Only eternal vigilance works.
Gun rights are under attack again, because the powers that be are anxious to disarm us. Problem is, they would be less anxious if we never let the idiots hold public office. And we let the idiots hold public office everytime we choose not to vote because the candidate proferred is not precisely to our liking, while the left will vote for anyone, anytime, so long as it lets the scales drift a little further in their direction.
I’m constantly amazed by the people who cannot comprehend this.
Anyway, IMTS is in a few short weeks. I expect it to be a disasterama. Ann Barnhardt commented the other day that corn has reached record highs. The manufacturing sector is doing some interesting things as well, and you have no idea what a clusterfuck is heading down the pike straight for your front door.
In a year or so let me know how that not doing anything is working out for you.
20 comments Og | Uncategorized
One of my great summertime pleasures is corn-on-the-cob, and the prices have been high and the quality low this year. I wonder how much is due to the drought, and how much is due to the percentage of the crop that’s being turned into ethanol for fuel.
Mind you, I don’t mind reasonable amounts of corn being turned to ethanol, preferably then aged in wooden barrels before bottling. When I can’t find decent corn-on-the-cob in the supermarket for less than 50 cents an ear while some dope brags about saving the planet by burning ethanol (which requires more energy to make than you get from burning it) I get a little cranky.
You are supporting the only candidate of the two that has actually banned guns. He says he’s sorry though.
So yes, vigilance will be necessary, no matter which idiot wins.
@Mark D. It has zero to do with ethanol. Sweet corn (corn on the cob) and number 2 yellow corn are not the same thing. I love corn on the cob too. And watermelon.
Giraffe: who am i supporting?
I assume you support Romney. My clue is this:
everytime we choose not to vote because the candidate proferred is not precisely to our liking,
You are either:
1. Voting for Romney
2. Voting for Obama
3. Not voting because the candidate proffered is not precisely to your liking.
I assume it isn’t number 2. You obviously aren’t stupid. It makes little sense to write negatively about number three and then do it. So I figure number 1.
Some people couldn’t see a pile of shit if it was all over the top of them. No we can’t eat the kind of corn grown for conversion into ethano. But the acreage used to grow motor fuel cannot be used to grow food crops at the same time, and right now it’s more profitable to grow motor fuel due to econitwits and congressional idiots. So more and more acreage that could be used for food goes to ethanol. Now do you get it?
Didn’t think so.
Gerry N.
I’ll write in a candidate or look third party if I don’t like either candidate. In the case of this election, it looks like I don’t know that either is any better then the other. I may vote for Og.
Giraffe: wrong on all counts. Try to keep up. And stop assuming.
Ok, lets do the math.
24000 plants per acre, (that’s probably low) 1 ear of sweetcorn per plant (sometimes you get two). That is two thousand dozen per acre at $3 per dozen is $6,000 per acre. Where have you bought corn on the cob for $3 in the last decade? Incidentally, the best corn on the cob I’ve ever eaten came from Indiana $5.75 per dozen, so perhaps you can get it for $3.
Field corn, 200 bushels at $8 is $1600 per acre. Yep, lets grow motor fuel.
Not really comparing apples to apples here since most sweetcorn goes to a cannery, but the cost of the actual corn in a can of corn is squat.
I am not an ethanol advocate. I say end subsidies, end its mandated use in fuel. (something perhaps should be mandated, MTBE should not be allowed, but ethanol may not be the only option.)
Still, if we weren’t making ethanol out of that corn we wouldn’t be growing sweetcorn or strawberries on the cob on those acres. We grow some wheat. There is plenty of that. Almost everything else is corn and soybeans. Both are livestock feed, we eat almost none of it. Soybean meal is fed to livestock after we take the oil out. Corn is fed to livestock after we make ethanol. It is better quality feed after we make ethanol out of it. There is a reduction in the amount, of course. Without the drought, there would have been more than enough corn to go around.
Corn is 8 bucks right now because of the drought. Not too long ago it was at 5 and fixing to drop because the corn crop was going to be huge.
What do expect these farmers to plant, lettuce?
Og, you know my situation right now.
