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If it has, we’re in deeper than we realized

Charles Hugh Smith believes the Constitution has failed. I’m not ready to declare the old girl dead just yet. However, I must admit he makes…

February 21, 2019February 15, 2021
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Impressive…most impressive

Or…day-um, boy! I suggest you go read this week’s Woodpile Report. All of it. Follow the links on anything that you think is political, CW2,…

February 19, 2019February 15, 2021
Economics Modern Life Skills Prepping

Indicators! We got indicators!

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I think it’s a good idea to have a list of economic indicators that you keep up with. It…

February 18, 2019February 15, 2021
Economics Modern Life Skills Prepping

Indicators for the Real World

Often, there are indicators or warning signs before “something” happens. Sometimes they are unrecognized and sometimes they are misinterpreted. Sometimes they are ignored. The US…

February 16, 2019February 15, 2021
Modern Life Skills Rants

Hell, I’ll say it

(Via the Woodpile Report) We’re on #10 and working hard on #11. #12 is already underway as well. One reason I love the Woodpile Report is…

February 6, 2019February 15, 2021
I hate it when that happens Things That Make You Go Hm-m-m

It appears I was wrong about legalizing drugs

I’m one of those small-l-libertarians who has always held that if we legalized drugs, the problems associated with illegal drugs would go away. Empirical evidence…

February 5, 2019February 15, 2021
Ham Radio

Toss a bunch out on their ear

And the rest (mostly) get religion. After a series of election losses for ARRL incumbents, plus the (in appearance, at least) hasty departure of a…

February 1, 2019February 15, 2021
Modern Life Skills Prepping

There will be no civil war – until there is

(Via the Woodpile Report) Matt Bracken is all sunshine and puppies in this piece for American Partisan. I had a hard time pulling a money…

January 30, 2019February 15, 2021
Guns

You’re kidding me

As the gun control debate continues to rage, a survey released this month by the Department of Justice (DOJ) showed that armed criminals’ primary source…

January 21, 2019February 15, 2021
Mr. Spock's Raised Eyebrow

Could it actually be this “simple”?

(Via the Drudge Report) Anew treatment consisting of using electromagnetism to induce currents in the brain seems to be a promising treatment for PTSD. After…

January 21, 2019February 15, 2021
Prepping

Food storage in one easy lesson

(Via the Woodpile Report) If you’re new to prepping, allow me to tell you something: Food is the single most important thing you can store.…

January 16, 2019February 15, 2021
Guns

An interesting diatribe on the NRA and our current situation in the District of Criminals

(Via Says Uncle) Let’s see how many “This is the hill I’m dying on!” comments I can get from the “Not a single inch!” and…

January 15, 2019February 15, 2021
Prepping

I concur

Aesop says “Go there. RTWT. Take a pen and paper, and make notes. NOW.” He’s correct. Go there and Read The Whole Thing. Mosby has…

January 9, 2019February 15, 2021
Modern Life Skills Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits World War II

Never again?

(Inspired via a link from the Drudge Report) Much has been written of man’s inhumanity to man during the Second World War. Historians have attempted…

January 6, 2019February 15, 2021
Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits

Yep

In the Woodpile Report #560, Ol’ Remus opines “Guys went hunting in their work clothes, with maybe a vest for ammo and sundries. In cold…

January 4, 2019February 15, 2021
Guns Things That Put A Smile On Your Face

In a week when David (Attention) Hogg was admitted to Harvard

The adults in Florida come to the conclusion that education personnel who volunteer and are trained should be armed in schools. This, ladies and gentlemen,…

January 4, 2019February 15, 2021
Guns Modern Life Skills

Staying away in droves

(Via Breitbart) It seems that New Jersey residents are failing to turn in their standard capacity magazines, preferring instead to become felons. Given the success…

December 29, 2018February 15, 2021
The rest of the story
Pets Requiescat in pace

The rest of the story

About 6 weeks ago I posted about the most difficult duty any pet owner has-when is it time to let go and send one on.…

December 27, 2018February 15, 2021
Are you OK? Are you alright? Help Medic!

As if there isn’t enough to worry about

Of course, that’s if one is inclined to worrying. I do my best to not worry. I think the time is better spent getting a…

December 20, 2018February 15, 2021
Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits

Hellbent but Heaven bound?

(Via the Woodpile Report) As a former motorcyclist (as opposed to a biker, who would say that I rode a rice burner and therefore wasn’t…

December 9, 2018February 15, 2021
Guns Modern Life Skills Self Defense Situational Awareness

You can’t judge a book by its cover

(Via The Tactical Wire) Advice to cops on dealing with armed citizens.

December 4, 2018February 15, 2021
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Nailed it

(Via the Woodpile Report) I’ll admit that I like Larry Corriea’s Monster Hunter series a lot, and his take on The Gun Thing even more,…

November 29, 2018February 15, 2021
Prepping You Are Your Own First Responder

Are you OK? Are you alright? HELP, MEDIC!

Aesop at the Raconteur Report has put up what I believe will be the most important thing I’ve read this month-medical kit advice from someone…

November 27, 2018February 15, 2021
Guns

In other news, water is wet

A UC Davis study examining the first ten years after California adopted universal background checks shows that those checks did not reduce homicides. Not that…

November 27, 2018February 15, 2021
Prepping

A new improved tourniquet

(Via SurvivalBlog) It looks like there is another tourniquet out there that hopes to dethrone the CAT. I can’t say if it’s a superior product…

November 25, 2018February 15, 2021
Prepping

Water, water, not here, not there, not anywhere

On SurvivalBlog there is an excellent article about the world nearly ending for Cape Town, South Africa. Drought, coupled with the general African inability to…

November 25, 2018February 15, 2021
CB Radio History Prepping

You got your knife on you?

(Via Kim DuToit) As the son of West “By God” Virginia hillbillies, this sounds so familiar I could be sitting there on the stool beside…

November 25, 2018February 15, 2021
Prepping

Facing down Hell

(Via the Drudge Report) “I’m not a survivalist, I’m a survivor.” Even in the People’s Republic of California there are hearty individuals-and those who support…

November 25, 2018February 15, 2021
A Happy Thanksgiving to you
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A Happy Thanksgiving to you

 Jean Leon Gerome Ferris – ‘The First Thanksgiving’ I like to wish everyone who happens by a Happy Thanksgiving. Even in what I think of…

November 22, 2018February 15, 2021
Pets

The hardest part of being a pet owner

I’m a cat person; have been for 35-ish years. I seem to have a knack for getting most of mine to some seriously ripe old…

November 13, 2018February 15, 2021

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