Month: April 2015

Notes for Friday – April 03, 2015

Infidel Body Armor is running a special today. Customers will get $40 off, a decal patch, and pre-paid shipping on orders over $200. o o o Don’t forget, Ready Made Resources is offering three Mountain House Classic Assortment Buckets along with a Sawyer SP 128 mini water filter (capable of filtering 100,000 gallons of water) with the purchase of their MOUD142 Mountain House Entree Pac (36 cans / 6 cases). It’s one of their best offers yet! o o o Today, we present another entry for Round 58 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The $12,000+ worth of prizes for …


Planning Who Shares Your Parachute – Part 2, by L.M.

Plan Charity During TEOTWAWKI, there will be millions without the basic necessities of food, shelter, water, and medicine. While you certainly can’t be expected to care for everyone, you should plan into your parachute a bit of charity. Our personal number is 10%. We store 10% more than we think we will need so that we will have some to give away as charity. Your charity portion will have to be carefully disbursed so that you don’t compromise your OpSec, but none the less you will fare better for having it. Unlike most things about TEOTWAWKI and preps, charity can …


Letter: The Internet

HJL/JWR: I am a former G6 (army comms) and closet geek, and a stability operations (Civil Affairs) practitioner. Suffice to say the issue of open Internet access and destabilizing influences on the ground have been the center of my world and work for over a decade. You’re not going to like this, but here it is: The only way to preserve the Internet AND reduce the spread of radical ideology is to register users’ to each IP address. Here’s why. The Internet IS like a big, wonderful library (paraphrasing yesterday’s poster). However, there’s a problem. Imagine your children in that …



Odds ‘n Sods:

Despite Ever-Expanding Police State Measures, Cops Worse Than Ever at Solving Crimes. Here’s Why.. – H.L. o o o Ukrainian Authorities Raid Dormitories to Catch Students Evading Draft o o o DHS Launches “Family Reunification,” Refugee Program for Central Americans. – B.B. o o o Banks Turning Accounts over to Police for Seizure. – D.S. o o o SurvivalBlog recently ran across a U.S.-made wind turbine for those who live in a suitable location. You might want to check Pika Energy out, if you are interested.



Notes for Thursday – April 02, 2015

JRH Enterprises is having a sale on PVS14 P+ 3rd Generation Night Vision devices. These are all ITT/Exelis, brand new with 10 year factory warranty and all standard accessories. They are currently $600 off retail and JRH will throw in a LIF and NV compass. You also might want to check the NightFighter 2 combo package which is also on sale o o o Today, we present another entry for Round 58 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The $12,000+ worth of prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate, good for any one, …


Planning Who Shares Your Parachute – Part 1, by L.M.

Imagine that you are a passenger on a large commercial airplane headed to paradise. The people on board are excited, because they are embarking on the vacation of a lifetime. The skies are beautiful and things are going along just fine; then, suddenly, the plane develops engine trouble. There is a horrible metallic bang. The nose of the plane dips. The plane banks down and to the left, and smoke starts coming from the left engine. It is obvious to you that the plane is going to crash in just a few moments. Being the prepper that you are, you …


Letter Re: Well Pumps

Hugh, Regarding the recent information about well hand pumps on the blog (Simple Pump, Bison Pump), I would like to add that there is another robust and reliable pump that has not gotten the attention of many people outside of the farm & ranch community. It is the Model 11HD (for deeper wells) pump made by Baker Monitor. This pump is heavy duty (cast iron) with a design that has been around for almost a hundred years. This is the same type of pump that has been reliably attached to windmills on farms since its creation and has also been …



Odds ‘n Sods:

Citizens’ Growing Protests against Border Patrol Checkpoints Inside the U.S.. – H.L. o o o NYPD investigating disturbing video of Uber traffic stop . – M.F. o o o New study shows mutated ‘Polio-like’ virus may be responsible for paralyzing more than 100 children in the past year. – P.M. o o o Pastor Cruz: ‘We Are on The Brink of The Destruction of This Country’. – B.B. o o o Chicago Robbers Appear to Copy Mexican Cartel Roadblock Tactics. – D.S. o o o From Wranglerstar: The Axe Is Back! Keep It Sharp



Notes for Wednesday – April 01, 2015

April 1st is both April Fool’s Day and (unofficially) Molly Ivins Day. The latter refers to this key verse: “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” (Psalm 14:1 KJV) April 1st, 1886 was the birthday of Arthur W. Pink, who died 15 July 1952 and was an English Christian evangelist and excellent Reformed Biblical scholar. It was his meticulously referenced arguments in his book, The Soverignty of God, that first convinced JWR of the truth of the doctrine of Election. o o o Today, we present another entry for Round 58 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing …


Round 57 Non-Fiction Writing Contest Winners Announced!

First prize goes to M.R. for “Your Brain On Paper—How to Write Useful Operating Instructions – Part 1”, “Part 2”, and “Part 3”, which were posted on February 27th and 28th and March 1st. He will receive the following prizes: A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate, good for any one, two, or three course (a $1,195 value), A course certificate from onPoint Tactical. This certificate will be for the prize winner’s choice of three-day civilian courses. (Excluding those restricted for military or government teams.) Three day onPoint courses normally cost $795, DRD Tactical is providing a 5.56 Nato QD …


Our Founding Fathers Were Right, by a Florida Mom

Our Founding Fathers were right, about education, too. Have you ever wondered how a generation with one-roomed schoolhouses produced so many great thinkers? Have you wondered what types of books were available when Abraham Lincoln studied on his own? Unlike many instructional books today, the educational books our founding fathers used were designed for simplified teaching, and self-teaching. They used McGuffey’s Readers, Harvey’s Grammar, and Ray’s Arithmetic. These were not grade level books; they were progressive level books, and they produced great thinkers who became great men. Pioneers could only pack a few books with their belongings, so they picked …