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>This< trend is not your friend.
As more people look into buying a gun, does this indicate an overall pessimistic
view on the future Economy of America?
The theory is as this trend increases, it means the economy is getting worse.
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What is that spike in the graph around April 2007, I wonder?
Is that when the Housing Price Crash began and the Banks had to be bailed out,
turning America into a socialist country??People freaked out and armored up.
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To be more accurate, public perception about the economy is getting worse. Or at least amongst those individuals buying guns.
Splitting hairs perhaps, but I think a useful distinction for the discussion.
I don't think the economy IS going to get better, or more stable, until we transition to an economy based on sustainable energy and agriculture. This will either happen by choice and gradually, or by necessity after "the crash". I'd prefer the former.
Hot Fuzz was not a documentary.
/cry
Now you're going to tell me there's no santa claus!
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What is that spike in the graph around April 2007, I wonder?Is that when the Housing Price Crash began??
Judging by the lack of data prior to that year for the US, I would guess they either lost or were not tracking it before then.
Considering that when you narrow it down to just Texas and it says that before 2011 there were NO hits for 'buy a gun' in Texas, I'm guessing at incomplete data.
I google "international proletarian socialist revolution" all the time. It doesn't mean much.
Srly, though, I'd expect that gun sales have more to do with the NRA's yelling "THEY'RE COMING FOR OUR GUNS!!" on the front page of every issue of the American Rifleman for the past four years.
I think I'll buy one too then.
I'm not goin to no Red Dawn reedumication camps.
Can't afford the financial aid.
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What is that spike in the graph around April 2007, I wonder?Is that when the Housing Price Crash began??Judging by the lack of data prior to that year for the US, I would guess they either lost or were not tracking it before then.
Considering that when you narrow it down to just Texas and it says that before 2011 there were NO hits for 'buy a gun' in Texas, I'm guessing at incomplete data.
See, there's no need, since texas is made OF guns.
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...I should buy another gun.
...I should buy another gun.
You saying that just clinched the deal.
Maybe Obama and Holder should just give Texas back to the Mexicans then. that'll kill two birds with one assault rifle.
I gotta get me a nice Shotgun, you know, case the zombies show up.
Maybe Obama and Holder should just give Texas back to the Mexicans then.
I think this is going to happen no matter what. In one or two generations,
all the Mexicans will have a voting majority, and will legislateTexas to be just like Mexico only still being an American state.
It's like a game of Go.
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Escapism is popular in economic hard times. Look at the boom of cinema in the Thirties, the RPG/fantasy Scifi boom in the Seventies, the current redux of these topics now
Maybe Obama and Holder should just give Texas back to the Mexicans then.I think this is going to happen no matter what. In one or two generations,
all the Mexicans will have a voting majority, and will legislate
Texas to be just like Mexico only still being an American state.It's like a game of Go.
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I'm pretty sure that in a few generations the Mexicans who moved here will be Americans of Mexican descent. I also think considering their core social conservatism and work ethic that they will most likely be the core of the future Republican Party, much as the Democrats would like to think otherwise. I highly doubt any of them would want to reattach themselves to Mexico in any form.
Maybe Obama and Holder should just give Texas back to the Mexicans then. that'll kill two birds with one assault rifle.
I gotta get me a nice Shotgun, you know, case the zombies show up.
Nope, Mexico gets Arizona first. They can have Texas once we pump up all the oil and drive all the cattle to Oklahoma.
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Economic Indicators: "Buy A Gun" Google Queries Hit All Time High
I am 0k with this.
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I exaggerated. It was only blazoned across the cover of one issue out of the random stack of five I found by the magazine rack in the bathroom.
The lead article is about it in each one, though.
[Loads Taurus Judge]
I exaggerated. It was only blazoned across the cover of one issue out of the random stack of five I found by the magazine rack in the bathroom.
The lead article is about it in each one, though.
[Loads Taurus Judge]
Well there's stuff like this.
Wayne LaPierre, head of the NRA, posits the conspiracy theory that Obama's strategy to take away our guns is to...not take away our guns. DIABOLICAL!| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I exaggerated. It was only blazoned across the cover of one issue out of the random stack of five I found by the magazine rack in the bathroom.
