Quote of the Day

"I'll take the simple life. Give me an AK-47, a good guard dog and a nymphomaniac who owns a liquor store."
-Bob Brown on "The Unit"

Quote of the Day and Discussion

“Everyone has a plan – until they get punched in the face.”
-Mike Tyson

Some years ago I had the occasion to be in a situation where a bunch of people got punched in the face within a controlled environment. Some of them were people who would not otherwise find such circumstances and others were guys like me for whom it was just another Friday. Blood lust aside it was very interesting. You could tell without a doubt who was getting popped for the first time by the way they reacted. Never trust anybody who hasn't been punched in the face.

The implied task is that you need to become accustomed to violence under controlled circumstances now while the opportunity to learn before it matters still exists. Get used to it while you can.

I am not going to be writing a post today. All of a sudden it got late. Will crank out something good tomorrow unless I don't.

Quote of the Day and a Happy 10 Year Blogiversary to Commander Zero

"Next time some idiot crows about how a ‘working man’ can’t afford all those ‘survivalist yuppie toys’ and that ‘real people’ can only afford a Mosin Nagant and barrels of rice, remind yourself that over a long enough timeline anything is affordable. I sure as heck didn’t get all this stuff at once, heck theres stuff I wanted when I started this blog that only recently have I been able to afford. The truth, class-bashing aside, is that if you want something badly enough you will find a way to make it happen."
-Commander Zero

And a happy Blogiversary to him. 10 years is a really long time. 

Quote of the day: John Mosby on Gen 1 Night Vision

I often get asked about the applicability of less expensive NODs, such as the older Gen 1 Russian imported stuff, and some of the stuff you can find at hunting retailers like Cabelas. In a word, don’t. I’m sure someone will post a comment on this article about how it’s better than no NODs at all. You’re wrong, and you are doing nothing but demonstrating your ignorance when you do. The only way the cheap stuff is even remotely viable is with the use of the IR illuminator device switched on. Having the illuminator device on is the NOD equivalent of taping a f___ing SureFire light to your face. If you’re dumb enough to assume that you’re the only guy in the area smart enough to have NODs, then thank you in advance for contributing to the cleansing of the gene pool.
-John Mosby

Hat tip to Tam for pulling that slightly off topic gem from an excellent post on load outs.

Quote of the Day and Fitness Reminder

"The most important thing you can do as a patriot in this country is get your butt in shape"
-David AKA SouthernPrepper1

People grossly underestimate the physical demands of combat and true 18th- 19th century living. No going to a cool guy class on a flat 25 meter range or having a few chickens and a small garden are not just about the same thing. Cutting your own wood with a chainsaw, hauling it in a truck then splitting it with a hydraulic splitter is not the same thing.

This serious mistake is compounded by the fact that fitness is a genuine slow cooker concept. Think of it like cooking with a crock pot. If dinner isn't in by 10 you aren't eating it at 6. It takes hours and there is no crank the oven up to 500 and cut off the burned parts option. Should you mess up and stick it into the oven at 2 dinner will be at 10pm. There is just no way around it.

Key to crock pots and physical fitness are patience. That chicken is going to take hours to go from frozen to wonderfully cooked. You didn't get into whatever condition you are currently in overnight and you won't get out of it overnight either. It's going to take between a couple months and a year or two depending on where you are and where you want to go with the variable of how much you are willing/ able to work in the middle. Obviously going from a morbidly obese couch potato to the fitness level of a collegiate athlete or JSOC Jedi will take a really like time. For a reasonably healthy person ditching a 20 pound spare tire, building up to running a decent 5k/ road marching a decent 10k and putting on some muscle might be more of a 4 month thing. 

The point is to get started now.

Quote of the Day

"[H]ow do you justify supporting your own version of common sense limits on "immoral " behavior then discount somebody else's?"
-Anon 7:43 on my earlier post

Quote of the Day: John Mosby on Defensive Priorities

"NVGs, or to use the older term with which I am far more comfortable, NODs, are a force multiplier of equal or greater value than two or three extra riflemen, when used properly. If you have six rifles of your own, but no NODs, you’re &@cking yourself and your team. Remedy the situation."
John Mosby in a repost of Tricks of the Trade a Contemporary Look

 I think John also said somewhere that if you do not have a years worth of food to put NODs and other cool guy kit on the back burner. This is something I personally did not do right for reasons that may or may not be valid. In any case I am working to remedy the situation.

Quote of the Day

“It’s not about protecting your children. It’s not about stopping crime. It’s about banning your guns … PERIOD!”
-Wayne LaPierre

Quote of the Day

"Doug MacRay: I need your help. I can't tell you what it is, you can never ask me about it later, and we're gonna hurt some people."

"James Coughlin: ...Whose car are we gonna' take?"

-The Town

Quote of the Day

"It’s hard to define because one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist." George H.W. Bush, on supporting the Contras and UNITA.

Hat tip to Libertas and Latte for the quote.

Quote of the Day

"You have this popular idea among survivalists that everyone living in a suburb or city is a complete useless fool while everyone that lives out in the country is a super human of some sort, healthy,fit, educated, good natured and 100% self-sufficient. People living out of government handouts, drunkards, lazy bums that have their homes falling apart with yards full of rat infested junk? Drug abusers, meth labs, you’ll never find none of those out in the sticks. Truth is that there’s that kind of people in cities,suburbs and country, and the same goes for good people we would all love to have as neighbors."

-FerFAL

Quote of the Day

"You're not allowed to eat ice cream and ride the dog, we have rules in this house."
-Me talking to Walker

Quote of the Day

By all means, save as much money on ammunition as possible. Buy cheap military surplus, buy in bulk, but don't buy bags of loose "factory reloaded" ammunition from shady vendors at gun shows.
-Firearms Blog

Buying sketchy ammo is dangerous and not a good place to cut corners.

Quote of the Day

"The top prize for a Stating The Obvious headline goes to: Wounded grizzly bear in Eastern Idaho could pose danger."
-Jim Rawles

Quote of the Day

"Here is a suggestion. If I die, even if you somehow get a bunch of money, don't be a stay at home dad. I have seen you less stressed about going to war then spending a day with a two year old. In fact you don't really get stressed about anything, except toddlers, and babies are worse."
-Wifey to me this morning

Quote of the Day

"The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire." — Robert A. Heinlein

Quote of the Day: What Drives Me

"If it doesn't have tits or a muzzle it is no good to you"- Wifey

"I like food"- Me

"Also beer"- Wifey

This was Wifey's way of saying that I don't care about very many things.

Quote of the Day

"If there are two things I hate it is change and hipsters"
-Ed on Last Man Standing

Quote of the Day

"One difference between Christendom and the Islamic world: We don't get all bent out out of shape and start demanding that people have their heads cut off when our printed scriptures are defamed or defiled. "

-JWR over at Survival Blog

Quote of the Day

"You're telling us we are under house arrest?" -Jack

"No, you are free to leave but I will shoot you in the leg" -Miles