Climate Con

It is possible to be both stupid and evil. Deb seems to fit the bill.

It certainly is. From a statistical point of view, most evil people must be stupid as there are a lot more stupid people in the world than intelligent ones.

That said, throughout history, we have generally been led by intelligent crooks/criminals. The stupid ones end up on the business end of a noose or pike. (Natural selection of a sort) People can still get on and prosper, to a degree, under smart crooks. One can understand the motivations of an intelligent crook, and plan/work accordingly. An intelligent crook will gauge what is possible and what is not possible. An intelligent criminal will do a cost/benefit analysis, of sorts, to determine if his goals are worth the risks.  An intelligent crook lives in, and understands, reality. He goes about his life accordingly.

An stupid crook will do things without having a grasp on reality. He will take on projects which have no relation to reality. He will ignore history and human nature. He will do things based solely on his desires ignoring, or more likely not even cognizant, that actions have consequences which can often not be controlled. He has no limits and doesn't recognize his own weaknesses. He is too dumb to understand that he is dumb.

A stupid crook/leader is the worse scenario for a people. They cannot plan. They cannot understand his motivations. Their lives become an unbearable caprice. Their sufferings pointless and illogical. This is where we are going. 

I don't recall whether or not I posted the following bit before, but I thought it absolutely on point. Some comedian said it. 



 

Very good quote from that comedian. You cannot watch one commercial on TV without understanding that we are at least being ruled and/or dominated by vulgar people.

As for "smart," I'll abstain on that point. I'm quite sure that the yutes developing the next generation of microchips are as smart as a whip. What I contend is that they are most likely uncouth, vulgar, and not particularly civilized. However, I do not believe that being civilized and moral is a function of intelligence.

A good piece on the split appearing between the West and the rest of the world as regards energy policy. We are losing. 

OPEC cutting production

SA and the rest of OPEC only have one desire, a laudable one, self interest. Every nation that is able to put their self interest first almost always prospers until it comes in conflict with some other self interest. OPEC will turn on a dime as soon as they determine the US is serious about getting back into the energy business. We know as well as the rest of the world that fossil fuel is the only alternative to returning to horse and cart. There simply is not enough electric energy production to fill today's need, let alone the needs for the future. 

The wide eyed idealists seeking cosmic justice and making unachievable demands will, like most of their predecessors fail, some shockingly. Reality is too much for them to handle, the problem is that in failing they could bring down the entirety of Western Civilization. Of course, some of them actually believe WC is evil also. At best they are well intended fools, at worst evil incarnate.

America will remain energy dependent for the next two years, at least. If any democrat is elected in 24 the time will be longer. Gas prices will rise, natural gas will become so expensive people in some areas will return to heating their homes with wood fire. Our SS and Medicare will become prohibitory expensive and government, which created the problem, will wring their hand hands and cry crocodile tears over the thousands of deaths, mostly of elderly people, who remember what it was like to turn a switch and the lights came on. We won't see it but our children and grandchildren will.

This is a future that I don't want for my family, even distant cousins, or my good friends and those not so friendly. It is why I predict that there will be blood before this is over and it won't be pretty. That we may have lived through the "golden age" of American civilization saddens me more than I can express. 56 years ago Americans walked on the moon. Taken there in spacecraft made of tin and baling wire and computers so slow that the ordinary citizen has more computing power in his watch. The 20th century wasn't beautiful, but it was an American century. What the F happened? 

If I win the lottery, one of my dreams is to buy about 500-1000 acres of good land. Then I would fence off the acreage with barbed wire.  After that, I would sink some water wells.

I would look for 4 or 5 good families who were dependable and fairly easy to get a long with, and invite them to move to the country. I would try to find people with practical skills who could contribute to the group if things went south. Each family could build a home of their own so that there would be a number of homes spread around the parameter. 

I would build a large "club house" in which we would have stores of food, fuel, ammo, guns and other necessities should the need arise. The club house would also actually be a club house with things like a pool table, card tables, small kitchen, etc. 

Around the club house I would build a reinforced concrete wall at least 9 feet tall (I'm inclined to 12 ft) and 18 inches thick. It would go 4 or 5 feet below the ground line.  The gate would be heavy alloy steel. I would make some sort of walkway around the wall and the top of the wall would be an embattled parapet.  Thorn bushes would surround the bottom of the wall. I would make it look faux-Medieval so anyone who saw it would believe some eccentric man with strange tastes occupied the place. 
 
The yard of the area surrounding the club house would be concrete at least 10 inches thick.  I would cover most of it with fake grass so as to keep it cool. 

Every adult would need to learn how to handle firearms and each would have a high-powered rifle, pistol and shotgun at their disposal. 

I could go on, but I think you get the idea. I have a feeling that Mad Max may be in our not-to-distant future. 

On another subject, I was wondering if Brad liked his neighbor across the street? 

Got room for a wandering Jew and his kin? Wife likes her 12 gage I'm reasonably proficient in most every thing from 22 to 50 cal Mac Duce. My daughter is a good cook and my two grandchildren here are learning firearms from me. I'm not much of a carpenter any more, my dad, when he wasn't off killing Japaneses and Chinese was a builder and I still recall some of those skills. I can direct but not do at 75. 

Welcome. You all have, or are learning in the kids' case, practical skills and are not leftist lunatics. At least I assume your kin aren't given what you have said before.   

It would also be good to attract an electrician and second carpenter to do the heavy work. A doctor would also be nice. 

One other thing the club house would be is a library. I would bring along my books and everyone else could bring theirs. When the power goes down, I think actual books may come back into style. 

The first wave is what we euphemistically call "the homeless."





But the story is: If she's for it, he has to be against it. This Dirty Laundry brought to you by Bud Lite, the King of Queers.

I have told Brother Ron to seek counseling. Not because he's nuts (well...). But because he needs to talk to someone to gain some perspective. But he's got a nice place in Grapeview that would make for a quite decent stronghold. Lots of acreage. On sort of a hill. He has a well. He used to have a gray-area AR-15 but sold it. That's just the kind of gun that would be useful.