Not much else I can add to this. Its crazy.

My county has had four covid deaths... Four. One was a 89 year old man, and one was a extremely obese frequent flyer of the ER due to his fatness. Un-known on the other two. With the four deaths, governor Newsom selectively shut my “red” county down. While many other blue counties with many more deaths stay open. Our bi-county area has had seven covid related deaths total, and yet here we are with our governor leaving us closed.

This is how is this not treason to the people?

I don't doubt that, but if you are trying to make a compelling announcement or argument (and he is), it is best to craft it, not improvise it.

Instead, here I am just now getting to the end of a video with the guy sounding like a speed-addled maniac because it's playing at 1.5X.  I know he's saying stuff I mostly already agree with, but at minute 54 of 58...he finally starts going into the extremely top-level description of what he's trying to accomplish.  He assures the listener there is a plan, and it is not being half-assed, but says he needs technical, professional, and financial assistance with almost every aspect of the org he envisions, yet does so in an hour-long stream of consciousness record.

Maybe that passion is good for rallying some people, but he even says the video is not about rallying anyone, but announcing.  I already agree with the man about damn near everything (well, except trying to take a non-existent brand new org national, immediately out of the gate; that's insane) so his passion, while admirable, is not useful to me.  I need to know exactly what I need to do to assist him, and before that, I need to be 1) convinced his goal is worthy of my help, and 2) told why he needs my help.

Craft a logical, structured call to action if you want to convey information, rather than feelings.  Not an impassioned ejaculation; we have plenty of those already.  I don't need to be made angry to figure out whether I possess a skillset presently needed to develop a website.

The Lobby Day Rally was compelling because the group communications were parsed in 'military fashion' by also-former service members (and I think some actives).  Granted it got to the point of being unintelligible jargon-jibberish at times, but there was an air of professionalism throughout, which gave ME confidence to take part, knowing I wasn't being led into a lion's den by some asshole.  And as I'd expected, that professionalism carried over to every other aspect of the event, which was quite disciplined, focused, effective, and predictable (to those who were privy to the details)

He says time is precious now, and I agree.  He could have spent that hour recording his thoughts, a half-hour organizing them, fifteen minutes proofing them, and the last fifteen minutes reading them to his webcam.  140,000 views (so far).  That's as many as ONE HUNDRED FORTY THOUSAND MAN-HOURS.  To ask if anyone wants to help him set up a website, for crissakes.

We gotta start this more locally.  We all agree on the shit that needs to be stopped; there's no need for a national hierarchy.  We'll save that shit for when we get enough political power to THINK about calling the shots, and form our own political party in the flaming aftermath of the RNC/DNC paradigm.  For now it's bare survival, I'm afraid.  Calling an 'all hands' to Idaho or even Virginia isn't gonna work well in practice, most people can only do that once a year.  And why would it be needed, anyway?  We all know there's more than enough locals to handle such things, if they were only in communication & held each other accountable as a community.  When we can get a guy we like who's friendly to us elected dog-catcher reliably, we can start thinking about taking on the larger, more remote systems.

For long term storage of rice, you should Google how to store long term, rice what will develop as weevils, insects that look like little grubs.

As an investment in normal times, no.

In an era where your country is in a civil war and you can’t escape and food prices skyrocketed, or enemy troops have occupied your country, or you are leaving before the government murders you and need a universal store of portable wealth, yes.

I know people who lived through siege in Bosnia (several), or whose grandparents survived by escaping with things sewn into clothes or buying bread with gold or jewelry.

Emergency legislation could tax or confiscate your bank, brokerage or retirement accounts, prohibit or limit withdrawal, or render them valueless through inflation or regime change. All have happened in different places in the world in the last 50 years.

Assuming you saw my greenhouse thread mentioned above (page 2?), let me introduce you to another old old thread of mine that doesn’t archive.

Canning at home

I'm right there with you.
We've been contemplating a big move to get the hell out of suburban south Florida for a few years. I woke up a little over a month ago and said the time has come now.
We took a week long road trip to NC and got a house under contract. We closed a week ago and we'll make the big move in a couple weeks to a perfect home on 35+ wooded acres.
I'm looking forward to this move big-time.
I hope we have some good neighbors that are worth their salt.

Amazon has diatomaceous earth cheap in fairly small bags with a sort of puff duster. The material is inert and washes away, but abrades and pierces weevil shells. For a typical 20-25# bag of rice, I put a dust layer about every 1/4 in the container.

Of course, weevils are extra protein ??

My friend Donald is a conservative African, him and I hit it off really well. He is Vietnam War vet with a Purple Heart, actually saw combat in Vietnam, retired from the USPS after 40 years. He walks 10 miles/day for exercise. From the way he was dressed when I first met him you would think he was homeless, but far from it, he gets a pension from the US miltiary and also from the USPS, he is really articulate. And above all he is a really nice guy.

BTW be sure to get food-grade stuff, I am not an expert by no means, but this DE stuff also has alternative uses.

Have you gotten your exercise in today? Or did you at least eat an apple?

It’s getting pretty hot here and my back feels funky. But I’m going to try to put in a leg day of some sort.

10 miles on the bike, but I got back before it got 'hot', which is cold for you

Also got the concrete floor of the greenhouse sealed and will paint the concrete walls tomorrow (first coat anyway) and I'm ordering shelving tonight for our food storage room and the greenhouse.

Doing pistol and carbine training with some family tonight.  The future son-in-law is a pretty committed student.

I think I lost around 45 lbs when I did a calorie restriction and was cycling a few times a week. I’d rather cycle in the heat, than at 6,500 ft. At least I’d have hot oxygen.

I have some gun projects I’m finishing up. I do most of my shooting in the fall/ winter/ spring... It’s about two months long. So I need to get ready.

Testing my new sig line.

Test complete.

Fats and oils are hard to stock, they are expensive and don't store well.

However, I got a really good price on some Morning Moo powdered milk the other day.  Morning Moo is the best tasting powdered milk on the market and here you can see it for sale at Amazon for $26/can

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I walked into a grocery store recently and found some for $16/can.  So I got a few.  Several.

Canned fruits and veggies are still hard to find. The normal stock is available, but no sales and no case-lot buys.  Prices still aren't very good even though late summer is when they are typically trying to move last year's stuff out and get the new stuff into warehouses.

So we've been buying what's available.  Canned chicken is the big priority for the next couple of weeks.