Many people, when they first dip their toe into the world of prepping, find themselves particularly attracted to one or two subjects and run with those for a good while before branching out. It is all too easy to find food preservation and storage fascinating and all engrossing. The same with planting a garden or getting your first chickens. Ditto ...
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Sitting in one of my undergraduate classes at a much later stage in life than my fellow students, I was confused when the professor explained the tests we would take during this semester. What was an open book test? A young lady sitting next to me explained "It's a test you can use your text book for…" I was still confused, "What do you use the tex...
A Vulnerability Assessment (VA) is the final step in a Security Analysis, based on information developed in all the earlier stages (Site Survey, Area Study, Threat Assessment, and External Assets Evaluation). It requires honest qualitative evaluation of strengths and weaknesses against various threats, from which we identify upgrades worth pursuing...
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see." - Winston Churchill With the tearing down of statues and the "cancelling" of books, tv shows, monuments and music, the unhinged Left has fully begun to rewrite history and create a disingenuous record of the past. They are emboldened by our continued silence and willingnes...
This is difficult to write, as it may be overcome by events before it is ever read. Si vis pacem, para bellum. The increasing pain and downside potential of what started as a limited, regional war in Ukraine between a second and a third-rate power include, as we've previously discussed: The backfiring Western economic sanctions against Russia;Massi...
There is a scene in the movie The Bourne Identity where actor Matt Damon reels off a bunch of detailed facts about people sitting in a restaurant to the female lead actress ("our waitress is left handed", "the guy at the bar weighs 215 pounds and knows how to handle himself etc). In another restaurant movie scene, actor Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock...
"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there ar...
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." ~Bertrand Russell We are a nation divided. One side recognizes the individual's rights and wants to be left alone adopting a live and let live attitude, the other side recognizes only the group and demands you become part ...
When we started writing on the theme of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, we intended to address only the first three: War, Pestilence, and Famine. What is to be said concerning the fourth: Death? But we've reconsidered, because there is a lot to be said about a perverse ideology that seems more widespread than any of us imagined when it first a...
A Vulnerability Assessment (VA) is the final step in a Security Analysis, based on information developed in all the earlier stages (Site Survey, Area Study, Threat Assessment, and External Assets Evaluation). It requires honest qualitative evaluation of strengths and weaknesses against various threats, from which we identify upgrades worth pursuing...
