Nothing new in the last 72 hrs?

[bankmining]

This may be the longest stint between new topics I've seen in this section. Not sure what it means.

[Recyclersteve]

A lot of people are pretty fed up with the performance of copper, gold and silver.

[aloneibreak]

A lot of people are pretty fed up with the performance of copper, gold and silver.

yep

let me take you back 4 years...

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3641

[dannan14]

A lot of people are pretty fed up with the performance of copper, gold and silver.

Don't count me in that bunch. i've added significantly to my stack in the last 5 months.

[NDFarmer]

A lot of people are pretty fed up with the performance of copper, gold and silver.

Don't count me in that bunch. i've added significantly to my stack in the last 5 months.

I suppose it is just me but $10.00 silver wouldn't bother me a bit.

[Shazbot57]

A lot of people are pretty fed up with the performance of copper, gold and silver.

Don't count me in that bunch. i've added significantly to my stack in the last 5 months.

I suppose it is just me but $10.00 silver wouldn't bother me a bit.

[neilgin1]

A lot of people are pretty fed up with the performance of copper, gold and silver.

Don't count me in that bunch. i've added significantly to my stack in the last 5 months.

yeh buddy.....amen....on other news, I've been pooping a lot.

[Shazbot57]

A lot of people are pretty fed up with the performance of copper, gold and silver.

Don't count me in that bunch. i've added significantly to my stack in the last 5 months.

yeh buddy.....amen....on other news, I've been pooping a lot.

Good ta know!

[Morsecode]

This may be the longest stint between new topics I've seen in this section. Not sure what it means.

Well, one thing that would help is if forum veterans like you would get off your lazy butts and post more.

I see 9 posts from you in the last year and a half. Dust off the keyboard, man.

Look at me...I'm not interesting, yet that doesn't stop me.

[JobIII]

This may be the longest stint between new topics I've seen in this section. Not sure what it means.

Well, one thing that would help is if forum veterans like you would get off your lazy butts and post more.

Too funny

[bankmining]

This may be the longest stint between new topics I've seen in this section. Not sure what it means.

Well, one thing that would help is if forum veterans like you would get off your lazy butts and post more.

Too funny

True dat There's a few of us frequent readers/shy posters

[neilgin1]

Don't count me in that bunch. i've added significantly to my stack in the last 5 months.

yeh buddy.....amen....on other news, I've been pooping a lot.

Good ta know!

yeh buddy, thank you, but unfortunately, she's gone the other way, now i'm so bunged up, I feel like I got a cork mashed up in there, not a good deal, lemme tell ya that.

But, that's MY problem, and my problem alone, no need to bother you good men, with the comings and goings of my inner workings. Sooner or later, it'll all come out in the wash, case closed.

but lets get off of that, I just saw some old video, reason number 174, I wouldn't live in California ever again, its a bunch of filthy unwarshed hippies cockupying a park in Sacramento, and the "reporter" is trying to get out of them, "what are you protesting?"....so instead of being real, and saying, "nothing else better to do"...we hear a lot of squalling and sham-alam-ding-donging...one person does get kinda real, and yammers about "corporate greed"...getting warm, coz I wanna say, "corporate greed" is nothing but "corporatism", which isn't capitalism or mercantilism, its "crony capitalism" and that is the step brother of socialism, which is the cousin of communism, which is the twin of fascism.

but I couldn't tell them that, coz they don't have ears to hear...now if they DID, i'd tell 'em, "first, take a bath with some Ivory 99.44 % pure soap, wash good, get your underarms and privates clean as a whistle, THEN wire your head to your azz, and realize the brilliance of the 2nd Amendment, as the Foundation for all the Other Amendments, third, recognize you're being played by thinking that piece of paper, that FRN is money, coz it aint, gold and silver is hard money, and you get that by either getting a job, or making or inventing something.....and four flee the city, but don't follow me home, find you're own neck of the woods"

SO...the question is, after you watch this, how many of these poor deluded kids are stackers? (they do show one old fossil socialist, who oughta be ashamed of himself, and if he was any kind of man, would go lay himself in a snowbank, coz that's all he's good for, to feed the coyotes) here's the video:

[Treetop]

I spent a few weeks on various occupy message boards. Trying to push the idea that to much government is part of our problem. Sadly neil I think its even worse then that video portrayed, but Ill leave it there so I dont seem mean. Besides to say that 99% such folks march for? Im not them, whatever that means they arent standing for me.

