This is one of those 2.5 million defensive gun uses the CDC couldn’t be bothered to release to the public
(Via The Woodpile Report) It’s also an answer to the questions “Why I need an AR-15”, “Why I need standard capacity magazines” and “Why I…
Category: Modern Life Skills
When the antibiotic chickens come home to roost
For some years the medical community has been warning that there might well be a time when bugs would show up that no antibiotic would…
Being a good neighbor
There’s a post on the SurvivalBlog about being a good neighbor in the American Redoubt. I would suggest that it’s applicable to pretty much anywhere…
The quality of and fact checking your decision making
(I’m trying to close some of the jillion tabs I’ve been keeping open in my browser for weeks. I believe this one comes via Charles Chu.)…
Those who fail to learn from history
Even though I lately worked for one, I’m really learning to hate universities. By and large, they seem to have become bastions of the worst…
Factoring in the dragon
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote “It does not do to leave a dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” This was the quote that really…
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Upping your game
I want your to look closely at the frame capture included with this article on an armed robbery that took place here in the AO. Seeing…
Why haven’t I heard about disasterprepper sooner?
(From the email reflector that must remain nameless) This guy is great! I’m using this for an example, because it’s the first useful EMP information…
The Anti-FAIL
Well, what a difference a couple of day and some bad weather makes. With the exception of a reported 2,000 people in Los Angles, it…
Temper tantrums
The long announced temper tantrum begins tomorrow. Antifa, the mis-named group that is actually nothing more than communists looking for a good time, will be…
The de-Googlefication continues
Slowly, step by sometimes painful step, I continue to extract Google from my life. Today it was about the browser. I’ve been using Microsoft’s Edge…
Who and what do you trust?
For months now we’ve heard the term “fake news” hurled about. We’ve also heard that “facts are fungible”. There is a certain amount of truth…
All Irma, all the time
My apologies if things around here feel like it’s “All Irma, all the time”, but when you have a storm of this magnitude in the…
Irma: No news is good news
There is no good news on the hurricane front. The models that were predicting a turn toward the open sea are all gone now. Barring…
On the practical side
I’ve been cruising a Facebook group that’s dedicated to one of the areas Mrs. Freeholder and I are considering as a possible retirement location. It…
Continuing with Hurricane Irma
I wish I was able to say “What a difference a day makes.” Maybe I can, but not in a good way, especially not for…
Time for a Public Service Announcement
(Image and links via the Drudge Report) This is not a joke. If you’re in the path of this hurricane your life is in danger.…
I have got to close some of these tabs
(As usual in this situation, I forget where these come from. I’m sure more than one was from Michael Bane on Facebook.) I was hoping…
Need to learn something?
(From Reccomendo) You might want to try Richard Feynman’s methodology. If a Nobel Prize winning physicist could use it to reduce complicated subjects down to…
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Complacency kills
Most people figure that if they follow John Farnam’s “3 Rules of Risk Management”: Don’t go to stupid places; don’t associate with stupid people; don’t…
The NRA Board of Directors Recommends a “Yes” vote on bylaws changes. Why you need to vote “HELL NO!” instead.
It’s the time of year when we voting members of the National Rifle Association have the duty to vote for the Board of Directors and,…
The long hot summer
(Links via the Drudge Report) Is the long hot summer starting? Watch this, then watch some of the other videos that will show up on…
Twenty Rules To Live By as America Goes to Hell
(Prompted by a post on Frugal Squirrels) When I started to write this post, it was going to be one of those “When you can’t…
Lessons from the War Zone
(Via the Drudge Report) Hats off to Matthew Boyle for his piece “WAR ZONE: BALTIMORE ERUPTS INTO VIOLENCE, CHAOS AS #BLACKLIVESMATTER RIOTS RAGE” We don’t…