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While standing at the gas pump today, watching the dollars and cents spinning far too fast in comparison to the gallons dial, I stood there muttering to myself, "What the hell will it take to impeach this criminal son of a bitch?" Then it dawned on me. These days, there is no better place to get your point across to the average American than while he/she is standing there at the gas pump. Aren't we all muttering at the gas pump these days? So here is my (latest) call to arms: Let's reach the American gas consumer at the moment he/she is most open to our message, while he/she is pumping gas. How? Guerilla Advertising!! A nicely placed "Impeach" sticker, right next to the "Dollars and Cents" dial on your local gas pump will do the trick. It's one word: Impeach. But sitting there on the Exxon gas pump, juxtaposed with the cost of fuel, it really says it all, doesn't it? And for pete's sake, the oil companies have been shitting on the environment without any conscience, so don't feel too bad about putting one sticker on their gas pump. Sometimes disobedience is required. Just stay out of view of the pump camera. It's damn easy. Print out a sheet of "Impeach" stickers on your computer. Put the sheet in your car. Every time you stop to fill your tank up with gas, place an "Impeach" sticker on the pump. And don't forget to take your receipt! If anything, it should provide you with a bit of catharsis. (I did this today … and took my printed stickers, not just to the gas pump, but also into the supermarket. It was such a rush … I saw the Nabisco Animal Cracker aisle stand with those delicious vanilla cookies. I hesitated, and looked high and low. On one side of the cardboard display was a lion … on the other side was an elephant. The cookies were all over the place, but I controlled myself. Not eating the cookies on the display, I went into my purse … I took out two stickers … and then … unable to stop myself, I stuck “IMPEACH” stickers all over the elephant’s trunks … and, ran, before store security could catch me being such a BAD BAD girl!!!) = = = = = = = = = = = = Living With War (CD) - Advance Pre-Order (Shipped on or after May 8th release date): by Neil Young It's taken three years, but finally we have the protest CD filled with the scorn, outrage and cry for justice that we have been waiting for: Neil Young's "Living with War." Perhaps only someone with Neil Young's legendary musical pedigree has the artistic clout to get an album like this distributed. Whatever the reason, it's a CD that smashes through the lying and fantasy of the D.C. press corps and Karl Rove creation known as Bushworld. If you think you have been watching a parallel universe of treason and incompetence unfold for six years, "Living with War" is the album for you, because -- well -- you have been living with war and a failed, mendacious government. Neil Young feels so strongly about getting his anti-Bushworld music out, the album can be heard for free at: http://www.hyfntrak.com/neilyoung2/AFF23358 Entire article: http://www.buzzflash.com/store/reviews/205 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = You may be a survivalist if: …. (shared from another group in which I participate) << I appreciate everyone taking a moderate and thoughtful approach to our group’s minimal rules of decorum. ** On the subject of survival: How many here are prepared for what appears to be bad time in your own host country due to economic fallout from the oil and resource wars by the imperialist govt's of the world? ** Do you have your "island" at home ready? Could you do without the grocery store for a few days? A few weeks? A few months? What about long term, maybe forever? ** The actions, ideas and preparations necessary to prepare for building or living on the ocean are in MANY ways what you might want to consider at your own home, either in the country of your birth or elsewhere. ** Do you have food production locally (even at home)? Do you have a good supply of safe fresh water? Do you have safety and security thought out for your family? What about commerce? If you lost your job and could not find another, what would you do to generate some sort of barterable or spendable credit or money? ** Have you thought about what you would do if you were income challenged for a few months or a year? What about when mass segments of the population are that way as well and they are starting to TAKE what they want and need … from YOU and your family? Can you defend yourself, your family, and your homestead? << Islands lend their security to isolation; in our neighborhoods and cities, we have no isolation. So, while you may be prepared with a generator or other backup source of powers, you know that most if not all of your neighbors are not. You might think after a month with little or sporadic electricity, would they not be just a wee bit upset with you when they hear your propane generator crank up to recharge batteries and pump water, hmmm? ** What about your lights at night? They may take a look at your solar panels and decide to get some for themselves … from your house, while offing you and your family in the process.. << A few years ago right before whytookay I begged my mother to pester my father to buy a new generator ... not for whytookay, but for ANYTHING. 