“I’ll Come To Your Place When SHTF” – No You Won’t

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    Editor’s Note: This article has been generously contributed by Glen Tate of 299Days.com. Glen is the author of the 10-part series 299 Days, which is inspired by his own life and personal journey. It begins with 299 Days: The Preparation and introduces us to a husband who awakens to the fragility of modern society and embarks on a personal journey that introduces him to a world of self-reliance and liberation. 

    In the following article Glen covers an issue that is very dear to most preppers – what to do when neighbors, friends and family come knocking. With limited resources available we’re all going to have to make tough decisions. Like many of us, Glen plans on helping those truly in need. But what about those who refused to see the warning signs and stuck their head in the sand, perhaps even lambasted you for your extreme ideas and theories? Instead of being frugal and preparing, they focused their efforts on entertainment and good times.

    But when the good times end, they will come to you for help. What will you do when they show up at your front door?

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    “I’ll Come To Your Place When SHTF” – No You Won’t
    By Glen Tate | 299 Days

    (This post is something you can send to your friends or print out and hand to them when SHTF.)

    Dear Friend:

    I love my friends, but I will shoot you if I have to.  I’m serious.  Here’s why.

    I tried to persuade you to prepare for what’s coming and, in the process, revealed that to you that I’m preparing.  You realized that I have food, guns, etc., and ended up saying, half kidding but half serious, “I’ll come to your place when SHTF.”

    No you won’t.  I will shoot you.  If you threaten me and my family, I will use force to defend against any threat.  And showing up at my place hungry and unprepared is a threat to me.  You will eat my food and use up my medical supplies, generator, firewood, etc.  That’s less of these life-saving things for me and my family.  That’s a threat.

    Is this greed on my part?  No.  I will take care of the truly needy – those who cannot take care of themselves.  But you are different.  Very different.  You had plenty of chances to prepare for yourself.

    But what did you do?  You spent the weekends watching football, went on expensive vacations, and never made your spouse mad at you with your “crazy” ideas that something bad was happening.  You didn’t do shit because… you would just come to my place.  Problem solved, right?  You didn’t need to spend time, money, and create domestic strife because I did that all for you.

    Not.  Why should I spend my time, money, and stress just so you can waltz into my place and live happily ever after?  I’m a nice guy, but – really? – I’m going to spend my (very limited) free time, disposable income, and domestic tranquility just so you can have a leisurely life and more material comforts pre-Collapse while I don’t?

    Why do you think I will sacrifice enormous amounts of my time and money so you can enjoy yourself while I’m slaving away?  Would you assume you could come over and leave your broken car at my house?  That I would just spend thousands of dollars on parts and several weekends fixing it and then hand it over to you with a smile – just because I’m a “good guy”?  Would anyone expect that?

    You do, apparently.  You actually expect to waltz over to my cabin and receive – with a smile – thousands of dollars of food and other supplies that took me all my weekends to acquire and store.

    So, my grasshopper friend (as in the story of the grasshopper and the ant), here is your official warning: if your “plan” for your and your family’s safety is to come to my place, you’re wrong.  When you show up, I’ll ask you to leave.  When you don’t, I’ll point a gun in your face.  If you refuse to leave, I will shoot you.  You are a threat to me.

    You had years of time and very clear warnings to get ready.  But you didn’t.  Hey, I love football but haven’t been able to watch a game in a few years; I’ve been fixing up the cabin, buying supplies, and training with the Team.  I spent a lot of money doing all these things so I haven’t gone on a long vacation in… forever.  I have had several difficult times with my wife because of all the prepping I’m doing; I could have easily done what you did, which is just say “Yes, dear” and not prepare because she didn’t want you to.

    I hope this message jolted you.  There’s still some time.  Go prep.  Please understand that your plan cannot be “I’ll come to your place.”  I don’t want to shoot you.


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    Glen Tate” (not his real name) is a lawyer and political person in Olympia, the state capitol of Washington State.  He was a secret prepper, hiding his activities from his wife – and he wrote the ten-book 299 Days series in secret, too. 

    Glen has led an amazing life – and one that took a surprising turn. He grew up poor in the rural logging town of Forks, Washington. He worked hard to become a successful professional with a job in the political arena. Thinking he’d finally made it and everything was great, he was stunned to see how corrupt government is. From his observations at his job, he realized that America is collapsing and bad things are coming. Very soon. He began to prepare for him and his family to make it through the civil unrest of the coming collapse. That meant he had to return to his rural roots – quite a shock to his family and friends. Even more amazing was that he wrote down what he foresees happening during the collapse and it became a ten-book novel series published by Prepper Press.

    The 299 Days series is available in Audio Book Format, as well as print and Kindle.

    You can visit Glen’s web site at 299days.com

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      1. Like hell you will!

        • As John Wayne like to say, Rebel, “That’ll be the day…”

          • From the financial news…

            The Fed’s Hands Are Tied Unless the Market Crashes

            “Having just engaged in QE for TWO SOLID YEARS STRAIGHT the Fed would totally destroy any and all credibility in its monetary policies to engage in QE anytime within the next three to six months….

            QE 3 and QE 4 are ending in a little over a week.

            Which means… the markets are losing their most critical prop: the Fed’s money pumps.

            Prepare now, the next round of the crisis beckons.”
            http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-22/feds-hands-are-tied-unless-market-crashes

            Saxobank CIO Warns “Another SHOCK DROP Is Coming.. And It’s Coming SOON”

            “Saxo Bank’s Chief Economist Steen Jakobsen is predicting another ‘shock drop’ in the markets within a few weeks.

            Steen argues that we will hit fresh lows in mid-November… with targets for the S&P 500 around 1810 and the Dax at 8000 – 7800.”
            http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-22/saxobank-cio-warns-another-shock-drop-coming-and-its-coming-soon

              • Acid, I do appreciate the sarcasm.

                • One of the Biggest weaknesses in a Group Wide prepping plan is the Loss of OPSEC (Operational Security. And keeping your prepping a secret. One of the Biggest leakers are your children. What do you think they talk about at school with their friends or post on Facebook or Tweet about or take photos of your preps and place them on snap chat of how weird their parents are, Hording up food and ammo and guns prepared for WW3. Kids will tell their innermost secrets to every other kid out there who will listen to them. Trying to out do the other kid of how weird their parents are in comparison. So when real SHTF the kids may gang up and come attack your shack stealing all your preps when they know you will be away. They infiltrate your home during sleepovers and your kids show the other kids all your prepping supplies after school before you get home. You think I am kidding here? You better have a plan for that, and hide or avoid spilling the beans to your kids. Kids just to lack of maturity just does not understand what OPSEC means. So when you consider group prepping to Lone Wolf OPSEC, the Lone wolf has less hols and gaps in their security than groups which dozens of pairs of snoopy eyes, and chatting bragging or yapping about your weird prepping habits.

                  • Ha.. I forgot to add my title name. Hows that for OPSEC? lol

                  • Not to mention those retards who poison some of their supplies. Don’t do that. What if some kids opens one up and eats it.

                  • How do you keep a 5 year old from telling a cashier everything? She tells people where we own houses, why we are buying 50 things of bleach etc. I dont know what to do. Any advice would be great!

                  • This @ dontbeanidiot

                    “Not to mention those retards who poison some of their supplies. Don’t do that. What if some kids opens one up and eats it.”

                    Then I won’t have to worry about ther lil fat azzes EATING the rest of my sh1t!!!
                    Thanks for reminding me!!! Now I’m going to move the poisoned one to the top of my stash!!!

                  • Casey, Get a baby sitter.

              • Who would red thumb that, does Obama have paid trolls come here?

                • Yes…he does.

                  • Yea, isnt that a hoot,
                    they have tens of thousands of people who show up at these NSA facilities and monitor the net etc, they sit there for hours looking at the forums and such, trying to hunt down the dangerous people like you and I,,,,
                    WTF has gone wrong with our government??? they pay more attention to American citizens than they do to Pakistani terrorists or ILLEGAL ALIENS!!!!!
                    they are mental
                    Know your neighbors

                    • Indeed, about the neighbors.

                • No, it’s just that Acid is very caustic…not to mention a sick pervert.
                  By the way I didn’t red thumb him but I understand why some did.

                  • Acid and caustic are polar opposites by definition.

              • Larger signs and an environmental impact study are needed. This may require a ‘Sign Czar’.

              • Funny shit dude,
                Cant cake this crap up can we

            • I’ll just say the same thing to friends when they
              were looking for money …. I haven’t got any.

                • Voting is useless unless you have a court system that enforces the laws on the rich and poor alike.
                  In a functioning republic, the right to prosecute the powerful is a more fundamental freedom than voting.
                  That means you have a law of the land (a constitution) that has the teeth to be used against government officials when they break their own laws. If government can break its own laws, voting means nothing.

                  • Been gone for a while. Jay has a great point. Crimes are classified by legislators who are either wealthy or put in place by the wealthy. Hence, financial crimes are not treated as seriously as say street drug dealers. Once charged, the rich get good attorneys and it makes a difference. Contrast the good lawyer from a public defender. The public defender churns cases and is paid by the number rather than quality of work.
                    If prosecuted and convicted, sentences for the wealthy differ from the rest of us. Shorter sentences and nicer prisons await.

                  • Jay is brilliant

                  • Voting ??
                    I’ll give you an idea about voting in our free democracies.
                    You are the Turkey voting for Christmas & you only have the choice of stuffing. Cranberry stuffing or Chestnut stuffing.
                    The end result is, that you’re the stuffed turkey!

                  • Jay

                    Correct you are!

                    Coincidentally..

                    of all rags,,,

                    The Boston Globe

                    just released an editorial titled thus..

                    “Vote all you want..the secret govt won’t change”

                    Jordan Michael Smith
                    for mainstream media..this is a significant realization

                    possee

                  • RE; Voting: Its amazing how these medium income class people get elected and after a few terms they have a net worth of millions of dollars. Then you take a Billionaire Medicare Fraud Criminal like FL Governor Rick Scott who ripped Medicare off by more than $1.5 Billion as CEO, then got kicked out of the HCA company, pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars, and then today puts $22 Million dollars of his own money into his own re-election campaign that only pays a $250,000 a year salary as Governor. POWER, Control, EGO,… You think he give a hoot about the average Floridian? Although has has passed 5 good Pro Gun laws. So do we vote for the Criminal or the questionably Gay Liberal Charlie Crist who will pass Medical Marijuana? And keep our homeowners Insurance at a reasonable cost? lol Light-em up if you got-em!!

                  • The WHOLE problem with this country is THE SYSTEM!!!
                    The BROTHERHOODS/SISTERHOODS – secret societies, fraternities and alt. “closed-door” organizations.
                    Sir John Kennedy’s “President and Press” Speech of 61 SAID IT ALL!!!

                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdMbmdFOvTs

                    Add to this that EVERY SEAT IN AMERICA should be accompanied by Term Limits, Overwatch and Mandatory Prison Term’s for Oath Violations!!!!
                    These things should have been written into the Constitution!!!

                    But, of course they Wouldn’t have been, would they?!! — as ALL the so-called founding fathers were members of Secret Societies and azz-kissing Brotherhood’s!!!

                    Welcome to Babylon!!!

                    Jus’Say’n

                • I was of the same opinion as George Carlin about fifteen years or so ago when i started digging around and praying for the truth. The more i learned the more i came to hate politicians of all parties. It seemed as though the conservative party, on the surface, was the lesser of the two evils and that is how i voted for many years and then i realized they are just as evil as their bed fellows, the liberals, so i quit voting for a while.

                  Now, as a practicing Christian, I had to do a little soul searching for the future. I asked myself; what if, I go before my Maker and He poses the question…..

                  What did you do to help squelch the killing of my innocent unborn, but very much alive, children, and did you oppose homosexuality as I do?

                  At least i can say that I did the best as i could by casting a vote “against” those two issues and against liberalism that supports those ideologies, by voting for republicans.

                  Will it matter? Will it come to that? I don’t know, but i know i have at least made an effort as a small vote. i also can truthfully say i didn’t call myself a Christian and then turn around and vote for a liberal agenda.

                  There is no straddling the fence on that. You are either for or against the whole platform of the liberals, not just the parts you choose, and will be held accountable for those decisions, and actions.

                  Just sayin’
                  pwtw

                  • Wind … That was a tornado :^). I’ve been wrestling with some of the same issues. I’ve voted in every election, federal state and local since I came of age. I’ve considered it my duty as a citizen. For the last 20 years or so with the rise of having to vote for the so called lesser of two evils in many elections, I’ve gotten very disheartened with whole process.

                    Your post raises and clarifies a couple of issues I hadn’t considered. Thanks!

                  • You are correct, pwtw, their is no straddling the fence. And as you say, “… you will be held accountable for those decisions, and actions.”

                    I’d say 15 years ago you had it figured out, spot on, when you realized that both parties are just as evil. FYI. IT HASN’T CHANGED. Liberals, Neocons, not only do they support destructive behavior, they perform destructive behavior. You don’t think, like the lawless liberals, republicans don’t have demonic skeletons in their closets? Doing the nasty with young boys and girls? Whether it be sex, or drugs, or power and greed, it’s running rampant on both sides of the aisle. Anyone votes for either party, then they are voting for the status quo of letting satanic rituals continue.

                    Demonic behavior, whether it’s of a sexual nature or not, supports corruption against Natural Law. Evil is evil, no matter whether its red or blue. And anyone who supports evil will eventually be held accountable, regardless of one’s religious practices. How can that accountability be experienced? Knowingly, and unknowingly, perform wrong action, and the lessons of retribution will be swift and severe, e.g. like a SWAT team looking for dangerous criminals “accidentally” being guided to the wrong house with guns locked and loaded and that unsuspecting door happens to be yours. Now that’s how the “Maker” teaches us our lessons, if we consciously or unconsciously continue to let ourselves be lead astray.

                    And don’t buy into this false assumption that Voting is the Democratic Way. Our democracy is comatosed and on life support and voting is NOT going to revive it until “other” things take place, first.

                  • “What is your “civilization and progress” if its only outcome is hysteria and downgoing? What is “government and law” if their ripened harvests are men without sap? What are “religions and literatures” if their grandest productions are hordes of faithful slaves? What is “evolution and culture” if their noxious blossoms are sterilized women? What is “education and enlightenment” if their dead-sea-fruit is a caitiff race, with rottenness in its bones?” – Might Is Right, Ragnar Redbeard

                  • Friends,

                    As a practicing Christian, not that we have license, but we do have forgiveness. All we must do, as practicing Christians is our best. He, the Almighty will do the rest. And, here’s the best part: If you feel unsure as you do, ASK for guidance, wisdom and forgiveness…

                    But, be sincere. No one can fool The Big Guy Upstairs.

                    Old Libertarian

                  • You are so right. I’ve read so many comments on this thread saying it doesn’t matter, why vote. For the very reason you just wrote. To vote against gays, abortion, and this corrupt government. Call me ignorant, misinformed, if that’s what you like, at least the real PTB knows what I think!

                  • @ Navy Vet, European American, and others, Thanks for the comments. It is good to know so many are in the same boat as i.

                    EA, I follow most of what you say and would like very much to just “stay home” on Nov. 4th.; but, my conscience won’t allow me to do that for the very reason I stated. The personal accountability one.

                    I’m not worried about the forgiveness part, I just want to be held accountable for as many “righteous acts” as possible. Casting a vote for a conservative/republican will not change Washinton DCs inner Beltway, but it can have an affect on the positions Americans take on issues that matter to me and my Heavenly Father.

                    Regular sin is one thing, and I do that daily in some small capacity. But….Killing of the unborn innocents just because of indiscriminate fucking and a lack of responsibility///population control, that is an outright abomination to God. His Word proclaims homosexuality in the same way. He hates it! Does He hate those that perform these anal acts and spread a deadly disease?
                    I don’t care to guess.

                    Government should have never been allowed to take a stance and make a ruling on either. Let the evil be evil and reap what they sow. Using my tax dollars towards anything having to do with abortion/killing, and homosexual proliferation in our schools is just plain bad judgement of voting Americans. It “will” come back to bite us all.

                  • Great post PWTW. Keep ’em coming!

                  • BTW, glad to see many of the regulars on this wondermous site, have survived National Nut Day.

                    I tried to act sane, ate many Cashews/legumes, and only pissed off the little woman once.
                    She really does love me, she just don’t like me much.
                    I think it is the references to her being just like her “nutty” mother. Except for the part of her mother’s whacky liberalism. a “big” self-proclaimed christian that votes and promotes all democrats, especially Billery…..achk ak..ak. choke..mouth puke..splat.

                    i don’t dare accuse the little woman of that, cause she is far from that, and i really don’t won’t to suffer the long drawn out painful death she would impose on my body.

                  • Jesus called the Political Leadership, Religious Leadership, & the Scribe/Lawyers – VIPERS

                    It was right after he beat & chased the Money Changers/Banksters out of His Temple that these 4 large groups crucified Him.

                    He started over with 12 new working men.

                    He said anyone who puts their hand or mind with the VIPERS takes the mark of the beast.

                  • Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. You can rationalize it all you want with fantasies of God questioning you some day, but it won’t change the fact that you took the time to participate in a “good for nothing” process and still cast a vote for evil.

                    I would offer a different fantasy of God’s line of questioning one day, but I can’t say it here with the nsa watching and listening…..and if I am right, we are all going to be held accountable….cause ain’t NONE of us getting together and doing a damn thing about it…. but talking!

                  • @PITW
                    Do you honestly thing that voting will get you off the hook with GOD? I think you are rationalizing and looking at it all wrong. Do you think that voting will answer the call in regards to abortion as “protecting the innocent?”

                  • “Now, as a practicing Christian, I had to do a little soul searching for the future. I asked myself; what if, I go before my Maker and He poses the question…..

                    What did you do to help squelch the killing of my innocent unborn, but very much alive, children, and did you oppose homosexuality as I do?”

                    Why would he need to ask questions when he already knows the answer????????

                  • Passinthewind
                    As a 57 year old poor example of a Catholic, I have had many a pew to myself asking the voting democrats who come to church if they finally had a come to Jesus moment. Asking them if they finally decided to become a Catholic ? In their befuddled look, I tell them they need to be “pro-choice” in their Church choice,either a Catholic or a democrat, you cannot be both,it is spiritually impossible.
                    I just love being despised by the despicable

                • I switched my voter registration to the opposite party, that I am affiliated with so I can vote in their primaries to vote out the worst embedded corrupt politicians who have been fleecing and destroying our country from within.

                  Also just watching CNBC, a Guest speaker layed out to Rick Santelli that our Government is so Broke, if you compound the actual debt(80 Trillion), the US owes more than our country net worth is values at. He said don’t count on Social security, medicare or any other federal Program to exist going forward. He said GW Bush caused it and basically Obama is putting the nails in the coffin. We are done, finished. Bankrupt.

                  • WWTI – I sure agree with your post on Scott/Crist.
                    Being a Floridian for 36 years I’ve seen it all.
                    We call him Charlie “Crisp” haha!
                    And ck out the amount of prop taxes Scott paid last year
                    for his Naples beach home …. $97,862.00
                    I have no faith in either one of them!

                    Camellia

                • yourmotherwaswrong: Because politicians are a bunch of loser bums and few if any ever had to work for a living. Most all are crooks and liars. The speaker of the house in Ala. was just arrested on 23 felony counts. Many other scandals exposed nationwide. Don’t vote- save gas and time. The country is trashed anyway. Refugees (tens of thousands) will be sent here soon from Muslim countries like Syria and Iraq. We don’t have the resources and mayors are protesting them coming to their city. go to:refugeeresettlementwatch for info.

                • While George Carlin was trying to be funny for his career (although I think he really felt this way) he was more spot on than most the sheeple who paid to watch him and laugh their ass off. And apparently he was light years ahead of and smarter than most people even at a site like this.

              • Frog,have loaned friends money when have it,many times don’t.That said,as they are friends and they and I both need money work with em to find ways to make a few bucks together.A perfect example is went scrapping today with a lot of saved up metals and a friend and I will be working together to do the same tomorrow.

              • I hate this kind of article, where tough guy author flexes his pecs. Makes us all look bad. Even if we would shoot our friends, we gain nothing by bragging about it. Just my two cents. You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word only.

                • Well said Charlie. It is frustration talking. Time, money, and effort goes into prepping. What do we get in return? Called a bunch of names and dismissed as zany. That said, Its unrealistic to turn away family or friends. They may not stay with me, but they won’t be hungry. They may have to listen to my told you so taunts for hours, but they will still get fed.
                  Strangers? Not so much. Can’t feed everyone and I will protect myself and preps.

                • I don’t think he is bragging. He is just disgusted with people unwilling to face the truth and do what is necessary in light of it. All my family members are in the city. I have a home in a small rural town. In preparation for what I see coming, I am raising chickens and rabbits and growing vegetables. I don’t do this for fun. It is hard, smelly work. I broke my hand and now it is doubly hard.
                  A very generous neighbor has helped me some and another family lots. I had to be away 3 days at a sale and he asked that family member to care for my animals while I was gone. She had some excuse. When that family comes for help when shtf, I will do the same as Glen. My family members, on the other hand, I have told are welcome. They aren’t going to make it in the city. I don’t think what we are going to be facing is something we want to go through alone. I need to think I am doing this for more than just myself.

                  • My siblings couldn’t exen live up to Jerry Springer’s standards. I hope they still can’t muster up the gumption to come to my house in a crisis. I can’t afford riders now, let alone in a crisis.

                    I’m going to apply for SSID. My back’s broken from carrying my siblings.

                • I made the mistake of trying to warn people in late 2007 to early 2008 of the real possibility of a major market correction, and all I got was a bunch of sarcasm from my friends and coworkers; a self-directed 401k was a big part of our mixed retirement. Well, I prepared and rode it out by switching to various bonds while my so-called friends took a bath in the stocks. I learned a valuable lesson: keep your opinions to yourself. I knew this ‘market correct’ and the subsequent mishandling of the economy wasn’t going to be the end of our financial troubles. The time for talking and warnings is long past. I’ve since retired and moved to a small town several hours from any major city and I never tell anyone anything personal about ‘being ready’ for the next event. By the way, the story of “The Ant and the Grasshopper” has been a favorite since childhood. Good luck to all my fellow “Ants”.

                • Sorry Charlie, when you are faced with a dozen hungry zombie thugs knocking at your door, are you going to try and sweet talk them or start blasting?

                • A freakin men….I said essentially the same exact thing, but I was thumbed down so much by the wonderful editing process here that my comment is only readable if you click on it. I guess I am not as eloquent with my words.
                  Articles like this bring out the worst preppers, and the worst in even the “good” preppers. I am to the point I wish there was no such thing as a “prepper.” I just wish there were true Godly people who were strict constitutionalist and fuck the rest of you.

              • Besides who in their right mind and have family to protect would go around blabbing about their preps and other private info.? Most of us cannot afford to feed and help others after shtf much less right now when things are normal. We stay low key and have several close friends who are doing the same thing. Have a small group you know well, and do bartering and stand watch, etc.

                • I love the morons who brag online about all the weapons and ammo they have. So stupid. Guess who gets visited first.

              • WEll well I have been digging elephant traps for years anyone ever wonder why????so when you bring your sorry ass to my place to eat,,,,wont take much dirt to cover ya up the hole is already dug and deep

                snake

            • Hi KY Mom, my Mom is also a KY Mom. But I promise she wont come to your door when the SHTF.

              I don’t believe for a second that the FED will stop their manipulations. They may stop QE, however they will merely start a new form of monetary manipulation. Every time they have started it they can’t stop because the results are a complete collapse in demand or growth (i.e. a Depression).

              I’m just saying I don’t believe they will stop Q. Has Japan stopped?

              Finally, I always appreciate your comments and links! Thanks for all you do to make this a great place to visit!!

              • Thought for the day…

                Take Time

                Take time to pray…it helps to bring God near
                and washes the dust of earth from your eyes.

                Take time for friends…they are the source of happiness.

                Take time for work…it is the price of success.

                Take time to think…it is the source of power.

                Take time to read…it is the foundation of knowledge.

                Take time to laugh…it is the singing that helps with life’s loads.

                Take time to love…it is the one sacrament of life.

                Take time to dream…it hitches the soul to the stars.

                Take time to play…it is the secret of youth.

                Take time to worship…it is the highway to reverence.

                Author Unknown

                • Wow …Kentuckymom…that was one of the most beautiful things I have ever read.. and I am a hardcore. I guess that in the hard days to come, the people that are less than good will destruct themselves and the folk like us will… how do I say…press on..Its a hard thing on a person with a good nature and soul to have to think that one day you may, in the name of survival, have to turn away people that you thought were your friends. I guess that one day we will all be tested .

                • Mom,though knew that lesson has truly been hammered home to me this summer and early fall,time is short,spend it wisely.

                • Very nice KY Mom.

                  I like this one.

                  The fruit of silence is Prayer.

