Saw this picture at Hermits place. I love the heck out of the AK platform. Everyone should own one. Come to think of it maybe I should get some extra mags.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
AK-47 The Tool Of True Professionals
Saw this picture at Hermits place. I love the heck out of the AK platform. Everyone should own one. Come to think of it maybe I should get some extra mags.
Gold In The News
Always take PHYSICAL DELIVERY! I take physical delivery (not to "their" warehouse) and so should you. If it is 1KG or just a little 1g bar (which anyone can afford:) take delivery so you can get it into your hot little hand if need be.
Russia backs return to Gold Standard. Not sure what I think about this whole international currency idea (methinks its a bad idea) but the reestablishment of a gold standard would be great.
Hat tip to Survivalblog for these.
Russia backs return to Gold Standard. Not sure what I think about this whole international currency idea (methinks its a bad idea) but the reestablishment of a gold standard would be great.
Hat tip to Survivalblog for these.
Book Review- Gang Leader For A Day
When I worked at 711 I had kind of a weird habit. I would get home late (1-1:30AM) and have some beers while chilling out. That is pretty normal but here comes the weird part. Since there is nothing on at 4AM I repeatedly found myself flipping all the way through the channels and stopped on a CSPAN interview with an author that seemed interesting for whatever reason. One of these was Sudhir Venkatesh. This quiet academic Indian fellow talking about the time he spent with a crack gang was interesting. I thought nothing of it for a long time.
Several months after that incident I ended up reading Freakanomics. One chapter of that book looked in depth at the economic info derived from Sudhir's work with the gang. I found that very interesting and a couple weeks ago I saw this book while trying to spend a gift certificate and get something to read in the field.
I read it and enjoyed the book a lot. At a bit under 300 pages it is a quick easy read. It is probably the only book I can think of that Wifey and I have read and enjoyed. Though it is admittedly off center of the topic of this blog (and by default what its readers enjoy) it is just plain a good read. I would say there are some pretty leftist sentiments in the book but it is easy enough to ignore a sentence here or there and doesn't detract from the quality of the book.
It did leave me with some more thoughts on the underground economy:
As has been previously noted people will hide their income if there are significant motivators to do so. The higher the motivation the more people will probably hide income. As shown in the book people needed to have a low enough incomes to stay in their government housing. This made a strong incentive to have some income be off the books. This is not that different from a white collar guy who forgets to mention the money he made on a side job to stay in a lower % tax bracket.
In addition to people being driven to the underground they will also do what is necessary to get things done. If the normal channels don't work to address significant needs people have they will go outside of them quick fast and in a hurry. This is true for people getting stuff in their apartment fixed or getting things they want (drugs, sex, guns, booze, whatever).
This also brought home that most undergrounders are working for pretty small stakes. Of the people in the book who worked in some underground capacity most made at most a couple hundred bucks a month. There are probably HUNDREDS of people mowing lawns, walking dogs, cat sitting, doing small home repairs, etc and making small money for everyone who makes 100K under a fake SSN or some sort of other underground way.
This leaves me with a couple thoughts. First of all it is a lot easier to have one foot in the underground economy then to dive deep into it. It would be almost impossible to prove (assuming you earned it underground and aren't stupid) that you made 47,500 last year instead of the 38,263 that was reported by your primary employer. Heck even if you made 30-40% of your income underground it would be fairly hard to prove without serious examination. Maybe your primary business somehow doesn't ever receive payments in cash (because you don't like dealing with the haste) or you have some sort of side job that is underground.
I think underground goes hand in hand with bargaining and bartering. This is in part because it is usually small businesses and one man kind of operations. You can bargain with Jimbo the car guy but you can't bargain with Les Schwabb. Also they are more of the wheeling and dealing type which makes them more open. They can see how getting $200 work of firewood for a $100 job is a good deal even though they don't walk out with 20's in the wallet. If nothing else they can swap the wood for something they do need that costs $150.
I think underground activity tends to happen mostly in clumps. Very rarely (I imagine) do you find one undergrounder in a sea of legit businesses. Undergrounders are created by certain sets of conditions that lead groups (though not together or in a planned way) to functioning outside the system.
From an abstract perspective the most interesting thing to me about the underground economy is that it is such a group of odd fellows. Any time you have little old ladies who watch kids to supplement their retirement, HS girls who walk dogs, tradesmen, prostitutes and drug dealers that would be an odd luncheon. The only thing these folks have in common is that for reasons of financial interest or legal necessity (I would love to see a W-4 that says the guy made $120,453 from managing crack sales) they do not report at least some of their income for tax purposes.
Several months after that incident I ended up reading Freakanomics. One chapter of that book looked in depth at the economic info derived from Sudhir's work with the gang. I found that very interesting and a couple weeks ago I saw this book while trying to spend a gift certificate and get something to read in the field.
I read it and enjoyed the book a lot. At a bit under 300 pages it is a quick easy read. It is probably the only book I can think of that Wifey and I have read and enjoyed. Though it is admittedly off center of the topic of this blog (and by default what its readers enjoy) it is just plain a good read. I would say there are some pretty leftist sentiments in the book but it is easy enough to ignore a sentence here or there and doesn't detract from the quality of the book.
It did leave me with some more thoughts on the underground economy:
As has been previously noted people will hide their income if there are significant motivators to do so. The higher the motivation the more people will probably hide income. As shown in the book people needed to have a low enough incomes to stay in their government housing. This made a strong incentive to have some income be off the books. This is not that different from a white collar guy who forgets to mention the money he made on a side job to stay in a lower % tax bracket.
In addition to people being driven to the underground they will also do what is necessary to get things done. If the normal channels don't work to address significant needs people have they will go outside of them quick fast and in a hurry. This is true for people getting stuff in their apartment fixed or getting things they want (drugs, sex, guns, booze, whatever).
This also brought home that most undergrounders are working for pretty small stakes. Of the people in the book who worked in some underground capacity most made at most a couple hundred bucks a month. There are probably HUNDREDS of people mowing lawns, walking dogs, cat sitting, doing small home repairs, etc and making small money for everyone who makes 100K under a fake SSN or some sort of other underground way.
This leaves me with a couple thoughts. First of all it is a lot easier to have one foot in the underground economy then to dive deep into it. It would be almost impossible to prove (assuming you earned it underground and aren't stupid) that you made 47,500 last year instead of the 38,263 that was reported by your primary employer. Heck even if you made 30-40% of your income underground it would be fairly hard to prove without serious examination. Maybe your primary business somehow doesn't ever receive payments in cash (because you don't like dealing with the haste) or you have some sort of side job that is underground.
