Gold? Check.
Ammo? Check.
Food? Check.
What you DON"T have, and better frigging go to Amazon and buy today, is one of the most thoroughly well written "apocalypse" type novels ever written. If you don't learn SOMETHING from this book, then you are a retard.
PATRIOTS: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse is in its umpteenth revision, and now includes both an index AND a glossary, for you "prepper" newbies. Get off of your candy ass, whip out a credit or debit card and order it NOW. Last time this thing went out of print, I saw copies on Amazon for well over $50 each- and sometimes, a LOT crazier. James Wesley, Rawles talks the talk AND walks the walk.
If you liked Molon Labe, or Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matt Bracken, or any of the hackish Mack Bolan books (like I Read as a kid,) or any of Ahern's SCI-Fi-ish Survivalist Series, or any of the Wingman series, or ASHES books by Johnstone, then you will not regret the measly $15 or so this will cost you shipped.
If you do, well, again- DEE DEE DEE.
My only beef with the book is that its too Idaho-centric. Shoulda been set in Wyoming (but then again, I'm kinda biased.)
You can read your fru-fru conservative books by Coulter an crew, and get mad and do nothing, or you can read a novel AND simultaneously learn how to help your self and others.
Do it NOW. Read it and pass it on, or weep.
(Hell, you're gonna weep anyway, might as well enjoy a good book first.)
PS
If I get one more phone call or email looking for .40 S&W this week, I'm gonna flip.
Showing posts with label Financial Crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Financial Crisis. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
NPR can be funny...
I was listening to a special on the banking crisis on NPR on the way to the sho Saturday, and heard what will be my candidate for "line of the quarter."
"That's a nice global economy you've got there...be a shame if something should happen to it..."
"That's a nice global economy you've got there...be a shame if something should happen to it..."
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Sell a Child to Feed a Child
No, this post has nothing to do with me or the Mrs, personally. Lets get that out of the way up front.
It really has to suck to be one of the parents in some turd-world nation that has backed themselves into a corner like this- a corner that is so dark and filled with desperation that your only apparent remaining option, short of violent crime is to sell one of your children in order to feed the others.
(I'm da King of run on sentences baby- WHOHOO!)
How could you live with yourself, every morning, waking up to a missing child, to cook a meal for your family that is the moral equivalent of forcing them into sibling cannibalism? You may never know (or even worse, find out for SURE!) what happened to your child- prostitution, crime, death, medical experiments. It has to be horrible.
Luckily, America is not in that position yet- but it is only luck. This nation's foolish behavior has taken us down a very frightening road-and I suspect that it is all DOWNHILL. I pray that I am wrong, but with human nature being what it is...I'll be glad when we get out West.
As it is now, the economy is falling apart at the seams, and unlike the mighty Battlestar Galactica, there is no funky Cylon goop we can slap on her skeleton to bring her back to life. The crisis is a fundamental ignorance of fundamentals. To modify an old punchline, "No Gold, Radio!"
Learn a skilled trade while you have a chance, or learn to grow food and livestock. I won't need to trade parts or repair services for CPA work or "mad l33t skilz" when the infrastructure snaps and Battlestar USA slides into a decaying orbit, destined to burn up.
Call it a hunch, but I doubt that any of the prominent survival authors, or televison or internet survival specialists are going to find extra room in THEIR lifepod for any latecomers. Don't put yourself in the position that so many parents in other countries have. Don't eat your kids.
If you don't prepare for toughER economic (and otherwise) bleak times, someone ELSE may eat your kids. And your dog. And your cat. AND YOU.
I have been told more than once that if I can't "eat it, shoot it, or (fill in the blank)" then it's not worth having. While this is not TOTALLY true, there is a wisdom to it.
I wonder what a binder of MAGIC:The Gathering or Pokemon Cards will be worth in 2015?
Value for collectors, or value as firestarters?
Do ya reckon anyone will trade seeds, tools, or even toothpaste for them?
Would they trade those things NOW in any slimy mudhole in rural China or India, where these frivolities were probably printed to begin with? I doubt it.
Our brilliant nation of over-consumers have elected Hope and Change.
If you cannot tell by watching short-circuiting Nancy Pelosi, the Cylons aren't COMING, folks-
the Cylons are HERE, and running the ship.
Super-fortunately for us here in the US, "The Plan" is not yet in full swing. time is short, but the methods people are resorting to are not LAST RESORTS. It may seem like it financially to some, but before the Age of the Platinum Unicorn may begin, and before the Easter Bunny can deliver your free health care, even well prepared 'Muricans may find it necessary to take what they consider Desperate Measures (from the 'Murican point of view.)
