“Hunger Games ‘Lite’” = USA ca. 2013. And “I prefer not to.” This multi-part post by Todd at Survival Sherpa is an important read. That would be true even if it didn’t also plug Rats!, the FREE anti-snitch book. (Thank you for that, Todd. And thank you, D, for the find.) —– I attended a local preparedness fair over the weekend. It was, to say the least, sparsely attended. There was a smattering of people there when it opened. But by 1:00, when I returned to attend a presentation on preparedness for pets, the exhibitors had been reduced to browsing…
21 CommentsMonth: January 2013
Via Joel: A WhiteHouse.gov petition to make the president and his family safer by establishing a gun-free zone around them. It’s close to reaching the 25,000-signature threshhold that’s supposed to guarantee a response from a “policy expert” chosen by WH staff. And it’s still getting hundreds of signatures even on this slow ‘Net day. That’ll be a response worth seeing …
7 CommentsHe fought the law — and depression. The law and depression won. A kid genius and a good fighter is gone. (H/T J & P)
5 CommentsWith all the news about teachers rushing to accept invitations for free firearms training, I got to wondering how that might fit in with the tragically misnamed Gun-Free School Zones Act. Turns out school districts can allow guns if the boss-o-crats want to. But I realized something else interesting. The clause the feddies inserted to make this otherwise bogus law “constitutional” could also mean that those guns manufactured and carried in-state under all those new firearms freedom laws ought to be legal for school and near-school carry. And those instate guns ought to be exempt from whatever the Biden/Obama/Feinstein crowd…
13 CommentsFive facts on guns and violence. Inside the snakepit of ignorance that is Dianne Feinstein’s office. And DiFi’s gun policy. Three hundred cats. Not crazy. The thing that makes this article interesting is that it comes from Mother Jones and not Fox News. You go, Wyoming! Once again, a kingpin gets off lightly by snitching on his underlings. (H/T J.) Things that are more popular than Congress. 🙂
6 CommentsI am a woman of a certain age. I have silver hair. Wrinkles. I’m tired. I don’t like conflict. I have never been arrested nor committed an act of violence. I want to lead a peaceful life. I sincerely hope you get to live in peace, too. I am also a gun owner. Some of the guns I own are ones you want to take away or limit my ability to possess or use. You want to do this despite the fact that I’ve never used them for any aggressive purpose — and don’t want to. You want to do…
52 CommentsThe part of me that still believes the civics lessons I learned in school wonders what Obama and cronies think they can accomplish with an executive order about firearms. Because of course, no EO restricting gun ownership or sales in any way would be constitutional. Not even remotely. The older, wiser, large part of me remembers that EOs have been used to tighten the noose around guns before. And, of course, used for even worse things. Ironically, our best hope is that they’ll go too far, too fast — and make the line in the sand very clear. Any thoughts…
22 CommentsA loooong time ago the pseudonymous Jefferson Mack (a person so secretive about his identity that even though he (or she?) knew me, I never knew him (or her?)) wrote a book for Paladin Press called The Secret Freedom Fighter. I found a chapter of it online last night and thought it might make a nice bit of inspiration in these dark times. The person who posted it headed it “A Good Citizen in a Bad Country.” The examples are dated now. The book was written when there was no Internet. And even the cynical Mack now seems sweetly trusting…
15 CommentsDo you IM? Do you use Windows? Okay, then, this is for you. Thanks to those brilliant boys at Freedom Feens, you’ve now got an EZ tutorial for encrypting your instant messages with OTR (Off-the-Record) Pidgin. The tutorial is long. But that’s because its steps are so comprehensive. They’ve been vetted and foolproofed. I dislike instant messaging. Life (and the ‘Net) have enough other disruptions without that. I know I’m in the minority, though. And Michael W. Dean, who wrote the tutorial, points out its privacy advantages over email when done right. Then he shows Windows users exactly how to…
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