                  The fruit of prayer is Faith.

                  The fruit of faith is love.

                  The fruit of love is Service.

                  The fruit of service is Peace.

              • Justice,

                Thank you!

                I like this website – the articles, comments, the fellowship I feel here, and the knowledge that many have shared here.

                Take care!
                KY Mom

            • So what is your plan to stop lets say a Gang of 6 heavily armed Looters, looking for food, as they surround your home on all sides looking for the weak points? Telling you to either open your doors or they will burn you out of your house? What is your plan for this? Are any of your neighbors prepared to shoot at these thugs from across the street to help you? Do you have any mutual aid plan in place. Where every house has a small Bell to ring sounding the alarm? Does your neighborhood task force have a warning siren to sound off when suspicious people enter the neighborhood to alert everyone to get on their toes? Get packing and get ready to shoot. Its pretty hard at this time to try and organize this, but as the economy collapses or when SHTF, I suggest you put together ahead of time a written couple sheets of paper you can quickly hand out to your neighbors to get on board as their survival many depend on mutual aid. Have this already printed and ready to go. If the grid goes down there will be no electric to print this info out. Be prepared. In my neighborhood its mostly older single women. I know a few are prepping and about 80% own guns. But can I depend on them shooting if there is a threat. I would say maybe about 10% as the rest would probably go hide hoping the threat passes. Myself,I will be on the street stopping the threat from a distance and lay down a line of fire they will not want to ever proceed in my direction. Get your High capacity magazines ready now, keep they loaded and in a carry satchel for switch out, and a dump pouch for the empties. Just more info to consider. How will you put out a house fire if it is yours? Do you run from your house and get shot or burn inside?

          • I hate getting hosed. But I might get hosed. Several unhappy scenarios lurk with regards to this post by Glen Tate. (I live in a suburb of a city that has 60,000+ people)

            (A) Moms with starving young children. (Or clever dads who send their wives and starving children to ask for help). What a horrible situation.

            I go back in the house. “Honey, there’s a mom with 3 young children outside. They said they haven’t eaten in 3 days. What do we do?” “For God’s sake, give them something to eat, and send them on their way.”

            “Okay, but they’ll just come back later. Or they’ll tell other people that we have food and supplies.”

            (B) Spouse says, “Bring ’em in. We can’t let these poor people starve. They’re our (family, friends, neighbors)”

            “We’ll have less for ourselves. That’ll cut our food duration by at least half. And what do we do with the next family that’s starving and asks for help?”

            (C) Point a gun and tell them that a FEMA camp is only 10 miles away. Give them some bread for the walk. This ingrate non-prepper family *then* tells the FEMA commandant and his super-armed henchmen guards that there’s a home that has food and supplies, and then proceeds to give them my address!

            Then one of those militarized vehicles come barreling down the street and here comes one of those warrantless, no-knock raids about to make another prepper just another statistic.

            Whaddya gonna do?

            • 1.
              Dont open the door.
              2.
              Turn on the Hendrix real loud

              • This was probably one of the more boring or useless articles ever posted

                • Oh do so enlighten the good folks as to why, poopy pants.

                  • Well share with me what you learned from it that hasn’t already been discussed here to the point of ad nauseum, other than how tough all the keyboard commandos are here.

                    I knew when I read the headline, that 99% of the comments would be testosterone filled egotistical bullshit.

                • I assume by your comments that BJ means blow job…..

                  • That was too obvious. BJ means blowjob. Not one of your best.

                  • I am sure it does among certain crowds of lower intellect and maturity levels.

                • BJ,
                  Boring and useless people see everything as boring and useless. It’s what they are.

                  • Wow, I bet you feel clever and cool, I am deeply hurt.
                    Did you come up with that all on your own?

                  • Why don’t you tell me how this article was exciting, other than to those who like to mentally masturbate their egos and sick fantasies.

                    And how was it useful in a “I learned something new today?”
                    And if you can answer the second question successfully, I think it would only pertain to the sick and twisted who mentally masturbate.

                • BJ, how do you know that without reading the article first?

                  • I’d reckon that 90% of the posters don’t read anything but the headline either. So I see BJ’s point.

                  • I did, wasn’t easy but I did.

                • Wow. Sorry you think so Beej. I thought it was was one of the better articles we’ve had in a while. I have had that situation come up a lot and have always been tongue tied at a response. This response is right on the money. Puts everything in perspective. I’ve tagged everyone I care about every pertinent article for two years. I’ll now share this one and not share anymore articles again.

                • BJ…. email me. My old pc crashed and I lost your data…Dave

                  • Is this D, the one I caught fish with?

                  • yes… and you only caught 1

                  • And I didnt catch any. Wait.. maybe you caught 1 or 2 more itty bitty ones.

                  • I caught one rainbow trout, but it was a tasty one. Highlights were, conversation, getting to see and hear a loon up close and laughing over the fact that we both forgot oars and you had to use a log to row with.

              • Play Helter Skelter real loud.

                • The younger generation don’t know anything about Helter Skelter. It would be meaningless to them.

                  • Lisa, yeah, what happened to Sharon Tate and the others in their home when the murderer Charlie Manson Gang and his twisted women came and looted. What happened there is what will happen a million times more if SHTF happens here in America. Just think if Tate and her companions were prepared and armed when the Manson Gang broke in their home. They could have had a chance. Helter Skelter

                • just tell’s more liberals that you’re there.

                  well so does a few shots, but that also tell’s ’em to keep away.

              • Biohazard signs at every door and window. Maybe some dried blood and vomit at the doorstep.

                • The Old Coach – is that so they know whose home to torch?

                  Panic about Ebola may mean the mob resort to fire in order to cleanse an area of disease.

                  Criminal types often burn what they can’t steal for kicks.

                  What to do in the event of fire when there are no regular fire departments left should be part of everyone’s preps.

                  • Good point.

                  • How to keep your house from being torched. Immediately put on a Metal Roof for starters. Take a garden hose drill 1/4 inch holes all on one side of the hose about 5 inches apart, facing down, then fasten the hose at the soffit under hang area by your roof and exterior wall, and around the entire perimeter of your house roof under hang. So you can turn on your garden hose and it runs a water curtain down each side of your house. Nothing is full proof but this is a stater. If you don’t have a metal roof run a hose on the roof line with holes, so a water curtain runs down each roof side. Have 1/2 inch plywood you can use to cover each of your windows with a peep shooting hole near the bottoms of each wood panel. Or buy metal hurricane roll up shutters which you can rise or close with a flip of a switch. You need to build yourself a fortress and go acquire now several rolls of barbed wire to string between trees and on the ground as tangle foot yards away from your house, farther than throwing distance of a Moltov coctail. I found a roll of barbed wire on Craigslist on the cheap. Get this house protection now, and get ready. Fire double in size every minute, so when minutes count, you grab what you can and get out. And another reason to only store about 20% of your preps inside your actual main house. Bury the rest under a brush pile, or old dog house, cached remotely. Need to get clever on this. Hide it in plain sight, or in a fake outhouse, or in the trunk of an old parked junky car. And that goes for ammo and a few other weapons you can put in a dry bag sealed with Oxygen absorbers. Every bit helps in your layer of security.

                  • My answer is birdhouses! If you need to shoot behind a tree you need a properly placed birdhouse. (with a little tannerite inside). If you’re the crazy bird lady, which ones go boom! All of them….some of them….the one beside you maybe? If one goes boom, do you continue fighting or run from the one hanging by you? That’s my answer to the “golden horde”

                  • That kind of fortress would blend right in if I were back in Detroit. Here, not so much. Even though I know the sheriff personally, I think he’d be suspicious. The local pillbillies would sure take notice if they ever came this way.

                    OPSEC.

                  • Tannerite is only good for a day after mixing it with the catalyst.

                • The Old Coach – is that so they know whose home to torch?

                  Panic about Ebola may mean the mob resort to fire in order to cleanse an area of disease.

                  Criminal types often burn what they can’t steal for kicks.

                  What to do in the event of fire when there are no regular fire departments left should be part of everyone’s preps.

              • Hey Joe, where ya goin’ with that gun in yo hand?

            • excellent post,free….i haven’t read the comments yet, but i betcha i find a BUNCH more of THESE kinds of thoughts….it’s gonna be mighty interesting….got a few ex-wives that COULD put me in a HELL of a spot!….awww, the hell with this….i’m MOVING!

              • Buttcrack:

                “All my ex’s live in Texas”?

                • i WISH!

              • I’m moving too. God has given me the opportunity to get to a place hat I’d not only dfensible, but the potential to be bountiful.

                • Uh–oh the trolls haven’t had their medicine today!

            • You bury your stuff in the ground and get the hell out of your house for a while. I’ve thought about this for some time. How am I gonna handle starving children at my door, especially if they are children I know. I have had people tell me that they are coming to my house as well. My answer, “Won’t do you any good cause I ain’t gonna be there!” And I don’t plan to be. I plan on caching my supplies and then hiding out with the family somewhere until the die off happens. Yes, my house will probably be torn apart or burnt down, however I can always find some place else to settle or I could rebuild. Having a good place to hide will be the tricky part but I have some ideas about that as well. The point here is to avoid confrontation with people at all costs. You never know what kind of funky bugs they could be carrying that are contagious and you also never know what desperate people will do so its just better to avoid them.

              • Think about SELCO and how they fixed up their house– no one got in except him/family… was fixed up sort of like a fortress– no need to talk to anyone– just point the gun through the window and fire…

                • Got a link to this description about Selco’s home?

                  • FreeSlave, go to shtfschool.com, Selco’s website. It’s a gold mine of survival info. Selco survived the Balkan War in Yugoslavia back in the 90s.

                  • LOOK IT UP: “SELCO– SHTFPLAN.COM”

                  • he “supposedly survived the Balkan war in the 90’s”

                    The guy in South America is much more believable if you want authenticity. Not saying Selco doesn’t have good info…..it’s just that I think the story of who he is and his history is fraud.

                • Almost impossible to harden the stick built houses that most Mericans live in. You have to into the old inner city areas to find concrete and brick over steel construction.

                  • True. My MIT trained shyster brother in law was a builder in Littleton Colorado. I saw what he was building. There were places where you could go through an exterior wall in seconds with a rifle butt. Not even any flakeboard sheathing – just vinyl siding right over the fibreglass, and inside nothing but a thin panel of gypsum. And the building code allowed it.

              • This is what the wife and I are going to do. We plan to hide out and wait for the die off.

                Kinda neat is my wife has her own chapter in the last book “chapter 360 Pam Angelo”. Glenn put this letter out sometime ago. One of the few times the red thumbs were limited when I shared it.

              • Here in Florida, the water table is so high and all the rain we get, it is difficult to bury anything without it being saturated, just in a regular rain storm. So maybe in the attic space to hide some goodies. I think when people break into a house they will do a quick go around picking the lowest hanging fruit. I cant see them going up into the attic space crawling around. I think the average house burglary is over in just a few minutes, for some quick grabs. Here is a clue, do not hide valuable Jewelry in a jewelry box on your chest of drawers. Do not hide your guns under your bed or in your bedroom closet. LOL Build some false hiding spots in walls, or closet wall spaces. In floors or a floor safe covered by a rug. Maybe leave a cheap gun that does not work in the closet, or under the bed, loaded but with the firing pin missing as a decoy. Load the thieves down with worthless items.

                • I see the Red Thumb Space Wasting Trolls are out there today working.

                • I was thinking of having a false food cache. With some of the menus that did not appeal in these kits and using it for needy, friends, or as false cache. Also of going to goodwill and getting some really crummy clothes, you know not flaunting it. Not shaving I already limp.

                • Don’t worry about it, nothing but armadillos and alligators are going to survive a real shtf scenario anyway.

                  • That was supposed to say….

                    Don’t worry about it, nothing but armadillos and alligators are going to survive a real shtf scenario in Florida anyway.

            • FreeSlave, I understand where you’re coming from. I’ve agonized over that same scenario myself and I decided that every individual is responsible for themselves [at least that is what my Dad taught me as a kid.] I am only responsible for me and my own and no one else, period. If other people refuse to do any prepping for themselves, that is on them, not me or anyone else. If they come to my place thinking they can turn it into their “store”, there will be some corpses laying in my yard. I don’t want such a thing to happen. Nobody really wants what’s coming, but it is coming and we all better be prepared to make our stand. I really dread it but I will do whatever is necessary to protect me and mine. It doesn’t mean I have to love it, which I don’t.

              • I have been thinking about this as well.

                One thing I can help with is heirloom seeds of all kinds.

                I am still harvesting them, let a lot bolt this year.

                Beans rice and bullion and seeds will be my barter or charity if I choose to give. It is a tough decision as you folks made a lot of great points as to the danger of even answering the door.

                But we are the future, so we need to consider that.

                • Scout,helping others long term will be the only way.I as have said many times will probably die quickly due to not letting atrocities happen no matter who is engaged in em.We all make it beyond the initial insanity ect. will need to work together and be vigilant,we will still have enemies among us and others who will exploit this countries downturn,though they themselves might find they also having a down turn.I understand folks wanting to keep close family/friends safe but do you plan to forever keep em separated,if so,not much worth surviving for,tough decisions among us all,really hate to even have to think this way,makes one wonder WTF!

              • @ the renegade braveheart : I know you all know I was prepping, and I really tried to get you all to do the same. Well it is a good thing you did not waste all of your money. I did something wrong and all of my food went bad. Sorry. Hey, do you know anybody else that stored up food and supplies ? Maybe they did a better job than I did.

                I only have a couple family members around here, and a couple of true friends. That is going to be my story, and I’ll stick to it.

                Step two, point, ask to leave, wait 5 seconds, don’t ask again.

                This story was spot on with the 5 vacations a year, and 2 trips a month to Bass Pro, and out to eat all of the time. My wife and I go out to eat 1 – 2 times a year. And we take a coupon when we go.

            • I agree with Kulafarmer….

              Don’t answer the door.

              • If you don’t answer the door, they’ll try to break in.

                • If they try to break in, pull the trigger. Problem solved.

                  • I plan on putting a note on my front door, “Jane, We are out of food and water and we have no heat. We went to the senior center. See you there.”

                    If they try to break in anyway, then I will shoot.

                  • Yep! It’s called “breaking and entering”, or in times like that, “A direct threat”.

                  • Yea, I have a selfish, greedy, younger brother, that will not prep. he keeps his quarter million dollars worth of stock certificates, in his safe, and has about one weeks worth of food stuffs, maybe two if it’s before New years and he still has some venison frozen.

                    I have another life long friend that is the same way. She has about the same amount of retirement savings, all in the markets. About two weeks worth of food and fuel. Neither one fills up a woodbox on cold nights because they don’t have a woodstove.

                    I do, and that is why the note that will be posted before the entrance to my walkway reads…..

                    I have a woodstove that loves to eat hardwood. If you are a friend or relative and you have walked in this far, you need to understand. you will be fed and given enough food/beans & rice for two days, after you have worked in re-supplying my wood shed, as i see necessary, according to your abilities.

                    If you are not in the mood to work then come back when you are. We do not front food nor do we extend credit.

                    if you are reading this note and i don’t know you and you don’t have little children with you; the lead will start flying as soon as you reach my front porch. If you have little children, stay put and send them to the door.
                    No exceptions to these rules. This is my land, and these are the laws of “my land”.

                    Looters are meat/protein, for the two pit bulls we have inside!!!

                    Have a Blessed day!

                  • As soon as you see them (on IR; drone; whatever) pull the trigger.

                    If they see you before you see them, you’re dead, they’ll rape then slaughter the rest of your family.

                • I plan on putting up quarantine signs on the door, with Ebola floating around, no one will want to break in.

                  • Complete with biohazard stickers… perfect!

                  • Just ell them you’d be happy to eat them for dinner.

                  • We have gone to the nearest town to see what graffiti the gang bangers are painting all over. we plan to “tag” our house, maybe break a window or two in a room we don’t use. Make it look like it’s ALREADY been looted…..

              • I agree with kulafarmer. “All Along the Watchtower” at Manuel Noriga siege volumes.

            • You actually answer your door?

              • Not without a loaded pistol after checking the security cams.

            • You cannot reveal the fact that you have stuff to ANYONE in this situation. Look poor and never answer the door.

            • Just give them a sandwich and send them on their way. Thats what my grandmother did in the great depression (if they had it.) they never came back.

              • @ nlighened2 : The problem is during a SHTF event, they will come back and they will tell others about your generosity. Practice OPSEC. Never tell anyone that you have anything. Appear dirty and hungry.

                • Never let anyone get close enough to see you.

                  The only greeting must be immediately lethal.

                  But I like sending the kids on first – they’ll be able to run an dodge better, easier to take ’em out on approach then when they’re running…

              • The Depression was not a total breakdown in society like we are apt to see. We have to be prepared for gangs of looters, not people looking for work.

              • people WERE respectful back during the depression. it’s a whole different world out there now. they’re entitled to your stuff, and if you won’t GIVE it to them, they WILL take it from you. in ALL the history of the world….ALL OF IT……the last TWO generations are the ONLY ones that WEREN’t preppers. we did it to ourselves, america(ns)….if there IS a god, i hope he’s merciful.

                • Yep- my mom used to tell the story of men coming to do yard work (her Dad, my Grandfather hundreds of miles away working at the shipyards while her Mom was at home alone with 5 girls) she never let them in the house but let them work for a meal and then sent them on their way. Would never happen today. They would come one at a time, I should clarify that…. But still… We are now on the edge of the Tribulation and when it all collapses, literally all hell breaks loose.

                • Allah may be merciful. God is not.

            • Whaddya do? Depends upon your life view.

              If you think this life is one to hold on to above all else, you shoot them. You have no choice. Besides, it’s “winner takes all” in the game of life.

              If you believe in an afterlife, you must believe this life will be judged by a deity of some kind. That deity expects something of you. Do you know what it is?

              Some would say the “Widow’s Mite” story clarifies things with regard to this question of sharing your wealth when you want to hoard it in the face of poverty.

              Think about eternity.

            • Raise crickets, mealworms and other insects. Food for the animals but useful in other ways. Tell the moochers, “times are hard but I will share what I have. Do you realize insects are full of protein?” Offer a large bag of bugs. Problem most likely solved.

              • Bizzare Foods on travel channel. Amen Merree…

              • Good points and projects to undertake, dr Merree.

            • Honey, there’s a mom with 3 young children outside. They said they haven’t eaten in 3 days. What do we do?” “

              2 to the torso, one to the head.

              If you’re even contemplating anything else, you it would be kinder just to round up your own truly American family now; do the same to them; then put a Glock in your mouth and pull the trigger.

          • From “raconteur report”…

            “…load with Liberia.

            Medical workers at University Hospital in Newark have isolated a sick passenger who landed at Newark Liberty Airport from Brussels and are evaluating him “as if he has Ebola” out of extreme caution, sources tell NBC 4 New York.

            The man, a Liberian national, had traveled from Liberia to Brussels before flying into Newark on United Airlines Flight 998 just before 1 p.m., Tuesday, officials said.

            He waited in line with other passengers at the customs check-in, and then was singled out for a health screening by agents because of his recent travel history, sources familiar with the screening said.

            That’s when officers discovered he had a fever, according to the sources. It’s not clear if he was exhibiting any other symptoms of illness.

            1) So, what are the odds? 150 passengers per day, 5 airports, on the very first day of enhanced screening protocols, and they already have a hot one?
            WHO KNEW?? (Oh that would still be “Everyone but the CDC and the rest of the Government.)
            Anybody want to speculate how many of the 150/day (3600 or so since September 28th, when Duncan was diagnosed here) might have already gotten here?

            Crickets. I hear crickets…

            2) But wait! There’s more!

          • This is much like the problem with illegal aliens: I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have tried pointing out that part of the reason people try to break into this country is because their own governments treat them even worse than our government treats us. Letting millions of uninvited foreigners stay in America does NOTHING to improve the situation in their home countries; in fact, it probably helps their thuggish governments by giving them a way to get rid of people they don’t want to deal with. What it DOES accomplish is to tear down America even more; and not just because of the seismic strain being placed on our schools, prisons, medical facilities and “entitlement” programs. The worst problem of all is that millions of people around the world see our country as their ATM, the piggy bank they’ll break open when conditions in their own countries turn to complete and utter vomit. Coming on top of years of reckless spending for the sake of home grown layabouts, fatcats snuggling up to get some more handouts, and pointless wars that have accomplished precisely zilch, this is more than we can take!

            It is the same with those who think they can live it up while we real Americans do what Americans have always done: make hay while the sun shines, in preparation for hard times ahead. I was a Boy Scout for years, and I remember very well their motto: Be Prepared. If our fellow citizens wish to shirk their responsibilities as free men and women, then let them be slaves; let them believe the soft fuzzy lies being yapped from the television; let them believe that “all is well”. There’s no one more foolish than a fellow who won’t understand that you cannot see the world as it really is as long as you have your head up your rump! You couldn’t be bothered to look ahead, so don’t think for a second you’re going to look for the path that leads to my door.

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            • ” I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have tried pointing out that part of the reason people try to break into this country is because their own governments treat them even worse than our government treats us.”

              You may want to look up the political rhetoric within the US alone during the 60-70s, and the political rhetoric of nations prior to open authoritarian governance was rolled out while also comparing the actions opposed to rhetoric of politicians today.
              Bismarkianism is a political ideology inspired by Otto von Bismark’s ambitions and placation of the German populace through his Bismarkian policies that further lead to the original modern Cloward-Piven strategy the Weimar Agreement creating the Weimar Republic that gave rise to Hitler and his National Socialists, yet Bismark held ambitions of Astroturfing a group very similar to the National Socialist Parties to create populist approval of public-private mergers.
              According to Bismarkianism, we haven’t begun to see Authoritarianism yet. We have Authoritarian leanings right now.

          • As Roster Cogburn said “Fill your hands, you son of a bitch!”

            • You know what bothers me? The same problem they have with the drug war and the war on terrorism…

              For every ONE they allegedly catch, how many others slipped right through unseen?

              • Six Pack – The US Drone Strikes in Pakistan are only 12% successful. Meaning out of 100 person killed by Drone strikes, 88% are innocent civilians and only 12% are suspected Enemy. That’s the facts.

                SO when you kill innocent people and families 9 to 1, your enemy increases Ten fold. If a Russian Drone wiped out your family would you then now go off and fight the Russians? Duh!! No Brainer. Our Government is so inept, they will get us all killed. They are doing a great job of bankrupting us so far.

                • Yep.

                • I know I’d be screaming for vengeance if a drone took out my entire family.

                  • Which is why I want drones. Lots of ’em.

        • How’d he keep his wife? Mine was black, nuff said.

          • Tip: Wear a technical nylon webbed belt instead of a leather belt. I have found that the leather gets soaked when you have to hoof it a few miles and it takes the leather forever to dry out.

          • Acid, excellent point, I have been a meat-eater all of my life and will be for the rest of it. Braveheart will NEVER give up meat.

          • That may not be a bad thing. Most of them tend to be liberals and the best thing we can see is that they breed less than us. hopefully this, and their reprehensible desire to murder their children before they have a chance at life, will help lead to their extinction.

        • If you fail to prepare, you have prepared to fail.

          • My favorite quote from Ben Franklin

            • life isn’t fair, but YOU should be…..MY favorite ben franklin quote….and SO appropriate!

          • Credit please wwti

            • I did not cut and paste it off a website like some trolls do daily as their signature mantra.

              • When you look at True American Heroes, BEN Franklin surely was one. A good example, was when Ben Franklin Invented the Franklin Wood Stove which was way more efficient than fireplaces. He did not go out and patent this stove for Greed, He allowed NO Patent to be placed on his Franklin Stove invention because he knew that so many Americans needed to keep warm during the winter that they needed to quickly ramp up this new invention for the success of our country and to keep warm during the winter. So anybody who could build one or copy the stove’s dimensions could do so with out violation.

                Unlike the criminal Thieving Greedy Corporations we have today that will patent every coined phrase, term, process like Monsanto to Monopolize the Food industry and put small farmers out of business. Today’s Big Pig Corporations will buy up all the worthy inventions and patents, then shelf them for 17 yrs, so their own inefficient process will dominate the market in a greedy monopoly. The auto industry is a perfect example for fuel efficiency.

                If I was the President of the USA, I would put out an EO executive order to the US Patent industry is that if you don’t use the patent in any process for more than 5 years, the invention or patent becomes public domain product that anybody can develop here in the united sates that included manufacturing to create Jobs. No pass to foreign countries. You want to see a mass expansion in our economy? Let loose of the patents. There is probably $20 Trillion in business sitting on the shelf doing nothing. That’s what I would do for economic expansion. Instead we hurt Americans from developing the patent and the Chinese just steal it anyway and build it cheaper and then Americans have to buy the Chinese inport product that was invented by Americans. Think about it. Ben Franklin Was a Smart Man for a reason and a Real true American Hero.