[dannan14]

Well Neil, i can assure you that very few of us (i am) were hippies. There was literally no most to that group at all. Very diverse, very eclectic. i wasn't in the video, but had the camera angle been wider i would have been at several points. Trust me brother, you would have been shocked to find out how well informed the average person at OSac was. None of your assumptions are correct...especially the soap part

[Morsecode]

Thanks for the video, Neil. I couldn't decide whether to laugh or cry...

[neilgin1]

Well Neil, i can assure you that very few of us (i am) were hippies. There was literally no most to that group at all. Very diverse, very eclectic. i wasn't in the video, but had the camera angle been wider i would have been at several points. Trust me brother, you would have been shocked to find out how well informed the average person at OSac was. None of your assumptions are correct...especially the soap part

no offense meant, my brother....who sez I aint a "hippy" too?...maybe I might be a hybrid, a hippy redneck, that dresses like rural white trash..

here's the deal, as I see it, don't be a "joiner", all these groups, whether "occupy", or "tea party", have Trojan horses embedded, they get co-opted. the "TP's" aint stupid, they know that there are people with no honor, who will do anything for a paycheck and a little bit of inside juice....that's why I always say, IF YOU CAN, get out of the cities/suburbs, and lay low. Make friends on a organic basis, and follow "The Way of the Coyote"...which as I see it, is a fine animal to study and emulate.

The coyote is a prominent character in Native American folklore, usually depicted as a trickster who alternately assumes the form of an actual coyote or a man. As with other trickster figures, the coyote acts as a picaresque hero which rebels against social convention through deception and humor.[11] The animal was especially respected in Mesoamerican cosmology as a symbol of military might,[12] with some scholars having traced the origin of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl to a pre-Aztec coyote deity.[13] After the European colonization of the Americas, it was reviled in Anglo-American culture as a cowardly and untrustworthy animal. Unlike the gray wolf, which has undergone a radical improvement of its public image, cultural attitudes towards the coyote remain largely negative

here's the wiki entry I got that from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote

When hunting large prey, the coyote often works in pairs or in small groups

Unlike the wolf, which attacks large prey from the rear, the coyote approaches from the front, lacerating its prey's head and throat.

Being both a gregarious and solitary animal, the variability of the coyote's visual and vocal repertoire is intermediate between that of the solitary foxes and the highly social wolf

The coyote has been described as "the most vocal of North American wild mammals...... At least 11 different vocalizations are known in adult coyotes. These sounds are divided into three categories: 1) Agonistic and alarm, 2) Greeting, and 3) Contact. Vocalizations of the first category include woofs, growls, huffs, barks, bark howls, yelps and high frequency whines. Woofs are used as low intensity threats or alarms, and are usually heard near den sites, prompting the pups to immediately retreat into their burrows. Growls are used as threats in short distances, but have also been heard among pups playing and copulating males. Huffs are high intensity threat vocalizations produced via rapid expiration of air. Barks can be classed as both long distance threat vocalizations and as alarm calls. Bark howls may serve similar functions. Yelps are emitted as a sign of submission, while high frequency whines are produced by dominant animals acknowledging the submission of subordinates. Greeting vocalizations include low frequency whines, wow-oo-wows and group yip howls. Low frequency whines are emitted by submissive animals, and are usually accompanied by tail wagging and muzzle nibbling. The sound known as wow-oo-wow has been described as a "greeting song". The group yip howl is emitted when two or more pack members reunite, and may be the final act of a complex greeting ceremony. Contact calls include lone howls and group howls, as well as the previously mention group yip howls. The lone howl is the most iconic sound of the coyote, and may serve the purpose of announcing the presence of a lone individual separated from its pack. Group howls are used as both substitute group yip howls and as responses to either lone howls, group howls or group yip howls.[8]

