{"id":12553,"date":"2012-12-17T02:07:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T09:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=12553"},"modified":"2012-12-17T02:07:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T09:07:36","slug":"this-is-the-week-we-all-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/this-is-the-week-we-all-die\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the week we all die"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"teotwawki\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, folks, this is it. Friday it’s all over. Zap. Kaput. This weary old Earth and all of us with it — gone.<\/p>\n

Even though I don’t believe a word of it, sometimes I think it couldn’t happen to a more deserving planet. <\/p>\n

And as to that lame, feel-good theory that the Earth isn’t really going blooey, but is just going to go through a tribulation, with the survivors (i.e. the people holding the theory) going to emerge full of peace, love, and enlightenment … yeah.<\/p>\n

You just tell me when peace, love, and enlightenment have ever lasted more than about 15 minutes before some jerk with a Bright Idea came along to screw them up.<\/p>\n

Nope. Despite boundless skepticism about the Maya and their multitudes of modern-day misinterpreters, boom, biff, kapow are definitely more our style.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

It’s been a crappy month. Is there any country on the globe that’s not about to go to war with some other? And once the Be-medaled Big Man of some hellhole starts the nuking or the gassing or the whatever, is there one, single one of these wannabe wars<\/i> that neocon-gov won’t throw us into, claiming (and manufacturing evidence for) some Vital National Interest? Or Democracy or something?<\/p>\n

Here in the U.S., even before Mr. Evil decided to make his mark in the world by shooting elementary schoolers, things weren’t looking so good. Take just one piece of news (out of many): that our Beloved Attorney General decided unilaterally and arbitrarily<\/a> that the fedgov can not only keep dossiers on anybody, but decided the gov can sell them to foreign governments for their scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Now, this would have been bad enough had the media ferreted it out and jumped on it immediately with howling rage. And had an aroused public demanded an end to such tyranny — and Eric Holder’s term in office — and the entire Department of Homeland (Achtung!) Security — and the heads of quite a few politicians and bureaucrats — and restoration of the Bill of Rights. But as usual, the news took months to emerge … and was barely treated as news when it did. <\/p>\n

I particularly like the way the few media outlets that actually reported it repeated the fedgov’s assurances that this is totally, perfectly, absolutely, no-doubt-about-it all right and doesn’t violate the Fourth Amendment (the what?) because of … oh, safeguards or some such thing. You know, because it’s the Good Old Red-White-n-Blue USA and the Government is Us and We’re the Government so what could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n

And of course there’s more<\/a>. there’s always more<\/a>. Even something as monumental as open-ended QE4<\/a> charging along right on the heels of QE3 doesn’t even raise an eyebrow (or the price of gold) even though the lowest member of Densa<\/a> can see what it means<\/a>.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

I’ve been having a crappy month, personally, too. It’s been brightened only (though I hasten to add, very, very considerably) by all the early visits from Santa and the goodness, support, and devotion to freedom each of those visits represents. Here in my living room, the tree, the dogs, and I are warm and happy.<\/p>\n

And I hope you are, too, for the four and whatever-percentage of days that remain to you before your head (and everything else) explodes.<\/p>\n

But for me, it’s been a month of small blows and small setbacks — not one of them amounting to anything by itself, but the whole chain of them leaving me in a Dangerous Mood.<\/p>\n

Oh, not listening-to-the-voices-in-my-head dangerous. But dangerous in the sense of wanting to toss everything aside and become a beach bum. If only I could figure out how one makes a living being a beach bum.<\/p>\n

Since I probably won’t figure that out before Friday, I guess you can count on me being here to bring you bad news, good cheer, and a relentlessly positive Bad Attitude for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

Thanks for all the motivation to stick around, even if the future lasts more than four-and-a-fragment days.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

And let’s choose to be optimistic. The fact that the fedgov can “advance” tyranny by Godzilla-sized bounds and barely evoke yawns may be a good<\/i> sign. It could just be that people have come to expect nothing else. Have come to divorce themselves by the millions from a government they recognize as thoroughly out of bounds and out of their control.<\/p>\n

A government whose seemingly invincible underpinnings could collapse with a crash-boom at any moment. Who knows? Maybe even this Friday.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

\"2012-12-20<\/a><\/p>\n

\"after-the-apocalypse\"<\/a><\/p>\n

All posters courtesy of MJR, with that last one stolen from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Newz links courtesy of P and J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, folks, this is it. Friday it’s all over. Zap. Kaput. This weary old Earth and all of us with it — gone. Even though I don’t believe a word of it, sometimes I think it couldn’t happen to a more deserving planet. And as to that lame, feel-good theory that the Earth isn’t really going blooey, but is just going to go through a tribulation, with the survivors (i.e. the people holding the theory) going to emerge full of peace, love, and enlightenment … yeah. You just tell me when peace, love, and enlightenment have ever lasted more than…<\/p>\n

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