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Dire Warnings and 100 Items You Need to Survive
Fellowship of the Minds ^ | 1/2/12 | Dr. Eowyn

Posted on 01/02/2012 7:55:29 PM PST by Kartographer

ow that we’ve done our cheery “Happy New Year” greetings, it’s time to get more serious.

I’m a boomer. In my lifetime, I can’t remember a new year beginning with such dire warnings and grim outlook.

This morning, the UK’s The Telegraph reports that Americans bought record numbers of guns last month amid an apparent surge in popularity for weapons as Christmas presents.

Another UK paper, Daily Mail, is grimmer still. Dominic Sandbrook writes that a “loss of faith in politicians and democracy could make 2012 the most frightening year in living memory.” Sandbrook goes as far as to compare our time with the Great Depression:

“For the most chilling parallel, though, we should look back exactly 80 years, to the cold wintry days when 1931 gave way to 1932…. It was in 1931 that the Great Depression really took hold in Europe, bringing governments to their knees and plunging tens of millions of people out of work. Then as now, the crisis had taken years to gather momentum. After the Wall Street Crash in 1929 — just as after the banking crisis of 2008 — some observers even thought that the worst was over. But in the summer of 1931, a wave of banking panics swept across central Europe.”

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To: 30Moves

Be careful with distilled water. Because it contains no minerals it will also flush minerals out of your body. A Berkey will allow some of the needed minerals through.


61 posted on 01/03/2012 8:45:11 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: grumpygresh

Honey

Salt

Sugar

Wheat

just a few, there are more.


62 posted on 01/03/2012 8:48:29 AM PST by Freddd (NoPA ngineers.)
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To: goodwithagun

“Baking however is my Achiles heal.”

...and spelling isn’t too far behind.


63 posted on 01/03/2012 8:49:14 AM PST by Mashood
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To: goodwithagun

I use the breadmaking machine recipe for whole wheat and substitute one cup of regular white flour for one of the three cups of 8 grain flour. That plus the gluten keeps it from being too dense.

IIRC, the recipe in the book:

1+1/8 cup water
3 cups flour
1/3 cup gluten
1 tsp sea salt
4 tbsp butter (I substitute walnut or hazelnut oil when possible)
4 tbsp blackstrap molasses (bought a 6 gal bucket from Walton Feed)
1+3/4 tsp fast acting yeast

I use the dark crust setting on the 2 lb. loaf for the machine.

One of the keys to financial and disaster survival is being able to eat cheap and healthy.

One slice of this bread and a little soup is a MEAL.

Good luck!


64 posted on 01/03/2012 9:41:24 AM PST by darth
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To: Mashood
Yours must be in douche baggery.
65 posted on 01/03/2012 11:27:22 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: outofsalt

Solar pasteurizing of water is not the same as distilling. It may kill some bacteria but the solids are still in the water and if you have a dead emu upstream......


66 posted on 01/04/2012 3:26:27 AM PST by 30Moves
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To: goodwithagun

Yes, a mineral supplement is always a good idea. That is why I would only distill VERY questionable water - otherwise filtering would suffice.


67 posted on 01/04/2012 3:28:54 AM PST by 30Moves
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To: Kartographer

Well I have an outside cooking set-up and I have a bounteous wood supply so the energy wouldn’t be a problem.


68 posted on 01/04/2012 3:32:19 AM PST by 30Moves
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To: goodwithagun

Speaking solely for myself, I would much rather have my spelling corrected than to persevere in error.

I wish we could correct each others’ spelling and grammar without bad feelings.


69 posted on 01/04/2012 7:15:19 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: 30Moves

Clever. I will have to buy one.


70 posted on 01/04/2012 7:33:47 AM PST by patton ("Je pense donc je suis," - My Horse.)
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To: dsc

Alright then. “Speaking solely for myself” and then continuing with “I would much rather” is redundant. You also ended both sentence with prepositional phrases.


71 posted on 01/04/2012 9:16:19 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun

“Speaking solely for myself” and then continuing with “I would much rather” is redundant.”

No, it’s not. It is not always the case that people are speaking solely for themselves when they begin a sentence, “I would much rather...”

I inserted “Speaking solely for myself” to try and avoid rancor, thinking—wrongly, it appears—that it would negate any accusatory tone my sentence might have seemed to convey. The fact that it had a separate purpose also saves it from redundancy.