enough quotes, some of you might think I've gone bat sh#t crazy, but let me plead my case, within some of these quotes, and direct observations, one can "strategize" both tactic and organization. This world, as we know it, is fading, changing, some call it the "new normal".....I call it, "the herding of the sheep", and what happens to sheep?, first they are used for their fibers, shorn from their bodies, and then off to the slaughter. These TP's think that most of our fellow countrymen are just sheep, and they might be right, which is grievous, because what does it say in the Constitution ?..."All men are created.......?

But it doesn't help, when the day after the super bowl, most public discourse is on Pete Carroll's questionable play calling, when there are 2 dozen global nightmares, more worthy of consideration....and it doesn't help, when a mob made mad over a police shooting, acts that out by stealing candy bars and $200 gym shoes, then burning these business establishments, while chanting, "no justice, no peace"...its BS...if they act like insane children, that's how they'll be treated....or the "occupy" groups, who cant formulate a coherent "message", don't draw the "silent Majority" IN....the "silent majority" is concerned where the next paycheck is coming from, to feed the family, pay the mortgage, etc...they see the "occupiers" as just a bunch of spoiled kids, out for trouble.
...and the "tea party"?....well, these days when you hear guys talking about armed revolt...run, half of them are gubbermint ops, sucking you into a trap.

no....lay low, the artifice will collapse of its own wrongness....Way of the Coyote. But first you got to get out of those cities and suburbs, a storm is coming.

[neilgin1]

Thanks for the video, Neil. I couldn't decide whether to laugh or cry...

you can do both....I do.....every single tear we cry, I believe makes one stronger....AND lets you know you still have a heart, like a human being, instead of some of these human monsters with no heart, no mercy, only lust for power and domination.

But God is watching....I know that. Plead the Blood of Messiah....and turn.

[johnbrickner]

I wanna say, "corporate greed" is nothing but "corporatism", which isn't capitalism or mercantilism, its "crony capitalism" and that is the step brother of socialism, which is the cousin of communism, which is the twin of fascism.

Well said, Neil. I couldn't watch the vid past 2:12. At least back in Dec. '72 we could chant "Nixon and Kissinger what do you say, how many kids have you bombed today?".

[Treetop]

here's the deal, as I see it, don't be a "joiner", all these groups, whether "occupy", or "tea party", have Trojan horses embedded, they get co-opted. the "TP's" aint stupid, they know that there are people with no honor, who will do anything for a paycheck and a little bit of inside juice....that's why I always say, IF YOU CAN, get out of the cities/suburbs, and lay low. Make friends on a organic basis, and follow "The Way of the Coyote"...which as I see it, is a fine animal to study and emulate.

Few people seem to remember that the tea party came from libertarian minded ron paul supporters. At the very start there were certainly more right leaning folks involved, but lots from the left also. The first rallies literally had rappers, heavy metal and country singers on the same stage through out the rally. By the second weekend Fox had claimed it for the right, and several left media sources were intensely pushing the still running memes about them. Both were wrong though, at first. quickly however things slided to just where the higher ups had intended. A similar thing with ows stuff, but not nearly as big of a shift. It was horribly sad to watch, I was on a politics forum at the time and even though we had many left and right watching the tea party with enthusiasm, it was only by the second weekend the lefties new they were crazy god and country righties and the right new they were just an angrier version of what they already had, that stayed intense about a few issues for a short bit, even that seems to have faded. Maybe it happened on its own, but it happened so fast and smooth it seemed staged. The tea party of the first few weeks, and its first rally?? was the type of movement that could put the country back in the peoples hands.

