Thursday, August 7, 2008

OFS

Tampico:

The first step in OFS will be to identify a professional, creative yacht designer and contract with this individual (or school --sometimes schools will take on projects like this to challenge their students).

The specifications for the boat will be very complex. It will involve several compartments. There will be at least one "compartment" for each Neo-Swashbuckler who has contracted for the project. This does not mean one compartment per person. A compartment should be useful to a small family or group of friends attempting to escape the Collapse. A compartment will be 10' long,70 inches wide and 69 inches deep. The compartment is 70 inches wide because this will allow two rows of 55 gallon drums to be placed horizontally off the bow and stern of the compartment. Note: the drums will not use any space in each compartment. The depth of 69"matches the width of three diameters of 55 gallon drums. This means that six 55 gallon drums can be placed on each end of a compartment. Compartments will be made of various materials including ferro-cement, steel and wood. Compartments will have keels, ballasts,pumps and outriggers. The compartments will have neither a bow or stern, but will have a cable-lock system which enables each compartment to be connected to compartments to the stern and bow. An attachable stern and bow will be available to hook on the front and rear of the connected crafts.This plan will make it possible to have two or three boat conglomerations that can later be combined into a single craft. Staging areas will be here in Oak Point, in Kemah, in Anna, Illinois and possibly in Tell City, Indiana.

The compartments will be constructed at the staging location of choice. The best use of the compartments will be to load them fully with survival supplies.The "loading" will include everything that you wish to pre-place on each compartment and the contents of twelve 55 gallon drums. Single compartments will be sized to fit easily on 15' trailers to be moved to launch locations when the Collapse is underway. Construction of the compartments will be done in Oak Point and in Anna according to the yacht design specs.

A fair price will be charged for each compartment and there will be 100% financing for members of this group. OFS compartments will be advertised nationally and participants who are not members of this group will be financed with 20% down. The compartments will be connected by cables, cable locks and a steel rod. The 55 gallon drums will be the buffer between compartments and will add floatation to the overall craft. Each compartment will have hatches that can be completely closed so that they will not be flooded in storms and waves. They will also have pumps to discharge any water that happens to get in and will have a ballast, a keel and outriggers to prevent capsizing.

The challenge of the naval architect will be to create this complex craft with the flexibility to be pre-wave, top of wave and post wave all at the same time without the risk of pitch-poling, capsizing or bunching. Each compartment will have a single sail, but the running rigging will have to be positioned in such a way that all sails are coordinated from a single command (Blackhearted Pirate Lee) so that sails work in harmony unless we are heaved to (in which case sails would intentionally be set against each other to make the complex craft stationary).T here will be at least one "community compartment" that will house a public restroom and a shower. It is also an option that we could have a community compartment that is dedicated to gunnery. There is much more to this concept, but I want to get your reaction to just these facts first. Any comments?

Blackhearted Pirate Lee:

This is a well thought out plan for a good ship. There is a school I think called Westlawn in CT that designs boats and yachts. I sent for some information once. Back then I had forgotten most of my algebra, but I am just now getting back into it.

Tampico:

Very good suggestion. Thanks, Blackhearted Pirate Lee.

I will make an inquiry to Westlawn.


Saturday, August 2, 2008

Major Announcement Soon

Over the last 5 1/2 years I have had a certain appproach to the Neo-Swashbucklers that has been fairly consistent and has helped create agroup of like-minded individuals who have our own mythologies,history, plans and politics. Although we are not politically identical we have come to a point that we are politically compatible. I sense that we have arrived at a point in time that we need to proceed with certain plans.

I have never considered myself the leader of the group. I consider myself a major contributor to the group. I do not believe that anyone individual is empowered to change the direction of the Neo-Swashbucklers. The Neo-Swashbucklers is a group of loosely aligned individuals who are free men and women. What I can control and intend to control is my own direction.

My future posts and actions will be on one of four subjects:

1. Continued comment on politics, current events, merriment,lifestyle and the love of freedom.

2. Contributions to tee shirt ideas as part a money making prospectfor the Neo-Swashbucklers. Profits will go to a group fund.

3. Collection of premium posts on this Blogspot site and assembly of these posts into chapters for a general Neo-Swashbuckler book,possibly entitled 'The Neo-Swashbucklers: Merriment in the ComingDark Age'. The authorship of the book will be shared, as will royalties, in accordance with the number/percentage of lines authored. I will explain this further later. Each Saturday I will select the premium posts from Neo-Swashbuckler Island or The Neo-Swashbucklers and add them to this Blog. Also, comments on the posts will likely be added to the book, so Neo-Swashbucklers are strongly encouraged to comment at this Blog site.

