[PenultimateManStanding]

The Sorcerer K, wry and bald, with Big Crystal Balls, gazes into the pellucid Vitreous Orb. The obscuring mists dissipate and the keen-eyed Sorcerer K sees The Future. Cruel, narrow-eyed Asian Pirates sail across the frigid Northern Ocean to lay waste the American NorthWest. Vast Cracker Plantations, the Great Massah Klan's Fiefdom, stretch across the Old South. Small Enclaves of Virtuous New Englanders hold on to Blessed Institutions in a losing cause. Suburban Boredom is gone at last! Welcome to Dangerous, Interesting Times! (Sure, in a previous incarnation the Sorcerer K wrote novels )

[PenultimateManStanding]

There was Murray The K, reputed by some to be The Beatle's Mister K, also called Mr Kite. My Sorcerer K is the new K and we peak oilers know who he is.

[erl]

Uh, I don't know who he is.

Please enlighten me.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Kunstler was interviewed in Salon and suggested that Asian pirates would invade the NorthWest. He used to be a novelist so I wrote a fanciful parody.

[The_Virginian]

oh. Nice literary device.

I doubt pirates will invade the US in the next 20 years, make it 50.

Even then we would just make bigger Junks (or better speedboats take your pick) and privateer them to 'ell.

[PenultimateManStanding]

If civilization does collapse, they've got lots of timber up there in the NorthWest to make wooden boats with. Also, the current infestation of weird neurotic lefty politics will fade away like a bad odor leaving vigorous ideals that give respect to proper virtues of strength and self-reliance. I'm sure they'll be able to handle any junk invasion.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Here's the Sorcerer K today on people making fun of his pirate predictions (it's rather funny I think):

JAMES KUNSTLER: You know, where you’re talking about the Pacific Northwest, you’re really talking about a fairly narrow band along the coastline, but a lot of it is exceptionally good farmland, like the Willamette Valley in Oregon, and I think that the problem with Pacific Northwest is, all other things being equal, I think they’re going to be subject to a lot of people overwhelming them from California. And I also, as I say in the book, and something I’ve been widely ridiculed for, but I’ll say it again anyway, I think that the Pacific may become a kind of arena for freebooting groups of people using naval vessels from deteriorating Asian nations, to prey on the people who live on the Pacific Rim. And when I say that, think of let’s say, the Philippine, or Indonesian, or Malaysian Navy, and people using their naval vessels to essentially form a new kind of piracy. And I wonder about the safety of people living in places like the Pacific Northwest because of that.

While we encounter problems here in North America, Asia is going to be going through tremendous problems themselves, and it’s going to be a big fight over the assets in Asian nations that are coming apart. So, it’s hard to understate the potential for all kinds of military, or paramilitary mischief. Right now, piracy in the area of the Straits of Malacca and other great shipping lanes of Southeast Asia is at an all time high. This involves the hijacking of gigantic tanker vessels, and things like that. So I think that that kind of activity is liable to spread. People have ridiculed me, saying I’m talking about pirates invading Portland, Oregon and Seattle, and obviously I’m not talking about guys with three-cornered hats and eye patches, with parrots on their shoulders. Instead, think about a 178 foot steel naval vessel, armed with big guns, and even missiles – guys with surface-surface missiles and with automatic rifles. That’s quite a formidable enemy.

[holmes]

I hate em. If they come up like part of the tribe, welcome. But they come up like filthy inbreeding consumers looking to lay claim to it all. Bunch of elite, stupid ingnorant buffoons coming up to get "away" from it all, all the while bringing their dysfunction and slimy seed with them. I say man the battlestations ye maties and defend the border with steel and death. but the stupid "oh the horror" idiots want everyone to be loved. Cannabalism. getting away form the death march they have created while it hangs on their backs like monkeys. Weirdos. You want blood you got it ya wimps.