3 weeks before the new year 2000 they had a massive storm in north Louisiana and they did not have electricity for 3 WEEKS … and their house was the only house for miles that actually had lights at night, and cold food and water. They said it really was odd to look out at 9:30 at night and not see ANY lights and their house stood out like a lighthouse ... and the genny easily could be heard for quite a ways away. ** Of course, whytookay was a no-show: but hurricanes, ice storms and floods continually challenge modern civilization. So ... are you preparing your own terrestrial Liberty Island? What you will learn, what tools you will gather, and what mindset will you develop to prepare you for REALLY needing that stuff later down the road. >> You Might Be A Survivalist If... - You can't put your groceries in the trunk of the car because it’s already jammed full with emergency kits, first aid supplies, and fully-stocked BOBs. - You have emergency rations for your pets, and view your pets as potential emergency rations. - You know the news three days before it hits the mass media. - You have back-up plans for your back-up plans. - You're convinced you've been exposed to so many chemtrails, you consider it a form of birth control. - You've ever repressed the urge to bleat "BAAAAAAAAAA" as your neighbor earnestly asks, "What war? Where?" - You've ever bought antibiotics for human use through a vet, or grains for human consumption through a feed store. - You've got more than one grain mill. - You've ever wondered how you might filter the used water from your washing machine to make it fit for human consumption. - You have a kerosene lamp in every room. - Your living room coffee table is actually a board with pretty cloth over it to disguise your food storage underneath. - Your box springs are Rubber Maid containers filled with rice and beans. - You save dryer lint to make fire starters. - Your most commonly-used fuel additive is 'Stabil', instead of 'Gumout'. - You automatically choose the heavy duty flatbed cart upon entering Sam's or Costco. - If you know the shelf life of tuna fish, but don't know how long you've had an open jar of mayo in the fridge. - Your basement walls are insulated with crates of toilet paper, from floor to ceiling, all the way around. - While other people are saving money for new furniture, or vacations, you are desperately saving to get solar panels put on your house. - You were excited beyond all reason when they came out with cheddar cheese in a can. - You've ever served MREs at a dinner party. - You can engage in a spirited debate on chemical vs. sawdust toilets for hours on end. - You've ever considered digging an escape tunnel from your basement to the nearest stand of trees. - You know how to use a vacuum cleaner in reverse to filter air in your designated bio-chem attack safe room. - You've ever considered buying an above-ground pool for water storage purposes. - You know what things like 'TSHTF', 'BOB' and 'TEOTWAWKI' mean. - You have different grades of BOB's. - You know the names, family histories, locations, and degree of readiness of over a thousand fellow people on the net ... but you've never met your neighbors. - The best radio in the house is a wind-up. - You have better items in storage than you use everyday. - When the SHTF, you would eat better than you eat now. - Your significant other gave you a sleeping bag rated “-15 degrees” for Christmas ... and you were moved beyond words. - You've sewn a secret mini-BOB’s into the bottom of your children's school backpacks. - Local food pantries have come to depend on donations from your larder when you rotate stock in the spring and fall. - You're still using up your Y2K supplies. - You have enough army surplus equipment to open a store. - The local army surplus store owner knows you by your first name. - You fill up when your gas tank is 3/4 full. - You call Rubber Maid for wholesale prices. - You have several cases of baby wipes and your kids are all grown. - You carry a pocket survival kit, a sturdy folding knife, a SureFire flashlight and a small concealed handgun on you to church every Sunday. - You start panicking when you are down to 50 rolls of toilet paper. - You keep a small notebook to write down any edible plants you happen to see along the road. - You shop yard sales, store sales, and markdown racks for barter goods for ATSHTF. - You own a hand-operated clothes washer and a non-electric carpet sweeper. - You have at least two of every size of Dutch oven (the ones with the legs on the bottom), and 20 bags of charcoal, although you have a gas grill. - You have rain barrels at each corner of your house, although you have a city water hookup, and a Big Berkey to purify the water. - You have sapphire lights, survival whistle, and a Swiss Army knife on every family member's keychain. - The people in line at Costco's ask you if you run a store or restaurant. - You require a shovel to rotate all your preps properly. - You no longer go the the doctor's because you can either fix it yourself, make it at home, or know and understand the physicians desk reference better than he does, and can get the goods at the vets or pet store for MUCH less moolah anyway. - You know that a 'GPS' has nothing to do with the economy. - You track your preps on a computer spreadsheet for easy reordering, but have hardcopies in a 3-ring, binder 'just in