The elixir or life….

If true, I should live to 217 yeas old…..

(and it appears that it is)

Then things like this make it important that you get a prepaid cell phone and pay cash for it now. Make sure that the batteries for that phone are removable. Activate it, make sure it works. Do so as far from your home and work area as possible. Take the batteries out of the phone.Don’t get a smart phone, get a really simple dumb one (or two or three).

Have your friends do so as well. Do so now, so that any video records at the store are overwritten before you need to use them.

Exchange numbers (but write them down, don’t program them into the phones) and keep the minutes paid up. NEVER call anything but another throwaway phone from your “burn phone”. Ever.

Refresh them with cash (yearly if possible) as far away from your home as possible)

Take (and keep) the batteries out  of the phone.

Just in case.

You’ll probably never need ’em, but what is $20 a month for secure, untraceable-to-you communication?

(You can be tracked, but not until you put the battery back into the phone).

Think of getting a “one time pad” setup….like paperback books, for coded texts. (google it if you don’t know what I mean). Might come in handy.

You’ll likely only be able to use those particular phones for a few days, if and when. Maybe a week or two at most. Set up a code word that you can text to people of like minds to alert them that you will be using your new phone and leaving your old one. Never use the new phone at your home. Never even close to you home. Never put the batteries in the new phone anywhere near your home or work. Once the new phone is powered up, there is a record of it’s location and movement.

And remember this:
Never say anything on any phone that you don’t want recorded and reviewed by the government. Never write anything on the internet or in an email that you don’t want read by the government. Only communications face to face are (sort of) secure…And that is iffy if someone cares to pay attention to you and the people you meet with..

Yeah, I am paranoid.
I have reason to be.
Now you do too.

I only hope that the feds have bigger, badder people to look at, and I get lost in the clutter.

Via Wirecutter

Via Insty,

I’ve come to realize after the Sandy Hook shooting that the reason we can’t have a rational gun debate is because the anti-gun side pre-supposes that their pro-gun opponents must first accept that guns are bad in order to have a discussion about guns in the first place.

And that is exactly the issue.  You cannot “have a conversation” or Compromise” or “come to an agreement” when the other side cannot respect, if not agree with the other side’s point of view.

But really, no matter what we agree to, they’ll just move the goalposts and try again.

’cause statistically, they are the most likely to use ’em for nefarious purposes…….

But I bet that they waste countless man hours checking NRA members and such.

ATF offers $5k reward for information.…..

Wonder how big a pressure cooker you need for all that?

But to do so, you’ll have to go to Comrade Ushanka’s place and enter his contest.

Not much time left.

And you should read his stuff HERE as well.

Although, now, even to a Democrat who knows,

He isn’t so bad, and didn’t do that bad of a job. And this from CNN….I guess that it is time for the meme to die, as it has no use anymore for the opposition.

Now if the rest of the media could only apologize for being tools of the DNC machine, that’d be good.

And someone needs to find that asshole, Kayne West and kick him in the nuts.

“Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.)”

RAH

Everyone seems to be asking why (and how) the people of Boston (Watertown) could let the police do what they did in the search for the mad “Bomber # 2”? Allow police to search their houses without a warrant…..Let their Constitutional rights be trampled?

Really, what choice did they have? To lock their doors and wait for the gunfire? Wait for the battering ram to break the door down and the Tac Team to come in shooting?

Who did they have as support? 30 or 40 cops surrounding your house, each cop liberally supplied with weapons and tactical gear….Who did the homeowners have for support? Their neighbors? Not likely.

Unless they (the people, not the cops) were well supplied with weapons and gear, they really didn’t have much choice.

If they wanted to live, they had no choice but to submit. And that is the issue.

Kids in the home? Wife? Girlfriend? Elderly parent(s)? All in the line of fire and all potential victims, even if the man/woman leader of the house wanted to resist….wanted to say “no!”

You gonna get in a firefight with 30-40-50 cops in your neighborhood, with more on call only a block away? Take the chance that they will be reasonable and allow your family to leave before they killed you in a hail of bullets? When tensions are already high? You’ll lose. Life ain’t TV.

I might have resisted, but then again, I am not a normal person. Definitely not an east coast liberal, and I have no kids in my home. My girlfriend would likely support my resistance. I have the tools to resist as well. And I try very hard not to be a sheep. I have less to lose. Very little in fact. I might well stand on principle. And in Indiana I have the right to resist illegal entry…Even from police.
Fairly certain those folks in Boston do not have that right. Likely few had the means to resist, even if they had the will to do so.

But ultimately, I, by myself, would lose. Maybe pay the Ferryman’s Fee, maybe not… It is how the folks in Waco
got beaten, and how Randy Weaver was taken. No one else there to support
them. They were islands. Alone against overwhelming odds.

And I doubt that the INDIVIDUAL Bostonians had any other support. No like minded neighbors, no friends that they could call, no support at all. No one to harass the rear of the cops, no one to draw fire, no one to help resist. No one to help in any way.

So to resist was to die for nothing. Maybe have loved ones in harm’s way as well. Being sheep-like didn’t even enter into the equation (although many (most) were). Vulnerabilities played a factor. Being surrounded and outnumbered did as well. Having a losing battle for no gain….very likely.

Think about that before you condemn them for acquiescing.

Despite being surrounded by neighbors, they were unarmed (for the most part) islands in a sea of people….against really overwhelming force.

And therefore vulnerable. 

Islands.

Think.

Short of Nuking the entire NRA building, is there any way to get them to stop sending emails two or three times a day?

I have unsubscribed to over a hundred emails.

I have called the headquarters and asked to be removed

These steps have reduced the emails to approximately 10 a week. Which is an improvement from 50+ .
 I have marked many as SPAM, but there are a huge number of email
addresses they use. Add they come to my phone at all hours of the day.

Short of getting a new email and abandoning the one I have, is there any way to get the NRA and affiliates to stop with the incredibly irritating email marketing?I have reached the point that I will no longer buy anything marketed via the NRA.

Were my range not having membership as a requirement, I’d cancel my membership in protest.

Anyone know anyone at the NRA?

Or perhaps Wayne LaPierres cell phone or something so I can call him and ask him to make it stop?

Anyone got another suggestion?