        • CHICAGO MONITERING 2 SICK PASSENGERS FROM LIBERIA… ALSO, THIS MORNING THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT NEWARK, NJ–SICK PASSENGER ON PLANE FROM LIBERIA BEING MONITERED… ONLY A MATTER OF TIME TIL ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE.

          • Just an FYI, when you typed “monitering” and “monitered”, the squiggly red line under it meant you misspelled it… TWICE.

            monitor

            • No one cares.

              • No one cares that you’re illiterate? I did, that’s why I attempted to impart just a little bit of knowledge with you. That you rejected the knowledge so you could kick and whine, is on you.

            • Laughatstupidpeople=Insolent prick

              • I’m laughing at you. I’ll give you 3 guesses as to why. I gave you three because…well, I am laughing at you.

                • LOL, I guess that red thumb is because you couldn’t figure out why I gave you 3 guesses.

                  Just because you’re stupid and/or illiterate, doesn’t mean I’m insolent for trying to help. However, this response just might make me a prick. To paraphrase the illiterate Anonymous, I don’t care.

            • The only red line that matters is the reticle.

          • It’s only a matter of time before some Ebola traveler is at their prime contagion level and leaving germ laden moist spots all over.

            • Sierra Dave,

              Obama continues to let illegals flood the country through our porous borders (esp. our southern border) and flights from Ebola ravaged countries in west Africa continue.

              My worst fear would be a terrorist coming into the country infected, but not yet symptomatic.

              When symptoms emerge, they strap on a bomb and blow themselves up in a busy mall. They could kill or infect MANY people very quickly.

              We know the terrorists like to make a “big show” of their power. (On 9/11, they hijacked 4 planes.) I could picture them planning this in multiple locations on the same day.

              • What would be worse is that when they became contagious. They frequented dozens of public places and wiped their sweat/saliva/germs on hundreds of door handles.

                If they did that at an airport. Ebola would be world wide in a couple weeks.

                You’d have one happy Muslim who single handedly killed more Infidels than any other Muslim in history.

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        • Only the ones invited know about the man traps.

        • Pretty much my view too. I only have a few family members to worry about – 2 kids and 1 grandkid. Perhaps 2 very frail parents if the poor old folks are still around when TSHTF. I have a few real friends who are also preppers and they have made their own arrangements but would be welcome at my retreat if their bug in plans go belly up.

          For those bugging in in an urban environment who have gardens, chickens and the like. If it really gets bad your gardens will look like a plague of locusts went through it – you just wont be able to protect it forever. Maybe better to have your place look like a toxic waste dump and have stored food to last?

          I had a thought about ebola too – if there is a pandemic and it’s all going to pieces the best way to deter intruders/looters might be to have some biohazard signs made up stating your house is under quarantine?

          Something like………..

          “This house is quarantined due to an active ebola contamination. Do not enter these premises until they have been certified as clear of infection by the relevant health authorities.”

          Should work?

          Aussie

          • I’ll bet there will be idiots who will think to themselves:

            That just means I can’t touch any open packages…

          • Aussie….I hope it WOULD work, but I have my doubts….those who have not had food or water for some time would risk anything to obtain them….Not trying to douse you with cold water…..but maybe it would be better to hide things in plain sight? Remove springs from box springs and fill with canned goods and cover with wonderful comforters….oh, line the bottom with bags of beans and rice….in your air vents in your home, put light weight items in plastic bags and tape to the inside of your ducts….another odd thing is have potted plants with what you want hidden underneath the plants….have more ideas along these lines, but hesitate to state them for obvious reasons…..
            YOU will be okay, Aussie….and so will your family…YOU will know When to move out….I wish you and yours well and happy now…and in the FUTURE
            My Best Regards to You
            fob

        • Confederate “Like hell you will!”.

          No. I will.

        • I recently watched an interview with a WWII vet. He fought in the 9th Division. His interview was specifically about his time spent in the Hurtgen Forest. It was some of the bloodiest, fiercest fighting of the war and it’s almost as if history forgot it. He said they would go out on patrol and only 1 or 2 would come back. Every day they would send new recruits straight to the front.

          What struck me most about this was what he said next. They kept sending us city boys and they just kept dying. They didn’t have a clue what to do. They had never been in the woods, never shot a gun, and would get turned around. He said he would look for landmarks so he always knew what direction he should be going. He said the city boys would at times run straight to the Germans. He said they didn’t know how to move in the woods, didn’t know how to talk so your voice didn’t carry, were just walking targets.

        • one of the best articles I’ve read on this site I’m going to print this out and hand out flyers and get the book series

        • one of the best articles I have read here. I m going 2 print this out as A flyer 2 give 2 my “friends”

        • Vote because it is the right thing to do. All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing!

          If the above does not work, you all know what comes next.

        • Kind of like what Jesus tells people when they try to come into the wedding and they have no oil in their lamps.

        • This is not as simple a matter as appears. First of all, consider the strong argument against a “Tough luck, I warned you” attitude:

          “We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren” – 1 John 3:16

          Some of you are saying you won’t lay down so much as a potato for your friends / relatives who (for whatever reason) didn’t prep.

          Also, “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” – Matthew 22:39.

          If those people really were your friends, you would care about them regardless of the merits or demerits of their situation when they come begging for aid. Otherwise, what act of love or friendship is it to turn them away empty handed? What relationship can you expect to have with them should they somehow survive the long emergency and things recover in the world outside? Who will be the pariah in the community then?

          That said, “if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel” – 1 Tim 5:8

          That means we must provide for our own dependants first and foremost, but not without factoring in something extra for unprepared friends and relatives.

          If any of you do the mathematics on this, you will see that one or two extra mouths to feed makes very little impact on the rate of supply depletion and gains the extra value of more help around the retreat for say, sowing seed, occasional defensive duties, and so on. These people will feel obliged to you, not that I encourage that as a motive in giving; rather, it should be an act of selfless love.

          You go against a law of God if you say point blank “no way” and in doing so you will bring calamity on your own head, one way or another, just as you would if you go against another law (gravity) and throw yourself off a cliff. The laws in God’s Word are even more enduring, more steadfast, than all the laws of physics. Break them at your own great peril.

          Of course, if you’re ungodly the above will mean nothing to you. But so will all your prepping come Judgment Day. Here endeth the lesson.

          • Also, “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” – Matthew 22:39.

            I tried that once. Her husband wanted to kill me so I moved.

        • This dude I know keeps buying $60,000 cars, remodelling his kitchen, buying huge flat screen TV’s. He was trash talking about when shtf and he is coming to my place. I asked him how he felt about canoes. He asks why. I tell him that is what my 45-70 govt at long range will make his head look like. He piped down after that.

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        • NYC ebola case? guy with fever of 103 and nausea, who worked overseas (doctors without borders)… also,

          North Korea– banning all foreign visitors over Ebola scare… at least their leader is intelligent!

        • When the SHTF I will place a sign outside my house,
          QUARNTINE AREA EBOLA PATIENT INSIDE.

        • Don’t worry the government will show up long before your “friends” do…then you’ll be wishing you had more “friends”.

      2. If I told my brother to bring only essentials he would show up at the door with his golf bag and clubs. What are you going to do? At least they’re clubs.

        • Met a guy while surf-fishing who told me he knew what was coming financially, but had prepared for anything because he was too busy. Told me would take people like me’s stuff.

          I told him that people like me have already prepared for people like him…

          • Unfortunately, there are probably many more neighbors, friends, and acquaintances that have done NOTHING to prepare, but have OBSERVED SIGNS of those (like us) who have. The majority may say nothing, but they have noticed.

            They have noticed things like who has a big garden, fruit trees, solar panels, large stacks of firewood, etc.

            I live in a rural area. Last summer, a man who lives nearby, stopped (en route to enjoy a day on the lake on his boat) in front of the garden where I was working. After some friendly greetings, he said, “Ya know if things get bad, you’ll have to guard your garden 24/7. If not, it would get cleaned out quick.”

            It made me very uncomfortable hearing him say that. But, I do realize it is true.

            “A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.”
            Proverbs 22:3

            • @Ky mom and others
              A garden will be thieved if anyone whos hungry sees it. Thats why were working on a 2 year supply of shelved foods. At first we might not get the produce from a garden planted.
              If theres a collapse or near collapse and the ebt cards end, a small % will go outside their comfort zone and leave the city then start to thieve. Some might make it to the country. The country folks who dont garden are already around so theyll be the ones who might turn on all of us even though we dont expect or think they will. we have to be prepared for any and all scenarios. Good neighbors may do desperate things. Sure we can have the bag of rice or beans for them but does that mean we support them then? Happened in the depression in my family. Once you give out the milk and butter, the neighbors expect it. It dont always go like one turn deserves another. There will always be cheats and lazy people. So where does the line get drawn? For us, no food handouts at all. But well give out seeds and help teach someone to garden. Remember the story Little Red Hen? Thought of getting a few copies to hand out when people come wanting.
              Its said that starvation will drive people to do unexpected acts. I think yes and no and that depends on the mental state and survival instincts. Many will give up and perish, others will fight to the end. Some will fight you. Were not opening the door to start that so we wont feed others. “Please dont feed the animals.”
              After the first year, the population will decrease and the areas will change Im sure. We dont know if there will be increased or decreased gang violence or just violence in general but thieving will be a way of life.
              Everyone who plans to support their family needs to learn how to grow there food in w/ other plants, hidden if possible. Grow like for permaculture which means more of a natural weedy look and a way to grow foods w/ trees and under trees, and alongside bushes. A big ole straight row garden may be a thing of the past for a year or two. a fencerow or thicket will hide a garden. No time like now to get it going.

              • MY GRANDPARENTS HELPED PEOPLE OUT DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION…SORRY FOR THE CAPS!

                But people would come around to the farm and my grandparents would fill their cars with food– my mom told me this… they had huge farm with orchards and helped the people– wasn’t a problem for them… maybe back then, people were different, don’t know.

                • During the depression there were farms close to or inside the big cities even in New York where much of Queens and parts of Brooklyn were still rural. We also did not have an entitled underclass and such a huge number of foreign born who have no use for this country except as an ATM machine. Things will be much different this time. The second and third weeks will be the worst after which most who did not prep will be too weak from hunger to do anything.

                • Yes, they were different. Now we need to be more cautious. Sad but true.

                • Also, back then farming was done by many smallish family farms. Today farming is done on corporately owned tracts and traded on Wall Street. Most of us do a little gardening for our own subsistence but very few people own a farm and work it for a living. It’s just not a workable proposition anymore when you have to compete with the big corporations. It’s also why our system is so much less resilient than it was before. The knowledge has largely died off as fewer and fewer people are involved in agriculture.

                  • “Revolution Down on the Farm”, by Paul Conklin. A real eye-opener. Think it’s still on Amazon. He has a long chapter on what subsistence farming was like in the 1920s and ’30s. Then traces the conversion to the industrial farms of today in the Great Plains, and how so many small farmers went to work off the farm just to keep a hold on the land.

                    But I will say that small farmers are alive and well in my area. It’s very hilly, so no row crops, but cows thrive on hills, (as long as there’s grass), so most run beef cattle. I lease my own pasture to one such farmer. (Too old, infirm, and ignorant of how to manage cattle to do it myself.)

                • My dad told the same stories, Anon, but people had manners and respect and morals back then and would ASK for help. Today it will be much different.

                • This question has kept me up at night…grandpappy has a great article on this. This man is very wise I think.

                  grandpappy (.) org/hsschari.htm (take out the ( ) and spaces)

                  Had a friend who has enough money to buy a plane, new cars, vacations, toys, boats, etc., tell me that if things go bad (after I have been telling her to stock up for over a year now) that she will just come to my house. I was shocked. She knows we are living on less than fumes. Amazing the mindset…very disappointing.

                  PKLL

                  • Give her the option of storing some preps with you.

            • trust in yer CAREFULLY kept 15 round semi-auto pistol and battle-rifle: proverbs .308 and psalms 9mm

              • ky mom, you needed a PERIOD there, and you got it in the wrong PLACE! proverbs.223?…or was your freudian SLIP showing? thanks for the idea though!

                • You know you can shoot these beggars, but what will you then do with the bodies when they drop their fluids on your front porch?? I suggest start collecting large buckets of saw dust, or chainsaw cuts to soak up the fluid litter, Lime or Lye (debate) to sprinkle on the bodies to keep the flies from swarming. Preferably shoot them in the leg first and as they hobble away across the road, then finish them off in someone else’s ditch. And if you live up north, I suggest before the ground hardens up before winter you have a few graves pre-dug. With loose dirt nearby or in sacks, to cover the remains in a speedy fashion. All joking aside, you have to prepare for this. Its going to happen. Or a nearby canal like here in Florida makes great Gator snacks.

                  • Who,predug graves in frozen territory?!Nature is just a freezer for long pig,the other other white meat!Man,I read that book about the soccer team in Andes plane crash way too young as a kid!

                  • Wrap ’em in chain link fence and throw ’em in the ocean. I mean, if I were writing a story about such awful times. 😉 Sorry, this topic brings out my inner wop.

                  • WWTI you must have already heard of me. I already started doing that, and all my neighbors are mad at me cause I’ve dug big holes in all of their yards. Most of them ask me what I was doing and I told them I was going to shoot them in the leg if they came to my house asking for food. So if that happens I ask them to please hobble toward the hole and I would finish them off. So I have killed two birds with one stone, none of them will be asking me for food, and if someone does I won’t have to worry about the bodies cause the holes are already dug. Trekker Out. Love Shall Overcome!

                  • Nonsense, grow your own buzzards, dude. Too much trouble to soak up the blood with sawdust. Also hogs love human flesh and fatten up real quick on it.

                  • Overwatch, You must have been watching all the Soprano’s re-runs/ Loved that show. I like the Italian signatures they leave for their murders. Like Stuffing money in their mouths. Cement shoes, piano wire, or the “Bloody Necktie” where the Rat would be killed, his neck cut and his tongue pulled out where it hangs out of his neck, for being a RATBastard and yapping to law enforcement. The Mob is pretty clever in sending messages to the rest of the living.

                  • WWTI – Love your mindset on digging a few graves ahead
                    of time. Fortunately, living in FL we have all the canals for body disposal.

                    Camellia

              • BCOD, for me it’s Psalms 12-ga., .30 Carbine, and .22LR; also Proverbs .380 ACP.

            • Question for you Ky Mom, Is there a way to get the olive and pickle smell out of Lexington container barrels? I’ve added baking soda and let them air out and it helped, but I can still smell it. Not looking forward to eating pickle flavored rice. Yuk!

              • I’ve read filling them with vinegar and water, let stand overnight and rinse out. Also Hydrogen Peroxide in the same manner. Good luck.

              • mylar bags

              • Try lemon juice with soda bicarb.

              • Barrel liners@ ULINE.com

              • Gopher,

                Hi! Here are some instructions that might help.

                How to Remove the Pickle Odor from a Plastic Barrel

                1. Rinse out the barrel with clear water, and then scrub the interior and lid with hot, soapy water and a mildly abrasive sponge. Rinse a second time with clear water and then completely dry the inside and outside of the barrel.

                2. Stuff the barrel with crumpled sheets of newspaper, or place several pieces of new charcoal or a handful or two of coffee grounds inside the barrel. Place the lid on the barrel.

                3. Wait at least 24 hours before opening the barrel so the newspaper, charcoal or grounds can absorb as much odor as possible.

                4. Remove the deodorizer and rinse out the barrel. Allow it to air dry in a sunny location. If the pickle odor persists, repeat the process a second time.

                5. Wash the barrel with hot, soapy water, scrubbing thoroughly.

                6. Fill the barrel with water. Stir in 4 tablespoons of baking soda for every quart of water in the container. Soak the barrel in the solution for 24 hours.

                7. Empty the baking soda solution from the barrel. Cut a lemon in half and rub the cut half against the insides of the barrel, scrubbing lightly. The lemon juice removes any lingering odors after the baking soda treatment.

                8. Rinse the barrel with clear water and dry it in a sunny location.

                *Natural sunlight helps break down odors. Setting the barrel outdoors in the sun for a few days can sometimes destroy mild pickle smells without the need for additional cleaning.

                ehow. dot com

                • Thanks to all for the responses, will give it a try.

                  • there’s a lady on craigslist in riverside, ca sells “food grade” buckets(5 gallon) for 1.75 with lid. family has a bunch of doughnut shops, so she had LOTS of them….been a while since i bought any, but got the idea i should go to LOCAL shops to see what’s available. so now i got a couple here in hi-desert that save their buckets for me at same price….make sure they’re washed….they had doughnut filling in them….thanks to all the contributors here on SHTFPLAN, what a treasure trove of info!

                • Good grief;
                  I think I will save work and just manufacture barrels!

              • Try Massengail’s disposable douche. It is good for fishy smells.

              • I would do Nok-Out. Takes
                all smell out of anything

            • YOU NEED A VERY HIGH FENCE WITH BARBS ON TOP AND LOTS OF SIGNS WHICH SAY, “BEWARE OF THE DOGS!” (WHETHER YOU HAVE DOGS OR NOT!)

              • you effen well BETTER have at LEAST a couple of dogs! don’t forget that SMALL dogs have the best ears, and that’s what you’ll need to survive…..added benefit is you can feed FOUR or FIVE of them with the same amount of food a BIG dog eats….got DOGFOOD?

                • Then kill and eat the dogs if things get tough?

                  • you would eat the guards?

            • You may need to protect your garden, then again, you may not. Consider how long it takes for calorie crops to mature, then consider what *those* people will live on while they are waiting for your garden. That combined with the fact that nothing from my garden is shrink wrapped in Styrofoam. Much of it does not even look like food.

              There are things we can share when the time comes, knowledge of gardening, seeds, encouragement. In the best of times, gardening is not 100% secure. Crop failures happen and sometimes occur for more than one season. There may not be anything in your garden to take, consider the CA drought as an example.

              In war torn countries, crops are sometimes left to rot in the fields because it isn’t safe to harvest them. During an initial period of social unrest, you may not even be able to even plant a garden.

              Keep stacking ‘n packing.

              • Keep lockin’ & loadin’!

            • Regarding garden raiders.

              Plant in staggered plantings so only a small amount is ripe at any given time.

              During the Great Depression people weren’t all that kind. Ask and you might get a handout. Get caught garden raiding and you’d get a butt full of rock salt. Pepper spray is the modern rock salt, and yes they make pepper spray shotgun rounds, as well as bean bag rounds, check your state laws. Why a non-lethal round, I just don’t see myself blowing an eight year old away!

              • Get a copy of the old movie from 1972 Bad Company about some kids who set out across the Midwest back in the 1860s. The scene where the little kid is running from a farm house with the pie he has just stolen may be instructive as to what may happen when life gets tough.

              • “Square Foot Gardening”, the book. He’s writing for backyard hobby gardeners, but concepts can be scaled.

          • Ive had a few people tell me that,
            I have a few surprises for them.

            • I’ve had folks in our church tell us, “We’re coming to YOUR place”. I always tell them with a smile on my face, “then, you will die at the bottom of the hill with everyone else who thinks that way.
              While I will not let a child go hungry, even IF, their parents/spawners haven’t loved them enough to prepare for them, I won’t give Mom and/or Dad a damn crumb.
              I do believe in being charitable for those who WOULD prepare were they able to, OR, to help those who have prepared all their means and health allow, but when I see people with wave runners, boats, atvs, and all the other toys, complaining and whining that they “can’t afford it”, I have zero problem telling them to sell their damn toys and prep for what is coming. Sound harsh? Toofreakingbad.

            • Lots of Sandbags

            • I think it is much better to tell people like it is and not let them get the wrong idea. They are responsible for themselves and their families, not you. Avoid surprises. If anything, be hard on them now. It won’t get better later.

          • I’ve only told one person in my community that I prep…and that was one person too many as far as I’m concerned. He is an NRA member and supposedly a “wise”, honest and capable person. He is none of the above. His response to my prepping was: “It will only make you a target.” His grand frigging plan is to do nothing. This individual is an arrogant dumbshit.

            I’m not helping anybody when the SHTF and if I do, it will be done anonymously.

            • Or more likely. his play is to go after preppers with smaller armories than he’s got!

          • US, only yesterday, someone approached me and said they would come to my house when TSHTF. I told him forget it if he wanted to live. I gave him a look that could kill and he took off scared.

          • Few years back had an acquaintance tell me while discussing preps that he had a 12 gauge that would get him anything he wanted.

            • Whatta fool.

            • Orn, someone else with a 12-ga. can definitely stop him.

              • And someone else with a rifle can stop him from much further away!

            • I’ve heard that, “I have a gun and will get what I need” story before. I ask them if they are willing to kill someone for a can of corn? Then I ask them if they think anybody else thinks the same way that they do. I also tell them that I would not kill someone in order to take their food, but I would kill someone for trying to take my food. Word to the wise.

              Besides, I tell them if they take my food, to take all of it. It’s salted. So now where does that put me on the list of people with food available just for the taking?

              Taking my food is like hiring a prostitute. You never know what you are going to get for your money, and you never know what you really got for your money until much later.

              Word to the wise as they say.

          • a line from Cody Lundin ,when my freinds say i know where im going when it hits the fan he say ,me too ,”right in my pot ” so make sure to come fattened up

        • This article expresses my feeling almost exactly about a friend that I written about here on more than one occasion. In fact, just a couple of threads back.

          I pray that I NEVER have to make the final decision portrayed here.

          • Navy Vet, I share those sentiments. I hope I never have to take a human life in self-defense but that possibility is looking more likely with each passing day and all the shit that’s going down.

          • I have sat back and watched as the “gimme dat” next door, squandered her welfare, burned through her food stamps trading more than half for dope and booze. She has THREE TIMES faked an ‘accident’, so she doesn’t have to go look for a job as mandated for welfare here.

            You should have seen her dragging herself behind a walker for days, then getting caught outside without it, walking just fine. That was when I made up my mind how I will handle her when TSHTF.

            She has three children and NO food stores.

            I am NOT looking forward to what comes next, but I’m prepared for it.

            • Its hard to tell those who really do need help (like the war VETS, sometimes) and those who are scam artists… I saw this guy a year ago who was pan handling (looking for some change/cash/hand-out). Later on (that night) i saw this guy take off his prosthetic leg and lay down on a bench to sleep for the night… It broke my heart!! I wish so much I had helped him out the day before! I tried to find him the following day to get him some cash but he was no where to be found.. and I think he may have been war vet… so sad, got so mad at my self!

              Howeever, there have many occassions when I did help people out (even though I’m very poor) and they took the money I gave to them and went to get cigarettes, etc… so its really hard to know what to do!!

              • I often decide whether I’m going to give them anything (or not) right from the start. I have no respect for scammers who try to play on your sensibilities. I don’t have but a very few.

                So I directly engage them. I say, “I see your sign says you want some money for food. Now tell me the truth, what are you really trying to get money for?

                If the continue to say it’s for food, I’ll hand them something edible. If they tell me it was for a bottle of hooch, I’ll sometimes give them a little change, if I have it.

                I don’t care about the change, I just hate being treated like a fool, a mark, like I’m stupid.

                People always get farther with me with the truth, than with a bunch of shit, designed to make people feel sorry for them. “Convenient victimization” just isn’t my thing.

            • Sixpack, the ‘gimme dat’ you mentioned is exactly the kind of scum I rail about. So she got caught by someone in her little con act? Not that it would really matter, she’ll still be sponging on our tax dollars regardless. I do understand the point you made in your last sentence.

              • Those poor kids do everything for themselves. They don’t really NEED her for much.

                The only things that useless bitch does, is spend the welfare check and does the grocery shopping. I’m convinced that the only reason she even has those kids, is for the welfare. Shit, she doesn’t even sleep in the apartment with them. They are TRULY on their own most of the time.

                I’m considering having a long talk with her welfare handler. I do so loathe getting those workers involved, it rarely ever does anything positive. I don’t care about the bitch, but I do care about those kids, since nobody else seems to.

                I don’t know what to do. How about a vote:

                Thumbs up, I call the worker.

                Thumbs down, I forget about it until the time comes to deal with gimme dat.

                • The welfare handler won’t do anything. Long-time friend of mine, during his rose-colored-glasses period in the ’70s, was a welfare case worker for about 8-9 months. He actually got a “client” off welfare and into a job, and his boss gave him a reaming for it. The welfare office funding is calculated on how many “clients” they have.

                  Sorry to say, he’s still an Ann Arbor liberal, but at least a competent one, so if he and his wife manage to get here, I would take them in. He would work, and he can shoot, and his wife’s a hell of a cook. IF they get here – they’d have to survive “Escape from Detroit” first, then get past Toledo and Cincinnati.

                • Six. not sure if you’ll see this….what I am concerned about is the child stealing by DPS…maybe you could prep for the kids too?

                  PKLL

                • See something, say something. Janet will be proud of you.

