Weekly Roundup - Living On Nothing Edition [Survival Today

Did you hear about the guy that lives on nothing? No seriously, he lives on zero dollars a day. Meet Daniel Suelo, who lives in a cave outside Moab, Utah. Suelo has no mortgage, no car payment, no debt of any kind. He also has no home, no car, no television, and absolutely no “creature comforts.” But he does have a lot of creatures, as in the mice and bugs that scurry about the cave floor he’s called home for the last three years.

To us, Suelo probably sounds a little extreme. Actually, he probably sounds very extreme. After all, I suspect most of you reading this are doing so under the protection of some sort of man-made shelter, and with some amount of money on your person, and probably a few needs for money, too. And who doesn’t need money unless they have completely unplugged from the grid? Still, it’s an amusing story about a guy who rejects all forms of consumerism as we know it.

How to Brew Your Own Beer and Maybe Save Some Money. A fantastic introduction to home brewing, something I’ve never done myself, but always been interested in trying. (@Generation X Finance)

Contentment: A Great Financial Principle. If I had to name one required emotion for living a frugal lifestyle it would be contentment. Once you are content with your belongings and your lot in life you can ignore forces attempting to separate you from your money. (@Personal Finance by the Book)

Use Energy Star Appliances to Save On Utility Costs. I enjoyed this post because it included actual numbers, and actual total savings, from someone who upgraded to new, energy star appliances. (@The Digerati Life)

Over-Saving for Retirement? Is it possible to “over-save” for retirement? Yes, I think so. At some point I like the idea of putting some money aside in taxable investments outside of retirement funds, to be accessed prior to traditional retirement age. (@The Simple Dollar)

40 Things to Teach My Kids Before They Leave Home. A great list of both practical and philosophical lessons to teach your kids before they reach the age where they know everything. I think that now happens around 13 years-old. (@My Supercharged Life)

Index Fund Investing Overview. If you are looking for a place to invest with high diversification and relatively low fees (for broader index funds with low turnover), index funds are a great place to start. (@Money Smart Life)

5 Reasons To Line Dry Your Laundry. My wife and I may soon be installing a clothesline in our backyard. In many neighborhoods they are frowned upon - one of the reasons I don’t like living in a neighborhood. I digress. One of our neighbors recently put up a clothesline, and we might just follow his lead. (@Simple Mom)

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7 reasons to eat an apple a day
by Jen

Apples may not keep the doctor away all by themselves, but they have some awesome health benefits. It’s best to eat them raw with the skin on – that gives you the full benefit of the vitamins and anti-oxidants they contain. Another great alternative is to stick whole apples into a juicer – seeds, skin and all – and drink it fresh.

1. Fiber. One apple contains about 20% of the fiber you need to eat each day. This is both soluble and insoluble fiber. The two types help prevent cholesterol buildup and keep you regular, respectively.
2. Quercetin. Apples contain this flavanoid, which is a natural anti-histamine, and anti-inflammatory, and possible cancer preventative (studies are still being done, but it especially seems promising in preventing prostate cancer). This means eating apples may help with allergies, asthma and the stiffness and pain associated with inflammatory problems like arthritis. (Red onions are another good source of quercetin.)
3. Phytonutrients in apples also help prevent cholesterol buildup. They also seem to significantly slow down the growth of cancer cells, particularly in the colon.
4. Flavonoids appear to reduce the risk of lung cancer by as much as half.
5. Boron in apples is a trace element that strengthens bones.
6. They’re also a source of vitamins A, B1, B2, C, Niacin, Calcium, Phosphorous, Magnesium, Iron and Potassium.
7. They’re a better option than more sugary or fatty snacks. If you’re on a doctor-advised low carb diet, the effective carbs in apples come out to about 17 for one apple, which isn’t a small amount, but can probably be worked into your diet.

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Make your own printed curtains
by Jen

Curtains are expensive. All you really need to keep your windows covered is some inexpensive cloth and curtain clips to hang it with. There’s also a way for you to personalize your cloth with a funky design without too much expense or effort (and it’s fun).

