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The Long Emergency: Read the Future's News Today

I have been re-reading James Howard Kunstler’s “The Long Emergency” recently and I recommend you read it, if you haven’t already.  Kunstler is a big thinker and, unfortunately for his career, is not on board with the happy-face mood of our country.  His is not the message America wants to hear at this moment, but if you want to see around the next turn of fate to protect yourself and your assets, you need to get familiar with what he has to say.

For a prophet of doom, Kunstler is a lot of fun to read — a big improvement over the Old Testament prophets.  I think you could summarize his attitude to his writing with the phrase, “You’ve got to laugh to keep from crying.”  And he will make you laugh!

He writes somewhat like Hunter S. Thompson, but describes the real world with humorous insight rather than his personal hallucinations. Continue reading →

In Obamacare We Trust?

The reason that European nations have better health is not because they have “free” access to doctors occasionally.  It is because–for the most part–they don’t eat the crazy American fast food diet.  Europeans eat real food.  They often walk rather than drive to places they need to go, because they live in walkable cities–not in a suburb linked to their place of work by an hourlong drive to go ten or twenty miles.

Health care is our American obsession because we refuse to do the things that are conducive to health(eat more vegetables and fruit, less meat and dairy products, more whole grain products, less liquor and beer, fewer sweets and soft drinks, cut out tobacco entirely, and get regular daily exercise), so we need a backup plan to pay for the expensive medical repairs we’re sure to need. Continue reading →

The Case for Disunion

Today it is our corrupt federal government that drags us toward collapse. Disunion will help us become more secure and prosperous, and affirm the ideals of liberty for which the American Revolution was fought. To accomplish this won’t require civil war – just a constitutional amendment, and common sense. FULL ARTICLE