The focus was on money. It may well be the source of our troubles, which is not attributable to the money itself, but the obsession with it.
A solution: go off the grid? Is that too radical for this culture?
The "Best of" ranks received a new member this week, it was:
Cal Thomas' New Book: "What Works"
Al Fin: "Cowboy Commentary", aka "Eat your veggies" The Flag banner is posted in order to defy those who would make patriotic symbols illegal or disreputable.
Saturday, June 14, 2014
More thoughts on going off the grid ( with some useful links )
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Another in the series about going off the grid.
Did Ann Barnhardt give me the idea for going off the grid?
Not exactly, but she appears to be at war with the culture, which seems to be where I am in a theoretical sort of way. She went confrontational, I have decided to go another way, which is to find a solution that works.
She is too self destructive. To protest this culture doesn't require one to destroy oneself. What is that woman doing to herself? She gives up a successful business in protest. She says that she couldn't continue with it and keep her integrity. Instead of being in a more powerful position ( not broke ) where she could do something useful, she has become a manual laborer. Okay, maybe you can admire her for her principles and the willingness to uphold them. Not to fault her for wanting to keep her integrity. But is what she's doing a good way toward that end of promoting what she believes is right? Couldn't she do better? Perhaps she could have gone off the grid as that would keep her from having to pay much in taxes. She could have sent a message to those money masters in DC. They couldn't do much about it either, as it would be legal.
With her tax strike, she appears to be at war with the government. This is a losing strategy. A needlessly self destructive one that will accomplish nothing except her own destruction. She may not care about that, but she should.
Barnhardt once said that people love their money too much, and she proved that for herself. But you do need money, and she still needs it, and you do need a government. You can't fight "city hall". You have to make some compromises with it in order to live with it in peace. Therefore, this idea of living off the land is a reasonable solution for someone like her, I would think. It would accomplish what she said she wants to accomplish without ending up in jail or in a morgue because she decided that violence was the answer.
Clarification: As far as I know, Barnhardt has not explicitly called for a violent revolution.
However, the $64K question for Barnhardt: would she rather fight the system, or find a reasonable place within it? One that wouldn't require big compromises. Maybe a small one or two, though. Perhaps the compromises would be too much for this woman.
Indeed, if enough people would do this, the government would have fewer funds and would have to shrink because the people forced it to shrink. This is a way for the people to get control over their government. Instead of having the government get in control of us, which is the track we are on right now.
In order to make this concept work NOW for my own self, I would need some cash flow. I can buy some stuff and get things started, but I cannot live on my capital for all that long. The property will need to get productive quickly if there's no cash flow. A cash flow will enable the capital to last longer until the property is self-sustaining.
I was figuring on social security. But that is more than 3 years away still. Those 3 years can be used for preparations. I could still buy the property and make payments on it until I'm ready to move in.
Some extra links ( as if I needed more. This concept of living off the land can work---even in a near desert condition in West Texas. ) I've compiled these links and others to reassure myself that I could make it out there. But that doesn't mean that it would be easy.
You need a water source. I have already figured a way to solve that problem. Collect rainwater.
There is a problem with the hot sun this time of year. The power requirements would be a killer. Instead of a conex, maybe I could park an RV in a cool spot that I dug out of the ground? Why a trench? It would be cooler in the trench than out there in that relentless sun. A conex is cheaper, but this is prefab. Anyway, I found this site here that has used RV's on sale. Here's one with a shower and a toilet. What do you do with waste water? You can "process" the black and gray waters by building the septic tank. The RV will be home until I can build an adobe hut with all that dirt I would be digging up. I can dig a septic tank while I'm digging the trench.
How to dig your little trench so as to park down there with your trailer? Use a mini excavator.
Maybe I may need a bigger one.
The trench may flood in the rain. Hmm. That may be a toughie. I've got to think about that one. One possible solution would have the drain field for the septic tank in front of the entrance to the trench. This would slow down the water as vegetation will grow in the drain fields. In the case of needing to drive over the drain field, don't. Drive around it.
Another in the series about going off the grid.
Did Ann Barnhardt give me the idea for going off the grid?
Not exactly, but she appears to be at war with the culture, which seems to be where I am in a theoretical sort of way. She went confrontational, I have decided to go another way, which is to find a solution that works.
She is too self destructive. To protest this culture doesn't require one to destroy oneself. What is that woman doing to herself? She gives up a successful business in protest. She says that she couldn't continue with it and keep her integrity. Instead of being in a more powerful position ( not broke ) where she could do something useful, she has become a manual laborer. Okay, maybe you can admire her for her principles and the willingness to uphold them. Not to fault her for wanting to keep her integrity. But is what she's doing a good way toward that end of promoting what she believes is right? Couldn't she do better? Perhaps she could have gone off the grid as that would keep her from having to pay much in taxes. She could have sent a message to those money masters in DC. They couldn't do much about it either, as it would be legal.
