Archive for July 11th, 2008

The American Energy Crisis: A Big Bank Goes Down

The American Energy Crisis: A Big Bank Goes Down
There are so many bills to “keep Americans in their homes” working their way through Congress it is hard to keep them all straight. Forget it, you can’t. The ONE THING I can tell you WITH CERTAINTY - They ain’t doing it for the home owner’s benefit.

Survival Acres: Got Your Head Stuck In The Sand? Check Out The Deniers List!

Got Your Head Stuck In The Sand? Check Out The Deniers List!
Today, I received (another) email from a friend of over 30 years basically saying (again) that “Global Warming” is a crock, fraud, hoax, lie, scam - aka utter bullshit.

Circle of the Oroborous: More Mayhem

Circle of the Oroborous: More Mayhem
Road kill wakeup. Camp pranks are a staple of the campout. I woke up to a roadkill they were gonna place in my bed , so I ate a half pint of Kimchee and gassed them all out all day. Dragons rules on pranks, He who laughs last, laughs loudest.

AP News : Government shuts down mortgage lender IndyMac

AP News : LimaOhio.com
IndyMac Bank’s assets were seized by federal regulators on Friday after the mortgage lender succumbed to the pressures of tighter credit, tumbling home prices and rising foreclosures.

The bank is the largest regulated thrift to fail and the second largest financial institution to close in U.S. history, regulators said.

The Office of Thrift Supervision said it transferred IndyMac’s operations to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation because it did not think the lender could meet its depositors’ demands.

Bear Ridge Project: Budget Survival - Window Box Room Heater

Bear Ridge Project: Budget Survival - Window Box Room Heater
When I think of cottage commerce for the post collapse society I see items like passive solar heaters manufactured from the shelled out remains of McMansions and insulated shutters built from the gutted remnants of the defunct strip malls that surrounding every city center as the new regional industries.

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