The lead article is about it in each one, though.
[Loads Taurus Judge]
Meh, To be fair, thats pretty much there lead in for every issue, ever. Thats what brings in the contributions after all. No one would donate if the lead article was "Government starts free gun program. Get back in line for seconds and thirds!".
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Wayne LaPierre, head of the NRA, posits the conspiracy theory that Obama's strategy to take away our guns is to...not take away our guns. DIABOLICAL!
No, his conspiracy theory was that Obama would not take away our gun during his first term, but instead wait to target them during his second term in office (and while I'm an NRA member, I do not buy into conspiracy theories)...
I think its an indicator of how people buy gold THINK the economy is going... mostly the people being barraged buy gold fox news dire predictions of buy gold economic gloom and buy gold doom.
Survival Seeds are where it's at. Start your crisis garden today!
Wayne LaPierre, head of the NRA, posits the conspiracy theory that Obama's strategy to take away our guns is to...not take away our guns. DIABOLICAL!No, his conspiracy theory was that Obama would not take away our gun during his first term, but instead wait to target them during his second term in office (and while I'm an NRA member, I do not buy into conspiracy theories)...
More specifically it's that Obama's strategy to take away our guns is to...not take away our guns...just yet. That not taking away the guns will lull us into some complacency, thus MAYBE voting him in for a second term, and then snatching them away. It's beyond being a conspiracy theory, it's a paranoid delusion.
"Mommy, mommy, there's a monster under my bed"
"Son, I don't see anything under there."
"He's turned invisible whenever you look at him. He's waiting for you to leave so he can eat me!"
"Goodnight, dear."
Survival Seeds are where it's at. Start your crisis garden today!
ugh....
1) you would want seeds that are hybridized to all hell. If you're restarting humanity from your garden you want as much genetic variety as you can possibly pack into one bottle so that SOMETHING will survive your nuclear summer/winter and the hordes of radioactive mutants.
2) You need a lot more than an acre to feed a family
3) You're going to need carbs. Corn requires the least processing.
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"Mommy, mommy, there's a monster under my bed"
"Son, I don't see anything under there."
"He's turned invisible whenever you look at him. He's waiting for you to leave so he can eat me!"
"Goodnight, dear."
Next on fox news..
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find out why joe the plumber thinks THERE ARE MONSTERS UNDER YOUR BED
Obama is in league with THE MONSTERS UNDER YOUR BED (my voice went up at the end so its still a question)
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1) you would want seeds that are hybridized to all hell. If you're restarting humanity from your garden you want as much genetic variety as you can possibly pack into one bottle so that SOMETHING will survive your nuclear summer/winter and the hordes of radioactive mutants.
I think by hybrid seeds he's referring to monsanto frankenseeds, which are hybridized to increase yield at the cost of various resistances, and need to be repurchased every year. You definitely wouldn't want that.
You'd be surprised how little land it takes to feed someone as well.
Honestly though, in the face of economic and ecological crisis, encouraging people who farm every square foot of arable land with organic, sustainable crops, is probably a very good thing to be thinking about.
"Mommy, mommy, there's a monster under my bed"
"Son, I don't see anything under there."
"He's turned invisible whenever you look at him. He's waiting for you to leave so he can eat me!"
"Goodnight, dear."
You forgot "So send us some money, to keep the invisible monster from eating you."
You forgot "So send us some money, to keep the invisible monster from eating you."
"Mommy, mommy, there's a monster under my bed"
"Son, I don't see anything under there."
"He's turned invisible whenever you look at him. He's waiting for you to leave so he can eat me!"
"Goodnight, dear."
Heh.
What does membership in the NRA get you anyway?
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Daily phone calls urging you to vote for Republicans. And a cool subscription to either The American Rifleman or The American Hunter. And invitations to orgies at Charlton Heston's private ranch.
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Magazine subscription, lots of stickers and such, I dont get the phone calls(I checked the box saying dont call, but I still get letters), and, occasionally pretty decent offers for guns or ammunition.
I think by hybrid seeds he's referring to monsanto frankenseeds, which are hybridized to increase yield at the cost of various resistances, and need to be repurchased every year. You definitely wouldn't want that.
