Fear factor

Fear factor

Which has nothing to do with the applausedly cancelled TV “reality show” (although what wrecking cars and falling off buildings has to do with everyday life …), but does have to do with everyday life, in which you had better have a few pounds of gold on-hand when life as we know it ends, etc.

An ad made up to look like a news story at msn.com, “41 things you should hoard.”

ARRGH! My computer was reeeaaaalllly slow, so I X’d out of MSN. When I came back to get the link to “41 things you should hoard,” a different ad popped up. So, I’ll never know the 41 things I should hoard. I could make a list, but I’m not sure about 41 things. Rifle and pistol ammunition, since those will be tradable when everything falls apart and life as we know it ends. A bunch of other common sense things, if you think everything will fall apart in your lifetime, ending life as we know it and you’ll have to defend yourself and yours from a crazed horde that wants all your stuff. (See how I used “hoard” and “horde”?)

Minutes later. OK. I found the link. To a book or magazine or some other publication you have to pay to read. So, forget about the link. Unless somebody wants to pay me.

WalMart doing better than governments

One of my wife’s membership people was giving a talk in the northern part of the state, in the mountainous region. The talk included the need for emergency supplies and such in case of earthquakes (which occur just about every day in Arkansas), floods, tornados and such, until the government was able to get things operational again. People at the talk said they would just go to WalMart and get what they needed, thank you – “We don’t need the government.” The speaker said WalMart trucks might not be able to get through if a tornado dropped trees on the road, or stores might not be open if electricity went out. “Nope,” people said. “We’ll just go to WalMart. We don’t need the government to help us with anything.”