As usual, not everyone is happy with me. You look like an amateur, with the unregulated comments section. Because we all know that to be professional you should look good. Hey, let’s buy from businessman X, because he drives a Caddy instead of a pick-up truck. Never mind he will charge you more to be able to pay for that vehicle. You go into a used car dealership and they sell you a pretty lemon. Sears stays in business selling nice looking packages. Why buy at half the price at the thrift store? That one is dented and discolored. Hey, we all get happy in different ways. If putting on airs and looking rich floats your boat, go for it. That is certainly not what motivates me. I’ll wear stained clothes, as long as they are laundered and keep the elements out. And were cheap. All the new survival sites look professional. Hell, Creekmore gave away more free e-books in a week than I did in three years. His site looks good, he advertises Yuppie goods, and he doesn’t insult anyone ( not picking on him, they are all the same- I’m pointing out where the majority of customers/readers flock ).
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How do people think I can preach frugal and embrace corporate business as usual? Of course I want to be compensated for my work. As do all site owners. I don’t fault them for having ads or wanting to live off their writing alone. It just isn’t for me. If you want to live in the city and stockpile semi-auto’s, fine. Not bad advice if we see green shoots. I preach doom and despair, living below your income to prepare, getting ready for the Apocalypse
. You don’t read me to survive a levy breach or a hurricane
, you read me to be the last one in the stew pot. Why should my business practices be the same if my teachings aren’t? Again, it isn’t for everyone, but I don’t want to be monies bitch. We all need money to survive in a cash only economy. But if I can minimize it I am a lot happier. I still wear a pair of golden handcuffs but mine are a lot less constricting. So, I piss on looking professional. It is the old turd analogy. Most people want the gold plated turd. It looks good and if they don’t handle it roughly it stays that way. I want the turd plated gold. It is smelly, but worth a lot more.*
Most likely, this coming Monday I will return to the regular word length. I reserve the right to keep the weekends articles short, in case of a string of cloudy days makes topping off the batteries difficult. Most likely that means winter month have short weekend articles and summer months see longer ones.
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. Everyone else gives you the link, but despite your abuse I’m willing to pay to review it for you. That’s the kind of swell guy I am. I ordered the paper version so it might take two weeks. The e-book version is cheaper and faster but I wanted paper. Call me spoiled.*
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Running a professional blog has nothing to do with being frugal or making sales. It has do do with respecting yourself, your readers and your work.
If you want to be taken seriously you need to run a tight ship. Before you can have the respect of others and be seen as an expert in your field you need to act, look and be an expert.
Not trying to pick at you I'm trying to help you.
With that said by reading the comments here it is obvious to me or anyone reading that this is just another amateur and unprofessional site frequented by teenage boys with foul language. Worthy of little or no respect because the owner doesn't care enough about himself or his readers to moderate the comments.
Oh for Pete's sake, it is substance over style every damn time. Look beyond the exterior. Don't judge a book by its cover.
One of the nice things about this blog is that it is authentic. No window dressing. The invitations to buy are clearly marked. I respect that kind of honesty.
"Worthy of little or no respect because the owner doesn't care enough about himself or his readers to moderate the comments"
Wow, the comments are unmoderated for what, 1 day and dakin is getting this???
Mousse,
The comments are part of the blog and a reflection of the author and the quality of the content. I personally could careless what Jim does with his site. I would like to see him succeed but he needs to move beyond acting like a teenage boy running a free for all.
You would be surprised at the potential new readers who visit this site take a look at the retarded comments and leave and never return.
If I remember correctly just a few days ago Jim was complaining about his reader base and lack of growth. This could be the reason?
The reason I read this blog is this guy has the straight POOP. I'm a depressing, full-on-crash, etc Doomer myself. I have a semi-auto and am considering another. I also have a bolt, pellet guns, and am considering getting serious about trapping and snaring. As well as a bunch of other nasty, unfair weapons.
My ego is not such a delicate flower that it's bruised and all hurty by being called a "minion" I find the humor VERY refreshing!
99.9% of the Internet is inhabited by khaki-wearing, button-down, humorless, cubicle-veal gits. For all of their big talk, survivalism to them is keeping a Leatherman Skeletool (yuk!) in the center console of their yup-mobile and a can of Spam in the cupboard they keep the Iams in for their thoroughly useless, inbred, "purebred" dog in. The guy on the net who talks about eating worms, saw a hook baited with a worm in Scouts. They're full of shit.
