Civil unrest is here and anyone who thinks the radical groups in Wisconsin wouldn’t try to follow through on the following threat is deluding themselves. Wake up, people.

620AM Radio in Wisconsin got hold of an email that was sent to several Wisconsin Republicans. Here is what the American Left thinks passes for Democracy:

Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes
will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain
to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it
will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit
that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for
more information on possible scenarios in which you will die.

WE want to make this perfectly clear. Because of your actions today and in
the past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me
have decided that we’ve had enough. We feel that you and the people that
support the dictator have to die. We have tried many other ways of dealing
with your corruption but you have taken things too far and we will not stand
for it any longer. So, this is how it’s going to happen: I as well as many
others know where you and your family live, it’s a matter of public records.
We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and putting a
nice little bullet in your head. However, we decided that we wouldn’t leave
it there. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the
message to you since you are so “high” on Koch and have decided that you are
now going to single handedly make this a dictatorship instead of a
demorcratic process. So we have also built several bombs that we have placed
in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent.
This includes, your house, your car, the state capitol, and well I won’t
tell you all of them because that’s just no fun. Since we know that you are
not smart enough to figure out why this is happening to you we have decided
to make it perfectly clear to you. If you and your goonies feel that it’s
necessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making
them unable to feed, clothe, and provide the necessities to their families
and themselves then We Will “get rid of” (in which I mean kill) you. Please
understand that this does not include the heroic Rep. Senator that risked
everything to go aganist what you and your goonies wanted him to do. We feel
that it’s worth our lives to do this, because we would be saving the lives
of 300,000 people. Please make your peace with God as soon as possible and
say goodbye to your loved ones we will not wait any longer. YOU WILL DIE!!!!

True believers, indoctrinated in our schools and embraced by “liberals” everywhere. It is time to realize that roughly on third of our country hate the rest of us and given the right motivation will kill any of us who they think stand in the way of the “progress” we’ve allowed radicals to promote in our schools and in our media. This will not stay in Wisconsin, these groups are even now organizing in other states for Egyptian style “days of rage” where they cause terror and mayhem until the country gives into their demands – which is armchair communism. Get ready for a long summer.

h/t Big Government

As is traditional I’ll be off for the holidays. Happy Halloween.

I’m not really a multi-tool kind of guy but as the America collapses into second world status I have been in the market for one, as I foresee the possibility of many hours of doing odd jobs and “foraging” to make a living in my future. The Leatherman Super Tool 3000 is what I’m settling on after doing some research. It is a good size and has a lot of useful tools for a woods-ramble or an extended unplanned camping trip.

ColinOutdoors has a great review up which helped sway me. He’s used it in several of his videos and here he goes breaks down what you get when you buy one:

Pension obligations have hit the point where it is impossible for state and local governments to pay for them. While some people think  that a state can’t default because they can’t legally declare bankruptcy these people are assuming that things are just not going to get so bad that the states can’t pay.

Your money is not safe invested in any major city or blue state. I don’t hold any munis but if I had to I would look for a fiscally conservative state who had a growing population and a government that had no big plans they were looking to fund that can lose money and no outrageous pension obligations. Since Robistahn doesn’t exist I won’t buy any.

From CNBC:

Big US cities could be squeezed by unfunded public pensions as they and counties face a $574 billion funding gap, a study to be released on Tuesday shows.

The gap at the municipal level would be in addition to $3,000 billion in unfunded liabilities already estimated for state-run pensions, according to research from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the University of Rochester.

“What is yet to be seen is how this burden will be distributed between state and local governments and whether the federal government will be called upon for bail-outs,” said Joshua Rauh of the Kellogg School.

The financial demands of unfunded pension promises come as state and local governments grapple with years of falling tax revenue related to the recession.

The combination has raised concern that defaults, which are historically rare in the $2,800 billion municipal bond market where local governments obtain money, could now rise.

How bad are things? This bad:

Current pension assets for plans sponsored by Philadelphia can only pay for promised benefits through 2015, while Boston and Chicago would deplete their existing funds by 2019.

Cincinnati, Jacksonville, Florida and St Paul have current pension assets that can only pay for promised benefits through 2020.

Local governments use unique accounting methods that many, such as Mr Rauh, believe understate obligations. Based on his estimates, which use US Treasuries as the benchmark, each household already owes an average of $14,165 to current and former municipal public employees in the 50 cities and counties studied.

“Philadelphia has the most immediate cause for concern, as the city can pay existing promises with existing assets only through 2015,” Mr Rauh said, assuming an 8 percent annualized return, the most common benchmark for municipal plans.

In New York City, San Francisco and Boston the total is more than $30,000 a household and, in Chicago, it tops $40,000.

Taxpayers in these areas risk not only local tax increases and service cuts to pay for benefits, but potentially some of the bill for the $3,000 billion unfunded obligations at the state level, the researchers say.

“The fact that there is such a large burden of public employee pensions concentrated in urban metropolitan areas threatens the long-run economic viability of these cities, as residents can potentially move elsewhere to escape the situation,” Mr Rauh said.

In other words these state and local obligations are going to cut into the ability to make cities livable by local governments. In a video embedded in the story people talk about New York in the 1970s and an example. A crime ridden semi-feral city with garbage strewn everywhere because the city couldn’t afford to pick it up. I remember in the 70s people being attacked by swarms of rats, in broad daylight. Death Wish was based on how horrible NYC was the city was essentially bankrupt.

Now imagine not just New York, but almost all major cities having to cut services to the point where trash is not being picked up, police are stretched to the point of breaking and welfare benefits are being paid with IOUs. Facing that hell on hearth do you think the government will honor it’s obligations to you?