[neilgin1]

Few people seem to remember that the tea party came from libertarian minded ron paul supporters. At the very start there were certainly more right leaning folks involved, but lots from the left also. The first rallies literally had rappers, heavy metal and country singers on the same stage through out the rally. By the second weekend Fox had claimed it for the right, and several left media sources were intensely pushing the still running memes about them. Both were wrong though, at first. quickly however things slided to just where the higher ups had intended. A similar thing with ows stuff, but not nearly as big of a shift. It was horribly sad to watch, I was on a politics forum at the time and even though we had many left and right watching the tea party with enthusiasm, it was only by the second weekend the lefties new they were crazy god and country righties and the right new they were just an angrier version of what they already had, that stayed intense about a few issues for a short bit, even that seems to have faded. Maybe it happened on its own, but it happened so fast and smooth it seemed staged. The tea party of the first few weeks, and its first rally?? was the type of movement that could put the country back in the peoples hands.

Tree, I been wanting to respond to your post thru the week, but cabin fever and family nightmares (not here, always via the phone) prevented me. Up in the northern tier, cabin fever is a natural occurrence come mid to late Feb, you don't fight it, if you find yourself talking to the walls, just go with it, and blither away.

People might ask, what does this thread have to do with the price of silver?....or nickel, copper?

imho? plenty. if one has detached from both the MSM prop, and uses discernment in reading various "doomer porn" sites...the future picture is rather bleak, and when I look at it, it boils down to one thing....."EROI" ---"Energy Returned on Energy Invested"
(I wont bore you with a long treatise on this...heres the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_ret ... y_invested )

Basically its this concept, at the advent of Petro-world, one barrel of oil (energy) would yield 100 barrels. Now its 1 to 3 in the States for crude, ethanol(corn) is 1:1.3.People could say that ethanol is just "welfare" for farmers, but like the now disappearing "middle class", the old school "family farm" is a thing of the past, meaning 80-100 acres of dry cropped corn, 20 milking cows and 40 head of hog, those farms are gone, in the 80's, guys would be lucky to net 10k a year, its the 600-1600 acre farms that make it now, but the avg age of this farmer is 57 years old, and if it wasn't for ethanol, off a 14.5 bln bushel corn crop in 2014, corn would trading at most $2 the bushel if not less...and God help us if American ag collapses. but that's another discussion.

so you had so many paper investments TIED to EROI, that's one of the reasons, the collapse of 08-09 happened. It takes ten calories of energy to produce one calorie of food. Think of the silver mines, whats their breakeven point?.......its not this $16-17 suppressed "Board" price....a lot of these guys are going BK, throwing in the towel...meanwhile, starting under Bush, we had the first "TARP" giving the banks $700 bln $ in Dec 08, then Obama with the QE's, Fed "money" at 0% to the six big too big to fail banks, which NOW could trade the markets, which meant buy stocks, hedge funds included....no worries, if the stock market traded off, there was always the plunge protection team to the rescue, and crush the tiny silver market...."tiny" in context...but they crush it, because it would mess up the charade of the petrodollar, the reserve "currency" of the world, which is maintained at the point of a bayonet or the hum of a drone, or these skunks screaming about Syria's Assad....."terrible dictator, who should be removed from power, so we can spread democracy to Syria", when the reality is, the Saudis and Qataris WANT the real estate cleared for a NatGas pipeline headed north, to tap into the European feed/market.

