Honey as antiseptic?

I have read that honey is a natural anti septic.
I am sure this would require pure all natural honey but I am not sure if pasteurized honey would work the same as non pasteurized.
If any of you have more info please chime in.
If you are in a situation and all you have is honey then this could be a great thing to keep in mind.

Merry Christmas

Republicucks.

The Republicans and Trump are about to:

Ban bump stocks on guns.

Take border wall funding off the table.

Move the US embassy to Jerusalem.

Release a bunch of prisoners with prison reform.

Yet the number of gun control advocates, Hispanics, Jews and black people who are going to suddenly stop voting Democrat and start voting Republican due to all of this stands at zero.

Why is it that the Republican Party rewards everyone besides the people who vote for them?

From Aesop a little while back on the election (near) debacle in Florida.

Good read, and still relevant.

The democrats were pretty close to pulling off a thievery in this round of midterms. I think that Florida was going to be their Inchon Landing event to form a beachhead to go after the Republican dominated everything in the states and federal system.

Look at it, in 2016 and 2017, the Republicans held the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, "conservatives" held a slight majority in the SCOTUS, over 35 governor's seats, a giant majority of state legislatures and attorney generals, etc. The democrats had very few states where they had the governor's seat plus majorities in both sides of the legislature. The party was reeling and didn't even have a bench to draw from.

Florida was their target and they obviously were not going to take a loss unless they were forced to. If not for Rick Scott's and Ron Desantis's aggressive litigation and Marco Rubio's aggressive attention-drawing, the democrats were well on their way to manufacturing more and more votes in Broward County. Florida was going to be their beachhead for a much larger movement.

Without Florida, they made gains to be sure, but they were unable to totally dominate and flip an entire battleground state, at least for now. It would have been a totally stolen set of elections.

How am I expected to continue using the ballot box instead of the cartridge box if my vote can just be overruled by some phantom vote found in the back of a moving truck in Broward County two days after the election is over?

How am I supposed to respect a process that has been perverted specifically to bring about the end of my own way of life?

Also, how many traffic lights can the Broward County workers replace in one day? Three, four tops? What about all of them? What would a gallon-sized plastic bag of quikcrete do poured into the plumbing system of a Broward County office?

Asking for a friend.

Paris burning.

Paris is in flames, as I'm sure some of you have noticed. This is what happens when a globalist government decides to impose what would equal an extra 25¢ per gallon fuel tax on a people who are already one of the heavier taxes peoples in Western civ.

But after Macron backed off, the "Yellow Jackets" switched to another issue and accelerated their protests and riots.

The problem isn't the gas tax. It's globalism and rampant third world migration.

The list of demands includes Macron's resignation, reduction of taxes, abandoning of the fuel tax increase and reversal of third world migration policies. Macron's attitude hasn't helped his support, he's now at around 18% approval in France.

He's made some modern variations on the old "let them eat cake" statements. He once told an unemployed man that he could easily find a job if he would just "cross the street", and a poor retiree that he "shouldn't complain".

Interesting as well that during the riots we have gendarmerie armored personnel carriers roaming the streets with EU markings on them. EU, not French.

Must read from Forward Observer.

Have I posted this link from Culper before? I think I have, and I'm doing it again. This link is your one stop shop for getting started on building your intelligence collection capability. Intelligence drives the mission and information dictates your choices.

Read all of it. Copy the info in case the link ever dies.

Direct Impingement vs Piston AR

Obviously much debate has been had on AR vs AK and Glock vs 1911. You also get the usual 9mm vs .40 vs .45 and 5.56 vs 7.62. The list of the classic firearm debates is welcoming a new subject, which is the traditional Direct Impingement system vs the newer Piston system for the AR models.

Stag has some good basic info for you here.

My feeling is that both systems have been around in their respective markets for long enough that any serious problems have already been discovered and addressed.

The DI system has it's "flaws", but my own experience with the DI system is that of firing it on multiple continents in varying weather and terrain, including rainy Korea and dusty Afghanistan, cleanliness and age of the weapon. I've used DI systems in practice, training, recreation and combat, and have never had a malfunction that wasn't due to the magazine (old GI mags usually) or bad ammo (by "bad ammo", I just mean blanks during training).

I'm not saying the DI can't malfunction from being too dirty, I'm just saying that the modern built ARs can go thousands of rounds between cleaning and still operate.

The new piston system avoids the fouling and heating of the BCG, which sounds great to me. Even if the DI system doesn't require the constant cleaning it did in the 1960's, a cleaner rifle is better. The piston system is definitely cleaner. However, like the link states, you've got some more moving parts and the recoil is a bit more. One of the hallmarks that set the AR above many other weapons is the light recoil and light weight. The piston system gives a little bit of that back in exchange for that cleaner and cooler system.

Personally, I'll stick with my DI. Why? Because that's what I have and that's what I've used, and it works perfectly well.

Caveat: I'd love to also have a piston AR and would never turn down that system. It just comes down to what trade off you would like to make. My opinion is that both systems have gotten over that hill of "is it proven?" milestone. The DI did it in the 1980's and the piston more recently.

Merry Christmas Season.

I'd like to wish a Merry Christmas to the readers here, and just say that lately posting has been a bit slow due to the usual holiday season activities. Things are going well here and I hope they are for you and your's as well.

Recently had a death in the family as well, so we are working through that this season.

As always, looking ahead to try to shore up some of our own preparedness deficiencies. Water is about to jump to the top of the heap of priorities, and I have a plan for that.

For now, I'll glance around and find some good info worth posting here. Been coming across plenty of it lately.

Stay tuned, as they used to say when TV was still relevant.