Anyone short on cash may be tempted to "sell a child to feed a child." I personally believe this is the wrong tactic for the current time.
Lets say a gunowner has to sell a nice piece of their collection to make rent, power, mortgage, or food- well then, that is selling a "child" to feed themselves.
If, HOWEVER, they are selling the piece of their collection in order to buy ammo to feed another piece in their collection...well...whoa. For shame. Sell it for hi-cap magazines instead.
(just kidding about the last few sentences, I just suck at transitioning.)
Point is, some very nice stuff that normally would remain unseen by the masses has and will come up for sale, due to financial necessity or even hardship.)
Case in point:
a close friends personal (but thank heavens, not only) Long Distance Zombie Zapper.
.50 BMG sub MOA. Ouch; I want, but cannot feed it myself. I can count the .50 BMG I have on hand on the fingers and toes of fewer than 10 targets.
Lookie:
More info available on AuctionArms.
Good luck with your collections, folks.
Like old Scoutmaster Vic used to say to me weekly: "Buy Cosmoline."
It really has to suck to be one of the parents in some turd-world nation that has backed themselves into a corner like this- a corner that is so dark and filled with desperation that your only apparent remaining option, short of violent crime is to sell one of your children in order to feed the others.
(I'm da King of run on sentences baby- WHOHOO!)
How could you live with yourself, every morning, waking up to a missing child, to cook a meal for your family that is the moral equivalent of forcing them into sibling cannibalism? You may never know (or even worse, find out for SURE!) what happened to your child- prostitution, crime, death, medical experiments. It has to be horrible.
Luckily, America is not in that position yet- but it is only luck. This nation's foolish behavior has taken us down a very frightening road-and I suspect that it is all DOWNHILL. I pray that I am wrong, but with human nature being what it is...I'll be glad when we get out West.
As it is now, the economy is falling apart at the seams, and unlike the mighty Battlestar Galactica, there is no funky Cylon goop we can slap on her skeleton to bring her back to life. The crisis is a fundamental ignorance of fundamentals. To modify an old punchline, "No Gold, Radio!"
Learn a skilled trade while you have a chance, or learn to grow food and livestock. I won't need to trade parts or repair services for CPA work or "mad l33t skilz" when the infrastructure snaps and Battlestar USA slides into a decaying orbit, destined to burn up.
Call it a hunch, but I doubt that any of the prominent survival authors, or televison or internet survival specialists are going to find extra room in THEIR lifepod for any latecomers. Don't put yourself in the position that so many parents in other countries have. Don't eat your kids.
If you don't prepare for toughER economic (and otherwise) bleak times, someone ELSE may eat your kids. And your dog. And your cat. AND YOU.
I have been told more than once that if I can't "eat it, shoot it, or (fill in the blank)" then it's not worth having. While this is not TOTALLY true, there is a wisdom to it.
I wonder what a binder of MAGIC:The Gathering or Pokemon Cards will be worth in 2015?
Value for collectors, or value as firestarters?
Do ya reckon anyone will trade seeds, tools, or even toothpaste for them?
Would they trade those things NOW in any slimy mudhole in rural China or India, where these frivolities were probably printed to begin with? I doubt it.
Our brilliant nation of over-consumers have elected Hope and Change.
If you cannot tell by watching short-circuiting Nancy Pelosi, the Cylons aren't COMING, folks-
the Cylons are HERE, and running the ship.
Super-fortunately for us here in the US, "The Plan" is not yet in full swing. time is short, but the methods people are resorting to are not LAST RESORTS. It may seem like it financially to some, but before the Age of the Platinum Unicorn may begin, and before the Easter Bunny can deliver your free health care, even well prepared 'Muricans may find it necessary to take what they consider Desperate Measures (from the 'Murican point of view.)
Anyone short on cash may be tempted to "sell a child to feed a child." I personally believe this is the wrong tactic for the current time.
Lets say a gunowner has to sell a nice piece of their collection to make rent, power, mortgage, or food- well then, that is selling a "child" to feed themselves.
If, HOWEVER, they are selling the piece of their collection in order to buy ammo to feed another piece in their collection...well...whoa. For shame. Sell it for hi-cap magazines instead.
(just kidding about the last few sentences, I just suck at transitioning.)
Point is, some very nice stuff that normally would remain unseen by the masses has and will come up for sale, due to financial necessity or even hardship.)
Case in point:
a close friends personal (but thank heavens, not only) Long Distance Zombie Zapper.
.50 BMG sub MOA. Ouch; I want, but cannot feed it myself. I can count the .50 BMG I have on hand on the fingers and toes of fewer than 10 targets.