but oh-oh...one problem, Russia's already there with their pipelines and enormous NatGas reserves...remember the summer of 13, when the wardrums were beating over Syria, lil Barry and Lurch Kerry were going to "bring democracy to Syria"?....Russia parked five warships in front of the Syrian port (and Russian naval base) of Tartus, and said "bring it"...remember? That's when we started hearing whispers of "oh sh#t, WW3".....so Barry, Lurch and gang backed down, but not for long, because they had plan b, all in place....in Maidan Square, Kiev....centrist Ukrainian's started a non violent protest Nov 13, but Barry and his state dept sent in their hirelings, (who had been given $5 bln over the pst ten years) "Svoboda" and "Right Sector", and on 20 Feb 2014, these two neo-Nazi groups, burned that square down, sniped and killed police, and chased the idiot, BUT democratically elected PM back to Russia.....and now, we're off to the races, coz Putin, who quoted Sun-Tzu, is a geopolitical CHESS player, and Barry, and Lurch are geopolitical checkers players.....and from 20 Feb 2014, Putin has been running the table, but just YESTERDAY, I read this

"China Just Sided With Russia Over The Ukraine Conflict"
read it for yourself, come to your own conclusions.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-2 ... e-conflict

then, same day, same website, I read this:
"10 Reasons Washington Has War Fever"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-2 ... -war-fever

you might say these writers are "unpatriotic", but as I read these articles, I didn't read untruths, quite the opposite, so is it unpatriotic to tell truth...or is it patriotic?

You see I believe and I've said this before, the very act of stacking is a quiet rebellion, because its saying, "NO....I don't have full faith and trust anymore in this piece of paper".

and as the cherry on the top of the cake, i'm going to post what may seem a too large video, its from the "Caravan to Midnight" show...two men, painstakingly dissected all the CCTV footage from the Boston "bombing", going over what each individual DID, and if you take time to watch the 2 hours plus, the farce of it all is SO apparent, that's how ineptly the whole sham was "directed".....and off of that, the second video I post, which is footage from the lockdown of Watertown Mass, so "authorities" can search for one skinny Chechen with a 9mm, when really its apparent that this outrage is just a beta test to see how our fellow citizens will react to martial law. (Mods, if you think all this is too risky to have up, take it down, I bear no ill, as these are dark times for the Republic)

Boston Exposed...well worth the time to watch, these men carefully dissected the truth.


and after the "bombing"...the lockdown, and innocent citizens, at gunpoint, men who we were brought up to trust, screaming at them, like they are the criminals...is this OUR future?....how many good men gave their lives to protect and defend FREEDOM?!....and now this?! God save the Republic.

[silverstacker]

Few people seem to remember that the tea party came from libertarian minded ron paul supporters. At the very start there were certainly more right leaning folks involved, but lots from the left also. The first rallies literally had rappers, heavy metal and country singers on the same stage through out the rally. By the second weekend Fox had claimed it for the right, and several left media sources were intensely pushing the still running memes about them. Both were wrong though, at first. quickly however things slided to just where the higher ups had intended. A similar thing with ows stuff, but not nearly as big of a shift. It was horribly sad to watch, I was on a politics forum at the time and even though we had many left and right watching the tea party with enthusiasm, it was only by the second weekend the lefties new they were crazy god and country righties and the right new they were just an angrier version of what they already had, that stayed intense about a few issues for a short bit, even that seems to have faded. Maybe it happened on its own, but it happened so fast and smooth it seemed staged. The tea party of the first few weeks, and its first rally?? was the type of movement that could put the country back in the peoples hands.

Tree, I been wanting to respond to your post thru the week, but cabin fever and family nightmares (not here, always via the phone) prevented me. Up in the northern tier, cabin fever is a natural occurrence come mid to late Feb, you don't fight it, if you find yourself talking to the walls, just go with it, and blither away.