CraftChi shows you how to make rolling pin prints on paper or cloth. You’ll need some supplies from an art or craft store, and it might take you a couple of tries to get the designs just the way you want. But it’s fun and addictive, too.

A couple of tips for doing this on cloth:

* Always test the design on paper first.
* You can spread multiple rows of paint on your plexiglass and roll the pin through them to get a rainbow effect.
* And…

The Bohemian Twist

For a really cool effect, paint each section of the design on your roller by hand to make a complex multi-colored design. There are two challenges to this approach: getting the paint to the right thickness, and keeping the first sections wet while you paint the later ones. The second one is easy: just spray the drying paint with a fine mist of water to keep it wet. As for getting the paint thickness right, experiment to see what different thicknesses of paint do. You may want to try this on scrap cloth of the same texture you’re going to hang as curtains to make sure you’ve got it right. It’s better to go too thin than too thick: after printing the initial design, you can also touch up with a paintbrush.

Other posts you might like:

* How to add a little something to a letter you’ve already printed
* Tons of tutorials from Sew, Mama, Sew
* SavvySeams.com
* Printable rose recipe cards
* How to make a bedroom cozy

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Delicious recipes for breakfast
by Jen

I eat one of the same two breakfasts every day these days, and I need to jazz up my routine. The internet is full of exciting recipes that are easy enough to make:

Triple Apple Muffins:

Fall food is the best. Here’s a recipe full of fall flavor that I’ve been tweaking for a few weeks. Makes 24 regular-sized muffins. I think golden raisins and walnuts would be a great addition. I think I might try this in a loaf pan too.

Best Biscotti Recipe:

My Grandmother would keep her breakfast bar stocked with this biscotti during the holidays. I remember how the aroma would fill up the whole house when she baked it. It smelled heavenly and tasted delicious. For me, this is the best biscotti I’ve ever had.

Almond crusted French toast with strawberries:

An upscale version of French toast that is sure to impress. 4 big servings or 8 small ones.

Whole Wheat Blender Waffles:

This whole wheat pancake recipe recipe has been kid tested an several families. Kids tend to love these waffles and don’t mind that they are whole wheat. Mom’s, you’ll like that the fact that these waffles are sweetened with apple sauce and just a touch of brown sugar. Oh, you’ll also like the fact that the batter for these waffles is easy to prepare. Simply throw everything in the blender and mix.

Those last two sites are full of other recipes for breakfast – check them out!

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Make your own waterproof outdoor paints & stains
by Jen

Instead of painting or staining your deck or outdoor furniture with an expensive waterproof products, you can blend your own waterproof “milk paint” or homemade water-repellent stain.

Milk paint is waterproof enough to use on the side of a building, and you create any color you want by using water soluble dyes. Stir two quarts of builder’s lime into four gallons of skim milk – stir thoroughly. Stir in one gallon of boiled linseed oil. Then add the water soluble dye of your choice (artist’s pigments or RIT dyes will work fine). Strain the paint through cheesecloth to get lumps out. Use it within two days of mixing it.

You can also make a water-repellent stain when you want to let the natural wood grain shine through. Melt one-half pound of paraffin in a double boiler (don’t use a regular pan – paraffin is very flammable, and the double boiler protects you from having it go up in flames). To the melted paraffin, add three gallons of boiled linseed oil, two quarts of Penta concentrate, about two to six ounces of pigment (you may have to experiment to find the right amount for the color intensity you want), and one gallon of paint thinner or turpentine. Penta and turpentine/paint thinner are very hazardous materials – follow instructions on the packaging very carefully.

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5 kitchen uses for wax paper
by Jen

41OynTy26bL._SL160_Wax paper is wonderful stuff. Ever since I started trying to eliminate plastic from my kitchen, I’ve really started relying on wax paper. I just keep finding more uses for it.