I highly doubt he's using it in any way other than SCARY SCIIENCE WORD MY COSTUMER BASE IS AFRAAAAID OOOOOF!
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To be more accurate, public perception about the economy is getting worse. Or at least amongst those individuals buying guns.
Splitting hairs perhaps, but I think a useful distinction for the discussion.
I don't think the economy IS going to get better, or more stable, until we transition to an economy based on sustainable energy and agriculture. This will either happen by choice and gradually, or by necessity after "the crash". I'd prefer the former.
I believe the economy will get better if government big brother gets out of the way.
Sustainable energy is wonderful. As long as we get there by choice, through the free market NOT by government ramming it down our throats.| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Sustainable energy is wonderful. As long as we get there by choice, through the free market NOT by government ramming it down our throats.
Like our current oil and gas based energy 'plan' ISN"T being forced fed by the same exact methods people want to use to get to sustainable energy?
A large part of our military (aka, half our tax dollars) is devoted to securing the world supply of oil: its not even OUR oil. We get very little of our oil from the middle east, but its a world market and if something happens to the supply over there then the price here skyrockets.
Oil companies, despite posting record profits, get sweet deals to drill for oil on US government land and enormous tax breaks.
Natural gas companies get the same, as well as the ability to stop people from suing them when their well water catches fire because the crap they're drilling with is 'propiatary information'
Nuclear gets tax breaks, not to mention the insurance in the form of the CDC and FEMA if anything goes wrong.
Now, next to all that, what on EARTH is the problem with saying 'we need a way out of our current situation. The problem is too big for anyone but government to solve, there is no profit in solving the problem, lets put our money together and get it done, or at least put wind/solar/tide/whatever on an equal footing with the other forms of energy' ?
Compare it with the data for buy shoes since 2007, which has similarly doubled.
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I would like to take this moment to address the greater Paizo community and ask you all to please stop purchasing your shoes online. Go to the store and buy them, you lazy bastards.
I would like to take this moment to address the greater Paizo community and ask you all to please stop purchasing your shoes online. Go to the store and buy them, you lazy bastards.Compare it with the data for buy shoes since 2007, which has similarly doubled.
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I think by hybrid seeds he's referring to monsanto frankenseeds, which are hybridized to increase yield at the cost of various resistances, and need to be repurchased every year. You definitely wouldn't want that.
The Monsanto seeds do not need to be repurchased every year, replanting is most assuredly possible. The biggest advantage that the Monsanto seeds have over other seeds is that they are genetically engineered to be resistance to the RoundUp line of pesticides and herbicides, so farmers can dump bucketloads of these products on their planted fields and kill everything but the crop. RoundUp is produced, of course, by Monsanto.
The only reason the seeds need repurchased every year is that in order to buy them, you must sign a very heavy-handed, airtight contract with Monsanto stating that you will not replant with anything produced from their seeds. Other than that, they work just fine.
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Sustainable energy is wonderful. As long as we get there by choice, through the free market NOT by government ramming it down our throats.Like our current oil and gas based energy 'plan' ISN"T being forced fed by the same exact methods people want to use to get to sustainable energy?
A large part of our military (aka, half our tax dollars) is devoted to securing the world supply of oil: its not even OUR oil. We get very little of our oil from the middle east, but its a world market and if something happens to the supply over there then the price here skyrockets.
Oil companies, despite posting record profits, get sweet deals to drill for oil on US government land and enormous tax breaks.
Natural gas companies get the same, as well as the ability to stop people from suing them when their well water catches fire because the crap they're drilling with is 'propiatary information'
Nuclear gets tax breaks, not to mention the insurance in the form of the CDC and FEMA if anything goes wrong.
Now, next to all that, what on EARTH is the problem with saying 'we need a way out of our current situation. The problem is too big for anyone but government to solve, there is no profit in solving the problem, lets put our money together and get it done, or at least put wind/solar/tide/whatever on an equal footing with the other forms of energy' ?
Cliff Notes: Congress and Financing/Subsidies/Lobbyists.