4. I will research, promote, develop, plan and recruit for a new diabolical scheme I have partially constructed called Operation Freedom Snake. Operation Freedom Snake (OFS) is still being formulated in my mind and, once complete, I will announce it here. This will have the potential to be divisive to our merry band, but it need not be. Some will like and participate in OFS and some will not. Those who dislike OFS might get tired of seeing posts about the subject. I only ask that you give it due consideration and tolerate the posts of those who participate. If it gets too cumbersome for the NS Island Board then we may create a separate OFS Board. We will see how the group reacts to the plan before we come to a decision on that issue.

I am not trying to be mysterious about OFS, I just do not have all the details worked out mentally. I will introduce the subject as soon as I can.

Maternal Controlling Collectivists

Orion Blaster: (from posts on 'Is there anyone on earth more stupid than Nancy Pelosi')

Hitler was a vegetarian and loved animals more than people, much like the modern liberals do.

Hitler also wanted gun control, wanted to tax the rich, wanted to remove religion from the public, and many other things that liberals want as well. Modern liberals are just following Hitler's book, doing basically the same things. Did you notice that Liberals are anti-Israel and anti-Semite as well? Much like the fundamentalist Muslims are as well. Mine Kampf means my struggle, which is another translation for Jihad and explains what the liberals believe in as well with their struggle. Nazis, Liberals, Islamic Terrorists, all follow the same beliefs and same rule books. Due to the Treaty of Versailles, Germany borrowed money from the USA to pay off war debts and rebuild itself. Under FDR, the Liberal Democrats had helped rebuild Germany by loaning it money from US banks and the federal reserve, and had many US corporations like IBM, Bayer, etc.

So the Liberal Democrats helped the Nazis build up their empire and help Hitler set up his war machine and death camps. Then they blamed everything on the conservatives and refused to admit that they and their companies helped out Hitler, and even that FDR himself helped loan Hitler money.

Tampico:

I suspect that collectivism naturally leads to totalitarianism but Ihave not fully refined the theory in my mind. It will be something like collectivism usually or always coming under the influence of controlling elitists or maternalists. Totalitarianism is a maternal impulse -- this is something we must remember. The desire to control a constituency is a mothering desire. Unfortunately, since the elites are not actually the mothers of the constituents, the maternal instincts are not based on intuitive love. Maternal collectivism becomes something very ugly and incredibly threatening to individualism. I think that Hitler, Stalin and Mao were motherly controllers. This is why collectivism always begins by "doing good things for free" for the people. This sets up the people to be reminded later that they got freebies and now owe allegiance to the do-gooder elite.

The allegiance eventually leads to compliance with a system that places some people in concentration camps for the benefit of the whole. It also leads to selective extermnations to perfect the populations. Remember, the instinct that normally trumps the mother eating her young is the instinct to perpetuate one's own genes. In maternal collectivism the elitists are not directly related to their constituents. There is no trump to eating their young. What they want to perpetuate is their vision of what the population "should be like."

Now, think of these ideas in terms of socialized medicine. It sounds good at first but the end result is that you are allowing the maternal collectivists the ability to determine what needles get pushed into your arms. You are also giving the maternal collectivists the power to ration. The UK, Canada and Australia have made themselves vulnerable to maternal collectivism and will eventually pay a horrible price if they do not reverse course. Nevermind the fact that maternal collectivists do not use their own money to give away free stuff. No, they confiscate the money from the productive individuals and then use the funds to perpetuate their power.

One last point. Why do you think that the media, education and entertainment industries have made a 30 year effort to feminize American males? Could it be that feminized males are more susceptible to maternal collectivism?

Tampico (follow-up post):

Although Hitler was an extreme maternal collectivist, he was distinct from the others because he was such an egomaniac that he regarded himself as an individual as the elite. He did not represent an elite group, like Nancy Pelosi. As such, Hitler did not find it necessary to feminize German males. Instead, he played them with primal male instincts. Males are not naturally maternal collectivists but they do have negative impulses. Males are naturally inclined to rape, territorial expansion and,consequently, war. Males want to expand their genetic range. Hitler played this by exposing German males to an idealized notion of blood and soil (blut und boden). This worked fine for Hitler because he had no desire to expand his elite (he was an elite of one) and he could accomplish his personal goals better with masculine males. Besides,what happened to most of the German masculine males in WW2? Yes,death.

Maternal controlling collectivists need death. The ability to withdraw someone from existence is the ultimate control.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

The Demise of Busch

Lady Drake:

Hi Orion Blaster!