I think underground goes hand in hand with bargaining and bartering. This is in part because it is usually small businesses and one man kind of operations. You can bargain with Jimbo the car guy but you can't bargain with Les Schwabb. Also they are more of the wheeling and dealing type which makes them more open. They can see how getting $200 work of firewood for a $100 job is a good deal even though they don't walk out with 20's in the wallet. If nothing else they can swap the wood for something they do need that costs $150.
I think underground activity tends to happen mostly in clumps. Very rarely (I imagine) do you find one undergrounder in a sea of legit businesses. Undergrounders are created by certain sets of conditions that lead groups (though not together or in a planned way) to functioning outside the system.
From an abstract perspective the most interesting thing to me about the underground economy is that it is such a group of odd fellows. Any time you have little old ladies who watch kids to supplement their retirement, HS girls who walk dogs, tradesmen, prostitutes and drug dealers that would be an odd luncheon. The only thing these folks have in common is that for reasons of financial interest or legal necessity (I would love to see a W-4 that says the guy made $120,453 from managing crack sales) they do not report at least some of their income for tax purposes.
Fucking Trolls
theotherryan,
You are a spammer. You leave worthless comments on every blog you come across in the hopes someone will read your worthless crap of a blog site.
Who in the hell wants to get survival advice from a 23 year old punk kid, that by your own statements has no food storage to speak of and lives in an apartment.
Let me see where to start. Oh yeah FUCK YOU. Now that that is taken care of lets talk about your points. Broadly speaking there are two types of comments: hey man good post and I think/ have done X. I split somewhere between those two. If people want to moderate comments they do. For those who moderate comments they approve mine so clearly they are OK with the writers of blogs. If you as a troll don't like what/ how I comment that is really just too bad.
You are an idiot who can't even get my age right. If you are going to pick at something at least make sure it is right. By the tone of that comment I am guessing you are middle aged and have very achieved little in life by any measure. I can tell this by the emphasis you put on age. Successful (even marginally so) people measure others by their worth and accomplishments. All age tells is that a person has managed to live that long without dying which is an easy task these days.
As for food storage I don't have anywhere near as much as I would like but I would like to have a pretty enormous amount so I am probably not doing too bad now. Better then 90+% of the population in any case. As for an apartment WTF is wrong with that? I would live for free in your moms basement but that is already occupied by you.
Oh yeah and to conclude GO FUCK YOURSELF.
You are a spammer. You leave worthless comments on every blog you come across in the hopes someone will read your worthless crap of a blog site.
Who in the hell wants to get survival advice from a 23 year old punk kid, that by your own statements has no food storage to speak of and lives in an apartment.
Let me see where to start. Oh yeah FUCK YOU. Now that that is taken care of lets talk about your points. Broadly speaking there are two types of comments: hey man good post and I think/ have done X. I split somewhere between those two. If people want to moderate comments they do. For those who moderate comments they approve mine so clearly they are OK with the writers of blogs. If you as a troll don't like what/ how I comment that is really just too bad.
You are an idiot who can't even get my age right. If you are going to pick at something at least make sure it is right. By the tone of that comment I am guessing you are middle aged and have very achieved little in life by any measure. I can tell this by the emphasis you put on age. Successful (even marginally so) people measure others by their worth and accomplishments. All age tells is that a person has managed to live that long without dying which is an easy task these days.
As for food storage I don't have anywhere near as much as I would like but I would like to have a pretty enormous amount so I am probably not doing too bad now. Better then 90+% of the population in any case. As for an apartment WTF is wrong with that? I would live for free in your moms basement but that is already occupied by you.
Oh yeah and to conclude GO FUCK YOURSELF.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Top Survival Blogs
This isn't going to be a top 10 list. Survival blogs are so diverse (some mostly gun, some mostly political, etc) that they are hard to compare in a heads up sort of way.
I see it as a conversation a lot like this:
Questioner-What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?
Answering guy- At home or going out?
Q- Going out.
A- Fast food or sit down?
Q- Sit down.
A- Am I watching what I eat or splurging?
Q- Splurging.
A- Good restaurant or greasy spoon
Q- Good restaurant
A- Eggs Benedict.
Without being super specific I could not get a good answer and if you are too specific it frames the thing in favor of one blog or another. So instead of doing a top 10 I am going to name some categories and put my besty for them. As a special little trick you will have to click on the link to find out who it is.
Most informational. If you need to know how to make an 86 Ford diesel EMP proof or what kind of a inverter you need for a complicated solar panel setup this is the place to go.
Most entertaining. This is the place for me to go when I've just got 5 minutes to check the computer.
Best Female Blogger. This was really tough with a few gals in competition. It was made somewhat simpler by another Gal winning in a different category. This gal pulls ahead of the competition by consistently posting and consistently giving me blind flashes of the obvious.
Best Foreign Blogger. This guy writes better stuff that I do and English isn't even his native language. Come to think of it that pisses me off a little bit.
Wish he would stick around. Lots of faces come and go. They start off strong and get busy, disenchanted with the whole thing or run out of stuff to write about. I wish this dude would get to consistently posting already.
Most unique. We bloggers generally stick to a few predictable types of blogs. We either write theoretical stuff or concrete stuff. We tend to write almost exclusively about food, guns or politics. That leaves 6 options for a blogs composition that pretty accurately cover the bases for 90+% of blogs. Not this one! It is different and I like it.
Most like my blog. Nuf said. Clearly this blogger is a genius in addition to being a bad mo fo.
Most pissed off. Things aren't going very well in the world these days. This guy is PISSED OFF about it and he is going to make sure you know it.
Last but certainly not least:
My man for all things financial. Lots of people talk about financial stuff. While well intentioned I think lots of them are often far off the mark on things. I don't trust what they say because they work as a diesel mechanic and not an independently wealthy retired investor who works on diesel engines for fun.
Here is another one just to round out an even 10. I like that this guy knows what he is good at and sticks with it. He has great advice based upon his own experiences and actions. In addition to being consistently funny I often learn something useful if only for later down the road.
I see it as a conversation a lot like this:
Questioner-What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?
Answering guy- At home or going out?
Q- Going out.
A- Fast food or sit down?
Q- Sit down.
A- Am I watching what I eat or splurging?
Q- Splurging.
A- Good restaurant or greasy spoon
Q- Good restaurant
A- Eggs Benedict.
Without being super specific I could not get a good answer and if you are too specific it frames the thing in favor of one blog or another. So instead of doing a top 10 I am going to name some categories and put my besty for them. As a special little trick you will have to click on the link to find out who it is.
