Blog Posts - neoTerra

FALLOUT!!

4/10/2024

Tonight is the premier of Fallout on Amazon. Like the award winning game, the TV series is set 200 years after the world is turned into a radioactive wasteland in the year 2077.

I'm kind-of excited. Back when I was working long hours and commuting I spent many nights wandering the Wasteland, gunning down mutants and searching for bottle caps. I don't know how I had the energy ... probably from the Nuka-Cola. Sadly, now that I'm retired I've lost interest in games :-(

In December of 2012, we had a Fallout-themed prepocolypse party to celebrate the Mayan end of the world. Fortunately, the world didn't end ... we had a lot of leftovers.

We made Blamco Mac & Cheese, Gecko Pow Mein, Bunker 30 pizza, Nuka-Colas and radioactive drinks (with dry ice for effect).

I can't believe I still have the Blamco Mac & Cheese.

The trailer looks pretty awesome! The only problem is that Lucy MacLean is a brunette ... when I played (long ago) I made the main character a hot blonde ... like Ms. Terra. I'm so juvenile LOL.

Beetlejuice Rising

4/9/2024

OMG folks ... not the super-giant red star in Orion. Nope ... I'm talking about ex Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

It seems that Tiffany Henyard, the illustrious mayor of Dolton, Illinois is not only accused of misuse of public funds (aka embezzling) but she then used her executive powers to veto a resolution to investigate her spending. YAY! Ya' have to admire the sheer arrogance.

Anyways, the frustrated Dolton Trustees have decided to hire Beetlejuice herself to investigate Madam Tiffany. This is going to be amazing (if the media covers it at all) !!

In the Jason Loner saga, Lori Lightfoot is elected Senator in 2028 and, subsequently, Lincoln Park is renamed as Lightfoot Park in her honor. Lightfoot Rising!!! I'll be taking bets on this prophecy.

Un-BEAR-able

4/9/2024

As y'all probably know, neoTerra is located in the beautiful southern Appalachian mountains. The wildlife has been living here for thousands of years ... we humans are basically temporary visitors in their territory. I do try to keep the deer at least 75 feet away from the house because they destroy my gardens. But, aside from that, the wildlife rules.

Da' Bears
No, no, no! ... not the Chicago Bears ... they are easy to defeat.   I'm talking about the Appalachian Black Bears.

I've learned that bears are incredibly smart. This was surprising to me since they aren't really predators and they're not very aggressive (except for a mamma with cubs).

They have a sense of smell much better than a dog. The cubs are very curious and playful and get into all manner of mischief. They love to climb on everything. They wrestle with bags of mulch (they really like cedar), tear them apart and roll around in the mess they created. They steal the garden hoses and wrestle with those, too.

Garbage, however, is their favorite thing in the whole world and I've been having an ongoing Man-vs-Bear garbage contest for the past 9 years. I suffered a couple of defeats early on with plastic trash cans but, being of superior intelligence, I prevailed by using a heavy, steel job-box to secure my trash.    YAY!

A few nights ago I caught mom and three new cubs attacking the trash container and chased them off (try to imagine a skinny old guy with a flashlight chasing four bears in the dark ... yes, I do stupid things).

Bears do not have the intelligence to analyze a problem or plan an attack ... but they're incredibly persistent ... and strong. Last night they finally scored a victory.    They managed to break the (obviously too small) bolts holding the container down and they bent the metal hasps keeping it closed.

My punishment was cleaning up the bear-buffet they left behind. Now that they have stumbled upon (not planned) a successful attack they will be back every week.

It's going to take a lot more concrete and much bigger bolts to restore my dignity.

Bring It On, Bears!!! Never Give Up. Never Surrender!

Future Food

4/7/2024

Intro
It's been quite a while since I wrote about Globalist efforts to change and manipulate the human food supply. They are so arrogant that they don't even try to hide their intentions.

I spent yesterday canning pasta sauce and beef stew (a separate topic) so today I'm inspired to provide y'all with a foodie update.

Genetic Poison
Back in 2022 I wrote a post detailing how the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) had begun perpetrating a massive fraud on American consumers.