I am thinking now about getting whatever the hell I can GET for employment (even if it features the phrase “Do you want fries with that?”) because I can see a MASSIVE F-ING ECONOMIC SHITSTORM a-comin’ and I want to try to get my ducks in something approximating a row before it hits. Even if I lose the job after a few months (because no one can afford fast food) I’ll still be better off than I will be otherwise.
And it duddn’t matter WHO gets elected to the White House, because there’s no way to stop something that’s coming at us like a ton of bricks dropped from orbit.
Personally, I’m voting for Gary Johnson (Libertarian) because I’m not going to vote for either Obama or Obama Lite. But that’s a whole ‘nother discussion there.
BTW, I’m going to IMTS this time around, but I don’t have a lot of optimism about it. [Prospective employer you referred me to] never called me, and my other irons in the fire are similarly cold. *sigh*
Who do you support, Og?
Nobody. Please do work a little harder on the reading comprehension.
I do pretty well at reading comprehension, except on your blog. I think it’s you.
You either are voting, or you are not voting. There aren’t any other options. Unless you are in Chicago and you’re voting multiple times. But again, I don’t see you as a Democrat.
You can say you are voting for someone you don’t support, but that is just semantics.
Would you deign to enlighten this cousin humping yokel from Red State America as to how you slip through being in categories 1, 2, or 3? You could be voting for a third party.
I don’t see any other options this side of Schroedinger’s physics.
Well, what do you want to know? You asked me who i supported, and i made it very clear. I am voting, but voting and supporting are different things. I have made my support here unquestionable and incredibly simple to understand, but it seems to slip by you. Its all over the blog.
Og, you are splitting hairs.
I am voting for the only rino in the race. O’bama could have guns or health care and he chose health care. He has not given up on guns, but that can wait on martial law.
I don’t support either of them. Hell, I like palin and would have supported her. But I think at least the rino loves the USA and thinks it is exceptional.
We all know what the O thinks of us. Just watch his commercials. Looks like 2007 all over again.
I don’t think they can get anything passed that really kills guns as they cannot get it past the congress or senate. Best bet would be OSHA or the EPA passing some rule to effect guns.
I don’t know that it really matters. I just got hired by a company that makes valves and monitoring devices for the oil and gas industry. At the end of last quarter sales were down, but the company still has cash so they will push ahead.
I still think we are circling the toilet bowl and sooner or later gravity will take effect.
Splitting hairs? not even.
If Romney came out and said that he would do to the federal government what he did to the companies he bought while at Bain Capital I would support him.
I’m with you on voting. I was taught, and believe, that citizens vote. So I vote, even though I KNOW my vote counts for nought. By the time our polls close the polls on the East coast have been closed for 4 hours. Beyond that, we only have 3 Electoral votes. Still I vote. And carry daily. Because I’m a citizen.
Og: with respect to your comment on the price of corn, a number of things should be noted:
1. The first is I predict we are seeing the market highs and by October they will be significantly lower, even if the national corn crop is as bad or worse than what’s being predicted currently.
Why? Because all the federal crop insurance has to recalculate the price paid out for guaranteed acres with the crop insurance in early October and if they allow the market to remain this high it will be a major drag on the deficit. President Unicorn has to win the re-election and he can’t do it with an even worse deficit, so look for them to pooh-pooh the drought and use the power of the Fed to bring grain commodity prices down.
2. NO livestock producer in the country can survive with $8 corn and $16 or $17 soybeans. You can find only so many substitutes when you’re feeling cattle, hogs or poultry. Period. They can’t do it because the feed cost DOES NOT get pushed onto the consumer no matter what your big box grocery chain tells you.
And believe me, the cattle and hog people right now are screaming bloody murder in the halls of Congress so I look for the CB&T market prices to start dropping towards the end of Sept.
How it will happen is a good question, but look for it just the same.
3. Whether you love ethanol or hate it, it is part of the equation now and it isn’t going away. A vast majority of the ethanol plants in this country have gone into ‘hibernation’ because (while their efficiencies have drastically improved) they can’t operate with $8 corn and their owners probably have more clout in Washington than the Farm Bureau.
4. Of course, with a bad harvest and a drastic drop in commodity prices, even with decent crop insurance, the misery index in the rural hinterlands will soar dramatically and every time it does the Birchers and the home grown militias come out of the woodwork…
All The Best,
Frank W. James
We do live in interesting times, Mr. James.