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Entries from March 2008

Coal for Home Heating - Made in the U.S.A.

March 31st, 2008 · 7 Comments

“Coal!?” you say. “Blech! Dirty, polluting, nasty stuff. People stopped using it on the 1950’s for a reason.”
Well, stereo-types die hard. What’s different in today’s world? A few things:

Oil prices - at $3.70+ per gallon of home heating oil  you GOTTA look for an alternative.
Efficient stoves - today’s stoves are much better than the stoves […]

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Tags: Energy Resources · Winter Preparedness

Firearm Microstamping - Good or Bad? Oh, and AR-15’s in the News.

March 30th, 2008 · 12 Comments

First - thanks to everyone that recently supported this site through Amazon and the field manuals. Making a little to cover costs and buy some books myself helps keep the SHTFblog energy up.
Also, a SHTF thanks to Rawles for the cross-post action. I thought about taking your post and writing a cross-cross-post-post, but then that […]

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Tags: Guns, Guns, Guns

Build a Tinfoil Hat for Brain Protection

March 27th, 2008 · 8 Comments

*Ranger Man looks to the left, to the right, and whispers*
“Shhhh! They’re listening.”
Who?
The aliens, of course, the Illuminati,
George Bush, and Richard Simmons.
Not only are they listening, they’re reading our minds. Quick - don’t think! Don’t process these words in your head until  you’ve secured your dome. Protect yourself from the brain scans. How? A tinfoil […]

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Tags: Equipment · Miscellaneous

Post-Doomsday Dress Incognito, Play Down Your Preps

March 27th, 2008 · 9 Comments

Rawles, at Survival Blog, had a good post earlier this month that included reader submitted comments on survival lessons from the homeless. Check the link to read the advice, which mostly contains thoughts on street survival as the homeless see it, how to score a free shower, etc. Let’s flip this line of thinking around […]

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Tags: Survival Skills

The World Ends on May 28, 2008

March 26th, 2008 · 4 Comments

The end of the world is coming.
You have exactly 9 weeks,
May 28th to be exact.
Consider yourself warned.
This is what a doomsday cult in Russia would tell you anyway. I posted on these folks before, back on November 24th. At that time the group, calling themselves “the chosen ones”, had just entered a cave in Russia, […]

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Tags: Miscellaneous · SHTF News

CB Radios for SHTF Communications? That’s a Big 10-4.

March 25th, 2008 · 14 Comments

So the idea for this post originally came from this post by Kaiser von Texas. I started typing a comment on his post, but my comment kept getting longer and longer to the point at which I said to myself, “Shit, self. You’d might as well turn this into a post.” So I did - […]

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Tags: Equipment