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Category Archives: By Ourselves, For Ourselves
Blogging the Black Death
…or airborne avian flu, or the second cousin of that pesky airborne Reston ebolavirus, or even whatever it was that killed five billion people in Twelve Monkeys — what would blogging the experience be like? Well, while unpacking the contents of the garage* this past … Continue reading
Information Please
Well, the voting’s done, so the silly season is now over. Time to get back to the serious stuff. I’ve read AK’s By Ourselves, For Ourselves series with interest, as well as Rivrdog’s Paratus blog, and I’m wondering if either … Continue reading
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Edging you way on top
One of the items I seem to have neglected to include on my necessary equipment list in the By Ourselves, For Ourselves series was something large and with a sharp edge. I’m talking about axes. I was reminded of this … Continue reading
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State of Emergency
For a hands-on view of the recovery from Katrina, you should stop by Nukevet Neal’s place, Life in the Atomic Age. He is in Baton Rouge and his school is helping in the recovery as best they can, We just … Continue reading
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We’ve Spoken About This
Looting in New Orleans We all knew it would happen. Some of us have prepared for it. Here is a link to the ‘By Ourselves, For Ourselves’ series that I have yet to finish. Unfortunately, the archives are still down … Continue reading
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By Ourselves, For Ourselves: Part 7
The topic of this post will focus on grouping together, also known as ‘Safety in Numbers’. But first a couple of things: First up, in Part 5, I wrote about first aid. Since then Doc Russia (an actual doctor) wrote … Continue reading
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By Ourselves, For Ourselves: Part 6.1
This is intended as a follow up to Part 6 to address some of the emails I received after that post involving certain subjects.
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By Ourselves, For Ourselves: Part 6
SHTF Vehicles My apologies for taking so long to get this up and out. If you are new to the series or need a refresher, you should go here and read up. In the previous set of posts we have … Continue reading
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By Ourselves, For Ourselves: Part 5
Allrighty then! I was not able to find the particular disk I was looking for with the original post on it, so this is the re-write. It is pretty darn close to the original though so dig in. Again, we … Continue reading
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I�m Glad I Own Firearms
Especially after hearing news like this, Trained ‘jihadists’ in Oregon, FBI says The FBI knows of “jihadists” who have trained in terrorist camps in Afghanistan and now are living in Oregon, the agency’s Oregon chief said Tuesday. “We don’t have … Continue reading
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