And how can you tell when they're full of shit? They have NO SENSE OF HUMOR. Developing a sense of humor requires being out in the real world and being humbled. A lot. Spend some time in the Army out in the field thousands of miles from one's home country, living in C-rats for weeks on end, and the humor is rampant. Be a real, old-skool, spray-the-distributor-with-hairspray hotrodder or biker and you'll learn humor. Grow up with what bikes you can build up from junkyard pieces (somehow other kids always got the brakes!) learn to hunt and fish and forage and keep yourself in pencils in school by looking for 'em that other kids dropped. You are forced to develop FLEXIBILITY.
These caged-poodle yups never got that. They got PBS and Calculus For Kids and soccer or frisbee teams where EVERYONE wins! No resiliancy = no humor and the whole Internet is infected with these prissy, brittle, yuppies.
Jim, you do a great job. I'll read your comment section and just break out laughing. It's a nice change after reading all the doom and gloom sites.
Is your comment page over-the-top? Yes. But then the future we are envisioning is over-the-top.
Remember, it's your site. Your minions will always remain in awe of your greatness no matter what you do.
Idaho Girl
We love you Lord Bison!!! Don't change a thing. May your enemies choke on a gold plated turd.
You can expect a Loyal Minion donation from me next month.
Can't say for sure but it looks like Jim is jealous of Creekmore. Jim there's no need to be jealous or envious.
I read both sites for three years now and find useful information from both.
Yes Creekmore has a great blog that is full of frugal ideas and motivation but so did you. I think you both have survivalblog.com beat by a long shot.
So please Jim stop being jealous and let us move on with our preps.
The reason jimmy doesn't moderate his comments is because he wants attention. He don't care if it is positive or negative. He is like a child crying out hold me somebody please love me. Look at me I'm great. It is sad.
To be honest I have not read anything useful here in several months.
Did you know, you can choose just about any ole pretend name when you make comments? (Except the names of other survival website owners, don't be doing that.) Just click Name/URL, then type something into the name box.
It'd be a lot easier to converse if I knew to which Anonymous I was writing.
Mousse
It is just a blog. I see it as a place to vent and spread some information.
Keep up the good work Jim. I'm glad I can comment again.Don't let the dickheads get to you.They sound like a bunch of control freak losers.
Keep doing your thing Jim, screw what anyone else says. I'm right there with ya, and hopefully soon I'll be living the real "good life", just like you are...
Mayberry
Why do you moderate comments on you blog?
Hey Jimbo... YOUR DA' MAN ! as the old expression goes: "talk the talk, walk the walk"...
How, many other self-proclaimed "survival gurus" managed to get off-grid, on their own, without a little dose of daddy welfare ?
ZERO.
Ironically, Jimbo- I mailed a 'care package' today. Some nice little consumable luxury items... enjoy.
Was it Rawles or Crickmore, that had a post about mixing up some little bags of rice and beans for yuppie chow night ?
WTF ? KIDDIES. these are the slick pros and they can't even figure out how to cook dried beans.... first off, you can't cook the dried beans at all if they aren't pre-soaked overnight. The exception would be lentils or SPLIT peas. what useless pussies, their gonna get you killed.
Since you are looking for ideas to write about, how about having a recipe day. The receipes would have to be able to be used after TSHTF. If the word microwave is mentioned in the recipe except to store stuff in, delete the recipe. Hopefully the recipes will be more than just grind wheat, add water and salt and cook. Recipe day could also be used to talk about/how to use various cookers solar, thermos etc.
On another note, I would like to purchase firearms but I am concerned that once I register it with the authorities, I will be in their data base and I will be one of the first to have my weapon taken after TSHTF. Is there a legal way to still have a weapon and not have it registered? About the only thing I can think of is a pellet gun. They are good for squirrels but not the nuts that will come around after TSHTF. What pellet gun would you recommend?
Keep on keeping on Bison Bud.
Glad to see you pimping J.H. Kunstler's books, they're good reads.