1. Keep cheese fresher longer. I love buying good quality cheese and trying new kinds all the time, but since I’m the only one in my household who eats it, it would often spoil before I could finish it. I finally learned it was the plastic wrap cheeses come in that made this happen. When you first cut into a new wedge of cheese, immediately remove the plastic wrapped. Wrap the cheese in wax paper, which keeps it moist without ever letting it get sweaty. Now wrap that in tin foil and stick it in the fridge. My cheeses stay nice long enough for me to enjoy them at my leisure now.
2. Make a kitchen funnel. The easiest way in the world to make a quick, cheap, easy funnel is to cut squares of wax paper and roll them up. Stick one end in the neck of whatever you want to funnel the substance into, and let the top section unroll a little, so the top expands to make the funnel shape. It’s great for pouring dry, wet, even sticky stuff through. And you can clean it up and re-use it (as a funnel or any other use you have for wax paper) rather than just recycling it immediately.
3. iStock_cakedecoratingPipe icing onto a cake. You can use a wax paper funnel to write on a cake with icing just as well as those icing funnel thingies you can buy.
4. Or freeze icing for perfect cake decorations. Instead of putting decorative icing directly onto your cake – which sucks if you don’t get it just right – cut a piece of wax paper that’s the same size as the cake. Pipe your decorations onto it. If you mess up, it’s easy to remove the offending bits of icing and re-do that section. Once it’s perfect, put it in the freezer for about 30 minutes. Now you should be able to loosen the icing from the wax paper with a spatula and put it on the cake. Once you’ve got it exactly centered, gently press it into the non-decorative icing just a little.
5. Line drawers. For easy cleanup, there’s nothing you can’t line with wax paper. Kitchen drawers, fridge drawers, tops of cabinets, the top of the fridge, etc. Every few months or even years, instead of having to scrub these surfaces, you can just remove the wax paper. I know, plain cleaning would be greener before nothing would end up in the recycling bin, but it you’re only swapping out the paper once once or twice a year, it’s not so bad. And it has the advantage of keeping unsanitary liquids from seeping into wood.
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7. Line wooden cutting boards. You can also line porous cutting surfaces before slicing into raw meat to make extra sure any bacteria in the meat juice gets whisked away when you’re done. (Again, a greener solution would be to get a glass cutting board, which cleans up incredibly easily, with no pores for anything to seep into. But this is still good to know.)

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Attract pest-eating bugs to your garden
by Jen

How do you keep bugs out of your garden without using pesticides? There are a lot of ways to go about this. One tried and true method is to put in your garden plants that attract pest-eating insects like bees and ladybugs. Note: if anyone in your household (or a very nearby neighbor) is highly allergic to bee stings, you may not want to attract bees – just to be safe. Fortunately, there are plenty of other bugs to choose from.

Which plants attract which bugs?

FarmerFred has the scoop on this with a page listing helpful bugs and the plants that attract them. See also The Garden Helper’s page on “good bugs” and Natural Life Magazine’s article.

Not every species of friendly bug lives in every region, so you’ll need to find out which ones are common in your area before you try attracting them. You may be able to find a website for your region by searching for a phrase like “native bugs Florida.” If that doesn’t work, look for books at your local library. Or – even simpler – ask a local gardening shop what bugs you can expect to attract.

Is that bug/cocoon/egg an ally or an enemy?

Once you start attracting bugs, you’ll want to know how to tell friendly bugs from enemy bugs. DGSGardening has some great pictures of bugs to help you identify what you’re looking at. Bugs are classified as “friends”, “some bad habits” and “the enemy,” according to what they do in your garden.

Dave’s Garden has a searchable database of 5,000 bugs, which is very helpful if you have some idea what your mystery bug might be.

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* Container gardening tips and resources
* Keeping cats out of your garden
* Getting free plants
* Apartment gardening
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Free book templates kids can make
by Jen

Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord is a teacher and author who’s put together a wonderful set of free templates with instructions that kids can use to make booklets out of recycled materials like paper, index cards, rubber bands, and sticks. There are nine templates on the website, and they go beyond the usual folder paper booklet we all probably made at some point in childhood. There are step books (like the one pictured here), accordion books, books that fold out into sections and more.

