Anyone else get the feeling all hell is about to break loose?

[The Straight Story]

I am hoping it dosen't, more misery is not a good thing. But I have a sinking feeling that we about to see some cracks opening up.

Fuel prices up, food prices up, stocks going to get shaky, housing bubbles, and who the hell knows what else...

[havocmom]

1. Yes, and we are outta coffee

Shit meets fan; film at 11

[The Straight Story]

3. Think about this:

Smokes went way up in many places, now gas --- can BEER be far behind?????NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[WiseButAngrySara]

10. What film? Or were you being funny, facetious etc.?.......n/t

[phaseolus]

18. Pop culture reference

the movie Airplane! from 1980

[havocmom]

21. And fact. See post below. We are gonna be outta coffee

Tea?

[WiseButAngrySara]

23. Thanks! My ignorance. Another dumb question...is it on tonight?..n/t

[havocmom]

20. Movie was Airplane. But Ron Reagan mentioned today that coffee comes

into this country, usually by the Port of New Orleans, that there were warehouses full of it there. Please note the word "were" in the previous sentence

Folks, we are gonna be outta coffee. bush and the CEOs will be able to afford it, but the rest of us are gonna be kicking the habit soon.

[WiseButAngrySara]

26. The best coffee I've had (with the exception of European coffee...France,

and Holland were the best in Europe, imo), was in New Orleans about 20 years ago. It was magic, the coffee.

[dweller]

36. was it 'cold' brewed?

i don't know it that's the correct term. My uncle and aunt make it that way though, learned about it in NOLA at a B&B.

Basically, the grounds and water sit together for about 6-8 hours or overnite, then the plug on the brewbasket is pulled and it drips into a receptacle. Then you heat it to normal coffee temp. I had some at their house during a family reunion, and it was delicious.

not that tough to make, you just have to prepare ahead for the longer brewing time. They explained that the fact heat was not used during the brewing cycle made for a much smoother taste.

dp

[WiseButAngrySara]

38. I'm not sure about the method! But whatever the food is, if it's in

New Orleans, it is the food of the Gods. I lived there for a year in 1994 to complete a residency, and even the jello salad at hotels was par excellence. I am in grief over the potential death of this wonderful city. (And obviously, not just for the coffee and food.)

[dweller]

44. i know

it's hard to think about what losses i may face, when i consider what is truly lost in this travesty.

it's heartbreaking. i keep preparing for the worst and cannot fathom the depth.
dp

[regnaD kciN]

41. It's called "Toddy Coffee"...

...and you can buy a kit with carafe, brewing container, and filters at many coffee shops.

There's also a brand of bottled cold-water concentrate (I think it's called "Victorian House"), that's available in grocery stores. Not as good as freshly-made, of course, but still miles above the canned and instant coffees on the adjacent shelves.

[dweller]

45. thanks, regnaD kciN

perhaps the coming 'fuel shortage' will bring about a new interest in 'toddy coffee'.
and bio-diesel
and 'roll your own'

and Victory gardens.
peace
dp

[Ready4Change]

28. Aiiiiiieeeeeee!

Not the Coffeeeeeeee!

Take my gas. Take my guns. Take my booze, even (well, not the good stuff.)

But keep yer fricken hands off my coffee. Especially before noon.

[WiseButAngrySara]

39. Me too! Can't imagine life without Java.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[anitar1]

2. I have expected it , but not this soon. Am as prepared

as I can be.

[Hissyspit]

4. Well, all actions have opposite equal reactions.

The horror of the rise of the Bush/Neocon Revolution may take some pretty violent surgery to bring it to an end. Not wishing for this on any of us, but maybe it will be the price America has to pay...

[The Straight Story]

6. I am stocking up on spam :)

That shit has a shelf life greater then the life expectancy of most people :)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

13. I think it also acts as an embalming agent

Just one of the many benefits of spam. :P

[Hissyspit]

17. But will it act as automobile fuel? That's one of the big questions. n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

30. Only if you feed it to pigs first and use the poop

I guess you could use any methane producing agent, but why not get rid of the spam while we have the chance. :)

[Hissyspit]

35. Feeding pork to pigs!?

I don't have any pigs anyway.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

37. Me either, but I think they eat most anything

Spam may be pushing the limits of that theory, however. :P

[Best_man23]

33. How about Twinkies

I've always said the only things that would suvive a nucular holocaust would be rats, roaches, and Twinkies.

