Quote Of The Day

"These are the times that try men's souls.The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will,in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country;but he that stands it now,deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods;and it would be strange indeed,if so celestial an article as Freedomshould not be highly rated."
-Thomas Paine

Republican Government Wins!!

The bailout failed. What a great example of how our government is supposed to work. The people were against this bill. They called their legislators and let them know it. They also let them know its an election year. The legislators who got the message voted nay on the bill. Now those of us whose legislators ignored our calls to vote nay need to remember that come November 7th. I've read bloggers who have said how the Republicans are going to pay now when peoples 401k's tank. I can't figure that out. They nay votes did what the people wanted. Will the economy and financial sector tank? Well yes it will but not from the lack of a bailout. It will collapse from fiat currency. It will collapse from uncontrolled spending. It will collapse from the federal reserve running the finances with no oversight.

FEAR

Fear not faith runs our economy. Its supposed to be faith in the US that keeps our money and financial system sound. Its not. Its fear. All of the Washington scumbags want this bailout so bag they are threatening us with a collapse/depression. There are a few politicos who are denouncing this bailout for what it is but they are crying in the wilderness. When supposedly die-hard conservative capitolists are praising this piece of socialist legislation you know something stinks. I say lets bring on the depression. Will people be hurt? Hell yes. Those of us who are prepped will be fine. Do you know how to garden? Hunt? Fish? Have a general knowledge of edible wild plants? Can you work with your hands? You will be fine. In many ways you will be better off spiritually and physically. When the chips are down you will find out whats really important in life.

Marcy Kaptur

I generally don't agree with anything this woman stands for but here she is right. She is fighting against her own party here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAADyc6t4nY

Quote Of The Day

Beware of the leader, who strikes the war drum in order to transfer the citizens into patriotic glow, patriotism is indeed a double-sided sword. It makes the blood so boldly, like it constricts the intellect. And if the striking of the war drum reached a fiebrige height and the blood is cooking and hating, and the intellect is dismissed, the leader doesn't need to reject the citizens rights. The citizens, cought by anxiety and blinded through patriotism, will subordinate all their rights to the leader and this even with happy courage. Why do I know that? I know it, because this is, what I did. And I am Gajus Julius Cäsar.

Quotes Of The Day

Every government interference in the economyconsists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force,to some men at the expense of others.
-Ayn Rand

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
-Ayn Rand

And So It Begins

It seems the Army is assigning a brigade from Iraq to work in Homeland Security. Of course they claim its for public safety but we know the intent is to police the people in the advent of martial law. I feel sorry for these guys if they decide to follow orders. Of course if they don't its back to Iraq or Iran or Pakistan or Afganistan or wherever.

http://www.infowars.com/?p=4831

Quote Of The Day

I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
-Major General Smedley Darlington Butler USMC (two time Congressional Medal of Honor winner)

Quote Of The Day

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
-Theodore Roosevelt

Quote's Of The Day

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
-John Adams

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
-Henry Ford

Ayn Rand And The Mother Of All Bailouts

I have read all her works and tend to agreee with her except for her atheism.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1842879,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

Potential For US Default

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2008/Default-US-Government21sep08.htm

Quote Of the Day

Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.
-Sarah Brady (I think the wrong Brady was shot)

The Power Is Back Or Praise The Lord

Saturday night the power came back on. We now have an empty freezer and refrdge. Looks like Kroger is going to get a little money today. I am now looking at two options. A regular gasoline generator or one thta uses LP. I think the LP models are more permanent and better but they also cost a lot more. If I had the money to put up solar that would be better in the long run and more useful for everyday living. Nothing like living in the 19th century for a week to put things in perspective.

Quote Of The Day

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
-Benjamin Harrison

Day 5 Without Power

Well I should have bought a deck of playing cards. Thank goodness its still summer and the weather is cool. We can at least have campfires. Lord knows there is enough downed trees and branches around to burn. Another item to have extra of is underwear and socks. I would rather have those than spend my life saving at a laundromat. I told my wife on the first night that this is what it will be like after the collapse. Women are funny they would rather not hear or even think about that eventuality. Men see that as rather silly. It will probably happen so why not be ready for it. Mentally as well as logistically. This whole power outage is in its own way a good thing. It shows how unprepared you really are. Just when you think you are set up something like this happens and it shows where you are deficient.

