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There's always a "reasonable explanation."

IMHO, I'm looking for a little more dramatic rise before I panic, but I'll be watching the charts. Yesterday's dramatic rise could be the beginning.

Here's what I've been thinking.

While it would be great for the Jihadis to have done New Years or Christmas, it would be easier and more effective to suddenly halt their chatter, and wait a few days. Then strike mid week while everyone is going about their normal business, like 9-11. To strike after everyone has breathed a sigh of relief and gone back to normal would be devastating to the psyche.

I've come to believe they have to make a big splash or lose credibilty. Desperate men make mistakes. Hopefully, they are getting desperate.

However, it would be sensible to be prepared.
I'm going to take some cash out of the bank today, and stock up again on basics. (let the supply run down over the holidays.)

We've made an emergency plan with the family. Hard since two of my kids are far away, but we have family near both of them. Since if there is a serious strike, cell phones and land line may be down, we've planned where people should go and who will meet whom. I've got the entire clan watching the news and communicating at least daily so we have a place to start from if we have to search.

I've also made sure that everyone capable of handling a weapon has access to one. My youngest is in Florida and if anything happens she will have to manage the grandparents and other elderly relatives. Since she is too young to own a gun and the grandparents are kind of silly, I hid weapons in their house and only she knows where the stash is.

I also gave her a crash course in finding makeshift weapons anywhere she happens to be, such as the coke can in the heavy sock, or the shuriken in her hair that looks purely decorative but can be deadly.

Thank God she is my little girl and listens to her (wise?) old dad. Also I am thankful she has met a fine young southern gentleman to watch out for her while she watches out for the old timers.

Here at home, should the (nearly)unthinkable occur, we are well prepared, even for an invasion. Guess i have too much free time:)

As I type this the chart just shot up almost two points.

Stay alert, stay safe, and if you are not armed, better get moving.