My nightmareWhat if AlGore was the lame duck president in 2006?
Click the link to read a leftist’s fantasy.
Find out how Gore would have killed Osama, stopped the September 11th, 2001 attacks from ever happening, successfully disarmed Iran and the Norks, and stopped the entire world from burning to a crisp from “Global Warming”.
All without ever donning a cape!
Oh, to live in a child’s world once again.
Over at the FAL Files Forums there’s an excellent thread revealing what can happen to a well-laid-out family emergency plan when the Significant Other doesn’t fully buy into it — or, more charitably, is willing to abandon it when the situation seems to him or her no longer to be an emergency.
How many of us, I wonder, have SOs who are just humoring us by going along with our preparedness “hobby,” and don’t really take it seriously? No great harm until SHTF, and then it’s potentially a big problem. And there doesn’t need to be a large regional disaster for the S to HTF  — if your home’s on fire, the S has HTF for YOU.
One practical item I noticed in the thread is that the poster tried to contact his wife on the radios they’d agreed to use in an emergency, and she didn’t answer — she was taking the dog to go potty. Had this family used their radios for routine communications around the home, this might not have been an issue.
As one character noted in Mr. Rawles’ novel, without communications you ain’t got jack.
I think from now on I’m going to make an effort to use our MURS radios instead of our cell phones for routine communications — for example, when one of us is at home and the other is walking the dogs, jogging, or running an errand to the nearby shopping center. It’ll be cheaper, too.
Anyway, read the thread. Lots of valuable food for thought there, particularly in posts nos. 1 and 12.
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With the passing of Soul Brother #1Â on Christmas morning, The Soundboard would like to thank him for his life of innovation and entertainment by handing out this bit of tunage to you.
While he didn’t lead a life that was exemplary, just as no one should get their lifestyle cues or social mores from a professional athelete, neither should they from an entertainer.
The afterlife didn’t need more soul, but he done brung it.
Btw, today’s track come from this album. I highly recommend it.
In relation to the By Ourselves, For Ourselves posts that I’m re-posting, The Patriot Post has gotten their “Recommended Action Plan for Mitigating the Consequences of Natural or Attack Catastrophe on Your Family and Community” (not to be rude, and I may be biased, but I like my title much better).
It is a nice quick read, though it is nowhere near as in-depth as something on the subject of preparedness needs to be.
Heck, the subject of By Ourselves Part 1, firearms and protection of you and your family with arms, is barely even mentioned in RAPMCNACYFC.
Do read it though, if for no other reason than as a primer for By Ourselves, For Ourselves posts to come.
The Heartless Libertarian gives some advice to the Bush Administration and the Pentagon as to what to do with the Iranians we recently captured in Iraq.
He has offered this advice before, though the US groups named above have not taken it, obviously.
You should partake of this advice and let him know what you think of it.
It seems that the folks who secure the DHS HQ can’t hold onto their “dangerous 40mm semi-automatic assault pistols”
The Department of Homeland Security said yesterday that it is investigating how four handguns recently went missing from its headquarters in Northwest Washington.
Jarrod Agen, a department spokesman, said the guns belonged to Paragon Systems of Chantilly, which provides security for the department’s facility on Nebraska Avenue NW.
Ok, so the italicized words above were not directly quoteed from the linked article, but we all know that it is only because a department of the government was involved. Had this report been about a gun store robbery, I have no doubt that the story would have been not only alarmist in nature, but read something quite like the fake quote.
At least that is what this WaPo article on the possibility of Polar Bears being listed as an endangered species because of global warming would like you to believe.
The Bush administration has decided to propose listing the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, putting the U.S. government on record as saying that global warming could drive one of the world’s most recognizable animals out of existence.
The administration’s proposal — which was described by an Interior Department official who spoke on the condition of anonymity — stems from the fact that rising temperatures in the Arctic are shrinking the sea ice that polar bears need for hunting. The official insisted on anonymity because the department will submit the proposal today for publication in the Federal Register, after which it will be subject to public comment for 90 days.
However, there are a couple major assumptions in the article that have been included for either comic relief or for their “Fear Factor”
Because scientists have concluded that carbon dioxide from power-plant and vehicle emissions is helping drive climate change worldwide, putting polar bears on the endangered species list raises the legal question of whether the government would be required to compel U.S. industries to curb their carbon dioxide output.
Of course, you recognized that the above sentence is missing the word “some” in from of the words “scientists”. Apparently Juliet Eilperin’s watching of AlGore’s movie multiple times has qualified her to be the WaPo’s science writer.
Especially after this little snippet she saw fit to include.
Northern latitudes are warming twice as rapidly as the rest of the globe, according to a 2004 scientific assessment, and by the end of the century annual ocean temperatures in the Arctic may rise an additional 13 degrees Fahrenheit. As a result, researchers predict that summer sea ice, which polar bears use as a platform to hunt for ringed seals, will decline 50 to 100 percent.
I guess she couldn’t be bothered to name the “2004 scientific assessment” so that we could take a look for ourselves.
I also wonder if it was from this same “assessment” that she got the broad figure of “50 to 100 percent”?
Also missing from this article, which specifically mentions melting ice in the Pacific, is the fact that the ice in the Atlantic is thickening. They mention that there are bears on that side of the arctic, but mention nothing about their lack of troubles.
And the Death Cult Propganda marches on.
…or at least that’s the gist of this fascinating article in Infantry magazine. (Found via Arms and the Law.)
The money quote is towards the beginning and references the well-known request of troops in Iraq to be issued with M14s instead of M4s. But, says the article, would they have known how to use them effectively? The author thinks not.
I’ve got the “Playing with my Christmas gift, trying to figure out how it works” blues.
If you didn’t stop by yesterday, then there is new stuff for you if you scroll down.
You all will be introduced to my new little friend soon enough. While it technically does “shoot” it is not specifically “firearm related”. But you will probably like it anyway.
See you tomorrow.
Today I’ll be starting the reposting of this series. After finding and re-reading them, I have made some editorial changes. These include grammatical and spelling corrections, additional links, pictures and basic updates of information.
The backbones of the posts are still very much there, only now, they are more useful.
Please remember, I am not a professional at this. I just put my head to the problem for a while and came up with some common sense ideas for myself and I am just relaying these ideas on to you. If you have an idea you would like to put forward, please feel free to do so without hesitation. The only bad idea is the one that no one thinks up and the only dumb idea is the one that makes you dead, usually resulting from a bad idea.
And on that note, Enjoy!
