New Panic Meter Settings

I am reluctantly moving the Panic Meter to 4.5...The Japanese earthquake is the kind of black swan event that I was afraid of, happening at just about the EXACT moment that the Fedsters are running out of tricks. The ME remains a giant clusterfuck. Commodity markets are on the verge of fucko bazoo, because the winter was something out of a Dicken's novel and there ain't gonna BE commodities to trade and because paper money is going to be chasing REAL STUFF (except houses) as the market for fictional wealth withers like a Florida tomato plant...

It will not be a normal summer, even among us freaks..

Urgency meter is bumped up a notch, to 8.5...if you don't get your shit together in the next few weeks, you'll just have to muddle through with...untogether shit...I guess, any way...

Remember who we are, and who we aspire to be...upper lips, remain stiff...eyes remain unbugged...we are a ship of Piccards, the Borg does not scare us and we will not assimilate...

Alex, make it so...

Tug

The Borg scares ME.....

Yay Tug, bring it on baby! (without panicking...)

It is done Captain Sir.
I added numbers at the top to make the current setting easier to identify.

Oh...it's coming back to me, you can't move it in .25 increments...sorry...if you guys read my last adjustment, I had set it at 4.25...so I guess the numbers now actually match on the board and in my head...I should be a hedge fund manager...ANY WAY .....the meter is now OFFICIALLY 4.5...I'm gonna check the photon torpedo tubes for tribbles...

Tug

You guys;
Watch the commodity markets--gold, silver and farm stuff going up...see the stocks and bonds coming down...listen to the gurus, as they ask for more FRN to be printed--and are rebuffed...watch our political leaders, those folks who you thought had maxed out all the fecklessness that 546 people could muster, become even more feckless...as they argue over $60 billion in annual cuts, while the deficit is running $2 trillion, what asshattery. Who's in charge? No one. Because no one wants the blame...they've all stepped away from the helm, it's just spinning as it pleases now...now is the time to gather together all that you love while you can...gathering time...

Tug

Here's a good guru site. Link of links. These guys are NOT afraid to call the doom.
They follow the stocks, the metals, the ag commodities and global events. All at one site :)

http://www.financialsense.com/index.php

I need to work up some kind of ratio for the Tug O Meter : price per dozen eggs. It used to be whatever a silver dime was going for melt, then I pegged it to corn chops - 4 dozen per 50# sack. Both silver and corn have lost all touch with reality - Tug's panic has sensibility hahaha.

comrade simba > Comrade Simba. I see you turned into a Capitalist! hahaha :)

Capitalized when I wasn't looking. Beats disappeared I guess.

See here:
http://forums.silentcountry.com/foru...l=1#post162177

I'm having moments where I just want to cry. (I know, probably a girl thing)
Still, it's one thing to prep for doom, and another to watch the suffering unfold before your eyes.
Unfortunately, I realize, there's more to come...

Put in another hundred foot row of cabbage. Makes you feel better. I need some more rabbits so I put Mr. Wiggles in with Mrs. Wiggles. Makes him feel better...

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Originally Posted by Doom Panther

I'm having moments where I just want to cry. (I know, probably a girl thing)
Still, it's one thing to prep for doom, and another to watch the suffering unfold before your eyes.
Unfortunately, I realize, there's more to come...

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I hear ya, DP, and it is not a girl thing. There are many guys out here that feel empathy as well, and I am one of them. I have always had a fondness for oriental people for reasons that I really don't want to get into here. For one, don't take this personally, but I think Japanese women are some of the most beautiful creatures God ever put on this earth, and the men over there are about as nice as anybody you could ever meet. I think much of the inner beauty these people have today comes from the very hard legacy of suppression they experienced during the reign of war lords. If you ever watched the TV mini-series 'Sho-gun", you would know what I mean. They were not shown any mercy at all.

Be this as it may, if there was anything I could do to help these people on a personal basis, I would. Alas, I don't have the financial wherewithall to do so, or right this very minute I would be in northern Japan helping those people the best I could. Unfortunately, I can't be, so the best I can do is the same thing everyone else is doing. Share in their misery by watching, and hoping their turmoil and distress comes to a rapid end.

