Who said you can’t fight City Hall (or the ARRL)?
It seems that when enough people protest loudly enough and threaten to not renew enough memberships (and I suspect some other monetary hits we know…
It’s all a wonderful head-in-the-sand lifestyle
Until the ugly reality of the world intrudes. Comedian Tim Young was perfectly content to wander through life in Condition White until life sent him 2…
And so we get this missive from the ARRL’s President on the Board of Director’s imbroglio
Rick Roderick, K5UR, has been kind enough to notice that the natives are restless. Or, as he puts it, we are listening to “…an organized…
Those who fail to learn from history
Even though I lately worked for one, I’m really learning to hate universities. By and large, they seem to have become bastions of the worst…
You should have this book
(Via SurvivalBlog) The 3rd edition of the Survival and Austere Medicine book is available for free download (click on the cover art). Add this to your…
Post-TEOTWAWKI disease
One of the things that Doomer Porn usually doesn’t consider is the realistic nuts and bolts of how various aspects of the world will work…
What if you gave a firearms sting and nobody came?
Well, you’d look like Democrat Senators Cummings, Warren and Schatz for a start. The Senators, all from what we gunnies would call “less free” states, comissioned…
More on the ARRL and the Board of Directors’ Code of Conduct
It’s weird how things work. I had looked earlier this week for more information on the subject of the ARRL’s new Board of Directors’ Code…
Guns by the numbers, by a sociologist
It’s nice when you have the numbers to support your position. Yes Virginia, we are the good guys.
I thought it was getting a mite crowded around here
(Via the Drudge Report) For those who have been paying attention the past few years, this is interesting but not overly surprising news: people are…
Dusty in here
This is guaranteed to get you right in the feels.
I’m probably the last to wish you this
But I’d like to wish everyone who drops by a Happy, Prosperous and perhaps most importantly, Boring New Year.
Factoring in the dragon
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote “It does not do to leave a dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” This was the quote that really…
Michael, Michael, in the morning…
This story arrived in my inbox this morning via The Email List That Shall Not Be Named. I’ve never heard it before, but it’s all…
And a Merry Christmas to us all
Yes, it may be Christmas Eve (Day, actually), but I want to wish everyone who might happen by a Merry Christmas. The dearth of recent…
Need to store cans in a shallow space?
Don’t care to build shelves? How about using plastic rain gutters instead? You get the benefit of a system that the cans won’t fall off…
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Upping your game
I want your to look closely at the frame capture included with this article on an armed robbery that took place here in the AO. Seeing…
Again, we remember
Once again, we remember our honored dead from the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.
Lack of situation awareness
Defined. What on earth were these people thinking?
Modern retirement
I’ve been thinking about how to write about this subject for some while now and do it in such a way that it doesn’t come…
Well, I’ve heard you’re supposed to keep busy in retirement
Retiree, 70, made ricin, tested it on neighbors, feds say. Edit, 12/2/2017: FoxNew apparently doesn’t care for links from Blogger. (Yet another reason to ditch…
Power to the people
Not in the dated 70s fashion, however. .357 Magnum brings up an important issue if you have decided to add solar to your mix of…
American Radio Relay League (ARRL) and my future relationship to it
After a number of bad experiences where the politics of an organization have interfered with my enjoyment of what the organization purported to provide (the…
We need more laws to restrict guns!
(Found on Gun Site’s Facebook page) At least that is the hue and cry after any “large enough” crime in which guns play a part.…
More on EMP
Yep, been going down this particular rat hole. I haven’t looked into it for a while, because it’s been my opinion that all the really…
Why haven’t I heard about disasterprepper sooner?
(From the email reflector that must remain nameless) This guy is great! I’m using this for an example, because it’s the first useful EMP information…
The Anti-FAIL
Well, what a difference a couple of day and some bad weather makes. With the exception of a reported 2,000 people in Los Angles, it…
Temper tantrums
The long announced temper tantrum begins tomorrow. Antifa, the mis-named group that is actually nothing more than communists looking for a good time, will be…
I can add 2 + 2
And come up with bullshit. Will the last bit of common sense to leave the USA please turn off the lights?
I bet you thought I’d never come back around to this (Putting up a 6m/2m/70cm beam antenna, Part 5)
In actuality, I’ve been working on this since the last post, but a lot of it has been in small parts that didn’t lend themselves…