Day: September 26, 2007

Note from JWR:

I’m planning to have a table at the Great Falls, Montana Gun Show this coming weekend. (September 28-29-30, 2007). It is a very long drive for me, so I hope that it is worth the expense. (High gasoline prices have curtailed my travel schedule considerably.) I will be bringing lots of books and some full capacity magazines. For a list of most of what I’ll have with me, see: my catalog page. The show is at The Four Seasons Arena. To spot my table: Look for a blue table drape and a stack of copies of my novel “Patriots”, as …


Letter Re: Information Security Considerations When Selling a House with “Special Features”

James May I give an anecdote about being very careful about the hidden value/risk of shelters and other preparations when selling a property. In Portland, Oregon a person I know purchased a property which after closing was revealed to have a medium sized manhole entry type fallout shelter in the back yard. This person was quite annoyed to have what he considered a dangerous hole and had it filled in by a cement pumper and the doors and frame broken away and sodded over, after documenting the total costs he filed a lawsuit against the seller for reducing his property …


Letter Re: Peace of Mind Through Systematic Preparedness

Dear James and SurvivalBlog Family: Thank you for this tremendously vital preparedness forum. It has been the direct impetus for me to seriously prepare to survive various natural disasters that could assail the New England area, but more importantly, to be prepared for the inevitable TEOTWAWKI situation, which I expect, we will face within a decade, as soon as the oft-predicted Winter Solstice of 2012–Which still leaves us plenty of time to prepare, if we only make that crucial decision to begin (or to enhance) our preparations and remain steadfast in our intentions to survive whatever may come our way. …


Odds ‘n Sods:

Tim P., “C3”, and AAP all mentioned this article about a former Titan missile base for sale, near Moses Lake, Washington.    o o o For the “In Case You’ve Been Wondering Department”: The List of Foreign Governments that Hold US Debt. As Senator Everett Dirksen put it so aptly many years ago: “A billion here, and a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talkin’ about real money!”    o o o An emerging threat in the long term: China Build’s World’s Largest Navy. OBTW, the current news about the scrap iron and steel shortage–since China is buying everything in …