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Entries from July 2007

Rednecks Fishing – Using Themselves as Bate!

July 5, 2007 · 1 Comment

I am continually amazed at the things people do for fun. In this day of cheap fishing poles and bate, you have to wonder what would posses a person to fish using their own body as the bate. If I did not see it, I would not have believed it.

Click here to view a short video. Hogging Weetown Style

Let’s hope these boys never go fishing for something larger!

Categories: Food · Humor · Surivial

Alan Keyes on the Militia

July 5, 2007 · Leave a Comment

“In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defense when it’s attacked.

Since it encompasses every able-bodied person, it does not refer to those-such as the police, the military, or even the National Guard-who formally compose the official defense forces of the nation.

Every citizen able and willing to act in an emergency becomes a potential defender against attacks aimed at the general population.

Unfortunately, because of the anti-gun folly of the leftist media and politicians, we have lost sight of this vital element of our defense… The anti-gun crowd seeks to establish a modern version of [the medieval era], a kind of bureaucratic feudalism, in place of the republican self-government established by our Constitution…

The answer is not gun control, but self-government, self-defense, and self-control. We must act to live as free people, else like sheep for the slaughter, we will die, and freedom with us.”

Alan Keyes

Categories: Current Events · Firearms · Personal Freedom · Politics

Al Gore Demonstrating Firearm Safety

July 5, 2007 · Leave a Comment

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Al Gore in Viet Nam

Categories: Firearms · Humor

Kool-Aid Pickles?

July 5, 2007 · Leave a Comment

People will eat anything!

Kool-Aid pickles have been spotted as far afield as Dallas and St. Louis, but their cult is thickest in the Delta region, among the black majority population. In the Delta, where they fetch between 50 cents and a dollar, Kool-Aid pickles have earned valued space next to such beloved snacks as pickled eggs and pigs’ feet at community fairs, convenience stores and filling stations.

Nobody knows just who first decided that pickles would be improved by a bath in sugared drink mix, or when, but the invention seems to be of fairly recent provenance. Typically, Kool-Aid pickle fans were born some time after Clinton moved into the White House.

Click here to read more than you really want to know about them.

Categories: Children · Food

You Might Just Be a Survivalist If…

July 5, 2007 · 8 Comments

You might just be a survivalist if…

You can’t put your groceries in the trunk of the car because its already jammed full with emergency kits, first aid supplies, and fully-stocked BOBs.

You have emergency rations for your pets, and view your pets as potential emergency rations.

You know the news three days before it hits the mass media.

You have back-up plans for your back-up plans.

You’re convinced you’ve been exposed to so many chem-trails, you consider it a form of birth control.

You’ve ever repressed the urge to bleat “BAAAAAAAAAH” as your neighbor earnestly asks, “What war? Where?”

You’ve ever bought antibiotics for human use through a vet, or grains for human consumption through a feed store.

You’ve got more than one grain mill.

You’ve ever wondered how you might filter the used water from your washing machine to make it fit for human consumption.

You have a kerosene lamp in every room

Your living room coffee table is actually a board with pretty cloth over it to disguise your food storage underneath.

Your box springs are Rubber Maid containers filled with rice and beans.

You save dryer lint to make fire starters.

Your most commonly-used fuel additive is ‘Sta-Bil’, instead of ‘Gumout’.

You automatically choose the heavy duty flatbed cart upon entering Sam’s Club or COSTCO.

If you know the shelf life of tuna fish, but don’t know how long you’ve had an open jar of mayo in the frig.

Your basement walls are insulated with crates of toilet paper, from floor to ceiling, all the way around.

While other people are saving money for new furniture, or vacations, you are desperately saving to get solar panels put on your house.

You were excited beyond all reason when they came out with cheddar cheese in a can.

You’ve ever served MREs at a dinner party.

You can engage in a spirited debate on chemical vs. sawdust toilets for hours on end.

You’ve ever considered digging an escape tunnel from your basement to the nearest stand of trees.

You know how to use a vacuum cleaner in reverse to filter air in your designated bio-chem attack safe room.

You’ve ever considered buying an above-ground pool for water storage purposes.

You know what things like ‘TSHTF’, ‘BOB’ and ‘TEOTWAWKI’ mean.

You have different grades of BOBs.

You know the names, family histories, locations, and degree of readiness of over a thousand fellow doomers on the net… but you’ve never met your neighbors.

