3/21/22 6:09PM PST, I got an email from Deathray a few minutes ago, seems he was clearing snow off of his barn/shop about 10′ to 12′ off the ground and fell. He fractured his Right ankle with multiple fractures. He was airlifted to Fairbanks and he said he got some good drugs and is heading into surgery. He said he would update me tomorrow and I will pass that on. Send Prayers and thoughts!
Update: 8:14PM PST. I just got this from Deathray, “Just saw the surgeon. It is not a good situation. It is broken in many places and all kinds of pieces. Waiting for a cat scan. Spend night. He may do a surgery tomorrow just pinning stuff together to immobilize it. Can’t operate for at least a week or two. “
Update: 3/22 2:03PM PST Deathray emailed me and said he was going into surgery about 4:00 PM his time to stabilize his fractures. Said he was okay, bad night with pain. He had a great nurse last night but said the nurse today is an old burnout that should retire.
Update: 3/22 8:01 PM PST. Deathray got out of surgery and said this,
“So I’m out of surgery for the time being. This is some type of carbon fiber box that is held in place by pins that are running through the bones. They finally Gave me good drugs and for the first time since this happened I’m not chewing nails. Dr and I had a talk about that and I told him I wasn’t happy. Neither was he when he saw the swelling under the first cast. I’m thinking that I may actually get some sleep tonight.”
Update 3/23 11:00AM PST, Called Deathray at the hospital and he is doing a little better, still sore and mostly pain-free, had a heart to heart with the surgeon and nursing care seems to have improved 100%. He is just waiting for the care plan to mature and waiting for a prognosis. He still needs yours prayers and well wishes.
Update 3/23 8:36PM PST They took off the box and we can now see the hardware. Death is saying he is hurting, may be an infection or a reaction to bolts sticking in him…
I remember when I first stumbled on The Woodpile Report, realizing that what I had found was an absolute treasure.
As future posts confirmed, I was spot on with my gut feeling.
Ol’ Remus himself was a treasure.
Filled with wisdom gathered over his many years and blessed with an insight that I have so far, been unable to find duplicated anywhere else.
Even after extensively searching.
I also realized after a few posts that what I had found was also very likely to have a limited window of new inputs. Also due to his advancing age.
Unfortunately I was correct in my assessment there, our reluctant mentor will have been gone two years here shortly.
Very, very fortunately, someone else realized what a treasure trove of wisdom and knowledge he left behind and they immediately set about gathering up into a repository, as much as they could possibly glean from what he did leave behind. Unfortunately, Ol’ Remus didn’t archive his posts.
Occasionally I get a hankering for a touch of that and off I go, searching for that font of knowledge, stashed away still on the internet.
Every time, I am very happy to see it is still there. Some day it might not be. I may try to find the time to download it all and save it on a removable hard drive for safe keeping.
I found this old post a few minutes ago, re-read it and found that it is just as applicable today as it was when he first pecked it out and shared it with us’. So I copied it and I am pasting it here, along with a link to the site that still has many of his old posts.
from https://www.theburningplatform.com/2014/07/29/the-coming-unpleasantness-ol-remus/
THE COMING UNPLEASANTNESS – OL’ REMUS
This is another post from Ol’ Remus at The Woodpile Report. I like his style of writing quite a bit, and agree with him entirely. He is forecasting catastrophe – and how could it be otherwise?And yet I get the US Trust “Investment Strategy Overview” newsletter in the mail, and, of course, it is completely in opposition to Ol’ Remus – it’s bullish! Apparently, we are only 5 years into a bull market of 20 years! Major advances in technology are coming! Progress towards US energy independence! A manufacturing renaissance! The imbalances of the past cycle are correcting themselves! Etc.How does one reconcile these two views?What an absolutely bizarre time we live in, when there is such a massive disconnect between the mass media hypnosis and reality. Every day is another chapter in Cognitive Dissonance…http://woodpilereport.com/html/index-380.htm
The Coming Unpleasantness
The guilty are sneaking away unpunished, nobody’s fixing anything, there’s an orderly-so-far devaluation of the dollar going on, the Treasury has fallen into the hands of counterfeiters and the election process has gone third-world. The home folks are broke, or nearly so, and unemployed, or about to be. Suddenly they understand DCisn’t on their side and now they’re debating whether DC is run by the criminally insane or the merely criminal. Oh yeah, this will end well.According to a new study by the Russell Sage Foundation, the inflation-adjusted net worth for the typical household was $87,992 in 2003. Ten years later, it was only $56,335, or a 36% decline… it’s not merely an issue of the rich getting richer. The typical American household has been getting poorer, too. Tyler Durden at zerohedge.comNow the people who warned of 2008 are saying the market is running out of Greater Fools. They say few retail investors are in equities that don’t have to be—meaning the funds, the 401ks and IRAs, the insurance companies, the compulsive gamblers. And those that don’t hate the market fear the market. They say it’s a gas leak looking for detonation. They say the event will arrive before the warning does.There are usually no warnings that trouble is coming because everyone at the top of the financial food chain are highly incentivized to keep quiet about problems… Just about every CEO from every major bank spent much of 2008 claiming that all was well… As former