Category Archives: By Ourselves, For Ourselves

Dress Shoes for WTSHTF

Posted on January 9, 2010 by Alaska

We’ve had a few earthquakes in the last few days, strong enough to be noticeable in my office. As many of you know, I’m an attorney and although I stopped wearing a sport coat or tie long ago (this is … Continue reading →

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Here’s the Beef

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Alaska

One of the benefits of living in the Bay Area is that Amazon’s fulfillment center seems to be in Hayward or somewhere close by. I get Amazon purchases ridiculously quickly. I ordered the Libby’s canned beef from this post Sunday … Continue reading →

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Amazon to the Rescue

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Alaska

You may remember my rant here about Costco’s sudden discontinuance of their excellent Kirkland in-house brand of canned beef. It was easily a fraction of the price of other canned beef products available on the market, as I found out … Continue reading →

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Cap’n Trips, I Presume?*

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Alaska

Hemorrhagic swine flu in Ukraine…. We’ve “cycled through” our 3-month food supply by eating it all over the last few months. (Didja know that canned pork’n’beans tastes great with canned spaghetti? I didn’t either.) I’m gonna try to do a … Continue reading →

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“Sheeps in the Fields”

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Alaska

No, not Zorro (although that was one of the funniest movie lines I’ve ever heard, in an otherwise completely forgettable film), i’m talkin’ ’bout Zero Hedge’s use of Google Earth and a database to show the world’s shipping fleet idled … Continue reading →

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Homemade Bacon

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Alaska

‘Cause you can’t truly be prepared for WTSHTF without bacon! Recope and much more here.

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Lists

Posted on August 15, 2009 by Phil Kadath

I do like me some lists. One of my favorites as of late is the Top Ten Ways Not to Survive over at The Survivalist Blog. The only one I really need to work on is #3. As for #8, … Continue reading →

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Mortgage Tidal Wave Cresting

Posted on July 18, 2009 by Alaska

That means it hasn’t hit yet. What, you say? That’s right, the bad stuff’s yet to come: T2 Partners

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Buy this Book!

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Alaska

Today is Book Bomb Day for the latest edition of James Wesley, Rawles’ novel Patriots. It’s got a spiffy new cover and subtitle. Much like Atlas Shrugged or Unintended Consequences, if you haven’t read it, you should. None of those … Continue reading →

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When seconds count

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Phil Kadath

The Schenectady PD might not even be minutes away Schenectady Police Chief Mark Chaires said, “This is unprecedented – all these officers getting in trouble at the same time for all these different reasons. Five Schenectady police officers recently accused … Continue reading →

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