That Was Fast

It's been barely a week since my last blurb here, and already the "see, I told you so's" have begun piling up. Just in the last 2 days, another fragile democracy teeters on the brink of collapse, more companies have failed, more massive layoffs were announced (hey, remember my quip about the 52" teevee last week? Yeah well, SONY has announced that it is laying off 8,000 employees. You may not be able to buy jackshit from "SONY" in a few more months. Think about that, eight-thousand people, all without work and without a paycheck in one fell swoop. Ugh.) and the PEBHO (president elect Barry Hussein OH!bama) even had to release a statement telling people essentially to stop buying guns and that they had nothing to worry about. Pay especially close attention to the last line in the story, and I'll reprint it here before before it gets deleted from the site:

"We don't think these are first-time buyers. We think they are people who already have more than enough guns at their homes to protect themselves and are buying more."

Okay. So this clown actually has in his mind a number of weapons that he is comfortable with me and you owning? Fuck him! "More than enough?" Says you, you no-named drug-addled gutless whiner! Buying more guns as economies and goverments collapse at an alarming rate...hurm! Seems like a no-brainer to me.
Short of calling anyone who is a legal gun owner a deranged cracker, PEBHO is starting to show signs of wear and tear, and he hasn't even taken the oath of office yet.

When your chief of staff says that yes, you were in fact talking to the Governor of Illinois about your senate seat replacement, and then the Guv gets arrested for trying to sell your old seat,OUCH! Man, that's gotta hoyt!

And leave us not forget your friend and his, RAHM RAHM RAHM! RAHM RAHM RAHM IRAN! Sing it with me, you know the beat. Oh wait, because it isn't that tired old war veteran McCain, (R)aped at the polls, you're not laughing? That's okay, too, I got you covered regardless:

On a series of wiretaps, the 51-year-old Democrat who earned nearly $180,000 a year as governor was recorded talking in Al Capone-like displays.
At one point, he says bluntly that his family is hurting financially and adds, "I want to make money."
He discussed with an adviser that he wanted someone to approach an unidentified adviser to Obama - widely speculated to be incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel - about having the president-elect help get a nonprofit foundation set up for Blagojevich to run.

When demonrat campaign helpers are openly complaining about how they've gotten the short end of the schtick in terms of job kickbacks and appointments and the like, you're really having a bad week. Add to that the radical homosexual agitators crying for their cut, too, and also going to the media ( I heard this one gay activist/person say on KCAL9 the other night, "Hey we got this black guy elected, okay, so where's ours? Did PEBHO really think we were just going to skip back into the shadows after we got him elected?!") and you have the makings for a perfect storm of FAIL.

And it's not even Xmas yet. As I've stated before, it could be any one of these things such as massive unemployment, political destabilisation, $55M dollar jets falling out of the sky and vaporizing people's families, the continuing collapse and devaluation of the dollar, multiple failing brushfire wars, or just some teenager getting his ass shot by the local cops. Any one of those things by itself could be the trigger, but 2 or 3 or 4 of them happening simultaneously? There were also some minor earthquakes here in the Southland yesterday and the days prior.

Look at what is happening in beautiful, picturesque Greece as you read this. An apparently "random" event has touched off 5 days of rioting, looting, and burning. Oh, I know what you're thinking, it can't happen here, blah blah blah. Mind you, the last time the students took to the streets in Greece like this, their government collapsed entirely and became a military junta.

Tell it to Rodney King and Stacy Koons. If you aren't familiar with either of those names, Google is your friend.

The government's support has dropped lower as gangs of youths maraud through cities across the country, torching businesses, looting shops and setting up burning barricades across streets.
Storeowners accuse riot police of leaving their businesses unprotected as rioters smashed and burned their way through popular shopping districts. (That's gotta suck!)
Although police have fired volley after volley of tear gas when attacked by rock- and Molotov cocktail-throwing protesters, they held back when youths turned against buildings and cars.
(Oh Noes! Rocks and petrol-bombs! Wha Wha Wha! Umm, isn't that what they use as an excuse to take away more of our rights as they try to explain away their ridiculous budgets and over-spending on, dealing with shit like this?!? Oh Noes is right!)
Local media reported early Wednesday that groups of civilians had begun taking matters into their own hands, (now that's what I'm talking about, Civilian Law Enforcement FTW!)confronting looters in the western city of Patras and the central city of Larissa. Opposition Socialist leader George Papandreou claimed the conservatives are incapable of defending the public from rioters.

Well, duh. Of course he blamed the other guy.That's what he gets paid to do. And right after the cameras went dark, he and Mister Papandreou went out to a local falafel hut and got shitfaced on cheap ouzo together. Of course government fails at protecting "its people" from these kinds of events; it's not what "government" is or does. Just think back to Hurricane Katrina and the colossal failures of FEMA, the NOPD, the Army Corpse of Engineers, "Brownie," et. al.

Again, for the hard of learning:
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” George Washington, the only real "W"

Keep preparing. Learn how to sew or stitch. Buy a gun and train with it. Learn a useful skill. If you're okay, help someone who isn't.

Power -> water -> food distribution -> law and order -> arson fires -> full scale looting