In 2018 the USDA followed the UN and decided that most genetically edited foods are not Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) and do not need to be regulated or labeled as GMO.

So, in the world of woke-speak... Genetically Modified = BAD.... while Genetically Edited = GOOD.

Based on this deception, the number of patents for Gene-Edited foods has gone through the roof and Genetically Edited crops have been approved and are being grown.
neoterra.us/blog/future-food

Governments are actively pursuing the development of genetically modified food plants that will 'vaccinate' humans from COVID ( ... because the sheep are still terrified by COVID).

I quote from recent 2024 research: "we engineered and selected a transgenic tomato genotype (TOMAVAC) that stably synthesized an antigenic S1 protein of SARS-CoV-2." In other words, my friends, you would receive a dose of experimental mRNA when you eat a tomato (note, this particular study was done in a foreign country and has not been approved for actual use yet. However, our own NIH is conducting similar research). www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2023.1275307/full

In response, Tennessee has recently passed legislation (in defiance of the USDA) that would classify such transgenic food organisms as 'drugs' and require labeling.

As a humble brag, a central theme in my sci-fi novel unfolds when MarLynn Mistry, a brilliant young genetic engineer, discovers a World Order plot to develop a binary genetic poison to depopulate the lower classes. In the story, the binary vector is undetectable until consumed. I quote again from the recent 2024 study: "A binary pART27 vector bearing the custom synthesized S1 gene of SARS-CoV-2 ... "

Trash Bags

4/7/2024

Everyone knows that trash bags are awesome. You can use them as emergency ponchos, you can stuff supplies in them when fleeing from zombies ... and you can even use them for trash!

You should never underestimate the power of human imagination when it comes to trash bags.

For your Sunday viewing amusement, we have a piece of human trash disguised as trash so they can steal a package from someone's porch. Sacramento police are on the lookout for a black trash bag wearing pink slippers. If you see this suspect please call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-CLOWN-WORLD. LOL

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
—T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" (1925)

Eclipse - Flat Earth - Oh My!!

4/6/2024

On April 8th we will experience an awesome total Solar Eclipse across much of eastern North America. Sadly, States and counties across the path are declaring States of Emergency so they can invoke special emergency powers (like martial law). Really folks, a one-day surge of tourists is a State of Emergency??

The Solar Eclipse
A Solar Eclipse occurs when the Moon (which is only 240,000 miles away) passes in front of the sun (which is really, really far away). By an astounding coincidence, that occurs nowhere else in our Solar System. The Moon appears to be exactly the same size as the Sun, which makes a Solar Eclipse an almost mystical event.

The odds of our Moon being exactly the right size and distance to create this perfect appearance are so remote that many people believe the Moon is actually a giant, hollow Death Star created by Ancient Aliens. Sorry folks ... coincidence is COOL, but it isn't proof.

In any case, The next eclipse to be widely visible across the United States will be in 2045. SO, if you have never experienced a Solar Eclipse then I recommend that you try to see this one.

The Flat Earth
I'm not sure if Flat Earthers are real or just having fun mocking science ... but they sure create some awesome images of "reality" while they claim that all pictures of a spherical Earth are fake. Unfortunately, if the Sun and Moon are both the same size and just circle around Terra like planes waiting to land at O'Hare airport, then there is no explanation for the solar eclipse.

DARN!! It would be so cool if the Earth was a flat slab on the back of a giant cosmic turtle.

Recently, I have discovered absolute proof that Terra is NOT flat. Trust The Science!!

First Contact Day

4/6/2024

I'm a couple of days late but I've been busy canning (another topic).

In Star Trek canon, humanity makes First Contact with the Vulcans on April 4th, 2063 (after Capitalism is devastated during WWIII). So ... April 4th is known as First Contact Day.

Although First Contact was with the boring, stuck-up Vulcans, the Klingons are way more fun. So today I celebrate our future past with the Klingons. YAY!

April Fools -- NOT

4/1/2024

Happy Monday and April Fools Day. A day when all manner of pranks and fakes are allowed.

Unfortunately, though it does seem that we have a fool on the Oval Office, it isn't just a one-day prank. It is sadly too real.

