Jim’s Quote of the Day:
“Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all riches.” – Epicurus, Fragment 70
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Jim’s Quote of the Day:
“If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.” – Rod Serling, (creator of The Twilight Zone) in a speech at Binghamton Community High School (1968)
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JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:
Books U.S. Army Ranger Handbook (U.S. Army manual) Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Wilderness Survival Fiction The Weaponby Michael Z. Williamson (SurvivalBlog’s Editor at Large) Movies Johnny TremainSuitable for children 10 and up The Bridge on the River Kwai
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Jim’s Quote of the Day:
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.” – – Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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Seeking Reader Input: SurvivalBlog’s Orwell Awards
The recent news about how the FBI filed a lawsuit to block disclosure of surveillance camera locations because it would “violate the privacy” of those surveilled has prompted the editors of SurvivalBlog to start a new awards contest for the most egregious examples of Orwellian Newspeak in the past year. This is in part to remind our readers of the prescience of George Orwell, in his novel 1984. We intend to issue these awards annually (like the Darwin Awards) each July 4th, and post descriptions and links for the top three examples, as well as for several Dishonorable Mention awards, …
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No Fly = No Buy? No Way!
In the aftermath of the recent Orlando terrorist attack, the leftist mass media seems to have latched onto using either the Terror Watch List or the No Fly List as a panacea to stop terrorists from obtaining guns. They want to turn them into “No Buy” lists (even though terrorist gunman Mateen was NOT on either list!) The DHS compiles and maintains the No Fly List and the Terror Watch List and probably other lists that are classified and not publicly acknowledged. These lists are secretly compiled and often based on innuendo rather than any legal proceedings. Most alarmingly, these …
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Jim’s Quote of the Day:
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.” – Ernest Hemingway, Notes on the Next War
Jim’s Quote of the Day:
“Every day above earth is a good day.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and The Sea
JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:
Books Living Well on Practically Nothing by Ed Romney Tom Brown’s Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants (Field Guide) Fiction My Side of the Mountain Movies The Third Man Dances with Wolves
Jim’s Quote of the Day:
“Is that one of those new hundreds? You know, where they changed the picture of Ben Franklin? Look at him, yeah. He looks like the love child of-of, uh, Fred Mertz and Rosie O’Donnell! Yeah, that’s him, yeah. Get rid of it as soon as you can, lady. Look at it up in the light. You see that metal strip? That’s a tracking device!” – Mel Gibson as Jerry Fletcher, in Conspiracy Theory. (Screenplay by Brian Helgeland.)
Jim’s Quote of the Day:
“I’m only paranoid because they want me dead.” – Mel Gibson as Jerry Fletcher, in Conspiracy Theory. (Screenplay by Brian Helgeland.)
Jim’s Quote of the Day:
“You really don’t understand. We don’t worry about individuals. What counts is that many millions of people have the knowledge that they can go to a weapon shop if they want to protect themselves and their families. And, even more important, the forces that would normally try to enslave them are restrained by the conviction that it is dangerous to press people too far. And so a great balance has been struck between those who govern and those who are governed.” – A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher
Jim’s Quote of the Day:
“For every serious attempt to achieve integration of house to site you will find a thousand houses peppering the landscape and clearly demonstrating the builder’s total disregard for even the most basic considerations of sun, wind, and view.” – Ken Kern, The Owner Built Home: A How-to-do-it Book (1972)
Jim’s Quote of the Day:
“In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.” – Lucifer’s Hammer, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Preparing for Israel’s Coming Torment: Does BDS = BTK?
The recent much-publicized rejection of a $300,000 prize funded by an Israeli foundation underscored a growing movement orchestrated by Muslims and globalists. The anti-Israel “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” (BDS) movement has been carefully crafted to employ slick propaganda to encourage punitive sanctions intended to bash the nation of Israel into submission. The stated goal is the creation of a Palestinian state in the alleged “Occupied Territories”, but the real goal is the destruction of the nation of Israel. In the short term, they want to reduce Israel’s reputation to veritable pariah status. The war of words against Israel is in …