Most informational. If you need to know how to make an 86 Ford diesel EMP proof or what kind of a inverter you need for a complicated solar panel setup this is the place to go.
Most entertaining. This is the place for me to go when I've just got 5 minutes to check the computer.
Best Female Blogger. This was really tough with a few gals in competition. It was made somewhat simpler by another Gal winning in a different category. This gal pulls ahead of the competition by consistently posting and consistently giving me blind flashes of the obvious.
Best Foreign Blogger. This guy writes better stuff that I do and English isn't even his native language. Come to think of it that pisses me off a little bit.
Wish he would stick around. Lots of faces come and go. They start off strong and get busy, disenchanted with the whole thing or run out of stuff to write about. I wish this dude would get to consistently posting already.
Most unique. We bloggers generally stick to a few predictable types of blogs. We either write theoretical stuff or concrete stuff. We tend to write almost exclusively about food, guns or politics. That leaves 6 options for a blogs composition that pretty accurately cover the bases for 90+% of blogs. Not this one! It is different and I like it.
Most like my blog. Nuf said. Clearly this blogger is a genius in addition to being a bad mo fo.
Most pissed off. Things aren't going very well in the world these days. This guy is PISSED OFF about it and he is going to make sure you know it.
Last but certainly not least:
My man for all things financial. Lots of people talk about financial stuff. While well intentioned I think lots of them are often far off the mark on things. I don't trust what they say because they work as a diesel mechanic and not an independently wealthy retired investor who works on diesel engines for fun.
Here is another one just to round out an even 10. I like that this guy knows what he is good at and sticks with it. He has great advice based upon his own experiences and actions. In addition to being consistently funny I often learn something useful if only for later down the road.
Obama Knows Law, Not Economics
It appears that people are starting to realize that Obama's various economic plans are ill planed, and his campaign promises are contradictory... If only they had figured that out before electing him.
Finances and Visibility #4
Today we did our money thing. It was far more complicated then usual because it spanned 3 weeks and had cash coming from different places, multiple accounts, our tax return arrived and other stuff. We sat down and figured it all out. After her trips (visiting brother in SC and Disneyworld) were paid for and both of our personal accounts got reimbursed for what was borrowed when we got her car (that one has been hanging over our heads for a while) we will put about $1300 into savings.
While we don't quite perfectly track every penny (a receipt gets lost here or there) we are doing a heck of a lot better money wise. Instead of being close to broke at the end of the pay period (we were saving money every paycheck but still that isn't good) we now have almost a full paycheck sitting in the checking account and it is 3 days till payday! This is great because shit seems to happen in life. Now those occasional $400 (that seems to be the painful number for us) broken things can now come out of checking instead of needing to raid savings. Between Wifey watching the pennies on household stuff, us eating out less and generally being frugal we are doing a lot better money wise. Getting ahead on one income isn't real easy but we are doing it.
Watch your dollars because I fear things will get worse before they get better. As they say the day is darkest right before night time.
While we don't quite perfectly track every penny (a receipt gets lost here or there) we are doing a heck of a lot better money wise. Instead of being close to broke at the end of the pay period (we were saving money every paycheck but still that isn't good) we now have almost a full paycheck sitting in the checking account and it is 3 days till payday! This is great because shit seems to happen in life. Now those occasional $400 (that seems to be the painful number for us) broken things can now come out of checking instead of needing to raid savings. Between Wifey watching the pennies on household stuff, us eating out less and generally being frugal we are doing a lot better money wise. Getting ahead on one income isn't real easy but we are doing it.
Watch your dollars because I fear things will get worse before they get better. As they say the day is darkest right before night time.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Mike On Mexico
Theotherryan,
You had a post the other day about an article from the Detroit Free Press about Mexico and the guns that were coming from America and how a new asault weapons ban was necessary here to control guns getting from here to there and bla-bla-blah.
(Typical liberal gibberish)
And I blogged that the only thing that the freeepress is good for is cleaning walleyes on their paper.
And tonight I read this:
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle512-20090329-05.html (TOR: Think I saw this somewhere.)
Which is from The Libertarian Enterprise, and the author claims to have lived in Mexico and a whole lot more. If you get a chance take a look at it. And thanks for writing the *rantfest* I visit there most every day and enjoy the time I spend there.
Regards,
Mike
You had a post the other day about an article from the Detroit Free Press about Mexico and the guns that were coming from America and how a new asault weapons ban was necessary here to control guns getting from here to there and bla-bla-blah.
(Typical liberal gibberish)
And I blogged that the only thing that the freeepress is good for is cleaning walleyes on their paper.
And tonight I read this:
http://www.ncc-1776.org/
Which is from The Libertarian Enterprise, and the author claims to have lived in Mexico and a whole lot more. If you get a chance take a look at it. And thanks for writing the *rantfest* I visit there most every day and enjoy the time I spend there.
Regards,
Mike
Sunday Roundup
Beerfest is over and I may or may not have had 5 beers in about an hour and a half. Figure I will finish brewski number five and then eat dinner, drink a gallon of water and go to bed. Today we went to Walmart to get some film developed and groceries. Of course I went to the ammo section. They had the 15rd packs of buckshot for $9.47 and I picked up 3 of em. Probably getting pretty close to comfortable on shotgun ammo, I will have to consult the list.
My cell phone died for no apparent reason last night. Today we went and got me a new one. Signed a new contract and got a pretty decent deal on a nice phone. It is one of those flip open ones so I can text more easier now. That will be nice.
Wifey took me to the store so I could get some brats for dinner. She is feeling under the weather and isn't hungry. I will nuke a couple of those and be good to go for dinner.
I have been meaning to write about something very positive. I feel like my friends have finally gotten the message and started to act. If nothing else they figured that dropping a couple hundred bucks on something they probably should have anyway to get me to stop harping on them was worth it. One friend got squared away on pistol mags (he was pretty good on rifle mags and ammo) and the other got rifle mags, a couple hundred rounds of extra .223 and is working a deal through a friend to get more pistol mags. Maggy is stocking up on food and water. I am glad my friends are doing the wise thing. I can help them out with ammo if need be via MA (pretty much got the calibers my friends are vested in) and potentially even mags but only for weapons I own.
My family aren't really doing the whole stocking up thing. Ma has a whole bunch of freeze dried food. She also has her pistol and a few boxes of ammo. I gave her 3 of those boxes and there are plenty more in the warehouse. If need be she knows how to shoot several of the other guns that are there. Pa wants to have some guns back in the house these days, before things started getting sketcky he could not care less. In fact a bit more then a year ago Pa gave me his two guns. He is going to hold onto my Mossberg 12 gauge and Glock 19 whilst I am overseas. Odds are high the Mossberg will live with him long term. The G19 I am going to reclaim cuz I love that little gun. If the need arises he will head to Ma's and leave with an assault rifle, a pistol, ammo and mags. I can't protect them but at least they have a lot of firepower.
