Any more time spent watching and listening to what the MSM has to say about What Obama Is Saying, What Obama Is Doing, is a pointless waste of time. Even what our enemies and our few tongue-in-cheek, sort-of friends are doing doesn’t matter much anymore. From now on, it’s all going to be you-know-what, flowing downhill.

What we all need to be banding together and focusing on now, and exchanging information with each other on, is surviving.

Not a “Bloggers Against The World” thing, but a Bloggers United thing, in the face of a very certain and very bleak future.

We bloggers have separated ourselves from the complacent herd, we’ve spent untold hours of effort to counterbalance the false reporting of the MSM, and all we seem to have accomplished is to increase each others knowledge and awareness without alerting the herd at all. They continued to stampede forward until their blind urge took them over the edge.

We gave them our best, and our best was pearls before swine. Now it’s time to give our best to ourselves.

Most of you understand that our Earth is on a path to destruction for a variety of reasons and the election of Obama has pressed harder on the accelerator. Those of you who understand this, what are you doing about it? Probably little to nothing because you don’t know what to do.

Things to do: Stock in some cheap dry foods that will keep for years, such as rice, sugar, flour and dried legumes such as peas and beans. Dry cereals, foods that can be made by adding only water. Canned foods may last 2 years in a cool place but will go bad inside one year, usually, if they stay warm. Create a cool storage place for food, one that is tightly built. Mice can get in through amazingly small openings, and bugs can get in even smaller ones. Caulk all the openings and spend the money on a pre-hung door with good seals. Cut a hole in the ceiling and another in the floor and put a screened vent in each, and build in lots of shelves.

If you live in a big city, renew that acquaintence or friendship with the person or persons you know out in the countryside. You may need them later. There’s going to be an exodus from the cities, SOON, as unemployment continues to rise. Take a lesson from the Great Depression, when people were wandering all over the place looking for any kind of work or even just a handout or a bite to eat. It really was that bad and it will be again.

Theft will again be a major problem with all these homeless wanderers, so improve the security of your home and any outbuildings, including that pantry. Even if you don’t install them, have bars ready to put in place over your windows, just in case. Buy a firearm and ammunition. Steel security doors that function as screen doors are a great help in deterring unwanted entry.

Stock up on the mundane items you take for granted, matches, candles, batteries, bandages, antiseptics, all the basic bathroom cabinet medicines, vitamin C in case produce become hard to get, toilet paper, soap. Make a list and get whatever you can. You’ll use it all eventually regardless.

Not everyone can move out into the countryside, most of us who live in cities have no choice but to stay there, but we can do a lot to protect ourselves. If your neighbors are strangers, start cultivating their friendships. This will actually be pretty easy to do once things start getting seriously bad, as all you have to do is comment on the situation and offer to be of help if they have a problem. Most people will warm right up to that and offer to reciprocate. Next thing you know, you’ll all be sitting down to tea together and discussing security measures. You’re going to need to band together and chances are, the need will cause it to happen anyway. Start networking now.

Your guess is as good as anyone’s on how bad things are going to get. They may not be too bad at all, or the world may turn radioactive from pole to pole. That’s not the point. The point is to prepare as much as possible to survive whatever happens. You’ll feel safer even if it turns out that you aren’t, and you’ll have less fear, more confidence, and a better chance of staying alive.