On April 25th, 1719, Daniel Defoe’s fictional work The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was published. The book, about a shipwrecked sailor who spends 28 years on a deserted island, is based on the experiences of shipwreck victims and of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who spent four years on a small island off the coast of South America in the early 1700s.
Some SurvivalBlog readers often question me as to why I don’t do more articles on old, used, or classic guns. Well, if you cruise through my many articles, you will see that I do cover these types of guns quite regularly. For example, if you look at my many articles on the Model 1911, you’ll read about this classic, which has been around for more than a hundred years. Even though there are many improvements made to the 1911 by various makers, it is still basically the same gun it was when it first came out. I think many of …
Ingredients: 3 to 4-lb beef pot roast Salt and pepper 1 (10¾ oz) can alphabet vegetable soup, undiluted ½ cup dry red wine a pinch of dried basil 2 Tbsp finely chopped parsley Directions: Sprinkle beef with salt and pepper. Place in a slow cooking pot. In a small mixing bowl, combine undiluted soup with wine and basil; pour over meat. Cover and cook on low for 8 to 10 hours. Sprinkle with parsley. Slice meat; serve with sauce ladled over meat. The sauce may be thickened with flour dissolved in a small amount of water, if desired. Makes 6 …
Sears, Kmart closing 78 more stores in bid to restore profitability – Go ahead, and don’t let the town/city door knob that once supported your operations hit you in the rear on your way out of there. Perhaps the other insult is how this firm manipulates its “CLOSEOUT” liquidation process…further jabbing the last dollar out of the already suffering local community. – RBS o o o Obama Boasts In Britain: I Saved The World Economy As President – I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. – B.B. o o o Items from Professor Preponomics: US News …
1.2% of Somalia’s population has been resettled in America. There are some disturbing charts in this article, and it shows that Clinton, Bush, and Obama are guilty. – B.B. o o o Obama’s federalization of police grows nationwide. From equipment to intel, police are becoming dependent and subservient to the White House agenda. – B.L. o o o McAuliffe restores voting rights for 206K ex-felons; GOP calls it move to boost Clinton. Every single individual (felon) who has completed their sentence has now had their voting rights restored, including rapists and murderers. (Note: He didn’t say rehabilitated, he said sentence …
“If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.” – Lysander Spooner
