It has been a while since I posted folks… and I am sorry for that. Personal commitments, family, blah, blah, blah.
If you are like me you are really FEELING this gas and food nightmare we are knee deep into! The news reported that at $130 a barrel for oil the relative price for gasoline is [...]
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In my quest for a new and larger ”Get Home Bag” (which is a bag you keep in your car which contains supplies and tools to get you home on foot in case a SHTF event that renders your car worthless because of EMP, lack of gas or any of the million other things that can [...]
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Watch any of the behind the scenes series on prisons! These are the hombres that are hidden from the general suburbanite’s watchful eye. They are seriously bad dudes. Rape, murder, you name it they have done it! The risk that they will get out during a lawless/grid down situation and find their way to you [...]
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I know that attacking James W. Rawles is asking for trouble. I know that he has a following that I couldn’t even imagine having. I know that his credentials are vast and superior to almost everybody. But I worry about his readers. I really do.
Here is a quote from his blog from today May 21, 2008 [...]
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If you wear glasses like me then you know that your vision is seriously compromised without your specs. In a SHTF scenario you are going to need every advantage you can get and that means having good glasses. Most “designer” glasses today can handle a rat fart without falling apart. They will surely fail sooner [...]
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Note: This somehow got posted to May 3rd! Sorry for the confusion. This is supposed to be Saturday’s post.
When it comes to disaster preparedness we cannot predict EVERY type of disaster nor can we predict EVERYTHING we will need. On top of that, due to cost and space constraints, we cannot purchase and store everything [...]
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First off I do not own a Prius. I do not even care for them. In my humble opinion the additional cost of purchasing one does NOT offset the gas savings. It would take 5 -10 years of normal driving to recoup the costs of buying a hybrid. My buddy has a used Honda civic [...]
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I have been getting a lot of emails and hits from suburbanites just starting out. As prepping and the lesser applicable term “survivalism” becomes mainstream more people are realizing that prepping is not an optional activity, it is a duty they owe to their family. Prepping is an insurance policy. A policy we hope we [...]
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You do not have to read into the headlines very far for reasons to prepare. That Chinese earthquake was horrible. My thoughts are with the families that lost children. The cyclone bad news just keeps coming and there maybe NO way to tell how many people perished for a long time.
The S hits the fan [...]
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Ok,Ok, I am not a doom and gloomer. But I just watched the Oil Apocalypse on Mega-Disasters … interesting stuff.
They predict that the world will fall into a global Recession if oil reserves run out! HAHAHAHAHHA …. Recession? No No my friend, how about global destruction? The world has shrunk in size, no not literally [...]
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