“You may have learned that ending a sentence with a preposition is a serious breach of grammatical etiquette. It doesn’t take a grammarian to spot a sentence-ending preposition, so this is an easy rule to get caught up on (!). Although it is often easy to remedy the offending preposition, sometimes it isn’t, and repair efforts sometimes result in a clumsy sentence. “Indicate the book you are quoting from” is not greatly improved with “Indicate from which book you are quoting.”

“Based on shaky historical precedent, the rule itself is a latecomer to the rules of writing. Those who dislike the rule are fond of recalling Churchill’s rejoinder: “That is nonsense up with which I shall not put.” We should also remember the child’s complaint: “What did you bring that book that I don’t like to be read to out of up for?”

Your post did, however, show me the futility of thinking we could ever correct each others’ spelling and grammar without rancor. I will, therefore, continue to ignore things like “Achiles heal” and “tow the line,” since any attempt to do otherwise would be sure to attract the sort of misguided and rancorous attempts to strike back that are contained in your post to me.


72 posted on 01/04/2012 10:59:18 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: goodwithagun

BTW, since we’ve already lapsed into rancor, “alright” is not a word.


73 posted on 01/04/2012 11:03:17 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc
Are you a politician? You just admitted that you did make grammatical errors and then defended them with a lame “everybody does it” excuse. The reason we don't correct others’ spelling and grammar is because this forum is not for that purpose. I don't care that much if somebody ends a sentence with a preposition, but those that correct others are doomed to make mistakes and get made fun of. I'm laughing at you right now. Most of us are multitaskers; for example, I'm a nursing mother, wife, and full time employee. The occasional mistake will be made when mommy had been up all night with teething baby. It is only a douche bag who would make a big deal about a simple spelling error while also using incorrect grammar.
74 posted on 01/04/2012 11:31:43 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun

“I’m a nursing mother”

That explains a lot.

“You just admitted that you did make grammatical errors and then defended them with a lame “everybody does it” excuse.”

Maybe you need to get more sleep. That’s not what happened at all. I didn’t make a big deal out of your mistake. I just commented wistfully on a fantasy: that people like you would react rationally when someone pointed out an error.

When you came back, spitefully, with one false allegation and two extremely weak ones, I again explained your errors.

Listen, you just go deal with your hormones and pretend that you came out of this exchange looking good.

I’m not going to continue this exchange further, no matter what outrageous fibs and insults you may post in reply, in the hope of provoking me into “one last reply.”


75 posted on 01/04/2012 5:38:53 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc
LOL! Nursing actually causes hormones to be balanced, that is why nursing mothers actually have a very low chance of postpartum depression. You are just too much. Get off that pedestal because nobody cares about minor spelling and grammar errors except those with chips on their shoulders over something crappy in their lives.
76 posted on 01/05/2012 3:29:51 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun
We have 2 55 gallon food grade barrels. They will be used to catch rain water. The downspouts from the roof gutters will be modified to drain into the barrels. Note, this is just a supplemental supply to the creeks and streams that run though the property.

In the country, water is easy to come by. Not so in the cities.

77 posted on 01/05/2012 4:47:35 AM PST by appalachian_dweller (Live each day as if it's your last. It might be.)
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To: Kartographer; All

Thanks for the ping Kartographer.

I have a question about bleach. I saw on one of these threads that bleach has a short shelf life and that one should stock up on sodium hypoclorite. I would really like to know more on this. Can anyone please provide more info.

Where does one get sodium hypoclorite? How do you mix it with water?

Keeping oneself clean goes a long way to staying healthy.

Thanks in advance folks.


78 posted on 01/05/2012 4:53:05 AM PST by appalachian_dweller (Live each day as if it's your last. It might be.)
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To: appalachian_dweller
I have one barrel that I can use and a Berkey filter. I love that thing. We have it sitting beside our main kitchen sink and refill it constantly. Since using it we have become quite sensitive to chlorine in the water. I can even smell the chlorine when I'm filling the Berkey. We use Berkey filtered water in the kids’ humidifiers and in our Kuerig, and we've never had a problem with clogs or buildup. We had that problem all the time with our old Britta and Pur filters. I do need to get a couple sets of extra filters. I think they come pre-sealed from Berkey, and I might order a few extra personal water bottles. Those can be stored up to 50 years.
79 posted on 01/05/2012 4:55:45 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun

How expensive are the Berkly filters and where can they be obtained?


80 posted on 01/05/2012 5:31:56 AM PST by appalachian_dweller (Live each day as if it's your last. It might be.)
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