The Rebellion against the Imperial's

"Perhaps 50-100 million firearms currently owned by law-abiding citizens will become contraband with the stoke of a pen. Citizens will either register or turn in their firearms with agents of the federal government, or become criminals themselves. Faced with this choice, millions will indeed register their arms. Perhaps as many will claim they’ve sold them, or had them stolen. Suppose that as many as 200-250 million weapons of other types will go unregistered.

Tens of millions of Americans will refuse to comply with an order that is clearly a violation of the explicit intent of the Second Amendment. Among the most ardent opposing these measures will be military veterans, active duty servicepersons, and local law enforcement officers. Many of these individuals will refuse to carry out what they view as Constitutionally illegal orders. Perhaps 40-50 million citizens will view such a law as literal treason. Perhaps ten percent of those, 4-5 million, would support a rebellion in some way, and maybe 40,000-100,000 Americans will form small independently-functioning active resistance cells, or become lone-wolves."

Another Mass Tragedy

Over at Blue's

Preparedness is a state of mind

Daisy Luthor who blogs as the Organic Prepper,isn't for everyone. I've read some people decry her writings as alarmist and over the top.  especially her writing about modern GMO foods.  I personally just read the information and then look for my own information.  She doesn't ask you to take what she writes for gospel, she does ask you to at least keep an open mind and do your own research.  What is one of the biggest things I always harp on about "DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH"  Don't rely on what I or anyone else writes, and DON'T only look at information which supports your own perspective.

However Daisy has a post up about the mindset of the vast majority of Preppers/Survivalists, that the various media organizations either ignore or willfully distort.  The mindset that a Prepper, identifies the various scenarios they might realistically  need to prepare for, and then prepare for what they can.

And with that this brief excerpt that by clicking on it will take you to Daisy's post.

"Preparedness.  It’s a state of mind.

When you are a prepper, you begin to think differently than the other folks on the block.  Not only do you take steps to become physically prepared, with food, medical supplies and tools – but you are mentally prepared.  You develop a problem-solving mindset.

Part of the reason for that is that preparedness is predicting problems before they occur.  Let’s take a snowstorm for example, because where I live, this is a very common occurrence.  We’re used to it, nobody panics about it and we have come to expect it."

Click the above to read the rest of "Be the hero, not the victim"

Anti-gunners/Anti-rightists really suffer from

projection.

From TEOTWAWKI Blog

Liberal Logic

From Liberal Logic 101

Common preparedness foods

that are stored by those who are either getting started in emergency preparedness or by those who don't want to take the time to actually research their options, actually isn't good for you in the long term.

What are those foods?

I'm only going to discuss two of them in this post.

Ramen Noodles and Spam/Luncheon Loaf/Processed Caned Meat

When I first got involved in preparedness back in the mid to late 80's, every "Survivalist" had cases of Ramen Noodles, cans upon cans of some type of Spam either name brand or generic, and buckets of rice and buckets of bans.  I don't know how many times I would meet with another "Survivalist" oriented person and they would have cases and cases of Ramen, 4 or 5 cases of Spam, 2 or three jars of bouillon cubes and a bucket of rice and a bucket of pinto beans.  Coupled with 5 or 6 gallons of water in 1 gallon jugs, they considered themselves ready for the coming take over or Apocalypse or whatever they were preparing for.  These same people who have 8 or maybe 10 rifles, 4 or 5 handguns and 2 maybe 3 shotguns.  With enough ammo to supply an Light Infantry Company.  The spent more of their finances on firearms and ammunition than anything else.  Over time I got away from those types of people and became involved in a website known as Alpha Rubicon.  One of the greatest things Alpha Rubicon taught me was simple.  You need to have at least 10 beans for every bullet, and you need to store foods that you already eat.  That was a doorbell ringing, an alarm clock.  What did I have stored?  Ramen, Spam, Beans and Rice.  If I was lucky I'd have 2 or 3 gallons of water.  These days I have several months worth of food in my house, with prices the way they are getting plus having 7 kids, it's getting harder to keep adding to my food storage, especially as I now have 4 teenagers children and you know teenagers, they can eat a LOT.

