Posted on 09/07/2012 2:23:13 PM PDT by Kartographer
1. If something happens all I have to do is call 911.
2. All I need is a 72-hour kit with a flashlight, first aid kit, some food and water, and a radio.
3. My insurance policy will take care of everything.
4. Good preparedness is too expensive and complicated.
5. We can only form a neighborhood group through FEMA, the Red Cross or local law enforcement.
6. In a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) terrorist attack, we’re all dead anyway.
7. Nothing like that could ever happen here.
8. All I have to worry about is my own family.
9. If preparedness were really important it would be taught in school.
10. I can get free preparedness information on the Internet.
11. Full preparedness means I have to get a lot of guns and be a survivalist.
12. If something really bad happens, no one will help.
You’d go Union Army Civil War over WWI???
I don't think the mass of black Americans will do anything though....deep down, probably a sizable minority don't even like the idiot....
a) it's not in France.
b) medicine is fairly close to the same.
c) Sec Stanton, for all his stupid faults, did food logistics fairly less screwed up since the logistics tail was much shorter.
Throw in the flu of 1917/18, screwed up weather patterns, gas warfare, and the introduction of the machine gun (yes, Dr. Gatling had his during the Civil War, but it was lumped with arty), and it's no question in my little brain.
/johnny
“Well that, and he’s too old to fist fight, so he’ll likely just shoot you, and if it comes to that, you lose. He will outshoot you.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KwMK78idpA
;-)
Um, yup. As I was saying...
BTW thanks, Sarge. Salute.
"It's a pea-wit that judges by the group".
/johnny
>>1. If something happens I could call 911. Of course, that might make the problem far worse. Whether to call 911 is a decision to be made based on whether an official response is more likely than not to be helpful.
There is a line I’ve learned here that goes “There are very few situations that can’t be made worse by the addition of a cop.”
Unfortunately, based on reading a lot of news articles here, I’m forced to agree.
The flip side of that is that any interpersonal relationship problems can be resolved by the proper application of high explosives. ;)
Did I get that right, Lefty?
/johnny
As always you are the man my friend and brother!
I just made a response above, and referenced this scene. LOL
Then I came back to move on to the next ping, and there was your film clip.
Hilarious. Exactly right bud.
Nice one.
Add iodized salt to your list. AND sugar. AND Yeast packets.
LOOOONG shelf-life.
Low melt-temp, softer wax like this: http://www.cheesemaking.com/RedCheeseWax.html
But you can also use FAR CHEAPER “gulf wax” — white/clear, sold in a box in most any baking section of the grocery store.
Just be mindful of temps.
Here’s a link to gulf wax http://www.walmart.com/ip/Gulf-Wax-For-Canning-Candlemaking-Many-Other-Uses-Household-Paraffin-Wax-16-oz/10420578
LOL...So what will a zombie have to offer me in return for a bottle of booze?
and everybody goes to college and elects to take economics. my bad
Wise words well thought out and presented GR as always .....
As stated here many times we live as grandparents and parents taught us as they experiencd the great depression first hand. I have experienced and seen the worlds worst with my career in the military.
The world is a fragile place where humans dictate by their actions what does and doesn’t happen. If your up to your hips in grenade pins it’s up to you to use USAF Colonel John Boyd’s OODA loop and improve your lot in life .....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
Our own buddy Travis Mcgee has a variant he adopted for our use......his cube at the bottom of his home page here at FR.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~travismcgee/
The basics of water, food, shelter, security, transportation, communications, medical and hygiene all have redundant layers from every day sources to stored backups, barter ability and sources and improvised sustainability of our basic needs.
We prepare, we maintain, we inspect and repair, we learn, we live how we would if all power and commercial sources were to cease tomorrow.
Key also is to be aware of local, area and national threat assessments. Evaluate such data from ALL SOURCES be they trusted, left or right politically, conspiracy sorts and foreign news outlets as well.
Free insurance for all but total anarchy and natural disasters. For that we have skill sets to survive if the good lord lets us.
Prepping is not all beans, bullets, barriers and bullion.
My opinion and how we address our “insurance”....;o)
Stay safe !
That is the commercial version...., no professionalism in that method.
Carefully measure and calculate what you need then double the amount. Albeit I pride myself on knowing just how much to shove up a bulls butt to blow his horns off without making his eyes water.....
Stay safe !
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