And here’s some beauty for you … just because. (Thank you, A, for the find.)
Author: Claire
I’m a day late discovering this, but as a Christmas present to readers, BHM is giving away “Ask Jackie” Kindle books all this week. A different title each day. Today it’s Water Bath Canning. Tomorrow Pressure Canning. Thursday Food Storage. Friday Homestead Cooking.
The first entry in our “Two Weeks of Sanity” was inspirational. Now for the practical. Not just the practical — the essential. You already know about the DIY Knoppix Thumb Drive Preparedness Project dreamed up by Mark/Greylocke. It puts 600+ preparedness documents at your fingertips — bootable on nearly any USB-capable computer. Carryable in an emergency. Great for a bug-out bag or any prepper stash. The only catch: it’s been a do-it-yourself project (and I confess, beyond the likes of me). Reader Scott said he’d like to set up a mini-business supplying ready-made KTD drives. And with Greylocke’s cooperation, he’s…
Okay, for the first entry in our two weeks of good cheer and pro-freedom usefulness — an oldie but a very goodie. —– First, some background. You can skip this if you don’t care and go right to the links at the bottom. If you were on The Claire Files Forums (now the Mental Militia Forums) seven or eight years ago, you’ll probably still remember the poster known as Shevek. Shevek was well-liked, widely considered one of the “wise men” of the forums, and is the only person I know with both a noun and a verb created in his…
Talking with a number of people around the blog, I’ve discovered a lot of us are having a hard time right now. It’s probably gotten worse since we’ve been bombarded with (and even indirectly blamed for) the slaughter of the children in Connecticut. But for many of us, the times (and our moods) were already rough. Maybe the election triggered it. Maybe the incessant war-mongering of the last 11 years. Maybe the latest “blessing” from the Department of Homeland (Achtung!) Security. Maybe Christmas or the dark skies. But if angst and depression are contagious, they’re definitely going around. One grown…
Well, folks, this is it. Friday it’s all over. Zap. Kaput. This weary old Earth and all of us with it — gone. Even though I don’t believe a word of it, sometimes I think it couldn’t happen to a more deserving planet. And as to that lame, feel-good theory that the Earth isn’t really going blooey, but is just going to go through a tribulation, with the survivors (i.e. the people holding the theory) going to emerge full of peace, love, and enlightenment … yeah. You just tell me when peace, love, and enlightenment have ever lasted more than…
Today is Bill of Rights Day. It was a battle to get the BoR. It’s been a losing battle to keep it. But as long as its individualist principles live in us, it ain’t dead.
Via BW. —– I’m not sufficiently paranoid to believe things like the following. But that may be because I’m not sufficiently paranoid. An anonymous friend (who is not notably paranoid, either) writes: Bless me, Father, For I have sinned. The news I saw this AM was that the next global warming report by the UN IPCC had been leaked. Leaking blows their favorite tactic out of the water. SOP is to release a heavily politicized “summary” written by politicians and parasites for politicians and parasites. The press and .gov types lap it up. Three months later, the actual report written…
I’d like to believe that murdering a room full of kindergarteners a few days before Christmas is a great an evil as human beings are capable of. I want to feel sympathy, and empathy, for the poor children, their parents, their schoolmates, and everyone harmed by the bastard who did this thing. I’m glad he’s dead. I wish his evil could be buried with him — and a stake driven through its heart. But we all know that a greater evil is very much alive — and filled with glee. We all know there’s worse to come. And it’s going…