Who were the idiots on the A-B Board of Directors who sold Busch for a paltry $52 billion? It's worth way more especially to us native citizens of St. Louis. They are REALLY getting rid of Busch Gardens & selling their interest in Busch Stadium? It's named for them!! I CAN'T believe it!! The old boys are probably rolling in their graves by now! What are they going to do with Grant's Farm & the Clydesdale's? How many people are going to lose their jobs? Is it really a done deal or do they have to get permission from the government for the sale to go through? If this is ALL true we need to hang some Busch Directors from the yardarms & then make them walk the plank out to some chum!!! I call for our flags to fly at half mast in honor of the death of a FINE institution such as A-B & their beers Busch & Bud!!!!!!!!!!!! Bring out the kegs as well! I raise my cup...A-B has been in St. Louis for way over a 100 years; even before the Civil War. All I heard was the Belgians were going to make St. Louis their North American Headquarters. What a rip off!!!!!! It's a SAD state of affairs for this to happen to our American beer & all it represents!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In mourning,

Lady Drake


Tampico:

The merger makes no sense. A merger makes sense when there is overlap. There is practically no overlap in products, departments or advertising by InBev and AB. So why would InBev do it?BUD (the ticker for A-B) spends a ton of money on things that do not bring an immediate return. BUD sponsors countless softball leagues. BUD spends billions on traditional advertising. Busch also has the gardens, Clydesdales, stadium, Grant's Farm and association with every major charity in St. Louis, East St. Louis, Edwardsville and even on down to Carbondale. It is clear that InBev could not justify the merger with "overlap" since there is no domestic overlap. What InBev will do is make up for the savings that they will not get on reducing overlap is they will eliminate all the money that Busch spends on being a good citizen and good neighbor.

I have a personal reason for being loyal to Busch. In the late 1950s my father was a struggling tile layer in St. Louis. I was a toddler and my brother Tim was a baby. We lived in a working class neighborhood in a small apartment in north St. Louis until my dad got the contract to lay tile in the bathrooms and kitchens of an opulent Busch mansion. I believe it was Auggie Busch's mansion. The Busch contract enabled my father to save a down payment for a home and eighty acres in southern Illinois near the small town of Vienna. This is where I grew up until we moved up by Chicago when my dad changed jobs and went to work for the Illinois Farm Bureau. I was a Busch beer drinker until they decided to reduce Busch to a non-premium beer and place their emphasis on Budweiser. Even then I would drink Busch products anytime I listened to a Cardinals game (which was most summer days until we moved out of KMOX range toTexas). International corporations don't care about being good citizens anymore than the US government cares about what the American people want. We are just peasants. The elites view us as idiots and will do anything they want to us unless we stringently object and then they will have the courts make the unpopular decisions against the will of the people. The game is rigged and we are the losers.

Adios Busch. This is why I like corporations better than the government. When I get stiffed by a corporation I can choose not to give them any more loyalty or money. When I get stiffed by the government I still have to support the government with tax dollars. Look for more foreign takeovers because of the declining dollar. Look for the dollar to decline further because the government is about ready to start printing more free money to get the slacker vote and get the financial support for their campaigns by corporations that receive corporate welfare. Slackers and corporations own Congress now.

We need to hope for a Collapse because it will save us the trouble of a violent revolution.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Nazi Liberals

Nazis were socialists. Even when they left companies "private" they often dictated the direction that companies took, what they would produce and when they would produce. They would make sure that all companies were working in the national interest and even went so far as to place people within companies to watch them. FDR was fascinated with the notion of a corporate state and he believed that planned economies were an advantage that the axis powers had that we had to overcome because we were too freedom loving to accept a corporate state.

Anytime politicians talk about cooperation between the public and private sectors we need to be wary. The public sector has most of the weapons and have the power to force people to do things against their will. It cannot be an equal relationship. Right now the public sector has decided that oil companies are not really oil companies, they are energy companies. They have an obligation to create other forms of energy. What if they don't want to? Can an adult in this country just say that he or she enjoys drilling for oil and are going to stick with that? What gives the government the power to redefine the nature of a particular corporation? What if the oil companies decide they want to diversify into building golf courses or water parks? Do they have that freedom? The government will get into the business of taking away freedoms by taking away the freedom of companies that are in public disfavor first. Later they will be telling any and all companies what they can do.

There are two core liberal issues that fit into this nazi-like liberal scenario. First, liberals are obsessed with racial identity. This is obvious from the Dem primaries and needs no explanation. Second, liberals place more value on the environment than on humans. Is it such a stretch to think that they will someday try to reduce human population on the planet? I suspect that corn ethanol is the first step in world depopulation. Of all the crops that can be used to produce ethanol why would you choose something that uses massive amounts of prime agricultural acreage and tons of water to produce little yellow kernals? Switch grass is eight times more effecient to produce ethanol and can be grown outside the breadbasket. The use of corn instead of switch grass has the potential to starve millions - possibly hundreds of millions - of living humans.Is this just a stupid government decision or is this a deliberate attempt to depopulate sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Penisnsula? Switch grass can be grown all over the south and in much of the southwest. Why produce corn in the midwest and starve people when it is eight times more expensive to do so? Stupidity or genocide - you decide.