The left will eat itself...so will conservatives

I find the new wave of neo conservative politics and alt right politics dividing Americans and western society even more than left wing politics at certain points.
We have this new wave of classical liberalism from Jordan Peterson types that reject all " right wing politics" and nationalism while criticizing the left for being unreasonable all the while promoting censorship and dismissing conservative as nazis the same way the left dismisses free thinkers and Peterson types as nazi sympathizers.
Jewish conservatives who are pro zionist like Ben Shapiro, Micheal Savage and Milo dismiss white and european nationalists as Nazis as the left calls these men Nazis.....even though they are Jewish.
Civic Nationalist movements reject ethno nationalism across the board or they demonstrate selective racial nationalism for a select few.
Shapiro and Savage support Israeli and Jewish ethno nationalism/ Zionism while anyone who rejects it is deemed a nazi/ anti semite.
Peterson supports native peoples in their self determination and tribalism while condemning conservatives for striving for nationalism.
the Alt right a undefined term that encompasses all people rejecting the left but moving outside of neo conservative ideals is now demonized by the new neo cons who deem themselves the voice of all conservative ideas.
Those who claim they speak for all nationalists/ conservative are people like steven crowder, or Shapiro, Dennis Prager  and they tell us that all of the alt right is evil and racist.
all the while the left wing a collective of Jewish Marxists/liberals, anti white Jewish supremacists, black nationalists, Islamic subverters, liberals who are not liberal/useful idiots, well meaning people but misguided, environmentalist extremists who care more about trees than people, Indian American supremacists, pan south/central American/ Hispanic nationalists, feminists ect ect ect unite against anyone who resists their coalition.
Many of the people in the " alt right" are unreasonable.
Some of the racial nationalists are supporters of extreme authoritarianism and would most likely murder anyone they deem as non white, non christian or homosexual.
Much of the alt right are teenagers and young men who have no political ideals they simply hate political correctness and will do all they can to shred it to nothing more for shits and giggles than to protect western civilization.
To define the alt right is almost impossible but many members will dismiss you as a cuck or race traitor if you do not fit in with their finite myopic view of politics.
Then there are the die hard libertarians who find it cool to disagree with everybody because everyone and everything is wrong and deregulation is the cure to everything unless you are the leader of the libertarian party Gary Jhonson who deems people who use politically incorrect terms like " illegal migrants" racist and promotes more regulation of the market and strict gun laws making him anything but libertarian.
I found myself drifting away from all of my liberal friends around 2008-2010.
I feel like those years marked a time period where the so called liberal became more and more intolerant of ideas and people outside their scope of concern or orthodoxy.
As my leftist and liberal friends and acquaintances melted away due to left wing social engineering I now see many of my right wing friends dividing and drifting away.
They are all focused on some form of political purity and anyone who they see as a heretic who disagrees must be purged out to cleanse themselves and their movement.
Almost like a religious fanatic who wants nothing to do with people of other denominations or religious views.
I find most conservative commentators and people trying to prove that everyone else aside from them and their leaders are Nazis or racists while they are the true egalitarians who are color blind.
I suppose this is human nature we unite under an idea or religion and then we all fracture into different denominations and camps.
Protestants are obsessed with calling catholics idolaters while catholics call protestants heretics and everyone does their best to ignore the existence of the orthodox and middle eastern, north african and non western sects of ancient forms of christianity.
I suppose politics are the same but its happening faster due to the accelerated world we live in.
Pick your camp if you must but lets not forget to unite against the left wing when we have to.
Most of us united on Trump being our only pick.
Some of us are over joyed he won others cringe but most of us will agree it was our only and best political pick.
Lets see if we can maintain bonds and unite over what matters.
I am losing hope. People who were at one time close friends are now calling me horrific names like Nazi for disagreeing with them since they fell down the Shapiro and Jordan Peterson pit.

This could end us.

Via WRSA.

Are politics genetic?

Do we subscribe to our political and philosophical ideals in part or primarily due to genetics?
There are research centers and academics making this assertion.
I notice how most left leaning people pick jobs that take little to no physical challenge.
Do you notice how so many leftist males seem emasculated and physically and mentally weak?
Do we ever notice how people who take dangerous and difficult jobs are more often conservative leaning?
Academics, librarians, people with desk jobs and silicon valley computer jockeys are most often left wing and these industries are brimming with left wing companies and individuals.
Hollywood/ major media, arts and entertainment sectors are left wing.
In order to deal with difficult jobs you need a mental constitution and physical ability to deal with the challenges ahead.
To be an actor or media figure head like Don Lemon you need the ability to stand in front of a camera and look pretty as you tell the little people how worthless and racist they are.
There are always outliers and yes there are left wing elements that join the military or construction field ect ect the same way there are conservatives that work in the arts and entertainment industry or silicon valley.
But what if contemporary left wing elements of western societies are genetically geared to be left wing?
Self hating anti white white people, jealous envious socialists who feel nobody should have more than others or that private sector industry should be banned what if these people are genetically geared to remain in this mode?
I tend to feel that our media and years of educational institutional  indoctrination have people in a hypnotized state that they can not get out of but what if genetics is a major factor?
We know that the information battle is essentially at an end.
Debate is more of a mental exercise than a means of wining over our opposition at this point in political and social discourse.
What if the self hating white males who support feminism and anti white black supremacism and racial nationalism for all except European descended people are only reacting to the world the only way their beta genetics allow them to?
What if beta genetics that were at one time rare among older western societies have become more prevalent due to western society creating medical leaps and bounds that protect the weak and sick and extend life spans and reduce infant mortality?
What if the strong military and infrastructure has created such a safe world for so many western people that beta genetics have become extremely prevalent?
What if its only a factor and there is still some way of getting through to them?
I am not sure.
link to article on genetics influencing politics. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/12/09/study-on-twins-suggests-our-political-beliefs-may-be-hard-wired/

Liberals gloat over trumps tax cuts going to charity and workers

So I have been seeing many leftists post articles in a gloating manner about how major left leaning  business owners are using Trumps tax cuts and the millions and billions they have saved to give to charity or back to their workers.
Every post is acting as if using the money for a benevolent cause is a slap in the face of Trump.
No thanks to Trump for creating massive tax breaks that allow business owners to throw their money around and hand it to workers or donate to charity every one i have seen post feel like they are pulling one over on conservatives.
The latest article I just saw is from Forbes.
The owner of Patagonia decided to donate all of his money to a charity working to stop" global warming".
No he does not use it to expand his business or create new jobs.
He does not reinvest it to stabilize the Jobs he has and maintain the business.
He does not use it to give to his workers in the form of bonuses or pay increase.
He throws it all away to work on programs that decrease industry in western nations and reduce jobs and reduce output and revenue.
Of course liberals are acting as if this man is hero but of course it is lost on them that the tax cuts were intended to allow companies to do what they want with the money.
We are not a communist state....yet. You are allowed to do what you want with your wealth thats the point. We anticipated this.
link to article https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeung/2018/11/29/patagonias-billionaire-founder-to-give-away-the-millions-his-company-saved-thanks-to-tax-cuts/?utm_source=FACEBOOK&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Valerie%2F&fbclid=IwAR3LevT17Fe9Dvj5B3nqNS0_Fxy1XFh9J0DigCwl2FR4CWnXma7zOHbejJs#497927761d6f

The Partisan's First-Aid Kit

This article was originally published on American Partisan.

Whether you consider yourself to be a prepper, patriot or partisan, there is no argument to made against having a robust emergency medical kit and the training and knowledge to put it to use. I'm going to show you my own medical kit that I keep nearby at all times. Before I proceed, first I want to make sure that you understand how important it is to acquire some level of medical training. Getting trained in the latest standards and techniques for Basic Life Support for adults, children and infants is easy and valuable. The American Heart Association is the gold standard for this training in the US, and can be completed in one day. Opportunities for additional medical skills training are available all over your local community as well. I recommend that anyone with a little spare time and money enroll in the EMT course at your local community college. Most EMT courses can be completed in one semester. I don't necessarily expect everyone to go and get employed as a full-time EMT or paramedic, but going through the EMT course and occasionally practicing those skills may end up saving the life of someone in your family or in your survival group. I'm going to assume that I'm talking to an audience that has some medical knowledge or intends to acquire some at a later time.


To start off, let me first say that you need to be able to take a full set of vital signs on someone. You need to be able to assess blood pressure, heart rate (and assess for perfusion to the extremities), respiration rate, temperature and oxygen saturation. Here is a pretty good video instructing on the basic technique for manually checking blood pressure.

Next, you're going to need to be able to respond to an immediate emergency involving the ABC (The AHA has rearranged these letters, but my kit still applies). Airway, breathing and circulation. Here, you see a nasopharyngeal airway, a CPR mask with valve and a trauma tourniquet. These things address ABC. Also in the photo, you see an emergency blanket, some scissors and other tools, and a seat belt cutter. If you've got additional space in your bag, fill it with something that you can use in a situation you don't have another tool for. That's where my seat belt cutter came to find a place in the bag.

