Archive | November, 2011

Concealed Carry Options for Women: Sig P238 and Ruger LCP

The best gun for a woman is one that fits in her purse or pocket, has light recoil, and won’t break a fingernail when she racks the slide. You’ll love it too.

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In the Works: Emergency Shelter Article

This promises to be quite a detailed article about building a shelter with whatever you have on-hand. There will be video (maybe “videos”)! It’s a lot of ground to cover; we’re going to build a lean-to, an enclosed shelter with framework and evergreen boughs, a shelter improvised from man-made materials, and so on. One thing [...]

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How to Use an Emergency Signaling Mirror

A signal mirror is an effective way to send a distress signal and should be in your every day carry bag. We review two brands, and show you how to use them.

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In the Works: Signal Mirror Article

It was a perfect clear sunny day for signal mirrors. We shot the vid, took a ton of pix, and now we’re writing, editing…. and it’s time to leave on a Friday date. Look for “How to Use an Emergency Signal Mirror” this weekend. ~SnoMan

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Basics of Building an Emergency Shelter

In Part 2 of the Emergency Shelter series, you’ll learn the three main considerations in deciding where and how to build your shelter: Location, Situation, and Orientation.

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Top Five Reasons to KEEP ObamaCare – LOL

Top Five Reasons to KEEP ObamaCare — LOL By a wide margin, Americans don’t want ObamaCare and never did. It is such a wretched piece of legislation that the government wouldn’t let us read it before it was passed. In fact, it is so bad that our jolly rulers exempted themselves from its requirements. Most [...]

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Survival Plan 10 – How to Build an Emergency Survival Shelter – Intro

Assessing the environment, climate, your physical condition, and materials on hand are the first steps in understanding your immediate emergency shelter needs

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Seven Things About the Government that May Shock You

Seven Things About the Government that May Shock You It has been said that if the government is the solution, it was a stupid question. Yet one of the government’s biggest tricks is making people believe they can’t do without it. If you’re one of them, maybe you’re not aware of these seven shocking things [...]

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Complete Government Takeover of All Broadcast Media

Today the government held the first test of the Emergency Alert System, the national warning system that replaced the Emergency Broadcast System. If you could have heard the botched test, it would have sounded just like the EBS tests we’ve heard all our lives, but there is a big difference. The EBS was operated by [...]

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Cha-CHING! Yet Another Internet Tax

The taxation tsunami goes on. Remember the minuscule federal budget cuts of fiscal year 2011? They amounted to $38 billion, a mere four days’ worth of spending. (Actually, it was only $352 million, but who’s counting?) Well, whatever savings you thought you’d realize, they’ve found a way to recapture it — a new tax on [...]

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A Tea Party Response to the Occupiers

The occupiers are barking up the wrong tree. The problem isn’t capitalism — it’s government power. They’re right to complain about big bank bailouts, but capitalists can’t do this in a free market. Only the government can steal money from taxpayers and give it to the banks. ACORN’s involvement in organizing the Occupiers is proof [...]

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