Tonight we need to do money (adding up and such) because we haven't done it in a few weeks as Wifey was out of town for awhile. Not a ton of cash was spent but getting cash from here and there coupled with accounts at multiple banks makes things complicated. On the bright side we got our tax refund! That sucker is going to go strait into savings though a bit will get pulled out for a weekend in FL down the road. In any case the savings account is going to go up 30% or so which will be great.
I had planned to write about some other stuff but between errands and beerfest the day pretty much disappeared.
My cell phone died for no apparent reason last night. Today we went and got me a new one. Signed a new contract and got a pretty decent deal on a nice phone. It is one of those flip open ones so I can text more easier now. That will be nice.
Wifey took me to the store so I could get some brats for dinner. She is feeling under the weather and isn't hungry. I will nuke a couple of those and be good to go for dinner.
I have been meaning to write about something very positive. I feel like my friends have finally gotten the message and started to act. If nothing else they figured that dropping a couple hundred bucks on something they probably should have anyway to get me to stop harping on them was worth it. One friend got squared away on pistol mags (he was pretty good on rifle mags and ammo) and the other got rifle mags, a couple hundred rounds of extra .223 and is working a deal through a friend to get more pistol mags. Maggy is stocking up on food and water. I am glad my friends are doing the wise thing. I can help them out with ammo if need be via MA (pretty much got the calibers my friends are vested in) and potentially even mags but only for weapons I own.
My family aren't really doing the whole stocking up thing. Ma has a whole bunch of freeze dried food. She also has her pistol and a few boxes of ammo. I gave her 3 of those boxes and there are plenty more in the warehouse. If need be she knows how to shoot several of the other guns that are there. Pa wants to have some guns back in the house these days, before things started getting sketcky he could not care less. In fact a bit more then a year ago Pa gave me his two guns. He is going to hold onto my Mossberg 12 gauge and Glock 19 whilst I am overseas. Odds are high the Mossberg will live with him long term. The G19 I am going to reclaim cuz I love that little gun. If the need arises he will head to Ma's and leave with an assault rifle, a pistol, ammo and mags. I can't protect them but at least they have a lot of firepower.
Tonight we need to do money (adding up and such) because we haven't done it in a few weeks as Wifey was out of town for awhile. Not a ton of cash was spent but getting cash from here and there coupled with accounts at multiple banks makes things complicated. On the bright side we got our tax refund! That sucker is going to go strait into savings though a bit will get pulled out for a weekend in FL down the road. In any case the savings account is going to go up 30% or so which will be great.
I had planned to write about some other stuff but between errands and beerfest the day pretty much disappeared.
Quote of the Day Part II
"You know there's something wrong when I've got little old ladies coming in buying 5,000 rounds of .22 shells," Holtz said.
BEERFEST!
Somehow Wifey found Beerfest on the TV. So now it is 6:30 on a Sunday and I am having a beer watching a hilarious movie. I have never successfully watched this without getting bombed. Then again it is Sunday, I'm not with a bunch of meathead friends/ co authors and do I have a real job now. If nothing else having a few beers then chilling out for a couple hours and going to bed will not kill me. It might even be good for the soul.
No New Lower Receiver and Storing Food
I decided against getting that new lower receiver. I don't really need the expense or trouble of building a new AR right now (fully building one and getting mags for it plus ammo would be 2k or more). I don't really have a personality that would let me stash a stripped lower in the bottom of the gun cabinet for a couple years and right now the cash to build the AR I want isn't available. I can use a bunch of smaller $50-150 gun stuff right now (nite sights for the glock 19, short barrel for the 870, collapsible stock for the M4, couple slings, some ammo, etc). I told myself no new guns till the birthday for precisely that reason. Ultimately I would like a Squad Designated Marksmen ish AR but I will not shed a bunch of tears if that doesn't happen. I do need to scope SOMETHING down the road but I am sure a bolt action 30.06 will be available.
Wifey and I had an interesting discussion about leftovers today. A big part of the problem with using up all of the food she cooks is that there is no way to tell how hungry I will be. Sometimes I eat a big lunch and do little and other times I end up eating nothing and working like crazy. Wifey could cook for 2 easy enough but when hubby comes home and eats for 3 on a regular basis that won't work. We also collectively don't like eating the same thing for multiple days. Right now taking leftovers for lunch isn't practical so that solution is out.
We thinks the best current course of action is to get a few rubermaid type containers and just freeze the leftovers to eat in a week or two. This way we don't get stuck eating tacos for 4 nights in a row college style and there will be some cheap semi ready made dinners for the nights when Wifey doesn't feel like cooking. This will also help for when she is gone for whatever reason. Lazy assed doesn't cook much anymore husband can just heat something up and not eat frozen pizza every night.
There isn't a ton on the agenda for today. Think I might have a bit of homework and we are going to Wallyworld to grab some stuff and develop film. Will probably write more later.
Wifey and I had an interesting discussion about leftovers today. A big part of the problem with using up all of the food she cooks is that there is no way to tell how hungry I will be. Sometimes I eat a big lunch and do little and other times I end up eating nothing and working like crazy. Wifey could cook for 2 easy enough but when hubby comes home and eats for 3 on a regular basis that won't work. We also collectively don't like eating the same thing for multiple days. Right now taking leftovers for lunch isn't practical so that solution is out.
We thinks the best current course of action is to get a few rubermaid type containers and just freeze the leftovers to eat in a week or two. This way we don't get stuck eating tacos for 4 nights in a row college style and there will be some cheap semi ready made dinners for the nights when Wifey doesn't feel like cooking. This will also help for when she is gone for whatever reason. Lazy assed doesn't cook much anymore husband can just heat something up and not eat frozen pizza every night.
There isn't a ton on the agenda for today. Think I might have a bit of homework and we are going to Wallyworld to grab some stuff and develop film. Will probably write more later.
Readers question- All Kinds Of Stuff
Post TEOTWAWKI- What's better currency, chickens, chicken eggs, or 22 bullets? Which one would you eat first, the chicken or the eggs? You know, I'm thinking more and more about how cheap my 22lr's are, compared to my 40cals. Maybe I should just by myself one of those drums that hold 50 for my Ruger 10/22 and figure out how to make it full auto. Have you seen the videos? Amazing! I'd probably get pinched by the government if I did that, but manoman!