Lookie:
More info available on AuctionArms.
Good luck with your collections, folks.
Like old Scoutmaster Vic used to say to me weekly: "Buy Cosmoline."
Friday, January 16, 2009
Circuit City Liquidation blues...
...well, here comes the Hope & Change, for 34,000 Circuit City Employees who will be out of work by March 31st.
I wish I had a way to get ahold of the hundreds of awesome Circuit City installers I have spoken to over the past 8 years. If I could, I'd remind them that they have a friend that can send them business, wherever they end up, and help them muddle through state paperwork, and all they would need to do is ask for the Shop Coordinator at 877-777-5020 between 8 and 7 Central time.
Any installer from Circuit that reads this and goes independent (or to another shop,) give that number a jingle- with 12 volt experience, $500k in general liability insurance, and a shop building I would be able to direct people to you ASAP.
For the other Circuit City folks, Godspeed. This is only the beginning of the retail disaster, I'm sure.
I wish I had a way to get ahold of the hundreds of awesome Circuit City installers I have spoken to over the past 8 years. If I could, I'd remind them that they have a friend that can send them business, wherever they end up, and help them muddle through state paperwork, and all they would need to do is ask for the Shop Coordinator at 877-777-5020 between 8 and 7 Central time.
Any installer from Circuit that reads this and goes independent (or to another shop,) give that number a jingle- with 12 volt experience, $500k in general liability insurance, and a shop building I would be able to direct people to you ASAP.
For the other Circuit City folks, Godspeed. This is only the beginning of the retail disaster, I'm sure.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Is the Wall Streeet Journal TRYING to give me bad dreams?
Getting ready to go crash out for my ususal 3.5 (or so) hours of well earned sleep, and THIS DAMN WSJ ARTICLE has got me all thinky again.
But mostly in a hazy, dazed need a nap fanboy kinda way.
Nothing economic; just...
Is this frigging movie gonna get made already, or what?
Ms. Jolie-Pitt owes me a good movie, after watching that turd "Wanted."
Oh, it had its few good moments, but overall, I'm pissed that I gave up sleep in the hopes that it would get good.
Gimme more like Punisher:War Zone. Finally, somebody gets Frank Castle OVER 90% correct.
(and to the detractors that called it 2 dimensional and too violent: WTF? Apparently, you have never read any of the actual Punisher storylines. Sorry there was no Kirsten Dunst or gooey romance or Heath Ledger. Deal with it and be quiet.)
But mostly in a hazy, dazed need a nap fanboy kinda way.
Nothing economic; just...
Is this frigging movie gonna get made already, or what?
Ms. Jolie-Pitt owes me a good movie, after watching that turd "Wanted."
Oh, it had its few good moments, but overall, I'm pissed that I gave up sleep in the hopes that it would get good.
Gimme more like Punisher:War Zone. Finally, somebody gets Frank Castle OVER 90% correct.
(and to the detractors that called it 2 dimensional and too violent: WTF? Apparently, you have never read any of the actual Punisher storylines. Sorry there was no Kirsten Dunst or gooey romance or Heath Ledger. Deal with it and be quiet.)
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Where do I Start?
Every since the primaries, I have had more people approach me asking where to begin their education on preparedness than I have for all of time prior to the primaries.
While prepearedness should be a way of life for our generation, as it was for our grandparents and great-grandparents, unfortunately, in many cases it is not. The thought processes that go along with "the mindset" are often overwhelming to many newbies, and they tend to panic and lean towards the "what guns do I get!?!" mentality.
Firearms are a tool. I would rather see a newbie get a reliable .22 and several thousand rounds of ammo for a few hundred dollars, and make other preps, than see someone run out and buy a top-of-the line HK, AR or FAL and 200 rounds of ammo.
Along those lines, people should be charitable before, during and after a crisis, and you simply cannot do that if you cannot take care of you and yours FIRST.
With that in mind, an excellent place to start on the internet is http://www.survivalblog.com/.
If you are still convinced that you MUST learn everything about guns, begin with Boston's Gun Bible. While it cannot cover everything, and it has a lot of opinion in it, it is a good read and quite logical in many areas.
Good Luck, and don't let the Bastards grind you down.
While prepearedness should be a way of life for our generation, as it was for our grandparents and great-grandparents, unfortunately, in many cases it is not. The thought processes that go along with "the mindset" are often overwhelming to many newbies, and they tend to panic and lean towards the "what guns do I get!?!" mentality.
Firearms are a tool. I would rather see a newbie get a reliable .22 and several thousand rounds of ammo for a few hundred dollars, and make other preps, than see someone run out and buy a top-of-the line HK, AR or FAL and 200 rounds of ammo.