Things to have in a blackout.
Playing cards
Board games
Hurricane lanterns
Coleman lanterns
Extra ice in the freezer
Extra candles
Extra propane tanks

Quote Of The Day

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.
-Harry S. Truman

Quote Of The Day

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency'. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And 'emergency' became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.
-Herbert Hoover

Are They Coming for Our Guns?

The Answer is yes and no. Boxer, Feinstein, Schumer, Pelosi, Oboma et al. would love to get rid of the 2nd Amendment. Better to tax you without your guns my dear. Can they really do it though? If the stars were crossed right (or wrong) they could potentially get enough votes and a Presidential signiture to do nationwide registration. Only problem is only weak minded gun owners would register. That would leave the rest of us deemed as criminals (domestic terrorists under Patriot Act). Confiscation would/could ensue. They would not need to go door to door to finf out who has weapons. They go to the gun shops shut them down and grab all the yellow forms. What? You say you bought all your guns as private sales and there is no yellow form in your name. Thats OK. They now go and see who has a hunting liscence and throw in anyone with a fishing liscence for good measure. Most hunters, even bowhunters have guns. How about checking your credit card receipts for weapon and ammunition and accessory purchases. Maybe they pick up a guy from your gunclub. Unless he's a completely upright guy he'll rat you out. Do you have a concealed carry permit? If you said yes then they no you have a gun. That is no reason to not get a permit. I have one. If they come for me on the street I'll at least be able to defend myself.

All that said. Confiscating weapons in the US is a dicey proposition for any tyrannical minded government stooge. It would mean open civil war. Any police officer would increase his chances of being shot exponentially. I don't expect they would show up for work. How many National Guardsmen would show up to confiscate grandpas shotgun? There is not enough Federal Gestapo to get the job done. Especially when you throw in their losses on day one of confiscation. My only concern is all the people who rolled over during the Katrina gun confiscation. Katrina was a test tube to see how far they could go. After Katrina the local government did away with the 2nd Amendment and no one did anything about it. That is not a good sign. I like to think that if a cop stuck his nose in my door to grab my guns he would be greeted by a 12ga. Of course I would never be caught in a disaster area under the thumb of big brother, but I wasn't there.

Do they want our guns? Hell yes they do. Can they get them? Not without a major domestic insurgency. We should all still be aware and fight for our rights.

Quote Of The Day

"There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution."- Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group, California Medical School, 1961 -

Are You Prepared?

Are you prepared? Do you have a full tank of gas in all your vehicles. Fuel for Coleman lanterns and extra mantles? Propane in the gas grill? Plenty of candles? Those are some of the things I forgot about. When you are without power in your home for a couple of days you find out just what you did forget. I sit on top of a pile of guns, ammo, web gear, field gear etc. but I forgot some of the basics. I won't be caught off guard again. Remember not all disasters are complete.

Quote Of The Day

"The Technocratic Age is slowly designing an every day more controlled society. The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values (!) who will have no doubt in fulfilling their objectives by means of purged techniques with which they will influence the behavior of people and will control and watch the society in all details". "... it will become possible to exert a practically permanent watch on each citizen of the world".
- Zbigniew Brzezinski - (Illuminati and co-founder of Trilateral Commission)

Stay Home or Beat Feet.