You need to ensure that you've got some ability to protect yourself and the person you're treating from infection. Iodine and alcohol are used to clean wounds and skin. Saline can be used as a rinse for wounds and eyes. Hydrogen peroxide should not really be used anymore as a straight antiseptic if you can avoid it, because it has the tendency to destroy healthy tissue as well as infectious organisms. With that said, it can be used as a stand-in chemical debridement tool if you've get the assessment skills and training to create such a wound dressing as necessary. If possible, don gloves before responding to an emergency. Stash several pairs in your kit so anyone who is assisting you can wear them. Size large is good enough for most people in a pinch.

If you've got the training, the assessment skills and are not able to move the patient to a professional medical facility, they may require IV fluids. In the photo you see a bag of 0.9% normal saline and a bag of lactated ringer's IV fluids. These are isotonic crystalloids and can be used as volume expanders when a patient's blood pressure is too low or for re-hydrating a dehydrated patient. Again, I want to stress that you need to have the requisite training and assessment skills before administering IV fluids to a patient. However, looking around at the website you're reading this on, can you imagine that you may be in a situation where giving someone these fluids may save their life? Imagine having these supplies in war-torn Africa, Sarajevo 1996 or even Venezuela today.

Being in such a situation would undoubtedly require you to tend to wounds. Some of the supplies for wound treatment can be seen here. Keep various sizes of gauze and "cling" wraps. The Bulkee gauze is great for wrapping and giving a protective cushion over wounded areas. ABD pads are absorbent and great for covering open wounds to protect them from the environment. Those Tegaderms in the top left corner of the photo below are great for making a pressure dressing. Take one or two of those 4x4 gauze pads and fold them into a wad, place onto a small bleeding wound and place the Tegaderm tightly over it.

It's important to have a few eye pads and a bottle of saline eye wash. Also below you'll see a few things that I managed to find additional space for. Non-adhesive pads can be placed on a wound site that you don't want to cause further trauma to when removing the bandages.

Xeroform petroleum dressing is made to placed over wounds that need to maintain a degree of moisture for healing. Maintaining a moist environment has been shown to increase the movement of new skin cells to the surface. This is especially helpful in burns. The bottle contains Iodoform dressing strips which are meant to pack inside small wounds. The strips help prevent infection and assist healing from the inside out.

Below I have some methods to stop bleeding and seal cuts. You've all probably seen war movies where the medic dumps a pack of powder onto a wound? Yeah, we still use that stuff. Pack it into bleeding cuts, don't just pour it all over the place. The Skinaffix is basically skin glue.

In a post-SHTF event, I expect to need a lot of bandages, so I've made sure to include several different types of bandages. The triangular bandage is great for making a sling for an injury to someone's arm.

If you've got the skills and need, you may have to stitch up a wound on a buddy or on yourself. It's very important to have the tools to do it right and the supplies to ensure the wound stays clean and doesn't get infected. If you can get some 2% lidocaine, a syringe and small gauge needle, you can greatly reduce the pain associated with the suturing procedure, which means less movement while you're doing the work. You'll also need a pair of short nosed clamps, sometimes called a "needle driver"to grip the needle without slipping.

Post-SHTF, there is likely going to be a great lack of hygiene and cleanliness. This can result in abscesses and other types of wounds that may require lancing and draining. The theme once again is possessing the training and assessment skills to conduct such a procedure and do it using aseptic techniques. Syringes, needles and sometimes a sharp blade is needed for this, and it's better to have something like a scalpel (below you see a #10 blade) than your everyday carry pocketknife for this job. Lidocaine is handy for this as well, if you've got it.

Don't overlook the importance of medication. Tylenol is great for reducing fevers (but NOT for use in reducing high temps resulting from heat related injuries), ibuprofen for injuries and aches (can also reduce fevers), benadryl for allergic reactions, loperamide for diarrhea, which can cause rapid dehydration (in case of suspected food poisoning, allow for permissive diarrhea so the body can rid itself of the toxins). Odansetron, aka Zofran, is great for treating nausea and vomiting (reread the point above on food poisoning and apply it to temporary vomiting). Also make every effort to obtain children's versions of these medications if you feel you're going to be possibly treating children. Aspirin should never be given to children under 12 years old.

Tongue depressors and long-stem Q-tips are handy if you've got the space.

A wealth of knowledge can be found on the shelves of your local bookstore. Even those with extensive training prefer to keep reference material at arm's length.

Here is what my finished product looks like. Everything pictured above fits inside this 20'' medical bag, even with some of the supplies doubled up. Your kit is likely to look different and I encourage you to take stock of your own abilities and needs. This is by no means and final solution to all medical situations, but is always a work-in-progress. I try to tell anyone who will listen that one of my top eight priorities as a prepper/survivalist is MEDICAL capabilities (the other seven being shelter, water, food security, commo, intelligence and transport). Your group needs someone (or multiple someones) with training, assessment skills and supplies. I urge you to fill this important gap in your preparations before the big test. There will be no do-overs.

Eulogy for the US; Migration a human right?

Sobering.

Read it all. What are we supposed to do? I, in my town, can not defend the entire country. Neither can you. What about your state? Mine is too large.

What I can do is defend my house. Then build a group to defend the neighborhood. Then branch out into our town. Arm up and stack ammo. Chokepoints, roadblocks, patrols. Partner with other groups and work your county.

The government, your local cops, the state agents, officials, politicians, Feds, none are going to help you. They're helping the "migrants" instead, because they say migration is a human right, and what they say is what goes. Talk to your sheriff and see what he says. Mine says nothing.

And it's not women and children. It's military age males coming here from South America, Africa and the Middle East, and they're not coming for work and jobs, unless your fair-skinned daughter and wife are named "Work" and "Jobs".

Either take up arms, or prepare to be culturally enriched. Hard.

Word from the Tijuana migrant caravan.

Claire Wolfe has a source inside Tijuana, Mexico who is sharing information on what he's seeing on the ground.

As I suspected, over 90% of the migrants are military age males, rather than women and children.

There's an agenda afoot, and someone is behind it.

In favor of the squad-sized survival group, or even smaller.

In the American Partisan article titled "Some Principles for Group Recruiting", Kit Perez mentions that "A group with 3 guys in it is not going to have the same issues as a group of 7. If you’re above 7 (or, depending on your function and goals, 10 at the absolute max), you have too many people."

Her reasons in that particular article are based mostly on recruiting difficulties and openings for infiltration of your group. The larger groups are much easier for what we in the intelligence community referred to as "ADVINT", or adversarial intelligence, to infiltrate.

Her statement on group size got me thinking about another major factor that puts me firmly in the same mindset when it comes to group size, that is that the ideal group size is between three and ten gunslingers. Here is the "major factor": With those three to ten gunslingers, come their families.

Let me tell you about my own loosely affiliated group. I say "loosely affiliated" because we haven't yet hammered out the details of how our group would operate, but I'll use it as an example of how this can become a big logistical burden.

