Day: July 10, 2015

Notes for Friday – July 10, 2015

July 10th is the birthday of British novelist John Wyndham. (His full name was John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, but Harris shortened that to just John Wyndham for his pen name.) He we was born in 1903 and died March 11, 1969. Harris was a good friend of fellow novelist Samuel Youd (1922-2012), who wrote under several pen names, including John Christopher. Both men were famous for writing what are often called cosy catastrophies. Several of Wyndham’s novels and short stories have been adapted to film, with varying degrees of success. One of the best of these was a …


Beyond The B’s…Now What? – Part 1, by Jason (Soon To Be In The Redoubt)

Living a prepared life, as most readers understand, is not something that stops. One is never properly finished preparing. It is not something one works on for a bit and then says, “Okay, I’m done.” It is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency and preparedness. One of the first things most preppers come across in exploring the basics of preparedness is the three B’s– beans, bullets, and Band-aids. How many times have we read, even on this blog, “Make sure you have your beans, bullets, and band-aids squared away first!” That’s sage advice, and we should all follow it. However, what happens …


Letter: End of America

To The Editor: In a recent WND.com article titled “End of Christian America is here; It’s no accident we are witnessing the beginnings of persecution.”, Jonathan Cahn, well-known Messianic Jewish Rabbi (one who has come to faith in Jesus/Yeshua) has warned that the June 26th Supreme Court ruling that legalized homosexual marriage in all 50 states marks the formal end to Christian America. In other words, we as a nation have flipped God the finger, spit in His eye, and said: “We don’t need you anymore—we’re going to do it our way.” Cahn has declared that, barring a miracle, the …



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