Day: May 22, 2015

Notes for Friday – May 22, 2015

Homestead Drying Racks is having a Memorial Day sale featuring a 15% discount and shipping at no extra charge on any of their drying racks for the weekend. The Gundersons recently purchased this business from another long time SurvivalBlog advertiser, and they are doing a stand up job. Enter the code memorial15 at checkout to get your savings. 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, two, or three …


Orange Coffee Nut Firestarters, by Missouri Maven

One of the favorite things I create over the course of spring, summer, and fall are my Orange Coffee Nut Firestarters for my wood stove. I think my recipe came about because my grandparents instilled their Great Depression mindset of “use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without” into me at an early age. The stories they told me, of using things up until they were used as fuel to survive winter on the prairies of South Dakota, are ones I still tell my grandchildren today. With all their gadgets and technology, it is a little …


Letter Re: An Introduction to Gangs – Part 1, by T.N.

HJL, In an introduction to gangs he blames gangs primarily on “lawyers, politicians, and judges who defend and promote these groups as well as the culture and media, which have helped them recruit and excused their behavior as “cultural differences”. However, the real blame should be placed squarely on the unconstitutional war on drugs. Without the war on drugs, and the black market profits it creates, these gangs would quickly wither away to almost nothing, just like the the ones based on alcohol were withering away after prohibition of alcohol was ended till we foolishly replaced one source of profit …


Economics and Investing:

Banks fined over $5 billion for criminal activity, did you get any of it? o o o New University Of Texas President Rejects ‘Vulgar’ Salary Slurped Up By His Counterparts At Other Colleges. – PLC o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: For Many American States, It’s Like the Recession Never Ended Bubble Blowing to Continue So Long as Yellen Isn’t Raising Rates 5 Bubbles that Draghi’s QE Is Already Blowing The Gloves Come Off: Moody’s Warns Of Greek “Deposit Freeze” As Schauble “Won’t Rule Out Default”


Odds ‘n Sods:

From the desk of Mike Williamson, SurvivalBlog’s Editor At Large: You too can have a degree in Twitter. And the department head is currently on vacation with the “Fashion marketing” students in Europe. They will grow no food, build no structures, improve no productivity, but they will expect to be taken seriously when civilization collapses. o o o California Mandate Gives Parental Control to the State and Big Pharma. – William Lehr o o o Dad-of-two gunned down with sawn-off shotgun by vandals cheats death when pellets hit his iPhone. – JBG o o o University approves ‘history’ class that …