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[sojourner truth]

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i hear that the company that owns nbc and all that it owns is gonna buy out time warner cable unless the feds pitch a bitch......i'm generally against any fed interferance with anything business but i can't see why an nbc property would keep fox news.......mac

FOX news makes more money that anyone else. Pretty good reason to want them as an asset.

I'm surprised George Sorros hasn't tried to buy them out.

[Mestral]

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i hear that the company that owns nbc and all that it owns is gonna buy out time warner cable unless the feds pitch a bitch......i'm generally against any fed interferance with anything business but i can't see why an nbc property would keep fox news.......mac

The fed generally won't interfere unless it can be shown that a company is getting such a monopoly hold that it would prevent others from providing fair competition. Comcast and TimeWarner combined would be pretty close, as they would control a majority of high speed cable links (the backbones, not the consumer stuff) in some places (and thus could actually choke ATT and Spriint, maybe even the government communicaitons). I don't know if they would have enough, in enough places, to do that.

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FOX news makes more money that anyone else. Pretty good reason to want them as an asset.
I'm surprised George Sorros hasn't tried to buy them out.

There are a few entities that are making inroads.
The Gay Rights lobby has a major foothold, and both Islamist, and Communist organizations are also making inroads.
Their days of exposing the truth are numbered, and I have brought up before, that we need to be vetting a replacement for them.

[mac]

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Comcast Shows Fox News now.

great! thanx, 2 cents....mac

[Mestral]

The price of wholesale coffee went up, by approximately double, in the past month or so. I saw the coffee section was raided badly a few days ago, and thought "that was the end of that" but this morning I saw they had restocked at the same old price. I don't know how much longer they will have the same old price, but if you drink a lot of coffee, you might want to stock up prepper style

[sojourner truth]

My wife said that the prices are the same, but we always keep a stock of extra on hand anyhow. The reports do say also that the price of milk, eggs, fruits and vegetables are going to have substantial price hikes. Coffee was $5.98 a can at Wally world yesterday. Same as the week before.

Veggies and fruits mostly to the California drought. Milk and eggs have always been underpriced for the market, to be honest.

We always keep a pretty substantial supply of rice, soups, canned fruits and vegetables, cereals, flour, sugar, and frozen meats. I am just now getting serious about water stockpiling, as that will be the first thing that will disappear in a crisis.

All the ammo in the world won't fill your glass.

[Mestral]

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My wife said that the prices are the same, but we always keep a stock of extra on hand anyhow. The reports do say also that the price of milk, eggs, fruits and vegetables are going to have substantial price hikes. Coffee was $5.98 a can at Wally world yesterday. Same as the week before.

Veggies and fruits mostly to the California drought. Milk and eggs have always been underpriced for the market, to be honest.

We always keep a pretty substantial supply of rice, soups, canned fruits and vegetables, cereals, flour, sugar, and frozen meats. I am just now getting serious about water stockpiling, as that will be the first thing that will disappear in a crisis.

All the ammo in the world won't fill your glass.

I am working on about the same assumptions as you, but stocked some water from the beginning. Where I am behind the curve is with my veggies. Until last summer, I had a good crop of domesticated prickly pear cactus that could provide about a week's supply of vegetable eats. They got damaged in the 2011 drought, never quite recovered, and may have been all but completely killed by this winter. So, now the goal is to stock five kinds of canned veggies.

This is all shallow larder, though. Maybe I can get to work on deep larder later this year.

[HistoryTeacher]

http://whatscookingamerica.net/Infor...eezerChart.htm

This is an expiration chart with freezer times. Pretty interesting.

[mac]

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My wife said that the prices are the same, but we always keep a stock of extra on hand anyhow. The reports do say also that the price of milk, eggs, fruits and vegetables are going to have substantial price hikes. Coffee was $5.98 a can at Wally world yesterday. Same as the week before.

Veggies and fruits mostly to the California drought. Milk and eggs have always been underpriced for the market, to be honest.

We always keep a pretty substantial supply of rice, soups, canned fruits and vegetables, cereals, flour, sugar, and frozen meats. I am just now getting serious about water stockpiling, as that will be the first thing that will disappear in a crisis.

All the ammo in the world won't fill your glass.

that kind of depends on how much ammo the other guy has......mac

[Mestral]

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http://whatscookingamerica.net/Infor...eezerChart.htm
This is an expiration chart with freezer times. Pretty interesting.

General purpose chart, including freezer times.

From a prepper point of view, the only thing it lacks is a column for prognosis after power goes out.

But if you're storing for times of shortage, it's very good to know the stuff on that chart.

[Mestral]

How many things can we learn from this?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-Cold-War.html

1. The family is pretty stupid.

For more than a decade after they moved into their house in Neenah, Wisconsin, the Zwick family knew they had a Cold War bunker in their backyard.
It was not until 2010 that anyone thought to open the heavy steel hatch, climb down the ladder and explore the 8-foot-by-10-foot chamber that the home's previous owner had built to protect his family from a nuclear attack.

2. They are probably liberals (else, they would have opened them to see, since conservatives are adults, and don't need a nanny).

The boxes, old military ammunition crates, contained markings that suggested there might be explosives inside, so the family called the local branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Agents opened the crates to find... Hawaiian Punch.

3. And, of course, if you use old ammo cans, paint over the old markings, and maybe mark them properly, yourself!