On Saturday, I wrote about Joe's distasteful Executive Proclamation that March 31st (Easter Sunday) is the Transgender Day of Visibility. He was subsequently joined by numerous other leading Democrats with similar official proclamations.

To set the record straight, Joe didn't invent the TDOV ... it was invented and declared to be on March 31st by Rachel Crandall-Crocker in 2010.

To be fair to Joe, he was the first pResdient to make an official TDOV Proclamation in 2021 (his first year in office) and has done so each year since. He has been consistent. This year's Proclamation was probably not intended as an affront to Christianity ... he was (probably) just blindly continuing his tradition.
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/03/31/a-proclamation-on-transgender-day-of-visibility-2021/

Unfortunately, that would be giving Joe way to much benefit-of-the doubt. To further emphasize his divisive attitudes toward Americans, he also issued orders prohibiting religious themes on Easter Eggs. Seriously, friends, Easter is a RELIGIOUS holiday!

"Children of the National Guard are prohibited from submitting religious Easter egg designs for the 2024 'Celebrating National Guard Families' art event at the White House... Easter egg design submissions must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes "

To make matters even worse, Easter changes dates very year and only occurs on March 31st about 4% of the time (honest, I looked it up). It has not happened in the 15 years since TDOV was invented and will not happen again until 2086.

As the Great Unifier, Joe might have taken pause and declared his continued support for the transgender community without tying it to the date of Easter Sunday. It doesn't take a political genius to understand that the 2.3 BILLION Christians in the world might find his poorly timed Proclamation to be offensive this year.

Of course, Democrats are already rallying to proclaim how bold and courageous Joe is for crapping on the World's (and America's) largest religion.

As an Apocaloptimist, I can only say that I'm glad Easter happened to coincide with TDOV in this critical election year. It's such an amazing coincidence that it's almost an omen. Perhaps it will make a few more people realize that the Democrat Party hates:

America
Western Civilization
Families
Law and Order
Religion (Especially Christianity, but antisemitism is becoming fashionable)
Prosperity

DON'T PANIC

Happy Easter --- Almost

3/30/2024

Hello friends. I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Easter but Joe Biden has thrown a wet blanket on Christianity.

First, let me reiterate that I'm not homophobic or transphobic. Who you love or who you sleep with is none of my business and I simply don't care. It is your life, not mine.

That said, pandering makes me want to puke. And Joe has anointed himself as the Pandering-Hypocrite-in-Chief.

Today, Joe, who claims to be a blue-collar Catholic from Scranton, has crapped on all Christians throughout the world by declaring that Easter Sunday will now be the Transgender Day of Visibility.

"NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility. ... I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord ..."

Please keep in mind that we already have a Gay and Lesbian Pride Month (the entire month of June including Father's day ... ironically). which was declared by (Democrat) President Bill Clinton in 2000. June was later expanded to be Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Month by (Democrat) President Obama. www.loc.gov/lgbt-pride-month/about/

Joe could have pandered to the LGBTQI+ community by declared that the Summer Solstice (in June) would be an extra special Transgender Day. But that would not be degrading and insulting enough to Christians. It would not fit into his relentless and divisive campaign to marginalize all of rural America.

You might feel that I'm exaggerating. BUT I AM NOT. Here is the transcript from the White House.
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/03/29/a-proclamation-on-transgender-day-of-visibility-2024/

Happy Easter and FJB!

The Rational Prepper - Location, Location - Part 3

3/26/2024

Intro
Back in 2022 I started the Rational Prepper series. The first few posts defined my ideas on how a Rational Prepper thinks. In my view, the best way to prepare for bad situations is to avoid them where possible ... Green Acres is the place to be ...

In the two-part series Location, Location, Location I explain how I decided where to move when I retired. Here's the links:

Update
As y'all know, I decided to move to the southern Appalachians ... an area I jokingly refer to as Appalachistan. It seems that the pundits have finally caught up. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal discusses the flood of people (particularly retired folks) that have discovered the area.

Please folks, don't bring your Progressive BS to Georgia. If you're a Democrat and feel compelled to move to the Appalachians go to North Carolina instead. You'll feel right at home in Asheville. Honest.