Let's say you've got me, my dad and two brothers in-law. So that's four shooters with appropriate rifles, pistols, shooting capabilities, diverse experiences that give me a pretty nice little fireteam for a small AO in whatever environment we are working in. When the manure contacts the rotational air mover, I suspect that my rural location with acreage will be our rally point, for the sake of this article. So the call will go out using our primary, secondary or emergency commo channels, and everyone will drop in to our little HQ to get ready to fight off the Russians or Cubans, or whoever is playing the villain in our movie. But that's not going to be the whole group. I've got my wife and children, of course. My dad obviously has my mom with him. My two brothers in-law would be bringing their wives of course, my sisters. They would all need to bring their children.

Then my wife has her parents, and there is no way I can deny my wife's parents a safe haven, nor can I deny her siblings. That's out of the question. One of my brothers in-law has another kid that I wouldn't think of ever turning away. My grandparents are elderly and sick and live in the next town over. Do I tell them that they're on their own at 80+ years old? My in-law has a parent who lives alone too. Are they the odd one out? I could lose one of my gunslingers (who is a former corpsman) if I decide that this person is just out of luck.

These are the kinds of decisions that will have to be made in these situations, and you're going to have to make potentially dozens and dozens of these difficult decisions if you've got an entire platoon of 30 gunslingers in your group.

The example above is loosely based on reality, and could have me trying to manage upwards of 30 people at our location, with some elderly, some infants, some toddlers and some sick. All of those people require food, water, shelter, sanitation, etc., and you've got to keep them in a cooperative mood. This is assuming that our group has to maintain at a single location. Being able to continue maintaining safely in multiple locations makes managing a group easier in some ways and harder in others, but once you are forced to activate your group, these people still have to be taken into full account wherever they are. That group has swelled to over 30 people for just a four-man fireteam...

I understand that there are going to be a lot of people who will say "you're just going to have to make the hard decisions and turn people away...", and I do hear you, and you're correct. But we will all have a short list of people who we will never turn away, and when you're putting a group together and you've decided that a particular person is too much of an asset not to have with you, you will have to take on their short list of essential people as well, or they will not join your group.

This was a mental exercise on my part to try to get you thinking of a survival group differently. Many of us once thought about this concept and imagined our group of rifle carriers meeting together to hash out tactics and training exercises and barbecues, and the group we imagined was neatly split into three or four squads of eight or ten people, all forming a nice tight platoon of 30-40 dudes with uniforms and ranks and matching kit. It's time to consider that a better option for a lot of people is going to look a lot more like a scout team of three or four guys, or a squad of eight or ten split into twin fireteams. From this soldier's perspective, that may be the most practical size logistically, and also for the previously mentioned counter-infiltration purposes.

Why the political left stigmatizes preppers

black pilled explain the reason for media and political demonization of preppers and gun owners.

Happy Veteran's Day

Forming a community survival group.

Here is my original article, posted at American Partisan.

In the events that are coming, being part of a solid group of people is going to be your best bet to get through. Studying the work of Selco (Yugoslavia), Fernando "FerFal Aguirre (Argentina) and others who have actually been through a modern societal collapse is invaluable because it shows us an example of what a modern societal collapse may actually look like here. Studying those events, it becomes clear that people who are part of a group survive the best, and the groups with some semblance of a plan will fare even better. It's true that no good plan ever survived the first enemy contact, but having a solid plan for your group fosters confidence in that group, allowing the members to keep their head in the game when the going gets tough, and drive toward the objective.

When building your survival/partisan/neighborhood security group, you've got to tailor your group to your objective, situation and capability. What are you building a group to do? What size group is practical for your situation and location? How many people can you actually find to join? I am currently located in the rural Deep South, a few miles outside of a town of about 300 people. Am I going to build a battalion-sized survival group that will save the U.S. from the Communist threat?

Don't hold your breath, mate. That's not realistic.

Now, how about a group that is purpose built for securing a neighborhood after a Category 5 hurricane? In 2004, the area where I lived experienced Hurricane Ivan. The destruction was significant, and there were reports of looting (as always) in areas of NW Florida. Based on the social "atmospherics" and potential threats where I lived, my neighborhood could have been adequately secured around the clock by just a squad-sized element working in three, maybe even four shifts per 24 hour period. Thank God we got through and didn't need it during our month-long, near total interruption of basic services. There was not going to be any police or government response if we had needed help.

There are a lot of experts out there who have some really great ideas and advice on building groups and how to plan. I'll tell you how I've tried to envision my group and plan, but don't think I'm trying to tell you that there is only one way to get this right. You'll have to take a step back and judge your own situation for yourself.

I try to break my ideas for a survival group into two sections. Those are your AREA OF OPERATIONS and your OBJECTIVES. I break the activation of the security group into two environments, those being a PASSIVE environment and an AGGRESSIVE environment. You can alter these terms however you see fit, but here I'll tell you what I'm referencing.

Your AO is obviously going to be your location, and it's where your objectives are going to take place. Initially, you'll need to start at the lowest level. So your first AO is your house and property and the people who live there. As you build a group and achieve your objectives in that AO, you'll expand as necessary and however you're able. Expanding your AO out to the neighborhood, community, town, city and outward will bring new necessary objectives such as patrols, commo check-ins, recon outings, supply runs, visits to friends and family members, meetings with local officials (depending on environment), etc.

The OBJECTIVES themselves will include whatever your group can do to secure the AO from potential threats, whether those threats are coming from a tyrannical government, a band of marauders, the effects of a coronal mass ejection, or more likely, some downturn of the economy that leads to a failure of civility, adverse weather or a house fire at a neighbor's home. Even the unexpected loss of a job for the primary breadwinner of a home is something a solid group of people can support each other against.

The PASSIVE environment is what most of us currently live in right now. Unless you live in a place like inner city Chicago or St. Louis, you are more likely to activate your group for an adverse weather event or house fire than you are for a suspension of services or widespread criminal activity. You most likely don't have difficulty driving down to the supermarket to pick up food or supplies in this environment.

In an AGGRESSIVE environment, this is not the case. You're most likely activating your group in order to facilitate armed security in your AO and conduct other missions to get through a serious interruption of routine services or lack of local government support.

Now, before you can get down to business with establishing the AO and examining the environment, you've got to look at the third major factor, which is your group size. You'll have to determine what your group can do at that size and try not to overreach. I feel the minimum group size needs to be at least three or four people, because it will be hard to get some things done in an aggressive environment and large AO with only two people. Four people gives you a full fireteam. A fireteam allows you to have a team leader, a lead scout, a medic, a commo guy, or whatever other jobs your group requires, without anyone being burdened with too many responsibilities. Going larger to six or eight people gives you a whole squad, and your team can start splitting up and running recon missions or doing guard duty shifts in an aggressive environment, or doing neighborhood checks throughout town after a storm in a passive environment. Going bigger than that can be difficult, because now you've got a whole lot of personalities to manage, a whole lot of mouths to keep quiet, a whole lot of families to satisfy and take care of and a whole lot of extra chances to pick up a new member that might not be in it to advance your ideas and efforts.

The authors at American Partisan have done a great service in pushing the conversation on building and maintaining groups for survival and community security. This is just one former soldier's ideas on a starting template for doing that. In the events that lay ahead of us, I firmly believe that the people who belong to a group of like-minded people who are focused on driving toward a common goal of survival and mutual well being will survive the best and have the best outcome. This has been demonstrated throughout history during times of war, natural disasters and societal collapses. It would behoove you to find your people, rally them and get them ready.

Florida recounts and other big news.