banker Jean-Claude Juncker put it, “When it becomes serious, you have to lie.” Phoenix Capital Research at zerohedge.comIn early 2008 I noted a fairly serious decrease in online “revenue per impression” in the advertising space. This was not reflected in so-called “official” reports from various online ad firms, but I saw it quite-clearly across data I had available to me. What followed, of course, was quite clear in the markets. I am seeing the same pattern develop now. Karl Denninger at market-ticker.orgDue diligence and fundamentals count for nothing because the arithmetic makes no sense, successful investing amounts to insider information and front running the Fed. The oscillations are wild and coming closer together. But still it goes up. One day it won’t. The crash will be 2008 on afterburner because no one trusts anybody, no one honors anything, no one believes anything. The flash-crash will look stately by comparison. It’ll be like being pushed out of a tree in the dark—pain and terror every inch of the way.Another horrific stock market crash is coming, and the next bust will be “unlike any other” we have seen. We have never had this before. It’s going to be very painful for investors. Jeremy Grantham, GMO, via moneynews.comWarren Buffett’s “best single measure of where valuations stand,” comparing the market value of UScompanies to the gross national product before inflation, is flashing near record bubble red. Still we are sure, you’ll be able to exit before everyone else when this ends. Tyler Durden and Bloomberg at zerohedge.comThe most reliable valuation measures have never been higher except in the advance to the 2000 peak (and for some measures the 1929 and 2007 peaks), but they have started to treat these prior pre-crash peaks as objectives to be attained… Make no mistake—this is an equity bubble, and a highly advanced one. On the most historically reliable measures, it is easily beyond 1972 and 1987, beyond 1929 and 2007, and is now within about 15% of the 2000 extreme. John Hussman at hussmanfunds.comWe have no right to be surprised by a severe and imminent stock market crash. Mark Spitznagel via moneynews.comThe market isn’t the economy, true enough, but a couple dozen trillion dollars isn’t exactly budget-dust. The citizenry would see a yawning crater where their 401ks and IRAs used to be. They’d notice when their checking account is gone but their debt isn’t, and when the ATM doesn’t recognize their account number, or when their bank is an empty storefront and their car loan has been sold to Vinnie, or when their insurance company doesn’t answer the phone. As always, people don’t go nuclear until reality invites itself into their living room and defecates on the carpet. That’s when things get interesting—when people notice, when they have to face what was formerly unthinkable and their only fallback is what good people they are.Those who drove the financial bus off a cliff know the controls still work fine—the brakes and accelerator and steering wheel, all of ’em, but when the rubber isn’t on the road the effect just ain’t the same. But all that “driving” stuff keeps the passengers from panicking. We’ve seen the grandest larceny in all history. Now, after we’ve been cleaned out, we know the wacko conspiracy guys were right. In fact we’re worse than cleaned out, the place has been turned into a debtor’s prison from sea to shining sea.Some would have us believe things are turning around—the market’s up and the trend is your friend. Trend? Trend?! The market made gains after the Crash of 1929 too, genuine record recoveries. “Prosperity is just around the corner” referred to those 1930-1931 upticks, not to the unstoppable plunge that followed. As they say, it’s not the fall, it’s the sudden stop. The fall itself can be surprisingly profitable. But what a fall it was. By July of 1932 the Dow had dropped from its high of 367 down to 41. Ten years later, in April of 1942, it touched 100 or so, and that was after foreign panic-money poured in from a Europe at war. The highs of 1929 weren’t seen again until the 1950s. That’s a trend.There’s always been fraud, but sometime in the recent past the market buckled in a fundamental way and the fraud poured in. Proven reforms painfully enacted over decades were swept away. Fundamentals no longer counted. Creative finance counted. Bubbles and deceit counted. It became a criminal enterprise top to bottom. Accounting firms and regulatory agencies went over to the dark side en masse. As Mark Twain said, every profession is a conspiracy against the common man. Finally the retail investor did something sensible—he ran for his life.The players left are those who have to stay; the funds, the retirement accounts, the insurance companies, et al, and HFT piranhas are eating them alive at millions of tiny nibbles a second. What used to be an investor’s clearing house has become a betting parlor on the Federal Reserve’s next move. The market goes up on tiny volume and bad news, and way up on very bad news and nearly no volume. They know dark horizons light up the printing presses. Meanwhile, the banks don’t know what they own, or don’t know what it’s worth, but they do know they’re insolvent and so does everybody else. So DC gives money to the banks and then pays the banks to lend it back to them. It’s IOUs paid with IOUs and they can’t write ’em fast enough.The bottoming is not completely done. In fact, it has barely even gotten underway yet. We keep propping up losers. The result is we still need to see a repudiation of debt at a massive scale and until that happens, the Long Wave bottom won’t be here. We’re just dancing on the front end of real economic collapse. George Ure at urbansurvival.comWhat to do. The demand for collateral will be ferocious when the debacle starts. Treat debt like any other roadside bomb. Staying current isn’t enough. Any collaterized debt is too much debt. You can’t know which exit is the