People might ask, what does this thread have to do with the price of silver?....or nickel, copper?

imho? plenty. if one has detached from both the MSM prop, and uses discernment in reading various "doomer porn" sites...the future picture is rather bleak, and when I look at it, it boils down to one thing....."EROI" ---"Energy Returned on Energy Invested"
(I wont bore you with a long treatise on this...heres the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_ret ... y_invested )

Basically its this concept, at the advent of Petro-world, one barrel of oil (energy) would yield 100 barrels. Now its 1 to 3 in the States for crude, ethanol(corn) is 1:1.3.People could say that ethanol is just "welfare" for farmers, but like the now disappearing "middle class", the old school "family farm" is a thing of the past, meaning 80-100 acres of dry cropped corn, 20 milking cows and 40 head of hog, those farms are gone, in the 80's, guys would be lucky to net 10k a year, its the 600-1600 acre farms that make it now, but the avg age of this farmer is 57 years old, and if it wasn't for ethanol, off a 14.5 bln bushel corn crop in 2014, corn would trading at most $2 the bushel if not less...and God help us if American ag collapses. but that's another discussion.

so you had so many paper investments TIED to EROI, that's one of the reasons, the collapse of 08-09 happened. It takes ten calories of energy to produce one calorie of food. Think of the silver mines, whats their breakeven point?.......its not this $16-17 suppressed "Board" price....a lot of these guys are going BK, throwing in the towel...meanwhile, starting under Bush, we had the first "TARP" giving the banks $700 bln $ in Dec 08, then Obama with the QE's, Fed "money" at 0% to the six big too big to fail banks, which NOW could trade the markets, which meant buy stocks, hedge funds included....no worries, if the stock market traded off, there was always the plunge protection team to the rescue, and crush the tiny silver market...."tiny" in context...but they crush it, because it would mess up the charade of the petrodollar, the reserve "currency" of the world, which is maintained at the point of a bayonet or the hum of a drone, or these skunks screaming about Syria's Assad....."terrible dictator, who should be removed from power, so we can spread democracy to Syria", when the reality is, the Saudis and Qataris WANT the real estate cleared for a NatGas pipeline headed north, to tap into the European feed/market.

but oh-oh...one problem, Russia's already there with their pipelines and enormous NatGas reserves...remember the summer of 13, when the wardrums were beating over Syria, lil Barry and Lurch Kerry were going to "bring democracy to Syria"?....Russia parked five warships in front of the Syrian port (and Russian naval base) of Tartus, and said "bring it"...remember? That's when we started hearing whispers of "oh sh#t, WW3".....so Barry, Lurch and gang backed down, but not for long, because they had plan b, all in place....in Maidan Square, Kiev....centrist Ukrainian's started a non violent protest Nov 13, but Barry and his state dept sent in their hirelings, (who had been given $5 bln over the pst ten years) "Svoboda" and "Right Sector", and on 20 Feb 2014, these two neo-Nazi groups, burned that square down, sniped and killed police, and chased the idiot, BUT democratically elected PM back to Russia.....and now, we're off to the races, coz Putin, who quoted Sun-Tzu, is a geopolitical CHESS player, and Barry, and Lurch are geopolitical checkers players.....and from 20 Feb 2014, Putin has been running the table, but just YESTERDAY, I read this

"China Just Sided With Russia Over The Ukraine Conflict"
read it for yourself, come to your own conclusions.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-2 ... e-conflict

then, same day, same website, I read this:
"10 Reasons Washington Has War Fever"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-2 ... -war-fever

you might say these writers are "unpatriotic", but as I read these articles, I didn't read untruths, quite the opposite, so is it unpatriotic to tell truth...or is it patriotic?

You see I believe and I've said this before, the very act of stacking is a quiet rebellion, because its saying, "NO....I don't have full faith and trust anymore in this piece of paper".

and as the cherry on the top of the cake, i'm going to post what may seem a too large video, its from the "Caravan to Midnight" show...two men, painstakingly dissected all the CCTV footage from the Boston "bombing", going over what each individual DID, and if you take time to watch the 2 hours plus, the farce of it all is SO apparent, that's how ineptly the whole sham was "directed".....and off of that, the second video I post, which is footage from the lockdown of Watertown Mass, so "authorities" can search for one skinny Chechen with a 9mm, when really its apparent that this outrage is just a beta test to see how our fellow citizens will react to martial law. (Mods, if you think all this is too risky to have up, take it down, I bear no ill, as these are dark times for the Republic)