I have been thinking lately of where to go in the event of a meltdown. Now I don't expect an overnight collapse. Even the Great Depression took six months to get into full swing. When things start to go to crap is what you have to worry about. I figure that my wife and I will still have our jobs (at least for a while) when maybe our neighbors won't. If you are working how do you keep others from looting you out while you are not home? Sometimes doubling up or hiding your goodies are not feasable. It would be foolish to quit your job if you still have one when things are bad. Unless of course money is completely worthless at that point. I have a peice of rural property back in the woods but I do have neighbors. We are aquainted with them but thats about it. Probably most people out there are like this. Aquainted but thats about it. That is a OK way to be in normal times but when the SHTF nice neighbors can turn into real threats. Those nice people who wave to you as you go off to work will, in bad times, take everything you have or worse yet attack you get it. There is no way you can make your home into enough of a vault to hold determined people out of it for the 8 or more hours you will not be there. The only way I can forsee avoiding that is to keep a bare minimum of supplies in your primary residence and stockpiling at your "retreat".

I have a couple places to go once we reach Road Warrior times but what to do before that. Our house while it is removed from plain site is still not what I would call a retreat. Living off the land is fine for short term but you really need to have a stable defensible shelter. You need to maintain a low profile. Don't look like you are better off than your neighbors. Don't shoot at your property (I have enough land to shoot but I don't). You don't want people to know you have weapons. Don't talk about guns or any other preps.

When to get out? If you've lost your job and things are starting to look dicey around the home its time to go. You want to go when there is still a police presence. It would not be fun to run into a roadblock and get into a shootout.

Alex Jones At His Finest

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4519090217012673658&q=alex+jones&total=333&start=30&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=3

Quote Of The Day

"Fundamental Bible-believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs because we, the state, are preparing them for the year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world global society and their children will not fit in."
--Nebraska State Senator Peter Hoagland, speaking on radio in 1983.

9/11 Truth

Some 9/11 truths:

1)Two years ago (Circa 1999) a project set up by the men who now surround George W Bush said what America needed was "a new Pearl Harbor". Its published aims have, alarmingly, come true.-- John Pilger, 12 Dec 2002

2)It is commonly known that the Twin Towers fell on 9/11, but did you know that a third World Trade Center high-rise building also fell that day? WTC Building 7, a 47-story steel-framed skyscraper located one block from the Twin Towers was not hit by any plane, but collapsed at 5:20 that evening, imploding in the exact manner of a professionally engineered demolition. It fell suddenly, straight down, at near freefall speed, and landed in a compact pile of rubble, barely damaging any of the surrounding buildings. These are but a few of eleven characteristics of Building 7's collapse that are consistent only with controlled demolitions. Further, the leaseholder of the three buildings, Larry Silverstein, said in 2002 on PBS that on the afternoon of 9/11 he suggested to the NYC fire department commander that they "pull" WTC 7. "Pull" is an industry term that means "demolish," but it normally takes a team of skilled people many weeks to design and implement large demolitions. Astonishingly, there is no mention of WTC Building 7's remarkable collapse in the 571-page 9/11 Commission Report.

3)Fire has never — prior to or after 9/11 — caused any steel frame building to collapse. The sudden, vertical, explosive, and total collapse of the Twin Towers at near freefall speed can only be explained by controlled demolition.

4)The WTC steel, which if fully examined could have relvealed the effects of explosives, was quickly shipped overseas and melted down. This was an unprecedented violation of federal crime scene laws.

5)Whenever contact is lost with any airplane, fighter jets routinely take to the air to investigate. This commonly occurs about 100 times per year in well under 20 minutes. But on 9/11 nearly two hours passed without any interception. See the Payne Stewart incident.

6)Unidentified insiders made millions on the stocks of American and United Airlines and those of other corporations that were likewise impacted by the attacks. These "put option" bets were made just prior to 9/11.

7)There were warnings of the impending attacks from at least eleven other countries. Also prior to 9/11, insiders such as John Ashcroft, top military officers, and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown were warned not to fly.

8)Some of the alleged 9/11 "suicide hijackers" are still alive and well, according to the BBC and The Guardian. At least five of the alleged hijackers may have trained at U.S. military bases, as reported in Newsweek and other sources.

9)The Bush administration resisted the formation of the 9/11 Commission for 441 days. Similar investigations, such as those for Pearl Harbor, the JFK assassination, and the space shuttle disasters, all started in about one week.