                  • I have decided to prep for the kids. I have always intended to have what I need, plus a little extra anyway. If someone puts the ‘mom’ down the kids will still need help.

                    I didn’t figure the caseworker would do anything, and welfare only steals HEALTHY, WELL ADJUSTED KIDS. They can’t place troubled or sick kids as easily, so they ignore their very real suffering.

                    CPS is useless and should be disbanded.

                    I guess if a bug gets into their ear, at least I can say “I tried”.

                    As far a “see something, say something”, that’s a load of crap never intended to do anything but turn in preppers and gun owners. The kinds of crap I’d turn in, would not impress Janet Napolitano one bit…

                • There is a great chance her “handler” would tell her you dimed her out and you would have to deal with hr even sooner and wit her having help and foreknowledge of you actions.
                  They don’t get the programs administered without the handlers already knowing what’s up and approving of their lifestyle, often seeking out more “victims” to “he’p” with other folks ( damn sure not “they” money! monies Word to the wise…..caution in this subject….32 years ib LE tells me beware of these manufactured victims and their sympathizers. It’s a whole “nuther” way of aberrant thinking. Many of them consider themselves as self appointed “reparations” administrators. It’s a guv’mint minded “social workeresque thang”.

        • Kevin.. im sure you know this but

          You dont take Golf Clubs to a Gun fight..

          maybe someone should have told Obama that too?

          • I know that, you know that but my brother God bless him knows nothing but sports . He’s a grown man 60 years old. I on the other hand would have to be hog tied to a chair with toothpicks holding my eye lids open to watch a sports game. I refer the activity as, “worshipping the sphere”.

            • FEDS READYING FOR EXECUTIVE AMNESTY…
              “US gov’t seeks supplies for immigration documents.”
              -Yahoo dot com

              Obama plans to open immigration floodgates…

              Will ‘transform America into nation no one will recognize’…

              “President Obama lets slip his scheme for a permanent majority.

              The White House intended to remain silent about its plans for immigration. Revealing a scheme to open the floodgates of amnesty would be disastrous on the eve of the critical midterm elections. But this is the gang that can’t shoot straight.

              The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Friday threw open the door to as many as 100,000 Haitians, who will now move into the United States without a visa.
              That was just the beginning. The immigration agency earlier this month had solicited a printer able to handle a “surge” of 9 million green cards “to support possible future immigration-reform initiative requirements.”

              “In an ordinary year, about 1 million green cards are issued, and over the life of this contract the company is expected to produce up to 34 million cards, a figure representing an increase of the population of the United States by 10 percent.”
              -Washington Times

              currently on Drudge Report

              • Hi KY,

                CWII enroute?….surely Folks; if those fools think that they can pull THAT one off; Um-um, not in this COUNTRY.

                …over THIER dead body’s. Really.

                • Amen,
                  Let the games begin

                • Mr.R: How’s everything in the neighborhood? USGS is at it again in the New Madrid Zone.

                  Feed Jake

                  • Howdy Vapor,

                    Wassup Friend…we have been seeing a spate of tremors along the Atlantic Ridgeline over the last few day as the effects of Bardbunga’s activity begin to manifest in the plate tectonics involved; stress/strain buildup.

                    BI was rather clear (per another poster here that looked into that recently) that activity along the central portion of the Atlantic Ridge was BAD..that it might well have ‘repercussions’, Yes? Well, go over and take a look at the 7 day log at the USGS real-time page…3 occurances between 1 and 11 degree’s North…right in BI’s postulated ‘danger zone’. And No, we don’t see a lot of quakes occring through that region, not often.

                    Personally, I think that IF somesuch occurs, we’ll first see the prototypiccal ‘mega-event’ somewehre along the Carribean plate…then, the NM will stirke. If we’re not seeing a lot along the Carribean, then I think we’re OK..for a while. Otherwise…..

                    Till later All….

                  • any news on Be Informed? i miss him!

                • Mr. Rodgers,

                  Good morning!

                  I think the Obama administration is pushing for executive amnesty to ENSURE a Democrat voting majority for 2016.

                  The policies of this administration have angered a large majority of Americans – both Republican and Democrat. This is evident in the abysmally low ratings Obama is getting in polls.

                  Allowing the country to be flooded with illegal immigrants is classic Piven and Cloward. The goal is to overwhelm the system to collapse it and then establish whatever system THEY WANT.

                  I don’t believe Obama even CARES about the well being of Americans, just will do whatever he believes will keep him and his cronies in power, to fully establish and entrench his policies in America.

                  • Hi KY,

                    “Classic Cloward-Piven'”, yes, very much so. However, as is (lately) the cae the PTB are mis-estimating the results – that is the consequnces – of thier intended actions, I think…this one , if true, would be the match to the POWDER KEG…’boom’, in a word.

                    Obama…..what to think about that one, Eh? I can only imagine WHAT the ‘invisibles’ have – think NSA, CIA, etc – on that one to “neuter” him so completely and to compel him to such flights of lunacy as well. Well, we’ll see soon enough I suppose….

              • If we dont grow a pair and fight back then we deserve whats coming!!!!!!!!!

              • KYMom, What on earth are these Idiots in Washington thinking? All I can think is that they are going to offer these illegals fast track citizenship in exchange if they join the military to fight the Bankster’s Wars, or fight us Citizen Americans who will be in Revolt.

                America, now “Land of the Fee and Home of the Slave!!”

                • @WWTI:

                  Don’t you remember Obozo promising to build a CIVILIAN police force larger than our present military? Why? Because Obozo wants them to kill Americans…and the military won’t do it.

                  Now he’s gonna have his military made up of foreigners…Syrians, Haitians, Africans, anybody willing to take from us.

                  • David, I remember it and I won’t have any trouble shooting any foreigners who come to my place with such intentions.

                  • Don’t forget the Mexicans !

                • I don’t understand why the African-American community isn’t up in arms about illegal immigration and for that matter, the legal immigrants as well. Who do you think is going to pay for them when the middle class is gone, they will in one way or another.

              • If amnesty is declared for the illegals, why do we have DHS, ICE et. al.? We will show that all those “border security” efforts are useless and a waste of resources.

                • Why do we pay money for a congress if they are not going to do their job?

                • TEX – They were useless all along anyway.

            • kevin2, I let my TV service go earlier this year. Nothing on the boob tube I want to see and that’s some extra money I put into prepping.

              • I haven’t had pay TV since 1981.

                • You haven’t missed a thing.

                • Six.. Ahhhh stealing cable are ya? lol we used to be able to buy black boxes before they encrypted everything. If you are into hacking the hack sites will list encryption codes for boxes so I hear. I’ve been a sucker and paying..

                  You can come over and watch the Walking Dead Sunday Nights on AMC Cable if you like. We can split a 12 pack. haha.

                  • WWTI – I’ll be over, too, to watch it.

                    C

                  • If I was going to steal something, I would steal something useful. I don’t even have a cable jack in my house. I tore it out and put in another phone jack instead. That way, I can have a phone on my end table if I wanted to.

                    that’s about how much I value cable TV. There’s no satellite here either, and out here, I get no free channels and I’m okay with that.

                • Gotcha beat. I haven’t had any TV since 1977. I feel like I’m a clear-sighted man in a land of the blind as a result.

            • I’m a “grown man 60 years old”, (just had that birthday) and believe that I am irresponsible and immature if I am not prepping for what I KNOW is coming….and it ain’t another round of golf.I outgrew that game back when I was a senior in high school. Was fun then, would rather take comfort in knowing my family and I are well prepared and able to be a blessing to those truly in need of help.(truly, being the operative word)

        • At least your’s will bring something. Mine will only bring 4 mouths to feed.

        • Kev- I think a nice 3 Iron could take out a few Zombies. Fore!!

          • WWTI, 12-ga. with buckshot does even better. PULL!

          • And don’t worry about replacing the divits. Ha.

        • @Kevin2…

          Tell him that you hope he has a nice day on the links.

      3. I dread the day I have to turn family away.

        • They are all you may have to rely on. I’ll find a way to make mine useful. If I’m down to a can of peas I’ll share it with the ones I love.

          In the end you have to live with your conscience.

          • “In the end you have to live with your conscience”

            I gave up my conscience, when I started working for the government. It kept getting in the way.

            • “Darling, after you kill your conscience the rest is easy.” J.R. Ewing

          • I could live with my conscience knowing that I saved my younglings lives by turning away aunts, uncles, and cousins.

            • He, I will find a way to live with my conscience after the day I have to take a human life in self-defense. It will be either me or the scum and I WON’T let it be me!

            • If you have advised them to take some steps to get prepped and they have ignored you there will be no reason to feel as guilty. Unless you are very wealthy and have a nice size and remote home there is no way you can play uncle sugar to ten relatives unless of course they are good looking young women.

          • You will not be able to rely on anyone who has disregarded your advice to prepare for what’s coming.

            If they failed to reason properly BEFORE SHTF…what makes you think they will reason properly AFTER?

            No. They will be a liability.

            Recently saw the movie “Fury”. One line from the movie seems to sum up the kind of attitude someone will have to have in order to survive when civilization falls apart…

            “Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.”

        • Years ago I included my parents and in-laws in my prepping plans. My parents prepared for nothing, and though my in-laws were somewhat prepared they lived in an area where they couldn’t stay if there was a long term break down. Four more people would strain my resources to the max, so I was ready to turn away ALL other family and friends. Due to deaths, I now have some open slots. Who do I choose to fill the slots? Triage is necessary when you have no choice, but I would have a hard time saying, “You are the best of all of us, but without your meds, you might not last a year so move along.” or “You can stay because you are a stand up kid, but your sister is a very nice but useless liberal flake so she cannot.” You’re not kidding dread the day.

        • Shoot, just invite the in-laws over for dinner, disarm them, chain them up in the basement and cut off a leg or 2 and throw it in the pot, add some salt and pepper. Let simmer a few hours… Yummm Yum. Imagine a nice tender back strap with taters and gravy. lol

          • Sounds like someone’s been watching the new season of Walking Dead…

            • Yes Laugh. The last Walking Dead the guy was eating part of the guys leg like a hamburger right in front of the guy who lost his leg. Hey that’s what you tell people that say they are coming to your house. You either bring your own food or you will be dinner. Ha

          • Have you SEEN MY in-laws? YOU, can have them. Not someone I’d care to make a dinner of “backstraps” and gravy out of.Yuck!!! Have a sister-in-law so fat, it would take her days and days to render down,then again, she’d be good for at least ten thousand 100 hour candles or so…

        • Hi, he-says… You should look up “SELCO– SHTFPLAN.COM”. SELCO told about his place which has some kind of construction around it (forgot exactly, but according to what he wrote, many homes had this)… even when he came back from having to go look for food or whatever, he had to climb over certain barriers to get inside his house… if you had this kind of contruction and just put your gun through the window, this would warn would-be-beggars to go away and you wouldn’t have to converse with them/have any kind of dialogue.. basically, I think it would work best to keep some distance/barrier between you and the outside world when SHTF and then you won’t end of feeling guilty.

      4. That’s why my wife and me gave up on having friends years ago.

        • @ Angry:

          You know, oddly enough, I never thought of having friends (more than one or two) because of the work I did, socializing was not on the to do list. But, after awhile, it became second nature. Keep people at arms length. Its been a lot easier and lot less confrontational.

          @He says: A mouthful. But when the circumstances are such that the only thing the person(s) standing in front of you want is what you worked extra hard to accumulate for you and yours to exist on. And they were going about their business like everything was wonderful. Too fucking bad. See ya. Don’t come back!

          • My wife and me ran into the same situation. We worked as a consulting team and traveled, so we were never home and everyone we dealt with day-to-day was a client.

        • Any friends I have I can count on one hand. Anybody else is just an acitance.

          • Me too, and I’d have four fingers left.

        • People throw the word friend around too casually. I have no friends outside my family. I have acquaintances. I have people that I might do an activity with but they aren’t friends. Only people that know we prep are family that preps. I will say this. I already have plans in place to help my elderly neighbors. The next houses are 1000 yards in either direction, we share a driveway and you can’t see their house from the road. I won’t be able to provide them with medical supplies but they will be warm and fed if the need ever arises.

          • Jake,good for you,just because they are elderly does not mean also in challenging times they can’t help out in some ways,hope you never have to find out though!

            • You also might end up needing another roof over your head, if things go sideways at your house…bright side, not far to drag your preps.

        • Reality, the more friends you have the more problems you have. Same with Girlfriends, One is more than plenty. I got so tired of friends borrowing tools, pressure washers, saws, etc, then never bringing them back, or brought back broke. I finally stopped that program years ago. Then when I needed help like moving something, they would get all pissy or not show up. So in the end we are all on our own. Believe me I am more than eager to go help someone, and helped a smokin’ hot lady down the street a few weeks back cut a tree down that somebody else wanted to charge her $400. Little by little we got it cut. Its always been my nature to go help someone if I can. I have even learned a few trades helping friends, like laying plankwood floors, etc.

        • The only friends I have are here.And you don’t know me and I don’t know you

          • You know you are in trouble when a Salesman, whom you never met, starts the conversation with “Hey Friend” I suggest RUN!!

        • Yep, hate everyone equally. Works out well.

          • It never fails for those like us who are prepared. Those who you call friends always seem to be about 10 times needier than we are, thus you are usually having to help them fix their problems. I also noticed a few years back many people I knew went underground I think out of embarassment they were economically depressed. Never to see them again as one high flier had his speed boat reposessed.

            • WWTI;
              “Those who you call friends always seem to be about 10 times needier than we are….”

              That’s the most truthful statement made today. I have recently come to the same conclusion, and I’m sad about that.

              GR

              • Thats right Ghost;… One thing I have learned in life is when a problem arises is to try to quickly deal and take care of it right away. So many people I know procrastinate (Ex GF’s) and then the problem grows and grows and compounds and then it becomes 10 problems and more costly disasters.

                In fact, an Ex-wife back when,even if everything was going right she would invent new problems and chaos just to keep me busy. After a few years I realized I was tired as some things you can never fix. ha.

      5. Sure! You can come over. I need several cord of wood split before the snow flies, be careful of the rattlers though!

        After that I can have you clean the chicken coop and put more straw in it – then clean the barn, the rabbit cages, goat pen, and then come on in for a bowl of watered down broth!

        After that, more fence needs repairing and after the evenings bowl of broth, you can get a good night sleep in the barn (sorry, no room in the main house!).

        Oh, never mind about the sleep – you’ll have guard duty and fire watch tonight!

        • Thats right,
          You know what time it is!!!

      6. No, you won’t.

        Remember the biblical story of the ten virgins, five were foolish and five were wise. Matt: 5: 1-13

        12th Commandment Thou shall practice operational security at all times…….

        This is why you have guns and ammo…….

        • As you consider the parable of the ten virgins, consider also the story of the widow who was asked of Elijah to prepare him a cake BEFORE she made for her and her son before they lay down to die.

          Her bag of meal and cruse of oil never failed in the famine.

          I am thinking on both and charity (the pure love of Christ) seems to be winning.

        • Watching and waiting, AMEN to that. I do have a ‘ventilation team’ and plenty of ‘groceries’ for each member of the team.

      7. there are people who will come to my place when The SHTF.. but thats because we’ve planned it that way .. they wont be anchors, they will be back up, and have skill sets and preps of their own

        Teams survive longer then a one man dead army , just my .02 cents

        there wont be any free loaders , because I dont hang with free loaders , they all know the score

      8. Just before noon (ET), there was an X1.7 solar flare.

        It might be time to Faraday cage some more electronics.

        There’s a partial solar eclipse Thursday afternoon, peaking at 5:30 PM (ET). Most of the country, except New England, can see it, if it’s not cloudy. Take the usual precautions if you want to look at it.

        • Our magnetosphere has weakened 20% since we started recording it so….perfect. A nice solar flare will be beautiful. Really.

          • Been keeping an eye on this one – sunspot AR2192. It is the largest sunspot of this entire solar cycle and is now pointing our way. NOAA has updated the chance of another x-class at 55%. Before it came to the earthside it cut loose a flare so large that instruments on THIS side registered it as an M class. Hopefully it will pass us by but as always, be ready.

      9. I have had several friends say “I’m coming to your place when it all goes to shit.” My response is, “Good, we will be low on meat for the dogs and ourselves.” They get a very perplexed look on their faces, especially when the figure out I ain’t kidding.

        • You know I was kidding about eating them, right? The dogs don’t like “long pig”.

          • Run the corpse through a tree shredder. the pigs will eat every part. Bad guy Wes Hardin shot & killed a fellow just because he stood in a window and blocked his light. They simply drug the body outside and the hogs disposed of it. Im greedy & stingy Ill not let those who had ought naught with my prepping benefit. Ill poison & burn everything before I let anyone else benefit from my work. Im mean and hard hearted enough to do whatever I deem necessary to take care of & protect me & mine.

            • Dat da funny lookin guy in da wood chipper?

        • When you tell them not to come over or else, don’t laugh. They need to know you don’t joke about such things.

      10. hard choices are coming for all of us. do I let this person in? or do I stick a gun in his/her face and say “bugger off”?

        • If I pull a gun Ill be cocking the hammer & pulling the trigger. Any person you chase off will become a enemy and they could return with others. I wont take that chance. No one who climbs my fence and gets within range of my home is putting themselves in great danger.

      11. Sept. 22 2014
        GA Guidestones
        comment # 3230998

        • Wow, eppe shows up again. We haven’t heard from you, since you last wanted to have sex with everybody’s email address. lol

          • WWSI, you have gigged me about one liners, jokes, useless drivel, and posts that have nothing to do with the subjects. But yet here you are doing the exact same thing. Then you say my email idea will have viruses. What is your problem???
            I tried to be nice to you months ago, and you have lied, trashed, and berated me for no real reason. Even Mac stated I have made great thousands of great comments waaaay long before you graced our presence. Great jokes too. Do you lead such a useless life that the only thrill you have is to mess with me and others? And you still have not answered the question on where humanity originated? Can you give a coherent answer? POG and I are still awaiting. You cut and paste most everything also, and when you opine, well your true character comes out, and shows the lack of any integrity. Quit being such a hyprocrite. We are collectively tired of the Jew bashing. Or are you too ignorant of you own stupidity. If you died tomorrow, no one would miss your inputs, because most of them suck…

            • eppe,

              my jawjin friend,

              I’d give you a thousand thumbs up if i could. The jewsters are definitely running most of the show and there is nothing that our continued rants about them are gonna accomplish. God will sort ’em out in His own way and time.

              Keep up the good work.
              pwtw

            • zzzzzzzzz Peppy snail, So what does your today’s rant have to do with the article mac Posted? Thought so. You contribute nearly zero to any legitimate conversation on here daily. I just call it like I see it. You got a problem with the truth? Or would you rather live in your fantasy world like you are some comedian on stage taking away form the conversation? And all you contribute is someone else’s hacked joke. How small can you get as a joke hack? If you are looking for my past answer, I have posted it several times back when, go find it. I resort to legitimate science for the origination of man or any other species. You can go to the library and discover volumes of proof. Like I said before like you waste space here you probably did the same thing in high school, cracking jokes when they discussed History or science or biology or physics. I am not sure your education level nor do I care. If you post something post a link? That is all I asked and stop trying to pass off other people creativity as your own, when that all you contribute to any article. I am not bashing any particular person here, but you. And I don’t hate any body even you. Just your motive of stealing jokes. I can post my thoughts and opinions here on any subject as I try to stick to the article content. Like them or not, just like anybody else can. But at least you can give this site respect and add to the conversation. Or post something that will help people in their pepping. I think you should just go start your own website and you can post or start a blog of your own if you want to make it a cut and past joke site. And if you can find idiots to send you their emails so you can send them daily spam hacks and viruses off your computer go for it. Maybe you can even get people to advertise on your own site. Mac is plenty smart enough here not to let his intellectual property and disclosure of other poster’s personal info to be passed off to you including email addresses. That would degrade his website’s integrity. Do you see the bigger picture here? You seem lost of your purpose or target audience. Go find it. Go start SHTFStolenJokes.com I am sure the website is available if you like, and for only about $10 a year. Go for it skippy snail!! And yes I too think the Jews are ruing our country. What stake do you have in that defending them? Are you Jewish? Fess up?

        • Eppe,
          We may never meet but know that should we do I will take care/arm/and watch your back. Both you and yours.
          The guidestones scare me.
          And aside.
          The mooslom terrorist in Ottawa, that SOB may he be buried in bacon.
          And any little dog f$%^ing terrorist mooslom’s out there should know that I have a special selection of bullets that are dripped in pork to send you straight to hell. And many more of us are doing the same.
          Now we believe that you are going to hell anyways, but it is a nice touch on many of us sportsman behalf that we are spreading the word. And if that does not bother you, my wife will shoot you twice if you attack us, she’s good.
          If a man chooses to come to our country and wants to make his home here in peace welcome brother. If another man chooses to murder you had better hope that the police get there first.

          • @SCTV: Yes it is a sad day for Ottawa, and All of Canada…seems like the radical killers have arrived on our soil!

            2 soldiers murdered in 3 days!! Please pray for their families…..seems no one is safe anymore! Take care all, CC

        • To everyone who worries about bugs in the emails, I only do the transfers at work during lunch, the security is tighter than Sybil’s ass, oh sorry, than a virgin, so do not worry about bugs. Ask War, Ghostrider, Swinging rich, and Mike in Va, we talk, email and they got no bugs. Screw you, WWTI.

          • I’m not worried eppe – Mac has my email address as the one I use when posting is genuine. Flick Mac an email and ask him to please forward it to me and I’ll get back to you.

            By the way, anyone know where ugly from Idaho is these days?

            Cheers

            Aussie

            • Hey eppe;
              I meant to comment in the previous article where you posted your idea. You know I’m all for it.

              To everyone else;
              I can confirm that I have emailed eppe without any issues and I will continue to email him in the future.

              GR

          • eppe, you are really have a screw loose here. Now you say you are posting all of this from your workplace job computer? Does your Boss know this? Lets clarify something here. Are you clueless as to any cyber security procedures or info or just a dolt that fell off the truck, when it comes to common sense.

            Let me help you here. This is the Real Deal

            Summary: Since September 2012, approximately 50 U.S. financial institutions have been targeted in over 350 separate DDoS attacks with varying effects. The botnets used in the attacks, identified as (Brobot) and (Kamikaze/Toxin) consist of compromised high bandwidth
            webservers with vulnerable content management systems (CMS). The compromised bots are infected through a vulnerable CMS account. Once the account is accessed, attack scripts are uploaded to a hidden directory on the associated web site.

            This information may assist in identifying and removing malicious code from compromised systems and in defending against potential future distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

            eppe, This is a short summary in layman’s terms saying, “don’t be cutting and pasting that crap, from a website which logs your IP address, then you send that on to other people, from your employer’s computer no less, then he can catch the viruses, and hacks and malicious code, stealing bank accounts, all so you can get your daily jollies.

            Like I said before you are way out of your league when thinking you are going to be some operator passing on other people’s email addresses.

            That is a joke, thanks for the laugh today. WWTI

            • I will also add that if you do post a link on here it will turn into a hyperlink. Hyper links can also redirect you to some other off beat website which can install malicious code. If you want to look a source link posted on this site just cut and paste the actual link into a new URL. Clicking on a hyperlink can possibly take you to some other website. Just saying. Cut and past the link and hit enter then it will take you to the website source. Mac says he does have some software on here that will catch most of the spam. But like any site it can still get through. And also for your own home protection, just delete these crap email you get from joke passers or pictures attached or anything that just seem suspicious. I would guess most peoples home computers are infected with malicious code and they are clue less to it and maybe stealing your passwords and email data bases. Websites like Facebook are hacked daily stealing people info for data mining, then you get an invite to facebook and then you catch the virus and then they steal your email data base and start sending spam using your email address, then your dot friends open it up, cause they think it is you sending another joke and Boom you are infected.

              Eppe is like the Infected Guy from Africa standing on the corner with a “Free Kiss Me Booth” ready to spread his Ebola love to you all. Oh yeah eppe here is my email address send me some loving, I love your Ebola Jokes give me another helping full, I’m spitting coffee here, more more,.. lol You Can’t Fix Stupid!!

              • OOPS! I MISTAKENLY GAVE WHOWUDDATHUNIKIT A THUMBS UP!!! THAT WAS MISTAKE!!! SUPPOSED TO BE A THUMBS DOWN!!

      12. I doubt there will be a handful of posters here saying to the masses “Yeah, come on over” when the SHTF. Anyone doing that, while certainly would qualify for a seat at God’s side, the reality is you won’t last very long. Your stuff, and your life, in that order–maybe–will be the priority for those who are too FUCKING LAZY to do their own prepping.

        Me, I’ve told my grown kids and neighbors (and few friends I have) you have your own lives you have been living. When the SHTF since you thought I was nuts prepping for myself and my wife, don’t now want to be included in our lives since you haven’t included us in yours previously–. When the SHTF I will have one rule: Shoot to kill. Remember this, its down to kill or be killed!