Boston Exposed...well worth the time to watch, these men carefully dissected the truth.


and after the "bombing"...the lockdown, and innocent citizens, at gunpoint, men who we were brought up to trust, screaming at them, like they are the criminals...is this OUR future?....how many good men gave their lives to protect and defend FREEDOM?!....and now this?! God save the Republic.

bravo

I know that I've been here for a year my friend but you make some valid points And I'm glad you are back as I've heard you took some time off from posting. Well I'm glad your back so I can see what others were talking about.

Granted there are many many intelligent people on this board but I just love to read your posts. And the video's help as well

[neilgin1]

bravo

I know that I've been here for a year my friend but you make some valid points And I'm glad you are back as I've heard you took some time off from posting. Well I'm glad your back so I can see what others were talking about.

Granted there are many many intelligent people on this board but I just love to read your posts. And the video's help as well

that's kind of you to say Stack, too kind, as there are many men here, much smarter than I.

when I found that last video, the rape of the 4th Amendment, I also found this, some "news" reporting from the little "Watertown Kabuki" play farce. the reason I post it, is for what the "public" that's interviewed says. the one really sharp looking female, who talks about being "really really scared" is understandable, she's a suburban girl, girls and women should be protected (but the ones that got some grit, should be treasured).....but check out two of three males interviewed, at the 1:00 mark and the 3:00 mark.

listening to these eunuch excuses of American manhood, actually makes me physically ill, pencil necked pu##y's.....especially standing on the VERY ground where the blood of brave men was shed, kicking the sh#t out of George the third's hessians, and imperial scumbag brits....on the very ground!!!.......quote: "It was very scary to have men point big guns in our face".

i'll stop,and i'll add a funny yet sick scene from "Full Metal Jacket", so you can wipe the disgust out of your mind, the guy that cracks me up is the pimp ARVN solider.....its so sick its funny.



and for a laugh

[neilgin1]

here's the full length documentary, "Collapse"....which is a fascinating interview with Michael Ruppert (now dead, he committed suicide several years ago) talking about EROI, peak oil. This doc, and Michaels newsletters were the first of a new breed of alt media. you wont regret or be bored by what you see or hear....in many ways, this documentary woke a LOT of people up:

[dannan14]

no offense meant, my brother....who sez I aint a "hippy" too?...maybe I might be a hybrid, a hippy redneck, that dresses like rural white trash..

None taken...and yes, hippy rednecks are not only a real hybrid but they're plentiful here in Nor Cal. i posted mainly to reinforce what i like most about the RealCent community: We have a wide variety of backgrounds and points of view here. On an online message board i think that creates intellectual diversity. Seeing the world through several viewpoints is always going to make a more complete picture and i like that.

[neilgin1]

None taken...and yes, hippy rednecks are not only a real hybrid but they're plentiful here in Nor Cal. i posted mainly to reinforce what i like most about the RealCent community: We have a wide variety of backgrounds and points of view here. On an online message board i think that creates intellectual diversity. Seeing the world through several viewpoints is always going to make a more complete picture and i like that.

NorCal huh Dan?....yeh bud, I KNOW there's hippy redneck's up there for sure. I was down in SoCal from 89-05 in one of the most infamous "hippy" canyons, tween Santa Monica and Malibu......work brought me there. at first I liked it, you had the LA Basin on one side, the Valley on the other, and when you drove into our canyon, you could fool yourself,and think you were living rural. never liked leaving the Canyon, and going into LA, the Valley was okay, but as I said, I only went into them for work, and grocery shopping.
I can say that Dodgers Stadium is one of my most favorite places on Earth, many many happy days and nights were spent there, third deck, rows 1 to 14, yeh buddy.

