overwhelming preps

OVERWHELMING PREPS

I just got "As Wind In Dry Grass" and read a few pages.  Wow!  The style is very engaging, grabs you right away.  I'll have a review early next week.  Last days before the fed gov is suppossed to pass a debt increase.  Yawn.  Who cares?  But I'm wondering- orchastrated to delay all entitlement payments/military checks a month or two?  Are they that desperate?  Good stuff.  I hope you seniors have that extra case of dog food cans set aside.
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About once a week or at least once a fortnight, a disgusting scene unfolds where a eternally grateful yuppie gushes that Rawles saved their life by introducing them to the prepper lifestyle. Okay, honestly I’m glad that one less Yuppie Puke is going to be trying to stuff me in the stewpot as they camp out of the back of their stranded SUV on the edge of suburbia. And, sure, I’m a bit jealous because my minions always say things like “you ignorant slut” or “thanks for entertaining me while I waited for next payday so I could buy more AR mags”, but rarely do I get a “you are my favoritist in the whole wide world and I worship you as a false idol” and I never, ever get a “I’m a bosomy wench and wish to have your baby”. I’ll bet Rawles gets naked pictures of devote Christian wenches ( they are only wearing a crucifix ) all the time, damn his eyes. And they probably are in really good shape from singing hymns really enthusiastically whereas I’m only asking for a fat chick that sits around and eats ho-ho’s ( remember the ho-ho thing we had going in the comments section years ago? ). And, in case you are humor impaired, that was a joke. Devote religious types only fornicate under Papal guidelines and I’m sure there is no nudity involved. In pictures or in the bedroom. Anyway, as joyous as it is to have yet another ignorant bastard finally waking up and realizing that all is not well and perhaps we should all be panicking, the issue I wish to address today is their common complaint of being overwhelmed by the task at hand. This is were I hitch up my red super hero underwear over my tights, adjust my bike helmet to avoid forthcoming injury as I have a seizure, and proclaim that I am here to save the day!

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Forward this to every Pollyanna Puke on your mailing list. No need to be overwhelmed by the need for a twenty acre retreat, concrete bunkers, five plastic carbines or a semi load of freeze dried foods. And, no need to move your lips as you try to read yet another book on the subject. The problem is simple. Assume the worse, then do the absolute minimum to ensure you live, and every payday thereafter you aren’t dead, prep better than you already have. I’ll assume you are a middle class zombie just waking up. No firearms, debt out the kazoo. No idea the Federal Reserve Bank has doomed us all. No idea how to get out of debt equaling your wages for a decade. Go down to Wal-Mart ( or wherever ). Buy a single shot break open twelve gauge ( and a box of shells with something larger than birdshot ). You want a novice friendly firearm that is affordable. You have to be unable to hold a job to NOT understand this firearm, so that naturally breeds out the dangerous idiots. Do not over buy your first firearm. You can do that later as you learn more. Here’s your firearm safety class- always assume it is loaded and never point it unless you are planning on shooting someone. Buy a fifty pound sack of flour for each person in the family. If you can’t cook, I’m sure you can master pancakes, so buy some baking powder. Buy a case of beans per person. For $20 each, everyone eats for a month. You can add better food, and more of it, later.

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To cook, if there is enough brush and wood around, dig a Dakota Hole ( one hole down a foot or so, the other joining that at the bottom at an angle like such ( I / ). If you must, buy a $15 single burner propane stove. Each $3 disposable fuel canister will cook around six to eight hours roughly. If you have no other way of filtering/purifying water, buy a gallon of unscented bleach. Fifteen drops per gallon, and allow to sit open overnight to evaporate some of that out. Don’t drink it forever, but short term it will be fine. Look up on the Interweb, there are plenty of ways of making water safe. To stay warm, a space blanket. To stay dry, a tarp. To see, a few dollar store LED flashlights and some batteries ( yes, dumbass, rotate them ). This will keep to alive for a month. Each $8 after that will buy another months worth of starvation level calories in wheat kernels ( buy a grain grinder first, then the wheat ). After that, it will never end. Alternate energy, alternate shelter, better food, better firearms, getting out of debt, etc. But start with your basics and then work towards better and more. No need to panic over not having that bunker. No need to be overwhelmed. This way, you feel safer immediately.

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On another topic, I must profusely thank the beautiful minion who bought a 180 watt mono solar panel and huge inverter. Almost a grand extra credited to my 7% commission fee. So instead of my normal $200 a month, I’ll get closer to $300. Thanks! I’d offer to have your baby, but I think I’ve reached menopause ( I can have your food baby if you’d like ). Next up, does anyone have time to research something for me? I’d like to find out my blog site stats on visitors. I’m showing the 1200 to 1300 page impressions per day, but I wonder if that is the same as unique visitors? I tried a Google search and only found the page impressions reported.

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Nothing to do with survival, preps, militia porn or anything else, but I simply must report a very good book put out by a loyal minion. The Road To Roma by Dave Kukne. It is one novella and several short stories. Just really, really good reading. I normally don’t like short fiction outside of Stephen King, but these were so good I’m still thinking them over days later ( usually I promptly forget a normal fiction story ). I highly recommend the book.

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