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Readiness: Get ready now
I’ll be the first to admit I’ve gotten comfortable recently and slacked of my own readiness plans, but we had multiple tornadoes touch down in our area last night, and it reminded me that disaster can strike anyone at any time. Being ready is a must. This isn’t a statement of paranoia. It’s an acknowledgement […] Continue reading
Posted in Preparedness
Tagged disasters, Immediate Readiness, Kits, planning, readiness
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Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Five years on: Disasters, reevaluations, and the straight and narrow
There are few things like a disaster of one’s own making to cause one to reevaluate. We’ve had more than a few disasters, big and small, since we came back to Innisfree on the Stillwater. They kind of come with … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Philosophy
Tagged Anniversaries, commitment, disasters, failures, Farming, goals, learning, reevaluation, work
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Slow motion disaster
I cannot help but get the sense as I watch events unfold in Greece that we are watching the unfolding of a slow motion disaster, the beginning of a whole series of disasters as western economies begin to fold under … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Government, Greece, History, Nations, News, Politics, Predictions, Quid Facis, Spending, United States, World Watch
Tagged default, disasters, Economies, getting ready, Greece, west
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26 random things that could cease to function during a government shutdown
Most people pay no attention to how many areas of everyday life our federal government is involved in. Many people believe a government shutdown will not affect them even as they depend on federal services almost every day of their … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Nations, News, Politics, Predictions, Spending, United States, World Watch
Tagged Budgets, Citizens, disasters, effects, Government, People, potential, Predictions, shutdowns, Spending
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More on the cost of reality
I love that the debate over stripping public unions of the collective bargaining rights has degenerated into an argument, essentially, about protecting union negotiated entitlements. In embracing this debate, both sides have distracted themselves from reality again–that is, the thing … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Education, Government, Nations, News, Politics, Society, Spending, United States, World Watch
Tagged Budgets, crises, Debates, deficits, disasters, failures, Insolvency, missing the point, money, Ohio, partisan, Politics, unions, Wisconsin
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