The best radio in the house is a wind-up.

You have better items in storage than you use every day.

When the SHTF, you would eat better than you eat now.

Your significant other gave you a sleeping bag rated at -15 degrees for Christmas… and you were moved beyond words.

You’ve sewn a secret mini-BOBs into the bottom of your children’s school backpacks.

Local food pantries have come to depend on donations from your larder when you rotate stock in the spring and fall.

You’re still using up your Y2K supplies.

You have enough army surplus equipment to open a store.

The local army surplus store owner knows you by your first name.

You fill up when your gas tank is 3/4 full.

You call Rubber Maid for wholesale prices.

You have several cases of baby wipes and your kids are all grown.

Bert from ‘Tremors’ is your favorite movie character.

You carry a pocket survival kit, a sturdy folding knife, a SureFire flashlight and a small concealed handgun on you to church every Sunday.

You start panicking when you are down to 50 rolls of toilet paper.

You keep a small notebook to write down any edible plants you happen to see along the road.

You shop yard sales, store sales, and markdown racks for barter goods for after TSHTF.

You own a hand-operated clothes washer and a non-electric carpet sweeper.

You have at least two of every size of Dutch oven, and 20 bags of charcoal, although you have a gas grill.

You have rain barrels at each corner of your house, although you have a city water hookup, and a Big Berkey to purify the water.

You have sapphire lights, survival whistle, and a Swiss Army knife on every family member’s key chain.

The people in line at Costco ask you if you run a store or restaurant.

You require a shovel to rotate all your preps properly.

You no longer go the the doctor’s because you can either fix it yourself, make it at home, or know and understand the Physician’s Desk Reference better than he does, and can get the goods at the vets or pet store for much less moolah anyway.

You know that a ‘GPS’ has nothing to do with the economy.

You track your preps on a computer spreadsheet for easy reordering, but have hard copies in a 3-ring binder ‘just in case’.

You’ve thought about where the hordes can be stopped before entering town.

You start evaluating people according to ’skill sets’.

You view the nearest conservation area as a potential grocery store if TSHTF.

You know all the ways out the building where you work.

You have enough pasta stockpiled in your basement to carbo-load all the runners in the New York marathon.

You know that you have 36 gallons of extra drinking water in the hot water tank and your two toilet tanks.

You know which bugs are edible.

You have a hand pump on your well.

You have #10 cans of ’stuff’ that the labels fell off of, but you won’t throw it out or open it because it ‘may be needed later’, even though you haven’t a clue as to the contents.

You know where the best defensive positions and lines of fire are on your property.

You’ve made a range card for your neighborhood.

Your toenail clipper is a K-Bar.

The Ranger Handbook is your favorite ’self help’ book.

You’ve numbered the deer romping in the yard by their order of consumption.

You must move 50 cases of food for the plumber to get to that leaky pipe, but you have your own hand truck in the basement to do it.

You own more pairs of hiking boots than casual and dress shoes combined.

You have more 55gal blue water drums than family members.

Your UPS system has more than 6 Deep cycle batteries.

You have a backup generator for your backup generator, which is a backup for your solar system.

You go to McDonalds and ask for one order of fries with 25 packs of ketchup and mustard.

You have ever given SPAM as a serious gift.

You’ve had your eye out for a good deal for a stainless steel handgun to conceal in the bottom of the magazine rack next to the toilet.

You are single male over 40, but you still have an emergency childbirth kit, just in case you have to deal with that possibility.

You have two water heaters installed in your basement, but one is a dummy that’s been converted to hideaway safe.

You’ve made bugout cargo packs for your dogs.

You have a walking stick with all sorts of gadgets hidden inside.

Your koi pond is stocked with catfish.

As a stand-in scoutmaster, you taught your son’s troop to set mantraps and punji pits, and haven’t been asked to stand in since.

You’re on your fifth vacuum sealer, but you keep at least one of the worn out ones because you can still seal up plastic bags with it.

You haven’t bought dried fruit in years, but you buy fresh bananas, apples, peaches and pears by the case and have three dehydrators.

Your UPS man hates you because of all the cases of ammo he’s had to lug from his truck to your front door.

You have duplicates of all your electronics gear, solar panels and generator parts in your EMP-shielded fallout shelter.

You have set aside space for your live chickens in the fallout shelter.

When the power goes out in your neighborhood, all the neighbor’s kids come over to your place to watch TV on generator power.

