“They think we might be better off holing up and waiting for the government to save us. But Jerry and I both know better. We’ve seen enough failed federal disaster responses to know that we’re better off walking into a future of our own choosing.” – Terry DeHart in “The Unit“, a post-nuclear war survival fiction novel.
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." – Benjamin Franklin
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.” – Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds
“Deyr fé, deyja frændr, deyr sjálfr et sama; ek veit einn, at aldri deyr: dómr of dauðan hvern.” (Translated: “Cattle die, kinsmen die the self must also die; I know one thing which never dies: the reputation of each dead man.”) – The Hávamál, Ancient Gnomic Norse Poem
“Ben Bernanke made a fatal error by launching QE2 too early, with an incoherent justification, by dribs and drabs for fine-tuning purposes. The QE card cannot easily be played a third time. If he now tries to print money on a nuclear scale to crush all resistance and hold down Treasury yields, he risks exhausting Chinese patience and invites the wrath the Tea Party Congress.” – Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
“The Year of the 1911: Gear up for it… Every gun magazine in the world is going to be running articles and photos about every kind of 1911 on the market past, present and future. And that’s cool… but not everyone likes a 1911. We call those people, ‘Wrong.’” – George D. Hill (Editor of the Mad Ogre Blog), writing about the 100th Anniversary of the John M. Browning’s Colt Model 1911’s adoption by the U.S. Army. (To be precise, it was adopted on March 29, 1911. We are planning a special family M1911 shooting event here at the ranch …
Dennis mentioned the Sustainable Local Food and Farm Conference in Grass Valley, California that will be held on January 22, 2011. o o o Our changing sun. Solar max by the middle of the decade? Major flares? o o o A World in Crisis: What the thirties tell us about today. (Thanks to John R. for the link,) o o o Beau spotted a web site with a lot of military field manuals. Most of the manuals can be downloaded and saved or printed. o o o The Polish Rosomak APC Debuts in Afghanistan
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” – John 3:36 (KJV)
African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power o o o What a concept! ‘We the people’ to open next Congress House to read Constitution o o o Jim B. mentioned a review of three anatomy books. o o o Mary F. flagged this from The New York Times: With Ambulances Stuck in Snow, City Resorted to Triage o o o Commentary from Marko The Munchkin Wrangler: The Snow Gestapo
"Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true." – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ring Out, Wild Bells, 1850
“It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.” – Julius Caesar, as quoted in Plutarch’s Lives
"The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority." – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 22, December 14, 1787
"I would rather be governed by the first 100 names in the Boston phone directory than by the Harvard faculty." – William F. Buckley
“And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.” – Colossians 3:14 (KJV)
“And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” – 1 John 5:11-13 (KJV)