case'. - You've thought about where the hordes can be stopped before entering town. - You start evaluating people according to 'skill sets'. - You view the nearest conservation area as a potential grocery store when TSHTF. - You know *all* the ways out the building where you work. - You have enough pasta stockpiled in your basement to carbo-load all the runners in the New York marathon. - You know that you have 36 gallons of extra drinking water in the hot water tank and your 2 toilet tanks. - You know which bugs are edible. - You have a handpump on your well. - You have #10 cans of 'stuff' that the labels fell off of, but you won't throw it out or open it because it 'may be needed later', even though you haven't a clue as to the contents. - You know where the best defensive positions and lines of fire are on your property. - You've made a range card for your neighborhood. - Your toenail clipper is a K-BAR. - The Ranger Handbook is your favorite 'self help' book. - You've numbered the deer romping in the yard by their order of consumption. - You must move 50 cases of food for the plumber to get to that leaky pipe, but you have your own hand truck in the basement to do it. - You own more pairs of hiking boots than casual and dress shoes combined. - You have more 55gal blue water drums than family members. - Your UPS system has more than 6 Deep cycle batteries. - You have a backup generator for your backup generator, which is a backup for your solar system. - You go to McDonalds and ask for one order of fries with 25 packs of ketchup and mustard (each). - You have ever given SPAM as a serious gift. - You've had your eye out for a good deal for a stainless steel handgun to conceal in the bottom of the magazine rack next to the toliet. - You are single male over 40, but you still have an emergency childbirth kit, just in case you have to deal with that possibility. - You have two water heaters installed in your basement, but one is a dummy that's been converted to a hideaway safe. - You've made bugout cargo packs for your dogs. - You have a walking stick with all sorts of gadgets hidden inside. - Your koi pond is stocked with catfish. - As a stand-in scoutmaster, you taught your son's troop to set mantraps and punji pits, and haven't been asked to stand in since. - You're on your fifth vacuum sealer, but you keep at least one of the worn out ones because you can still seal up plastic bags with it. - You haven't bought dried fruit in years, but you buy fresh bananas, apples, peaches and pears by the case and have three dehydrators. - Your UPS man hates you because of all the cases of ammo he's had to lug from his truck to your front door. - You have duplicates of all your electronics gear, solar panels and generator parts in your EMP-shielded fallout shelter. - You have set aside space for your live chickens in the fallout shelter. - When the power goes out in your neighborhood, all the neighbor's kids come over to your place to watch TV on generator power. - You must open the door to your pantry *very* carefully for fear of a canned goods avalanche. - You have a 'Volcano', you know you can cook anything, and you cast evil glances at your neighbor's annoying, yappy poodle, muttering "your day will come, hotdog" under your breath. - You've learned to knap flint, make twine from plant fibers for snares and use an atl-atl (http://www.hollowtop.com/atlatlbob.htm ), because you fear that all of your preps and hard work will be confiscated by FEMA troops or destroyed by earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear blasts, ravening hordes of feral sheeple or reptiloids from 'Planet X' ATSHTF. - You've been jotting down some ideas from this post for actual use in your preparations for ATSHTF. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Idiot Son: http://www.ericblumrich.com/idiot.html = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Unrestrained: http://www.ericblumrich.com/ihr.html = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The Child Care Squeeze: Access to high-quality child care is essential for parents to work and for children to develop and thrive. But child care is too often unaffordable or simply unavailable, and the public investment needed to address these deficiencies has been grossly inadequate. … http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/02/the_child_care_squeeze.php = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Bush could be easily convicted of the same crimes: when is his trial? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12615601 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = U.S. Pays for 150 Iraqi Clinics, and Manages to Build 20: By JAMES GLANZ Published: April 30, 2006 A $243 million program led by the United States Army Corps of Engineers to build 150 health care clinics in Iraq has in some cases produced little more than empty shells of crumbling concrete and shattered bricks cemented together into uneven walls, two reports by a federal oversight office have found.: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/world/middleeast/30reconstruct.html = = = = = = ~~Suz-Q ~~ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [RobsList] A progressive group that is part of http://robwire.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RobsList" group. 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