10)Eyewitness reports and video evidence of multiple explosions. Firefighters describing rings of explosive charges going off in the buildings.

11)Molten metal at the base of all three collapsed WTC towers.

12)Fire Engineering magazine is the 125-year-old paper-of-record of the fire engineering community. Bill Manning, editor-in-chief, wrote an Editor’s Opinion in the January, 2002 edition. His editorial, $elling Out the Investigation, pointed out that destruction of evidence – the hurried removal of rubble which should be examined by investigators – is illegal. He also issued a “call to action”. To quote excerpts:
“For more than three months, structural steel from the World Trade Center has been and continues to be cut up and sold for scrap. Crucial evidence that could answer many questions … is on the slow boat to China …”
“I have combed through our national standard for fire investigation, NFPA 921, but nowhere in it does one find an exemption allowing the destruction of evidence for buildings over 10 stories tall.”
“Fire Engineering has good reason to believe that the ‘official investigation’ blessed by FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] and run by the American Society of Civil Engineers is a half baked farce [emphasis mine] that may have already been commandeered by political forces whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure. Except for the marginal benefit obtained from a three-day, visual walk-through of evidence sites conducted by ASCE investigation committee members – described by one close source as a ‘tourist trip’ – no one’s checking evidence for anything.”
“The destruction and removal of evidence must stop immediately.”
“Firefighters, this is your call to action. …contact your representatives in Congress and officials in Washington and help us correct this problem immediately.”

13)WTC Building 7 was not hit by airplane or significant debris on September 11th. It had been evacuated after the planes hit the towers. By the afternoon of September 11th, there were a few small fires of unknown origin evident in the building, and these small fires could be seen in only a few of the hundreds and hundreds of windows in the building.
On September 11, 2001, at 5:20PM, EDT, World Trade Center Building 7 suddenly and rapidly collapsed. Beginning with the penthouse, all 47 stories of it imploded into its own footprint in less than seven seconds. Three different videos of Building 7’s vertical collapse – two from CBS video broadcasts, and one from an NBC news camera – can be seen online at http://wtc7.net/videos.html.

14)We spent $40 million dollars investigating the Bill Clinton/Lewinsky scandal. The 9/11 budget was signifigantly less. "Public Law 107-306 provided for the reprogramming of $3 million for the Commission. Congress subsequently appropriated, and the President signed into law, an additional $11 million appropriation for the Commission. Recent legislation authorized an additional $1 million, bringing the Commission’s total budget to $15 million." (direct from the government 9/11 website).

I could go on with this but there is only so much space here. Investigate it yourself.

From Survivalblog.com

The Rude Awakening's Chris Mayer notes: "Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Bank System (all government-sponsored enterprises, or GSEs) have become giants in the mortgage markets. The Big Three have grown at such a rapid rate over recent years that at the end of 2000, they collectively held $2.9 trillion of mortgage debt, which was equivalent to nearly 56 percent of all US household mortgage debt." That is a mountain of debt, and the American taxpayers are the inevitable surety for it. Most of it is good debt, some of it is so-so debt, and some of it absolute garbage debt held by NINJAs, The mainstream press has tossed around the figure of $200 billion USD to bail out Fannie and Freddie, but the truth is that the final price tag is imponderable. It is impossible to predict, since the credit market is and the housing market are both still in collapse, and we don't yet know where the "bottom" is. As I've previously mentioned, these bailouts are just part of the collective Mother of All Bailouts (MOAB) that has a good chance of bankrupting America.

Worst Harvest Since '68

All this on top of rising food prices and a bad winter coming.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4719724.ece

Quote Of The Day

More From Rockefeller

"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." -David Rockefeller, from his own book, Memoirs.

Quote of the Day

President Woodrow Wilson 1916 "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."

Why the 1911?

