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Get the sense that things are spinning out of control ? Not to worry though. Comrade Zero is golfing in Fla., the Democrats are coming unglued and the Republican leadership is adding up the millions of Spanish speaking votes it's amnesty plan will add to it's coming landslide defeat when the conservative base once again stays home and sits on its hands. The future's so bright you better wear shades.

Well, look on the bright side: when the dollar tanks and barter takes over, when the infrastructure including electricity and oil shuts down, when food riots start, when the military break ranks and come on over, when local and regional warlords start consolidating power, then we will be at the lowest common denominator — might makes right. Gosh, all equal, kinda. Either quick or dead.

@chas, what you call "lowest common denominator", we out here in the sticks call normal. We actually went in a store about a week or so ago, but here it is 6:15pm and I haven't seen another human yet today other than my wife. We likes bein' common denominators.

ghost: That "LCD" was meant as cynical and sarcastic toward all the large urban dwellers and lefty-socialists. They will rue the day when the masses rise up and bite the hand, so forth.

I can't say we're that remote, just a small town in NM unfortunately too close to the border but I know what you mean. I hadn't thought of it the way you say it but that sounds good. Yeah, we line up with the normal (no sarcasm intended) folks. that way of life and the values work for us now and will be even stronger when troubled times come along. Our community-consciousness still honors a deal bound by a man's word or a handshake. When I'm out range-cruising, strangers on the road wave to each other and the level of courtesy in otherwise disparate people is high.

I can't figure out a way we could contact each other apart from these comment sections. Maybe we have a common pal that might connect us if you're interested in further commo. I'd trust Gerard to be middleman and I'll ask him if it's OK.

Think back to 1967-68, and see if things is so bad right now in comparison.

If the electricity and infrastructure actually just 'shuts down' like you fantasize, you'll just starve, like everybody else. Except possibly some Amish somewhere who still got the horses and equipment to grow their own food.

The dude over at Sippican college went on like this once and ended with the question "What can you do?"

But he missed it. The question is "What can you grow?"

And Chas, put an email address on your blog. Internet tough guy there can get hold of you then if he cares to.

And take down that Good Soldier Švejk image. You ain't no soldier. That's just offensive.

Eric: "What can you do?" might mean bartering skills for food, &c. My electrical skills are an asset.

I thought about an email address on my humble little blog; maybe I'll set up a mailbox to filter out people I don't wanna talk to.

I did my share of soldiering purt near fifty years ago. Had my fill of it.

Švejk stays.