Category Archives: By Ourselves, For Ourselves

Blogging the Black Death

Posted on March 2, 2006 by Alaska

…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 →

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Information Please

Posted on November 10, 2005 by Alaska

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

Posted on September 7, 2005 by Professor Booty

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

Posted on September 1, 2005 by Professor Booty

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

Posted on August 31, 2005 by Professor Booty

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

Posted on June 27, 2005 by Professor Booty

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

Posted on June 6, 2005 by Professor Booty

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

Posted on May 23, 2005 by Professor Booty

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

Posted on January 31, 2005 by Professor Booty

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

Posted on January 27, 2005 by Professor Booty

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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