Day: November 25, 2009

Note from JWR:

JRH Enterprises is having their fourth annual “Black Friday” sale, which includes brand new Generation 3 AN/PVS-14 Starlight night vision scopes for $2,995, complete with the factory data card. I should mention that I personally purchased one of these units from them, and I love it. It is very versatile, since it can be used as a weapon sight (lined up behind a Aimpoint Comp M3), or with the flip of a throw lever be used hand-held, and then with the provided head mount it can be used as a hands-free monocular. The quick detach and consistent return to zero …


Letter Re: Generator Experiences During a Recent Nor’easter

Greetings Mr. Rawles, I just wanted to pass along a quick reminder to your readers who took the time and expense to buy a backup generator, but haven’t taken the time to periodically test and maintain it. Here in southeastern Virginia, we are still recovering from what was called the “Atlantic Assault” by the hyperventilating reporters on the Weather Channel. To be fair, though, this was indeed a whopper of a Nor’easter that gave us flooding only a foot or so less than Hurricane Isabel in 2003. We lost power the evening of November 12, but luckily got it back …


Letter Re: A Tip on Egg Organization

Good Day JWR, My prayers continue daily for you, and for your son’s hearts healing at the loss of Memsahib. May you find some fraction of reciprocal solace and warmth from the Thanksgiving Blessings from God for the many hundreds of thousands of lives that you have enriched with your blog and books. Thanksgivings to you JWR for what you have done and do so very well, by providing this valuable multi-national information highway of connectedness on survival and preparedness! Here is my organizational tip of the week I would like to share. We have free range poultry and very …


Letter Re: B&M Baked Beans and Canned Bread

Jim, Being born and raised in Maine, I was introduced to B&M baked beans at a young age. Beans and brown bread were our standard fare on Saturday nights for many years. Over the years, I have grown increasingly fond of them, although harder to find in the Midwest – they seem to get crowded off many grocery store shelves in favor of lesser rivals. In particular, I love B&M brown bread (with or without raisins) – rich, moist dense bread made with molasses and packaged in a can. It is heated inside the can (hint: slice it cold, before …


Economics and Investing:

GG sent this: A Mad Rush as Gold Bugs Get the Boot FAF sent this from Fox News: Economic Growth Revised Down in 3rd Quarter From El Jefe Jeff E.: Stocks, Oil Drop After U.S. Consumer Spending Trails Forecasts Items from The Economatrix: Crude Prices Sink Down Near $76 Reports on Consumer Confidence, GDP Tug at Stocks Banks Earn $2.8 Billion in 3Q, Insurance in Red Reports on GDP and Consumers Signal Modest Rebound Fed Under Fire as Public Anger Mounts Goldman Sachs and US Demise Wall Street Plays Hardball Restaurants Brace for a Sour Season as Consumers Lose Appetite …


Odds ‘n Sods:

Real estate bust opens doors for parties at vacant houses. (Thanks to GG for the link.)    o o o Reader Ken S. wrote to mention: “I have also been diving construction dumpsters at various construction sites for excess building materials. You’d be shocked at what a construction hand will throw away. It’s just another way to survive this worsening economy and put stacks of building materials in my storage shed.”    o o o Courtesy of reader HPD comes another Nanny State Britannia Update: British police arrest people ‘just for the DNA’; More than three-quarters of young black men …