Tolstoy: Considering the retarded level of stink that was raised over just Solyndra, which was by all accounts a bipartisan effort to jump-start domestic renewable energy production, and the sheer volume of climate change deniers who are fortunately beginning to see that the recent happenstances and past decade or so worth of data indicate that it is not some vast left-wing conspiracy, coupled with the fact that we've already had one part of the HOTTEST SUMMER ON RECORD (and, by extension, some of the most sun-filled days of same) wasted because we cannot coax businesses into purchasing solar panels for their roofs or general placement in an aesthetically pleasing way that would make for an investment that would pay off over time on top of reducing what they're paying in energy fees, we'd be fools to not invest in solar and wind energies. Were I more scientifically knowledgeable I'd attempt to render an estimate of how much energy we let slip by last summer during the vast volume of derp coming out of the (f)Right Wing over Solyndra, nevermind that the Solyndra issue cost less in its entirety than dealing with the Deep Water Horizon and the rest of what came of BP's blunder of epic proportions. The people we've had elected into office by low information voters is the reason why we CAN NOT HAVE NICE THINGS.
/rantoff
Climate science is so complicated its shocking you and the (f)left wing think they know.
Did you know global cooling was all the rage in the 70's?
Climate science is so complicated its shocking you and the (f)left wing think they know.
When did listening to the vasat majority of respected scientists working in their field become a sign of the far left?
First off, the right has a really, really rocky relationship with listening to science it didn't want to hear.
Air polution
Water polution
Hunting regulations
Species Going extinct
Evolution
Secondly, whats the angle here?
1) Make people think global warming is real. 2) Spend your life freezing your cajones off in iceland digging up ice cores 3) ???????? 4) Profit
I mean, don't you think
I make boatloads of money selling fossil fuels
Keep people on fossil fuels
Keep making boatloads of money
makes a lot more sense?
Did you know global cooling was all the rage in the 70's?
Global cooling was a conjecture during the 1970s of imminent cooling of the Earth's surface and atmosphere along with a posited commencement of glaciation. This hypothesis had little support in the scientific community, but gained temporary popular attention due to a combination of a slight downward trend of temperatures from the 1940s to the early 1970s and press reports that did not accurately reflect the scientific understanding of ice age cycles. Wiki
Climate science is so complicated its shocking you and the (f)left wing think they know.
Did you know global cooling was all the rage in the 70's?
Could you please convince me that the Koch brothers, who are the primary funders of the Tea Party, are liberal lefties.Climate science is so complicated its shocking you and the (f)left wing think they know.
Did you know global cooling was all the rage in the 70's?
The (f) left comment was towards anti elite's comments about the right. My concern is what if any effect does Man have on the environment?
The (f) left comment was towards anti elite's comments about the right. My concern is what if any effect does Man have on the enviroment?
A fair bit. For starters, our imprint on the geological record already rivals that of the asteroid that took out the dinos.
Climate science is so complicated its shocking you and the (f)left wing think they know.When did listening to the vasat majority of respected scientists working in their field become a sign of the far left?
First off, the right has a really, really rocky relationship with listening to science it didn't want to hear.
Air polution
Water polution
Hunting regulations
Species Going extinct
EvolutionSecondly, whats the angle here?
1) Make people think global warming is real. 2) Spend your life freezing your cajones off in iceland digging up ice cores 3) ???????? 4) Profit
I mean, don't you think
I make boatloads of money selling fossil fuels
Keep people on fossil fuels
Keep making boatloads of moneymakes a lot more sense?
Did you know global cooling was all the rage in the 70's?Global cooling was a conjecture during the 1970s of imminent cooling of the Earth's surface and atmosphere along with a posited commencement of glaciation. This hypothesis had little support in the scientific community, but gained temporary popular attention due to a combination of a slight downward trend of temperatures from the 1940s to the early 1970s and press reports that did not accurately reflect the scientific understanding of ice age cycles. Wiki
Global warming is something scientist agree on. BUT does man's activities have an effect? The vast majority of scientist do not believe this.
So called Right wing organizations have done much for the enviroment. For example, you mentioned hunting regulations. Hunting organizations work for conditions that allow the environment to support that activity. They are true conservationists.
This makes more sense. The government makes huge amounts of money taxing corporations for the energy they supply. Government is the winner not the corporations when it comes to profits.