Along those lines, people should be charitable before, during and after a crisis, and you simply cannot do that if you cannot take care of you and yours FIRST.
With that in mind, an excellent place to start on the internet is http://www.survivalblog.com/.
If you are still convinced that you MUST learn everything about guns, begin with Boston's Gun Bible. While it cannot cover everything, and it has a lot of opinion in it, it is a good read and quite logical in many areas.
Good Luck, and don't let the Bastards grind you down.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Blast from the past:
Forgot I had some old Queesnryche loaded in the itunes, and it came on this afternoon....
For a price I'd do about anything
Except pull the trigger
For that I'd need a pretty good cause
Then I heard of Dr. X
The man with the cure
Just watch the television
Yeah, you'll see there's something going on
Got no love for politicians
Or that crazy scene in D.C.
It's just a power mad town
But the time is ripe for changes
There's a growing feeling
That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due
I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
I'm tired of all this bull$hit
They keep selling me on T.V.
About the communist plan
And all the shady preachers
Begging for my cash
Swiss bank accounts while giving their
Secretaries the slam
They're all in Penthouse now
Or Playboy magazine, million dollar stories to tell
I guess Warhol wasn't wrong
Fame fifteen minutes long
Everyone's using everybody, making the sale
I used to think
That only America's way, way was right
But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives
Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
Except pull the trigger
For that I'd need a pretty good cause
Then I heard of Dr. X
The man with the cure
Just watch the television
Yeah, you'll see there's something going on
Got no love for politicians
Or that crazy scene in D.C.
It's just a power mad town
But the time is ripe for changes
There's a growing feeling
That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due
I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
I'm tired of all this bull$hit
They keep selling me on T.V.
About the communist plan
And all the shady preachers
Begging for my cash
Swiss bank accounts while giving their
Secretaries the slam
They're all in Penthouse now
Or Playboy magazine, million dollar stories to tell
I guess Warhol wasn't wrong
Fame fifteen minutes long
Everyone's using everybody, making the sale
I used to think
That only America's way, way was right
But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives
Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
[There's a] Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Civilian Pardon...
Know that for today, the following Senators have my admiration for DOING THEIR JOB-that is, voting AGAINST fiscally raping our nation's children and grandchildren (to the 10Th generation.)
llard (R)
Barasso (R)
Brownback (R)
Bunning (R)
Cantwell (D)
Cochran (R)
Crapo (R)
DeMint (R)
Dole (R)
Dorgan (D)
Enzi (R)
Feingold (D)
Inhofe (R)
Johnson (D)
Landrieu (D)
Nelson (FL) (D)
Roberts (R)
Sanders (I)
Sessions (R)
Shelby (R)
Stabenow (D)
Tester (D)
Vitter (R)
Wicker (R)
Wyden (D)
Barasso (R)
Brownback (R)
Bunning (R)
Cantwell (D)
Cochran (R)
Crapo (R)
DeMint (R)
Dole (R)
Dorgan (D)
Enzi (R)
Feingold (D)
Inhofe (R)
Johnson (D)
Landrieu (D)
Nelson (FL) (D)
Roberts (R)
Sanders (I)
Sessions (R)
Shelby (R)
Stabenow (D)
Tester (D)
Vitter (R)
Wicker (R)
Wyden (D)
The rest of you Senate BASTARDS need to be held accountable for letting it come to this, and then accelerating its awfulness.
Personally, I'd like to see each of you KELO'd, for a start- and living in cardboard boxes under bridges, pension less.
Sonsabitches. Burn in hell.
Apparently, only 25% of the Senate is worth redeeming, and the rest want to counterfeit for a living.
Washington DC would be a nice place, if it wasn't for all the freaking vampires.
Monday, September 29, 2008
DA ROOF! DA ROOF!
...DA ROOF IS ON FIRE!
We Don't need no bailout, let the mother BURN!
I reckon now is as good a time as any to buy up any leftover gardening seed, huh?
Gonna need a victory garden when the politicos get around to declaring a
"War on Wall Street," or "War on Recesion," or whatever alternative asinine proposals come out of this freaking mess.
We Don't need no bailout, let the mother BURN!
I reckon now is as good a time as any to buy up any leftover gardening seed, huh?
Gonna need a victory garden when the politicos get around to declaring a
"War on Wall Street," or "War on Recesion," or whatever alternative asinine proposals come out of this freaking mess.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Remington Suspends Ammunition Sales
...had ya going, didn't I?
Well its not true - but THIS IS.
guess ya better stock up on TP and .22 for barter before those go into short supply, eh?
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