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It seems Blogger has managed to lose the Blogroll and every other link on the left side.  Please stand by. Update One:  It seems that…

October 4, 2016February 15, 2021
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Way to go, people!

(Via the Drudge Report) According to the Washington Examiner, “A total of 1,992,219 background checks were processed through the bureau’s National Instant Criminal Background Check…

October 4, 2016February 15, 2021
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Well this would never work

You know, I would consider supporting a “Draft John Mauldin For President” campaign, but the man is obviously too intelligent to get tangled up in…

October 4, 2016February 15, 2021
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As Charlotte burns

We almost made it through the summer without the predicted “long, hot summer of discontent” coming to pass. Almost.  The last couple of weeks…well, just…

September 22, 2016February 15, 2021
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Alert! One of the Seven Seals has been broken!

I have managed to purchase .22 LR ammo at a Walmart without any extra jumping through hoops such as knowing someone, arriving at some special…

September 20, 2016February 15, 2021
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Catching up on range time

I will say one thing for being involuntarily retired–you have time to catch up on things that you don’t have time to do when you’re…

September 19, 2016February 15, 2021
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Networking

As someone who has been involved at some level or another in survivalism, or it’s most recent incarnation, prepping, since the 70s, I’ve seen a…

September 17, 2016February 15, 2021
Guns Self Defense

Does this gun make me look fat?

(Via the Drudge Report) I can’t beat the original headline.  Holsters designed for women. Gee–someone finally recognized their bodies are different and making it pink…

September 8, 2016February 15, 2021
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“It’s a recession is when your neighbor losses his job…”

But it’s a depression when you lose yours. If you have any interest in economics, you’ll recognize that joke.  It’s a great joke, until it…

September 5, 2016February 15, 2021
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Free as in beer

From the email inbox, USGS 7.5 minute topo maps in pdf format, set up to be printed on you printer.  Hillshading, meant to give you…

August 31, 2016February 15, 2021
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Well I don’t care for this one iota

(Via the Drudge Report) Maybe it’s time to measure me for a tinfoil hat. Even before the FBI identified new cyber attacks on two separate…

August 31, 2016February 15, 2021
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A little something from the Washington Post on the American Redoubt

(Via the Drudge Report) My-oh-my, but the word on preppers is getting around.  Even the Washington Post appears to take them seriously.  By the standards…

August 29, 2016February 15, 2021
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After the Fall

Like many preppers, I do have the guilty pleasure of reading “doomer porn”, otherwise known as post-apocalyptic fiction (some would say science fiction).  One of…

August 28, 2016February 15, 2021
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Yes Bob, yes they are

I picked this up from Michael Bane on Failbook.  It’s worth reading about, oh, 25 times. You’re Too Stupid For This Conversation You Insist On…

August 27, 2016February 15, 2021
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You think it is going to get worse before it gets better?

John Mauldin thinks it is going to get worse as well.  Much worse. Mauldin’s normally optimistic outlook has become somewhat tempered in the last year…

August 14, 2016February 15, 2021
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There are days

There are days, as my sainted mother would have said, that “just make your ass tired.”  Hey, my momma could swear like a sailor.  I’ve…

August 14, 2016February 15, 2021
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I would like to note the passing of a patriot

Mike Vanderboegh, husband, father of three, and founder of the III% movement passed peacefully in his beloved Alabama homeyesterday. Mike was not everyone’s cup of…

August 12, 2016February 15, 2021
Computers

The things ones finds on the Intertubz

Son is something of a gamer, as in computer and console gamer.  Enough so that he has purchased a specialized computer set up specifically for…

August 8, 2016February 15, 2021
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Where has this been all my life?

(Via Recomendo) A method in which “cords and charging cables will stay wrapped, won’t get tangled, and are very easy to unwrap.”  I suspect it…

August 8, 2016February 15, 2021
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My pick for President of the United States

The noise of the nominating conventions is finally over.  On one side, the gears are grinding as the monkey wrench known as Donald Trump continues…

July 31, 2016February 15, 2021
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Bu-bu-but guns never solve anything!

(Via the Drudge Report) One of the many whines of the leftist gun grabbers is that violence/guns/whatever it is they don’t like this week never…

July 19, 2016February 15, 2021
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A triumph of socialism

(Via the Drudge Report) Grocery shopping in Venezuela, er, Columbia. I remember a class I took, probably 15 years ago now, with an instructor who…

July 19, 2016February 15, 2021
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In case your nose hasn’t been rubbed in it enough

It’s not about guns, it’s about control, part 1,456.  But very well done and some good quotes you can use to snag people for our…

July 17, 2016February 15, 2021
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Independence Day

Nope, not a “Happy Independence Day” here at the Freehold.  It’s difficult for me to do as so many are urging and read the Declaration…

July 4, 2016February 15, 2021
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You won’t hear this in the mainstream media

(From Grass Roots North Carolina) The mainstream media will never run this story because it doesn’t fit in with their preferred narrative.  Guns are bad,…

July 4, 2016February 15, 2021
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Training. You need some.

(Stolen from Michael Bane on Facebook) If you carry a firearm for self defense, you need training.  You already know that.  The question is, what…

July 3, 2016February 15, 2021
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Well, well

I jumped into the Blogger interface to do a quick bit of work and find out that I’m over 500,000 page views.  In reality, I’ve…

June 26, 2016February 15, 2021
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The end of an era

As I told my friends, Saturday I went to witness history–the last Charlotte Gun Show at the old Metrolina Expo Center in Charlotte, NC.  The…

June 20, 2016February 15, 2021
Sometimes the memes just write themselves
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Sometimes the memes just write themselves

I’ve pretty much stayed away from the subject of the terrorist attack in Orlando as far as the Intertubes goes.  Other than saying I feel…

June 19, 2016February 15, 2021
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Stolen from Michael Bane

On Facebook, even.  🙂 The Killhouse Rules.  Short, sweet and to the point.  Just what we need to cut through all the emotion and nonsense…

June 14, 2016February 15, 2021

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