but the Canyon?...it was sure beautiful, I lived up on the highest ridgeline,2,000 feet up, right next to a huge "nature reserve", which became my nature reserve, as well as about a dozen skank hippies, who would squat on that land, and i'm good natured, and they'd take advantage of it, by abandoning their dogs with me and my son's mother. ("hey man, could you watch Shiva and Kali for us, we're just going north for a month?"....never see them again) at one point, I had a seven dog pack, loved 'em, coz I raised them right, fed them right, and nobody lived around me for miles, except this one rich(inherited money) eccentric "hippy" who lived on this weird ranch, with his wife, 20 years younger, and his 3 kids, a girl and two boys. He used to keep a "zoo"...this large enclosure filled with llamas, and giraffes, dwarf deer, all sorts of crazy animals...in fact, one day the giraffe and llama, got into a fight, so bad, they actually fell/fought 2,000 feet down the mountain and wound up dead, laying across the main canyon road. he kept his road so bad, that each time I drove from my place to his place, I had to keep from looking to the left side, coz at points, there was a 700 foot drop off....and he was an animal rights "activist", blithering at me, "love animals, don't eat them"....or, "why turn your stomach into an animal graveyard?"...when I met him, his salad days were over, he used to have huge parties up there, with famous rockstars and what not, in fact one time, this guy tells me, "Andy Warhol wanted to s#ck his (Johnson), but I tole him it was too small"...true story. guess what, turns out this 60 something "love animals, don't eat 'em hippy" had been systematically molesting his three children for YEARS...sick. When I first met them, (1989) the kids were 5, 9, and 11. finally when the girl was like 15, she told the ditz mother, the ditz confronted this monster, and he denied it, and sneakily cut her brake line, so that when she drove DOWN the steep hill, the mother and three kids almost died, then he fled to Costa Rica, where he died in 2006, and undoubtedly split hell wide open, begging Lazarus for a drop of water to cool his tongue. here's the monster in 1966 on the Joe Pyne show plying his act: (and for a laugh, read the comments below the vid)


but I really wanted to talk about NorCal...sorry for the off-topic diversion....my son's mother and I loved Big Sur, spent loads of time there, and I was going to get a place there, but I wanted my upper Midwest ranch first...she "hated" this area, so I probably would have had to buy in NorCal. (then I still would bought here, it would have "Daddy's hideout) I say that coz NorCal always made me nervous, its beautiful, but in Sep/Oct I heard it gets intense, CAMP flies their choppers, paranoia runs thick, and growers are all gunned up...plus the whole water issue, or lack of, just gives the heebie jeebies....now it might be different.

I was back in Socal couple months ago, for a thing, staying with my boys and uncle, and I sent them out to one of the "clubs" to get Daddy a "brownie".....I took two medium sized bites, and the only I remember about that week was giving them $20 bills to make Taco Bell runs....lol...it was so bad, when I first took those two bites we were about 40 miles away from home, at a skeet shooting range, I had rented a Dodge Charger, and I took those bites and in a half an hour, I suddenly found I couldn't stand up, so I handed uncle the keys, said "i aint fit to drive"....my two boys started laughing, coz they had to lift me up and walk me to the car, saying "you got 'neilified"...this condition has happened at other family gatherings and now has a name, getting "neilified", which means I cant walk, I just should be left in whatever chair i'm planted in. I slept the whole drive home, they left me sleeping in the car.

now what happens to me in the neilified state is this, my brain tells my legs to "walk", but the signal never gets there, and when my boys lifted me out of the car 4 hours later, and stood me up, for the life of me I couldn't make one leg go forward, then another....so I actually climbed down the evolution chain, and was pleased to find out, "i could CRAWL!!" so I crawled the hundred yards to the door, my boys escorting me so I wouldn't get run over or "apprehended"....I hadn't seen "Wolf Street of Wall Street", but when I saw it, I realized I wasn't alone in the "I can CRAWL!" exultation. what can I say? it happens.Have a beautiful day, n