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"Alas, Brave New Babylon" new fiction by Matt Bracken
Western Rifle Shooters Association ^
| August 26, 2013
| Matthew Bracken
Posted on 08/26/2013 6:20:36 AM PDT by Travis McGee
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To: Marcella
How would you manage water in a townhouse? Did you drill a well in your back yard or have catchment?
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posted on
08/27/2013 7:57:36 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
To: little jeremiah
“How would you manage water in a townhouse?”
24 gallons stored in Ozarka jugs that stack.
100 gallons in WaterBob (fits in bathtub) filled before water goes out.
Diverter insert in downspout to divert rainwater to water barrel.
Plastic kiddie pools so sit on deck to catch rainwater.
17,000 gallon swimming pool.
Berkey purifier to purify the water (WaterBob water doesn’t need purifying and neither does Ozarka)
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posted on
08/27/2013 10:44:50 PM PDT
by
Marcella
(Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.)
To: Travis McGee
RE: It might come down to consuming that crop to stay alive. I hope not, but starving people will eat grass, tree bark and old shoe leather. Then they start looking at each other.
I know. I’ve noticed no deer damage to the sunchokes I’ve got - not that one could tell.
I do envy you the handpump water access. My thumb is about as brown - or black! - as yours, LOL.
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posted on
08/27/2013 10:53:25 PM PDT
by
Titan Magroyne
(What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
To: Titan Magroyne
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posted on
08/27/2013 10:54:30 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Travis McGee
The problem is indeed not unique to the US. A good investigation is the Auckland CBD power failure. Human behavior was shocking, but not surprising. What stood out was the behavior of peoples in their homes and particularly apartments.
Water was lost when power stopped to the pump stations and apartment lift pumps. People continued to defecate in their toilets until they were full. They proceeded to fill their bathtubs and then the sinks. Finally, they started to defecate in the hallways until the buildings were no longer habitable.
Something worth investigating.
Great read and I appreciated the utopian arrogance described.
I don't think we are going to get out of this. In every engineering failure there are numerous points along the way that the problem can be avoided. There is never one failure, but an accumulation of errors.
There is one consistency in all my professional investigations, and that was what I like to call the culture of failure. In a macro sense that is western civilization today.
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posted on
08/27/2013 11:12:36 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
08/28/2013 12:02:03 AM PDT
by
tarawa
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
08/28/2013 4:41:00 AM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: PA Engineer
What you wrote reminded me of “Outlook Express” email. It is really nice, works very well, until it’s full and then it just stops dead and you can’t do much about it.
Apartments and high rises have a lot of advantages during times of peace and plenty. Look at pictures of the fighting in Syria and imagine what “apartment living” is like in the Damascus suburbs now. Hell on earth doesn’t come close. Water and “sanitation” are just two of their many problems. They also become sniper roosts and artillery shell magnets.
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posted on
08/28/2013 5:11:44 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Travis McGee
Thanks, this looks to be a great read!
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posted on
08/28/2013 2:54:21 PM PDT
by
antisocial
(Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
To: antisocial
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posted on
08/28/2013 4:02:56 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Travis McGee
Thanks, Matt!
I’m reading Domestic Enemies, the Reconquista, athe moment via Kindle on my phone.
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posted on
08/29/2013 7:06:05 AM PDT
by
citizen
(There is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.....https://twitter.com/kracker0)
To: citizen
I can’t read those tiny screens...how far are you into DE?
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posted on
08/29/2013 7:54:53 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: grania
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posted on
08/29/2013 9:24:25 AM PDT
by
CPT Clay
(Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
To: Travis McGee
36% Ramos and Falcon Battalion are about to overrun this big ranch.
I generally read it when I’m stuck somewhere waiting around so it’s good to have it on my phone. The “pages” do turn pretty quickly, though!
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posted on
08/29/2013 10:33:31 AM PDT
by
citizen
(There is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.....https://twitter.com/kracker0)
To: Travis McGee
Well done once again Mr. Bracken. I can only hope your writing strategy works and ‘lures’ in some other readers that just might open their eyes after reading the last third. I gave a copy to one of my Thursday morning breakfast club members and I’m sure he’ll pass it on to others in his social circle. Keep up the good fight!
Regards.
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posted on
08/29/2013 7:58:54 PM PDT
by
The FIGHTIN Illini
(Wake up fellow Patriots before it's too late)
To: citizen
Plenty go go. Ramos is one of my favorite villains.
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posted on
08/29/2013 8:39:08 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: The FIGHTIN Illini
I will print up some “Bracken Anthologies” in a few months, which will also be helpful for passing around. My quarter-million page novels are pretty daunting to all but rabid readers.
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posted on
08/29/2013 8:40:34 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Travis McGee
You got a way with words, bro. I wish you lived closer to me; I’d bug ya to help me put MY book on paper!
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posted on
08/30/2013 10:41:57 PM PDT
by
dcwusmc
(A FREE People have no sovereign save Almighty GOD!!! III OK We are EVERYWHERE!!!)
To: dcwusmc
It’s all about having time to write. Books take a LOT of time.
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posted on
08/31/2013 5:47:59 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
09/02/2013 3:47:53 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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