last exit. The grace period with the trillion-dollar price tag is ending and it’s ending badly. This disaster has been bought off for decades. When it happens it’ll go down fast. Exactly how and when can be sorta-kinda foreseen but not actually known. A cascade can start from anywhere. But this much can be said: the collateral chaos will hit the system like a weapons-grade laxative. Everything that’s been contained, covered up and denied will come spewing out looking for daddy. It’ll take weeks, not months to come apart. Maybe days.Get as independent as you can while you can. There are parts of this game where the only winning move is to not play. Doesn’t mean you have to go all Rambo and head off to some mountain valley, although that’s one way. But it does mean putting stuff by so you can get by. “Stuff” means food stored long-term and the wherewithal to get or grow more, uninterruptible for-sure potable water, an off-the-grid heating system, meds and medical supplies, clothing for hard times and hard work and being out in life-threatening weather because you have to be, the means to defend hearth and hoard, batteries and a way to recharge them, cash and real money—meaning gold and silver—all the things you already know but haven’t done. Knowing isn’t doing, doing is doing.FDR‘s bailout of the Federal government also went so far as to also issue Executive Order 6814 “Requiring the delivery of all silver to the United States for coinage.” And what was that worth at the time? In terms of present dollars, that works out to about $22.77 per ounce. Given that silver is trading below current dollar equivalents of the Depression confiscation prices and gold is still trading at 3.44-times Depression confiscation prices, my personal bias may be inferred. George Ure at peoplenomics.comPlan B. If you’re in a city, have a viable destination and two or three tried and proven ways to get there. Practice and take notes. Again, only doing is doing. Plan as if your life depends on it. Take a hike, go the hard way through the hills and woods, you’ll discover how long an unpaved mile can be. Make a squirrel dinner, yes they’re cute, but there may come a day when only one of you is going to live. Besides, they’re yummy. Mankind acquired these tastes over geological epochs, you’ve not lost them, merely misplaced them.Everything seems obvious and predictable in retrospect. This stuff is pretty obvious and predictable now. And there are always better reasons to not do something than to do it. You know most people won’t get serious until after it was absolutely necessary. Too late. They’ll fail, mostly. Worse, they’ll needlessly fail at the easy part of the learning curve. Prepared is prepared, you are or you aren’t. Do what you can. And as always, stay away from crowds.
The man could see what was coming from a mile away.
What he didn’t get to see, Thank God, was the Covid Hoax and The Fed dumping several TRILLION more FRN’s into the market and The Bubble having had at least two more years of expansion.
Afterburners indeed.
It is now virtually on our doorsteps.
That makes posting this again very timely.
God rest your soul sir.
I am grateful at this point that you aren’t here to see what is about to unfold on a completely unsuspecting general public.
It’s amazing what I can get done when nobody is fucking with me and there isn’t some kind of bullshit drama going on.
I managed to get set up and cut both keyways in that shaft today so I could mock this thing up after almost a month.
Between the big assed Aluminium block and the Pillow Block Bearings, the center of the shaft is almost at the exact same center height as the shaft in the electric motor I am hoping to replace it with.
I still have to tighten a bunch of set screws down, clean the pulleys up and figure out the exact place it is going to sit but I need to make sure I don’t need to use that Mill for anything else first because I have to take the motor and wiring out to mount this thing.
No need to snicker, I laugh at myself all the time.
I gotta say that even though this is Basic Machining 101 and the kind of stuff rookies get assigned to do in the real world, I am still so proud of myself that I could split.
My first successful keyway using the old Smithy 3 in 1 machine.
I say successful because of course I had to screw one up first.
My blind old ass used the wrong sized cutter on the first attempt and I didn’t catch it until I went to test fit the key.
Ah well, live and learn eh?
I’m still pretty proud of myself. No adult supervision and I didn’t even break anything.
A homeless Shanty Town during the Great Depression,
Homeless Camps in California right now.
They literally stretch for miles and miles.
Somewhere between 1929 and 1935,
Sometime between 2020 and 2022,
Do you know what the difference is?
It’s the difference between a Deflationary Depression and an Inflationary Depression.
It’s going to get much much worse here very soon as the purchasing power of the Federal Reserve Note goes down the tubes and the Inflationary Spiral we are in shoots for the Moon at the same time.
The FBI, the MSM, Twatter, Fakebook, and every Liberal outlet on the planet tried to bury this before the election because they all knew it would kill Biden’s chances in a flat second if the Normies got wind of what is really on Hunter’s Laptop.
The Hookers, the drugs, the emails, more drugs, the shady business dealings, the bitching about “!0% For The Big Guy”, meaning Joe was skimming the graft, the under age sex,
Pictures and videos of Hunter banging not only his dead brother’s wife but her daughter too, there is so much dirt on that laptop that I wouldn’t be surprised if some Dem Muckey Mucks literally had heart attacks when the news of what was on it it being in private hands went public.
Rudy Gliulliani swears he gave a copy of it to the Delaware State Police.
Delaware being the place Dementia Joe has his little Mafia Syndicate home offices at.