Looks like three Florida races are heading for recounts. The governor's race is narrowing, with Andrew Gillum gaining votes, the Senate race is narrowing with Bill Nelson gaining votes, and now the Agriculture Commissioner race has flipped to the Democrats.

Democrats always gain votes in recounts. They will never let an election go, they will always question the legitimacy and send in a million lawyers to make sure they take whatever they can get.

My prediction: Gillum and Nelson will gain thousands of votes in a recount, and the Democrat candidate for Agriculture Commissioner, Nikki Fried, will build an even bigger lead. Recounts don't ever go in the other direction. The Broward County election system is the most corrupt in the country, and has been investigated and successfully sued for election fraud. Hopefully Rick Scott and Trump and will jump into that fight. We'll see.

Meanwhile, Stacy Abrams still refuses to concede the Georgia gubernatorial race. Another example of a party unwilling to stop scrapping and clawing for every inch of ground they can take. Would be nice if "our side" had a party like that, but they're too busy being "better than that", and "not stooping to their level".

Next up, we have a bunch of votes being "discovered" in Arizona, and now the Democrats seem to be about to flip that Senate seat. I'm sure the ghost of John McCain is smiling on that, and Jeff Flake must be very proud.

And in other news, Ruth Bader Ginsburg broke some ribs and was hospitalized after she took a flying leap, probably when she found out the Republicans still (probably) hold the body of Congress that is responsible for replacing her corpse with a real, living and breathing judge. Please say the correct prayers for the situation. The CORRECT ones.

But wait! There's more!

A mass shooting that I can be blamed for took place in Kalifornia. Why can I be blamed? Well I'm a white male, so start there. I automatically shoulder 25% of the blame for literally everything on it's face, once it's confirmed that an event took place at all. Then we find the shooter was also white, and a male. Blame game bumps to 75%. Shooter was a veteran (former Marine), so that pretty much pushes above 95%.

But we're still waiting on the blame recount. I predict it'll hit 100% by Saturday. Either way, I absolutely MUST have my firearms confiscated from me, and the same goes for you too.

Here's how that'll go down, assuming you're not willing to turn over your entire collection to your local Kommissar in exchange for a $50 gift card.

The day after.

And here we are, with the Democrats holding the House of Representatives with a majority of about 30 or so seats, and the Republicans holding the senate majority with 54 or so. The Republicans still hold the White House, of course, and the SCOTUS leans to the right. The Republicans are also now down several governors. Seven at my last count.

And you'll hear plenty of Republican voters clamoring about how "it could be worse" and "we still hold most of the power" and "every president loses some seats in the first round of mid-terms" and other such nonsense.

They're correct, but it's still nonsense. Why? Because it didn't have to happen like that this time. It shouldn't have. It really didn't even have to be close. The Republicans lost "bigly", because they lost more than just the House and some governors.

When Trump won his election, he won because he was saying the things people all had on their minds all the time. He was talking basic common sense and he was using their terminology and tone. Why should anyone be allowed here illegally when it's ILLEGAL? Why should we blame guns, inanimate objects that they are, for murders when it's PEOPLE that are committing them? Tax breaks put more money in people's pockets, which then gets spent, which drives the economy! Government messes up everything it touches, so we should get government out of our healthcare! Entitlements are a heavy burden on our economy, so we should get those people working instead!

All of these things are what he said in order to get elected, and once he was, he actually got started right away on some of them. All he needed was some support from his party.

The party that controlled both the House and the Senate. Oh, and even the SCOTUS was going to be leaning to the right since he had a vacancy to fill. With their support, there was nothing stopping the train.

But unfortunately. He didn't get that support. The Republican Party, the spineless fools, just didn't have the heart or the guts to go on the offensive. His tweets were too provocative, his speeches were too raucous, his jabs (which were usually, actually just counter-punches) were too "unpresidential". The party wanted to slow-walk the agenda (they were never on board with it) and look for compromises with the decimated, demoralized Democrats. Because of this soft approach, they failed to repeal 0bamacare, forcing Trump to scratch away at it with Executive Orders. They kvetched over tax reform and made Trump pull teeth to get it done. They totally ignored the opportunity to discuss gun rights and pass a single bill on it. They repeatedly failed to provide any significant funding or action  for real border security, which was the lynchpin of the movement that put Trump in office and Hillary into what many hope is permanent retirement.

The Republican Party held ALL of the power that We the People could have given them, and then some, for two years straight. They've had the White House for two years. They had the Senate. They had the House. They've had the SCOTUS firmly since Gorsuch was confirmed. Nothing was standing in their way.

Unless you count themselves.

Paul Ryan was one of the worst. He snidely commented negatively on almost everything Trump tried to do and worked in the backrooms to undermine his efforts to get something, anything done. He earned his nickname, Quisling. Mitch McConnell wasn't any better, and resorted to his typical uselessness.

The Republicans could have GAINED seats in the House and Senate and CRUSHED the Democrats for a decade if they had gone on the offensive and stopped the flow at the border, strengthened gun rights nationally, totally wiped 0bamacare from the books, reduced taxes (they sort of did this), reformed the entitlement system... They'd have been kings.

But instead they stayed on the defensive. Even as the crippled minority party in every aspect, the Democrats aggressively controlled the pace and narrative, and had the Republicans on their heels. If not for the utterly psychotic antics of the Democrats at the Kavanaugh hearings (I believe that behavior pulled a lot of disgruntled conservatives back into the fray out of pure spite), the Republicans may very well be looking at losses double that of which they have now. Possibly even a lost Senate, and even more lost governors.

The Democrats in the House now have the ability to subpoena and investigate everyone and everything, for anything, until 2020 and maybe beyond. They have the ability to punish those they deem deserving. We thought Kavanaugh was treated badly...

Looking at the current situation, it's easy to say that now we won't have any positive legislation passing to Trump's desk. No pro-gun bills. No border security. No healthcare fixes.

But then again, the Republicans didn't send anything like that to him anyway. Not once in two years.

And that's why they lost the House.

Liberal propaganda proving nationalist points

I have been seeing leftists and multiculturalists make arguments for mass immigration into the USA with memes and cartoons like the one posted below.
Showing a photograph or illustration of native american with lines like " stop mass immigration? good point lets start with you"
Asserting that white european christians moving into the americas was detrimental to the native populations that were here prior.
Well they are right mass immigration was harmful to the culture and lives of the tribes that were residing here.
The left is right but are they too damn thick to see that they are proving that nationalists concerns are valid?
When a nation is overwhelmed by another nation then their health, safety and cultural future is at risk.
Thank you for agreeing with nationalists and driving the point home!
By the way the native americans they post in these photos did not sit idly by as these mass migrations came trucking in.
They fought with fury and mass bloodshed.
Do they not see they are only encouraging nationalists and disproving their multiculturalist drivel of " cultural enrichment"
What they think they are doing is guilting us but yet again they fail.

