Desert Cat's Paradise

• The Things That Entertain Cats...

  Viddler.com - Kitteh Slide - Uploaded by cheezburger [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 7:24pm EST
  

• Support Carbon Based Life

  Say "NO" to Copenhagen! [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:32pm EST
  

• Snow On The Pass

  I drove through a stretch of winter storm on my way to work this morning. At the top of the road approaching Oracle the rain turned into snow as I ascended into a fog layer. It was not accumulating on the ground--melting as it hit--but the wind was blowing it [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 9:15am EST
  

• Mannheim Steamroller in Tucson

  The concert was very enjoyable. Chip Davis himself was not there, recovering from recent neck surgery we are told. I have to say I did not realize how much of his music was indeed capable of being played live. Because the timing of so many of his songs is so [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 11:18pm EST
  

• No Progress

  None worthy of photographing anyway.
  
  Oh I did stuff--put up a track light above my desk, pulled down a bunch of dead wood off trees in a thickly wooded corner of my lot, did a bit of cooking, cleaning, and chaos taming, and I put up winter window plastic [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 10:23pm EST
  

• Evening Earbugs

  Crazy
  
  I couldn't find the Crystal Gayle version of this song. Gawhd I loved her voice! Whatever happened to her?
  
  So nice
  
  It's all I want, really.
  
  Just for fun:
  The Nice Kitty Song
  ' [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:02am EST
  

• Gullible

  
  Desert Cat, you're such a Charlie Brown!
  
  Don't you know by now that Lucy is going to pull that football away *every single time* you try to kick it? Yes of course you do! Every year she gulls you into trying it again, and every year she pulls [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 12:24am EST
  

• The Trigger

  Keep your bags packed Daisy-baby. This is still a very likely scenario...
  
  An Israeli Strike on Iran
  CPA Contingency Planning Memorandum No. 5 [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 7:49pm EST
  

• The Other Shoe

  ...laces are being untied--expect it to drop soon.
  
  Dubai debt fears threaten credit crunch 2 — and RBS is exposed - Times OnlineThe standstill has raised the prospect that Dubai World and, by extension, the government of Dubai might default on their debt.
  
  As the drama in [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:19pm EST
  

• Revolution

  Fiat Currency Money Printing Leading to Decentralization and Operational Secession--
  Dr. Gary North
  
  Excellent article here by Dr. North. He outlines how we may be able to take our country back from the bankster establishment that is running us into the ground.
  
  He also identifies what I [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:55am EST
  

• H1N1 Re-infections Raise Pandemic Concerns

  H1N1 Re-infections Raise Pandemic Concerns
  
  I had this suspicion that this was happening. Having had H1N1 once does not necessarily confer immunity to the virus or slightly mutated cousins.
  
  This also suggests that vaccination may not prove effective either.
  
  I was wiped out in June, [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:44am EST
  

• Peanut Butter

  I never used to care much for it. It was always the "food of last resort" growing up--when nothing else was in the fridge, a peanut butter sandwich had to do.
  
  Browsing my fridge for late night munchy satisfaction, I grabbed the peanut butter jar and honey squeeze bottle. [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:03pm EST
  

• Progress Pics

  I didn't post after last weekend because progress was minimal. That Friday was Chicken Butchering Day II, and the rest of the weekend was spent rearranging my living space and attempting to tame the chaos.
  
  Only three more chickens fell to the axe last Friday. The old rooster found' [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 8:29pm EST
  

• Desert Cat's Paradise

  THIS, is where I live.
  
  (Click on the small image to load a much larger image that can be zoomed to full size, allowing you to pan back and forth and vertically. Really, do it! This little image does *not* do it justice. Update: after clicking on [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 11:23pm EST
  

• A McCain Upset? - WSJ.com

  A McCain Upset? - WSJ.comJohn McCain may have been the GOP's national standard-bearer just a year ago, but now he's in electoral trouble at home. And this time no one can claim it's because of Sarah Palin.
  
  A new Rasmussen poll shows the Arizona Senator in a dead [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:20pm EST
  

• Red Alert: The Second Wave of The Financial Tsunami

  A review of the forces gathering to hit us as the eye of the hurricane (current conditions) passes us, and the other side of the storm hits:
  Red Alert: The Second Wave of The Financial Tsunami
  The Wave Is gathering force & could hit between the first & second [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:49pm EST
  

• Fort Knox Gold And More May Be Fake!

  World bankers suspected...
  