-Humongous
Ok one thing at a time. As for currency (for barter) I think the standard proviso that you are best off making very sure you have everything you need to live for a long time before looking to stock trade items should be mentioned. As for chickens, chicken eggs or .22 bullets. I think it would be .22 bullets for the most part. Lots of people will want chickens and pretty quickly most who can support them will have them. For an initial period chickens could be extremely valuable for trade. After that they would be less valuable. Chicken eggs would be good for small local stuff, swap you a dozen eggs for a pound of meat, etc. The best part of .22 ammo is that it is compact and doesn't require any attention. A person could hypothetically stash a few thousand rounds of .22 ammo in 2 of those wide belt fed .223 ammo boxes and just leave it there. Chickens require care and stuff which is great if you want to have chickens now.
As for .22 vs .4os&W. They serve two different purposes, .22 is for training or killing small game and .40S&W is for self defense. Of course you could try to kill a goblin with a Ruger 10/22 and you will probably be successful but that doesn't mean they are the best tool for the job. Nobody is going to kick my ass when I am holding a shovel but that doesn't make it as convenient for the task as say an ax handle.
As for Ruger 10/22 gear and such. First of all don't mess with your 10/22 and make it illegal, it is just not worth it. Second of all broadly speaking drums (excluding those guns that used them stock like the RPK and the Thompson) are prone to some real feeding issues. Do a lot of research before buying a drum. If you want higher capacity I suggest 25-30rd banana clips for the 10/22. They are made by lots of people and some of them have great reputations. I personally just rock the 10 rd standard mags but to each their own.
-TOR
My shoot-from-the-hip (pardon the pun) guess on the shelf life of 22LR is decades, just like any other factory ammo. This last thanksgiving we shot some boxes of Remington 22LR that had been in a drawer (not sealed at all) for 20+ years. About 5-10 out of each 100 were duds. Properly sealed I'd say a long, long time.
I would be inclined to agree with Anon. Assuming ammo is kept in a dry place it tends to last for a very very long time. If you are worried throw it in an ammo can with some silica gel.
-TOR
-Humongous
Ok one thing at a time. As for currency (for barter) I think the standard proviso that you are best off making very sure you have everything you need to live for a long time before looking to stock trade items should be mentioned. As for chickens, chicken eggs or .22 bullets. I think it would be .22 bullets for the most part. Lots of people will want chickens and pretty quickly most who can support them will have them. For an initial period chickens could be extremely valuable for trade. After that they would be less valuable. Chicken eggs would be good for small local stuff, swap you a dozen eggs for a pound of meat, etc. The best part of .22 ammo is that it is compact and doesn't require any attention. A person could hypothetically stash a few thousand rounds of .22 ammo in 2 of those wide belt fed .223 ammo boxes and just leave it there. Chickens require care and stuff which is great if you want to have chickens now.
As for .22 vs .4os&W. They serve two different purposes, .22 is for training or killing small game and .40S&W is for self defense. Of course you could try to kill a goblin with a Ruger 10/22 and you will probably be successful but that doesn't mean they are the best tool for the job. Nobody is going to kick my ass when I am holding a shovel but that doesn't make it as convenient for the task as say an ax handle.
As for Ruger 10/22 gear and such. First of all don't mess with your 10/22 and make it illegal, it is just not worth it. Second of all broadly speaking drums (excluding those guns that used them stock like the RPK and the Thompson) are prone to some real feeding issues. Do a lot of research before buying a drum. If you want higher capacity I suggest 25-30rd banana clips for the 10/22. They are made by lots of people and some of them have great reputations. I personally just rock the 10 rd standard mags but to each their own.
-TOR
Myles said...Do you guys have any favorites when it comes to survival radios? I'm looking for something small, lightweight, and durable that could be tossed into a backpack.
I personally have two radios. The first is a cheapo from radio shack and the other one (which I owe you guys an in depth review on) is kind of fancy. The radio shack one looks sort of like this and it works fine for me. I have used it to pick up SW and listen to music when working outside.
Right now out in the field I am using a little Sony Walkman which is working just great. It is tiny and runs for a long time on a single AAA battery. Doesn't have the best reception but it is so tiny that I will take it with me everywhere.
-TOR
- chadow10 said...
- I was wondering what the shelf life is on 22LR. Does having sealed primers make a difference?
My shoot-from-the-hip (pardon the pun) guess on the shelf life of 22LR is decades, just like any other factory ammo. This last thanksgiving we shot some boxes of Remington 22LR that had been in a drawer (not sealed at all) for 20+ years. About 5-10 out of each 100 were duds. Properly sealed I'd say a long, long time.
I would be inclined to agree with Anon. Assuming ammo is kept in a dry place it tends to last for a very very long time. If you are worried throw it in an ammo can with some silica gel.
-TOR
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Pawn Shop Trip- .38 ammo, Lower Receivers and Sporting Arms
Went to the Pawn shop this afternoon when the thunder storms stopped. Picked up two boxes of .38 ball ammo. Would have gotten a couple more but they didn't have more of the ones at the price I felt like paying. Did some general looking around at the guns and such. They had plenty of AR's (at least a dozen) and 2-3 AK's. Prices were high but those who want to buy semi automatic rifles during this sort of a time can't really complain about not getting good deals. They had an AR lower receiver for $200 and I really thought about getting it. I will have to think about that for awhile. Not sure if I will do that and build one later or somewhere down the road just pick up the 20" flat top that the evil gun purchasing midget in my head says I should have.
Should I get the lower receiver or not?
The .38 ammo puts me at about the number that gives me comfort for the time being. For better or worse .38/.357mag is the closest thing I have to a standard platform with reasonable redundancy. A few hundred rounds of ammo per gun is probably sufficient if you have several of them. For those with one pistol I think a full case is probably a better way to go but then again if you aren't paranoid you could probably cut everything I say in half and be fine. If I shoot up a couple cases of .38 ammo odds are high there will be some battlefield pickups along the way.
Thoughts?
After the man behind the counter handed my the bullets I sorta hung out for a couple minutes. Checking out the stuff that is in stock, prices for it and just generally observing. Something very interesting happened. An older man was looking for a single shot 12 gauge shotgun. The H&R single shot seems to be the budget hunting gun down here. Since the brush down here is pretty dense shotguns are used to hunt deer and hogs. That an older man wanted a shotgun, probably for a grandson or something is not particularly interesting. What I realized a few minutes later when driving home was interesting. For some reason I just kept thinking about that man and came to the conclusion.
