American Bread and Circuses

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As the GOP conventions move along, we’re rapidly reaching the height of crazy season. And unfortunately, crazy season will last pretty much all year this year. Regardless of your political affiliations, I urge you to consider that no matter what happens, you must avoid getting distracted by the show. And show is what it is. [...]

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Using Systems and Processes in your Preps

Systems and Processes

Our entire world is comprised of systems. We’re surrounded by them. Some are natural, some are human created. Some are good, some are bad. But there are systems for everything. The key is to learn how to leverage them and how to create your own systems and leverage them to reach your goals, whatever they [...]

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Seattle Snowmaggeddon 2012

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Seems to me that just about everyone has heard about the glorious weather we’ve had in the Seattle area for the last few days. Snow, snow, and more snow. Hundreds of thousands of people out of power. We’ve had an interesting week being cooped up in the house. Some thoughts… Procrastination sucks I have this [...]

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Rudy’s New Year Non-Resolution

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I hate doing year wrapup posts, or prediction posts. But I love reading them. Go figure. Lately there’s been one of those confluence of events type things happening with my media consumption. I’ve listened to a number of podcasts and read several blog posts that have all pointed me in on direction. Some of these [...]

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Quick Post: TSP Members Support Brigade Sale

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Folks … just a quick post about a sale on the Survival Podcast’s Members Support Brigade. I should have let you know about this before, but I slacked off.  The sale was supposed to be over today, but Jack decided to extend it to Tomorrow, Friday. It’s normally $50/yr, but if you use the coupon [...]

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Take Heart, You’re Not Alone

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So back to it… It’s pretty easy when you’re somewhat isolated to become completely focused on your own opinions and needs. Which is why the results of the survey I just ran were quite enlightening. Thanks to everyone who participated! Rudy’s Note: If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I ran a survey recently [...]

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We’re Not Growing Our Way Out Of This One

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I wanted to take some time today to talk about a few things that are on my mind lately. If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been a little scarce lately. This is primarily due to some burnout on my end, though family life has been busy and I’ve been talking with some folks about a new [...]

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Downgrades and Debt and Disaster, Oh My!

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Obviously we all know at this point that S&P downgraded the US Long Term Debt rating. Instead of rehashing what we’ve all read before, a few salient points and links. First off, if you don’t read Denninger, you owe it to yourself to read these three posts: And So It Begins… Whose Fault Is It? [...]

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We’re The Government, and We’re Here To Help

If you haven’t seen this video, you should.  Watch it.  It’s short.  Think about it…

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Wednesday Link Dump

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So I haven’t been writing lately, been ridiculously busy with summer time activities.  But I wanted to share some of the articles I’ve been reading lately… From ‘The View From North Central Idaho‘ Joe Huffman writes an article titled ‘Debt Reduction via a Police State‘: I recently had a reliable source tell me the EPA, [...]

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