The left controls art and now the hearts and minds of the nation

One of my documentaries on a village founded by German immigrants in Jamaica had a comment made on it today.
It was made by an afro centric black supremacist wishing death on all of the white Jamaican's that lived in this village for all of their oppression that he assumed they cast upon the black populace.
This afro centric had a picture of che guevera on as his facebook profile picture.
There are many depictions of che guevara in cinema and art portraying him as a dark skinned meztizo or amerindian.
These are all false portrayals Che and Fidel Castro were white.
Its interesting how historic figures from thousands of years ago can be morphed through artist depictions but we are talking the modern era with Che and Fidel Castro only died a few years ago and more than half of the world thinks each man was non white.
Both men were fully of European stock and are embraced by leftists and anti white elements from La Raza hispanic extremists to afro centric white genocide supporting ANC members.
It seems if you create artistic depictions and use perception to control peoples minds and manipulate hard enough and long enough the perception of the masses will be morphed into any idea you will.
I have had countless conversations with black supremacists and afro centrics who insist Che and Castro were non white and express their admiration for them because they " make white people scared".
I do not support manipulating people the way the political left does but i do support using media and art as a weapon and a means of brining truth.
The right wing has neglected art for so long that now as a consequence the hearts and minds of generations belong to leftists and neo liberal corporate elites.
Reality belongs to them and they can make life imitate art.
Reality means nothing, demonstrative evidence means nothing but the emotion and experience through depictions and the powerful emotions they create over ride reality.
Emotion is more powerful than logic and the heart is higher than the mind.
The heart cancels out thought and wins over the individual almost every time.
If we do not take art and media back we will lose.

Left wingers becoming more pro gun?

Since before the election of trump I have been noticing large numbers of neo liberals and leftist becoming fairly pro gun to varying degrees.
They have various reasons and various ideas on gun control but I find it interesting how many leftists I meet are gun owners.
leftists and marxists owning guns and being pro gun is not a new phenomenon just think back to the black panther party or the weather underground.
Various left wing radicals in the 60s and 70s were pro gun.
But I am sure like the marxists of Russia, China and Cuba they would disarm all ethnic groups and political groups that disagree with them on any level in a heart beat.
I actually went out shooting not long ago with a liberal democrat.
We discussed topics like gun control and he is of course for more gun control but not completely anti gun and is a member of a gun and hunting club.
I know its sounds strange especially the fact that I would have any civil discussion and activity with a liberal democrat but I did and he did enjoy shooting and gun collecting.
This was something we could bond over and put our politics aside.
The left wing anti gun agenda chimes on and of course the left wing circles are still brimming with anti gun morons but some leftist want guns.
 keep this in mind according to what history has taught us do not count on them wanting you to have them.
link to BBC article on liberal gun owners. -  https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38297345

Is the US heading toward Balkanization?

Many people, the opinions of whom I greatly respect, have written on the state of politics and society in the US in such a way as to suggest the possibility of the US moving into a period of similar to what was seen in the former republic of Yugoslavia from the mid 1980's through to the late 1990's, referred to by many as Balkanization. I'm certainly in agreement with these bloggers and writers, Matt Bracken being just one example.


The political, sociological, ethnic and racial trajectory in the US is eerily similar to that of the former Yugoslavia in many ways. In the coming years, this could even expand into the sphere of religion, though for now there doesn't seem to be such widespread religious friction as much as there is racial/ethnic and political.


The similarities begin where Yugoslavia's end did: With the economy. It's always the economy. Yugoslavia was totally socialist in their economic model. For you on the left, yes, it was indeed "real" socialism, complete with the never-ending litany of financial Band-Aid's designed mainly to keep the rigged carnival game going for as long as possible for whomever was sitting at the top getting rich. The US economy may not appear to be socialist in the same way, for whatever reason many Americans maintain the idea of some bastardization of capitalism corrupted by, well, socialists.


Both Yugoslavia and the US endlessly investigated and studied how best to fix the economic woes, and some decent ideas, even some great ideas, were formulated... And then were largely ignored, either due to a lack of will to implement them or a lack of ability. Probably it was lack of political will, since in both country's cases, the ideas that would have worked best included laundry lists of major money cuts and reductions of federal power. The politicians in power are generally never going to go for a plan like that. They'd rather drive the train straight off the cliff themselves before letting someone else drive it to safety.


The idea so far is that the economic system in the US is simply not sustainable. The Band-Aid of borrowing more money from the US public, China, Japan, etc. and periodically raising the debt ceiling to allow it is not going to work forever, and it doesn't require one to have any advanced understanding of economics to grasp this. You don't need to be an expert economist to realize that $20 trillion in debt and hundreds of trillions more in unfunded liabilities is virtually insurmountable at this point. The fact that the US dollar is the currency of the world is not going to shield us from the inevitable forever. The economic problems that Yugoslavia faced in the early 1980's, and that the US now faces, are like a lit match being held over a barrel of gasoline.


And that leads me to discuss that gasoline.


Yugoslavia had an extremely diverse country racially, ethnically and religiously. The geographic location and the early economic prosperity (or the illusion of it) attracted a lot of people from all sorts of backgrounds. After a while, the government began to show heavy favor toward certain ethnicities at the expense of others. Rigorous controls were put on employment and educational systems, favoring one ethnic group over the other with claims that there was history of abuse that needed to be atoned for. Criminal behavior by members of certain ethnic or racial groups were largely ignored by the media and law enforcement apparatus, while even the most benign actions of other groups were seized upon and used for narrative building.


Does any of this sound familiar? In the US we have a long list of "protected" groups who are favored with advantages in employment, educational and entitlement systems. Race alone is often used by the media and government, often one and the same, to build a narrative of victimization.


In Yugoslavia circa 1980's, and in the US today, you'd see a very socially diverse people from numerous ethnic, racial, economic and religious backgrounds. When these diverse groups mingle and mix, everyone has to accept that different cultures will have friction arise when the "negative" aspects of a particular culture become unacceptable to another. In times such as those, it's necessary for the opposing cultures to have the freedom and ability to separate for a peaceful outcome. Problems arise, always, when incompatible cultures are forced to mix in society with no avenue for voluntary separation, and these problems are heavily exacerbated when government and media get involved to force one culture to accept and integrate what they feel are the "negative" aspects of the opposing culture. An obvious and perhaps overly-simplistic example is when white, Christian American citizens are forced to accept and live alongside immigrants who wish to practice Sharia law and alter their own lives and habits in order to accommodate some of these sensitivities. A very basic example, yes, but I think it makes the point.


We are meant to swallow the lie that says "diversity is our strength" without consideration for merit, performance, ability, intelligence or actual results.


This is not meant to be an indictment on any specific culture or ethnicity, but more of a history lesson, a social observation and a dire prediction.


The history lesson is the continued failure of all socialist based economic models, whether we want to consider them "real" socialism or not. The sort of hard socialism seen in 1980's Yugoslavia and the crony-capitalist soft socialist version seen in the US today are both examples of that failure system. As I stated earlier, it does not take any level of economic expertise to understand that our current system is insolvent and that we have passed the point of no return on a future crash of our financial system. Now that less than half of the people in the US are net-taxpayers and over half of the people in the US are receiving some sort of government assistance simply to survive, we have become a welfare state, with only decreasing numbers of producers with increasing numbers of consumers. Mathematically, it is not sustainable. Historically, it is disastrous.


The social observation is that such a mass of diverse peoples must have a voluntary pressure outlet in order to maintain peace. We must accept reality that not all cultures are able to be forced together with peaceful results. Forced proximity, with advantages, disadvantages and blame doled out to certain peoples, with a lack of opportunity to separate peacefully will always result in strife and eventual violence.