But back to those common foods that many people store, Ramen and Spam.

As I said above they really aren't that good for you by themselves.  Which many people might find out in an emergency situation.

Lets look at the Ramen.  On the back of the package is the Federally Mandated Nutrition Facts:  I'll go line by line so you can understand it a little better.

Each one of these packet hold 2 servings, so the nutrition facts for one packet should be doubled.  Don't believe me read the back of your Ramen packet, 1 serving is half a block of noodles.

Calories:  190

Calories from fat: 70

Total fat: 7g  11% of Daily Value

Saturated fat: 3.5g  18%of DV

Trans fat: 0g 0% DV

Cholesterol: 0mg 0% DV

Sodium 790mg 33% DV

Total Carbohydrate 26g 9% DV

Dietary fiber less than 1g 3% DV

Sugars: 1g

Protein: 4g

So if you eat one full packet you are getting 14grams of fat 22% of you daily value, 1580 mg of sodium 66% of your daily value, 52g of carbohydrates 18% of your daily value, 2g of sugar and 8 g of protein, all for only 380 calories of energy that your body can use.

Lets look at the spam now or in my case Armour Treet:

1 can is 12 oz, and the recommended serving size is 2 oz, so each can holds 6 servings.

1 2 oz serving has

Calories 140

Calories from fat: 100

Total fat: 11g 17% DV

Saturated fat: 3.5g 18% DV

Trans fat 0g

Cholesterol: 50mg 17% DV

Sodium: 820mg 34% DV

Total Corbohydrates: 4g 1% DV

Fiber 0g

Sugars 2g

Proteins 6g

So if you 1 can of this you would be getting Fat 66g 102% DV, Sodium 4920mg 204% DV, Carbohydrates 24g 6% DV, 12g of sugar and 36 g of protein, for all of 840 calories of energy.

Do you see those sodium levels?  How good is to survive a disaster only to have a stroke or heart attack from high blood pressure?  Granted when I was younger, for almost 5 months I lived on nothing but Ramen, Spam and Mac & Cheese, which is probably why I was over weight had bad acne and couldn't even get out of my own way with out pounding migraines.  After I moved back to my parents house and started having real meals again, I lost weight the acne and the migraines.  I also was able to become more active and much healthier.

I still need a trip to the store to get some nutrition info of a few things, but you can see where this post is going.

Watch what you store for preparedness food.  If you don't pay attention to what the label says and only pay attention to the price, you could wind up hurting if not killing yourself or your family.

The coming enslavement of the American People

Found HERE

Some interesting gun posters - From the inbox

Australia Gun Control from 2001

From American Handgunner Magazine Jan/Feb 2001

I hope your Christmas Day was

safe and full of the love and togetherness with your friends and family.

Big Pharma and the tragedies in our schools

"if your child or teen has a persistent pattern of tantrums [take Jane or Johnny to the woodshed], arguing, and angry or disruptive behavior [see Founding Fathers] toward you and other authority figures [Police State, the collective, Leviathan -  they know what's best for their subjects citizens] he or she may have oppositional defiant disorder (ODD).

As a parent, you don’t have to go it alone in trying to manage [not raise] a child with oppositional defiant disorder. Doctors, counselors and child development experts [BEWARE of ALL 'experts'] can help.

Treatment of ODD involves therapy, training to help build positive family interactions, and possibly medications to treat related mental health conditions (follow the money equation: more patients = more money)."

Good points. in the post.  I wonder how many of these school shooters are being created because teachers don't want to do their job and insist their students be drugged up in order to chemically enforce compliance.

My Christmas Wishes to you all

Some songs from my kids Choir Performances.

Why isn't Earth First on the Terrorism Watch List?

"The latest newsletter from the environmentalist group Earth First! Journal contains a curious topic — assassinations.