The only hope we have is anarchy. We have to hope that the interest on the national debt will sink the US government. The debt is currently about $9 trillion, but our long term obligations will be at least $55 trillion just from obligations and entitlements that the government has already agreed to. Obligations are growing much faster than our GDP and the debt is not the problem, the interest is the problem; and the interest will only be paid by devaluing the currency by printing money. Meanwhile, the goverment is creating the expectation with many racial and ethnic groups that they will be cared for by government. Cared for? Remember, these people are not just fascinated with racial identity, they are also fascinated with depopulation.The only hope is in the hopelessness itself. A truly patriotic American should be cheering for the Collapse of the US government because the US government is the primary enemy of the US people.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Business Overview (Tampico)

Step 1: About five of us chip in money and/or labor in equal value to repair and refurbish a 35-40' Bone Yard sailboat. This sailboat is owned in five 20% shares.

Step 2: Blackhearted Pirate Lee gets her 6-pak license.

Step 3: Pirate Ronald designs and builds a torpedo-shaped underwater metal detector.

Step 4: One Neo-Swashbuckler develops a relationship with a small village in Mexico on the Gulf coast between Tampico and Veracruz. We find a safe place to dock a sailboat at this village and also find a trustworthy local that will carry out activities for us in exchange for fees. Among the activities will be that this person will find a source for Macaws and Parrots that can be purchased inexpensively.

Step 5: We offer "adventure and diving sails" for small groups in two-week sails to and from our village in Mexico from either Corpus Christi or Galveston. These trips will include stops at places where the metal detector indicates the location of metal. When getting a license for this activity we claim that we are not treasure hunters,but are supporting adventure diving and tourism. We develop a brochure for these adventure/diving/sailing expeditions and distribute the brochures to travel agents. We require bookings to be at least one month in advance.

Step 6: Customers on the adventure sail are made aware of the metal detector, diving and stop in Mexico, but are told nothing about the birds.

Step 7: The Swashbucklers who own the refurbished wooden boat create a partial false floor in the cabin which includes several shoe-box sized compartments that could house unconcious birds.

Step 8: We identify one Neo-Swashbuckler who becomes an expert on Mayan relics. We use our connection in Mexico to look for Mayan relics for sale (in addition to finding the source for birds). We provide a digital camera and internet access to the Mexican connection. He or she sends us pictures of the relics and we make business decisions based on the picture and the knowledge of the swashbuckling Mayan relic expert.

Step 9: When we start out with the group of customers we get to know them and inform them that we will not squeal if they keep anything they find along the way. Once we get them to agree we know they are corrupt so we can inform them about our bird smuggling.

Step 10: We commission Frank to create an alcohol concoction that can be used as a spray mist that will render the birds unconcious.

Revenue: Revenue from the adventure sailors will divided as follows:

Blackhearted Pirate Lee: 30%
Boat owners: 25%
Pirate Ronald (metal detector rental): 10%
Crew #1 (most experienced:(15%)
Crew #2: 10%
Crew #3: 10%

Revenue on birds will be divided fairly between the investors,sellers, the boat owners, Frank and crew of the vessel after theMexican connection is paid and the cost of the birds is subtracted. Revenue from the Mayan relics will be divided between the investors,the Mayan expert, the seller, boat owners and the crew off the vessel.

Step 11: Once a regular revenue stream is established, we will begin to take some of the profits to create a fund to be used to purchase some minor acreage near the Mexican village and build an aviary.

PLEASE GIVE ME INPUT ABOUT THIS PLAN. IT CAN AND WILL BE MODIFIED.

One piratical aspect to this devious plan is that we will secretly monitor the sites where the divers have finds. We will act uninterested when they bring up a few pieces of eight, but we will record the GPS location so that we can return later.We can take turns being crew under Blackhearted Pirate Lee as we have time or vacation.

The birds would only be rendered unconcious for the time that we arewithin a few miles of the Texas-Mexico border. Possessing the birds off the coast of Mexico is not illegal. The bird cages could be faked as "crab traps" if we are stopped while the birds are asleep.

Historic Kingfish Proposal

Here is a proposal for Swashbuckler consideration:

1.) Form the Swashbucklers into a club, write tons of grants and then keep no permanent address for the rest of our lives. Be shiftless and belligerent if ever contacted by a government official.

2.) Have more discussion on firearms and more firing range practice.

3.) Keep horny toads as pets.

4.) Giving lashings to any Swashbuckler who posts under an unrelated subject heading.

5.) Learn how to make more rum drinks.

6.) Create a master list of banished words and phrases like"networking" and "think outside the box".

7.) Make it a point to laugh at socialist zombies and narcissistic people.

8.) Put nobility in the forefront as the most important character trait.

9.) Grow more vegetables.

10.) Keep geese.