You must open the door to your pantry very carefully for fear of a canned goods avalanche.

You have a ‘Volcano’, you know you can cook anything, and you cast evil glances at your neighbor’s annoying, yappy poodle, muttering “your day will come, hotdog” under your breath.

You’ve learned to knap flint, make twine from plant fibers for snares and use an atlatl, because you fear that all of your preps and hard work will be confiscated by FEMA troops or destroyed by earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear blasts, ravening hordes of feral sheeple or reptiloids from ‘Planet X’ after TSHTF.

Categories: Firearms · Food · Humor · Surivial

Are We Raising A Generation of Made To Order Victims?

July 5, 2007 · 2 Comments

The recent school shooting at Virginia Tech demonstrates a huge underlying societal problem that many of us are either ignoring or are ignorant of. Because society has spent much of the last several decades trying to stamp violence out of schools and out of our children, we end up with kids who are made-to-order victims that will line up to be shot execution style rather than fight back.

The answer to school violence is not to arm the campus police, have campus SWAT teams, or class rooms that can double as fortresses, it is to teach our children to protect themselves aggressively and confidently with whatever weapon may be at hand. Clearly the schools are not doing this, so responsible parents need to be sure they are.

While it may be politically incorrect to say so, how many of us have wondered why the 30 college kids in a classroom didn’t mob the gunman, tackle him, hit him with a chair, or otherwise fight back? Why was the only defender a concentration camp survivor old enough to be the students’ grandparent? I believe that the answer to those two questions is the same: Because in two generations our feel good society has gutted the right to self defense in our public schools and created a generation of victims. That’s right – they have brainwashed our children into pliable victims who will not defend themselves.

Categories: Children · Current Events · Family · Fatherhood · Homeschooling · Politics · Surivial

Prayer Opening the 1996 session of the Kansas House

July 5, 2007 · Leave a Comment

When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the 1996 session of the Kansas House, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:

“Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, ‘Woe to those who call evil good’, but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.

We confess that.

We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it Pluralism;

We have worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism;

We have endorsed perversion and called it alternative lifestyle;

We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery;

We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare;

We have killed our unborn and called it choice;

We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable;

We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem;

We have abused power and called it politics;

We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition;

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression;

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today;

Cleanse us from every sin and set us free.

Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent to direct us to the center of Your will.

We ask this in the name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.”

The response was immediate. A legislator walked out during the prayer in protest.

In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church in Wichita, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa, and Korea.

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on “The Rest of the Story” on the radio and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired.

With the Lord’s help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called one nation under God.

Categories: Christianity · Politics

The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Katrina

July 5, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Categories: Current Events · Firearms · Personal Freedom · Politics · Surivial

Be Patriotic Ladies! (Humor)

July 3, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Since tomorrow is the 4th of July, I thought you men would like to see a 4 minute video encouraging the ladies to be patriotic!

Categories: Current Events · Humor · Men

What are the marks of a sick culture?

July 3, 2007 · Leave a Comment

“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population.

A very bad sign. Particularism. It was once considered a Spanish vice but any country can fall sick with it. Dominance of males over females seems to be one of the symptoms.

Before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.

High taxation is important and so is inflation of the currency and the ratio of the productive to those on the public payroll. But that’s old hat; everybody knows that a country is on the skids when its income and outgo get out of balance and stay that way – even though there are always endless attempts to wish it way by legislation. But I started looking for little signs and what some call silly-season symptoms.

I want to mention one of the obvious symptoms: Violence. Muggings. Sniping. Arson. Bombing. Terrorism of any sort. Riots of course – but I suspect that little incidents of violence, pecking way at people day after day, damage a culture even more than riots that flare up and then die down. Oh, conscription and slavery and arbitrary compulsion of all sorts and imprisonment without bail and without speedy trial – but those things are obvious; all the histories list them.

I think you have missed the most alarming symptom of all. This one I shall tell you. But go back and search for it. Examine it. Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms as you have named… But a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than a riot.

This symptom is especially serious in that an individual displaying it never thinks of it as a sign of ill health but as proof of his/her strength. Look for it. Study it. It is too late to save this culture – this worldwide culture, not just the freak show here in California. Therefore we must now prepare the monasteries for the coming Dark Age. Electronic records are too fragile; we must again have books, of stable inks and resistant paper.”

Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

Categories: Current Events · Politics