      13. Oh God,

        Whatever you do, DON’T hand a letter like this to your friends.

        1. It breaks OPSEC.

        2. It puts a target on your back for Law Enforcement.

        3. And worst of all, if you ever have to use your weapon in self defense, and kill someone, it flips the table and turns you into a premeditated murderer.

        Instead of being heralded as a defender, you’ll end up fighting for your life especially in a state with capital punishment.

        Don’t listen to the stupid lawyer turned fiction writer. He should know better.

        • Law enforcement? Are you fucking serious? Do you honestly think law enforcement is going to exist when the SHTF? You’re fooling yourself. Not only is it not going to exist any more, it’s not going to come back either and in the unlikely event that it does no one will give half a shit about what you did when everything was going down because it will probably be several years after it happened.

          • @Frank…..

            Shhhhhhhh…..Don’t tell anybody. The Shit Has Already Hit The Fan. It happened in September of 2012 with the total abandonment of the capitalistic U.S. economy.

            I’m really sorry the pretty fake blonde on Fox News didn’t announce it or that it didn’t appear on the crawl. But this is what it looks like.

            Militarized Local Police, an increase in Private Security Forces, 50+ percent of people (with more to come) on government aid with fictitious money, a forced mass population shift of incoming immigrant labor which will then be used to replace the aging / expiring baby boom generation. Decreased constitutional rights, and tons and tons more.

            Welcome to the jungle. It’s all just getting started.

            • Guess what else happened a few months later that wasn’t picked up on?

              The confirmation of the Abrahamic Covenant of the Bible about Israel’s homeland and the area around the Temple Mount. You know the one, the one that man has dubbed a seven year “peace” agreement/treaty.(Not so)

              I found it while surfing the net about the UN giving Palestine a recognized status in the world, appeasing their requests, temporarily, for statehood. Of all places it was within an article put out by Al Jazzera.

              I would have never read it because i don’t follow All- jazz-ra media; but, the title of the article said something like….”Palestinians loose more than they gained in recent UN vote, according to Islamic Cleric”

              So I clicked and found out that in the wording of the United Nations/NWO, document, signed into law in December 2012, the World acknowleges that Israelies have a right to their lands/country/nation of Israel and will further have “final” say so over issues within it’s borders and will always maintain the overseeing of the Temple Mount.

              Many scoffers will argue this can “not” be the confirmation of the Covenant spoken of in the Bible.

              I say, just because it was slipped in under the radar doesn’t mean that it isn’t what God was talking about happening in the future. The future is here now.

          • “Do you honestly think law enforcement is going to exist when the SHTF? You’re fooling yourself”

            Uhh yea it will. It sounds like you’re fooling yourself or you’re stupid. On the contrary, it will exist and it will be totalitarian. Just because TSHTF, doesn’t mean govt is going to disappear. That’s an idiotic notion.

      14. Boy, how many times have I heard this statement. I always reply with: There will be a sign in my yard stating “Due to the ammo shortage, no WARNING shoots will be fired” They then reply, ok maybe I won’t come over. 🙂

        • Classic!

      15. Remember the John Wayne rule…..

        In the John Wayne movie where he stars as “Rooster Cogburn” the young woman who hired him to find her Father’s killer was bit by a snake.

        John Wayne ran his horse to death to get her to medical help, and stole a wagon at gunpoint, things Rooster Cogburn would never normally do.

        So it will be when people realize its for real.

        • infidel

          John Wayne talked about gun control

          ” Gun Control requires concentration and a study hand “

      16. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY ???????????

        I AM LOOKING FOR AMERICA AND CAN NOT FIND IT ANYWHERE 🙁

        • would you fight for this country ?

      17. Only my mother-in-law is welcome. All the rest are on their own.

        In today’s news Canada learned a lesson the hard way…and that is…no one is safe….ever.

        • The LAST person I’ll help is my MIL.

        • I got lucky. One of the sweetest people alive.

          • Yup, mine too.

            • My MIL is pretty awesome too. Love her much.

      18. When the Ark door of Noah days was closed no man entered afterward. If, you aren’t strong enough to say no or at least be able to pick and choose there no point of preparing. Your food will be gone in days. I know a family that decided not to save because of that reason.

        • Would that same family jump into a raging river, to die with someone who had fallen in and couldn’t swim?

          Birds of a feather, should DIE together? Is that what they think?

          I feel sorry for them.

        • Years ago, I had a Mormon neighbor, who talked about storing food. He said that he had 5 years worth and we share. We lived on a court and I asked him how long his 5 years supply of food would last if he fed every house on our street. He didn’t answer, but I said, less than a month. This is why sharing cannot work long term. Do the math.

      19. I will help my family and help those that are serious and trying to prep. Others…..keep on walking!

        • A big rule of thumb is if anybody you know, that shows up in SHTF, that has never come over to pitch in, or help out ever in any way for you ever before, to bad so sad, beat it.

          Now if people have repeatedly before come over and have helped out with projects, and pitched in various times, and never asked for anything, then you can consider them as an potential asset part time. You know how to judge people’s character of what they are like. Years of history with them will dictate how they will most likely respond in SHTF.

      20. I have spoken about this over the course of a few years with friends, and at first they actually made me a tin foil hat. As of a few months ago, all were either reading “One Second After” or an assortment of Rawles’ books. It took several years, but from the questions they have asked me and the items I have seen at their homes (plus the knowledge that they each would add), and their growth in knowledge over many things that are out of our control, I would be happy to invite them in.

      21. i bought some pretty brtual ammo, like shotgun shells that fire nails, ball bearings and wire; that’s going to shred thru anything.

        unless i am overrun by a mass; theyre going to go somewhere else the first person one of those shells hit.

        i “hope” it doesnt come to that, but life gets real nasty when empires start falling and that looks like what is happening and has been happening for 15 years.

        • lena. You mean fletchettes? & Piano wire between ball berrings? Try some Dragon’s breath.. lol Not in the house though. lol. There is a lot of specialty 12g ammo out there. Check your state laws too. No since spending SHTF in jail. ha.

        • When faced with a mob, there is only one question that needs to be asked:

          WHO’S FIRST?

      22. We’re in the prep business, so we’ve heard this many times before from relatives, friends, neighbors and even some customers and news reporters that have been here, that when TSHTF they know now where they are coming to.

        To all, I’ve told them they won’t be able to get anywhere near here then without the password. They’ll ask what it is and I’ll hold my hands up to my mouth like I’m yelling from afar; “I brought all my own food!”

        Stunned at first, you can see it dawning on their face, the new reality that’ll be in force then.

        – Shane

        • Well said.

        • PERFECT shane, just PERFECT! i’m gonna steal THAT One!

        • 2-3 year’s supply is more than just a pickup truck.

          even then, better just to slot ’em and “repossess” the supplies.

      23. A few weeks back on an American TV show, I forget which one, they had a sign which made me smile. It said, ‘Notice to burglars. Survivors will be shot again.’

        • Mick. Its Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again. Got the sign here ready to go, when necessary.

      24. This article sounds exactly like my brother!

      25. If people show up at my place, I’ll have a bag of old water jugs, a map to the nearest creek, and a guide to local plants and roots nailed in bulk to a tree near the road and tell them “good luck, you’re on your own”.Oh , yeah, I ‘ll ask them who won the last Super Bowl and how did they enjoy their vacation?

      26. Dear Friends,

        I have been trying to convince all of you to prepare for earthquakes, power outages, floods, pandemics, or “the unknown”. It’s not rocket science; just stock up on food, water, ways to treat tainted water, medical supplies, light, and ways to protect yourself from the woefully unprepared. If you are not sure what to do, I am happy to help anyone before the crisis hits.

        Some of you have told me in a crisis you’ll just visit me and I’ll give you whatever you need. The funny thing is, as long as I can replace whatever you need, I don’t have a problem with that. But what if it’s impossible?

        I have some bad news for you. If YOU have trouble getting necessities, then I ALSO will have trouble. I have some supplies but they are for my immediate family. I wish it would be possible to feed and supply everyone who walks up to my door, but if I did there would be nothing left for my family.

        I am trying to help you by getting you to get off your fat @$$, take personal responsibility, and get those essentials while they are readily available. If you can’t figure out what those essentials are, I will spend hours of my precious time helping you every step of the way. If you are so lazy or oblivious that you refuse to do that before the crisis hits, I’m sorry but I have nothing for you. You’re an adult and you need to make your own decisions.

        Love, Prepper

      27. I lived thru the riot in Detroit 1967. I know what it can be like in a city gone mad. Watch some LA riots on Youtube to get an idea of what may happen.

        Get out of the city now before SHTF. Move.

      28. I am very troubled with what I will actually do when this situation arises. I’m the only one with wood heat in my neighborhood and probably the only one with sufficient supplies.

        I dread the day when a neighbor’s child arrives at my door hungry. I know in my heart I will feed them and help. I also know this reduces my length of survival for my family and I, but I will do what I can to help as many as I can and pray the lord provides.

        I wrote an article a while back on this site entitled Defining Moments. If you haven’t read it I believe it to be very thought provoking.

        Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 369 helpful votes
        For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’

        God Bless,
        NP

        • Morning NP,

          Well, then..MOVE Brother. Ummm…there is say – Oh about – 2 million acres, which wil be really ‘open for new occupants’ rather near to me in a few short months with the FedGov and the Markets going as they are. Don’t like where you are?…just re-think it, really.

        • Matthew 25

          25 “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. 4 The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. 5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

          6 “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

          7 “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’

          9 “‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’

          10 “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.

          11 “Later the others also came. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they said, ‘open the door for us!’

          12 “But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

          13 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

          • 2nd that.

            i have 3 possibilities for the future and i believe one or more will come true.
            1. this is the end of western civilization as we now it and after whatever the breakup is, the next state for most people will be elites or dictators and serfs or slaves controlled by technology.
            2. a serious collapse and/or wars with the worlds people throwing out the dictators and democracies spreading the world over afterwards.
            3.serious war all over and a new power system emerging with china at the head and most of europe playing lapdog in efforts to remain relevant while the usa, brazil, russia and india play second thru fifth.
            4.the end times of the bible. if you watch much john hagee, its hard to argue that this is not whats happening.

            • Do you believe the Church is raptured before the tribulation begins?

              I always ask Christian Preppers that since they (and me)are preparing for all eventualities.

              • Prepare for post-trib, hope for pre-trib.

                • OK

                • Free

                  For me it does not matter. The bible clearly says we will go through wars, rumors of wars, Earthquakes, ect.
                  If there is a rapture then anyone who knows and is left can enjoy my preps. If there isn’t then I will be prepared as I can be.
                  I just don’t understand the arguments Christians get into over the rapture. If you have excepted Jesus as your lord and savior than why does it matter?
                  We are all human and make so many mistakes. Christians argue over meaningless things at least to me. Rature, no rapture, sprinkle, fully submerse, ect.
                  I can say this. Most Christians are good honest people. At least if Christians are in a group you have a better chance of being able to trust them. Not all but most.
                  I get upset over two things with some Christians. Gossip and Judging. ” Hey did you here what so and so did ” and then the ones that tell do not want to be around you or talk to you if for example you have a beer. Those types act like they are better than you. Those two things annoy the heck out of me. Bible talks about gossip and the bible says ” Judgement is mine sayeth the lord “.

              • Me and mine are pre-trib folks. We are prepping for the time frame between when SHTF and the rapture. Since the Lord may tarry – we do not know how long that will be so we are prepping for a long duration after which anyone who finds what we left are considered to be led by God to find it. We will not care as we will not need it any longer. We are prepared to defend – well armed. A few who also prep have been invited to fort up with us if they wish – just bring food and other needs with you or stash it with us beforehand. They have been warned well in advance. The rest will be considered like the 5 unprepared virgins and treated as such. Only a fool does not know what is coming with all the news in our face every day. It is their choice to prep or not. Noah built an ark – prepped. Joseph prepped for the seven years of famine. Whoever said that the bible does not teach prepping? WRONG.

            • sorry, that should have been 4.

              regardless. i think the next 5 years are going to be brutal as i just dont see the world making it 5 years without one or more of those. so, my advice is be ready for anything and if you have some extra time and money left after being ready, you might take a vacation somewhere nice and enjoy it while you still can. dont think there will be much vacationing in an ebola epidemic or WW3.

            • I do watch John haggee sometimes because he does have some good topics and more importantly I learn where he is wrong. “Using other peoples lies can open up you eyes.”

              Haggee is dead wrong about a pre-trib rapture. I have heard him say that the antichrist is a flesh man walking the earth today and get this…..he will be shot in the head and mysteriously come back to life.

              What a crock. None of that is biblical.
              Why even be concerned about a so-called rapture?

              Well, If it is Satans’s message when he comes to earth, first, and posing as Jesus H Christ, then he just might get a person to worship him and believe his lie of a rapture.

              My friends, you do “not” want to make that mistake. According to God’s word, that will put you on the fast track to h–e double l.

            • “brazil, russia and india” are all making great efforts to become independent and self-sustaining. You might want to rethink your ranking criteria…looks like the USA will be dead last, if it continues like it is.

        • The lord helps those, who help themselves.

        • I think every situation is different- you just have to use your intuition as to who you will help and who you will ignore… sometimes its just too dangerous to help. Other times, its hard not to help.

        • Norse….Be not troubled for You will do the Right thing at the Right time…..and, you will be Blessed for it…
          Keep on the PATH
          fob

      29. Back again Kiddos,

        Oddly, there have seen no Type II or Type IV event warnings posted by NOAA relative to this morning’s X-class flare. Now, normally, within minutes of any serious solar event at least one of those shows up; the absence of either is mystifying to me inasmuch as this AM’s X-1.6 was both abrupt (impulsive) and sustained (LDE)…frankly I just don’t ‘get it’ here. Then again, the entirety of the events we have seen coming from 12192 to date have been, well, ‘tame’…in a word.
        Soooo, maybe a CME later…or not, dunno here

        Well, till later then…

      30. looks like they suffered for not keeping their own lamps full of oil……….25 “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. 4 The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. 5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

        6 “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

        7 “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’

        9 “‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’

        10 “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.

        11 “Later the others also came. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they said, ‘open the door for us!’

        12 “But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

        13 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

      31. Even if I wasn’t a Prepper people would come to me any way.

        Only the people that are allowed to come to my place is the ones that I have invited.

        If someone comes to the area they will be taken into custody to a secure area given a meal, water, and a good nights sleep. The next morning they will be given some food and water and told to leave the area. They will be told that this is the only thing that they get and if they return they will be considered an enemy. If they bring other with them they will be shot first. No taking just shot.

        Now if the person is a doctor or something that they can do or offer the Group they might be let in. They will also be guarded for a period of time. With a meeting of the Group and their Ok then they will be let in.

        We can talk about what we will do now. But remember the best made plans of Mice and Men.

        When the SHIT HITS THE FAN everything changes!

        AIM SMALL MISS SMALL
        Sgt.

        • @Sgt
          turning people away or sending people on there way -would you suggest that road signs be removed in suburban areas to avoid any retaliation ?
          Never seen this brought up but if I lived in the burbs Id want road signs gone so the foreigners couldnt navigate via road maps or personal vendetta instructions. Know what I mean? What do you think?

          • Cal, I read a post from a guy over in, I think it was Pakistan , and he said the locals did just, tore up all road signs and it was effective.

          • Excellent idea.. and if it can be done in short order before things go all war zone like .. it might help to slow down even the local Rights stompers , if you get my meaning?

            • You put up signs that say FreeFood at the Police Station

          • CAl
            During WW2 the Germans did that. They just turned the signs. removing them would be a very good idea.
            You hope you don’t get retaliation, but you might. This sounds crewed but the first line is sign telling them not to come any further. Second is Body part on a poll (With the way I was raised, this is the tuff one.) But the SHHTF and It is up to you to take care of you and yours.
            Things aren’t going to nice like it is today, it is going to be HELL.

            Now for the Burbs!
            Get the hell out and get into the country.
            If you are in a walled in community you will have a chance if 75% to 90% of the people there are on the same page. If you have that many folks on the same page you will have power and water and an area to grow food and raise animals. This will also give you a small army.
            I will give you odds that you and may two or three families in you Burb are up to speed.
            May the Lord be with you, you are going to need Him!
            Sgt.

            • “Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth”

              Mike Tyson 😛

              • I wonder if Mike Tyson said that after he got knocked out by Buster Douglas.

              • Genius: I think he said, “mouf”. Just saying. 🙂

                • LOL….

          • IF GPS navigation is still possible, tearing up road signs won’t work. That’s a big if, of course. However, if it is still working, I wouldnt waste the effort or the personal risk

            • It could work on my street, even the post office can’t spell it right. It’s a dirt road, dead end, so removing the sign would raise even more confusion. We look like an alley into a parking lot from the highway.

      32. Four kinds of people:

        Elite with a plan
        Lucky
        Unlucky
        Those that live in the country with a plan

      33. OK all you hard core lone wolves.

        You have to sleep sometime. People are force multipliers. Yes, they can be useless eaters if you choose to sort them as such, but civilization requires more than yourself.

        No one can prep every single thing that will be required to maintain a standard of living. Trade will happen, as well as roving gangs. You get a gang of 20 people coming after you, you are dead. Yeah, you might take some with you, but you will NOT defeat an armed gang of 20 hungry bandits. Sorry Rambo, not going to happen.

        After you get over the “I prepared, you didn’t, now go die” mentality, come back to reality, and realize people are required to divide the labor, accomplish tasks, and allow for some semblance of a sleep rotation.

        This whole, “I’m going to shoot anyone who comes near me and mine” thought process is why people label us as crazies. All you preachy types here constantly quote the bible, but when it really comes down to it, you are just selfish and scared.

        /rant

        • Well, there may be a few prepper families (dad, mom, and children only) that could survive an attack of 20 hungry bandits, but not many. Depends on the layout of their house, booby traps, how many attack and defense points, how well-armed the fortress defenders are, and how well-armed the storming barbarians are, etc…

          But your general point is well-taken. 3-4 prepper families need to team up and pool resources to survive an attack by a roving gang. If the FEMA guards come driving down the street in a convoy of 3-4 MRAP vehicles to take down the prepper fortress, well, it’s one of those Waco, Texas events for the preppers.

          • Don’t forget the value of making your home look like it’s already been ransacked.

          • The whole state of West Virginia is a survival group, how do you think we made it this far? All the folks raised dirt poor in these (hidden) hollers are preppers!

            • I know it’s the wrong state, but do I hear banjos in the background?

          • Thank you for the comment FreeSlave.

            Even 1 MRAP would probably make my day a bad day.

            After years of study, I come back to the same conclusion. My crystal ball is broken, and I have no way knowing exactly what will transpire, globally, nationally, locally. I don’t want to bug out but I may have no choice.

            One thing I don’t see discussed much is, ok, you bugged out… are you ever coming back? What is the return plan?

        • The problem with softening for those who haven’t bothered to prep, is a lot of them are dumb enough to run their mouths and encourage a prepper to soften for even more deadbeats. You let someone come and live off of you, they will likely share the news of their good fortune with their loved ones, and before you know it, there’s nothing left for your family but the mess. Know ahead of time who you can let in and who you can’t.

          If I were you, I’d keep my head low and downplay anything you have saved back. Be prepared with something disgusting to “share” with those who don’t know the extent of your supply.

          Folks who brag that they’re going to be alright (aka your grasshoppers) may just gab to the wrong person. Those grasshoppers often have really poor mindsets and may just be singing about their good fortune in the wrong crowd. If a mob comes to take your supplies just because you softened toward a grasshopper, you’ll likely really regret it. You also need to be sure that you’re not going to be taking in a grasshopper with a “giving” nature, or you’ll be dead. Period.

        • If twenty people come after me. I shoot just one in the gut or butt from a distance. And the rest will quickly lose heart. as for sleeping im not alone I do have my immediate family. Twenty people cannot sneak up on anything. the wildlife will alert those who are already in place.

          • All the better reason to have a dog. My cat thinks he’s a dog. He growls when he sees people outside. Quiet and effective alert, he is. Luckily, I’m a very light sleeper.

            • yeah, my cat and my daughter’s cat saved our lives on a couple occassions… animals are so sensitive…

          • Old Guy

            I agree with your thinking.

            I tell my kids, punch the bully square in the nose as hard as you can. Might end the issue, or might piss him off. Stand.

            Generally people are disorganized. Act/React accordingly.

        • Ah, Lone Wolves can move fast silent and deadly. Groups will move only as fast as the slowest sheep. The straglers will be picked off one at a time. Just watch any nature channel for the details.

        • My family and I could defeat a gang of 20 or even more of your “force multipliers”. But, we wouldn’t have to: take out a couple as they approach and they’d multiply their butts outta there. In a hurry.

          Mobs, like the cowards they are, when engaged by our 338 and 375 from a distance would immediately decide to seek sustenance else where from less dangerous individuals. If they didn’t leave, they’d lose a lot of their “multipliers” as they got closer.

          Those that get closer would be dealt with by the trusty AR10 and FAL. They’d lose some more. Those that survive that (and that haven’t fled) would be greeted by the 870 and the Mossburg.

          By then, WE would out number any of their survivors. Preppers know more than how to can tomatoes and make our own soap. Prior military here.

          When it does “hit the fan” Mr. Townsaver, my advice to you is to not make the foolish decision to lead a group of “force multipliers” to my place.

          Ha. Who am I kidding, you wouldn’t be leading, you’d have your unprepped hinny in the rear with the beer and gear.

          cheers,
          roN

          • If they get past the gatling guns, I’m dead. 🙁

          • It never fails for those like us who are prepared. Those who you call friends always seem to be about 10 times needier than we are, thus you are usually having to help them fix their problems. I also noticed a few years back many people I knew went underground I think out of embarassment they were economically depressed. Never to see them again as one high flier had his speed boat reposessed.

          • Ron. And if they get past all of that including the wall of sand bags. Go for the fixed bayonet. And very last act of defiance give them the finger. LoL

        • Good evening, Townsaver. I have an arrangement to go to a cousin’s BOL in north GA located near other family when the time comes. Most of my supplies are already there in a storage building on her property. The family and I will be banded together for local defense. They all have homesteads with alternative sources of energy, wells, gardens, livestock, etc. There is game, timber, water in abundance all around. They all grew up in the prepper lifestyle. They all learned how to handle firearms, hunt, fish, forage, etc.at the earliest possible age and pass on those skills from one generation to the next. They are survivors. I’ll be in the right kind of company.

          • Be there to get there. Alot of magpies and tweeks between Memph and GA. Best of Luck, but odds are slim.

            • As is everyone….braveheart is welcome to head west….I and others will render aid along the way….west…remember “go west, young man, go west”…..there will be many there ……
              fob

      34. When a ‘friend’ said ‘I will come here if things ever get bad’, I took him to the outbuilding and showed him a marked out area, among others marked and stacked high with preps.

        I said, good, you can come as long as you have stored and maintained your own stuff, just like the others that are planning on coming here. Notice that we will not be alone – while pointing to the other areas. BUT, if you haven’t been a ‘contributor’ then you will be a ‘contribution’.

        When he said he thought we were all ‘nuts’, I told him ‘That may be true, but we aren’t going to be depending on anyone but ourselves. So if you won’t get ready, we won’t help you’.

        You know, he hasn’t been in touch since then.

      35. There will be Tribes that form only AFTER.

        From people who do not even know each other now.

        • And Lone wolves will also form packs like ferral dogs, taking what ever they want at will. The sheep will all huddle together unless they have organization an leadership to give them direction. Just like in life there are leaders and followers. There are a lot of unknowns yet to be discovered. All depends on what kind ofSHTF. It will be a continuous changing situation. Fluid. There is nothing guaranteed.

          • Why is it any skin off of anyone,s nose if I refuse to band together. Im not taking anything away from them. People are really fond of telling others what they ought to do. When the fact is the choice of what anyone ought to do is their own decision. My home is isolated but if faced with a overwhelming force ill leave it and burn it as I leave. The place where Ill then go is only accessable on foot.

            • Old Guy. I have no doubt you will be fine as a lone wolf. It is usually the weakest sheep in the bunch the spread fear that nobody will survive unless you are in a group. What they are really saying is that they can’t possibly survive without a group commie socialist welfare program to prop up their useless asses.

              • Your probably correct. Any road its not like I will be on high alert 100% of the time forever. I figure for a few weeks at most. when the food & fuel run out. Walking will be the only mode of transport, where I live the terrain is steep. Someone weak from hunger wont likely make it very far. this region abounds in things that grow wild that can be food & medicine if you know how. its not importiant that I do fine as a lone wolf. The younger members are the ones who are importiant.

            • I pray for GOD to protect your Family….old guy….
              fob

          • There is nothing guaranteed

            effect of a .45 mag on a human skull pretty much is guaranteed.