The dire prediction is one that is easy to see coming: An eventual economic failure is the lit match, while the total lack of national cultural identity is the gasoline. The media and governmental apparatchiks stand by to stoke the fires.


We are Yugoslavia circa 1980's.


My advice? Stay out of Sarajevo.

Woodpile Report liked our piece.

Apparently Ol' Remus at the Woodpile Report liked our piece that got published at AP.

My gratitude, sir.

If you haven't looked at the WR, you should. There is something interesting for everyone, whether you're politically inclined or not, and Remus's footnotes are insightful.

Update: Also to be found at WRSA, a blog that absolutely MUST be placed near the top of your daily reading.

Here's what you see when you go to Gab.com

Balkanization in the US: Is it coming?

An article posted to American Partisan, written by your's truly. Thanks to AP for contacting me and giving me a great opportunity.

Please head over and read the article, and then make sure to put AP in your daily reading. Kit Perez, NCScout, DTG and several others all writing for the same site is great. A wealth of knowledge.

Gab.com is going down, at least for now.

Right now, Gab.com is in the midst of another attack against it, having been given a deadline by the hosting provider. Gab is a message board extremely similar to Twitter, but without the extreme censorship. It's a platform for free speech, one of the few left online. This has been a very important and influential website over the last many months, especially for right wing thinkers who can't get a word in edgewise on outlets like Facebook and Twitter. My account there is @JeffersonLocke. A lot of the more influential Gabbers and bloggers are advising followers to seek them out on their blogs or on backup websites. Concerned American at WRSA is one of them.

The message today from founder and CEO Andrew Torba:

"Breaking: @joyent, Gab's new hosting provider, has just pulled our hosting service. They have given us until9am on Monday to find a solution. Gab will likely be down for weeks because of this. Working on solutions. We will never give up on defending free speech for all people."

I'll keep y'all posted. An hour ago, I was able to access the site with some slowdowns and a few error messages. At this moment, most of my attempts yield a "500" error message.

The fight is happening in real time.

New Democrat Campaign Ad.

Head over to the Raconteur Report and see the new ad the Democrats have put out. Should be educational.

Basic pointers on getting healthy (that you should probably already know).

I think everyone is always looking for the easiest way to do things, and being healthier is no different. It's not necessarily a bad thing to look for an easy way to do something, it's often very effective and efficient. Here are a few pointers that you can probably figure out on your own, but if you had, you'd already be doing them...

-Stop smoking. That includes vaping and smoking weed. Your lungs are meant to inhale oxygen, and no matter how many things you think weed is an absolute cure for, you're not going to convince this RN that inhaling smoke of any type is healthy.

-Stop drinking soda. Soda is loaded with sugar and is the highest sugar intake item in the regular diet of many Americans. The first thing that many physicians will tell you when you ask "how do I lose a few pounds?" is going to be "cut the soda out." That includes diet soda. If you're looking to get healthy and you mean it, diet soda isn't part of that either.

-No more fast food. This one should be as obvious as the last point. Fast food is way too high in sugar, sodium and fats and is almost all fried. Avoid it, you don't need it.

-Take a multivitamin. A lot of people don't consider this but it really is beneficial. Vitamins are cheap and easy to make and so you're not going to be paying much for them, and they're not being infused with unhealthy substances to get you addicted to them like fast food and soda are with sugars.

-Avoid food and drink vices. You know those people who make jokes (but you know they're being serious) about not being able to function without their morning coffee, or those people who "never" smoke UNLESS they're having a couple of drinks? Don't become one of them. Coffee is not a terrible thing to have but don't become dependent on it. Don't become one of those people who just HAVE to have a night out drinking every other week in order to unwind. If you have to do something a little bit unhealthy to unwind on a regular basis, then you need to make some life changes.

-Don't drink regularly, or heavily. Studies are showing that occasional alcohol use isn't unhealthy, and of course some even say that a little wine now and then is beneficial. But if you're going through a case of beer per week, it's too much to be healthy. If you're polishing off a fifth of whiskey every four or five days, it's too much to be healthy. If you're getting off work and having a third of a bottle of wine before bed, yeah, you guessed it.

-Drink water. I know they say eight glasses a day is what you need, but who knows how much a "glass" is supposed to be. Try drinking between 1.5 and 2 liters of water per day. Better yet, REPLACE something unhealthy that you're drinking with water instead. Your kidneys will be healthier for it.

-Eat at home. If you can replace restaurant meals outside of the home with meals shopped for at the grocery store and prepared and cooked at home, you'll likely see some weight loss and increased energy. I'm not talking about package and processed meals. I mean meals that require cooking. You know, like RECIPES. You don't have to be a chef and eat farm fresh every meal. Just don't eat out all the time and don't always settle for those overly-processed foods.

-Spend a little more time outside. However much time you spend outside, try to take a little more of your inside downtime and make it OUTSIDE downtime. Even if all you're doing is sitting in your backyard or on your porch or balcony. Open the windows in your house, if it's feasible.

See? Simple, right? Now get it done. You're likely to see positive results inside of two weeks.

Vox: If the military won't defend the border, then they need not exist.

Absolutely correct.

The original purpose of the US military is to defend the borders of the United States from all foreign invaders, and that doesn't just include foreign uniformed military services.

If the military can't or won't fulfill that purpose, or if the politicians can't or won't order the military to do it, then simply disband it altogether, allow Americans to arm themselves as they please, and let the balloon go up once and for all.

Use this Fall to get yourself in order.

This Fall is going to be the time that the homestead makes some major progress. Just got the property "pre-winterized" and I think it'll only require light maintenance before the cold (or what we Deep Southerners call "cold") starts keeping it maintained for me through February. The Fall is a great time around these parts because the hot Summer is past and the wet Winter isn't here yet. It's cool enough and dry enough to get a lot of outdoor work done without the bugs getting under your eyelids and the sweat soaking you within the first five minutes.

We are planning the chicken coop and at least five or six chickens. What we want is enough chickens (probably Rhode Island Reds) to give us the eggs we need, plus enough to slowly build a supply to occasionally give away or sell. May look into a rooster as well at some point, so we can produce our own chicks. Local predators include hawks, coyotes, possums (yes, I know it starts with an "O") and raccoons. Raccoons will pull a chicken's head off to eat the brain. Have a few watersnakes out here as well. Once we have it all down pat, whatever "down pat" is supposed to mean, we'll just increase our numbers. I'm frequently told chickens are some of the easiest pets to keep. Time to get them and put them to work for us. Luckily we have several friends who are well versed in raising them and they'll be lots of help.

Also going to be installing a rainwater catch system and getting the setup for filtration. Rain is pretty steady out here, especially during the Summer and a bit in the Winter. We have a metal roof so no worries about poisoned water runoff from shingles. If you have a shingle roof, just get yourself some corrugated plastic and build a little runoff device. Just a 15x15 foot piece will get you a lot more rainwater than you think. We plan to use Berkey water filters to start out.

Will be starting a garden, around a quarter of an acre at first. Need to look at what crops to start. Corn does well in our area. Bush beans (green beans) are easy, yield a large amount and my cans them up for storage. I'd really like to get some potatoes as well.

Going to upgrade the pistol range and add a backstop so we can do some minor rifle work. Even if we just get the ability to zero the ARs out here, that's a big step up.