The instructions are written for kids to follow themselves (with notes about when they will need help from an adult). Many of them have some history about where that type of book originated in the world and what it was used for. The site is a really cool resource for parents and kids alike!

Other posts you might like:

* Free kids books online
* Make your own protective fabric book covers
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* Wacky Wednesday: Make a hollow book to hide stuff
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11 Recipes to make your own glue
by Jen

You can make your own glue – even specialty types of glue – at home with ingredients that aren’t hard to find or work with. This is cheaper than using the storebought stuff, and also allows you to make only as much as you need.

* Waterproof Glass Glue recipe – works well for gluing pretty much anything to glass, and also metal to metal.
* Four recipes for basic glue, paste, Papier-Mache Paste and a no-cook paste recipe. You can add food coloring to these to interest kids in craft projects.
* Envelope or stamp glue – four recipes for lickable glue that go well with making your own envelopes out of recycled paper.
* Another recipe for papier-mache paste.
* Two library paste recipes. Used for binding paper and paperboard. And there’s a recipe for clear library paste on this page, as well as several other recipes for other kinds of glue.

Other posts you might like:

* How to seal an envelope with a glue stick
* Kids’ crafts for summer
* Wacky Wednesdays: How to Make Glue from Milk – illustrated
* Fake your own stained glass window
* DIY car organizer box

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Wacky Wednesdays: How to Make Glue from Milk – illustrated
by Jen

You never know when you’ll need glue but not have any. If you have the milk, vinegar, baking soda and a few tools, you can whip up a batch yourself.

Summer Pierre found the instructions online and decided to make this great, printable poster illustrating them.

You know, if there were more illustrated how to’s like this, you could print them and put them on your walls for decor. Too bad I can’t draw.

How to Make Glue From Milk

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* Wacky Wednesday: Cassette tape wallet

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Easy and Cheap Home-Made Bread Print
Monday, 14th July 2008 (by J.D.)
This article is about DIY, Food, Frugality

I baked a loaf of bread yesterday. It was delicious. It was easy. It was cheap.

Last winter, I undertook a quest to find the best whole wheat bread in a grocery store. I like sandwiches and I like toast, so removing bread from my diet isn’t an option. While trying to balance cost and nutrition, I eventually discovered Rainier Organic’s Sasquatch Grain & Seed Bread. At about 10 cents per ounce, this stuff is cheaper than all but the “artificial everything” breads. Best of all? Eating it is like eating a field of wheat.

Several people suggested that I might want to make my own bread. At the time, I dismissed the idea as crazy. I can remember my mother spending a lot of time kneading dough and shuffling loaf pans when I was a boy. I may be working from home now, but I’m not interested in devoting my life to baked goods.

Minimalist bread
Still, there are few things better in life than a hunk of warm, crusty bread slathered with honey or jam. (Perhaps with a hunk of sharp cheddar cheese on the side.) So when Brad suggested insisted I try Mark Bittman’s minimalist “no-knead” bread recipe, I took the plunge into home baking.

In this New York Times video, Bittman visits the Sullivan Street Bakery in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen to learn the secret of great bread from owner Jim Lahey.

Turns out this bread really is so easy that anyone can make it. And the total cost? According to Andy at The New Cook, this bread costs about 63 cents per loaf, or about a nickel per ounce. That’s roughly the same price as the cheap artificial stuff in the grocery store, but you’re getting a loaf of fresh, crusty bread. That’s tough to beat.

(For a great variation, check out SmarterFitter’s Four-Seed No-Knead Bread.)

A perfect loaf?
Cook’s Illustated tackled this recipe in their January 2008 issue. While they admitted that it was easy, they didn’t like the “bland flavor” and the unreliable rising. Using their methodology of relentless refinement, they added a bit of salt, reduced the water, and introduced a secret ingredient: beer.

Cook’s Illustrated calls their version “Almost No-Knead” Bread, or No-Knead Bread 2.0. This bread is started on the first day and baked on the second. Other than planning ahead, it’s almost effortless and results in a wonderful chewy bread with a crunchy deep-brown crust. Here’s the recipe (with some minor modifications from us):

Almost No-Knead Bread

* 3 cups unbleached flour (15 ounces)
* 1/4 teaspoon instant yeast
* 1-1/2 teaspoon table salt
* 3/4 cup + 2 tablespoons water, room temperature or just slightly warm
* 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons mild-flavored lager, room temp and flat (note: we use a pale ale)
* 1 tablespoon white vinegar (note: we use white balsamic vinegar from Trader Joe’s)

Day one
If necessary, heat water and beer in microwave to make them closer to room temperature. Whisk flour, yeast and salt in a large shallow bowl. Add water, beer and vinegar. Using a rubber spatula, fold mixture, scraping up from the bottom until a dry, shaggy ball forms. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit at room temperature for 8 to 18 hours, until the surface is covered with bubbles. Total time for day one: about ten minutes.

Day two
Transfer dough to a lightly floured work surface and knead 10-15 times. Wash out the dough bowl and lay a 12×18 piece of oven-safe parchment paper inside it and spray with non-stick cooking spray. Shape the dough into a ball by pulling edges into the middle. Transfer dough — seam-side down — to the parchment-lined bowl and spray surface with cooking spray. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rise at room temperature until dough has doubled in size and does not readily spring back when poked with a finger (about 2 hours).

About 30 minutes before baking, adjust oven rack to lowest position and place a 6-8 quart Dutch oven (with lid slightly ajar) on rack to heat. Preheat oven to 500 degrees.

Lightly flour top of dough and use a very sharp knife to make one slit, 6 inches long and 1/2 inch deep. Carefully remove hot Dutch oven from oven and remove lid. Pick up dough by lifting parchment paper and lower into Dutch oven. Add lid and place in oven. Immediately lower temperature to 425 degrees and bake covered for 30 minutes. Remove lid and continue cooking 20-30 minutes longer, until the bread is a deep brown and sounds rather hollow when tapped.

Remove and transfer to a wire rack and cool to room temperature.

Total time for day two: about ten minutes.

For more on this recipe, check out the Cook’s Illustrated web site, or visit Breadtopia (a blog devoted to bread!).

Delicious!
Kris and I have been making this bread for three months now, and it’s fantastic. I’ll admit that it’s not the healthiest stuff (it’s little more than flour and salt, after all), but it’s delicious — especially with home-made strawberry jam. Along the way, we’ve learned a couple things. If you have a good kitchen scale, for example, we recommend weighing the the flour rather than measuring by volume.

Also, in the winter, our house is too cold (54 degrees) for this to rise properly overnight, so we use a water/beer mixture that feels slightly warm to the touch to give it a kick start, then turn on the oven light and put the dough into the gas oven.

The cost for a single loaf of this bread runs about $1.50. The flour is about 60 cents, the yeast is about a quarter, the beer costs about forty cents, and the other ingredients cost a few cents each. So, for a little more than the cheap bread in the grocery store, you can have a loaf of actual artisan bread.

The real joy is the ease of this recipe and the sense of accomplishment from baking your own bread. Your friends will be impressed!

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* Make liquid soap out of bars

* Recipe for homemade lip balm
* Turn an old lotion or body wash into a body scrub
* Three tips for sensitive skin care
* Bohemian Revolution’s 10 Best of June posts

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Turn an old lotion or body wash into a body scrub
by Jen

So you bought a lotion or body wash, and after a while you found something that smelled nicer, or the seasons changed and your skin needed something different. Now you have this half-used cosmetic product that’s destined for the landfill.

Instead, make it into a body scrub. Lotions make a rich, moisturizing body scrub while body washes make a cleansing one. These can actually be much better than a lot of store-bought body scrubs because you get to control scent and texture.

The basic rule is to mix a tablespoon of your exfoliant per cup of lotion or body wash. The exfoliants you might want to try include:

* Ground walnuts or almonds. If you have a coffee grinder or food processor that can grind these up into tiny little specks, you can do this yourself (stop grinding before it turns into a paste). Otherwise, look for ground walnuts or almonds as a pre-sold food ingredient at grocery or health food stores. This makes for a fairly intense scrub which may be rough on some sensitive skin people, but is awesome on rough and dry skin.
* Ground oatmeal. Probably the best choice for sensitive skin. Oatmeal makes for a rather fine scrub – still very effective, but gentle, and with all the soothing anti-itch, anti-redness properties of oatmeal.
* Ground apricot pits. Another rather intense scrub. Be very careful to get all of it ground up very fine – watch for sharp pieces that don’t get trimmed down to size.
* Corn meal. Another fairly gentle option for people with sensitive skin.
* Coarse salt. A really popular as a body scrub ingredient right now. It can be drying, so it’s only recommended for oily skin.
* Coarse raw sugar. Another really popular ingredient which works for combination and dry skin. The sugar polishes without dehydrating.
* Old coffee grounds. This is a nice bit of recycling – keep old coffee grounds to use in scrubs. The caffeine smooths cellulite as well as polishing skin.

That’s really all you need to do – add your ingredients together, and have fun. But if you want, you can also add:

* Vitamins. Try a couple of capsules of E or crush tablets of A or C, and mix that up in your scrub.
* Essential oils. It’s important to do research rather than just add what smells nice. For example, lavender essential oil is drying – great as an acne spot treatment, but not ideal for dry skin. Start with just a drop or two – you’ll be shocked how much scent some oils provide. Vanilla extract is a great choice, too.

Other posts you might like:

* Bohemian Revolution’s 10 Best of June posts
* Repurpose your old shampoo bottles
* Oils for skin care
* Bohemian Revolution’s greatest hits from May
* Springtime soaps and scrubs you can make yourself

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Springtime soaps and scrubs you can make yourself
by Jen

soap-and-basilSpotlight Post: The Scentual Life: Make your own springtime body products

Read on for recipes to get your skin ready to be bared, with scents to bring the fresh springtime air right into your bath.

These recipes are for soap, body scrub and a hair perfume/tonic you can make yourself. If you’ve never made soap before, here’s our guide.

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[I buy/bought a soap base known as “Melt and Pour”, you can add things to it, even colors, milk, oils, oatmeal and the list is endless.

I am out of date on prices, but was paying about $2.00 a pound and thankful that i bought several pounds, for I would hate to say that I could not afford soap, but at today’s prices, we may soon be using the timeless method of sand and water.

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Take the three minutes to read this.
Maybe he is wrong.
What if he is right?
David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball. Born in 1947, the son of a diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in three capital cities: Washington D.C, Albany, New York, and Dakar, Senegal. He attended Harvard University, graduating there in 1969 with a B.A. in history. He then spent several years more at Harvard, gaining a PhD in history, which he obtained in 1976. He served in the Army Reserve from 1970 to 1976.

He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the United States Naval War College . He has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon, Williams College and Harvard University. Kaiser's latest book, The Road to Dallas, about the Kennedy assassination, was just published by Harvard University Press.

Dr. David Kaiser

History Unfolding

I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.

Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?

We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy.. Why?

We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity.. Why?

We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?

Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth.. It is potentially 1929 x ten...And we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.

And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.)

Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why?

I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.

This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.

And that is only the beginning..

As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s In those times, the "savior" was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative "losers" read it right now.

And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into submission. Which they did - regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression. Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course,

How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world. He did it with a compliant media - did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and ....... change. And the people surely got what they voted for.

If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the history books.

So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to.

Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them.

As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me..

I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree, perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it.

I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections.

David Kaiser
Jamestown , Rhode Island
United States

http://www.aarp.org/community/groups/displayTopic.bt?pageNum=1&groupId=21772&topicId=3841451

NOTE: The following was based on 1999 prices - You will need to increase the plan to $10.00 now to come close to meeting the goal. Also note that this is an absolute minimal diet to last one year - rationing would be extreme, and you may want to substitute other items. Cream of Mushroom and Tomato Soup is not really a great diet, I would make some changes. DW
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$5.00 Dollar a week Food Storage Plan

**As a heads up, you may want to make the kitty $7 as there were times
that not even the weekly rollover was enough to make that weeks
purchase.
Set aside $5 a week to buy the specific items each week. You will have
a kitty set aside that you put the $5 in and you can’t touch it for any
reason but to buy the food storage item for that week. Put in the
remaining change back into the kitty. Some things in the beginning are
going to be cheap and then later will be more expensive. In order to
pay for the expensive stuff later you need to keep the leftover money
in the kitty. Weeks 38 and 44 you will have “off” to replenish the
kitty.

Week 1: 2 cans tuna fish, 2 boxes salt
Week 2: 5 boxes of Macaroni and Cheese
4 cans tomato soup
Week 3: 3 cans mushroom soup,
1 2.5 lb peanut butter
Week 4: one bottle 365 count multi-vitamins
Week 5: 4 cans tomato soup, 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 6: 1 bottle aspirin (500 tablets)
Week 7: 1 100 lb container wheat
Week 8: 1 5 lb powdered milk
Week 9: 1 5 lb honey
Week 10: 4 cans tuna, 4 boxes macaroni and cheese
Week 11: 1 10 lb sugar, 1 box salt
Week 12: 4 cans mushroom soup
Week 13: 1 bottle 365 count multi-vitamins
Week 14: 1 100 lb wheat
Week 15: 1 box macaroni and cheese
Week 16: 1 5 lb honey
Week 17: 2 cans tuna, 4 can tomato soup
Week 18: 1 10 lbs sugar
Week 19: 1 100 lbs of wheat
Week 20: 2 10lbs of sugar
Week 21: 1 10lb powdered milk
Week 22: 1 can mushroom soup, 1 10 lb sugar
Week 23: 1 can tuna, 4 cans tomato soup, 1 10 lbs sugar
Week 24: 1 10 lbs sugar
Week 25: 2 cans tuna, 2 cans mushroom soup
Week 26: 1 100 lb wheat
Week 27: 3 10 lbs sugar
Week 28: 1 10 lb sugar
Week 29: 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 30: 2 10 lb sugar
Week 31: 1 can tuna, 3 cans mushroom soup
Week 32: 1 can tuna, 4 cans tomato soup
Week 33: 1 100 lb wheat
Week 34: 2 cans tuna, 1 box salt
Week 35: 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 36: 2 10 lb sugar
Week 37: 4 cans tomato soup, 2 boxes salt
Week 38: Stash $5 in the kitty
Week 39: 1 100 lb wheat
Week 40: 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 41: 3 10 lb sugar
Week 42: 2 cans tomato soup, 1 10 lb sugar
Week 43: 2 cans tomato soup, 2 cans mushroom soup
Week 44: Stash $5 in the kitty
Week 45: 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 46: 4 cans tomato soup, 4 cans mushroom soup
Week 47: 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 48: 4 cans mushroom soup, 1 10 lb powdered milk
Week 49: 7 cans of tomato soup
Week 50: 7 cans of mushroom soup
Week 51: 2 10 lbs sugar, 1 box salt

By the end of the 52 weeks, you should have:
700lbs of wheat,
240 lbs sugar,
40 lbs of powdered milk,
13 lbs of salt,
10 lbs of honey,
5 lbs of peanut butter,
45 cans of tomato soup,
32 cans mushroom soup,
15 cans tuna fish,
10 macaroni and cheese dinners,
500 aspirin, and
730 multiple vitamins

They suggest adding 6lbs of dried yeast and 6 lbs of shortening and
this should be enough to sustain 2 people for a year. For every 2
people you have in your family add $5 more and double or triple the
amount of whatever you are buying that week.

http://www.survival-training.info/downloads/5_dollar_a_week_food_storage_plan.pdf

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