      36. Hi…Very interesting article & the comments are pretty interesting also. But there is 1 thing not one of you has thought about:
        If you are not going to take people in (And you shouldn’t have to) you must shoot them. You can’t send them away, here’s why. You force them to leave at gunpoint & they walk away. About 1/4 mile away they get apprehended by an armed gang of looters looking for food, water, etc as well…They have nothing to offer but your location which they are sure contains all the things they are looking for. AND…in order to save their own lives they even offer to escort the looters right to your door. Next!!! NO ONE LEAVES!!! It’s a very hard choice but it seems the only way to stay off the radar of others or at least a good many others.

        • The logic is cold and brutal. Can’t really refute it too well either.

          • Nobody will be sleeping when the shooting starts. All hands on deck loading magazines for the shooters.

        • You can’t shoot and kill everyone who knocks on your door. Answer the door and look like hell. display yourself as if you yourself have no food or supplies either. Ransack your own home on the first floor and live in the basement with supplies.

          • Really Who says I cant shoot everyone who comes knocking on my door? It just depends how many there are. And how many come at a time. If they come one at a time ive got thousands of rounds. Ive got a premeter fence & locked gate, No trespassing signs and purple paint. By the time anyone gets to my door they have been trespassing for a 1/4 mile. Warning don’t come to the Ozarks and trespass.

            • Shooting people at your door will get interesting. Do you open the door and then shoot or just use the element of surprise and shoot through the door. Lol. Cause I wouldn’t be walking up to any door with a bunch of bullet holes venting. Also the dried blood splatter is a dead giveaway not to go to th a t door begging.

        • Read my comment #3252133 I made the statement Ill be cocking the hammer & pulling the trigger. although my post was not as point blank as yours. I essentially said the very same thing.

      37. Again, so eager to shoot somebody. The redundancy or these articles and the simple replies has drawn to a bore. The only shit hitting the fan here, is what you’re throwing.

        • Plisken, I won’t try to speak for anyone else here so I’ll only speak for myself. I’m not eager to shoot anyone and I don’t think anyone else here is either as far as I know. I truly dread what’s coming and not looking forward to it at all. I’m only responsible for the well-being of me and mine; NO ONE ELSE. If other people failed to prep for themselves and/or their families, that is their own fault and nobody else’s. As individuals, it’s all any of us can do to keep our own heads above water. Not a single one of us is any government agency with tax money to waste on freeloaders. I don’t care what anyone else does for themselves. All I know is I don’t have any resources to spare to any outsiders and that’s the bottom line. That’s my decision to make and nobody else’s. That’s the way it is and it will not change. I’ve worked too hard and spent too much money gathering supplies for myself to just give it up to any 2-legged animals that come along wanting them. If they come to my place looking for trouble, they will find it. That can be arranged.

          • TRBH
            Well Said
            Sgt.

      38. I think the only way someone could just waltz in is if they had a serious skill set – ER Doctor, Special Forces Solider, Master Mechanic etc…. Other than that they are SOL.

      39. It would be rough. In this semi rural area we are the only ones growing the majority of our own food, 99 percent grow nothing or a couple tomato plants and that’s it. The next closest garden is about a mile from us. The old guy across the road though who is awake came over recently so proud with a big smile and showed us his new purchase “a survival seed vault”. God bless his heart, that was his way of asking for some help with it if shtf happens. Lots of hunters around, but taters with meat sure makes a better meal. I’ve contemplatedthis many times on how it work out around here. Hope I never have to find out, but I do think about those situations a lot! The grown kids are pretty prepped on their own but would welcomed here, they know the routine so to speak.

        • I like to spoil the local birds with leftover bread and cheap birdseed. They aren’t afraid of me now, and it’s an easy way to encourage a bit of meat for the stew pot if the SHTF. If things never go south, well not too much has been invested in the venture and the ground is pretty fertile now from all the droppings.

        • My sister in-law and her boyfriend came by the cabin last weekend and was amazed at the pantry.
          “Wow! I guess we know where to come if things get rough” he said.
          Good luck, I told him. You know where you turned off the main road? It’ll be blocked from there and NObody gets in.
          “Oh come on” he said. You can’t be serious”.
          I’ve spent the better part of five years stocking this place for me and mine. You’ve done nothing but snickered when I talked to you about it. If you think for one minute you’re coming here empty handed, think again.

          • Scott C, uh, I hate to say it, but you may have taken a real chance with letting them know what you have. I hope nothing bad comes from that. Take care.

        • After obola offers green cards to every single bleeding heard ILLEGAL ALIEN we will see a flood like never before,

          • A target-rich environment.

            • True , but the targets arnt the ones being asked to come.. the targets are those who are facilitating this

              dont take it out on the people.. take it out on those who are making this happen..
              miss-directed aggression will win you nothing ..I would have thought we as preppers and awake would know this due to the same shit being pulled over our eyes on the entire mid-east conflicts and them thinking we are all their targets due to our governments bullshit tactics

              go to the head of the serpent.. cutting off its tail does nothing but empower those who come for paybacks

              in other words these people are not the problem..the problem is in DC

              so if you want to really do something about this .. gunning down the innocent isnt the answer ..and may be exactly what the real enemy wants

              • I figure that when SHTF, I won’t have the luxury of trying to figure out whether a potential threat is an “innocent”.

                If they are trying to take my stuff or harm me or my family, they will be dealt with using extreme prejudice.

                We can deal with those responsible for the mess as the opportunity presents itself when the immediate threat is eliminated. At that time, we will have discovered another use for utility poles.

      40. A very intelligent man indeed !

      41. The only thing you will get at my house is a hard time!
        Buy your own crap!

        • My group is anchored by experienced Nam combat vets. 🙁

          asms

      42. As for my bunker, only children and grand-children. Anyone else will be told hit the bricks one time; after that smile at the FLASH if you see it!!

        Feed Jake

      43. I’m not gonna starve. I’ll be fine. There is green grass and bugs everywhere around here.

      44. CHICAGO — Early voting in Illinois got off to a rocky start Monday, as votes being cast for Republican candidates were transformed into votes for Democrats. (Welcome to Illinois voting).
        H–p://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/22/calibration-error-changes-gop-votes-to-dem-in-illinois-county/

        Feed Jake

        • Well this is exactly how our president got into office. I can’t believe that over half of American’s really voted for him twice!

      45. Why would someone like that be your friend in the first place? Speaks volumes about your own character and maturity.

        Pretty stupid and over-the-top absolute actually. I have friends who say the same thing and I’ve never had the childish need to say “I’ll shoot you.” My response is simply to bring their preps with them. I have no problem with friends showing up at my place. I’ve got some extra gear just for that reason. Of course, they better be towing a trailer, bringing a critical skillset or understand they’re going to be out foraging to build the stocks of everything that is needed.

      46. The one thing that ways on me is let’s say it hits and say 80% of us here on shtf make it to the year mark. The guys like me that only been at it for about a year run out and we need to leave our location. They come knocking and talk the prepper talk or maybe mentions shtf. Do you help a fellow prepper or do we shoot him too. Just looking for thoughts on this scenario

        • IF someone has made it a year, you should consider taking them in, with caution. This thing, If it hits, should only last two winters and from then on rebuilding is going to take all the help you can support

      47. Prepper bargain Alert!
        Your local Wally World and Dollar stores may have kiddie pools clearanced now. I picked up several for under a buck each. with a little imagination could have lots of uses. Water storage, laundry, add potting soil seeds and a grow light for indoor garden greens, and if no SHTF the kiddies can use it as a sled or turtle habitat.

        • we picked up several
          for decontamination from the hazmat suits
          we hope we do not have to use them

        • Birth pools!

      48. This message, in a non-prepper form, and minus the gun part, goes out to all women in the Los Angeles basin, and quite probably New York.

        Because for real.

      49. come one come all to my place, the more the merrier i say.

        by the time you do get here in a real world shtf incident i’ll be 25 miles into a national heritage wildlife park setting up my night camp.

        i wont be sticking around waiting for the “local have-not’s” to try and raid me.

        i’ll be heading to a more defensible pile of rocks with a view of the valley and towns burning below.

        .f.

      50. So, you’re saying all these “No Trespassing” signs I have nailed to the trees won’t work?

        I am looking for a few skilled people to join our team.

        ———————–WANTED————————–

        Organ Harvester

        Titanium Implant Recycler

        Gold Tooth Reclaimer

        Soap Maker

        * Please provide your own tools of your trade and we can discuss terms.

      51. “I don’t have to prepare. I’ll just come to your house.”

        Well don’t come over without an invitation, and you don’t have one.

        I’m amazed at those who believe they can just come into one’s house, and expect the owner to feed them, shelter them, wipe their @$$ for them, etc.

        • “I’m amazed at those who believe they can just come into one’s house, and expect the owner to feed them, shelter them, wipe their @$$ for them, etc.”

          Why are you amazed? The government has been doing it for them for decades. This is just a natural reaction a conditioned response.

        • Ok, Kevin. I’ll just point out to them that I am not the government. That should cover it.

        • they learned that from the great society up to now. why work, when everything is free.

      52. It is amazing how people react when they need something you have.

        I take paper towels, fold them over and moisten them with a diluted bleach solution. I put them in a Ziploc bag and use them to wipe my hands off anytime I have hand contact with public surfaces, like making bank deposits in the air tubes, using the ATM or pumping gas.

        Numerous times I have had people point and tell me they will have one also. Particularly older women.

        • I was getting out of my car and my dog was in there, and these two women begging on the sidewalk were talking about how cute he was and yelled “WE WANT YOUR DOG!”

          They meant it as a compliment (I hope) but it revealed their mindset – covetousness, most likely extreme enough to just take what they want if they thought they could get away with it. It was kind of a shock to hear, and creepy. They got nothing from me, not even spare change.

      53. It is irresponsible, and deadly

        to let people see your supplies.

        If your supplies location is compromised

        see if you can move it.

        An Army unit set up camp, then moved just after dark.

        The Sargeant told the Commander he felt like they had been watched, but no evidence. Commander nodded.

        The old site was attacked that night………..

      54. No way am I responsible for those outside my family, and thats just me and my wife. We have done everything we can possibly do to prepare for this time next year, when it really hits the fan. I have given up trying to point others in the right direction, at least by reading blogs like this. So to hell with it, its my food, water, garden, siver, tools, and above all firewood. Im not here to save you now, go and buy another i Phone.

      55. I have a widowed sister who has no children and lives alone on the edge of a large metro city. I told her that if things get bad, she was welcomed at my house. She just said,”What makes you think I would be any safer at your house”? Really? I am not going to explain why. Hope she just remembers what I said.

      56. Very few people have had to shoot/kill a person in defense of their life much less shoot your neighbor over of baked beans.
        Look at the videos food riots masses of people including women and childreen desperately looking for anything to fill the void of a empty stomic. Very few in America have experanced near starvation but it could get this bad..
        If you COOK FOOD THEY WILL COME.
        I am sometimes taken aback by the apparent willingness/eagerness in some people comments to resort to deadly force against another person. We in America have never placed the price of a human life equal to that of a meal….
        If we are so quick to resort to acting in such barbaric manner are we in any worse than the ones we always curse and blame for the problems in the first place.

        I am not looking for a verbal battle just expressing some thoughts.

        God Bless

        • Yes, this is an important point, thanks for posting. At what point do we become so barbaric that it isn’t WORTH surviving in the culture we have created? We need more discussion here on this site from those of Christian persuasion, as I am. As far as I can figure out, I will definitely help those that are weak, defenseless, such as the Down’s Syndrome kids, the autistic, the mentally retarded, the very elderly. Lotta good that will do, I hear some say. Yep, and a good a society will be that ONLY places value on the material, for SELF-ABSORPTION IS PRECISELY WHAT GOT US INTO THIS PREDICAMENT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

          What I plan on doing is helping the less fortunate above, where I can. I CANNOT feed everyone, of course. But for the mass of leftist, “Yes we can/Yes we have no bananas” Obungler supporters who are my neighbors, I will put in effect a quid pro quo. You want food, you pull all night guard duty, or you hoe in the hot sun. This is in line, I believe, with Paul’s scriptural admonition “If a man will not work, neither let him eat.”

          I will tell you this: I do NOT have any biz relationship with these guys, but I have bought retreat/retirement property from http://www.dignam.com. They are 100 years old, and I have followed them for 25 years. They sell rural Canadian property, at what I find a reasonable price. The nice thing about Canadian property is that, unlike bank accounts out of country due to FATCA, you do NOT have to report it. And if someone sues you, they will most likely have no idea you own out of country property. One word of warning tho: Property prices are in a bubble across Canada, except the Maritimes. So I have property in Cape Breton, Nova, Scotia. And NO, it does not get any colder there than Chicago. Places on the British Columbia coast almost never snow, though prices in BC are in a horrible bubble I happen to be a dual US/Canadian citizen. Basically, BC, Alberta, Saskathewan and Ontario are overpriced, you don’t want to live in Quebec, and the Maritimes and perhaps Manitoba in the west are reasonably priced. I did a complete summary the Ferfal published in his Surviving Argentina blog (and no, I did not charge him anything… I am just trying to help people.)

          • @ Test, most of the firearms I own are not legal in Canada….. and the winters there would be super harsh. There’s still places in Alaska that you can claim for free if your willing to live in a remote place.

            • harsh winters are your friend. Warm climates are easier to survive but with a price of millions of gimme dats.

        • I don’t see it as “placing the price of a human life equal to that of a meal”.
          I see it as “The only way they’re getting my family’s food is if they kill me first”–and at that point, it becomes self-defense.

          • Catch the Walking Dead Sundays 8 to 10 Pm EST. AMC Channel. There you go training film for real SHTF.

          • It’s the same old thing :News reports suspect killed by police for petit theft or walking in the road. The story does not cover the escalation of violence where ot goes from very minor to deadly force in a instant.
            Again most Americans have never had to cross that starvation or kill a person bridge.
            Every one will have to determine where you draw the line but eventually EVERYONE will be held accountable for their actions…

            Thanks God Bless

      57. For all you bible quoters: matthew 6:19…do not store up for yourselves treasures here on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and thieves break in and steal.

      58. I have read a lot of people saying how they will help out starving children, or the sick or helpless, and I understand how easy that is to say now, at this moment! And how mean it sounds to say “I won’t help nieghbors or the unprepared” …. But honestly, we can’t help everyone! If I help one family, word will get out, they will riot outside my house, maybe even storm it, people are desperate when they are hungry! And then what happens when I help all my nieghbors and then I have no food/supplies left for my family? My family is the one who had to do without while I prepped! No big vacation, no huge Christmas, etc, so why shouldn’t they enjoy the fruit of their labor? The answer really is to leave town, get away from people who know you and what you have! I think getting a RV is my next step… Good luck everyone!!

        • Can’t fit all my stuff in my RV. And where would you go?

          How about putting up quarantine signs in front of the house?
          Danger! Ebola! and yellow caution tape or maybe they have red. Hmmm think I’ll get online and see if it’s possible to purchase anything like that.

      59. Hungry people milling about do nothing but ceaselessly think and talk about food 24/7, who/where to get some.

        Most of those desperate people today have no morals to sustain them, much less restrain them, unlike your grandparents going through tough times in the depression did.

        Most good & morale people have to be extra careful not to assume these people will pull together or ever be reasonable or ever be satisfied with any handout and move along, ala like in grandparents depression stories, so it could be deadly to underestimate how devious and over-the-top with no-rules truly desperate these hungry people can and will be.

        If anybody has any hint you’re likely a prepper, they’ll assume you have food and other essentials, even if they’d never seen it. They will come if it gets bad enough. They all have extended family and nobody will go quietly with one handout and not return, and if threatened, they will wait till they’d worked up a mob. It could get so bad you may have to, or will wish you had, bugged out. So, back to the beginning, “If anybody has any hint you’re likely a prepper…” JUST MOVE, WITH NO FORWARDING ADDRESS!

      60. Sorry for the solecism above. I meant: Yep, and a **lot of** good a society will be that ONLY places value on the material, for SELF-ABSORPTION IS PRECISELY WHAT GOT US INTO THIS PREDICAMENT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

        Now, for those of you looking for a real life story of how a survival situation plays out, check out the story that helped inspire Melville’s Moby Dick. The Whaler Essex was rammed by a mad whale, and sank. Most people died, but some lived. A couple stories are at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-true-life-horror-that-inspired-moby-dick-17576/?no-ist or at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship) The story of Capt Bligh (Mutiny on the Bounty) is also incredible, as he had to navigate (if I recall correctly) something like a thousand miles or so in an open whaleboat. Finally, review the story South, of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s failed expedition to the S. Pole 100 years ago. They all lived, but in one situation, Shackelton almost has to shoot one person fomenting mutiny.

      61. Question that keeps coming up is “How much food is enough?”
        Year. Two Years. 5 Years, 10 Years? And for how many?
        Why would someone want to store 10 years worth of food for 5 people? For the mental security? How would they know they would need it for up to 5 years?

        There are two many unanswerable questions that can’t be satisfied, ever, unless…

        There is an ingredient, a formula that has to be incorporated in all this. It’s called, knowing, truly believing from direct experience that “what you put out comes back 10 fold”, i.e. as you sow, so shall you reap. If this understanding isn’t critical to a preppers mission, if believing there isn’t a Greater Force, a Creative Intelligence that keeps track of all our actions, good and bad, then what’s there to live for, what would be the motive to make it to the other side? Because if we did make it, what we have to show for ourselves, for others? What integrity, what inspiration, what love would we have to show for ourselves? Simply that we survived at all costs?

        Faith and Trust, that if we help others, we will be helped. It’s the glue that holds the Universe together.

        There’s never going to be enough food in the pantry. But there will always be enough food for those who rise up above selfishness and greed. It doesn’t mean posting a sign out front declaring “Free Food, come one, come all”. Unless, of course one has it in abundance.

        It’s that magical, serendipitous spiritual sense that we are truly being observed and supported by a higher “subtle” realm that watches every thought, word and action and keeps track of it all. And when the proverbial bombs are dropping, one is able to “miraculously” circumnavigate right through the entropy without even a scratch. Same holds true if an economic, social, environmental collapse were to take place.

        Don’t slip to the dark side because “they” are. Doesn’t mean passively bending over and getting reamed, either. Avert the danger before it begins. God helps those who help themselves. But ultimately one has to surrender to a greater power if one really expects to make it to the other side.

        Violence begets violence. Righteousness begets righteousness. If one has to kill in the name of righteousness, then so be it. But we still have to face the “jury” on that too, and get what’s coming to us.

        When that first knock comes to the door, our initial response or reaction will set the tone of whether we’ll be sleeping relatively well at night or gnashing our teeth as nightmares plague our dreams.

        • AE, great post, you seem to have a grip on reality, here and beyond. Religion has warped the true truth. Been searching for years for the truth. Nice to see someone who lays it out well. I have a question for anyone here, “Where did humanity originate from?”
          I am asking because certain posters skirt the question, and respect your opinion, just want to know the true truth, since POG and I ask that and NO one has answered. Any answer could be the correct answer, we are all looking for truth, without religious backing….

          • That’s a valid question. Where did humanity originate from. The acheient astronaut theory seems plasuable. Tis possible extra terrestials genetecially engineered humans and placed them on the planet?

            • Old, I also have watched all of AA, but where did they originate? And who created them? Talked to a out there guy, told me about ‘arantied’, look it up, I have not read yet, but is deep about cosmic beginnings…
              Let me know what you think, I am searching also, since religion is manmade….

              • Eppe:

                At one time did you not tell people to take a look at Pastor Murray’s teaching?

                Just to clarify where I stand, most all the questions I ever had has been answered at biblestudysite dot com.

                Best link gift I EVER received. Nick Goggin was a student of Pastor Murrays. However, because Nick is not on national tv he does not have to worry about PC like Pastor Murray did. Murray talks about Cains lineage, the Kenites. Goggin tells you in no uncertain terms who they are, where they are today, and why our world is in such disarray because of them.

                Eppe, did you ever go to that site? If so, it should have laid to rest any yearning you had as far as what the TRUTH is. If you liked Pastor Murray, you will love Nick Goggin.

                • Truth is the foundation for freedom.

                  biblestudy and the preachers Murray interpretations are about as good as it will ever get in this world and age.

                  With the understandings and simplicity of their teachings, we can then start to unravel the mysteries of the bible. I also am a big fan of Dr Bullinger’s work with the Companion Bible. He was a bible scholar of scholars for his time.

                  About the question; “Where did humanity originate from?”

                  First of all, we need to clarify, that the word humanity means “human lifeform”, not a reference to life in general from billions of years ago.

                  Life in general, began, when God made/created the first lifeform. I often wonder was the first life form His only begotten Son, or was it an Archangel?
                  It really doesn’t matter, but what does matter was/is the fact God created all souls/life, for His pleasure/companionship/love.

                  Now about humanity. I often wondered, after learning that God had originally created all souls within a spirit body. A spirit body that has mass and requires manna/angels food, to sustain it; however, it never ages nor does it get disease and sickness. All spirit bodies were predominately male (as i understand it) and had genitalia for the purpose of DNA storage, and not for procreation because there was no need for a womb, in the First Age. Now ladies, understand, you are important and God had a place for you and you are His children equally. I know many will automatically thumb me down and curse me for saying what i believe as truth. That is OK, because someday you will see truth, and understand, why; when you are not constrained by the flesh and worldly thinking.

                  God never intended to make His children into flesh bodies and it saddened Him to do so. And, people ask, then why did He do it? I refer to the best explanation that I have ever heard, that comes from the late, Dr. Arnold Murray. When Satan caused a third of God’s children, billions, to follow him and his evil, sodomistic ways; God had two choices because of the freewill factor, either kill that third of His children He had created (billions, a number that brings up a topic for another discussion), or bring forth a new “age” with a timeframe surrounding it, and give those third, a second chance to learn truth and make a choice who they would follow. Without any remembrance of events of that first life age, we are in flesh/human bodies= “humanity”, to make that choice.

                  Remember the biblical verse where it is said “the first shall be last and the last shall be first”? There are many interpretations as to what, when, and who this is referring to. Again, I lean towards Dr. Murray’s explanation. The first ones taken “in” and deceived by Satan and his lies, will be the last ones born, thru the waters/bag of waters/womb, into flesh bodies; just before the end of this age. And some ask why would He/God, do that? Because, they had rather follow Satan than their Creator, and they will have the final chance as they are alive on the Earth during the short time Satan is here playing the role of Christ returned to rapture all the followers away from the evil/tribulation that is about to come down. Ever wonder why the bible says the “whole world will whore after him/satan/antichrist?”

                  Look around, how many queers and atheistic people are living today. Look at how many people consider themselves “moderates” but christians, and still condone the homicide of the unborn, and the proliferation of male homosexuality. Same thing in the First Heaven Age, there was a third of God’s children that stood idly by and never made a stand with God, but still wanted His compassion as they did nothing to help change the third that was wicked. Some of their famous lines are….”we are supposed to hate the sin, but love the sinner, and God loves everyone and He forgives homosexuals as well”. Yea, He does forgive, but only upon repentance and a change of heart, mind, and
                  behaviour.

                  So, humanity, which is simply stated, life in a flesh body, created by God that created the soul/spirit within, was created about 14,000 years ago by God himself, with the “organic” body creations on the “sixth” day of Creation. Confused? You shouldn’t be. It is fairly simple and the only explanation that makes perfect sense.

                  • PWTW:

                    Thanks for your imput. Nick Goggin at biblestudysite (Watchmen) says Bullinger was the BEST Bible scholar, period.

                    You have made some mighty fine points in your post. If anyone finds it confusing they will find great answers at that site; answers based on scripture from the KJV of the Bible.

                    Never again will they believe that “apple” story foisted on them in a lot of churches.

          • Thank you eppe, but my grip on reality is not established in what I deem the Truth. I have glimpses, but it comes and goes.

            Your question about “Where did humanity come from” is a vastly, mind-expanding concept and not of this earthly plane to fully comprehend, for me. Too much to get my head around, to fathom; quantifying the unbounded, infinite nature of existence. And even if I could, I would have to “own” the knowledge; theoretically and practically, to extol a qualified answer, which I don’t happen to have on me, at least not today.

            But if I was to take a swipe at it, to venture a guess, I’d say life came from the ‘Unmanifested, Absolute Realm of Creation” and manifested in this ever changing, relative plane, because it’s Life’s nature to be alive, to fulfill it’s purpose, i.e. it’s designed duty.

            And the way to experience (my theory) is to close the eyes, and with the mind, go out beyond our solar system, beyond the stars that you see at night, keep going. farther and farther and farther, into the infinite, never ending universe, and in the process, if you are willing to let go, to surrender to the Will of That which is the Intelligence behind this Creation of Life, you’ll become unbounded, no boundaries, you’ll feel as small as an atom and as big as Creation, and when you get there/here/everywhere, you’ll understand the mechanics of how and where and why life became life. And then, if you are fortunate, you will experience waves and waves and waves of Bliss, and there will no longer be thoughts that come and go as they please, just stillness, silence, no, make that SILENCE, and this blog will seem a distant memory, as well as this post.

