The Gouging Continues

I heard on the news yesterday that yet another crop has "suffered" from some drought/flooding/diease/insect bullshit.  Yes folks, get ready to see peanut butter "possibly quadruple" in price.  Whether the "shortage" is real or not, you know they're going to gouge us anyway.  Have you ever noticed that they do this to all of the poor mans staple foods?; Foods that we poor bastards can store in bulk and feed our families off of?  In 10 years I've watched my 17 cent canned peas and corn at ALDI go to 65 cents a can.  My precious bacon has come under attack and tripled in price.  Has your income tripled?  Hell no it hasn't.  Like they always say, "Follow the money", and you'll see who gains from all of our misery.  You know the Jesus freaks out there who say He's coming back soon?  I hope they're right and He makes all the greedy motherfuckers who've ruined this once mighty nation of ours answer for what they've done.  Yes, I said "ours".  Though you'd never know it, this is still supposed to be OUR country.  I just wonder when people will grow enough balls to march on D.C. and take it back! There's the real nut shortage in America!  I hate to think how my Grandfather and his peers fought in WWII so that shit like this wouldn't take over our world.  I'm glad he's not here to see this.  Of course, if he and his generation were still here and able, maybe something would get done.  They didn't take any shit from Hitler, I can't imagine they'd take any of this shit now!

Yet ANOTHER Scam

If you haven't already fallen victim of this, beware of switching to one of those satelite t.v. services.  I was pissed because my cable bill had quadrupled in ten years time, so I thought I'd check into these "dish" ass-clowns.  Big mistake!  My "free installation" cost me $50 bucks. I found this out when my credit card bill arrived.  When I contacted the dish folks to ask WTF, I was told it was to cover shipping my equipment to my house.  They didn't ship anything.  A mexican in a company van showed up three hours late with my shit. If that's worth $50, I'm in the wrong line of work.  I was also assured that "todays technology eliminates signal loss due to storms or solar events."  It would be "extremely rare" for this to ever happen.   Of course, the truth is that this "rarity" happens everytime a cloud passes my house! They advertise 5 packages under $50.  BULLSHIT!  They've already raised my bill to a level that surpasses my old cable bill, and it will go up $15 more in a year.  They advertise over 200 channels but forget to tell you that the bulk of those channels are infomercials, religious pablum, and various other shit that you'd never consider watching.  Wow! Now I know where I can buy $140 pocket knives and overpriced silver coins.  B.F.D.  Not to mention the shoddy install job these guys do. My old lady like to *$&#% when she came home to see how this guy drilled through our new roof to mount the dish and tacked coils of cable wire onto the front of our house.  They didn't even attempt to hide the stuff or install it in a more aesthetically pleasing manner.  I usually prefer a least a little kiss or two before I get railed!  These jerks got me good.  They even told me, "Don't cancel your cable until we've installed your dish.  You wouldn't want a lapse in service."  Translation:  We know if you call your cable provider to cancel service they'll offer you a huge discount to stay with them.  I was offered 50% off.  Of course, too late as these a-holes already had me locked into a 2 year contract! They say if I get a friend to join I'll get $5 off of my bill.  To me, my friends are worth more than $5.  I wouldn't do that to a friend.  I hope this world holds together long enough for me to tell these crooks to come get their shit.  Be warned folks, these jerks could sell pogo sticks to the crippled.

WTF!

  I saw on the news how they are proposing more taxes.  What a surprise when the dems are in control.  The surprise is that they're wanting to tax our fast food and soda.  Kee-rist!  It's bad enough folks are having to pay a 5 spot and up for a pack of smokes, now they wanna tax my cheeseburger.  When does it end folks?  This country has become so ban-happy and quick to force its views on everybody.  I like to make my own choices and NOT get the ass taxed off of me for them.  Before you know it, we'll have to pay a tax to have a thought.  What's next, a flatulence tax for all the ozone damage our farts create!  WTF!

