I mean, this could be serious here.

There is, apparently, a shortage of pigs. This means that BACON pricing will soon skyrocket.

Prepare now, while you can.

Don’t say you weren’t warned. 

It’ll take more that just the Amish type skillset to survive in a grid-down situation:

The Amish likely won’t survive. Or at least their faith won’t.

Like the rest of us, they’ll have to make some hard choices.

I think many would remain true to their faith, Hopefully they could find some decent folks to defend them….If only so they could survive to feed others.

Emulate Vladimir Putin:

“In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Shari’ya Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that’s the state law. Russia does not need minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell ‘discrimination’. We better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of most minorities. When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the national interest first, observing that the minorities are not Russians.” — Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressing the Duma February 4th, 2013. The politicians in the Duma gave Putin a standing ovation for 5+ minutes!

If any politician had the balls to say something similar here in the US, they’d likely receive a standing ovation as well….and likely get elected.

Bet it’d get you elected here in the US as well. 

(and yes, it is a “when”, not an “if”‘….. you really need to suck it up and buy the book, as you will learn things and will enjoy it)

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Help feed starving rifles and pistols!

So now there are several cases of “Possible” Ebola here in the US.

All from people who travelled from west Africa recently.

Now here is the thing:Ebola has an incubation period of 21 days. You are contagious for about 4 days BEFORE having definite symptoms in most cases.

90% death rate (in Africa, which has a much lesser supportive care infrastructure that the US, but still….)

21 days incubation….. Yet you can be back in the continental US in 17 HOURS from West Africa.
 

Not saying that there will be an outbreak here, but could happen very easily.The environment is different, we have better health care, and Ebola has adapted to live (and especially spread) in the environmental conditions found in Africa….not the US.

 Having said that:

Can you deal with no electricity and no governmental support (police, etc) for a 60-90 day period? Remember, the aid organizations that provide doctors and other care in Africa are so afraid of this new strain of Ebola that they are pulling their staff back to the US….

If you don’t have the ability to deal with no stores open and no electricity and no fuel for 60-90 days, then you will have a hard time should things get bad here.

Think about it. Things are getting ugly over there, and while the situation is different here, that could change.What if someone decides to quarantine the area in which you reside? How much food and police protection do you think those quarantined folks are gonna get?

Got food? Water (or a source of water other than Municipal tap water?)? A means of defending that food and water?

If not, think about getting it. Might be that you could be needing it, if and when.

Yeah, I am crazy….
Those Africans didn’t think they’d need it either….Yet their areas are now “Quarantined”.

Seems that the Kurds are having to pull back from their fighting positions because they are running out of ammo.

I wonder what caliber they need?

I mean, if we each sent them 100 rounds of that caliber, it’d be like a goFundMe thing, only in brass and lead.

Anyone got any idea what caliber they need? And where to send it? 9mm, .5.56X45, 7.62X39, 7.62 NATO, I can spare a few hunnerd rounds……

Give, give ’til it hurts…..

It probably won’t hold up in court, but the fact that the legislature in Massachusetts even PASSED such a piece of legislation is too scary for me.

Read the article:  Realize that the legislature in Massachusetts OVERWHELMINGLY chose to pass a a law that makes your Second Amendment rights subject to police permission and judicial review….They can be taken away at any time.

Why would anyone choose to remain there?

Reading the “Book Of Barkley.….I think you’ll like it.

Now I am biased, because the author is one of my dearest friends, and even more because I star in the book have been a part of her life during the time frame the book encompasses and am mentioned in passing.

Really, it is a good story, you WILL smile, you WILL grimace, you WILL tear up (if you don’t, then I don’t wanna know you….).

Read it, You won’t regret it.

If you order via Amazon, the link is HERE.

If you want to have an autographed copy, here are instructions for how to make that happen.

So 15 people showed up at the range to do the work we had planned.

Which was, to be honest, about 5 more than I expected. For once, it wasn’t the same 10 guys…

We now have a foundation drain that should actually be functional. Maybe the floor won’t weep water this fall and winter on the indoor range.

Would have been nice to have more help, but hey, we actually had 10% of the membership show up, with tools required to do the job.

Folks, if you belong to a volunteer  or member supported organization, when they need help, try to show up and provide that help. Don’t leave all the work to the 10% of people that are there every work day. If you are a member, the BE A MEMBER. It is more than just paying dues….

MY thanks to all of my fellow members who DID show.

Seems like only last week we had a Saturday.

Work day at the range. Will be fixing old storm drains and the bowling pin range (if it can be straightened at all)

General cleanup and such.

I am SO far behind in my work at my house, but this is needful, so I’m going.