  Gld ETF Warning, Tungsten Filled Fake Gold Bars :: The Market Oracle
  
  Ya wonder why gold prices were so low for so many years? Fake gold bars flooding the market! And the Fed is implicated. [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:18pm EST
  

• Survival School

  Survival School | The Big MoneyIt's a sticky Saturday morning and I'm handcuffed in the back seat of a Jeep Grand Cherokee parked on the side of a Philadelphia street. On one side of me is my boyfriend, Bruce, and on the other his best friend, Nick. Both of [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:28am EST
  

• Art of War

  For reference:
  Sonshi.com | Original Sun Tzu's Art of War translation (not Giles) [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:16am EST
  

• Political Quiz - What Type of Conservative Are You?

  Political Quiz - What Type of Conservative Are You?
  
  My Conservative Identity:

  You are an Anti-government Gunslinger, also known as a libertarian conservative. You believe in smaller government, states’ rights, gun rights, and that, as Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language [...]

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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:46pm EST
  

• Obscure Bureaucrat Becomes EU High Commissioner

  Baroness Ashton becomes Europe’s first foreign minster
  
  What does this mean for Herb Peter's timeline? I am not entirely sure, but there are a couple of things that *do* jump out at me and suggest an interpretation:by European accounts, it was French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:27pm EST
  

• Free Downloadable Preparedness Books

  Just glancing at the list I have a whole lot of browsing to do and probably a good deal of downloading and CD burning as well.
  
  Check it out:
  Survival Books (Free Downloads) GARDENING, WILD FORAGING AND SELF SUFFICIENCY - 12160.org [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:06pm EST
  

• In Case You Haven't Noticed...

  ...my tail is getting all bristly again today.
  
  I don't know if that signifies anything in particular, other than my nutcase survivalist mentality getting tweaked by current news events again...
  
  I mean, a couple days ago we had the President of the United States basically admitting to Fox' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:02pm EST
  

• The Day The Dollar Died

  May the internet godz forgive me, but this fiction piece is quoted in full below the fold. Because I know most of you will be to lazy to click the link and read the rest on the site it came from, and you need to read it.
  
  Here is [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:56am EST
  

• Update on the Ukranian Flu

  Via survivalblog.com:
  Google Translate
  In a nutshell: it is not pneumonia--it cannot be treated with antibiotics. Basically this strain of flu gets into the air sacs in the lungs, causes them to begin hemorrhage, and when the body tries to stop the hemorrhaging it shuts down the oxygen transfer [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:41am EST
  

• Print This!

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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:24pm EST
  

• Amazing...

  I never thought I'd see the day that I'd issue forth a hearty "A-MEN!" to anything uttered by a union thug:
  
  AFL-CIO wants TARP funds to target small businesses, not Wall Street - TheHill.comAFL-CIO President Richard Trumka wants lawmakers to redirect bailout funds for the financial sector to [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:28am EST
  

• Cheese Making for Beginners

  Posted for future reference:
  
  Cheese Making for Beginners [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:56pm EST
  

• Ok...

  ...who's the wiseacre who put a Skunk Regenerator on my property?
  
  Skunks have a two mile foraging range, I read. There has to be a hard limit to how many skunks any given two mile radius area can support. Apparently I haven't hit that limit yet, unless some sadistic' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:20am EST
  

• Progress Pics (Part III)

  One thing leads to another...
  
  Daisycat stayed for a while longer today than she often does, so I chose a project that we could both work on. She transported patio blocks from where they were stored over to the workshop area.
  
  
  I hauled aggregate [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:27pm EST
  

• Chicken Butchering Day (Progress Pics Part 2)

  "Oh life on a farm is a-kinda laid back,
  Ain't much an old country boy like me can't hack."
  
  "Mommy, where does our food come from?"
  
  Well, those of you who are squeamish, or vegetarian, or otherwise would rather not know the answer to that, do not click [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 8:05pm EST
  

• Progress Pics (Part I)

  Finally.
  
  Done with the workshop area leveling!
  
  Wednesday I spent the day working on my vehicles. I capped off the ports to the EGR on Mitzi. She seems to run just fine now. I also changed her oil and fixed a handful of minor annoyance things. I also [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 10:23pm EST
  

• Varmint Dreams

  Now I know these plagues of varmints are getting to me. I had a dream sequence about them.
  
  I was looking at a hole in the ground when a huge (woodchuck-sized) gopher pushed some dirt up and stuck his head up out of the hole. I froze, hoping he [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:12am EST
  

• Preparedness Supplier

  Via survivalblog.com, here is a supplier of food storage system components and other preparedness items: Five Star Preparedness
  
  The buckets are a good price, and are food grade to boot, so it is not strictly necessary to use a mylar liner for foods that do not require oxygen [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:02pm EST
  

• No progress

  ...worth reporting on.
  