            • PS I forgot to mention, aka An Epiphany.

              • EA & AE, valid points in all realms. Makes one wonder if our souls keep coming around and around on the vast universe till we get it right, like maybe Jesus did? Not saying I am right or wrong, but have read vast books and opinions on the subjects, and I guess we keep coming back until our souls get it right. Deep subject. Maybe forgiveness is the key. Wish I knew for sure. Thanks for the inputs. But there must be a starting and ending point.yall have a blessed life….

                • Eppe:

                  There are only three earth ages. If you haven’t gotten it right by then…..three strikes and you are OUT!

          • eppe, check the science department, look under biology, and cells how the sperm swims up to the fertilized egg and mates. That should keep you busy for eternity. Since you seem to be a slow learner, shy a few marbles.

            While you are at it, check the computer department and find out how computer viruses are spread through passing cut and paste jokes to other peoples email addresses. You are the new Ebola Cut n Paste Germ spreader here. Good Job Einstein. lol

            • Since you are so brilliant, your answer still has not answered the question. But we all know where your brain is. And since you asked, all but 3 jokes came from comcast email and an eternal hard drive that is checked for viruses all the time. Are you truely that ignorant? I guess I answered my own question.
              How and where did humanity originate????

              • You were hatched eppe. The rest of us came in through our mothers uterus.

        • Righteousness will not necessarily beget righteousness, when faced with a starving, amoral mob.

          Prepare to be seen as weak, because to some, kindness IS seen as weakness. You may need to convince them otherwise.

          • Kindness is also a strength and asset. If someone see’s it as a weakness, I can also drop a closed fist with 19 inch bicips to drive some sense into them. Peace through strength…and kindness.

            • Exactly.

      62. Funny article on how to be unprepapred for dealing with people if SHTF.

        If you have a desperate “friend” that you “love” come to you, alone, with nothing and you point you point a gun at and tell them to go die in that direction; you are unprepared, suck ass at life, bragged up the location to which was probably already tortured out of him by somebody else, and pretty much spent years of prepping to make yourself a nice big bullseye on your face. Your friend would leave your family’s riddled bodies out back, because you screwed up worse than they did already. You were in the same spot.

        WHY not..
        Catch up on what may have happened to your other “loved” friends, put his ass to work, expand you trusted community, help others, gain help, build a bridge, or just be a human being that brings people back from the hell which beseiges us instead of adding more meat to the grinder.

        Just think about this dbag prolonged lapse in human thought transending to reality. You lose all your shit, family and all, and come walking up on your last resort, your trusted almost loved friend(who told you about his super secret hideout), and he fricken shoots you because you couldn’t leave because you have nothing and nowhere to go and he thinks you were ill equipped for the worst case scenario. Actually go ahead and kill me, obviously the dead would be better mates.
        Coward, its your mistake which brought him there. Think an after the fact flyer restating that your are indeed a dbag even in the apocalypse makes you cool, then you don’t understand yet that I found your friend after you turned him away and we just took all of your stuff. But we left you out back, sorry bro, apocalypse and stuff, gotta shoot people who were unprepapred.
        /frothing

      63. While I agree to a large part with this article one thing that I disagree with is I have not watched a football game/had a vacation/i.e.,seems to done anything besides prepping.I am a firm believer in prepping,also,a firm believer in enjoying the time with friends/families/going to a occasional concert ect.I see no point in prepping for a tough future without enjoying life today also,find that balance.

        I do agree helping those who cannot help themselves,that said,in a group situation not everyone needs to be raised Grizzly Adams lifestyle with a few special forces combat tours thrown in,would be nice but unrealistic.There is much work/labor that is really needed in a tough time that does not require high level skills/physical prowess ect.All who are willing can help in some way and should be welcomed in a group,enjoy today/prepare for tomorrow.

        • It might also be useful to have someone who can cook damned near anything and make it edible, does laundry well by hand or knows how to patch a hole in the roof, with whatever can be found around the house, too.

          …Being able to knock the eyes out of a bullfrog at 300 paces might come in handy too. Ya just never know.

          • @Warchild;
            I’m with you… you have to enjoy life while you prep.

            @six;
            If you are volunteering, welcome aboard!! 🙂

            GR

      64. Even as a Christian, why should I allow people I have not prepped for to come in and eat me out of whatever supply I have? Seriously?? God wants us to be like the ant, not like the sluggard grasshopper; and He has not made the industrious ants to store their winter supply so that the fun-loving grasshoppers can barge in and steal it. It’s too bad if the zombies out there are too foggy-brained to realize what’s going on. I am responsible for myself and my family, not for the many sluggards out there. Bravo for this article, the author hit the nail right on the head. There is a point where we have to disregard the freeloaders out there. In the end it’ll be like Noah preaching for 120 years and then the rains came; the people chose not to listen, but Noah and his family were safe.

      65. I don’t believe that prepper goods over 6 months may be needed, here is why.

        If the Economy collapses in September of 2015 as many are forecasting as coming, 6 months later the biggest event in World history may well be coming, read on.

        Read Revelation 8:7,Isaiah 13:13, Isaiah 24 and so many more scriptures. In addition to water turning to blood, giant meteor hitting the earth, flooding, earthquakes and the entire ocean dying during the tribulation. The waters will turn red due to the red ironite dust that this planet is putting off.

        All of these judgments speak to the passing of a large planet or planets most know as planet X. Don’t think for one minute that the powers that be are going to acknowledge this or give you an early warning.

        This event that will make WW3, economic collapse and all the rest of it seem tame by comparison.

        The bible points to 1/3rd of the world’s land mass being burned up by this event. This passing of planet X will trigger the pole shift and then a Coronal Mass Ejection will burn 1/3rd of the world. The Americas appear to be the part of the world that will burn, Not the 2/3rds of the worlds land mass overseas.

        Visit the you tube page Planet 7X. Based on ancient records he believes this planet will pass by the last week of March of 2016. This will be the end of the Americas.

        Make Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior and repent of your sins. Time is growing short. I truly believe that a Rapture event will happen because NO ONE here is going to survive this unless you have your own underground bunker over a mile below the surface, due to the radiation from the CME.

      66. Don’t let neighbors know at all, so you won’t ever have to hear a “I’ll just come to your place when SHTF”. If asking nicely doesn’t work, maybe they’ll return with an armed posse once the neighborhood gets wind of who’s the hoarder that isn’t sharing. Even some friends can be untrustworthy or decide to be a backstabber, designate them accordingly in advance in the engagement protocol. Make a list, check it twice. If they didn’t get an invite, then they’re not invited. There will be no letter, there will be no answer, there will be no welcome, and there will be no hesitation if it comes to that.

      67. The only person I want to see arrive here is my grown daughter and she has already been told to come here without bringing any of her prepless dang edu-majcated libtard “friends”. The rest of the family is on the other extreme and no it is not okay to shoot everybody on the roads/trails because they “might be zombies or demoncrats”… Expect desperate travelers looking for loved ones or seeking work/trade situations.

        The city scum already kill each other daily for the stupidest of reasons so I am hopeful the scum will continue to kill each other at an even more massive rate about 24-72 hours after the water facets stop magically making clean drinking water. The gangs will be busy looting liquor stores and hauling tv sets back their crackhouse to wait for the electricity to come back on because they are not smart enough to fill bathtubs up with water or face a future without liveleaks/facebook/NFL (so it is fair, just, and acceptable they die of dehydration/infection with a banging hangover). These scum have full bellies now and willfilly ignore neglect and outright abuse children/elderly now… so I just don’t see many children/elderly surviving long enough to knock on anybody’s door miles from the city.

        If any groups actually do survive the city filth long enough to walk out of the city and eventually show up I have some advice for them… “Hi I showed up to stay here and eat your preps” is not a survivable option. “Hi we are camped over there *** awaiting a birth *** fishing *** looking for our grandpa/cousin called Mr Smith/Ms Smith *** avoiding the crazy murderers of Hicksville who falsely think they are “survivialists/patriots” *** whatever *** is far more survivable of an introduction.

        Please give them a chance to move along or stay somewhere over that way; they may become a valuable addition to your community or not, but murdering/robbing strangers out of fear, laziness, and greed is exactly what city scum already do. Is becoming just more “city scum” only located in a rural location your survivial destiny?

        PS Family men already have a devoted loyal team who will let them sleep safely while servicing as his alarm/guard because they need/want him to wake up well rested… Single men get to trust other single men or whoever this week’s rotating galpal might be when it is time to snooze; so choose carefully.

      68. Articles like this always brings out the best behavior in the locals, here, i.e. their true nature. Imagine what they’d be like if they ran out of their food and went shopping door to door, scrounging for scrapes for the young ones back home. Now the shoes on the other foot. Goes both ways.

        Stored foods gonna’ last only so long, then what?

        • Do what people did for thousands of years, grow food.

          • I would agree, but let’s face it. What doors are those looking for food most likely gonna’ come knocking on if there’s a garden in the back yard? And better believe, if the going gets tough, gardens, whether a victory/kitchen, or 1000 acres of corn, are going to be picked apart when the masses start their inevitable migration.

            It’s just that, what people think is going to happen, if there’s a major glitch in the food chain, is probably not how it will go down, i.e. shooting people who come knocking, especially if they are their friends. But it’s all conjecture on all our parts. Best be good and stay out of trouble, what ever that means to each of us.

      69. I agree with the author of the article! -Oh, YEAH!

        -Seriously, some who I know made the choice to do just like
        the author’s friends…they say ‘ignorance is bliss’ and just keep spending money and not paying off debts. (as well as ignoring most news) I’m certain they also watched lots of football and drank a lot of cheap beer, then laughed at their friend busting his ass as they burp. Won’t they be surprised when they come ’round looking for freebies?

      70. Reminds me of the old saying.. “A friend in need, is a friend to shoot”.

        • A friend in need because he refused to prepare, wasn’t a friend in the first place.

      71. Lots of good ideas. My plan is to put up two quite official looking “Quarantine” signs. Thanks for the tip on the biohazard signs. I plan to look for some. Making one’s house look as if it has been burned and looted does take some advance preps, insulation to scatter around, plywood over windows, black paint on the outside resembling soot, and so forth. I plan on not answering the phone unless the caller uses a special code. I plan on not answering any emails. I do feel it may be a very bad idea to send out a letter like the one here. I think it better to keep OPSEC always in mind. And I plan on not answering the door to anyone save sweetie pie. I liked the idea about blood and vomit on the steps a lot. Since it is almost Halloween I may go looking for such stuff.

        As a farmer I think a lot about safeguarding crops next year. Consider sunchokes (aka Jerusalem artichokes). This is a native perennial sunflower with a quite edible root, hidden food at its best. Check out http://www.ramseykits.com for some quite useful gizmos that can be turned into perimeter warnings. Consider Osage Orange bushes for area denial.

        One thing I will do… each year we save a LOT of seeds, enough to share with neighbors after things settle down. I may well leave these after midnight on the doorstep of the Methodist minister lady’s house with instructions. I’ve got copies of the WWI victory garden manual to go with the seeds.

      72. The mentality of saving for a rainy day is long gone. The normal attitude nowadays is to let somebody else take care of them, be it the government or mommy and daddy. Those who do not prepare will be at your door to steal what you have and kill you in the process. If you have it, they will take it, no matter how nice or friendly they are now. Picture the little iAddicts who don’t even look when they cross the street – that’s the mentality we’re dealing with.

        • Ah yes, Ann Marie, you are speaking exactly of my socialist, govt worker, self-absorbed, feminist, divorced, self-centred leftist sister

      73. Ann,the reason many do not look when crossing the street is a easy answer,kids always have school guards/crossing guards/all traffic stops for buses,tis drilled into them,many do not realize those safeties(?) are no longer there for em!

      74. No ‘Lone Wolf’ is going to survive very long going around and trying to take supplies from others. Either the ‘others’ are not preppers (meaning they have nothing to take), or they are preppers (and will eventually out gun the Lone Wolf). The ‘takers’ will come as part of a larger group that can out gun any bugged in ‘Lone Prepper’. Centuries ago, when mobs of hungry raiders roamed the countryside, the ‘castle’ was the best defense. In an era of guns, the walls can be bullets instead of stone – but the best defense remains a group of like minded (armed) individuals.

        There are still plenty of scenarios where bugging in makes sense, and good opsec will be rewarded — but if any scenario involves roaming armed gangs then you need to either quickly become part of your own ‘gang’, or already be WAY WAY WAY out beyond their reach (because once gangs get started you will not be able to safely travel any distance).

        • I think you misinterpret what a lone wolf is. Alone wolf is plenty prepared for anything and does not need a Commie socialist group to feed off of. We don’t need your diseases or care to listen to a groups whining. A wolf is a leader not a sheep looking to see who gets picked of first.

        • Well said, Winter….When all is said and done….there WILL be safety in numbers…
          fob

      75. “(This post is something you can send to your friends or print out and hand to them when SHTF.)”

        I’ll pass:
        A). I won’t risk being prosecuted for premeditated murder under guilty until innocent to redistribute this, and it certainly doesn’t help my threat assessment in my dossier any.
        B). It serves to isolate from forming a network. I’m not going to feed the idealism just because the economy and currency collapses; the government collapses as well. It is the argument utilized to popularize the new generation of local alternative currencies and local alternative networks of Crypto-Currencies whose popularity centers upon allegedly privacy on the worldwide wiretap and the destruction of the currency translates to the destruction of the central bank…
        C). Unless you live in an Urbanized area, it doesn’t really fly.
        Urban centers through Phase 2 martial law implementation will go into lockdown. And, the Department of Labor mobilizes a massive domestic army through civilian draft and its supervision of the Federal mandate to States to administer the welfare participation of the jobs/works program and sub-programs.
        It is one of the ways that government fills its low level positions by utilizing assignments and job leads to such as TSA, FEMA Corps, low level security, and etc.
        Rural America is Phase 3 martial law, and it is the main target of the most brutal martial law crackdown. It is also the one area in which resistance can face scorched earth policies like razing.

      76. I told my friends they come to my house and you were told numerous times that you must contribute if you want my help .That means your wife or girlfriend will have to perform sexual services because of your lack of doing anything about it. If we run out of gas, your wife or girlfriend will use sex to gain the items for the whole household as that will be your contribution to the whole , yes condoms will be provided free of charge .Ladys no disrespect but if your man has not taken care of things he should have been because he was told numerous times, its your body’s that will be used like a because that is all you will have to offer . If your a married man or have a girlfriend then that means you do nothing but for the single men that have nobody that defend the house and contributed with food and ammo , they must be serviced .Keeping them happy and satisfied will only benefit the whole house and they will look foreward to sex after days of fighting off the hords .Its been used in wars since mankind has been here and it will continue to till the end of human kind . Back in the early 70’s it was ass or grass or gas-nobody rides for free ! My slogan is , you have nothing to contribute, it will be your wife or girlfriend that will trade for food and water and supply’s and shelter , because it was your responcability to take care of her and you failed ! I have a few cans of sex lubricant on hand to make the act a little easier .

        • Better have plenty of cillin meds. STDs will be the enemy within.

        • T4real: “…it’s all you have to offer….” Are you kidding me? So, if a man doesn’t prepare you’ll rape his wife or gf…yes, I said rape.

          Someone needs to put you out of your misery.

          PKLL

      77. My comment at 9:57 pm what to pissingwiththewind

      78. Dr. Michael Osterholm, Dir. of Center for Disease Research and Protocol, Oct. 14th, in lecture at Johns Hopkins. About 20 min, but he speaks frankly https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UkMKUa0sxBQ#t=2

        It seems to me – no thanks to Obungler – that the initial crisis has passed. Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana – all with no outbreaks; Writebol, Dr. Brantley, two Dallas nurses, two guys sent to NB facility, all getting better. Only Duncan died (and NO, I am NOT saying this is a done deal, that the disease is insignificant, etc.) so that is one out of seven that have died here. Still bad odds, but not 90%. Osterholm’s point is that we still don’t know a lot, that it could still go airborne, etc.

        Worth a watch. And ask your local “Yes we can/Yes we have no bananas” chanters if they are proud that the only thing that saved us was luck. If this had been more virulent or airborne, half the country might have come down with it by now, thanks to Obungler.

      79. Dr. Michale Osterholm is from U. of Minnesota, Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at he addresses audiene at Johns Hopkins Univ. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UkMKUa0sxBQ#t=43 22 minutes, s Not sure about the vaccine suggestion, but still useful listening.

        Once again, Obama is a dollar late and a day short. But that happens when your day job is golfing. Key point is that we still don’t know if this go airborne, and we still don’t know a lot about the virus. It does appear to me we dodged a bullet in Dallas (low range date of incubation has passed for fiancee, girlfriend, SIX people – the two nurses, two folks at U of Nebraska and Dr Brantley and Nancy Writebol have all, or are starting to, recover, so that is good – and well LESS than ninety percent death rate) However, things could change,which is what Osterholm is saying. And the utter ineptitude with Obungler and his Keystone Klain Kops would make it worse. We only got by this one by providence.

      80. In most disasters, police lock down communities and don’t allow travel in, out or through. They will go so far as to block key roads and bridges.

        Unless you can get to a bug out retreat before hand, you likely won’t be able to get there.

        We had some major flooding a few years ago, but it was far worse to the north and east. We tried to get to a friends house with our generator, as their basement was filling.
        We tried for hours but there was no way through, all the rivers were dangerously over the bridges. Travel in the affected area was impossible, we had to turn back.

        Lessons from the recent Crimean revolution, the streets were ruled by snipers. No one got to anyone’s house to ask for preps or food, if you so much as set foot on a street where you weren’t known, you’d be kneecapped, or if deemed an immediate threat, killed. The Russians, the Crimean government, and some locals had sniper rifles. In the towns and cities, nothing moved. A simple .22 LR bolt action rifle can stop all movement on a street out a hundred yards. A .223 has even more reach, and a .308 has more reach than most locations have available visibility in any given direction. A shotgun with slugs can stop most vehicles, save an MRAP, at a hundred yards.

        In a SHTF situation, an organized neighborhood won’t even have anyone moving on the streets, let alone knocking on anyone’s door, but there has to be an organized watch, and a method for a call to arms. Radios or even an air horn, large bell, signaling whistles, or car horns will do.

        I suspect life for marauders would be very hard and very short. For every prepper with a pantry full of goodies, there will be a couple dozen armed Americans with just a few cans of food and hungry kids for them to get past.

        • Excellent comment.

          These comments are all helpful in evading being trapped on one side of an Ebola quarantine with your kids on the other side, while you are at work. Try to keep one parent on the same side of the likely Quarantine as the kids.

          The Ebola quarantines will usually start with sealing off the Interstate Beltways around a city, then house to house.

          First, they will impose in place quarantine in your home, then forced house to house Fema Ebola Camp removal of the well and sick. And you will really want to avoid a Fema camp, its a death sentence if ebola goes red.

          Keep a disassembled kayak in your trunk or preposition it to escape across a river. Preposition bicycles and cars outside the Quarantine zones. Be ready to abandon your car in a roadblock or traffic jam, and evade on foot. Check powerline easements, telephone pole easements, and railroad tracks to pass roadblocks. Try to cross at a curve.

          • yeah yeah get a grip. Trying to evade a FEMA Ebola quarantine on foot via telephone pole easements or power line easements. FEMA has snipers, and they’re probably better than you.

            anyone trying to get in our out of FEMA quarantine will be shot on sight.

      81. Question: Do you turn your mother in law away? Or do you keep her in case you run out of things to eat?

        • If my mother in law showed up hungry, I’d probably just chain her to a post at the end of the front walk to scare everyone away that wants my preps!

          She’s been dead a good ten years now, so if she showed up looking for someone to eat, yup she’d be a full blown Zombie, and a really scary one at that!

      82. Maybe Glen Tate should not have told his friends that he’s a prepper.

        My husband and I have been prepping for years, and we do not tell ANYONE. I mean NO ONE knows, not even our children. Our children have many friends and we do not want them to talk about the food mom and dad puts aside and what we do.

        I think it’s a mistake to tell anyone you prep, especially people you know that are lazy about this.

        • Mountain, totally agree. This is our approach.

          • Yup, ours too

            GR

      83. To Everyone

        This was an article that we all needed to read. I hate it but it needed to be said.
        I will do what I have to do which is what I have done all my life. That is also why I had a heart attack at 45. Life is hell at times. I try to be the best person I can be. I told my wife who chose to marry me when I had custody of two 5 and 6 year old boys. One of the boys has cerebral palsy and needs caring for everything in life. I told her that just once I wish my boys would see me do something great. She said they already have. On your tombstone should be written the worlds greatest dad.
        I disagree with that because when you love your children if you are a decent human being then you will do whatever it takes for them. Any good father or mother would.
        I hate thinking about what I might have to do when this all happens. Past generations in this country had to face some of this. We just have never had to face it.
        Pray and get right with the lord. When the time comes you will do what is required. What ever that may be. I know for sure I will. I just don’t want to spend time thinking about what I might have to do. Hopefully some of my plans will make some of these things much easier. Hopefully my planning and preparing will make it so I don’t have to do things no man should ever have to do.

        Life is rough. Unfortunately it is going to get a lot rougher. I will do whatever I have to do for my wife, sons, and immediate family. Whatever it takes. I hope some of what we are talking about is not required. If you ever have to kill someone then it will change you forever. That being said I hope my preps will keep me from having to shoot at a distant friend or distant relative.

        God help us all.

        • Mike….spare yourself this anxiety….GOD will indeed guide YOUR path as well as many, many others….HE WILL LEAD US to where WE need to be when We need to be there….We are approaching times of tribulation and they are uncertain times, have Faith…in God and in YOURSELF
          fob

      84. There is one caviot to this.. IF you are pepped and ready and bring your supplies , then yes you are welcome to hunker down with me. Why? Noone will be able to do it alone… a isolated family of 4 is a sitting target, ( you have to sleep sometime) and the amount of work needed to survive will quickly wear down a family of 4. You need to team up with a few families to have a group of between 15 to 30 people, to share the work and defense, , and or join your local militia .
        But for those of you that laughed when i tried to show and teach you things, when i tried to open your eyes. When i told you i care about you and your family and you said.. thanks but whatever.. when i sent you info and materials for FREE that would help you prepare and you told me to stop sending you this “junk” then this applies to you..
        Lance
        Be safe! Be prepared! Be ever vigilant!

        • GREAT post, lance! hope to see a BUNCH of green thumbs on THAT ONE!

        • Lance….EXACTLY!
          Be Well, Be Well Prepared, Be Well AWARE
          fob

      85. A prophetic interview FORETELLS ZOG AMERIKA’s DE-INDUSTRIALIZATION INTO POVERTY with Sir James Goldsmith in 1994

        worth listening to ONCE FREE AMERICA WAS SOLD OUT DELIBERATELY by the international bankers.

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PQrz8F0dBI

      86. FORT BRAGG , NORTH CAROLINA

        OBAMA STOPS SOLDIER FROM SPEAKING
        Something you’ll want to be aware of: Sent by Retired Vice Admiral Bob Scarborough, of Arlington , VA.
        “I wanted to give you all some disturbing information on our wonderful president. I work with the Catch-A-Dream Foundation, which provides hunting and fishing trips to children with life-threatening illnesses. This past weekend we had our annual banquet/fundraiser event in Starkville . As a part of our program, we had scheduled Sgt. 1st Class Greg Stube to come; he’s a highly decorated U.S. Army Green Beret and inspirational speaker who was severely injured while deployed overseas and didn’t have much of a chance for survival. Greg is stationed at Ft. Bragg , NC and received permission from his commanding officer to come speak at our function. Everything was on go until Obama made a policy that NO U.S. SERVICEMAN CAN SPEAK AT ANY FAITH-BASED PUBLIC EVENTS ANYMORE.
        Needless to say, Greg had to cancel his speaking event with us. Didn’t know if anyone else was aware of this new policy. You’re just starting to see the Obamanation. This is just how the Nazis did it in the 1930’s — slowly, one step at a time .
        This should be forwarded to everyone regardless of party affiliation! We have lost 50% of our freedom of speech in the last 2 years. The news media is not allowed to print anything negative about this evil regime.”

        Robert D. Sinacola
        COL (Ret), AVN, USAR

        Feed Jake

        • The POSOTUS
          more garbage coming from the garbage kenyan
          NON=compliance is the new mo
          NOMI

          • or, the “halfrican”.

        • He just doesn’t want to make it obvious all these wars are really religious wars. But we all know better. The Root of most all evil on earth besides greed.