I'd say a set of fuses for your car would be a good thing to have preparedness wise. Like these!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M61JFC/ref=s9_simi_gw_s0_p263_t3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=0D9K5PW0424JB65Y102N&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938811&pf_rd_i=507846
Anonymous, once TSHTF there wont be any authorities around to take your guns away. Look at Haiti, most of the cops called in sick.
Cornbread and Beans
Corn and Bean Pone
Buzz Kimball,
It would be nice if you would get your facts together before posting. I've been living off grid for four years with no help from daddy government.
As for cooking dried beans:
Thermal Cooked Beans
The perfect survival food
Its like you havent said anything useful for awhile,Elko Nevada?couldnt you find a place more remote?I think your preety safe there,even if SHTF i dont think many people well show up where you live.reality is a bitch and i dont think people have a clue whats coming.
Creekmore if I remember correctly you moved off grid before Jim. I think Jim posted about this and how you were an influence to his decision to finally make the move himself.
Some of us have been following for years and remember the order of things. Don't let dumb-ass jerk-offs like buzz get under your skin.
I read both blogs and learn from both keep up the good work M.D. and Jim you both are number one with me.
hi crickmore, if you don't know the difference between 'daddy welfare' and 'big brother', let me put it another way: "who paid for your karate classes" ?
look you obvious worked hard and got your survival shit together, but i've been SURVIVING since before you were filling pampers.
okay, i'll try and avoid the ad homniem attacks, because only the intellectually bankrupt and fools believe "they know it all" and can't present their POV in the marketplace of ideas for others to mull over and decide what's appropriate for themselves and their situation.
and anonymouse 5:29 thank you for the troll seal of approval. much obliged. for those close minded individuals who NEED a 'leader' to be a 'follower', your totally screwed, because you were born with your potential and your only leader for you is you, and that's your problem between you and the SOURCE.
"since pinto beans take approximately four hours to finish cooking..."
great recipe, got fuel ? and rice cooks in 5 to 40 minutes.
"Grind ½ cup of whole corn and ½ cup of pinto beans.."
still sounds like polenta to me. gee, a big favorite of the romans 2 centuries ago...
people might rummage around for an old copy of THE FANNY FARMER COOKBOOK, it's where Kurt Saxon lifted all his recipes from, and just about every other modern american cookbook.
Creekmore, there's nothing wrong with your site, but i don't read it. i'm not a 'survivalist', it won't work, no man is an island...
(although,it will help....)
I read Jimbo, because, anybody read WALDEN ? or is that too esoteric, like quantum hydrodynamics ?
hey, who was bitching about worms?
it's kind of gross since their bisexual(ie. hermaphroditic), but soak a bunch in water till hydrostatic process empties their bowels, they you can eat 'em raw, fry 'em up, or dry them, grind them and add 'em to your daily ration of gruel. there's about a million earthworms per acre. suck it up boys ! no need to stare, ever.
comments worth repeating
beyond acting like a teenage boy running a free for all.
And how can you tell when they're full of shit? They have NO SENSE OF HUMOR.
We love you Lord Bison!!! Don't change a thing. May your enemies choke on a gold plated turd.
He is like a child crying out hold me somebody please love me. Look at me I'm great. It is sad.
The definition of the term ‘cult’ as provided by the Merriam-Webster dictionary covers a variety meanings:
5 a : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad
: the object of such devotion
"Your minions will always remain in awe of your greatness no matter what you do."
"We love you Lord Bison!!!"
c : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
"You can expect a Loyal Minion donation"
NEW CHURCH
Since by definition it has been established that you and your followers are a cult why don't you get ordained by universal life church and establish the bison compound as a tax exempt church.
All church (your e-books ) could be sent out for a donation.(tax free)
You could have a statue of a Bison shitting a golden turd.
just a suggestion
I'm off da grid, no sucking on Momma Gov't's teat, etc. Been so since mid 2007.
I'm reading ALL the bison archives, in chronological order, man you've written a LOT. I'm up to july 2007, right the time things went KERFLUNCH for my business and I became nomadic, paranoid, off-the-grid, cash-only, twitchy, distrustful, etc in other words, well-adjusted for the coming times.