The older man in a hat trying to buy a single shot shotgun was interesting because it is the first time in recent memory (months at least) that I've seen anyone inquire about, handle or purchase a sporting arm. Between buying guns myself and picking up a box of ammo or something else here and there I am in places that sell guns fairly regularly. For months I have only seen people purchase defensive pistols, short barreled shotguns (not many of these) and semi automatic rifles. I've heard about this in other places but it is interesting to see these things through your own eyes.
Tonight has been pretty chill. Ate some leftovers and have just been sitting around. Cops is on in 11 minutes which will be cool. Got some good stuff in the works. A top survivalist blogs post is on the way as is more shooting stuff.
Should I get the lower receiver or not?
The .38 ammo puts me at about the number that gives me comfort for the time being. For better or worse .38/.357mag is the closest thing I have to a standard platform with reasonable redundancy. A few hundred rounds of ammo per gun is probably sufficient if you have several of them. For those with one pistol I think a full case is probably a better way to go but then again if you aren't paranoid you could probably cut everything I say in half and be fine. If I shoot up a couple cases of .38 ammo odds are high there will be some battlefield pickups along the way.
Thoughts?
After the man behind the counter handed my the bullets I sorta hung out for a couple minutes. Checking out the stuff that is in stock, prices for it and just generally observing. Something very interesting happened. An older man was looking for a single shot 12 gauge shotgun. The H&R single shot seems to be the budget hunting gun down here. Since the brush down here is pretty dense shotguns are used to hunt deer and hogs. That an older man wanted a shotgun, probably for a grandson or something is not particularly interesting. What I realized a few minutes later when driving home was interesting. For some reason I just kept thinking about that man and came to the conclusion.
The older man in a hat trying to buy a single shot shotgun was interesting because it is the first time in recent memory (months at least) that I've seen anyone inquire about, handle or purchase a sporting arm. Between buying guns myself and picking up a box of ammo or something else here and there I am in places that sell guns fairly regularly. For months I have only seen people purchase defensive pistols, short barreled shotguns (not many of these) and semi automatic rifles. I've heard about this in other places but it is interesting to see these things through your own eyes.
Tonight has been pretty chill. Ate some leftovers and have just been sitting around. Cops is on in 11 minutes which will be cool. Got some good stuff in the works. A top survivalist blogs post is on the way as is more shooting stuff.
Lazy Saturday
The weather down here is just plain nasty today. We ventured out all the way to the dumpster to toss the garbage but that is it. I had wanted to do a bit of shopping but decided against it. There isn't anything I need today and it is nasty outside. Having nights off at home next will will let me take care of a few little things.
Due to an odd eating situation yesterday I have bunches of leftovers. We went to the BBQ place and picked up chow to go and went home. Neither Wifey or her friend were at all digging the BBQ so we tossed it in the fridge and went to Buffalo Wild Wings. BBQ was cheap and between me being in the field (no cost of living) and general frugality it wasn't a big deal. We also wanted her friend to have a good dinner for her last night here. The end result is a lot of left overs for me to chow down on today.
Wifey had to wake up early to take her friend to the airport so she is sleeping. I'm just sitting around watching the Sopranos and playing with the treasure. I know the total amount but it was interesting to lay it all out and see how it broke down between one ounce rounds, one ounce bars, and 90% dimes/ quarters. Tonight will be a bit more TV (Saturday night Cops) and then sleepy time.
There has been talk about a new bailout to buy up the "toxic assets". I try to stay out of news stuff anymore because it just drags me down. I did however note that THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF THE TARP PROGRAM! So we give them money to help deal with this then buy the bad debt from them? Fuck me running. I also found myself needing to stop and thing about exactly which bailout they were talking about on the radio. There have been so darn many that it is now confusing.
Due to an odd eating situation yesterday I have bunches of leftovers. We went to the BBQ place and picked up chow to go and went home. Neither Wifey or her friend were at all digging the BBQ so we tossed it in the fridge and went to Buffalo Wild Wings. BBQ was cheap and between me being in the field (no cost of living) and general frugality it wasn't a big deal. We also wanted her friend to have a good dinner for her last night here. The end result is a lot of left overs for me to chow down on today.
Wifey had to wake up early to take her friend to the airport so she is sleeping. I'm just sitting around watching the Sopranos and playing with the treasure. I know the total amount but it was interesting to lay it all out and see how it broke down between one ounce rounds, one ounce bars, and 90% dimes/ quarters. Tonight will be a bit more TV (Saturday night Cops) and then sleepy time.
There has been talk about a new bailout to buy up the "toxic assets". I try to stay out of news stuff anymore because it just drags me down. I did however note that THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF THE TARP PROGRAM! So we give them money to help deal with this then buy the bad debt from them? Fuck me running. I also found myself needing to stop and thing about exactly which bailout they were talking about on the radio. There have been so darn many that it is now confusing.
Looking For A Job? Can You Really Walk The Walk?
Subject: Contract pay range: $550 per day while instructing
Blackwater Worldwide is seeking Instructors for the Afghan Border Patrol-Police Instructor/Mentors contract.
We are seeking diversified instructors with a broad experience in paramilitary skills, Small Unit Tactics, Marksmanship, Tactical Tracking, etc.; that are able to work in small team elements. Additionally the instructors must have the ability plan, coordinate, build rapport, lead and set an ethical example. The ideal candidate will have had SOF experience (US Army Special Forces, Army Ranger BN, USMC INF/ForceRecon, SEAL, as well as other combat arms skilled MOS’s(Or extensive Law Enforcement- SWAT/Instructor).) and prior experience teaching foreign nationals.
Instructor teams include skills from the following fields, medical, communications, weapons and tactics, as well as specialized law enforcement personnel.
Candidates should highlight all instructor experience and certification.
Candidates will be required to pass a physical fitness test and weapons qualifications.
Some positions will require a security clearance; please indicate if you have/had a clearance and SSBI date.
This contract will from time to time be located in remote austere locations, and will require team work to keep the training sites running smooth.
Contract pay range: $550 per day while instructing, $650 per day for periods of mentoring.
All interested candidates should forward their resume (chronological with units, deployments and major schools) and DD214 to:
20406-CJB-0@blackwaterusa2.
Force On Force Training, The Basics, Marksmenship and Tactics
There have been a few conversations about force on force training lately. It all started with some classes by Gabe Suarez. While I was in the field I was thinking on an article on survivalblog that hit on some of what I was going to say. Instead of thinking darn it I got scooped I am going to throw some other stuff in and make it more all encompassing. So the end state is that you get a better article which is really always what I want to give you.
My thinking started a lot like this: What is more important, accuracy or tactics?