      87. Shouldnt this be impeachable?
        shouldnt he be tried for treason? and prosecuted to the fullets of our laws on this?

        wtf are we doing spouting off here, and not on the front steps of the white house demanding action?

        just wondering

        ht tp://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/children-border-crisis-white-house/2014/10/22/id/602481/

        • “prosecuted to the fullest of our laws”..

          sorry for the fat finger typing

          • ht tp://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/10/21/edward-snowden-murder-mike-rogers-isis-_n_6024600.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

            maybe Mike Rogers better be careful what he wishes for .. plenty in DC Government could also be tried for Treason , probably even him

        • more people will hear you here than if you did go to the WH steps,
          If you went there you would 1. have your rights trampled on, 2. be shut up and locked up instantly. 3. be discredited and smeared to look like a nut job
          TPTB dont want the truth to come out, NONE of them do, doesnt matter, feds, state, local, they are pretty much all corrupt to varying degrees, and pretty much all worried primarily about their meal ticket and not about your well being.

          • I understand

            just pisses me off to no end that it seems that all that is left for us when it finally hits, is some kind of bloody conflict

            and it could be avoided ,, but it seems they either dont recognize that or, that is their plan

            I believe that the later is the case

        • If Obama was impeached then Biden would become president… not much better

          • biden couldn’t POSSIBLY be WORSE!

        • we aint got the votes for it…..this is like being a raiders fan….or being married to my ex-wife……maybe NEXT year!

      88. Vapor

        Now my blood is boiling again. Good men need to stand up and say I will not comply with this policy.

        A lot don’t.

        To all I say ” Where does your allegiance lie?

        What is most important in life to you?

        I will post two more things that I posted recently. It hurt me to say some of these things but they were from my heart and honest. Sorry if some things about me are disappointing.. I like me and am happy with me but I have things I am not proud of either.

      89. Mike in VA says:
        Comment ID: 3251286

        October 21, 2014 at 1:50 pm

        My daily rant!

        Several months ago I was called into a leadership meeting at work. We had a meeting on respect. Respect for all sexes, religions, transgender, gays, you name it. We watched 7 different video clips and were asked how particular individuals would feel in that situation. One clip had a lady and 3 guys. The guys shook hands but did not try to shake the ladies hand. I told the plant manager that southern gentleman are taught to shake a ladies hand if she puts her hand out to shake yours. He said we would have to change what we had been taught.

        Then this is the big one. After all the video and discussion they say the company has a new policy. At lunches or company functions if we as leaders are asked to pray we must refuse.

        I am a free American. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that I would be told I could not pray in the country. We got into a heated debate. In a room with around 30 people 3 of us spoke out against this policy. I am the only one that said they would not comply with the policy though. The human resources person said that I was the 3rd person to do that and she had been in several meetings. She represents around 500 people. I stated that if a Muslim wanted to put his prayer rug down and pray to the east then nothing would be said. I stated that we were in a meeting about respect for everyone and now I was offended and that my rights had been violated. I was told that they were not telling me that I could not pray on my own. I said you are telling me when I can and cannot pray. As a Christian how is the person who asked me to pray going to feel if I refuse? What kind of example am I setting? They stated that if there was an atheist on my shift he may feel that he would not get fair representation from me.
        I have worked many jobs. I never really cared what religion someone was. I only cared that I had a good boss.

        Luckily I did not get into trouble. I guess I could if I am asked to pray but I don’t care. The sad thing is my two immediate bosses have asked me several times to go to religious men’s retreats. Why did they not refuse to comply with this?
        Whether you are a Christian or not does not matter in this case. Christians seem to be the only religion that is told what they can and cannot do in this country.

        After contemplating that meeting I realized that the country is going to collapse for sure. I had thought that for years because of the endless debt in this country. After the meeting I realized that it is going to crash because we have thrown God out of everything. Christian principles do not matter. If you go by Christian principles then there would not be a large debt in your home or in the country.
        Not only that but society is in such decay. There are no morals in most of society. It has become a society of lazy people who feel everyone else should pay for there life. Respect for other humans is non existent. Respect for human life is not there anymore. We hear foul language daily, we see sex on tv daily, we see men kissing men on tv, we see graphic killing on tv, video games become more graphic, there is anger all over, and different races blame each other for there situation. Marriage is in steep decline. Kids are being raised by single parents. Two people of the same sex can adopt kids. There is no respect for prayer in schools, locker rooms, graduations, or in public. There in no respect for the national anthem anymore. When I was a kid so many kids wanted to be president. I can’t remember the last time I heard a kid say that. There is no pride in the country anymore. The education system does not teach good history or economics anymore. In fact the education system, universities, turn our kids into liberal spouting idiots.

        We are setting on a powder keg.
        How many people do you know right now that are actually happy? How many people do you know right now that are on antidepressants? How many kids are on medication for ADHD? How many people do you know that use illegal drugs? How many people do you know that drink way to much? How many parents do you know that use video games as a babysitter? How many fathers do you know that take there role in the family seriously?

        For those on here that don’t believe in Jesus or those that are another religion I am not complaining about you. I have met some very good people that did not believe. What I am complaining about is the fact that a very tiny group of people think it is okay to tell others they cannot worship.
        Did it ever occur to you that it never stops at just one group. Liberals have never liked or wanted Christian beliefs in general. In fact they just want power and money. Christian values don’t coincide with the way they want things.
        Everything above has gotten so much worse in the last 30 years. Times have changed so.

        That is why I know for a fact that we are headed for a crash. I only hope we can restore the country to the way it should be. A country where all men are created equal and have the right to pursue happiness.
        Not a country where some are given advantages over others and people think that they are guaranteed happiness.

        • John 14
          1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

          2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

          3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

          4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

        • Fourth turning,,,
          sad but true, good post Mike, so many asleep at the wheel and so many who are destroying all that was held dear by so many for so long. I honestly NEVER in a million years thought that the country I was raised to love would degrade so far so fast, and the worse part is that MOST of the people who we were told should be the ones protecting her and working to represent us are among the worst offenders.
          at this point, a drop cant happen fast enough.

        • Yup…good rant.

          PKLL

      90. Heads up everyone. I think the ebola situation has been a drill to test the US system. What do you think?

        That 2nd nurse infected w/ ebola by Duncan has just been said to be clear from ebola. Really? She was just diagnosed on Oct 14. That timeframe dont mesh w/ the facts weve learned about ebola.
        Look at those 2 doctors flown in from Africa. The turnaround w/ them was almost a month.

        How the hell can her serum be free from ebola when all those clinical facts have proven otherwise? Viral load may have decreased but ebola dont disappear in 9 days from diagnosis.
        An AP article just out said this
        “Vinson, one of two Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurses to contract Ebola while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, was diagnosed on Oct. 14. A day later, the 29-year-old was flown by air ambulance to Atlanta for treatment at Emory, which has a specialized unit trained in treating Ebola.”

        Both nurses are better and or ‘cured. None of the Duncan family was sickened or died. The other so-called infections or possibilities have fizzled or been blacked out. None of this adds up to make any sense.
        This was a govt drill or a false flag to set the stage for tighter controls at airports under false pretenses.
        What say you -a drill or false flag?
        Thumbs up for yes, thumbs down for no (or for the govt trolls).

      91. Mike in VA says:
        Comment ID: 3251731

        October 22, 2014 at 12:47 am

        Thanks for the compliments. I mean that. That to me is sad as well. We are in this situation because really good people don’t stand up. I am lucky to be honest. Everyone in the room was a Christian. That fact alone makes you feel like crying. It makes you feel that way because I was the only one who said no I will not do this!

        In my real rant when I got home my wife told me to calm down. She said you are going to have another heart attack. My response to her was that if there is ever a time I should be upset it is this one.
        When you think about it the reason we are in this situation is because good people did not stand up. My belief in our lord Jesus has to be my personal most important thing. When you think about it though. Believe or not good people did not put a stop to this years ago. Part of it was because they were good people. It was a mistake and a mistake that will cost us all dearly.

        I am lucky in that where I work is in a rural area. Most likely this will not cause me to lose my job. What I told my wife and am now telling you is this. If it does then who cares. Yes it will cause hardship for me and my family. But that means the good lord wants me somewhere else. I have thought about that and discussed it with my wife. Maybe I am not working where the good lord wants me too. Then I realized that maybe I am working where I am supposed to be because of what happened. Who knows. I know this. I have faith that no matter what happens regarding this it is the lords will.

        I don’t deserve any compliments for this. In fact I think I will never be the man my father was. I am going to say something to you all that I never thought I would. I am not perfect. I am weak. My son is 22 years old. In the last year he has been in the hospital 8 times. I worry about him every minute of every day. Without a long story. 3 Months ago he had another seizure. It was 4 and a half minutes long. I have not been right after that moment. Bad nerve problems and not happy. The doctor told me that the body is not supposed to have stress on a daily basis. She said I was having random panic attacks. I have never agreed with medication but am now on venaxoflan. I am better now.
        I am ashamed of myself for that. I feel I should have more faith in the good lord.
        The reason I went on the rant about prayer is because that told me we are done as a country.
        I wish I were stronger. I have always considered myself to be a tough guy. Martial arts, Emt, Infantry in the Army, went through the death of my mother at 18, my father at 23, a divorce, custody of two boys, bankruptcy, and a heart attack. After it all I realize that life is hell. If you believe in Jesus then this life is the only hell you will ever know.

        I deserve no compliments, thanks, kudos or anything else. I am humbled and a week human being. I am not the man my father was or the man I should be. I feel I should be stronger in my faith and my trust in the good lord.
        I thank you all for the support but I don’t feel I deserve it.

        • Mike in VA,

          I admire you for your honesty, strength of character, and your kind and humble heart.

          Sometimes, when it rains, it really pours. At least, that has been the case in my life. The worst pain and sadness you can go through is when a loved one (especially a child) is gong through a difficult time.

          You are not alone. Last year was the most difficult year of my life. It was heart wrenching and I wept – often. Thankfully, my child has been healed – physically and spiritually.

          Your family is blessed to have a father like you. Don’t give up and don’t give in. Just remain faithful to the Lord.

          I will keep you and your family in my prayers. Just take one day at a time. May you feel God’s love & healing surround you.

          Sincerely,
          KY Mom

          Here are some of my favorite verses of comfort and strength.

          “The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”
          Philippians 4: 5-7

          I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” … “He will cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you will find refuge. His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.”
          Psalm 91:2, 4

          • KY Mom

            I want to thank you for the encouragement. we all need it from time to time. Life is rough. It poors buckets of rain in my life. But I do just keep getting up and I keep going.
            I have thought the good lord was going to take my son home so many times. It has just gotten to the point that every little movement or noise I hear on the baby monitor causes me to jump. The thing is I feel I should have more faith in the good lord than that. I just really got down a couple of months ago because of constant worry and nerves about that wonderful boy of mine. I feel guilty that that happened. You know my son is in a wheel chair, does not talk, and all care for him has to be provided. He does communicate though. He can make noises and point. Mentally he is a normal 22 year old.

            He is happy all the time no matter what. We could all learn from that.

            KY Mom thank you also for the scripture verses. I will treasure them and always keep you and your family in my prayers.

            • Mike in VA,

              You are welcome!

            • Mike: I don’t know if you’ll see this…but please never be ashamed of panic attacks and about not “being stronger.” The body is not wired to go thru years of ongoing stress. Long term stress/anxiety is like a bell that doesn’t stop ringing and eventually your body starts doing strange things or breaking down….

              I went thru about 4 years of intense, escalating stress. I started having panic attacks (after all the other symptoms that my body had been trying to warn me with). I also was ashamed that I couldn’t “handle” it. And people don’t have a clue how bad panic attacks can be…it was debilitating for about two years.

              I found thru this that God was trying to change me/teach me/lead me in another direction. Prayer (and medication) is the only thing that got me thru. I’ve learned a lot in the 4 years since the worst of it….valleys are beyond awful and I wouldn’t want to ever walk that path again. But God always shows up. Always…

              One of my favorite songs….”I will walk by faith, even when I cannot see. Cause this broken road is Your will for me…”

              Hang in there. I know that you know that God has a plan, even if it is a valley for a season. I will be saying prayers for you and yours.

              PKLL

        • The 2 things I fear are living longer than my kids and judgement day before God.

        • Mike,
          If you’ve dealt with all that and find yourself still standing upright, you are a tough guy. As I see it, the really tough guys are those who persevere in the face of horrific adversity. Don’t look down at the water!!! Keep your eyes on The Lord! It’s normal to have doubt, but as the father of two little autistic boys I say you’re a hell of a man.

      92. MONROVIA, Liberia — “Dozens of people quarantined for Ebola monitoring in western Liberia are threatening to break out of isolation because they have no food, the West African nation’s state radio reported Thursday.”

        CBS news dot com

      93. This ridiculous article is doing exactly what this site wants it to do – get a lot of people fired up. This article couldn’t be further from the “Truth”.

        James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

        Matthew 22:36-39 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

        Please don’t let yourselves be polluted by articles like this. Love one another as God loves you. There is power in numbers. If you kill everyone around you, you will not survive.

        • 1-Not everyone here is a professing Christian.

          2-And what did Paul have to say about the unprepared and apathetic? “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” I Timothy 5:8

          “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat…Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.” II Thessalonians 3:10, 12

          3-You ignored the entire book of Proverbs during your Starbucks bible study. Here is just a sample:

          Proverbs 6:10-11
          “Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man”

          Proverbs 10:5–“He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.”

          4) Do you and your fellow congregants prep beyond two days of frozen pizza, leftover Chinese food and Doritos? That Jamba Juice card will not be of use if the local mall goes up in flames and roads are closed down.

          If you have a wife and kids, you should be very cautious about who comes into your home. I don’t care how nicely they dress or how religious they sound.

      94. I’m in a pickle . The local gun shop has a rifle I want the wife says yes but wants a kitten. What to do? I guess I could always take the kitten to target practice with me.

        • Life is full of give and take.

          Sometimes you have to give a little pussy, if you want to get a little pussy(or a rifle).

        • time for a new wife

          no one puts sanctions on me other than my government..i just wont stand for it…lol hopefully someone gets the sarc. 😉

        • DC

          That’s easy. Go to spca and get a kitten after you pic up the rifle at the gun shop.

      95. We quit trying to reach others about prepping years ago. It usually ended up with those we were trying to warn inviting themselves over during times of crisis. It used to bother me but I decided I would not take food out of my family’s mouth to feed those that would not listen. It is hard to turn away hungry people, but even harder to not be able to feed your own.

      96. progressives still don’t realize that “progress” is a matter of opinion, and is determined by personal perspective, not their idealist utopian Ideology… They all think their world view is something thats new, they dont realize it has existed in the past and typically results in things similar to World War 2…

      97. If someone knows you prep and you tell them to eat a bag of shit and choke on it when it comes to showing up at your prep stead. All that means is that your friend and everyone he can find with a scoped rifle will be creeping up on you after things fall apart

      98. Mike you and your family are in my prayers!

      99. I can’t tell you how many people have said that to me. I have a feeling that my door will be getting knocked in should things get nasty out there.

        • which is why you need more than just one rifle (albeit a good one).

          fully auto is mandatory. Grenade launchers, M93s, fun things you can do with BLU-97/Bs & a home-made launcher.

          You have one family and one life – but there will be literally millions of liberals & moochers & “friends” when they day comes!

      100. I like the letter to friends and family, well at least those that are doing nothing and mocking my Tin Foil Hat to boot! I think I’ll use it, maybe put a little of my own spin on it.

        I have people looking for a group to join, but when I tell them the minimum standards they are not happy. I also tell them if they don’t have the minimum not to think of imposing themselves on us.

        It’s going to be horrific even if you are prepared. Imagine if your; defenseless, dehydrated, homeless, hungry and tired!!!

      101. Great article. This was such a common event for us in the south that we moved to rural Idaho and are improving our farm here. My mother in law can’t walk 2300 miles to get here so I won’t have to shoot her. When our very few neighbors do come over they usually have a 5 gallon bucket of extra food from their garden or are returning the empty egg cartons from all the eggs we give them.
        None of our great neighbors have outright said they are prepared, and we haven’t either, but all of them have brought over food grade 5 gal buckets full of produce and none have ever asked for the bucket back. They just know that their bucket of cucumbers or potatoes will later be washed and returned full of my apples or squash or whatever.
        The closest we have come to discussing this is our idea that in a shtf scenario we would donate extra food and supplies to our local ward and church and post a sign at the side road that leads back to our area directing refugees/hungry that all charity is being coordinated at our local church and provides directions.
        This allows us to still help the needy but not at our front doors.

        • Northern Id is also just like you explained. It is hard to relate to some of these articles as 70% of the people in my area are decent.When I retired early and moved, (taking a 33% retirement penalty) it was a culture shock as I was used to dealing with Stockton, Oakland Ca types.

          • Lol culture shock is right, even compared to southern hospitality the people here are nicer, friendlier, and we have certainly fit right in. My wife has commented that we know and like more of our neighbors here than in all of the other places we’ve lived in 15 years of marriage; and of course we now live “in the middle of nowhere” and have less neighbors than ever.

        • When SHFT, you & your community and church will be overwhelmed by liberals.

          You’ll have one choice – do you survive, or does everyone starve.

          There’s no such thing as “extra” food, supplies, or ammo.

      102. whats that line?

        Buzzards gotta eat too

      103. I will make provisions for those who have either attempted to prepare or have prepared improperly. In those cases, trading will not only be OK, but encouraged.

        Some people have lived through or know of others who’ve lived through currency collapses or military occupations or disasters, and they know to keep plenty of certain things stocked (like, lighters, beans and ammo) and it is highly probable that those who stock up on those things come out of a disaster better off than they went into it with.

        If you already have everything you need, and plenty of extra to barter, you can make a lucrative showing for yourself. You might not need to procure large amounts of silver and gold at these prices today, for example, if you can get, say, an ounce of silver for a two-dollar lighter when the SHTF. Times ten.

        All of those barter provisions considered, however, making it known that non-productive neighbors will be dealt with with the appropriate action is a perfectly reasonable request. In other words, I like this letter idea.

      104. We are on the edge of Tribulation. I just saw a vid where oblamamamadingdang said that Ebola is a test run for something in the future where a disease could become airborne and deadly. I just about crapped my pants. From here on out, anything can happen. The most important prep is being ready to meet your maker at any time. My husband just thinks we can go to someone else’s retreat without having a discussion. We are doomed because he has chosen to not have a plan (even though I’ve asked him several times to talk about it) and he is more interested in his golf game than formulating any plan. We have the means to have some sort of something put in place but he refuses to see what’s right in front of his face. I even said last week that maybe I might drive somewhere by myself and he laughed and asked where I would go. I told him 2 hours away to my 89 year old Dad’s house where my two older brothers also live in the same town. He didn’t say anything. Where we live, my other brother is 40 minutes away in the metro area with his fam and a sister is an hour away in southern Minneapolis. Daughter is in the south west with her fam…. Son finishing college in Wisconsin. I just can’t get my husband to formulate a viable plan. Deep denial. This shit storm that is coming will catch most everyone off guard because Americans can’t see that this system we live in is collapsing. Stock market us up today 238 points…. Everything is great and I have the latest iPhone. I’m in a bad mood.

        • Cabin, maybe hide his favorite toy, golf clubs, phone…and when he asks for it…tell him you gave it to (? fill in the blank, someone he thinks is a mooch) because they wanted one and didn’t have the money. You didn’t think he’d mind. Play it for all it’s worth…

          Then print out and give him this article and have him read it….tell him that is what the people who are PREPARED are thinking. Read him some of the comments or print them out so he can see the mindset of people who are planning to take care of their families.

          Or do this in reverse, whatever you think will work…sometimes men don’t get stuff until they experience it themselves….(women nodding their head knowingly… 🙂 )

          Good luck…and if you do this and it works…let us know. You are not the only one in these shoes…

          PKLL

      105. New York’s First Ebola Case? Doctor Treating Ebola Patients in Guinea Rushed to Bellevue Hospital

        “A New York City doctor – who returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea 10 days ago – has been rushed under police escort to Bellevue Hospital…”

        “He is being tested for Ebola.”

        •NYC: Patient has 103′ fever and gastrointestinal symptoms
        •NYC says Ebola test results expected within 12 hours
        •NYC tracing ALL of patient’s contacts

        -Zerohedge

      106. This outstanding, well written ‘I’ll come to your place when the shit hits the fan’ ADVICE/WARNING applies to ALL INTRUDERS, NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE & BEST NOT BE TAKEN LIGHTLY! This should also include the following ‘Trend Analyst on Stocks’ bunch for lunch crowd: ‘If The Dow Drops Below 15,000 … the author suggests People Start Buying Food & Ammo’

        October 2014 By Dave Hodges – The Common Sense Show
        http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/10/16/trend-analyst-on-stocks-if-the-dow-drops-below-15000-i-would-suggest-people-start-buying-food-ammo/

        FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DISAGREE I SAY ‘TOUGH SHIT’! YOU SHEEPLE JUST HAVEN’T BEEN PAYING ATTENTION FOR THE PAST 7 YEARS … BY NOW, IF ‘YOUR HEAD’S STILL STUCK IN THE SAND’ OR YOU’RE STILL LOOKING FOR THAT ‘SILVER BULLET’ OR WAITING FOR OR “If The Dow Drops Below 15,000 … to start buying food & ammo” etc TO PREPARE … YOU’RE WAY WAY BEHIND THE POWER CURVE & ‘SOL!!!’

        FREEDOM IS NOT FREE …
        God Bless America!
        God Bless Israel!
        God Bless CA, AZ, NM, TX!
        GySgt Bob Pinkstaff
        USMC Retired
        American Citizen By Birth, United States Marine By Choice!
        Korean War Veteran (80 yrs young) & still ready to fight for freedom!
        American Citizen By Birth, United States Marine By Choice!

      107. Good Afternoon Everyone,

        Since it’s last eruption, Sol has been rather quiet; that is – IMHO – about to change. The latest HMIB(C) clearly hows the cemtral region of the trailing souther section o the spot group as having resumed it’s previous, high-energy configuration…ie, it is apparently now ‘re-charged’ to at least previous levels.

        At this time, 12192 is exactly at that point at which a significant solar flare would do the most extreme damage to us here on Earth were it of high enough energy. There has been no real decrease – whatsoever – in the gross complexity ince the previous event, on the contrary, the spot’s area seems to have increased further. In my opinion it has simply been storing energy since then, take that as you will. “Eyes Open’…..

      108. I dont pretend to have all the answers,dont have them for myself much less anyone else…that said I’ll venture a few thoughts…its best to be prepared ,best if its a natural part of your life but even if it isnt having something to fall back on just makes sense.
        Now that you have something to fall back on it then makes sense to keep it to yourself,putting pics of your pantry on the web and showing it off to others may fill some deep need for attention in ones psyc but it will bite your backside at some point so keep quiet,how horrible it’d be to have to turn away or worse,to have to injure/kill to defend your stash from a hungry person or persons(whoby the way are still wrong tryin to steal from you)when you know danged well they saw your stash on the web or you gave then a grand tour at some point,seems you may bear some guilt in how that the final act plays out.
        I cant say I will or wont feed some stranger,hope to God that I dont become so cynical I lose all my humanity…but on the other hand folks would trip my trigger if they even suggested I “owe” them something/anything just because I happen to have it available…I may ascribe to basic christian principles but dont think for a moment that that is some kind of weakness that you can manipulate to your advantage,I may fail miserably at what your idea of being a christian means…aint tryin to do it your way anyhow and if youre looking to be impressed you best look elsewhere cause I aint tryin to impress you or anyone else for that matter.
        Dont mean to seem uncaring but God knows and I know that I can only do so much and saving everyone at the expense of my own isnt possible or even an option, it would be a deep betrayal of my own and of my self…wont do that and if thats a sin to you then you just let me work that out betwixt me,my conscience and my God,not trying to impress anyone else,remember?
        All these questions about what to do when XYX happens are fine but few know anything about how theyll react to XYZ till theyre in it,so mostly its just conjecture and a waste of good brain power and time…shoot em or feed em isnt so simple a concept in reality,God grant I never have to shoot anyone over a loaf of bread or a beef cow but someone forcing my hand shouldnt gamble I wont either,again though having seen folks die violently Id rather not have to be the one doing the act,just sayin!
        Im as ready as anyone but its tragic beyond words that we are having to consider some of these things,sad,but nessessary…REB

      109. ht tp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29751495 New York now has it’s own patient zero.

      110. I will take care of the needy, only if they are willing and able to help me or my family. I will never feed someone who would become my enemy. That would be a foolish thing to do.

      111. hi CASEY! in reply to your five year old telling the world your business…how about leaving her with a babysitter when you go shopping?

      112. I will take care of the truly needy – those who cannot take care of themselves

        fool you.

        When you show up, I’ll ask you to leave.

        fool you twice.

        Shoot first; there will be no-one to ask questions.

      113. They have tens of thousands of people who show up at these NSA facilities and monitor the net etc, they sit there for hours looking at the forums and such, trying to hunt down the dangerous people like you and I,,,,
        WTF has gone wrong with our government?

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