  Friday morning was taken up with packing more stuff from my desk area in Tucson, undoing some wiring I had done to accommodate a printer there, so that I can set the same printer up at my new place, then buying and installing a new battery [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 9:59pm EST
  

• Jobs "Saved or Created"

  
  
  I was expecting this (surprise, huh?)
  
  Remember this graph next fall's campaign season when the president and the Democrats try to tell us how many jobs they "saved or created".
  
  Utter bullshit. They made it worse.' [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 1:19am EST
  

• 12 Dead, 31 Wounded in Base Shootings

  12 Dead, 31 Wounded in Base Shootings - NYTimes.com
  
  Within moments they get someone from the FBI to say "not terrorism related", before they know Jack! Diddly! Squat!
  
  Agenda, anyone?
  
  Then:An Army spokesman, Gary Tallman, said that the dead gunman was an Army major. A law [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 5:49pm EST
  

• Tome Of Preparedness

  I just downloaded this (courtesy of a link on survivalblog.com) and have looked over a portion of it. This...is excellent! It brings together in one document a whole lot of stuff I have found scattered across the 'net.
  
  I don't have time to go over it thoroughly right at [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:17pm EST
  

• Permanent Earbug

  
  
  It's been embedded in my ear for decades now. My parents had an LP (remember those kids?) of the music of Fiddler on the Roof, when I was a kid, and I played it too many times. I saw a live performance of the play in my early' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:48pm EST
  

• Tuesday Is Skunk Day

  ...at the Desert Cat Estate.
  
  Steve walks warily down the street
  With his brim pulled way down low
  Ain't no sound but the sound of his FEET
  Machine guns ready to go.
  
  Are you ready?
  Are you ready for this?
  Are you hanging on the edge of your' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:35am EST
  

• Skullduggery At the Fed

  For those interested, the truth trickles out in dribbles, regarding what transpired last fall during the big Panic.
  New York Fed’s Secret Choice to Pay for Swaps Hits Taxpayers - Bloomberg.com [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:42pm EST
  

• Why It's Not Over

  Lest we forget, this has not yet been accounted for:
  
  Trillion Dollar Ticking Derivatives Time Bomb to Explode Under Bankrupt Banks :: The Market OracleAt Gains, Pains, & Capital I’ve been warning about the Trillion Dollar Ticking Time Bomb of derivatives for months now. As a brief recap, [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:08pm EST
  

• Who We Are

  I just saw this on survivalblog.com and I thought what this author found was pretty descriptive of my own mindset:
  Letter Re: Thoughts on Preparedness in a Diverse Community--SurvivalBlog.com"7) The final funny observation is how close these guys are with all the ex-hippie counterculture...
  The two types of" [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 3:54pm EST
  

• Progress Pics

  Momcat harvested her sweet potato bed this weekend, because the frost had finished off the tops. She got 35 lbs of sweet potatoes from a single square yard! That's a phenomenal yield. From a full 100 square foot bed that would be nearly 350 lbs of sweet potatoes! Contrast that' [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 9:02pm EST
  

• More On The Mortgage Mess

  More info on the MERS case and other good info on what is going on:
  Why Mortgages Aren’t Modified And What A Ruling Stopping Foreclosures Means
  
  And More Here from Reason.com. [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 4:08pm EDT
  

• Fifteen Degrees Fahrenheit

  ...said my thermometer this morning.
  
  The temperature in midtown Tucson at this hour is 38 degrees.
  
  It is hard to overestimate the "valley effect" on the low temperature on still clear nights. I was expecting maybe 25 degrees?
  
  Fifteen degrees is the coldest I saw down there [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 10:14am EDT
  

• S&P 500 Overvalued by 40%

  Hey, if you're in a position to short the market, now might be a good time to put in your stops. Looks like the bear rally is about to come to an end.
  
  S&P 500 Overvalued by 40%, Set to Fall, Smithers Says (Update5) - Bloomberg.com
  
  More' [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 12:56pm EDT
  

• Zing!

  Hey, congratulations are due to Obama, Bernanke, and the whole team at Treasury including little Timmy Geithner. They have finally succeeded in eliminating the whole Boom/Bust cycle from our economy!
  
  From now on it will be all bust... [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:40am EDT
  

• Rendezvous With Destiny

  45 Years Ago Today: We Have a Rendezvous With Destiny - Erick’s blog - RedState
  “Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:26am EDT
  

• Sometimes When You Pray To God...

  ...the answer is "no".
  
  
  
  There are plenty of ways that you can hurt a man
  And bring him to the ground
  You can beat him, you can cheat him, you can stink real bad
  And spray him when he's down.
  
  Are you happy?! Are you' [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 11:55am EDT