I am going to start with a big ole caveat. You need to know the basic fundamentals of marksmanship and be able to hit targets. Of course if you can't hit the target you will loose a gunfight. People are pretty big targets and usually they aren't that far away.
There is also a HUGE difference between pistols and rifles, so much so that I will discuss them separately.
Pistols are inherently difficult to shoot well. Holding them in your hands makes them wobbly and their short line of sight really doesn't help matters. Also pistol fights tend to happen up close and end very quickly. 2-3 shots at 5-7 meters is pretty much average factoring in different people saying different things. So a pistol fight is going to be really fast and personal. Think mugging and the like. When it comes to pistols the difference between marksmanship and tactics is pretty thin. Unless you are planning on going to the Olympics you want to work on a combination of shooting at relatively close distance and drawing and shooting at relatively close distances. Eventually work towards multiple targets and other more complicated stuff. When it comes to pistols tactical training and marksmanship are almost the same thing. With pistols if it gets past that first few shots seeking cover (if readily available) is a good idea but the nature of these engagements makes that somewhat unlikely. Please take a second to wait so I can run and hide behind this wall Mr. Mugger with a gun.
Do bear in mind that approximately all of gunfights not involving military personel are handled with pistols and occasionally shotguns. A pistol is what you have on you when a Gobblin tries to stick you up after leaving a late showing of a movie. A pistol is what you grab first when there is a wierd noise in the house. Unless you are an Infantrymen or otherwise in the service you should keep a rifle around but almost surely won't need it. In any case you guys wanted to learn more about the shooting stuff we do at work so I will talk about it.
Rifles are relatively easy to shoot with a pretty good level of accuracy. That they are placed against the pocket between the shoulder and the pec gives a good rigid point to make sure you do the same thing every time. Their far longer distance between the sights also helps. At urban ranges (under 100 meters) in a stand up fight people with rifles hit their targets. This means two things. First you almost surely will not see two people standing up and blazing away at 25 meters with rifles missing each other. Rifle engagements like that end up with someone (or I suppose two people) dead.
When it comes to rifles tactics are essential. If someone can shoot with reasonable accuracy (say 3-4MOA) then working on tactics (mainly movement) would be a better way to go for gunfightings sake then working on getting to 2MOA.
I guess in conclusion gunfighting is about properly applying reasonable accuracy when combined with good movement and tactics.
Now to force on force training. This stuff is pretty darn good but must be done very carefully. It must be done carefully for a couple reasons. First if you use some sort of SIM ammunition the need to be very far removed from live rounds is essential for obvious reasons. Second is far less lethal but still pretty darn serious. This is about how you conduct force on force training.
Force on force training can very easily turn into cowboys and indians little kid style with a bunch of people running around and arguments about who shot who first. While a hypothetical situation like 10 2nd Lieutenants set loose in a house with sim rounds and the only goal is to be the last one alive is fun it is not good training. When your munitions, time and funds are limited you need to conduct the best training possible.
A couple of rules will also help. If you get shot you are dead, period. It might be a mark on your arm but it could have shattered the bone and you bled out. We aren't trying to assess casualties (here) or anything like that so once shot you are out. Also be sure to confine "play" to a very specific situation.
My suggestion is to work backwards. Lets say the scenario you want to work on is clearing a home in small teams. Then have a small team go through clearing a home that may or may not have an opfor present. Work on reacting to contact while moving through the woods. React to contact while walking down the street. Figure out the scenarios that concern you and train for them.
Hope you all have a good Saturday. It has been raining like crazy so I am not going to do much. Got leftovers to eat and some sitting around to catch up on.
My thinking started a lot like this: What is more important, accuracy or tactics?
I am going to start with a big ole caveat. You need to know the basic fundamentals of marksmanship and be able to hit targets. Of course if you can't hit the target you will loose a gunfight. People are pretty big targets and usually they aren't that far away.
There is also a HUGE difference between pistols and rifles, so much so that I will discuss them separately.
Pistols are inherently difficult to shoot well. Holding them in your hands makes them wobbly and their short line of sight really doesn't help matters. Also pistol fights tend to happen up close and end very quickly. 2-3 shots at 5-7 meters is pretty much average factoring in different people saying different things. So a pistol fight is going to be really fast and personal. Think mugging and the like. When it comes to pistols the difference between marksmanship and tactics is pretty thin. Unless you are planning on going to the Olympics you want to work on a combination of shooting at relatively close distance and drawing and shooting at relatively close distances. Eventually work towards multiple targets and other more complicated stuff. When it comes to pistols tactical training and marksmanship are almost the same thing. With pistols if it gets past that first few shots seeking cover (if readily available) is a good idea but the nature of these engagements makes that somewhat unlikely. Please take a second to wait so I can run and hide behind this wall Mr. Mugger with a gun.
Do bear in mind that approximately all of gunfights not involving military personel are handled with pistols and occasionally shotguns. A pistol is what you have on you when a Gobblin tries to stick you up after leaving a late showing of a movie. A pistol is what you grab first when there is a wierd noise in the house. Unless you are an Infantrymen or otherwise in the service you should keep a rifle around but almost surely won't need it. In any case you guys wanted to learn more about the shooting stuff we do at work so I will talk about it.
Rifles are relatively easy to shoot with a pretty good level of accuracy. That they are placed against the pocket between the shoulder and the pec gives a good rigid point to make sure you do the same thing every time. Their far longer distance between the sights also helps. At urban ranges (under 100 meters) in a stand up fight people with rifles hit their targets. This means two things. First you almost surely will not see two people standing up and blazing away at 25 meters with rifles missing each other. Rifle engagements like that end up with someone (or I suppose two people) dead.
When it comes to rifles tactics are essential. If someone can shoot with reasonable accuracy (say 3-4MOA) then working on tactics (mainly movement) would be a better way to go for gunfightings sake then working on getting to 2MOA.
I guess in conclusion gunfighting is about properly applying reasonable accuracy when combined with good movement and tactics.
Now to force on force training. This stuff is pretty darn good but must be done very carefully. It must be done carefully for a couple reasons. First if you use some sort of SIM ammunition the need to be very far removed from live rounds is essential for obvious reasons. Second is far less lethal but still pretty darn serious. This is about how you conduct force on force training.
Force on force training can very easily turn into cowboys and indians little kid style with a bunch of people running around and arguments about who shot who first. While a hypothetical situation like 10 2nd Lieutenants set loose in a house with sim rounds and the only goal is to be the last one alive is fun it is not good training. When your munitions, time and funds are limited you need to conduct the best training possible.