In fact, the newsletter conveniently provides the names, addresses and phone numbers of the assassination targets. Naturally, none of this is to be taken seriously, the environmentalists tell us. From the newsletter:

Let us say clearly, this is not a call to undertake assassinations of the elite scum who are pillaging the planet and enslaving the populace — but not because we think that is a bad idea. And it’s also not because we think killing CEOs and lobbyists is negative PR either. In fact, most everyone hates these creeps, and many would applaud their demise. Some would even be so enthusiastic as to make a bid on the assassin’s old underwear if given the chance in a government auction, as we found out last year, when the State sold off Ted’s personal belongings to further enrich the family of Unabomber victim Thomas J. Mosser, executive of corporate marketing giants Burson Marsteller.

We are not calling for the assassinations of CEOs and lobbyists primarily because those assholes are disposable and replaced with relative ease. Whereas eco-revolutionaries like us are still far and few between, and someone getting popped on that sort of charge it could pull them out of the game for a long time. So instead, until the police state and prison industrial complex is weakened, thus leveling the battlefield a bit more, we propose a campaign of “prank assassinations.”

Click the above to RTWT

And be sure to look at the people who are on their "List"

H/t Insty

Why isn't this getting more headlines

"So in a gun-control-utopia such as this, you'd expect school-age children to be safe from all harm, if you buy into the theories of Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

Yet the truth is more than 440 school-age children have been shot in Chicago in 2012. This is not to say that 440 school-age children died, simply that more than 440 school-age children were at least wounded. The number of school-age children killed is reported at approximately 60.

These numbers are well above those for the 2011-2012 school year, in which 319 Chicago students were wounded and another 24 were killed."

Are those pigs flying?

"The truth finally comes out: United Nations Human Rights Watch says Gaza armed groups commit war crimes by targeting Israeli civilians. HRW did not go so far as to describe Palestinian armed groups as terrorists, but the categorical censure of rocket launchers marks a drastic change in the attitude towards Israel and Hamas."

Click the above to go RTWT

The UN actually tells the truth, FOR ONCE!

Fiscal Cliff and why the Democrats want to go over it

AM has the skinny  click the link below which I have especially crafted just for you


"Why the fiscal cliff is inevitable"

This post of Jeff's

got me thinking, the post in question is HERE, I clicked through to the NASA website and looked at all of the beautiful photos.  I saved a few for my desktop backgrounds as well.

But the thought that I had was a cascade.

#1 Which moons/planetoids orbiting Saturn could humans conceivably colonize?

#2 Just how much gravity does Saturn exert on the space around it?

#3 Could the asteroid belt be mined by robotic miners based on moons/planetoids orbiting Saturn?

#4 How hard would it be, if the /GOV got their thumbs out of their butts and fingers out of their nether regions to jump start a new commercial space race?

Just a few thoughts.  Do you have anything to add?

New precious metal currency

might , just MIGHT be worth looking into.


"Dec 21 (Reuters) - Private investors in Switzerland, Austria and Germany are lining up to buy gold bars the size of a credit card that can easily be broken into one gram pieces and used as payment in an emergency.


Now Swiss refinery Valcambi, a unit of U.S. mining giantNewmont, wants to bring its "CombiBar" to market in the United States and build up its sales presence India - theworld's largest consumer of gold where the precious metal has long served as a parallel currency."


Granted I couldn't afford it myself, however if there was a return to a precious metal "standard", there might actually be a return of common sense as it pertains to our economy and financial markets.

Not saying that it would, but the possibility exists that it might.

Found through Ace

J.D. Tucille at Reason Magazine

has a rather lengthy piece on Gun Control and it's failure to reduce crime, and why people are so adamant against it.  Please read the whole article, it is very informative.

"I doubt I ever would have gone to the black market to purchasean illegal assault weapon if it wasn’t for New York’s annoyinglyrestrictive gun control laws. Wait. Let me back up a bit. New YorkState passed the Sullivan Act back in 1911. The law required peopleto get a government permit to own or carry any weapon small enoughto be concealed—handguns, in particular. Issuing the permit wouldbe a matter of official discretion, which is a policy continued tothe present day."


H/t Claire Wolf

Blogger is doing something funky

in the editor.  It's adding characters and line breaks and really driving me nuts.  I shouldn't have to spend 20 minutes going through the HTML to figure out what the problem is.