Friday Stuff

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So, here is a list of the mass shootings that took place in the United States in the past few days: CLICK THIS & WINCE. Notice it doesn't count local gun mishaps or the Oslo massacre. We live in a truly fucked up world. How are you dealing with this? Enough said.
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I like a lot of things about Creek Stewart's website. He talks a lot about Bug Out preparations, which rocks. His bug out wagon, below, is right up my alley:


Time for me to go sleepy-bye. Honk-zzzzzzzz, honk-zzzzzzz, honk-zzzzzzz.
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Sunday Stuff

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Planted 2 blueberry bushes last week, harvested 2 blueberries. That's right: 2 blueberries. They were good. Tomatoes and strawberries coming in, but none of them are particularly sweet or tasty. It's just not hot enough. Harvested a 1/2 grocery bag of plums last week, gave them to a friend to make jam out of. My potato plant is growing like mad and I harvested 2 potatoes a week ago. That's right: 2 potatoes. :-) I have been watering my garden significantly more than I used to, and the growth rate is exponential. Lesson learned.

If I had to live off of my container garden, I'd get about 2 days worth of food, and that would be in the form of potatoes. So, it's not like I'm busting my own food bank account with this experiment. But I maintain that gardening is nonetheless a worthwhile exercise - it's relaxing & therapeutic, I learn more by experience each season, it seems to make everyone more happy, and if TSHTF I can always rapidly expand the garden to include 3 to 4 times as many plants. AND, my neighbor caught the bug, which rocks!
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Looked at my knife collection the other day and thought: None of these quite do me right, except for the Mora. So I bought 2 additional blades. Will review all my knives at a later date. It dawns on me that you need several knives for survival work, as no 1 knife will do all you need. The Mora rocks for cutting vegetables or twine & for skinning, but it is small & not able to chop or split wood. Something bigger & heavier is required...as well as a functional boot dagger for backup protection.
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I want to bring to YOUR attention that mass shootings are becoming a weekly, even daily, occurrence, worldwide. Since Friday we have had the Oslo massacre, as well as at least 2 mass shootings in the United States, as well as a little girl hit by a stray bullet in Oaktown. And believe me when I say that that is probably not half of the mass murders that have occurred since Friday. Probably not a quarter. If I went and did a google search right now, the numbers would at least double. So, what Penny Kelly describes in ROBES is happening: Slowly, we will stop going out in public, due to the the endless stream of mass violent acts that occur in public spaces. Think about this and the implications it has for your future. We are becoming desensitized to an increasingly horrific world. What are YOU going to do about it? Think about that one long and hard, Fellow Survivalists!

Here is a quote that makes my blood run cold. I feel that it perfectly describes this century and the last:

“The faith that humans originally invested in God, they will now invest in barbaric nationalistic brotherhoods interested solely in plundering non-brothers. In the 20th century this will lead to wars catastrophic beyond all imagining.” The First World War was the beginning episode of Nietzsche’s prophecy. And he foresaw something even worse that would follow the great wars.

“In the 21st century will occur something worse than the great wars: namely, the total eclipse of all values. For without a profound belief in an almighty diety or deities, so-called ‘values’ become arbitrary and capricious. The pain the human beast will feel when he realizes he can believe in … nothing … will be worse than any he has felt before.”

-Neitzsche

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Peace out, Brohims.
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Lanyards & Skull Beads & Other Shite

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CLICK HERE for The Lanyard Zone.

CLICK HERE for Creek Stewart's custom built survival shotgun (an odd but innovative contraption).
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Today the bomb went off in Oslo, and over 80 people were massacred nearby at a children's camp, all of it done by a white psycho dressed as a cop. It's a new low, a terrible & immense mass murder. It feels like the beginning of the future. There is a deeper seriousness in me now...I know that one day I really will carry a pistol or a knife or a Taser for daily protection....or maybe all three. One day these incidents will be so commonplace & widespread that we will stop going out at all except when we have to, and then when we do we will have to traverse a bleak & hostile wasteland to reach our destination. It's gonna be weird raising kids in that world. It's gonna be a fucked up future.
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CLICK HERE for Willow Haven Outdoor, Creek Stewart's website. It has a store full of quality outdoor tools & goods, plus a lot of killer Bug Out concepts and articles. Creek is a cool dude. I'll review his Bug Out book once it's published.
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Cool Gadgets & Gizmos

Here's a photo of some cool stuff I scored from County Comm & the local thrift store:

Clockwise from top left corner:

•Metal storage tins, large and small, w/plastic covers. I like the smaller ones more. High cute factor, also very usable.
•Small driver, orange. High quality, with numerous heads stored in the grip. For small-ish screws.
•Israeli trauma bandage. For treating gunshot- or stab-wounds. The real thing. Expires in 2014.
•Plastic tube vaults. 1st one filled w/disposable towelettes, 2nd one filled w/new button compasses scored from the local East Bay Center for Creative Re-Use for a nickel each.
•Black Delrin safe, ie: a waterproof storage tube. Awesome to the extreme.
•Spool of black Spectra line, 90 lb test, 100 yards. Used for fishing nets, probably usable for repairing clothes & fabrics. The line could be cut into 1/3rds & the 1/3rds woven together to make a 100 ft-long, 270 lb "rope" that would be scarcely thicker than dental tape.
•Blue gun-cleaning stick. Small & not very strong, but inexpensive & usable.
•Black "cord supervisor". Something to wrap cord around, with a quality wire attachment clip.
•Black Delrin storage tubes, sized for AAA batteries & strung on a stainless wire key ring.
•Bag containing mini shears & OD plastic cord ends.
•New signal mirrors, purchased at the East Bay Center for Creative Re-Use for a quarter each.
•An Army robotics technician's key driver & 2 AA-sized Delrin storage tubes, strung on a stainless wire key ring.
•A micro-pen, a micro-pry bar, and a split pea Zippo-type lighter strung on a key ring.
•A wire key ring & an odd clip.

Cool shit, Maynard. If you add it all up, it wasn't cheap, but I'm not complaining. Some of it I'll use in the desert, some I'll keep in my day pack, some in my BOB. If I had to recommend anything above anything else, I'd say go for the Delrin containers & the drivers.

Peace out!

County Comm

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This online store has a really cool selection of gov't overrun prep items - their inventory ranges from US Embassy pens to micro hex head drivers to mini lighters to mini pry bars to small storage/battery containers to mini grappling hooks. They have Spectra thread in stock at the moment, and if memory serves me correctly, they sometimes carry Kevlar thread. Basically, if you want to create any pocket Bug Out kits, or buy a Bro a cool gift, this is the place to go. I've purchased here before and have another order on the way.

Happy 4th of July! Bolinas, here I come!

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