harder and more expensive.  Why?  Not sure why, and I may regret this decision.  I've certainly gotten more than I bargained for so far, already.

Stretch wrap

Want to remember this link because it may be an easy way to cover a quonset hut.  This stuff is used to wrap pallets all the time.  These pallets are used to ship things, which is what my job is about.  So, I was wondering how do you get this stuff?

Why, just google it up, and here it is.

A beautiful thing, as Rush used to say.  Maybe he still says it, but I don't listen much to the show anymore.

Update:

While I'm thinking about what I don't want to forget, let's remember this one.  I want to put something over the back windows of the van.  This would allow me to see out, but nobody to see in.  Reason is privacy.

Obligatory, 10.7.15; Car dolly trailer

I will be needing one of these in order to carry my car around with me.  This is an alternative that I'm considering for the "moonshot".  The moonshot is what I call this project of moving out of Houston to my land out near El Paso, Texas.  It's a moonshot also in the sense that it is a very big, very risky type project.

One problem with the land is that it's so far away.  I've made 5 trips out there so far in order to attempt to do something with it.  It is always a disappointment because of the time element as well as the expense.  With a move out to El Paso, I will be within a couple hours drive of it, at least.  I can still work in town, and then access my land without having to make a big project out of it each time I go out there.

The idea of using a car dolly trailer is just to take my car with me as well as my van.  The van will provide shelter and the car will provide an opportunity to make a buck as a "taxi" service.  On my last trip, I found out the necessity to keep earning money, as money disappears pretty fast when you don't have any coming in.

Also, the tow around idea enables me to avoid renting space to store the vehicle.  The disadvantage is the need to drive more, since I'd like to avoid driving that old van a lot.  Perhaps once a month to El Paso to an RV place I located won't be too much of a strain on the van.

The van has to be converted to an RV so that I can live out of it.  The proposed plan is to rent out an RV space when I'm in town, and then when I'm finished making money for the month, go back to the property and live on the land.  The car would come with me.

Update:

Something to remember about the RV conversion---the windows.

Quick post: 10.6.15; Negative rate 90 day TBills

Ann Barnhardt tweets that the 90 day TBill may go to negative rates soon.  If that's happens, it is an inverted yield curve on the short term side.  If it fully inverts, it would mean that the entire yield curve goes below zero.  Most unlikely, but that also means that to raise Fed Funds rate any at all runs the risk of fully inverting the yield curve.  Significance?  Inverted yield curves almost always tend to accompany recessions.

The Fed is painted into a corner.  Can't raise rates and can't cut rates, unless you want to risk even more damage.  Why would this be damaging?  Because capital formation requires savings, and savings are eaten up by a negative yield, it means less capital formation.  Economic growth becomes more difficult, if not impossible.  Collapse could be inevitable.

The stock market rose yesterday.  The Dow was up 300 points.  Yeah, right.  Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may be in the deepest doo-doo.