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What I saw at the doomsday prepper convention
CNN Money ^ | 11/11/13 | David Z. Morris

Posted on 11/11/2013 2:17:35 PM PST by Kartographer

More and more Americans are spending money to get ready for an uncertain future -- gathering food, water, tools, and skills to help them weather anything from a hurricane to a pandemic. Contrary to images of deluded or gun-obsessed "lone wolves," many preppers are average consumers reacting to concrete worries, and their way of thinking is spreading, fueling an emerging lifestyle trend. That lifestyle is generating demand for a broad spectrum of products offering survival -- or even comfort -- when large-scale systems go down.

(Excerpt) Read more at tech.fortune.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: preparedness; preppers
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To: The Working Man

The way I look at it. It’s not fair for people to be grasshoppers. Everyone who doesn’t prepare is a drain on public resources.

She should be happy that the government will have more money to spend on people like her, and all the “chosen” people, because of the preperation.

In fact, even the government advises you to prepare. She’s just addlepated.


121 posted on 11/11/2013 6:26:23 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Kartographer

These people are short sighted. Can’t see beyond the next TV program. They’ll be in for a rude awakening one of these days.


122 posted on 11/11/2013 6:31:39 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Kartographer

LOL
Lipstick and silk stockings are a must in anybody’s Survival Bag!
and don’t forget the chocolate— you can trade anybody out of almost anything if you have good chocolate


123 posted on 11/11/2013 6:35:21 PM PST by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: MHGinTN

Mix in some raisins, and you’ve got a deal.


124 posted on 11/11/2013 6:38:28 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Old Sarge
I will stick by my quote as I am responsable for my actions, just as Noah was responsible for his. Beside God left Noah little choise as it was God that shut the door to the ark.

"But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes someone’s life, that person’s life will be taken because of their sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood." Ezekiel 33:6
125 posted on 11/11/2013 6:43:05 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: MHGinTN

My plan is to kick in your door and take your cookies by force!

I am an apex cookie thief!


126 posted on 11/11/2013 6:44:35 PM PST by papertyger ("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
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To: papertyger
Here, try the peach cobbler.

Bwahahahahahahaha!

/johnny

127 posted on 11/11/2013 7:08:44 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: DuncanWaring
It'll take billions and billions of ... microseconds.

Yep, however all kidding aside, that computes to 11.6 days. That is about how long a blackout would take before immediate restoration would be impossible.
128 posted on 11/11/2013 7:18:50 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: PA Engineer; DuncanWaring

Only if the gibmedat’s leave anything to power up.


129 posted on 11/11/2013 7:31:53 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: MrB

To quote Dennis Prager, for liberals, equality is more important than prosperity.
Equal misery is thus better than a few rich and the rest middle class.


130 posted on 11/11/2013 7:46:46 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Lazamataz

You forgot the fuzzy dice on the rear view mirror.and hula dancer on the dashboard. :0


131 posted on 11/11/2013 7:52:58 PM PST by Redcitizen (.)
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To: papertyger
Oh noes, then I'll have to choot yoose with my pellet rifle or CO2 BB pistol.
132 posted on 11/11/2013 8:14:46 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: ASOC

“Wait till someone tells you “This is the family you will be hosting...”

Which will be followed instantly by several gunshots.


133 posted on 11/11/2013 8:18:16 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: papertyger

134 posted on 11/11/2013 8:30:34 PM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp.)
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To: MrB

“Second, they seem to have a sort of “eschatology” about crashing the economy, though they won’t admit that is what is happening. It seems that everyone “being in the same boat” is a higher virtue for them, and prepping keeps you from being in that boat with them, and it infuriates them.”

Liberals have successfully distorted the definition of “self-reliant” into “greedy”; anyone not standing in lines with them for gubmint services is hateful (the concept that anyone would be absent from those lines because they are working to pay for the freebies they’re lined up for is lost on them). I have plenty of camping things that made waiting out Hurricane Sandy a breeze, but in my area any long-term prepping is difficult because of logistics (limited firewood, for example). I ascribe to the notion put forth by a prepper on the radio some time back that you have to view your vehicles as lifeboats; “hunkering down in place” isn’t an option in a densely-populated area if power outages and gas shortages are prolonged.

Overall, anything that has people raising their own food and protecting what they’ve earned is undoubtedly a good thing; Sandy’s aftermath was a breeze in comparison to Katrina’s (the lawlessness and disappearance of local police, for example).


135 posted on 11/12/2013 2:51:30 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: driftdiver

Wow, mopeds. I had a few back in the day. They’re great on gas. A standard Puch goes 90 mi.s on a tank -3/4 gal. With a crate on the back they’ll carry 150 lbs of stuff. But for a bug out vehicle? Lol, no. Not as fast as a motorcycle or even a scooter and they don’t pedal like a bicycle. They’re just slow scooters. Maybe your neighbors are just cheap on tags and insurance and think that imparts some sort of survival benefit? Weird. I’d go with an ATV before a moped. More speed, cargo and off road capability. Good call leaving them alone in their delusion.


136 posted on 11/12/2013 3:47:18 AM PST by Justa
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To: PA Engineer

Ten billion microseconds is about 3 hours.


137 posted on 11/12/2013 4:08:50 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Just a little jolt should do.
138 posted on 11/12/2013 4:11:49 AM PST by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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To: Lazamataz

“I’m the fourth type. I’m the total nutjob that buys kevlar-lined Volkswagon microbusses with a year supply of Cheeze-Wiz in it, totally convinced that aliens will beam Illuminati symbols into sheep and that will cause a total breakdown in all civil discourse and politics.”

You are screwed. ;)


139 posted on 11/12/2013 4:17:49 AM PST by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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To: RKBA Democrat

The “discussion” wasn’t entirely voluntary on my part.
I have a libinlaw that was helping us move to our homestead.
When she saw the stores, she figured it out and was ANG GREE! Irrationally so.


140 posted on 11/12/2013 5:33:28 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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