draco pistols and saiga 12 shotguns

I've been a gun nut since I was a kid.  Every once in a while, some really cool gun hits the market and five minutes later the lefties want to ban it.  I told my gun loving friends B.O.,(before Obama), that if there were two guns that they'd better pick up quick it'd be a Draco AK pistol and a Saiga 12 shotgun.  Sure enough, here we are, A.O.,(after Obama), and either nobody can keep these two guns in stock or the prices have skyrocketed. 
   I keep hearing about all these guys stepping up to pay a $200 tax stamp to have their Draco re-registered as an S.B.R. so they can put a stock on it.  Dudes, what a waste!  These guns are perfect as they are!  If you want an AK with a stock on it, buy a rifle.  Most AK rifles only have a 16" barrel as it is.  The whole point of a Draco is 7.62 x 39 firepower in a small package.  Being classed a pistol, you can also throw a loaded Draco in your trunk if you have a CCW!  It's a perfect gun when t.s.h.t.f.  I've also read many gripes of "it's hard to aim a draco".  1. It's a hip shooter not a sharpshooter.  2. Mount a sling adapter on the rear and use the "Israeli sling method".  3. Stop whining, you own a Draco!
   As for the Saiga 12, I know they're cool and it's the shotgun of the Spetnatz, but I can rack rounds plenty fast enough through any of my Winchester pumps AND reload on the fly.  No need to buy crazy expensive mags that'll end up banned before it's over with.  It's a lot cheaper to buy a good pump and trick it out any way you want than lay down $600 and up in these tough times.  It's even more hard-earned cash lost if you pay some shop to do a conversion on one.  I can't justify having over a grand in a gun that was $200 when it first came out.
  For the record, I know a guy who ruined his 7.62 chambered Saiga rifle trying to convert it back to an AK.  His gripe was that regular AK mags wouldn't work.  You should have seen the look on his face when I showed him how simple it was to make a regular AK mag work.  File the mag catch with a hand file until it fits in the Saiga.  Take the mag apart and use a small weld to fill in the little gap at the front end of the mag so the round can ride up into the bore when chambered. Clean up your weld with a dremel and blue it.  Then if you want the pistol grip AK instead of the "California O.K.'d" version, remove the buttstock and replace with a Tapco T-6 stock set.  Easy-peezy and your wallet don't get squeezied!  Work smarter, not harder.

Another scam on the rise

   Is anybody but me sick to death of all those prepaid visa commercials?  I have money "when I need it"...it's called cash.  I think it's yet another ploy to get us all living off of plastic.  That "mark of the beast" thing may not be so far off now.

Hello friends

I've been hounded by some friends for years to do this, so here it is.  My take on things is about as cut and dried and honest as you will ever get. We all know where this world is headed today, and alot of folks are wondering what they can do to prepare.  There are so many sites out there taking advantage of people with $500 buckets of freeze-dried ramen noodles and overpriced survival equipment that you'd have a small fortune invested in a 2 day emergency situation.  There really are alternatives.

     Most folks don't realize how long store bought canned food and properly stored dry goods will actually last.  You don't need a stockpile of expensive M.R.E.'s.  Every winter, we get some crazy storm and everybody and their uncle is beating a path to the local grocery store to fight over the last jug of milk while I sit in my well stocked home I keep for my family.  No, I'm not one of those nutty hoarders who has to climb over a thousand boxes of quick rice just to get to the toilet, I am simply prepared.  If we have to eat, repair something , or sling lead, I've got it covered.  We all need to be able to say that.  The truth is, money is practically worthless nowadays. We all know what kind of help we'll get from Washington.  We're on our own.  We need to get back to the way our grandparents lived where they "used it up, wore it out, made it work, or did without."  My personal opinion on money is to convert as much of it as you can afford to into things your family needs.  Do it now, because it'll surely cost more tomorrow.
    
    Every day I see an ad telling me to buy gold.  How the hell are you going to buy gold at $1600 an ounce when you're lucky to have gas money for the week?  My advice?  Think about the currency of the new millenium...ammo.  I had a friend who came into some money and asked me what I'd do.  Long story short, he bought 20 tins of ammo at $100 each, then sold them at a gun show for $300 each when Mr. Obama became president.  All he had to do was pay $50 for the table space at the gun show.  You won't get a return like that from any bank!  When the "system" has failed us, we are forced to find ways around the system.