With her tax strike, she appears to be at war with the government. This is a losing strategy. A needlessly self destructive one that will accomplish nothing except her own destruction. She may not care about that, but she should.
Barnhardt once said that people love their money too much, and she proved that for herself. But you do need money, and she still needs it, and you do need a government. You can't fight "city hall". You have to make some compromises with it in order to live with it in peace. Therefore, this idea of living off the land is a reasonable solution for someone like her, I would think. It would accomplish what she said she wants to accomplish without ending up in jail or in a morgue because she decided that violence was the answer.
Clarification: As far as I know, Barnhardt has not explicitly called for a violent revolution.
However, the $64K question for Barnhardt: would she rather fight the system, or find a reasonable place within it? One that wouldn't require big compromises. Maybe a small one or two, though. Perhaps the compromises would be too much for this woman.
Indeed, if enough people would do this, the government would have fewer funds and would have to shrink because the people forced it to shrink. This is a way for the people to get control over their government. Instead of having the government get in control of us, which is the track we are on right now.
In order to make this concept work NOW for my own self, I would need some cash flow. I can buy some stuff and get things started, but I cannot live on my capital for all that long. The property will need to get productive quickly if there's no cash flow. A cash flow will enable the capital to last longer until the property is self-sustaining.
I was figuring on social security. But that is more than 3 years away still. Those 3 years can be used for preparations. I could still buy the property and make payments on it until I'm ready to move in.
Some extra links ( as if I needed more. This concept of living off the land can work---even in a near desert condition in West Texas. ) I've compiled these links and others to reassure myself that I could make it out there. But that doesn't mean that it would be easy.
- Love Your Home youtube channel has a lot of videos on how to grow stuff.
- Blueberries for Texas
- A money crop for the farm? Growing grapes in Texas.
- How to eat cactus: Opuntia And Prickly Pears
- mesquite beans nutritional value and other useful info ( this link has a lot of info! ) also: food facts
- The Ubiquitous Mesquite, more about the mesquite, the wonder tree
- Mesquite beans for sale
- rock salt for salting game for storage
- javelina as a game animal
- javelina clays in west texas ( may be useful for making adobe bricks )
- adobe bricks may be possible with the dirt that is available on the land
- practical primitive: a valuable resource
You need a water source. I have already figured a way to solve that problem. Collect rainwater.
There is a problem with the hot sun this time of year. The power requirements would be a killer. Instead of a conex, maybe I could park an RV in a cool spot that I dug out of the ground? Why a trench? It would be cooler in the trench than out there in that relentless sun. A conex is cheaper, but this is prefab. Anyway, I found this site here that has used RV's on sale. Here's one with a shower and a toilet. What do you do with waste water? You can "process" the black and gray waters by building the septic tank. The RV will be home until I can build an adobe hut with all that dirt I would be digging up. I can dig a septic tank while I'm digging the trench.
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| nice little trailer you got there |
Maybe I may need a bigger one.
The trench may flood in the rain. Hmm. That may be a toughie. I've got to think about that one. One possible solution would have the drain field for the septic tank in front of the entrance to the trench. This would slow down the water as vegetation will grow in the drain fields. In the case of needing to drive over the drain field, don't. Drive around it.
Pictures of Matchstick Men ( 1968 )
What does this song mean? To tell you the truth, I wasn't curious enough to find out until just now.
The best interpretation I saw was that it was a man obsessed with a woman that left him. He feels conned and ashamed for having been conned.
Update a little while later:
How in the devil did I come up with this? I read on a blog post that Xtranormal had gone belly up, but I wasn't aware of that. I made several of those videos in 2011, and one is featured at the top of the page. As I went through some of those videos, 96 Tears came up and then this song. I recalled this song, of course, but I never knew what it meant. So, I looked it up, and voila! a blog post.
The best interpretation I saw was that it was a man obsessed with a woman that left him. He feels conned and ashamed for having been conned.
Update a little while later:
How in the devil did I come up with this? I read on a blog post that Xtranormal had gone belly up, but I wasn't aware of that. I made several of those videos in 2011, and one is featured at the top of the page. As I went through some of those videos, 96 Tears came up and then this song. I recalled this song, of course, but I never knew what it meant. So, I looked it up, and voila! a blog post.
Life and death struggle on a fig
A wasp lays its eggs in a fig while an ant suddenly appears and kills the wasp.
Ain't life grand? h/t popularmechanics
Ain't life grand? h/t popularmechanics
Liberals are the blind ones blaming you for being blind
Just now perusing the Mahablog again. Sometimes this woman can almost appear sane, then she loses it.
I once commented from time to time over there, but I was banned. I've mentioned that story before.