Likely going to begin building a nice looking wood fence around the acre surrounding the house, maybe four feet high, then going to line it with heavy gauge wire. The wire itself is what will keep the chickens in when we are letting them roam and keep the dog in that we will eventually be getting. The dog, likely a German Shepherd as my wife has a lifetime of experience raising them, will be a working dog. Great for security and will provide a good early warning system and ward off predators.

If you look at the above plans, those with military experience will notice the "force multipliers". Storing food is good, but it eventually runs out. Being able to produce and replenish that supply without outside assistance is the multiplier. Storing water is good, but water runs out QUICKLY. Having the ability to collect it yourself and make it potable is the force multiplier. Going to the range on a Saturday morning is great for practice, but having a free range twenty feet outside your back door where you can also get some rifle work in is the force multiplier.

It's important to step back every now and then and take stock of what you've got and look for ways to take a big leap forward with a force multiplier.

Change your own oil.

If you're not over fifty years old, you haven't earned the right to pay someone else to change your oil.

Be back very soon.

Haven't blogged much lately, but we've been sort of "winterizing" the property lately, and have a small out of town vacation this weekend.

Be back shortly.

Hurricane Michael is close.

When Michael was expected to hit us as a Category 1 storm, I was thinking "this will be a good test run for our preps".

Now it's only a few hours away and it's a Category 4. So this isn't just a test, it's what we actually primarily prepare for as a family.

It's all fun and games to prepare for the eventually economic downfall and the next civil war and all that grandiose crap, but it's much more important to prepare for the things you KNOW will happen, because they happen all the time.

For my family, that's a hurricane.

Granted, we haven't been hit since Ivan and Dennis in 2004 and 2005, but that's an anomaly to have such a long break. What it means is that our area has a whole lot of young adults who weren't old enough to help with the preparations or the cleanup after Ivan and Dennis, and therefore didn't get to learn from experience how to deal with it.

A whole lot of young people (and older ones who simply forgot over the last 13 years or so) are about to get a hard lesson on the dangers of normalcy bias.

As for us, our windows are boarded up, water is stored, food is stored, etc. Time for Michael to show us where are gaps are.

Hopefully in not too harsh of a manner.

"Letter to the CivNats" from ZMan.

Letter to the CivNats will get you up to speed on some of the reasons why the "right" in the US has so far been unable to counter the left on a lot of fronts.

If Trump is President, the republicans have the House and Senate and the SCOTUS generally leans right, and the republicans have most of the Governor seats and most of the state legislatures... Then why is the decimated democrat party such a massive force in the US, so powerful that they can still call the shots on so many things, even to the point of stifling wall funding, preventing the total dismantling of 0bamacare, shutting down all efforts to pursue national reciprocity for gun rights, forcing a seventh FBI investigation on Kavanaugh, keeping Hillary out of prison, etc.

It's because the furthest the "right" in America is willing to go is Civic Nationalism. CivNat is not strong enough to combat the left, in fact, CivNat is often the tool of the left.

Musings about being a "law abiding citizen".

Even if you're not breaking the law, the law still has ways of breaking you if "they" don't like what you're doing.

Even a law abiding man can find himself on the wrong of the line, because it's a line that never stops moving.

Ignorance of the law is no defense for breaking the law, right? That means you're responsible for knowing the law, right? Yeah, try quoting the law to the next cop that gets something wrong, and let me know how you like those additional charges he drops on you.

My thoughts on the Kavanaugh circus.

So many people out there asking how the democrats can bring themselves to smear a good man based on such a transparently false set of accusations.

Anyone who asks that question, despite all of the behavior that we've seen from the left over the last ten years, has utterly failed to grasp the nature of the people that we call "liberal", but are better described as being "post-modernists".

Those of you who fail to understand them will say "they're smearing an innocent man", and imagine them all sitting in some smoke-filled room talking amongst themselves and planning, and a few of them remorsefully acknowledge that while Kavanaugh may be an innocent man, his reputation must unfortunately be attacked for the good of the nation, in order to prevent Trump from achieving another nomination to SCOTUS before the democrats have a shot to take the senate in November.

But that's not what is going on. Whether he is guilty of a sex crime is irrelevant to them. They don't see him as a good man. They don't see him as being innocent of any specific crime. They view him as a "deplorable". They seem him as "irredeemable". He has indeed committed a crime in their eyes, a deplorable crime so heinous that he can not redeem himself. They see him as a conservative and as a white male. Those traits are CRIMINAL ACTS in the mind of a post-modernist. The destruction of his reputation, the stress on his family, the demand for a drawn out investigation, these are all justifiable actions because he has committed the unpardonable sins of being a white, conservative Christian male, and therefore all actions taken against him are warranted. All actions and punishments given to Kavanaugh are warranted.

This is how the left plays the game today. This is how an insurrection is conducted.

What happens between now and January are pivotal in our nation's history, and make no mistake that the post-modernists are pushing as hard as they can for a shooting war. That is no exaggeration.

The Ultimate Inversion

"We are fast approaching the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission."

"If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society, you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right."

Ayn Rand

The Non nationalist, nationalists

Call it what you will civic nationalism, nationalism lite, fat free nationalism but the new conservative civic nationalism is starting to wear thin.
Personally I have never been opposed to civic nationalism and still hope some form of it can work.
Many Americans can relate to civic nationalism because we all have close non white friends, co workers and people we have shared deep bonds with in military experience or in difficult situations for us who work in EMS ect.
I feel that there are many non European descended Americans who have earned their place in the USA and are just as much a part of the USA than anyone else but so often I find civic nationalists extremely apathetic to the existence of western culture and identity or European cultural identity.
Ben Shapiro for example is someone who slanders ethnic nationalism and jumps to the Nazi card quicker than a antifa member at a conservative rally.
However Shapiro is keen on promoting Jewish cultural heritage and preservation within Israel and globally. Interesting how that works.
The majority of the popular conservatives follow this stance from Milo to Alex Jones and the politically ambiguous Jordan Peterson who tells the masses at his lectures that nationalism is " senseless and idiotic! feeling pride in a race or nation is asinine"  However Peterson has expressed his support for the preservation of the first nations of Canada and their "proud culture" repetitively.
Far too often we see racial nationalism devolve into thuggish, primitive and anti intellectual authoritarianism so rightfully so there are people with an aversion to it but does that mean that ethno nationalism is inherently evil and destructive?
When I was in Iraq I spent time with the Yazidi community many of whom have a great sense of ethno nationalism but I had never encountered a more kind and gentle people who treated me with nothing but love and kindness.
When I was visiting an Assyrian town in Iraq I expressed my want to stay with them as they continued their fight against ISIS and I was told very politely by a local soldier/ intellectual in the community that " we need to fight for ourselves and this community is for Assyrians only"  However I was welcomed into his community several times and I was treated very well by the people.
I lived with Iraqi Armenians who were also very ethno nationalist but still to this day I am referred to as a brother by the leaders and people of one of the Armenian village's of northern Iraq.
My point to this is yes we can be nationalists both civic and ethnic nationalists and we can temper our nationalism with rational thought, intellectualism and kindness.
We can accept and help Americans of all creeds and nations beyond our borders.
I am not rejecting civic nationalism but I am rejecting the cultural, racial and ethnic relativists that see western society as nothing more than a capitalist haven of wealth and commercialism.
Their bias and hypocrisy says it all.