#1 Combat proven performance. No other current issue combat pistol has as much history as the 1911. Berretta, Glock, Sig, etc. are all fine weapons but only the 1911 has been in every war and conflict of the 20th century.
#2 The combination of a potent caliber and weapon that functions in the worst conditions.
#3 The myriad of modifications that you can do to the gun. Bullseye, IPSC, IDPA, Combat, Self
Defense.
#4 Availability of spare parts. Any gun show will have at least one guy with every part
(including magazines) you need at a resonable cost.



Other "combat" pistols that you carry or will carry in the event of TSHTF are all probably fine weapons. The 1911 just has better track record for something you are betting your life on. Just as you would find a 1973 Ford F150 more reliable than a 2008 Toyota in a grid down situation you should expect the same service out of a firearm. You should do little to a stock 1911. Trigger job, collet bushing, good fixed sights, maybe some skateboard tape on the front of the grip thats about it for a carry gun. The pistol was designed with loose tolerances for functionality in the field where you are likely to encounter mud,dust,dirt,ice, and snow. Accuracy should be expected out to 25 yds. Anything farther is what they make rifles and carbines for.

The Gospel According To John Browning
http://www.frfrogspad.com/jmb.htm

Quote of the Day II

"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
-David Rockefeller... Baden-Baden, Germany 1991

I thought this was also an important quote for those of you who think that there is no plan for world government.

Quote of the Day

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.
-Heinrich Himmler

Martial Law? Its Already Here.

http://www.infowars.com/?p=4337

Quote of the Day

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
-Theodore Roosevelt

Go Get 'Em

http://www.americasright.com/2008/09/berg-v-obama-update-wednesday-september.html

OK Already!

Sarah Palin. This GOP Palingasm is getting on my nerves. I would probably like the lady very much. We have many things in common. In fact I have more things in common with Palin than I do my own wife. I'm just getting tired of hearing the gushing going on about her. She is meeting one goal though. She is diverting attention away from the fact that real conservatives don't like Juan Pablo McLame. I have heard now countless times from people: "now I can finally vote for MCain". I ask why? Just because he picked her changes nothing. She will only be the VP. They generally do nothing but wait around for something bad to happen to the Pres. She should be the nominee more than McCain. She has generated more excitement than he ever could.

Quote of the Day

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
-Douglas MacArthur

Survivor/Preparedness/Back to the Land Library:

I have a list of books I would reccomend for anyone interested in the preparedness/back to the land/survival movement. Many of these books are well known some are not. Books are treasure troves of knoweledge. You cannot expect to remember every detail about living off the land etc.



Fiction:

Patriots: Surving the Coming Collapse-James Wesley, Rawles

Unintended Consequences-John Ross

Lucifer's Hammer-Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

No Blade of Grass-John Christopher

On the Beach-Nevil Shute

Earth Abides-George R. Stewart

Warday-Whitley Streiber and James Kunetka

The Postman-David Brin

Alas Babylon-Pat Frank

Good News-Edward Abbey



Non Fiction:

Encyclopedia of Country Living-Carla Emery

The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It-John Seymour (anything by John Seymour is good)

5 Acres and Independence-M.G. Kains

We Wanted A Farm-M.G. Kains

Survival Guns-Mel Tappan

Tappan On Survival-Mel Tappan

Where There Is No Doctor-David Werner

Where There Is No Dentist-Murray Dickson

US Army Survival Manual-FM 21-76

The SAS Escape, Evasion and Survival Manual-Barry Davies

A Place In the Woods-Helen Hoover

The Years Of the Forest-Helen Hoover

The Long Shadowed Forest-Helen Hoover

(Helen Hoover and her husband quit their jobs and moved into a cabin on the shores of Lake Superior)

Walden-Henry David Thoreau

Poor Mans James Bond-Kurt Saxon



Film:

The Day After

Jericho-TV series

Panic In Year Zero

Red Dawn

The Postman

I Am Legend

The Day of the Triffids

Geaorge Romero's Zombie movie series

Omega Man

28 Days Later

Five

Children of Men

On the Beach

Threads

The Obsolete Man-Twilight Zone

The Shelter-Twilight Zone Episode

Quote of the Day

What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
-Adolph Hitler

Quote of the Day

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
-Tecumseh