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Originally Posted by portals

I hear ya, DP, and it is not a girl thing. There are many guys out here that feel empathy as well, and I am one of them. I have always had a fondness for oriental people for reasons that I really don't want to get into here. For one, don't take this personally, but I think Japanese women are some of the most beautiful creatures God ever put on this earth, and the men over there are about as nice as anybody you could ever meet. I think much of the inner beauty these people have today comes from the very hard legacy of suppression they experienced during the reign of war lords. If you ever watched the TV mini-series 'Sho-gun", you would know what I mean. They were not shown any mercy at all.

Be this as it may, if there was anything I could do to help these people on a personal basis, I would. Alas, I don't have the financial wherewithall to do so, or right this very minute I would be in northern Japan helping those people the best I could. Unfortunately, I can't be, so the best I can do is the same thing everyone else is doing. Share in their misery by watching, and hoping their turmoil and distress comes to a rapid end.

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Exactly! I just feel so helpless right now.

My dear Mr. Tug, I believe you are the epitome of cautious and conservative, given current conditions.

Did I tell you all today how much I love you???

Got a mother-in-law who wants to come and have a 'serious talk' about all this, and the potential for her to turn up here if SHTF.

Ugh. As if doom isn't enough, we have families to deal with too! :p

oh good luck with that nothingman!

*serious talk* sounds *serious*

I was wondering if the meter's would be upped. I guess i knew they would in light of the seriousness of this.

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Originally Posted by nothingman

Got a mother-in-law who wants to come and have a 'serious talk' about all this, and the potential for her to turn up here if SHTF.

I'm going to make her a list of stuff she better bring with her or she wont be getting past the gate.

Ugh. As if doom isn't enough, we have families to deal with too! :p

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First off how enthused is your wife about this? If she is seriously applying pressure there is only so much hardball you can play. If this is something that will happen tell MIL to stockpile her year's worth of food on your place BEFORE shtf - like now. Trust me - she will run there empty handed when the lights go out bringing only her sense of entitlement. If your wife isn't too happy with the idea of having her there nix the idea. Be the prick. Write her off as just another useless eater and send her directions to the relief camp.

A MIL will completely fuck up your family dynamic. Have your bottom line be "will she be detrimental to our kids?"

If we're all lucky, she'll help us out getting the infrastructure updated before it all goes fucko bazzoo. This is going to be one very, very interesting conversation.

nm, be firm and assertive. She has to contribute too. She might be an heir to the land, but she hasn't contributed ANYTHING yet, and the "promise" of land doesn't mean a damn thing. She needs to start contributing now. As my mom always said, "Them that works, eats."

And didn't you mention that there were siblings of your wife that your MIL expected you to take care of as well when TSHTF? If they aren't going to contribute and Mom wants to include them too, guess what, she needs to contribute for THEIR needs.

She effectively holds the deed - she's Queen. I got the same deal with my mom, although the family likes her. She paid off the mortgage and we pay her interest only on the Bank of Mom note. Deed is in our name so it's a different deal than you have. Mom gets the Queen's suite (the garage/cottage) WTSHTF, but I don't think she'll take us up on the offer in a fast and total collapse situation. Too hooked on the life she has always known and would pretty much decide to call it quits.

Have the conversation center around hard points of "when the balloon goes up". For me it's when three major US cities go up in flames, Martial Law enacted, Ras Tanura on fire or the Strait of Hormuz blocked to tanker traffic. General hardship and scarcity doesn't count - those who waltz along BAU have to pay the dues to earn a place at the table.

What I don't get is Uncle giving her the place when she isn't up there taking care of him. You guys are. Blood is just weird most of the time.

Is it a positive note that she recognizes the need to prepare at all? She's not going blindly along pretending everything will be ok. Maybe you can reform her. ;)

It's the wait now. She said we need the 'serious talk' and now me and Mart are running through the potential conversation over and over. It's like waiting for doom. We just need to talk to her face to face, no alcohol involved.

Should be in the next few days, I'll let you know how it goes...

A boozehound. Oh, this gets better and better, bwahahaha!