She blamed me for being "in the box" when I wrote about "stepping outside the box". She accused me of drinking the right wing koolaid. Perhaps I have my own set of biases, but at least I try to sort through those.
Well, if anybody is drinking any koolaid, it's Maha and her followers. Of course, she blocked libertarians who were writing to her, she admitted so; how reminiscent that was of the way in which she blocked me. The koolaid drinkers just can't debate their ideas openly and honestly. For if she did, she knows that she would lose, and she cannot bear that. She is the microcosm of the left. She pretends to be what she isn't and gets mad when you bring that to her attention. Like them, she shuts them up and get them fired. Destroy their opponents, for they cannot honestly debate them. Defeat her and that brings a furious response. "Off with their heads" like the Red Queen declaims, as she sips her own brand of koolaid.
She had that story and then she had the story about Iraq. Sure, even if Bush was wrong to go into Iraq, what kind of sense does it make to leave the Iraqis to the wolves? We cannot afford it, says she. Can we afford another 9-11 type attack instead? The al-Qaeda types are going to have several states thanks to her boy in the White House. They didn't have ANY when he took over from Bush. The al Qaeda types brought us 9-11. So, Obama has them on the run as he claimed in his convention speech in 2012? That's what he claimed before Benghazi happened mere days later on none other than the anniversary of 9-11. Those al Qaeda guys seem to have other ideas about who is actually on the run. They, the liberals, know they were wrong, but needed to cover it up with a claim about a video.
Obama is just pretending to put al Qaeda on the run. However, there were those on the left said openly that they wanted to lose the War on Terror. If you lose this war, what happens in the aftermath of that loss? We may just find out, thanks to them. They're running the show, but anything bad happens, it's Bush's fault.
Thanks, Maha, for nothing. I'll keep my head, though, thank you very much.
I once commented from time to time over there, but I was banned. I've mentioned that story before.
She blamed me for being "in the box" when I wrote about "stepping outside the box". She accused me of drinking the right wing koolaid. Perhaps I have my own set of biases, but at least I try to sort through those.
Well, if anybody is drinking any koolaid, it's Maha and her followers. Of course, she blocked libertarians who were writing to her, she admitted so; how reminiscent that was of the way in which she blocked me. The koolaid drinkers just can't debate their ideas openly and honestly. For if she did, she knows that she would lose, and she cannot bear that. She is the microcosm of the left. She pretends to be what she isn't and gets mad when you bring that to her attention. Like them, she shuts them up and get them fired. Destroy their opponents, for they cannot honestly debate them. Defeat her and that brings a furious response. "Off with their heads" like the Red Queen declaims, as she sips her own brand of koolaid.
She had that story and then she had the story about Iraq. Sure, even if Bush was wrong to go into Iraq, what kind of sense does it make to leave the Iraqis to the wolves? We cannot afford it, says she. Can we afford another 9-11 type attack instead? The al-Qaeda types are going to have several states thanks to her boy in the White House. They didn't have ANY when he took over from Bush. The al Qaeda types brought us 9-11. So, Obama has them on the run as he claimed in his convention speech in 2012? That's what he claimed before Benghazi happened mere days later on none other than the anniversary of 9-11. Those al Qaeda guys seem to have other ideas about who is actually on the run. They, the liberals, know they were wrong, but needed to cover it up with a claim about a video.
Obama is just pretending to put al Qaeda on the run. However, there were those on the left said openly that they wanted to lose the War on Terror. If you lose this war, what happens in the aftermath of that loss? We may just find out, thanks to them. They're running the show, but anything bad happens, it's Bush's fault.
Thanks, Maha, for nothing. I'll keep my head, though, thank you very much.
Pope Francis decries the idolatry of money
via Drudge
Couldn't have said it better myself. In fact, it does seem somewhat familiar...
But I'm no socialist. However, this Pope...
Socialists like to pretend to serve the people, but they do not.
The Pope said the economy's flaws had stemmed from humankind's obsession with money. He said: 'At the centre of all economic systems must be man, man and woman, and everything else must be in service of this man.
'But we have put money at the centre, the god of money. We have fallen into the sin of idolatry, the idolatry of money.'--- dailymail.co.uk
Couldn't have said it better myself. In fact, it does seem somewhat familiar...
But I'm no socialist. However, this Pope...
Socialists like to pretend to serve the people, but they do not.
Friday, June 13, 2014
Practical primitive
This is a site where I read about making clay out of the soil that you have. This could be an important skill to learn if you are trying to live off the land. In fact, the site seems dedicated to those who want to live like our ancestors did.
Here's something that should sound familiar to those who read this blog. This site has a lot of books too. It is a regular treasure trove for someone like myself who has become interested in this topic.
Here's something that should sound familiar to those who read this blog. This site has a lot of books too. It is a regular treasure trove for someone like myself who has become interested in this topic.
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