Nation
It’s Time to Take America Back: David Limbaugh
Ted Cruz: Obama’s behavior similar to that of dictators: Melissa Quinn
Obama Offers The GOP Distractions: RS
Obamacare’s Perilous Protection Plan for Debtors: Michelle Malkin
Dem Congresskook Freaks Out on House Floor: Breitbart
The Biggest Liar Ever to Stain the Oval Office: Flopping Aces
House Republicans Put 36 Recruits ‘On the Radar’: Abby Livingston
White House reverses course, says Obama lived with Kenyan uncle: Olivier Knox
Economy
The Cruelty of the Minimum Wage: Loren HealDid Mary Landrieu Kill Shell's Massive New GTL Plant in Louisiana?: HayRide
Obama Serves Up a Fresh Heaping of Class Warfare: Keith Koffler
Obama’s Underpants Gnome Economy: R.S. McCain
New Tax Numbers Rebut Obama’s Class Warfare Pivot: Timothy H. Lee
Obama Gets Schooled On The “Root” of Prosperity: MOTUS
Scandal Central
Gun Confiscation Has Begun in New York: Bryan PrestonMark Levin: Obama plans to destroy role of Congress by ignoring debt ceiling: Kuznicki
Obamacare video winner: ‘Forget about the price tag’: Travis Perry
Climate & Energy
Thank You, Frackers, For Keeping Me from Freezing: Ari Armstrong“Smoking Gun That NCDC Temperature Adjustments Are A Complete Fraud”: Protein Wisdom
Oopsie. A mistaken wandering off the plantation?: Protein Wisdom
Media
If Hillary’s Nominated, ‘Sexism will be the New Racism’: TruthRevoltGeorge Will: Medicaid is Next Obamacare Crisis: RWN
The Snit and Wizdumb of Obama: American Digest
Oh, That Uncle Omar: Jon Gabriel, Ricochet
Tingles: ‘He came to us today, He came amongst us!’: Nice Deb
‘Mediocrity Now!’ – The Roseanne-Oprah Income Inequality Game: Jen Kuznicki
Liberal At Washington Post Whines Over Republican Congressmen Talking Impeachment: John Hawkins
Networks Censor FBI and IRS Counsel Stonewall Tea Party Targeting Investigation: MRC
Boxing Day: Hopenchange Cartoons
World
Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an `Islamist Extremism' Problem: R.S. McCainOf course: Obama tweets picture of himself in memory of Nelson Mandela: Jennifer Burke
Breitbart’s Joel Pollak discusses the life of Nelson Mandela on the Mark Levin Show: Scoop
It's come to this: Kerry thanks Abu Mazen for staying at the table: Matzav
Skeet Shooting With Prizes: C&S
Marine officer to receive Silver Star for heroics in Camp Bastion attack: MarineTimes
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
2 Million Stolen Accounts From Facebook, Twitter, Google, ADP, Found On Crime Server: Dark ReadingWormholes Might Link Quantum-Entangled Quarks: Richard Adhikari
Capture 360-degree video with DLSRs and GoPros, viewable on an Oculus Rift: Engadget
Cornucopia
Texas School Bans Christmas Trees, Colors Red And Green: SHNSo There's That: Sondrakistan
I Think I'm in Love: Freedom's Torch
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Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Tracking progress on a Convention of the States
QOTD:"Past performance is no guarantee of future results:
— Headline at the Atlantic, May 22nd, 2013.
● “The Democratic Party: How It Can Save Itself”
— Headline at the Atlantic, today.
What a difference a few months and a stillborn socialized medicine scheme can make." --Ed Driscoll
After work on an early evening I went to Wendy's as their food had always been fresh and hot; the outlet was in a busy but generally Lo-Fo part of town. On my way through the alternate Yuk-In-The-Box I asked about it and was told they didn't have enough customers.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the future where compassion is spelled NO JOBS.
Democrats will always pitch a new and higher minimum wage for the reason that their friends, the Union thugs, have contracts tied to the minimum wage. When it goes up, their income goes up. Since they long since started getting paid more than their labor was truly worth, its the only way they can get a bump.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that the poor and young can't get jobs and stay poor and jobless (and voting D) is a plus.
Apropos of nothing but..
ReplyDeleteMost preppers should be familiar with the ‘rule of three’ – this means having one main method of an important function and a backup for it and a backup of the backup. It doesn’t necessarily entail 3 versions of the same thing but distinctly different ways of accomplishing a priority task.
In the case of personal security arrangements, the main or level 1 version would be firearms within easy reach within a structure. These would be the primary weapons used for hunting and defense.
And while it’s been said that the time to hide weapons is the time to bring them out, the rule of three would dictate that a level 2 backup of the primary firearms should at least be considered. There are no guarantees as to the future but unknown threats such as governmental seizures or devastation of a structure must be considered in all plans and preparations.
Level 2 backups should be outside the immediate area but easily accessible in an underground or similar storage cache. The weapons should be set in waterproof PVC piping or the similar waterproof containers with additional scrap metal and scent distraction materials scattered about to foil determined searches. The presumption here would be that even with destruction of a home or bug out location or search and seizure operation a set of weapons would still be immediately available to the prepper.
Level 3 backups are a step removed from level 2 in that this backup is set at a distance and without a personal connection to the prepper. This means an underground cache on raw land unlikely to be disturbed in the near future. No personal connection means weapons purchased privately beyond the government’s prying eyes.
Advantageous level 3 locales would be places where the cache would likely remain undisturbed, has a ready supply of decoy material nearby and relatively accessible. Long lost junkyards or metal dumping grounds would a good choice as well as rural backwoods with their requisite amounts of discarded trash. Such places would readily discourage searches with metal detectors and in the case of rural road frontage be of such vast amounts as to make detection of the cache highly improbable. Weapons destined for level 3 caches should be of the lower cost realm and lacking a pedigree lest they be inadvertently discovered.
Just as an aside, when data is stamped in materials such as metal, the stamping process tends to place the molecules a fair distance beneath the data under stress. This stress can manifest itself in form of visual indications even after the data has been abrasively removed. Grinding the material down to remove the indications of the data leaves the stress in molecules below and certain chemicals – acids and the like can be utilised to determine what the data was while still present on the surface of the material. Given this interesting phenomenon, it would seem like applying additional stress on the molecules would cause this not to be the case. Writing over the data would scramble the stresses within the material while rendering the data unreadable. Hammering the data in the same region would not only remove the original data but also remove the original l data’s stress indications deep in the material. In most cases areas with a great deal of metallic debris would be less than ideal for searches of this attribute of the cache. By the same token, the inclusion of chemical propellant components should suffice the placement of similar component with similar chemicals in the surroundings. Several handfuls of spent casing from the local range should do the trick and would satisfy both decoy requirements.
In summation, it should be incumbent on the prepper to have 3 personal security backups as with every other functional task such as the procurement of water. For most preppers, firearms are a priority are a foundational basis on their survival. Loss of personal security arrangements renders all other preps useless.