E-Mail 'The Survivalist's Odds 'n Sods:' To A Friend

Email a copy of 'The Survivalist's Odds 'n Sods:' to a friend

* Required Field






Separate multiple entries with a comma. Maximum 5 entries.



Separate multiple entries with a comma. Maximum 5 entries.


E-Mail Image Verification

Loading ... Loading ...

19 Comments

  2. RE: the Rawles >age 60 prepping interview – I won’t listen to podcasts or watch videos longer than 3 minutes. I read much faster than even trained announcers speak. Many seem to like Youtubes/podcasts, but I want a written transcript, especially when there may be very useful info in a Youtube or podcast that I would like to copy and archive in written AND searchable form.

  4. Wranglerstar makes a very good point. I supported Viking Preparedness and Patriot Nurse. I just cancelled my support for both. I do hope an alternative comes up. It is very scary what is happening to free speech. We must defend everyone’s right to speak. It how we learn and how others learn. If you don’t let people speak they will become angry and lash out in other ways that are much worse than anything anyone can say.

  5. An “elderly person” or someone referred to as “old” is anyone with more cumulative years than I have. A “kid” is anyone with fewer cumulative years than I have.

  6. Re: Patreon

    Cody at Wranglerstar also offered an alternative video hosting site he’s trying out called BITCHUTE.COM.

    My 2007 iMac computer takes along time to download the content, but that could be for any one of a dozen reasons including snow, antenna clutter or the fact its running Safari 5.1.10. Cody says Bitchute is what YouTube used to be.

    I’m still ambivalent regarding the whole private company v. public accommodations business, (https://survivalblog.com/survivalists-odds-n-sods-182/#comments) but until Colossus achieves full world control, there will be a place for the free market to create a consumer-driven niche filler to replace the likes of Patreon and YouTube.

    Edwin, I’m with you regarding transcripts. Even the most golden content is constantly mangled by people who can’t hold a camera still, edit effectively or speak coherently. If your content is so golden as to be shared with the world, for the love of Cecil B.DeMille, people, get an editing program!

  7. I don’t watch any video either. We live out in the sticks and down load time is too slow and I have better things to do than wait around for a download. Write me an article and I’ll read it.

  8. Something worse is going on, apparently the “trust and safety council” insiders.

    Note this was over something Sargon of Akkad said years ago using a racial slur to attack white supremacists. This is hardly offensive compared with maybe 1/4 of the rest supported on Patreon.

    There was an upstart called “Subscribestar.com” that everyone was moving to, but Paypal and Stripe deplatformed them. Like Freestartr, and Hatreon, and Makersomething..

    This is all in the name of fighting “hate speech” which is subjective – Islamic terrorists can still be on Patreon, but don’t say th wrong word in even a “private” text.

  9. In Afganistan and Iraq, they allowed the 2nd Amendment for citizens of both countries but not out in the public eye. In fact, US military tactics were to use nippers in many hostile areas to shoot on site anyone in the public eye with a gun visible. Apache helicopter pilots also needed confirmation to shoot on site by radioing that they see a Gommer with a visible gun.

  10. “Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;”  Ecclesiastes 12:1 (ASV) The verses to follow give a good reason why as you age you should up your preparedness.

    When you are young you can recover from a personal loss as you have more time and resources; at an older age you need to have things nailed down.

  11. Edwin, when you listen to YouTube videos and notice that people talk slower than you have patience for, adjust the speed and listen to the video at 1.5 speed. You can find where to adjust that when you click on the gear icon.

  12. We are planning to sell a bunch of stuff online. I looked into selling on Amazon, since they are the leading company to sell stuff like this on. I pulled up their seller’s agreement. I carefully read any agreement like that. I had planned to have my husband read it, since he is very familiar with contracts like that after dealing with John Deere for so many years. I didn’t even have to have him read it. I read the first 10 lines or so and quickly figured out that I would never agree to their terms and further more, I now refuse to buy from them. I would so much rather buy from someone’s individual website and pay shipping than encourage amazon. I encourage all other liberty lovers to also boycott them. Globalism is running amuck, and it isn’t good what is being done to our world. Pay attention.

  13. Getting rid of the old .223. It’s about time! My experience would lean me towards the 6.5 creedmore. Actually for most applications I do just as well with the 6 creed, but that’s just me. Both of those rounds will shoot a long ways and have enough pepper to get the job done when they get there.

    6.8 is just too big.

    1. The problem is, it isn’t War. If they’re shooting anyone who has a visible weapon then what happens to someone who is standing on their front porch defending their house? Do you want to be that guy? Do you want to be a casualty of War for defending your family?

  15. Several years ago, I read a biography of Wyatt Earp. I seem to remember that the author, when commenting about the difficulty in Tombstone of getting juries to convict, said that it was critical to have law and order, not just law, and not just order. If the law could not protect society, i.e., juries being unwilling to return a unanimous guilty verdict due to intense factionalism in the community (not just Clantons vs. Earps then, think O.J. Simpson in more recent times). then citizens would seek order outside the rule of law because everyone knew that there would be no justice administered in the legal system.

    In the Old West, it was the vigilantes who were most often the “good guys.” They were usually the more important citizens in the community who administered justice when they knew that crime was rampant and the hands of law enforcement were tied by a legal system that was rendered impotent by rules that all too often allowed the “bad guys” to get away with their crimes.

    Related to this concept is this personal anecdote: Many years ago I was speaking to a lawyer in a small town in Kentucky. He talked about his client (who I will call “Bobby Joe”) who was convicted of burglary and was sentenced to a few years in state prison. He said that he was shocked at the verdict, since there was very little evidence to support the conviction. He spoke with the jury foreman after the trial and asked him how in the world the jury could have convicted his client with such little evidence. The foreman responded, “Well, to tell you the truth, Frank, we weren’t really sure that Bobby Joe was guilty of this burglary, but everybody knew what he had been getting away with for so long, so we figured it was simply time for him to spend a little time in prison.” People want order.

    It is well-known that large portions of Rio de Janeiro have been plagued with crime for decades. The murder rate in Rio is staggering, making the murder rate in Baltimore, Chicago, and Detroit pale by comparison. The gang activity is rampant in large areas of Rio to the extent that it is uncontrollable, and decent citizens in those areas are denied the semblance of normal lives. It does not come as a particular surprise that the police are being cheered by the residents.

    One can only wonder just how quickly after a massive catastrophe that has resulted in a true “Mad Max society” in the US that a similar policy would be adopted. In my personal opinion, it would be fairly soon.

  16. A shoot on sight order can go both ways and the size of those favelas(ghettos) would boggle the mind of most who haven’t been to the third world. If the gangs that operate them were to join forces I don’t think even the Brazilian military could control them without shutting off food and water and martial law. 10 million hungry people rioting and looting makes for a really bad day.

Comments are closed.