I find it interesting to track all manner of media, whether "fringe" or mainstream. And in so doing, it is pretty neat to note when one spills over to the other, or bubbles up (or out), depending on how you see it.
Anyway, for the sake of content, I provide the following hap-hazard list of themes out among the sites I frequent for news, News, or NEWS.
1) we have our first Halfrican-American, bona fide hyphenated President. Yet, is he truly a native son of los estados unidos? The sticky questions surrounding his legitimacy is not going to go away soon. One wonders why Hawaii just doesn't make his birth certificate available.
2) many have stated, quite incorrectly, that El Presidente is just like another JFK. Of course, any student of history can shoot down this comparison, but it is pervasive. The comparison holds, however, with respect to his rapid ascendancy and the fact that the Russians are going to park bombers in Cuba again.
3) Stagflation is a bitch. Shit economy... with massive influx of dollars will result in this. I am still saying the Dow bottoms out at 5500 and unemployment (now at 8%) will reach 15%. The Summer of Hell is upon us.
4) FEMA Camps - urban legend... or reality? Google it. It's at least spooky to think about the not-so-wonderful reasons why we have so many across the States.
5) Chinese Repo Men - I postulated last Summer to my neighbor that eventually the Chinese would use their financial leverage of our leverage against us. How this will shape up is interesting. What I do know is that we will be seeing red one way or another. My gut check tells me the Chinese have been waiting a very long time to flog the old US of A. Pretty much game-set-match on this. How will they collect their assets, one wonder aloud.
6) Google "US Ammunition Shortages" or check out some of the on-line gun and ammunition shops. Pay particular attention to how much of the stuff is out of stock. Since Obama's election, Gun sales in the US have grown some 10-fold. The thinking is either buy them while you can... or I wanna make sure when it comes time for squatters rights to replace the social contract, better to go out shooting than to be rounded up without a shot being fired. Which returns some minds to FEMA Camps.
Time to kiss our asses goodbye, me thinks. Who will carry the flag?
Sunday, March 15, 2009
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Bob -
re: your point 6; part of the problem is also detectable in the UK, though obviously in a much more limited way given the differences in gun culture. Where 7.62 NATO (= Win .308) is concerned, the phrase "military surplus" is an oxymoron. (As, I suppose some would argue is the phrase 'gun culture'.)
There seems to have been another second-order effect in the US, which is that firearms manufacturers are apparently not making any .38/.357 underlevers (the so-called 'gallery rifles') - presumably because those are mostly for fun rather than assault ;^)
All the capacity must be going into other products.
cuirthe - I am also reading (for whatever that is worth) that the majority of ammo for public consumption uses recycled sleeves from military rounds... and that the move to ban assault weapons is now being replaced by the move to ban repurposing military throw-aways - by default wiping out the ammo needed/desired by the public
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