A couple of rules will also help. If you get shot you are dead, period. It might be a mark on your arm but it could have shattered the bone and you bled out. We aren't trying to assess casualties (here) or anything like that so once shot you are out. Also be sure to confine "play" to a very specific situation.
My suggestion is to work backwards. Lets say the scenario you want to work on is clearing a home in small teams. Then have a small team go through clearing a home that may or may not have an opfor present. Work on reacting to contact while moving through the woods. React to contact while walking down the street. Figure out the scenarios that concern you and train for them.
Hope you all have a good Saturday. It has been raining like crazy so I am not going to do much. Got leftovers to eat and some sitting around to catch up on.
Friday, March 27, 2009
quote of the day
"Now realize, that when you talk about "Rich", most people define that as those that make more than they do...and "Poor" are those that make less than you and most people identify themselves as "Middle Class." See - ITS ALL RELATIVE which means its EASY TO MANIPULATE..."
-Pearls
Should be sleeping but I needed to take a couple minutes and drink water. Found this gem while catching up on Pearls blog. I've had a much less eloquent version of this quote in my head for some time.
This is totally true. I've known people with incomes well in excess of $250,000 who considered themselves "upper middle class" and conversely families with incomes of $25,000 who considered themselves middle class. Where we draw these lines has big implications.
-Pearls
Should be sleeping but I needed to take a couple minutes and drink water. Found this gem while catching up on Pearls blog. I've had a much less eloquent version of this quote in my head for some time.
This is totally true. I've known people with incomes well in excess of $250,000 who considered themselves "upper middle class" and conversely families with incomes of $25,000 who considered themselves middle class. Where we draw these lines has big implications.
Mexico and Guns
Check out this link to read a pretty darn interesting story. Hat tip to Hermit for finding this gem.
Mexico- Travel Restriction
Today we were told that if we want to travel to Mexico the signature of the first O-6 (Full Colonel) in our chain of command is required. If you aren't familiar with the military a Colonel is in charge of THOUSANDS of people and is the highest ranking officer who isn't a General.
No commentary for this one but I thought it was interesting.
No commentary for this one but I thought it was interesting.
Rucking And Stuff
Today we did a 12 mile ruck. It was going pretty good with a nice misting rain. Enough to keep you cool but not enough to be unpleasant. Then it started to pour and never stopped. I did pretty decent (3:18) but admittedly didn't push myself much (and we couldn't run). In any case it was a wet cold miserable day at work. The only up side was getting out of there at a reasonable time.
Did lots of cool stuff so I will have things to write about tomorrow. Tonight we are headed to our favorite BBQ place smack dab in the ghetto (across the street from the projects) but darn is it ever good.
Might write more later but waking up at 2:45AM leaves me pretty tired.
Did lots of cool stuff so I will have things to write about tomorrow. Tonight we are headed to our favorite BBQ place smack dab in the ghetto (across the street from the projects) but darn is it ever good.
Might write more later but waking up at 2:45AM leaves me pretty tired.
An Inconvenient Debt
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
Thomas Jefferson
Glenn Beck, a month or two ago, hosted what he called "An Inconvenient Debt" about how much money we are printing to cover our massive debt. Here is the video.
Lately, he brought on Larry the Dead Fish:
Its time to look to the future. Congress just released its new budget, which calls for a $9.3 trillion deficit increase over the next ten years. To put that into perspective, today the national debt is just over $11 trillion. During Bush's insane spending spree, the national debt increased around $4 trillion, and that was over 8 years.
Have we lost our fucking minds? Has it really gotten to the point where the thought of a balanced budget is so alien to us that no one is willing to actually cut spending to the point where we can survive as a country? It is hypocritical for Republicans to talk about small government, and then go on an insane spending spree, but it is just as hypocritical for Democrats to complain (rightfully so) that the Bush administration is spending like a drunken sailor, and then more than double the damage he did!
The silver lining is that this cannot continue, and at some point, we are going to have to make a drastic shift in American politics to a more libertarian government. We can only hope that this occurs before the complete breakdown of Western society... But some how I doubt it.
Thomas Jefferson
Glenn Beck, a month or two ago, hosted what he called "An Inconvenient Debt" about how much money we are printing to cover our massive debt. Here is the video.
Lately, he brought on Larry the Dead Fish:
Its time to look to the future. Congress just released its new budget, which calls for a $9.3 trillion deficit increase over the next ten years. To put that into perspective, today the national debt is just over $11 trillion. During Bush's insane spending spree, the national debt increased around $4 trillion, and that was over 8 years.
Have we lost our fucking minds? Has it really gotten to the point where the thought of a balanced budget is so alien to us that no one is willing to actually cut spending to the point where we can survive as a country? It is hypocritical for Republicans to talk about small government, and then go on an insane spending spree, but it is just as hypocritical for Democrats to complain (rightfully so) that the Bush administration is spending like a drunken sailor, and then more than double the damage he did!
The silver lining is that this cannot continue, and at some point, we are going to have to make a drastic shift in American politics to a more libertarian government. We can only hope that this occurs before the complete breakdown of Western society... But some how I doubt it.
Questions
This is an open question post. If so inclined throw a question into the comments and I will answer it to the best of my ability.
The Late Charlton Heston's Basement...
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TOR adds: This may or may not be legit but it is legitimately awesome.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
How to Drive Fast on Drugs
While Getting Your
Wing-Wang Squeezed
and
Not Spill Your Drink
By P.J. O'RourkeTOR says: I think it is worth disclaiming that this hilarious (albeit completely offensive) article is for entertainment purposes only. It is fricking funny to read but not a good idea to actually do in real life, Like making a giant bacon cannon and shooting it at cops.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Quote of the Day
"You can have one strawberry, but the rest are for the jam. I know it sucks, but in 10 years from now, when we are sitting around wearing skins, and fighting off the bears, eating it, you'll be grateful."
Maggie to her son
Maggie to her son
Home Cooking
Overall the cooking from scratch thing is going pretty well thanks entirely to my awesome Wife. Really without her that falls apart as I am noting this weekend.
The one thing that isn't working so well is that we end up with a bunch of leftovers that don't get eaten. I haven't been around to eat stuff for lunch so that usual way won't work. Most stuff is cheap enough it isn't a big thing but I suppose in time it does add up.
Do any of you cook from scratch for just a couple people? If so how do you manage leftovers to not waste much.
The one thing that isn't working so well is that we end up with a bunch of leftovers that don't get eaten. I haven't been around to eat stuff for lunch so that usual way won't work. Most stuff is cheap enough it isn't a big thing but I suppose in time it does add up.
Do any of you cook from scratch for just a couple people? If so how do you manage leftovers to not waste much.
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