Friday Night News

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My cousin, the outlaw.  A modern day Clyde Barrow.

Spanish miners, going up against police.  Note the heavy duty metal shields they are using, the burning tire barricades they have set up, their use of tree branches to block the road, and last but not least, their home-made rocket launchers.  Also note the odd gas masks, hoodies, bandannas and particle masks they use to block smoke and gas and hide their identities.  One can only guess that these tough bastards gave the authorities a run for their money.

The Earth, as seen from Space.  It's all we have, Folks!  The surface and atmosphere of this planet sustain us.  Our Mother planet floats in a sea of infinite black void which is Death to all life as we know it.  If we fuck this planet up too much, we will kill ourselves and everything else on it, and it will keep floating through the vacuum forever, with no passengers.  All of our petty human thoughts and wants and needs lose significance when we view the Earth from this vantage point.

 A vehicle comprised of a motorized push-plow and a trailer.

A quality copy of the Blade Runner pistol.

Two Wasteland Weekend off-road buggies.

  

I bought a pair of these studly shoes (below), and when I'm not bar hopping in them I'm aerating the lawn with them.  They only cost $15, with shipping.  The chief complaints against them online are that the nuts unscrew by themselves and get lost in the lawn, and the strap buckles don't work right, allowing these studly shoes to fall off your feet.  To remedy these ills I modded these green bitches by using lock nuts on the spikes, and army surplus belts with actual buckles in lieu of the chincy straps that were provided.  You can also use a bit of epoxy on each provided nut, but that seemed like a too-permanent solution.  I might want to take these emerald motherfuckers apart one day and make weapons out of them.

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Piss, Poop, Coke & New Guns

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I like simple & effective.  Always have.  Not in my women, mind you (well, effective, yes!) -- I'm talking about tools & solutions here.  No, I like my women to have cognitive capacity.  But when it comes to living in this world, why not choose the simple & effective path?  It makes the journey that much easier.

To that end:

1. Human piss is nitrogen-rich & makes a good, FREE fertilizer for plants when mixed with water.  Seriously, we flush it down the toilet every day when it could save us money, enhance our food production in the garden, & reduce all costs (environmental, fiscal & otherwise) associated with purchasing manufactured fertilizers.  Dilute it down to a 10 - 20% mixture, then water the roots of the plant, taking care not to get it on the foliage.  For more basic tips on using piss in the garden, go HERE.  Seriously.

P.S. I am told that blueberries LOVE to be fertilized with urine, & am experimenting with that now.

2. Human poop has been used for millennia to fertilize croplands & gardens.  In China it is known as "night soil".  Now, TAKE NOTE: RAW HUMAN POOP IS A HIGHLY TOXIC SUBSTANCE THAT CAN KILL YOU IF INGESTED.  And I mean kill you BADLY.  Like, if you don't die, you'll beg for an end to the pain.  BUT, if composted correctly, poop can be used effectively in the garden.

We all know about composting toilets.  I have also read stories by modern homesteaders who have experimented with reducing human poop to a usable substance.  In particular, one awesome story involved a guy pooping into a small wooden box, then adding worms & sealing the box for several months.  When he opened the box back up, he found that the worms had reduced the poop & THE TOILET PAPER to excellent castings/soil, which he used in the garden.

That is my favorite poop story.

P.S. I am not ready to experiment with raw poop.  Much too dangerous in an urban environment.  But it is a resource I can draw on if TSHTF (so-to-speak!).

3. Coca Cola has many uses, as delineated HERE.  Recently, on a whim, I poured 1/4 can down my blocked bathroom sink.  I waited 3 minutes, then flushed it with hot water...no more blocked drain.  I plan to experiment with rust removal & loosening frozen bolts next.

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But on to the fun stuff: New guns!

OK, so Stoeger is now offering an additional "Double Defense" model (HERE), this being an over-under rather than a side-by-side.  I LOVE side-by-sides, but there is a problem with them.  You see, I want a double barrel shotgun that can be outfitted with barrel inserts so that I can fire an array of ammunition ACCURATELY thru it.  The trouble with a side-by-side is that the accuracy will be highly impaired when firing pistol or rifle ammo thru it, because side-by-sides only have a single, centered bead sight.  The over-under, on the other hand, has an actual fixed sight!  Maybe not the best sight available on the free market, but certainly more effective than an off-center bead.

The new, tactical Stoeger offering is blued, with top and side rails, as pictured below.  MSRP is under $500.  Add a few choice sub-caliber barrel inserts and what you have is a very compact, simple, multi-use survival weapon that can fire an array of ammunition.  My kind of weapon.

Next up, a strange offering from Italy: The Mateba Autorevolver.  Honestly, I don't know what to make of it, but you have to give it an A for innovation.  Follow this LINK to learn the inside scoop.

Lastly, an idea from the salty depths of my own demented mind: The "ElectroVolver".  What we have here is a MetalStorm-type revolver, wherein each chamber in the cylinder is actually an independent barrel loaded with multiple, in-line rounds.  Yes, the cylinder IS the barrel -- there is no additional pistol barrel on the end of it.

Furthermore, there is a small electric motor located under the cylinder, & it drives the cylinder.  Let's say that the cylinder has 7 chamber-barrels & each chamber-barrel holds 3 rounds, giving us a total capacity of 21 rounds.  When fired in full-auto mode, the cylinder rotates like a gatling gun, releasing one round from each barrel in turn, thus nullifying the chance of overheating.  When re-loading this weapon, you pop out the entire cylinder & replace it with a pre-loaded spare.  Give this puppy voice-recognition software, a battery in the grip & a laser...& go retire some replicants with it.

 P.S. A non-motorized version of this weapon would simply fire each chamber-barrel empty, then you'd manually rotate to the next chamber-barrel & continue firing.  It would not require a motor or a powerful battery (The amount of energy required to ignite each in-line round is negligible).

Hey, enjoy the Spring weather & stay out of trouble!  This is the Hippie Survivalist, signing out.

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