Note From JWR:
I want to wish all of my U.S. readers a happy Fourth of July! Today is the last day to order my preparedness course at the special introductory price. If you wait until tomorrow, the price will jump to nearly $150!
Day: July 4, 2006
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Letter Re: Recommendations on Hardening a Garage Door?
Mr. Rawles: Hello again from England. The blog is going from strength to strength, keep it up! With regard to the door hardening, I’d suggest a thick layer of ballistic nylon contained in a quilt as defence against chainsaw or reciprocating saw attack. Ballistic nylon is a lot cheaper than Kevlar and works in a similar manner to the laths mentioned in the article, i.e it clogs up chain and reciprocating blades. It would quite possibly foul up a drill attack also, but I have yet to verify this… It would not, of course, stop a projectile attack. Ballistic nylon …
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Letter Re: Preparedness Lessons Learned from The K.T. Ordnance BATFE Raid
Jim, I thought I would give you an up-date on my raid. First, I’m not in jail, nor have I been charged with any crime. Everything that can be written has been written at this time.[JWR Adds: For example, see the discussions at the AR15.com Forums, at LibertyPost.org, 1911Forum.com, et cetera. ] In retrospect, there are some things I should have done, but that I didn’t. (I pooh-poohed some of your preparedness ideas, shame on me. Learn from my mistakes.) 1) Did not stash my extra arms and ammo, and now I don’t have them. 2) Should not have been …
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Letter From Michael Z. Williamson Re: An EMT’s Advice on BOBs
Dear Jim, I found a link from a fellow writer, who’s a former Naval officer, Ph.D. and EMT as well. It has good advice on bail out bags and some one-liners on survival. While not specifically survival oriented, I also enjoyed some of his astute observations of reality versus entertainment. – Michael Z. Williamson
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Odds ‘n Sods:
SurvivalBlog reader Dr. Sidney Zweibel flagged this article:This war on germs has a silver lining o o o Jim Jubak of MSN Money Central: The Worst Case Scenario is Not About Us: Think About Inflation, India and China o o o I have once again expanded the SurvivalBlog Glossary. Let me know via e-mail if you notice anything else that I should have add.
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Jim’s Quote of the Day:
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." – Patrick Henry, 1778, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention Reference: The Debates of the Several States, Elliot, vol. 3 (45)
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