I'd actually suck off of the government teat except they make it so much work, it's easier to just make the money myself or work out a way to not need the money. To really live off of the gov't teat, you have to make it a vocation, a way of life. It's a full-time job in that, you have to go to meetings with case workers and shuffle a LOT of paper and put in several days a month, apparently, to keep the goodies flowing, and of course it's hard to take all those days off with a job. And you can't ever have a job, because then no goodies anyway. An person with a scrap of self-respect will say Fuck it.
So, I live, exist, am learning all kinds of stuff plus am going to EMT school, paid for by myself. If I was on the gov't teat I'm sure they'd find a way to put a stop to that good shit. They'd rather see me, or you, in a prison orange than EMT blue.
Getting back to reading all your archives, Oh Mighty One, yeah there's a lot I already know, but there are GEMS in there, just like in the writings of any Deity or Avatar of the Godhead, that make it all worth it. I can hardly wait to build a Holy Flowerpot Water Filter to make my very own Bison Holy Water. Now, when are you going to offer a picture of you to worship and maybe a prayer rug, plus a compass so we can pray 3X a day pointing towards Elko, NV?
We should call ourselves Bisonhovah's Witnesses.
we could go door to door selling "Compounds" instead of Watchtowers.
I notice a difference between this site and Creekmore's site.
Mr Creekmore actually says something encouraging to his readers once in a while.
It's not all about him or his beautiful hair.
In other words, Mr. Creekmore doesn't behave like a insufferable egotistical ass.
I for one don't care who paid for his Karate lessons. He took them and excelled at it and that is what matters.
Isn't it dark with your heads so far up Bison's ass?
Most of us just want to vent and be placated. Whining is good for the soul. Reality will take us by surprise.
Gad; this is discouraging but I'm still getting a dose of humor. IMO your current "style" is jes fine Lord B.
anon 1:26--- Professional Blog?
Why is it that I equate a lot of folks that talk about "Professionalism" with "head up their wazoo", "full of themselves" and DKS? Jim speaks to my reality quite well; his polish is innate and not a veneer of overconcern for meaningless detail and gloss w/o substance.
If I remember my grad school teachins correctly; Blogs don't meet the requirements of "Profession" in any fashion.
As far as "commercial success". He has a niche that fits him and is doing it his way.
His limited moderation is acceptable to me. I like it that wingnuts and kids aren't run off just to improve the image.
Soak the worms first; now there's a quality tip worth my subscription fee right there. Learn something new everyday.
A bucket of water in which black walnuts have been soaking for awhile will bring them outa the ground when dumped out. Seems to be lethal to them rather quickly tho.
Pellet guns: I've got an elderly sheridan pump that when used with the pointed pellets will give more penatration in white pine boards than a bull nosed .22 short or hollowpoint. "Regular" pellets will punch through one side of typical spray cans of paint at 50-60 ft.
It will kill groundhogs and squirrels but the hit must be right or they will scatter off to heal or die. Get a clean shot or do not take it. In my city a 13-14 year old girl was killed by an idjit that plinked out of his apt window at her with a pellet gun. They are not childsafe toys.
Is a Big Lot's 98 cent reed mat acceptable for use as a Bisolonian Witless prayer rug or do I have to dehide the backside of the neighbor's throwaway stratolounger?
Whoops; anon 6:34 is c57
Buzz Kimball,
There you go again speaking when you have no idea of what you are talking about. You are definitely entitled to your opinion I only wish you knew what you are talking about before giving it.
To clarify I paid for my Karate training while working at a full-time job. Lots of hard work but no help from anyone.
And as to you prepping since before I was filling pampers. It is entirely possible, I don't know you or anything about your life - but one thing is certain you must be one old fart.
Being a survivalist has nothing to do with being an island.
Most people nowadays are using the term prepper because is more politically correct than the term survivalist, which has been demonized by the mass media. But in reality they are one and the same.
How old are Bison readers?
I was born Sep 1932
1948
Vlad
congrats on already having survived 78 years.
the depression
korea
vietnam
I bet you know a thing or two about surviving.
1951
1784, I'm a vampire.
Vlad's got me by a year. July,33
My cool, considered unprejudiced opinion is that creekmore sucks.
vlad
Why are you even worried prepping you will be dead in a couple years anyway. You old fucker.
A PS to my July 33 comment.
I read Vlad also.
1970...it must be a requirement to be an old fart to be here. You guys give me hope!
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