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For all the talk of “Zombie Apocalypse,” or more serious concerns about economic collapse, your region’s version of extreme weather is the most likely civil emergency you will face. Have you made preparations? Do you have a plan? Do you realize it’s unlikely to survive contact with reality intact? (You need that plan nevertheless: gotta start somewhere.) Being ready is more than what you have stocked up and thought through; it’s an attitude.

Roberta X – “…Where The House Used To Be…”

March 5th, 2012

[There is something that is referred to as the 7 P’s of planning.  Piss Poor Planning Promotes Piss Poor Performance.  This is combined with another favorite saying of mine, “No plan survives first contact with the enemy.”

The thing is you need the plan, you need something to start off from.  You can try and plan for every contingency but I can tell you there will be one you missed.  That said, all that planning will pay off in making you much more prepared for said situation.  It will help turn that unplanned contingency into nothing more than a minor hiccup instead of a show stopping catastrophe.

My biggest concern is the effect of a major earthquake, volcano, or a possible freak tornado.  Those first two are actually serious concerns given the Cascadia fault as well as the history of Mount St. Helens.  I have plans in place.  I have supplies currently though not near what I would like on hand, and I’m working on gathering more equipment.  My eventual goal is to be prepared enough that when the SHTF while everyone is panicking I will be working with the community to keep things calm.  It’s much easier to do your job and provide emergency assistance to your community and neighbors if you have your shit squared away.  The job is almost completely unnecessary if everyone has done the same.  Then those able to render aid can focus on those who truly need it.  Those who were unlucky enough to be in the path of destruction and are in truly need of help.

See, this is me just being my crazy mean prepper self.  I’m such an asshole that I should do the world a favor and go kill myself right?  Heaven forbid I educate others and provide assistance.  I’m such a horrible person for telling people to at least think about and plan out what you’re going to do if something bad happens.  Because it’s such a horrible thing to “Be Prepared.”  -B ]

I have added a new toy to my toy pile now.  I have a bunch of hobbies and this happens to be for one of the others that doesn’t involved high speeds, concussive forces, and projectile motion.

So, what’s the new toy I hear you ask.  Well here’s a picture!

That is an Icom IC706 Mark II G and I have the mobile kit to go with it.  It out performs the Yaesu 857D and cost me 300 bucks less.  This radio though new isn’t cheap.  I’m sure the previous owner who went SK will be glad it found a good home.

Overall I’m a big Yaesu fan but I’ll take what I can get and it works.

Now to start stringing up antennas.

Thanks to Emily Miller she writes this wonderful piece of gold regarding those who would disarm us.

Mr. Quander thinks victimhood is preferable to self-defense. “The problem is, if you are armed, it escalates the situation,” Mr. Quander told residents. “It is much better, in my opinion, to be scared, to be frightened, and even if you have to be, to be injured, but to walk away and survive. You’ll heal, and you can replace whatever was taken away.”

How nice to force victimhood on others.  You should just be murdered because all the guy wants to do is kill you?  You should just lie back and take being raped because it’s better than the alternative.  What the hell is wrong in your mind!?

In the words of the little girl during the clip in Demolition Man*.

No one has any right to force victimhood on anyone.  Anyone who does is nothing more than a lazy tyrant that is unwilling to do the dirty work to instill fear in their subjects themselves.

*Yes he’s a lady because he obviously has no balls and doesn’t think anyone else should either.

via Ry

You know, this crap is just so easy sometimes.  Especially when they give ideas like this.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find a jewel thief at large in each of five cities in the U.S. and Europe, with only a photo of the criminal to guide you. The State Department is testing the power of crowdsourcing and social media with its “Tag Challenge” on March 31, and the successful team of trackers will score a $5,000 bounty. Contestants will have 12 hours to find the volunteer crooks and upload a photo of the thief to the Challenge website. Finding five men among millions won’t be easy, so participants will need to constantly stay in contact and share tips instantly in order to claim the prize. It’s yet to be seen if the State Department will adopt crowdsourcing themselves, but this experiment could prove that Twitter is a heck of a lot more than a time-waster.

Given our uncles propensity to use black ninja suited jack booted thugs does anyone see the problem with this?  Anyone?

The problem is when you hear about a crime X across twitter.  You just report that guy in accounting you hate.  You just report your ex-husband that you caught cheating on you.  You just report that guy down the street who won’t give you back your tools.  With how readily they jump on the “kick in the door” mentality and the fact they could get judges to go along with it, you could get the door or the person you hate kicked in, with the full backing of the state.

Taking it one step further, if you are the criminal be sought, you can just flood the stream with false positives.

You see the problem here?  Utterly useless.

via Uncle.

So, did the USPSA match today.  First stage I did decently well, clipped a no-shoot, saw it an made it up by drilling another Alpha shot.  Nothing worse that a no-shoot is a no-shoot and a miss.

Well I found that though on the next stage some things can be worse.  I walked right past the small low cut port and had 2 failures to engage with 4 misses.  Yeah, “Screwed” and “The Pooch” come to mind.  Moving forward though I did decent on the qualifier I think.  When I ran that second stage in reverse though I made sure to hit those targets.  How easy is it though to miss them I hear you ask.  Almost everyone walked past and had to go back and I wasn’t the only one to have an FTE on them.  But this time I f’d up my reloads.  I’ve been good about dropping mags while on the move and reloading.  Parallel processing baby, when moving I’m not engaging and I can be reloading so I don’t stop my engagement and loose momentum or waste time.  That second run in reverse

The wife took some pictures at the match and I’ll try and get those posted up later.

After Joe, the wife and I all headed out to the Boomershoot site.  The good news is, it all went bang.  Which means we may have a faster means of production and we can try the plastic for a second attempt.

Here’s a lesson on immediate action drills and reloads: