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When The Music Stops – How America’s Cities May Explode In Violence
Western Rifle Shooters Association ^
| September 4, 2012
| Matt Bracken
Posted on 09/04/2012 5:37:03 AM PDT by Travis McGee
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To: familyop
501
posted on
09/06/2012 5:31:26 PM PDT
by
Louis Foxwell
(Better the devil we can destroy than the Judas we must tolerate.)
To: dirtboy
Other commentators see the problem as something even worse - 'crab bucket' syndrome - wherease if you have a bucket of crabs and one figures out how to climb out of the bucket, the others will pull it back in.
That's a very good analogy too. I'll have to remember that.
502
posted on
09/06/2012 5:41:20 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
To: Travis McGee
They don't 'get it', they are wearing 'color blinders' and do not apparently know anything about the underlying fiscal crisis looming on the horizon, the lowest food stocks in modern times, and how the retail supply chain works...
Apparently they just took the easy 'intellectual' route and assumed the race card needed to be played, even as their grocery money only buys 80% of what it did last year.
I have been in a grocery store in the last year and seem empty shelves, just from demand being ahead of the stockers. Prices will spike if the supply is interrupted, then the looting will begin, and regardless of who doesn't have enough money to feed their kids, they'll feel justified, especially with all the class warfare crap bantered about in the last year--even though most store owners don't own the stock--it's fronted by the franchise and they get a cut for selling it.
When there is nothing left to loot, then things will get really ugly.
Tsunamis don't have much amplitude in the open ocean, so they are easy to ignore...but when they sound in shallow water, the wave stacks up and all hell breaks loose.
The wonkette crowd completely missed the point.
Thanks, though for the tactical tips. I pray we never need them, but it's good to file away.
503
posted on
09/06/2012 5:46:53 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: buffaloguy
Two years ago the Texas legislature passed a law that all water systems and water treatment plants had to install diesel genersators sufficient to run them during a big disaster without interruption. They are all in place now so we will have running water. Period. The diesel runs out in 10 days tops. Then what?
504
posted on
09/06/2012 5:54:47 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: Smokin' Joe
Yep. We try to warn them, and they scream insults.
“The stores have always been restocked, so the stores will always be restocked.”
A fatal case of normalcy bias about to happen.
505
posted on
09/06/2012 7:09:16 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: SampleMan
“More diesel tankers will come. How do I know? Because more diesle tankers have always come. Therefore, they shall always come.”
It’s easy when you try.
506
posted on
09/06/2012 7:11:18 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Louis Foxwell; Travis McGee
You're welcome. Here's a clearer look at some of the real faces of post-default rioters.
Greek police block riot police in anti-austerity protesthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2927669/posts
Same in Argentina. There, they also helped their bureaucratic comrades pull off robberies and kidnappings against residents after debt repudiation, during the currency adjustment period.
Here, in US politics, they and their many friends with government incomes/customers are trying to divert from programs like food stamps to their anti-competition regulatory, government education and other offices of control against the small remainder of the private sector.
The federally funded, local government employees have already thrown a few limp-wristed tantrums against spending cuts in places like Wisconsin and California. Same with their trust fund baby organizers of OWS displays of spoiled rottenness. Some laid off, formerly middle class government employees have already been seen in robbery attempts--a phenomenon that will be more common and noticeable. It's not from their being impoverished but from the way they were reared to act by their spoiled parents...same way they acted in offices and politics before.
The best time will come after the bond collapse here: something to look forward to. Government can't stay big, overbearing and fat without valuable, sustainable revenues from a big manufacturing base (real work). Small government will be inevitable, and the anti-competition regulations and family-busting, unenforceable.
Have fun. Enjoy the other end of the slide. I know that I will.
507
posted on
09/06/2012 7:36:23 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
To: familyop
Praise the Lord.
He will not be mocked.
508
posted on
09/06/2012 7:52:13 PM PDT
by
Louis Foxwell
(Better the devil we can destroy than the Judas we must tolerate.)
To: Louis Foxwell
Agreed. After giving thanks and repenting, I’ve prayed for justice and continue to do so.
509
posted on
09/06/2012 8:05:05 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
To: Travis McGee
What I saw at the coup is that archived at western rifle ??? or could ya ping a link please ???
510
posted on
09/06/2012 8:13:04 PM PDT
by
Gilbo_3
(Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
To: familyop
511
posted on
09/06/2012 8:26:59 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Gilbo_3
Not out yet. A week or so.
512
posted on
09/06/2012 8:28:42 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Travis McGee
whew...thought I'd missed it...heheheh...
"Thank you" again for yer service Sir...
513
posted on
09/06/2012 8:30:28 PM PDT
by
Gilbo_3
(Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
To: Travis McGee
Where can I read “What I saw at the Coup”?
(I have been horribly busy and can barely make it on FR more than a few minutes here and there. I want to make sure I read all the good stuff.)
514
posted on
09/06/2012 8:42:35 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: Travis McGee
Thanks for the clarification. I was out digging at WRSA and doing searches. I did come across a worthwhile essay as a result, so it wasn’t a waste of time.
Four Days in May: What I Saw at the Coup
http://www.jbs.org/commentary/four-days-in-may-what-i-saw-at-the-coup
It is an interesting article that touches on some of the roots of how our country is where it is.
To: little jeremiah
See post 512; I was wondering the same thing.
To: Travis McGee
One recurrent theme among Leftist commentators is "those nasty white guys will soon be a minority themselves".
What they don't take into account is that the nasty white guys supply the tax revenue that funds the benefits that allows the underclass to have a high birth rate. And that model is at its breaking point.
The essence of your scenario is that we are close to that breaking point, where the middle class can no longer support the weight of the Welfare State and its associated civil-service class, and will have no choice but to shrug it off.
517
posted on
09/07/2012 5:13:43 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Charlie Daniels - Payback Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwTJj_nosI)
To: Travis McGee
I’ve recently started reading “The Black Swan”.
In it, the author describes the life of a turkey on a poultry farm.
Every day, the turkey wakes up, eats, wanders around, gobbles at the other turkeys, (repeat as required) and eventually goes to sleep.
Next day, same thing.
On and on. Sweet life.
Until the day the farmer comes out and, instead of feeding the turkeys, cuts their heads off.
518
posted on
09/07/2012 5:29:00 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: PapaBear3625
From Rudyard Kipling, at the vantage point of 1919:
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”
519
posted on
09/07/2012 5:31:42 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Travis McGee
Those wonkette’s won’t change their thinking one iota even as they see the flames in front of them. It will be their last thought as they are clubbed on the back of the head. The lucky ones will die on the spot.
520
posted on
09/07/2012 5:41:22 AM PDT
by
palmer
(Jim, please bill me 50 cents for this completely useless post)
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