10:08 – Once again, I tried to convince Barbara to leave our clocks on EST rather than switching to Obama Daylight Time. Once again, she refused. I wish that North Carolina and the other “red” states would simply refuse to change the clocks twice a year. Particularly those of us who are far enough south that day lengths don’t differ that much between winter and summer. Ben Franklin suggested daylight saving time, sure, but he was JOKING. Unfortunately, morons didn’t get the joke.
I’m still working on the prepping book. Some of this stuff is really depressing, particularly for bend-over-and-kiss-your-ass-goodbye situations like a catastrophic EMP/CME event. Hey, I just invented a new prepping acronym: BOAKYAG, bow-ack-ee-ag. (Rats! I just checked the Urban Dictionary and found that it had already been coined, back in 2011.)
I cringe every time I read a news report about another young black man being shot and killed by police, as happened in Wisconsin the other day. It happens frequently, and every time it happens I wonder if this will be the trigger event that sets off widespread rioting and looting in cities and towns across America. The pressure continues to build, and these sporadic breakdowns in civil order put me in mind of the small tremors that precede major earthquakes. One day, those major earthquakes will occur. It may be a month from now or ten years from now, but it’s now a question of when, not if.