[WiseButAngrySara]

15. But look who's paying...with their lives. Those in Iraq, and now those

in NOLA and the Gulf Coast States. How would you like to be ordered to evacuate, could not, went to the option (superdome in NO) and now are transported to another Dome in a different state? Refugees is what CNN referred to these people as being. I hate BFEE. Why aren't they the ones being punished instead of the good and poor innocents.

[LiveWire]

5. The city of Isla Vista...

has always been ready for a good riot. We burned down a bank once, we can do it again.

[The Straight Story]

8. Nobody ever burns down the bars though :) (nt)

[MuseRider]

7. Yeah and I hate to feel this way.

I seem to be gritting my teeth a lot. It could be I am just so angry but really, it does all seem to be organizing for something nasty. It feels like society is about to break down in a major way. All we can do is be watchful I guess right now. Either that or the big foot of our "new" government is about to stomp on all of us.

[WiseButAngrySara]

19. I fear that's precisely what they are already doing to the poor people of

one of my favorite cities in the universe: New Orleans.

"Either that or the big foot of our "new" government is about to stomp on all of us."

[MuseRider]

32. Yes.

It is also one of my favorites, my husband went to Tulane and he is heartbroken.

What we are hearing about from NO, the crimes etc. are because they are stressed and desperate and see no help coming. I am afraid we are going to see it all over without those reasons. People are very, very angry and it worries me and then there is Bush** and his intentions we already know are not friendly to us.

The segment of society who always comes through for others are trying very hard to do the things that need doing but it seems the others are being almost encouraged to try to stop us and fight us. Maybe I am just in a bad funk tonight. Goodness knows there is plenty of reason to be but it just feels bad out there right now and I see I am certainly not alone feeling that way.

[WiseButAngrySara]

40. No, you are not alone in feeling that way. I'm sad and afraid that the

evil that this administration has been brewing since 2000 and before, will result in an awful calamity of some sorts...maybe even Civil War. I don't know. There have been too many lies, and too many injustices, and too many unnecessary deaths, and now this! And, as usual, the poor are the ones who appear to be taking the brunt. It grieves me.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. Stop bothering me while I'm reloading.

:D

[The Straight Story]

12. Sounds like me when dinner time rolls around :) (nt)

[all.of.me]

11. i do.

i feel the breaking point is near. this cannot go on the way it is. like another poster said, it will take something ugly to undo the ugliness that's been done. i believe that.

[The Straight Story]

14. I fear the neo-cons want that, martial law, * stays in office, etc

Could get real ugly. Hope it don't, but am seriously thinking it might...

[all.of.me]

25. i'm thinking more along the lines of a revolution

that will bring down bush and restore this country to some fucking normalcy.

[Broken_Hero]

16. Yeah, i feel the same way...

I don't know what else is next, i do feel the tension though, especially at the pump, especially when i let the freepers have it for voting in an oil president, who doesn't care about them, yet they voted for them....i have taken the heat off of a lot of my freeper buddies for a while, cause seriously, i think somethings about to snap, but i don't know what, or maybe i'm just reading to much into it.

[lala_rawraw]

22. Just what they wanted...

A 21st Century Depression, where the Plantations (Corporations) can have there slaves back. Seems about the only way to summarize this.

[Extend a Hand]

24. I'm worried

nt

[FreedomAngel82]

27. I've been having that very nagging feeling myself

:\ I hope you and I are wrong.

[VPStoltz]

29. You think those poor folks in NOLA are angry now?

Wait until someone explains to them - actually the paper in NOLA has been covering this for some time - how the Chimp held back money that was allocated to repair the levees to spend on his favorite game - WAR.

[zulchzulu]

31. When all else fails...look for the "helpers"

Yeah, a lot of shit is going down right now. The key is to be positive and maintain a sense of humor.

Look not at the bad apples....look at the helpers.... people who are helping, not hurting.

They give you hope in an otherwise seemingly hopeless World.

[ThingsGottaChange]

34. Hate to say it but,

this would be the perfect time for a major terrorist attack. We'd be on our knees in no time. Who's left to defend the country if something like that did happen? Getting way too scary.

[WiseButAngrySara]

42. I'm sad, confused and terrified. I long for Clinton's compassion and

intelligence. Kick and recommended because I want to read more answers.

[wli]

43. I've got that feeling. n/t